“Jimi Hendrix came in with an old Duo-Sonic. I had just put together a Strat I’d strung up left-handed, and I went, ‘I’ll trade you.’ I was docked three weeks’ pay”: Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter recalls the questionable guitar deal he made when he met Jimi Hendrix

Photo of Jeff Skunk BAXTER and STEELY DAN; Jeff Skunk Baxter AND Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) performs live on stage playing a white Fender Stratocaster guitar with The Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 24th February 1969.

Before Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter became the revered Steely Dan guitar player and famed session hand that worked with the likes of Joni Mitchell, Donna Summers and Dolly Parton, he began his career working at a guitar store.

It was a vocation that gave him the opportunity to meet countless electric guitar heroes, who’d all visit the store he worked at repairing, setting up and selling instruments.