:21:01
...mentioned anything about, you know...
:21:03
...when Jimi and them first met...
:21:06
...but we were all livin' together.
:21:08
He thought we was just hustlin'...
:21:11
...and he was really the only musician
in the house.
:21:15
In the beginning, it was almost
like a separation-type thing.
:21:18
- Him on one side of the house...
- He didn't know we had anything.
:21:21
...us on the other.
:21:22
Everybody walkin' by durin' the day,
and lookin' at...
:21:25
Seein' each other,
don't really know each other, but peepin'...
:21:28
...and sayin',
"Well, damn, what is he doin' here?"
:21:31
"Do you know him, Arthur?"
I used to ask Arthur: "Do you know him?"
:21:35
And he used to squinch on by real quick
with his guitar. Watchin' up real quick...
:21:39
...'cause he was kind of timid himself.
:21:41
And after he squinches by, we'd look
at him like, "Damn!" checkin' him out.
:21:45
Then Fay would walk out of the room.
Fay was his girlfriend then.
:21:49
You all call her "Fayne", I think,
but we call her "Fay".
:21:54
And she'd walk on out and switch
because she was bad herself.
:21:58
I mean, in her own way.
:21:59
I think he was justified in his decisions,
you know, like to cut on out.
:22:03
If he had never done that...
:22:05
I don't think it could've happened,
but it's possible.
:22:08
He could've been pokin' around
for years and years, you know...
:22:12
...bein' a sideman and a flunky.
:22:14
He wasn't any of these things. He was
a star when he was there and they knew it.
:22:18
That's why they didn't want him to come
and plunk the guitar with his teeth...
:22:22
...shake his long process,
come near the edge of the stage...
:22:26
...and lick his tongue at the girls
'cause they'd scream.
:22:28
They treated him like he was the star
and they were the fuckin' sidemen.
:22:32
You know what I mean?
So, as often as they could...
:22:35
...they would kind of keep this quiet, right?
And after he left...
:22:40
...they figured, "Well, it's just another
guitar player gone."
:22:44
They had no idea he was gonna do
what he did.