I couldn't believe him. Nobody could believe him. Nobody knew you could do that with a guitar. The big thing before that was Clapton. That was as high as you could get. Hendrix used to fucking do a double-somersault and come playing it behind his neck, fucking biting it! I watched him many nights and he wasn't just pretending, playing it with his fingers. He was playing it with his teeth! And he used to fuck the amplifiers and drag it around the floor. Lighting it on fire . . . When he was playing I'd watch him on stage from a chair in the wings. You could never tell how he did it. He loved to fuck off all the guitar players in the audience . . .

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