Terry Reid on Jimi Hendrix playing The Troggs' 'Wild Thing’

 "Jimi then introduced Wild Thing... 

'A pop throwaway and it was what everybody stood against!' Terry Reid observed. 

'And he played it, and banged the shit out of this bloody thing, and takes off into outer space. Imagine the most horrible song in the world turned into the most beautiful.' 

Reid went to the bathroom at one point and, coming back, bumped into Brian Jones. 'It's all wet down in the front,' Jones warned. 

Reid replied, 'What are you talking about? I can't see any water.' 

To which Jones said, 'It's wet from all the guitar players crying'." 

--Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross

Jimmy sharing the laughter with Brian Jones and entourage

Gary Lucas

Gary found this online and it made me smile . . . .  

Jimi Hendrix "Wild Thing" 

1967-05-11 Théatre d'Issy les Moulineaux, Paris