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9. I saw Jimi Hendrix and Ted Nugent on the same stage

August 17th, 1968 at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium. Nugent was then lead guitarist for the Amboy Dukes and was a warm up act for Hendrix. I remember that Nugent actually sounded pretty good. In 1968 I'd never heard of him and my fellow musician friends in the audience were asking ourselves 'who is this guy?'
A couple of warm up acts later, Hendrix hit the stage. After a couple of tunes, he laid down his Fender strat and picked up a red Gibson Les Paul, holding it upside down of course, and tore into Red House. He virtually melted the rafters in that old building and my fellow musicians were smiling at each other not even remembering who Ted Nugent was. That was the first show of the day and I had tickets for two shows. Nugent didn't even show up for the evening show. Nugent over the years has never said a kind word about Hendrix but he knows who was the better musician.