(Video link here.)  If you look closely, you’ll see Jimi Hendrix in the backline of Buddy & Stacy doing “Shotgun” on a 1965 Night Train Television Show: a curiously invigorating Monday morning wakeup.

In just a few years, Hendrix came a LONG way to his wild, passionate, loud, bluesy, no-holds-barred, pushng-all-limits, seriously-amplified music, until his untimely death in 1970.

Here is a rare sweet riff of Hendrix, considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time, playing unamplified 12-string guitar, dressed in charming late ’60’s garb. (Video link here.)