1st couple/three riffs are as sick as it gets imo. so much groove

As we ready for bassist love

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Also, I've posted this before, but listen all the way through. One of the best sustained bass lines in history.

THEN pay particular attention to what Louis on bass and Ernie on sax are doing at 5:25 on. It's as close to heaven as funk gets.

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Louis is also the bass you hear on just about every Michael Jackson song you've ever loved.

Another Q, in case you mixed it. An unsung hero of that song reminisces

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Jimi was not only modest, but he championed many players he dug to the press. A decent sort, by most accounts, that Hendrix fellow.


In that Netflix doc, in the last pic Kath took with his daughter, he's wearing a bad ass KC Chiefs shirt.

Just wanted to point out...Kath was a Chiefs fan.