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Hard to believe today is Andy Partridge’s 69th birthday.
I saw an interview with David Crosby and graham nash they said they were sitting with several performers doing loads of liquid acid to the point they thought their faces were melting and they couldn’t move. Hendrix was in that group of performers and had done just as much if not more acid than all the rest. He (Hendrix) suddenly stood up and said “well my turn to play” they all laughed as they thought he was kidding everyone else was mentally stuck. But Hendrix walked out and performed his show at Woodstock while the others looked on in amazement
Is that why he couldn’t keep that Strat in tune then?
He would often tune while playing I think it was his crazy use of the whammy bar. But I can’t imagine a gallon of LSD being much help.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/5_lPMGbpoUg
I agree about the unreliable whammy bar, especially when being Jimi ed. I lost count of the number of Strats I saw being butchered/modified to have a locking nut system installed to try to counter that. Eventually Fender capitulated/woke up and introduced their own.