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Originally Posted by Chiefshrink
Love Kath as well and Jimi supposedly told someone off stage at his own concert or on TV(Mike Douglas or Dick Cavatt - I have heard both stories) when asked are you the best and he said no, that, that guy playing lead headlining (Chicago) for me is the best pointing to Kath. Whether it's true or not who knows?
But a great you tube clip to watch Kath do his stuff is the Tanglewood Concert of 1970 on 25 or 6 to 4. If you now are a big fan you may have already seen this but his "fingering and chord changes" and getting particular sounds out without using the whammy bar are just phenomenal. Here I will link you up in case you haven't seen this particular one. Camera work wasn't great but it was 1970.
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There are a few urban legends regarding who Jimi said was the best guitarist. The most famous supposedly took place on The Tonight Show where Jimi was to have said that Phil Keaggy was the best guitarist. The Kath story was supposedly a conversation between himself and Chicago's saxophone player. The Keaggy story is verifiably untrue, and the Kath story is just hearsay. It IS however true that Jimi was talking up a pre ZZ Top Billy Gibbons on the Dick Cavett show.