First off, what are you up to now?
I’m on tour in September – I’m playing in the Northeast and in Canada. I’m playing in Ohio, New York, Chicago….
I know you had an early start to playing by learning from guys like Hendrix – correct?
My best friend in my teenage years was Velvert Turner – he was a Black kid that knew Jimmy and took lessons from him. He’d come to my house since I lived close to Jimmy’s apartment. He would show me what Jimmy taught him. It’s hard to describe that to someone else – it’s about the vibration and electricity. John Lee Hooker one told me that the secret of learning how to play the electric guitar was to learn one string first. Play it up and down the neck and shake the guitar. He actually said to take all of the other strings off but I couldn’t afford to do that so I just played the one strong. I learned verticality.
