GYPSYS- Hendrix and Miles.
Jimi Hendrix and Billy Cox. He recorded the California Raisins commercial featuring clay- mation dancing raisins. It's the most success- ful commercial in television history. Buddy recorded and produced and performed on three more California Raisins albums. Buddy produced and performed in a se-
ries of commercials for Caribbean Kiss, Cadil- lac and Harley Davidson just to name a few. Currently Buddy Miles is touring the USA, helping to raise money for several organiza- tions and sponsors that support Hurricane / Disaster Relief efforts and The Children's Craniofacial Association. We spoke to Buddy by phone from his
home in Texas. Thanks for agreeing to chat with us a
second time Buddy. My pleasure, Michael. Where are you from?
I live in Greenville, South Carolina, but I was born 30 miles down the road in Spartanburg. Oh yeah, Spartanburg. I’ve been there many times when I was younger. Greenville and
Spartanburg, all over the Carolinas. Well, looking over your resume, it’s al- most hard to decide where to begin. I suppose you’re best known for playing with Jimi Hendrix. What are your fondest memories of those days? Well, everything that I do is kind of like a fond memory. If I get into particulars, it’ll sound x-rated, and I don’t want to do that. There’s been way too much of that, that has taken Jimi out of the ball park. And I cer- tainly don’t want to be the one to start any more controversy. But the only things I re- member are the good times. Especially when we met. I was playing with Wilson Pickett, he was playing with the Isley Brothers. This was like in the 1960’s. The funny thing about it was he and I had more hair than anybody else in either band. The man was superb. Thank God the world hasn’t forgotten him. And I couldn’t leave myself out, be-
cause I believe I had something to do with him and myself being two different individu- als that stood for the same thing- love, peace and happiness. Which I stand for today. All of this craziness that is happening over in these foreign countries- I never stood for that, and neither did Jimi. And that goes all the way back to the Vietnam war. So much for that. I don’t know how much longer I am going to be here, but I want to keep my ocean in motion so that Jimi can feel me every time. I don’t know of any other way to ex-
press myself. I play with good musicians, like Rocky Athas. But my most favorite guitarist to this day is Billy Gibbons. Billy is one of the boss hogs of the world. (Laughs) And right after I got to meet Jimi, I met the man from Chicago, and boy was he weird. Michael Bloomfield. You know, “Michael” is a Jewish word for “crazy.” (Laughs) He was the great- est white blues guitarist I ever knew. Him and a guy by the name of Lonnie Mack. And Roy Buchanan.
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