Jimi Hendrix, Are You Experienced? Album Cover Outtake, 1967

This is an alternate photograph taken for the Are You Experienced?  record cover, the landmark 1967 album by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

"He was terrific. This is the amazing thing. When I first met him he was so calm and quiet. If he didn’t understand you, he’d say ‘pardon me.' Then I went to one of his concerts. I couldn’t believe it. He was Jekyll and Hyde. He was so quiet off stage, so nice and kind and responsive and then he got on stage and the sheer power of his personality and his playing ability hit you like a ton of bricks." - Bruce Fleming