Three guitar gods, one stage. Chuck Barry leading the most epic night in rock history. Three guitar gods, one stage. Chuck Barry leading Baldis Dean. The most epic night in rock history. The story of how the father of rock and roll commanded Eric Clapton and Keith Richards like a general directing his army, creating…
The day Little Richard told Chuck Barry, “I’m the real king of rock and roll.” This story is legendary. What happened next wasn’t just a battle between two musical giants, but a clash between two completely different philosophies of what rock and roll should be, ending with a confrontation so epic it settled the question…
Chuck Barry gave Keith Richards one guitar lesson. What he taught him changed rock forever. It was March 8th, 1963. Backstage at the Craw Daddy Club in Richmond, London. The Rolling Stones had just finished opening for Chuck Barry, and 19-year-old Keith Richards was feeling like the worst guitarist who had ever picked up an…
Frank Sinatra told Jimmyi Hendris, “That’s not music, it’s noise on the Mike Douglas Show.” What Jimmy played next made Sinatra stand up and apologize in front of millions. It was May 1968, and the Mike Douglas Show was the most watched daytime talk show in America. Unlike the stiff formality of nighttime television, Mike…
Backstage at Monterey Pop, Pete Townsend confronted Jimmyi Hendris in front of 30 people. You set your guitar on fire. I’ve been smashing mine for years. You copied me. What Jimmy said next left the room in stunned silence. Then Pete picked up his guitar and smashed it differently than he ever had before. It…
Nina Simone told Jimmyi Hendris to play piano as a joke. What he played left her in tears and changed everything. It was October 1967 and a small gathering was happening in a Greenwich Village apartment. The kind of gathering that only happened in New York in the late60s. Jazz musicians, rock guitarists, poets, and…
London 1969. A 72-year-old man named Albert Smokeoky Davis sat in the corner of the Blue Note Club playing guitar to a crowd that wasn’t listening. He had been a blues guitarist for 50 years, but time had forgotten him. Then he started playing a Jimmy Hendris song, not copying it, but playing it the…
Seattle, 1968. Jimmy Hendris was walking through his old neighborhood when he saw something in a pawn shop window that made his heart stop. It was his first guitar, the battered Dane Electro that his father had bought him for $15 when he was 15 years old. The guitar he’d learned to play on that…
London, 1969. Jimmyi Hendris was walking down Carnaby Street after a recording session when he heard something that made him stop dead in his tracks. Someone was playing his song. But it sounded wrong, broken, struggling, desperate. He turned the corner and saw a teenage kid sitting on the pavement with a guitar that had…
George Harrison handed Jimmy Hendris a sitar and said, “This instrument took me three years to learn. You’ll never figure it out in one night.” 6 hours later, Jimmy played something that made George question everything he knew about music. It was November 1967, and London was in the middle of what everyone was calling…
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