# kiss this guy not really a mondegreen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiss-this-guy-not-really-a-mondegreen/110927 "2002-05-26T16:36:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kiss-this-guy-not-really-a-mondegreen/110927/1 "2002-05-26T16:36:37Z")
Of course it is. It is perhaps the most famous one of all. But I ran into an interesting fact? while searching for an answer to whether Hendrix originated the phrase _kiss the sky_. > [@](#): > > Now, to the point. While performing “Purple Haze”, for six performances in a row, Hendrix, standing to the left of the stage, clearly pointed directly at Noel Redding standing to the right, and they both laughed and made a “thing” out of it, each time the phrase came up, “…scuse me while I kiss this guy.” This was not a mistake or a “misheard lyric”. The two of them were clearly “goofing” on and with the crowd and having a great time! Hendrix even walked over to Redding during one or two of these performances, and mimed kissing him! From [http://www.kissthisguy.com/jimi.html](http://www.kissthisguy.com/jimi.html) which is an account of seeing Hendrix in concert conterporaneously with his writing the song, ca. 1967. I just thought it was interesting that the mis-hearing of the lyric was almost instantaneous _and_ that Hendrix was aware of it and played on the fact.