From johnny black’s book Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan
(October 1965, New York) George Clemons: Once Jimi came into a black club and they were playing Wilson Pickett so Jimi takes it off and puts on a Bob Dylan record, “Blowin in the wind”. So all the black guys standing there are saying “What are you doing?Are you crazy?” To many blacks then, Dylan sounded like a hillbilly, a redneck. And Jimi didn’t care about this, so he played that record. So this guy told him,” I’m going to cut your throat”. So I said, “Wait a minute now! Stop!We take that record off”. And I took Jimi into this other room, and I said, “Why are you doing that? You know there is gonna be trouble about that.” He said, “These people in Harlem have to learn. They can’t go around like this without knowing what’s going on.”
He was a Dylan freak. We talked about Dylan a lot, the symbolism and poetry of his lyrics and how brilliant he was. Jimi was very self-conscious about his lack of education and his speech. He was impressed by people who could speak well. That’s one of the reasons why he got into Dylan, because it was very literate rock’n’roll.
The Book : https://www.amazon.com/Jimi-Hendrix-Experience-Johnny-Black/dp/1560252405
