However, other players—such as Chicago, Illinois, guitarist Paul Petraitis, who saw Jimi Hendrix perform four times in 1968—can attest that in later performances of the song, Hendrix sometimes used an open-position Em7 instead. Don’tbelieve him? Hit YouTube. “E7#9 is so overused in the post-Stevie Ray world, that this Em7 chord makes a nice alternative,” says Petraitis. “It doesn’t have that G#/G dissonance. It’s like the ‘Foxey Lady’ voicing.” For reporting directly from the front lines of four Hendrix concerts, Petraitis wins a Randall KH-15 Kirk Hammett practice amp!