Guitar greats honor Jimi Hendrix with tribute show
Written by drbob on October 23, 2010 – 12:17 am -By Rege Behe, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Billy Cox heard Jimi Hendrix before he saw or met him. It was a rainy evening in 1961 at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, and Cox and a fellow soldier were walking by a service club where "the window was up maybe a couple of inches." From that small opening came a sound both men had never heard before. "I told the guy next to me -- I didn't really know him -- that sounds incredible," Cox says. "He thought it sounded terrible. And to the human ear, maybe it did, but I wasn't listening to him. So I went in and introduced myself." Thus was struck the friendship of a lifetime, one that Cox will revisit Tuesday during the Experience Hendrix Tour at the Benedum Center, Downtown. Cox will join fellow musicians... more
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