Fact #118240
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Short story:
The Jimi Hendrix Experience record a live session for Alexis Korner Show, BBC Radio, London, UK. Later, Hendrix jams with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at Klooks Kleek, London.
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Jeff Griffin (BBC Producer) : One of the best moments I can ever remember was when we did Jimi Hendrix. We’d already got a couple of tracks down and then Jimi said ‘Hey man, I want to do Hoochie Coochie Man, and it’d be great if we had slide guitar on it. (So Alexis played slide)
Alexis Korner : Hendrix had this horrible feeling that he wasn’t playing the blues. Such an idea, coming from someone that was able to play the blues as well as he could, I found very strange. The trouble was that he didn’t play it in the watered-down form which had come to be accepted as the blues. Amazingly, he felt guilty because he was playing it perfectly.
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Mick Taylor (guitarist, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers) : The guy that’s influenced me more than anybody, really, is Jimi Hendrix. I think he was great. He was tremendous.
When I saw him onstage, I just thought he was amazing, for a guitarist to have that energy in his playing, and also the control and the rhythm. You know, for most guitarists it’s incredibly difficult to play like that, or to even play anywhere near that standard in a three-piece group. I mean, Eric Clapton did it with Cream. And Hendrix was great, the way he switched from rhythm to leads. His guitar and his voice were almost like the same thing.
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Alexis Korner : Hendrix had this horrible feeling that he wasn’t playing the blues. Such an idea, coming from someone that was able to play the blues as well as he could, I found very strange. The trouble was that he didn’t play it in the watered-down form which had come to be accepted as the blues. Amazingly, he felt guilty because he was playing it perfectly.
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Mick Taylor (guitarist, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers) : The guy that’s influenced me more than anybody, really, is Jimi Hendrix. I think he was great. He was tremendous.
When I saw him onstage, I just thought he was amazing, for a guitarist to have that energy in his playing, and also the control and the rhythm. You know, for most guitarists it’s incredibly difficult to play like that, or to even play anywhere near that standard in a three-piece group. I mean, Eric Clapton did it with Cream. And Hendrix was great, the way he switched from rhythm to leads. His guitar and his voice were almost like the same thing.
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