WRULT? (what are you listening to?)

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Found this, I’m not 100% sure if it’s accuracy but since it’s on the internet it must be true.
 
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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
 
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Hard to believe today is Andy Partridge’s 69th birthday.

it’s such a loss he’s retired completely, given up composing, won’t even look at a guitar. I guess we’re all allowed to retire though
 
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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?
 
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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.
 
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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.
And think of tuning at Woodstock. They didn’t have the electric tuners we have today, I doubt they spent the time breaking out a tuning fork, as long as the band was in tune with each other that would have been good enough. The fact Hendrix could hit it on the fly like that was pretty amazing. His father said he would throw his strat down a staircase before every performance. Apparently it was something that happened once by mistake and he had a great show so it became tradition. Seems strange but Hendrix did something right.