“The music I might hear I can’t get on the guitar,” Hendrix said. “It’s a thing of just laying around daydreaming or something. You’re hearing all this music, and you just can’t get it on the guitar.”
After Jimi Hendrix’s discharge from the army, he earned his living as a traveling musician on the so-called Chitlin’ Circuit—the circuit of venues throughout the segregated South that booked black musicians.
Hendrix backed such giants of R&B, soul, and electric blues as Wilson Pickett and Sam Cooke, and during those early years with his own band the King Casuals. (Source Openculture)
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"We'd get a gig once every twelfth of never," he told Rave in 1967. "We even tried eating orange peel and tomato paste. Sleeping outside them tall tenements was hell. Rats running all across your chest, cockroaches stealing your last candy bar out of your pocket ..."
Hendrix by that times wrote a letter to his father:" Despite the challenges, a letter Hendrix sent to his father during this period reveals his steely resolve to realize his destiny. "I still have my guitar and amp and as long as I have that, no fool can keep me from living," he writes. "Although I don't eat every day, everything's going all right for me. It could be worse than this, but I'm going to keep hustling and scuffling until I get things to happening, like they're supposed to for me."
On Buddy And Stacey video, Jimi is the first from the left of the backing line
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in 1964 Jimi Jimi Hendrix joined Little Richard’s touring band The Upsetters, and further developed the unique guitar style that would shortly electrify the world. But this was not the first time that Hendrix had met the Georgia-born rock’n’roll star.
That was when I got a fancy shirt because I was dragged at wearing his uniform. 'Take off those shirts,' he told me and another guy.'" Not long after the Night Train broadcast, he and Richard parted company, although the precise circumstances remain a mystery. In a letter to his father that July, Hendrix says that Richard "didn't pay us for five and a half weeks, and you can't live on promises when you're on the road. So I had to cut that mess loose." (Source Rolling Stones)
The most bizarre of all of Hendrix's pre-Experience activities is this alleged collaboration with the B-movie bombshell. Even stranger is the fact that he never mentioned it in interviews, leading some to question whether it really happened at all.
