HEAR MAYER TRAIN A COMIN’
Roger Mayer was instrumental in helping Jimi Hendrix achieve his extraordinary live tones and lay down some of the finest guitar sounds ever heard on record. He’d been out on the road in 1968 with Jimi following the recording of Axis: Bold As Love the previous year, and in 1969 the pair relocated from London to the States. Roger, newly married, moved to New York City, while Jimi later decamped Upstate to the hamlet of Shokan ( just outside of Woodstock) to set about writing and rehearsing with a new band line-up prior to their Woodstock festival debut.
How did you modify Jimi’s Strats?
“It was a case of making sure the bridge and nut were adjusted for left-handed
