Chords for B.B. King and Buddy Guy on Meeting Jimi Hendrix | SiriusXM

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_ Jimi Hendrix, where did you first see Jimi Hendrix, buddy?
_ _ Who's that place called on?
_ _ Was it the scene?
The scene in the basement, because you came there once when I was playing there.
It was in the basement.
There were the Chamber Brothers, you, and _ I didn't know who he was.
I was about, must have been about 24 then, 25.
How come you keep mentioning ages and stuff?
Because I'm trying to keep this _ Alzheimer's workin' on.
I think you're trying to throw [G] bricks at me.
No, no, no.
_ But anyway, Dick Waterman was _ contacting me then, and I had the guitar behind my head,
you know, and I'm like trying to get some attention mostly.
You did.
And _ somebody had a tape recorder, and they was like, that's Jimi Hendrix.
And I had had a couple of shots, you know, and I'm trying to get me one of these hippie
gals, you know, that said exactly what I said.
I said, get out of my damn way.
Who in the hell is Jimi Hendrix?
And he started waving and plugging up his wah-wah pedal, and he said, I just canceled the gig.
I want to get a chance to play with Jim Hendrix.
I said, who the hell is that?
And somebody said, that's Hendrix.
Be cool, dude.
Be cool.
Hendrix, yeah.
So I finally stopped playing, and he plugged it up and went to work on it, and I said,
well, maybe I should know you then.
And from that day on, we came on, because we had some conversations together after that.
And that was like about maybe two and a half years before he passed away.
Well, I first met him at Tom Couch's place in Mobile.
In Mobile, yeah.
And guess what he was doing?
He was in the rhythm section for Little Richard.
Yeah.
That's how I first met him.
_ _ And _ _ they didn't care too much about blues, because Little Richard was so _ electrifying.
Boy, when he got through, _ everybody was getting ready to leave.
_ But we had intermission, kind of like he was saying, you know, for us on the road, it was
what, you played 30 and you're off.
Right.
Right. _
The union thing.
But _ _ _ _ _ Jimmy was quiet _ when I met him.
When I saw him, he didn't drink.
He didn't drink or smoke or anything. _ _
And I wasn't drinking that much then.
_ So we go in the dressing room, and we just sit in there.
You know, like two stools.
And so finally he says, _ B.B. had been listening to you for a while.
_ And I said, really? _
And then he told me his name.
But I noticed he was left-handed.
He didn't play like we do.
Yeah.
He's left-handed.
Play this.
No.
Yeah, this way.
_ And so I was asking him, why didn't you change the strings? _ _ _ _
_ And he said, well, this is just the way I learned.
And that's how I met Jimmy.
_ And he was a very nice, I thought he was, very nice person.
Very nice.
And I didn't hear no more from him until after he had gone to England.
And that's when I started hearing, Jimmy, him is Jimmy.
And so it was, and yeah, I knew him. _ _
But I never did get a chance to speak to him again. _ _
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