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A superstar gathering takes place at a recording session for the album McGough And McGear, under the supervision of The Beatles' Paul McCartney, at De Lane Lea Studios. In the studio are Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones, Graham Nash of The Hollies, Dave Mason of Traffic and Zoot Money.Full article:
Mike McGear (The Scaffold) : Hendrix turned up at the recording studios, on his own, carrying a small guitar case. After a half-dozen takes, it was decided that the first take was the best. Unfortunately, a careless tape operator had erased every take but the last.
Roger McGough (The Scaffold) : I was always the writer and lyricist rather than musician, so I was slightly out of what was going on. If you're not a musician, you're not one of them. You're talking away, they're down the other end talking about a guitar and suddenly you're lost. It was a bit like that.
Dave Mason (Traffic) : My whole thing with Traffic was, or my thoughts about it were that we had a unit that could come together. And I was still learning. I was still young. So I used to seek out my contemporaries, all my peers. Jimi was at a club. See, the thing about the '60s in London, England, UK, Europe... you'd go out to the clubs, and the clubs were kind of private clubs. Blazes, The Bag O' Nails. But you'd go in there and some nights there'd be Jagger or Lennon and McCartney, there'd be Hendrix. They'd just hang out!
So I'd made it just a point of sitting down and just saying, 'Hi! I'm Dave and I really dig your music' and that's basically what I did with Jimi. I mean, we kinda hung out a little bit. There's actually some recordings - I have no idea where they are - where I'm playing bass and sitar with him. And out of one of those sessions was Watchtower.
(Source : not known)
Mike McGear : I couldn’t pay any of the musicians, so I offered them drinks.
(Source : interview, 1988 in People Magazine)
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Roger McGough (The Scaffold) : I was always the writer and lyricist rather than musician, so I was slightly out of what was going on. If you're not a musician, you're not one of them. You're talking away, they're down the other end talking about a guitar and suddenly you're lost. It was a bit like that.
Dave Mason (Traffic) : My whole thing with Traffic was, or my thoughts about it were that we had a unit that could come together. And I was still learning. I was still young. So I used to seek out my contemporaries, all my peers. Jimi was at a club. See, the thing about the '60s in London, England, UK, Europe... you'd go out to the clubs, and the clubs were kind of private clubs. Blazes, The Bag O' Nails. But you'd go in there and some nights there'd be Jagger or Lennon and McCartney, there'd be Hendrix. They'd just hang out!
So I'd made it just a point of sitting down and just saying, 'Hi! I'm Dave and I really dig your music' and that's basically what I did with Jimi. I mean, we kinda hung out a little bit. There's actually some recordings - I have no idea where they are - where I'm playing bass and sitar with him. And out of one of those sessions was Watchtower.
(Source : not known)
Mike McGear : I couldn’t pay any of the musicians, so I offered them drinks.
(Source : interview, 1988 in People Magazine)