page, and guitarists, like clapton, jimi hendrix, jimmy page, and your name comes up hendrix, jimmyp to. but you say, and you have said it several times, i am not in love with the guitar in that way. iam first in love with the guitar in that way. i am first and foremost about the songs, about the writing, not about the guitar. well, i do love the guitar, don't get me wrong. i mean, i love guitars, and i love cheap guitars as well as expensive ones. that's another thing that people assume that you're playing some massive flash thing, but you're not always. you have to love the thing, completely. all i was talking about in the interview that you will have read was i have been saying that i have been using the guitar to write the song with. in other words, the song is what the important thing, and you're trying to do the best thing by the songs. let's talk about a specific song, which in a sense changed your life. sultans of swing. you had formed dire straits, your brother was part of the band, your friends as well, you had had some success , friends as well, you had had some success,

he formed his band, the jimi hendrix experience. he would come back to the states to form here. objectsone of the few that the style of the art really invokes the 1960's. this is by that unidentified artist. it speaks to the style of the 1960's. we will look at to you to -- at two other band of the era. let's talk about a photographer, a very well-known photographer. contracted by a style of magazine. the contract was to go to san photostory ofdo a the counterculture, the culture that was going on. and the photographer somehow them in position here. the question was asked why did he take interest in these two band's? this is your portrait. the band's, who are these people? joplin.janis this is jerry garcia and the grateful dead on the side. image. an early that was his take on the music scene at the time. the photograph would appear. the year 1968, all the images, we are looking at the images from 1968. movies,is lesser-known which was love of iv. as we say on the label here he was once described as the martin luther king of the movies. he was one of the leading stars of at leas

move down tos will the center image, which is of jimi hendrix by an unidentified artist. name at this huge time, 1968. stone"voted by "rolling and "billboard" magazine as artist of the year in 1968. and he formed his band, jimi andrix experience, just three-member band in england, and he would come back to the states at this time to perform here. this is one of few objects -- one of a few objects that the style of the art really invokes the 1960's. this is by an unidentified artist. to the style of the 1960's. so we will leave jimi hendrix and we will look at two other bands of the era. before i talk about them, let's talk about the photographer enn. he was contracted by "look" magazine, a picture-journalism style magazine, and the contract was to go to san francisco and to do a photo story of the counterculture that was going on in san francisco, the haight- ashbury section of san managed toand penn get 10 musicians here and he took a picture. they were two bands, and the question is, why didn't he take separate images of these two bands. well, anytime you get 10 rock 'n

so, we will leave jimi hendrix, and we will look at two other bands of the era, and before i talk about them, let's talk about the photographer, a very well-known photographer, at this time period, he was contracted by look magazine, which was a picture journalism style of magazine, and he was the contact was to go to san francisco, and to photograph, a photo story, of the counterculture, the culture that was going on in san francisco, and the photographer, somehow managed to get 10 musicians here, and he took their picture, and was asked why did he take these, there were two bands, and the question was, why did he take separate images of these bands? any time you get 10 rock 'n roll musicians, this is your portrait. so who are these people? this is janis joplin, with her band, big brother and the holding company, over here on the left-hand side, and this is jerry garcia, and the grateful dead on this side, very young, this is an early image of these two, so that was his take on the san francisco music scene at the time, and it appears, as i mentioned, that appeared in this magazine. th

all this to jimi hendrix. to the foo fighters lady gaga they all had small beginnings too i also played in places like this. it's really cool to tread in their footsteps. to some listen funding from the summit was on most of them. despite their busy schedules they managed to find the time for some sightseeing they've been on the road all year starting out in europe then canada and now the u.s. . and then it's good to be able to see the wont to come in contact with different people and talk to them the mention of the streets and feeling how people live. they even shoot some hoops just a friendly game with some fans at the college of charleston pop stars without pretensions. the countdown to their charleston gig is on last minute preparations backstage you got it it was good of. you outside the fans are ready. i've been away now here for almost three and a half hours four hours to get here so. i want to meet them so that i will appear like a little different than my kind of the usual we have here like pop and st

. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> rock singer jimi hendrix died today in london. to a police source, from an overdose of drugs. >> janice "japanology plus" lynn was found dead. the cause was said to be an overdose of drugs. >> jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, the rock music group, is dead. he was 27. >> the early years of the '70s were sad in music because you lose people, and you lose the beatles. >> this small gathering is only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may view it as a landmark of the decline of the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. >> it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll as we understood it in the 19060s was no longer with us. >> one day what i'm doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that, you might know i lost the old band or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try ♪ ♪ >> for so long you wait for the next beatles album to see where music was going. we just hoped the music they would come up with individually would be that good. >> i don't no longer have to -

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> rock singer jimi hendrix died today in london, according to a police source from an overdose >> janis joplin was found dead last night. the cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. >> jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rock music group, is dead. he was 27. >> the early years of the '70s are sad in music. because you lose people. and you lose the beatles. >> the small gathering on saville row is only the beginning. the event so momentous that historians may someday view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. >> it was a death for a lot of people. rock 'n' roll as we understood it in the '60s, are no longer with us. >> being without the beatles -- never. ♪ >> and i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that. you might know i lost my old band or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven it's easy if you try ♪ >> for so long, you kind of waited for the next beatles album to see where music was going. and we just hoped that the music they would come up with individually would be that good. >

hendrix. >> and jimi blew us all away.most an uncomfortable possession i left with that i had to try to be a pional rock musician, which never entered my mind until that night. >> reporter: how old were you? >> 17. within w school.ropped out of i was very harmless-looking. i looked like a waif. you know, i s like 5'2" and u know, i had a handful of songs. and no music industry or the business, i'd sneak backstage at every show, try to meet the perfmers and ask for advice. >> reporter:ne night that teenage lofgren went to a show at the legendary cellar door in washington and approached the headliner: neil young. >> and neil had a martin in his hand, and he said, "would you have any songs for your band?" i said, "yeah, i've written a handful of songs." and he handed me his guitar and said, "sing me one. sing me another." and after four or five songs, he says, "i really like those songs >> reporter: slow down a second. >> alright. >> reporter: you're 17 years old? you invite yourself unannounced backstage to a neil young show