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He turned it into an instrument, which...
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...people like Buddy Guy and T-Bone Walker
and Chuck Berry had done previous to that.
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But none had ever brought it out
and sold it to the public...
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...and sold it to people like me,
who now believe in it as an instrument.
1:26:20
People like Eric Clapton were too ethnic.
1:26:22
They kept to themselves
and they had fixed groups.
1:26:25
But Jimi was unashamedly outward...
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...and wanted to reach as many people
as possible.
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You can say a million things, you know,
as people have done.
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I don't want to say no more.
1:26:35
I mean, I just thought Jimi
was a great guitar player.
1:26:38
I thought he was the best,
or the most original.
1:26:41
I thought he had a really original act,
you know, and that's all now.
1:26:45
I don't know nothin' about his business,
whether he was a casualty...
1:26:50
...and I wish he was still here, and that's it.
1:26:52
He always felt he wouldn't live long,
like he was burning himself out.
1:26:56
But most black people do, anyway...
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...feel as though they're bein' burnt out.
1:27:01
Like there's a fuse that's in everybody,
you know...
1:27:05
...and everybody knows the limits
of their fuse, or how much...
1:27:08
...how fast it's going.
1:27:09
But when that fuse...
Most black people's fuses are fast anyway.
1:27:13
They got a fast fuse because of the things
around them.
1:27:19
Believe it or not, even you have a fast fuse.
1:27:22
We all have fast fuses, you know,
living in this generation.
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And this shit, or those of us
who are living in it.
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If you're not, I'm not talkin' to you,
but if you are, that's who I'm talkin' to.
1:27:34
He was gettin' ready to go
into another phase, you know.
1:27:39
I think a lot of people
who were close to him...
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...saw that he was gettin' ready
to enter another phase...
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...that would have been a strong change,
and a different Jimi.
1:27:48
And so, as far as that transition,
it happened, you know.
1:27:54
And like, in our discussions about death
in the past.
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You can look at his work, his writings.