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August 2024
For the three years following late September, 1970, not a day passed without me listening to Jimi Hendrix. For various reasons, I had missed most of the guitarist’s supercharged, stratospheric rise to fame. I only began seriously listening to his music with the release of Hendrix’s final official album, Band of Gypsys (1970), and then I couldn’t get enough. I’d begun buying LPs—just $3.33 each for the stereo versions at my local discount store—in 1965. Within the year I had a small stack of vinyl: Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited; the Rolling Stones’ 12 × 5 and The Rolling Stones, Now!; the Dave Clark Five’s Glad All Over; and Beach Boys Concert. Ironically, it was the lovable Monkees—whose 1967 US tour had featured the newly formed Jimi Hendrix Experience as an unlikely opening act—that led me to overlook the guitarist’s earlier work.
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