"'We all called him 'Dylan Black' because of his hair. Once you saw him, you didn't forget him. It was like he was hot-combing it; it looked exactly like Dylan's.'"
- Ellen McIlwane
Jimi Hendrix turned twenty-four that November and it was the first birthday he celebrated as a rising star. Yet despite his growing fame, he still carried a wadded-up dollar bill in the sole of his boot, a remnant of his years of poverty. . . He told Kathy Etchingham, "When you've been penniless, you never forget it."
By November, press agent Tony Garland had begun writing Jimi's first official press bio and found himself incredulous when Jimi named off all the legendary R&B bands he'd played with. Garland recalled that at one point they were listening to a King Curtis record on the stereo and Garland asked Jimi if he knew who the guitar player was. "I played that, muthafucker," Jimi said with a big grin on his face.
Charles Cross
Room Full of Mirrors: A Jimi Hendrix Biography
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