“All the Beatles and all the Stones were there. I thought, This is a bit unusual!” Former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour on his early adventures seeing — and mixing sound for — his idol, Jimi Hendrix

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That led to his extraordinary experience running the PA for the guitarist's set at the 1970 Isle of Wight festival. “I helped mix the sound for Hendrix at the Isle of Wight in 1970," Gilmour revealed to Prog magazine in 2019. Jimi Hendrix performs at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival on the night of August 30, with sound by David Gilmour. As he explained to the interviewer, it was not a copy of a Jimi Hendrix strap but the real thing. “No, the Jimi Hendrix strap, that he’s [wearing at] a lot of his later shows, at the Isle of Wight in 1970,” he explained.