As a teenager I was a huge Eddie Van Halen fan. I still am to a great extent. When I was 15 someone said, If you like Eddie then check out Jimi Hendrix. I got Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits. I thought this weird looking dude is ok but he's not close to what Eddie is.

Then someone else said no, no, check him out live! So I bought a 2 record set called The Jimi Concerts. To say I was blown away was an understatement. This dude was BAAAAAD!!! I loved blues to begin with as well. I heard Red House on Smash Hits, but when he did it in concert it became alive and touched me in ways unknown to me before.

I have listend to both of these concerts and it puts me right back in my bedroom in Richmond, Virginia when I was 15 all over agian. Hendrix and Van Halen along with Eric Clapton are the reason I picked up the guitar that same year and I am still playing today.

Thanks Jimi