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Those vids are so good. Love the closeups where you can see Jimi fretting the low E with his thumb off and on as necessary.
Took me a little bit to get a good screenshot of the headstock, but I did and used google image search as I was curious what kind of guitar that is. FWIW - Zemaitis 12-string. 
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This is cool but my inner pedant can’t let Open Culture get away with this line:
playing folk-style with the fingers of his left hand
He plays without a pick for a small part of the clip but then switches to picking with his thumb. That is not ‘folk-style’.
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I’ve listened to that recording of “Hear my train a comin” over a hundred times; it’s the first track of the Jimi Hendrix Blues album which was a cornerstone of my late teens. It was great to get to see him play it.
That recording of “Hound Dog” I’ve never heard before. Also great
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Great footage of a beautiful musician. Those hands…
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