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At a meeting with his business associates Henry Steingarten and Steven Weiss, Jimi Hendrix instructs them to cancel an upcoming ten-date tour. Later that night, he jams with Mountain at Ungano's, New York City, USA. Full article:
Ron Terry (Hendrix staff) : There was no real purpose for dates at that point, except that Jeffery was over-extended and needed money. A lot of weird shit was going down. Jeffery was trying to get deposits sent to him personally instead of to Hecht or Weiss.That worsened the paranoia between him and Hendrix.
Bob Levine (Hendrix staff) : Michael's biggest problem with Jimi was that he couldn't communicate with him. He tried drugs, mysticism, intimidation and CIA-MI5 tactics, but he was unable to do it.
Leslie West (Mountain) : I was in a club called Ungano’s in New York. I went to school with this great kid, Ritchie Ungano, who owned the club. It was a night club where they had a lot of blues acts, like Joe Cocker, Steve Miller, Mountain, and one night I went to see Steve Miller and Hendrix walked in sometime after midnight with the hat and the fringed jacket. Steve Miller had finished, people were leaving, and Jimi walked up to me and said, 'D’you wanna jam, man?' I nearly fell off the stool. We didn’t have any amps or guitars there, but we had a loft maybe thirty blocks away where we stored our stuff. So we got in Jimi’s limo and at 1.30 in the morning I’m knocking on the door to wake up our roadies. One of them was Mick Brigden, who is now Joe Satriani’s manager. I said, "Mick, open the fucking door."
He says, "Who is it?"
I said, "Who is it? It’s me. Open the door." And he opens the door and it’s me and Jimi Hendrix standing there. He nearly shit a brick. We went upstairs and Mick helped us get two Marshall cabinets, a couple of heads, Felix’s bass, my guitar, and we went back to the club and jammed, with him on bass and me playing guitar.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, January, 2015)
Bud Prager (partner of Mountain's Felix Pappalardi) : One night in Greenwich Village I sat with Eric Clapton who said, 'As long as Cream exists, Felix Pappalardi will be the producer.' When Eric left, I sat with Jimi Hendrix who said, 'I wish Felix would produce one of my albums.' I said, 'Why? You have two albums in the Top 10. How much better can it get?' He said, 'Felix knows things I don't. He could help me make better records.' At the time I really didn't understand..."
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Bob Levine (Hendrix staff) : Michael's biggest problem with Jimi was that he couldn't communicate with him. He tried drugs, mysticism, intimidation and CIA-MI5 tactics, but he was unable to do it.
Leslie West (Mountain) : I was in a club called Ungano’s in New York. I went to school with this great kid, Ritchie Ungano, who owned the club. It was a night club where they had a lot of blues acts, like Joe Cocker, Steve Miller, Mountain, and one night I went to see Steve Miller and Hendrix walked in sometime after midnight with the hat and the fringed jacket. Steve Miller had finished, people were leaving, and Jimi walked up to me and said, 'D’you wanna jam, man?' I nearly fell off the stool. We didn’t have any amps or guitars there, but we had a loft maybe thirty blocks away where we stored our stuff. So we got in Jimi’s limo and at 1.30 in the morning I’m knocking on the door to wake up our roadies. One of them was Mick Brigden, who is now Joe Satriani’s manager. I said, "Mick, open the fucking door."
He says, "Who is it?"
I said, "Who is it? It’s me. Open the door." And he opens the door and it’s me and Jimi Hendrix standing there. He nearly shit a brick. We went upstairs and Mick helped us get two Marshall cabinets, a couple of heads, Felix’s bass, my guitar, and we went back to the club and jammed, with him on bass and me playing guitar.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black, January, 2015)
Bud Prager (partner of Mountain's Felix Pappalardi) : One night in Greenwich Village I sat with Eric Clapton who said, 'As long as Cream exists, Felix Pappalardi will be the producer.' When Eric left, I sat with Jimi Hendrix who said, 'I wish Felix would produce one of my albums.' I said, 'Why? You have two albums in the Top 10. How much better can it get?' He said, 'Felix knows things I don't. He could help me make better records.' At the time I really didn't understand..."