On this day in 1992, Ernie Isley covered Jimi Hendrix Experience "Purple Haze" for all-star finale at our 1992 Induction Ceremony, welcoming both @theisleybrothers &
#JimiHendrix into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. 💜 Hendrix's first significant studio date as a sideman came on the Isleys’ storming ’64 two-part single ‘‘Testify.” Hendrix, then going by the stage name Jimmy James, actually lived with the Isleys for a few months, and the group also bought him his first Fender guitar. ‘‘He could play wonderfully without an amp,” Ernie Isley told writer Harry Weinger. "With his back to us, the sound and the feeling emanating from him was quite something.”