Billy Gibbons wasn't only a fan of Jimi Hendrix, but they were also friends. So, who better to help promote the latest concert release from the Hendrix vault, The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969, since the ZZ Top guitarist was at that show.
Gibbons has narrated a nine-minute video titled I Was There, in which he recounts the night.
He says Hendrix took the stage to little fanfare and “stepped up and invited the crowd to imagine being in church, and to think of the ceiling as an open sky... And then it began: Man, it was loud, fast and furious...