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== Teenage years == When Lloyd was in his middle teens, he met a fellow guitarist from Brooklyn named [[Velvert Turner]]. Turner claimed he knew [[Jimi Hendrix]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Young|first=Charles M.|title=Richard Lloyd: 'Scuse Me While I Hit This Guy|url=https://www.guitarworld.com/features/richard-lloyd-scuse-me-while-i-hit-guy|work=[[Guitar World]]|date=January 8, 2010|access-date=February 9, 2020}}</ref> Per Turner, Hendrix considered Turner his "little brother", and took him on as his protégé, inviting him to various clubs and teaching him guitar from Hendrix's apartment on W 12th St. As Turner and Lloyd were best friends, Turner asked for permission to teach Lloyd what he was learning, and so Lloyd and Turner began practicing together under the teaching auspice of Hendrix. Lloyd frequently attended Hendrix's shows, as well as those of other well-known acts such as [[Led Zeppelin]], [[The Who]], [[The Jeff Beck Group]] with [[Rod Stewart]], [[The Allman Brothers Band]], and the [[Grateful Dead]]. At Stuyvesant High School, during the 11th grade, Lloyd decided that he was going to become a well-known guitarist, and so he stopped bringing his textbooks or homework to school, instead bringing an electric guitar in a hardshell case. When his teachers would ask him where his schoolbooks were, he would point to the case. Being asked to open the case, the teachers would proclaim "I don't see any books in there – only an electric guitar", and Lloyd's retort was "That's the book I'm studying."{{Citation needed|reason=please give a reliable source for this assertion. |date=November 2010}} He still managed to pass all of his tests but quit in May 1969, before graduation, because he did not believe in diplomas, and he considered that having a high school diploma would not do him any good in his pursuit of the music business. That summer his parents moved to [[Montclair, New Jersey]], and gave him an ultimatum: he could either get a job or repeat the 12th grade in a new high school. He chose the latter, which led to his deep friendship with another guitarist named [[Al Anderson (The Wailers)|Al Anderson]], who went on to be one of a couple of Americans to play in [[Bob Marley]]'s touring band, [[Bob Marley and the Wailers|The Wailers]], along with Donald Kinsey.
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