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Jimi Hendrix by John Mayer

From "100 Greatest Artists", published in Rolling Stone magazine

he sings, "My yellow in this case is not so mellow/In fact I'm trying to say it's frightened like me" — that is a man who knows the shape of his heart.

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Snippets

Article in Rolling Stone
"Q&A: John Mayer"

RS: You guys played a Hendrix tune, right?

JM: We did a Hendrix tune called “Bold as Love,” which is one of my favorite Hendrix tunes. I’m a big believer in a different Jimi Hendrix than most people know.

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Q&A Session with Fans
Mayercraft Carrier Cruise Event
And in the case of "Bold as Love," it stands as Hendrix's really kind of beautiful, kind of angelic work—and I've always felt like Hendrix got branded the fire breathing, guitar smashing feedback guy, which is a very small part of it, but [he also made] some of the most beautiful chordal harmonic work anybody has ever written.
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Twitter Q&A (July 2017)
Twitter Q&A session with fans

favorite Jimi solo

All the solos in "All Along The Watchtower" are incredible.

Excerpted from Twitter Q&A (July 2017) >
Twitter Q&A (November 2017)
Twitter Q&A about Born and Raised

original Experience lineup, Band of Gypsies, or Cox/Mitchell?

Original lineup all day

Excerpted from Twitter Q&A (November 2017) >