Jimi Hendrix
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...who was playing really quite discreetly
in the back row.

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And from that moment
I just became completely involved.

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He was very naive
and very shy and nervous.

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He didn't look at you when he spoke
to you.

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And he came back to the apartment...
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...and played a lot of Dylan...
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...who Jimi idolized.
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He thought Dylan was the greatest.
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I said, "Man, you'd better tell me
who you spent our last $5 on."

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He wouldn't tell me nothin'.
He just kept flashin' the thing.

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And then he finally took it out of the bag.
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He still wouldn't let me read it...
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...but he was readin' some of the things
it said to me, up in the air like this.

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I didn't recognize anything he said anyway,
so I pretended I didn't give a shit.

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I went to the bedroom,
and he came in and told me...

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...it was Bob Dylan, you know.
I said, "Bob who?"

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"Bob Dylan. You never heard
of Bob Dylan?"

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I said, "No, I never heard of Bob Dylan."
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I'm sayin', "What's with this weird cat?"
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Because, I mean,
Bob Dylan was really a genius...

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...but I just couldn't get ready for it.
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I figured Jimi was so heavy
into what I was into...

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...he would never like anything like that.
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But he just loved it to death.
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I wanted to get up and go to the bathroom,
he would grab me by my arm, you know...

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...like I'm going to miss this part.
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"Listen", you know.
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Okay, like I couldn't miss it, you know.
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You could hear it to 42nd Street,
you know.

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We almost got put out of the building
behind Dylan.

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He'd never realized that most...
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...of the recording stars...
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...like Dylan, don't have...
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...an incredible singing voice.
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And he would never, ever,
let anybody watch him putting vocals on.

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He was very shy about his voice.
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He thought he had the worst voice
in the world.


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