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Jeff Beck : It was the magical watering hole of The Speakeasy, the club where we hung out in London, that enabled that to happen. It was the one place you could go and be guaranteed to see Eric or Jimi and have fun playing.
I saw him at this tiny little club in London, with all of these “dolly birds,” which is what they called girls dressed in their miniskirts. I think they all thought he was going to be a folky, Bob Dylan–type of character [laughs], and he blew the place apart with his version of [Dylan’s] “Like a Rolling Stone.”
I just went, “Ah…this is so great!” It overshadowed any feelings of inferiority or competitiveness. It was so amazing. To see someone doing what I wanted to do… I came out a little crestfallen, but on the positive side, here was this guy opening big doors for us. Instead of looking on the negative side and saying, “We’re finished,” I was thinking, No, we’ve just started! I was delighted to have known him for the short time that I did.
(Source : (Source : Interview in Guitar World, 2014)
Dick Taylor (guitarist, Pretty Things) : Anybody who imagines Hendrix as some totally out of it drug crazed wild man of rock, would be totally wrong. Most of the times I met him he was perfectly straight, sharp, lucid, and amusing. We used to see Jimi down at The Speakeasy quite regularly. Though there was one night we'd driven him down there and he must have taken some acid because he seemed to be tripping when we took him home. One of our roadies was driving the car, going quite fast and swerving round corners and I think Jimi thought he was in a spaceship. "Whoa, hold on, there, man! Slow down!" He was almost cowering in the corner of the seat.
Jeff Beck : For me, the first shockwave was Jimi Hendrix. That was the major thing that shook everybody up over here. Even though we’d all established ourselves as fairly safe in the guitar field, he came along and reset all of the rules in one evening. Next thing you know, Eric was moving ahead with Cream, and it was kicking off in big chunks.
But me, I was left with nothing. That was the hurtful part, because I didn’t have anything to come back at them with. Time went by, and I scraped by with Cozy [Powell, drummer for 1971’s Rough and Ready and 1972’s Jeff Beck Group albums], and luckily enough I got with BBA [Beck, Bogert and Appice, in 1973], which was a power trio. That helped, because they were so enthusiastic, and it was like Cream on acid!
(Source : Interview in Guitar World, 2014)
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I saw him at this tiny little club in London, with all of these “dolly birds,” which is what they called girls dressed in their miniskirts. I think they all thought he was going to be a folky, Bob Dylan–type of character [laughs], and he blew the place apart with his version of [Dylan’s] “Like a Rolling Stone.”
I just went, “Ah…this is so great!” It overshadowed any feelings of inferiority or competitiveness. It was so amazing. To see someone doing what I wanted to do… I came out a little crestfallen, but on the positive side, here was this guy opening big doors for us. Instead of looking on the negative side and saying, “We’re finished,” I was thinking, No, we’ve just started! I was delighted to have known him for the short time that I did.
(Source : (Source : Interview in Guitar World, 2014)
Dick Taylor (guitarist, Pretty Things) : Anybody who imagines Hendrix as some totally out of it drug crazed wild man of rock, would be totally wrong. Most of the times I met him he was perfectly straight, sharp, lucid, and amusing. We used to see Jimi down at The Speakeasy quite regularly. Though there was one night we'd driven him down there and he must have taken some acid because he seemed to be tripping when we took him home. One of our roadies was driving the car, going quite fast and swerving round corners and I think Jimi thought he was in a spaceship. "Whoa, hold on, there, man! Slow down!" He was almost cowering in the corner of the seat.
Jeff Beck : For me, the first shockwave was Jimi Hendrix. That was the major thing that shook everybody up over here. Even though we’d all established ourselves as fairly safe in the guitar field, he came along and reset all of the rules in one evening. Next thing you know, Eric was moving ahead with Cream, and it was kicking off in big chunks.
But me, I was left with nothing. That was the hurtful part, because I didn’t have anything to come back at them with. Time went by, and I scraped by with Cozy [Powell, drummer for 1971’s Rough and Ready and 1972’s Jeff Beck Group albums], and luckily enough I got with BBA [Beck, Bogert and Appice, in 1973], which was a power trio. That helped, because they were so enthusiastic, and it was like Cream on acid!
(Source : Interview in Guitar World, 2014)