Fact #148621
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Short story:
At The Record Plant, New York City, USA, Jimi Hendrix is recording with Sharon Lane on keyboards and Juma Sultan on percussion. Later, he jams at The Scene Club with Stephen Stills and Johnny Winter.
Full article:
Billy Cox (bassist) : Jimi wanted to try and take his music in a number of different directions. He asked if I knew of any organ players. I told him that I knew a pretty nice one in Nashville. He said, 'Get him up here.' I said, 'Hey, it's a girl.' He shot me a look, but told me to bring her up anyway. She did two nights in the studio but it didn't work out too well.
Tony Bramwell (Beatles aide) : I was in New York because James Taylor, another of our artists, was playing his first gigs at The Bottom Line. So I dropped into The Scene, and there was Judy Collins singing Both Sides Now, followed by Steve Stills doing Suite : Judy Blue Eyes, and eventually Johnny Winter got up and Jimi got up and it turned into a massive long jam, everybody trading licks furiously.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black)
Jon Lord (Deep Purple) : I'll never forget the time I jammed with Jimi Hendrix at Steve Paul's Scene club. It must've been around 1970. Whenever we were in New York, we either went to Max's Kansas city, a club on Bleecker Street called Nobody's, or The Scene Club. The Scene had most beautiful women who loved to go to bed with rock musicians. That was innocent days, when the most you could get was a dose. I had met Jimi several times in London, and I was good friends with his manager, Chas Chandler. I was at the Scene one night, and Jimi comes over to me and says, "You're playing. There's an organ on stage, man." I don't know what he was on, but I asked him if he had 30 dollars' worth [laughs]. Jimi was a gentleman, and he was very soft-spoken. I told him I'd love to jam, and we did. Steve Stills was on bass, Buddy Miles on drums, Jimi on guitar, Dave Mason on sax, and me on organ. We played for about three hours and it was fantastic. We did it again the next two nights. After the first night, Steve Paul told us that if we'd come down the next night, the drinks would be on him. I was there at 7:30 in the evening. I specially remember trying to get solos in edge-wise. There'd be so much guitar, guitar, guitar. Suddenly there'd be more guitar, guitar, guitar. That's Jimi for you.
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Tony Bramwell (Beatles aide) : I was in New York because James Taylor, another of our artists, was playing his first gigs at The Bottom Line. So I dropped into The Scene, and there was Judy Collins singing Both Sides Now, followed by Steve Stills doing Suite : Judy Blue Eyes, and eventually Johnny Winter got up and Jimi got up and it turned into a massive long jam, everybody trading licks furiously.
(Source : interview with Johnny Black)
Jon Lord (Deep Purple) : I'll never forget the time I jammed with Jimi Hendrix at Steve Paul's Scene club. It must've been around 1970. Whenever we were in New York, we either went to Max's Kansas city, a club on Bleecker Street called Nobody's, or The Scene Club. The Scene had most beautiful women who loved to go to bed with rock musicians. That was innocent days, when the most you could get was a dose. I had met Jimi several times in London, and I was good friends with his manager, Chas Chandler. I was at the Scene one night, and Jimi comes over to me and says, "You're playing. There's an organ on stage, man." I don't know what he was on, but I asked him if he had 30 dollars' worth [laughs]. Jimi was a gentleman, and he was very soft-spoken. I told him I'd love to jam, and we did. Steve Stills was on bass, Buddy Miles on drums, Jimi on guitar, Dave Mason on sax, and me on organ. We played for about three hours and it was fantastic. We did it again the next two nights. After the first night, Steve Paul told us that if we'd come down the next night, the drinks would be on him. I was there at 7:30 in the evening. I specially remember trying to get solos in edge-wise. There'd be so much guitar, guitar, guitar. Suddenly there'd be more guitar, guitar, guitar. That's Jimi for you.