In 1963, he said goodbye to Cox, headed to Harlem and eventually hooked up with a band from New Jersey. Cox did okay, but Hendrix was too odd for the local scene, although he got some club work.

It was the end of four years' worth of struggle for Hendrix, a stretch which started when he and his friend Billy Cox got out of the Air Force in 1962 and went to Nashville to find work. Opinion Send My Love To Linda: An Untold Jimi Hendrix Story They also played clubs as themselves, and a few months later, they were doing just that across the street from the Gaslight at the Cafe Wha?, where Chas Chandler, former bassist for The Animals, caught their show and asked the guitarist if he'd like to go to England with him. He was with his band, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, who did recording or backup work. That was the one time I saw Jimi Hendrix. Besides, they weren't open yet, and someone chased me away. The guitarist played his instrument upside-down, but it was too loud for me. I stuck my head in to see a band doing a sound check and recognized John Hammond and his black backup band, all wearing suits. One afternoon in the mid-'60s, I was on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village and heard some music coming out of the Gaslight Club. Rock historian Ed Ward takes a look at it today. A new box set from Sony Legacy, West Coast Seattle Boy, showcases Jimi Hendrix's work as a sideman to a number of musicians.

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