Jimi Hendrix famously said in an interview with Dick Cavett that he wasn’t “the best guitar player”. Much less famously he said to Walter Parazaider of the band Chicago “Your horns are like one set of lungs, and your guitarist is better than me”. He expressed interest in making an album with the horn section sometime in the future. Chicago’s guitarist and bandleader, Terry Kath did end up with a longer career than Jimi Hendrix. He did, however tragically die in 1978, after leading the band through eleven albums starting with “Chicago Transit Authority” in 1969. Band members claim he was shaping feedback into organized noise, and making his guitar talk long before any of them knew of Jimi...
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