:20:02
But I used to like to do it then.
:20:04
But most groups I was with
didn't let me do my own thing...
:20:07
...like feedback in "Midnight Hour".
:20:09
He'd sign a contract with anyone
that had a dollar, you know, and a pencil.
:20:14
You know, he'd sign with them
which got him into a lot of trouble...
:20:17
...that he got into later
with the companies and stuff.
:20:20
No, reading a contract
meant nothing to Jimi.
:20:24
He just came in and signed it...
:20:27
...and I didn't hear from him for months.
:20:29
We'd get our door plugged with the hotel,
we'd get thrown out, we'd pawn the guitar.
:20:33
We'd come back. We'd borrow guitars
from people to play, do a gig.
:20:37
We'd eat good for a minute, you know.
:20:39
It was just that, you know,
on and off all the time.
:20:42
But Jimi had this perseverance to go on.
He didn't mind lookin' freaky...
:20:47
...like I don't mind it,
'cause I was doin' it before he was.
:20:51
I know when he saw me,
it gave him confidence...
:20:53
...and great recompense of reward.
My Lord!
:20:57
But the twins, by now, were on the set.
I don't know if the twins...
:21:01
...mentioned anything about, you know...
:21:03
...when Jimi and them first met...
:21:06
...but we were all livin' together.
:21:08
He thought we was just hustlin'...
:21:11
...and he was really the only musician
in the house.
:21:15
In the beginning, it was almost
like a separation-type thing.
:21:18
- Him on one side of the house...
- He didn't know we had anything.
:21:21
...us on the other.
:21:22
Everybody walkin' by durin' the day,
and lookin' at...
:21:25
Seein' each other,
don't really know each other, but peepin'...
:21:28
...and sayin',
"Well, damn, what is he doin' here?"
:21:31
"Do you know him, Arthur?"
I used to ask Arthur: "Do you know him?"
:21:35
And he used to squinch on by real quick
with his guitar. Watchin' up real quick...
:21:39
...'cause he was kind of timid himself.
:21:41
And after he squinches by, we'd look
at him like, "Damn!" checkin' him out.
:21:45
Then Fay would walk out of the room.
Fay was his girlfriend then.
:21:49
You all call her "Fayne", I think,
but we call her "Fay".
:21:54
And she'd walk on out and switch
because she was bad herself.
:21:58
I mean, in her own way.
:21:59
I think he was justified in his decisions,
you know, like to cut on out.