:10:01
We started and played
at various service clubs on the post.
:10:06
But most of the time,
we got fired from the gigs...
:10:10
...'cause we played real loud, you know?
:10:13
As you know, Jimi was a left hand player.
:10:15
He would have to string his guitar
with the strings backward, upside down...
:10:20
...the heavy strings in reverse
of what they normally should be.
:10:24
This was okay within itself,
with the one exception:
:10:30
Jimi somehow would always manage...
:10:32
...to pawn this guitar before a gig...
:10:36
...before a dance, and, of course,
the band would have to go pawn it...
:10:40
...re-pawn it, repossess it.
:10:43
Nothing else could be used.
He had to have this specific guitar.
:10:46
And I think he played this particular angle
against the band.
:10:50
It really appeared that Jimi, in many cases,
was never really with us.
:10:56
He did a lot of concentrating on his music.
:10:59
A lot of the small talk that
the typical group of guys would make...
:11:03
...sometimes he would not enter into it.
:11:07
Of course, we'd look over at him
occasionally, and there he is staring.
:11:12
We wouldn't ask him for his thoughts
per se, but this is what I really meant...
:11:17
...by cloud nine.
:11:18
You didn't really get...
:11:22
...to know him that closely
as far as the exact line of thinking.
:11:25
Do you ever run into any of the guys
from the old 101st?
:11:28
Yeah, I see some of my friends.
:11:30
Do they think your life is strange
compared to what they're in?
:11:34
That wouldn't matter really because...
:11:36
... there's so many different things
goin' on now.
:11:39
You can't take time to say,
"I wonder what they think of me there."
:11:43
I can't go through all that.
I've gone through it for three years.
:11:47
I remember when he got his first guitar.
:11:51
We used to have a little jam session
between the two of us.
:11:58
I bought a saxophone at that time...