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Allow Little Richard to provide a few new ways to describe Jimi Hendrix

#JimiHendrix #LittleRichard #RnB #TheKingofRock&Roll While it’s easy to think that just about every superlative in the world has been used to describe Jimi Hendrix’s guitar playing, there are several descriptions that only the world’s most creative minds could think up. Take, for example, a video of The King of Rock and Roll himself, Little Richard, reminiscing about Hendrix’s playing with some deeply impressive, wildly amped-up, Sly and the Family Stone-inflected vocabulary. Pulled from 1973's Jimi Hendrix documentary, Little Richard, in baby blue robe and shiny tiara, waxes poetic about the mid-’60s era when Hendrix was a member of his band, The Upsetters. Richard, with the barely contained energy of a coiled slinky, tells the camera that Hendrix “was a star” when he worked with him. While this is a familiar description of raw talent, he goes a bit further, reminding listeners that “Sly told you that everybody is a star” and that “the only problem is some people...