Fact #157209
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Short story:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience play at the State Fair Music Hall, Dallas, Texas, USA, supported by Soft Machine, The Chessmen and Moving Sidewalks. During the day Jimi trades $40 and his own wah-wah pedal to acquire the superior Vox wah-wah unit belonging to The Chessmen's guitarist Jimmie Vaughan, brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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Robert Wyatt (Soft Machine) : You're playing in front of 5,000 Texans in an aircraft hanger and there's already been frisson in the dressing room when two tall local white girls disappeared into Jimi Hendrix's dressing room, and the local mayor is there and stuff, and it's all a bit dodgy, a bit, 'Ooooh, yeah!" So there's stuff like that going on and then you've got to play for half an hour in front of these fans who really didn't come to see you … it does knock the whimsy out of you. You do have to get on with it. "1,2,3, bang!' I think this was where we brought to perfection the art of doing a set without any gaps in it, because you don't want to stop until you get off the stage
(Source :Public Q+A session at the Purcell Room, London, October 15, 2007)
Jimi Hendrix (on stage) : I'd like to say that this is really a groovy city, because I went down and got these real groovy boots. I'm really out of sight man. Look at those! I got some pointed-toe shoes, wow! Pointed-toe shoes, why, I'm the biggest square in this whole building.
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(Source :Public Q+A session at the Purcell Room, London, October 15, 2007)
Jimi Hendrix (on stage) : I'd like to say that this is really a groovy city, because I went down and got these real groovy boots. I'm really out of sight man. Look at those! I got some pointed-toe shoes, wow! Pointed-toe shoes, why, I'm the biggest square in this whole building.