Fact #95379
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Short story:
James Hendrix [Jimi Hendrix], guitarist of The King Kasuals, buys an Ibanez Japanese electric guitar on hire purchase at Collins music store, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA.
Full article:
Billy Cox (King Kasuals) : Someone heard us in Clarksville and said there was a club in Nashville that could use a band. We went up, auditioned for the job, and immediately got hired. This was at the Del-Morocco. They fired the band that was working there part-time and hired us full-time. The fellow who owned the club also owned Joyce's House of Glamour, and Jimmy and I lived upstairs. We were there about a year or so.
Jimi Hendrix : This one-horse music agency, used to come up on stage in the middle of a number while we were playing and slip the money for the gig into our pockets. They knew we couldn't knock off to count it just then. By the time the number was over and I got a chance to look in the envelope, it'd be maybe two dollars.
Billy Cox : Back then, Jimmy had a Silvertone that was painted red. He painted the name 'Betty Jean' on it - that was his childhood sweetheart. He used that guitar up to a year after we got out of the service. When we were making a little more money, I co-signed for him and he traded that in for an Epiphone. That Silvertone wound up in a music store in Clarksville, Tennessee, USA.
People nicknamed him Marbles, because he'd walk up the street playing an electric guitar, he'd play it in the show, and he'd play it coming back from the theatre.
Jimi Hendrix : Every Sunday afternoon, we used to go downtown and watch the race riots. Take a picnic basket because they wouldn't serve us in the restaurants. One group would stand on one side of the street and the rest on the other side. They'd shout names and talk about each other's mothers. That'd go on for a couple of hours, then we'd all go home. Sometimes, if there was a good movie on that Sunday, there wouldn't be any race riots.
Billy Cox : When Jimmy and I stayed in Nashville, all I had was blues records. Sometimes we'd sit around and have Jello or strawberry upside-down cake. We'd pull out a record by Albert King or B.B. King, and maybe learn a lick or two, because at that time people liked to hear stuff that was current.
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Jimi Hendrix : This one-horse music agency, used to come up on stage in the middle of a number while we were playing and slip the money for the gig into our pockets. They knew we couldn't knock off to count it just then. By the time the number was over and I got a chance to look in the envelope, it'd be maybe two dollars.
Billy Cox : Back then, Jimmy had a Silvertone that was painted red. He painted the name 'Betty Jean' on it - that was his childhood sweetheart. He used that guitar up to a year after we got out of the service. When we were making a little more money, I co-signed for him and he traded that in for an Epiphone. That Silvertone wound up in a music store in Clarksville, Tennessee, USA.
People nicknamed him Marbles, because he'd walk up the street playing an electric guitar, he'd play it in the show, and he'd play it coming back from the theatre.
Jimi Hendrix : Every Sunday afternoon, we used to go downtown and watch the race riots. Take a picnic basket because they wouldn't serve us in the restaurants. One group would stand on one side of the street and the rest on the other side. They'd shout names and talk about each other's mothers. That'd go on for a couple of hours, then we'd all go home. Sometimes, if there was a good movie on that Sunday, there wouldn't be any race riots.
Billy Cox : When Jimmy and I stayed in Nashville, all I had was blues records. Sometimes we'd sit around and have Jello or strawberry upside-down cake. We'd pull out a record by Albert King or B.B. King, and maybe learn a lick or two, because at that time people liked to hear stuff that was current.