The day in 1968 when Andy Summers got to jam with Jimi Hendrix: “Outrageous that I actually dared to”Strangely enough, one of the leading forces of the new wave had crossed paths with a titan of the 1960s counterculture. The fact was, The Police guitarist Andy Summers was already something of a rock veteran when he first joined The Police in 1977. “I walked out into the studio, I see Mitch, and there was a Les Paul there,” Summers recalled to Rick Beato in 2023. “So I picked up the Les Paul, probably outrageous that I actually dared to do that. About ten minutes passed before Hendrix approached the ever brash Summers for a go on the Les Paul.