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At The Scene Club in New York City, USA, Jimi Hendrix jams with Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck. Cream were playing almost 100 miles away that night in Wallingford, Connecticut, but given that a Scene Club jam would take place in the early hours of the morning, Clapton's presence would have been possible.
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Johnny Winter : Steve Paul, who was my manager, had a club called Steve Paul's The Scene, which was the happening rock club in New York in 1968. All the nice-looking groupies were there, and the musicians were there because the chicks were there, so it worked out all right for everybody concerned. There were a lot of real interesting jams there, though how good they were would depend on what state of inebriation the musicians were in.
Jeff Beck : We did six nights in a row there [The Scene Club]. The initial gig that broke us in America was at the Fillmore East with the Grateful Dead. But after that success and the great write ups, we then had to go down-market at a small club for six nights. It gave everyone a chance to watch what they had just seen again, six times in a row. We didn’t really want to be scrutinized like that, in case we just happened to get lucky the night we played the Fillmore, which was quite good.
The first night at the Scene, Jimi didn’t show up, but he came for the rest of the five nights. Around about the halfway mark, he’d come in from whatever recording he’d been doing. The buzz was incredible: the place was packed anyway, but when he came in they were standing on each other’s shoulders. Sometimes he didn’t have his guitar, so he would turn one of my spare guitars upside down and played that way, and I actually played bass at one point. I’ve got a photograph of that. Thank god someone took a picture, because there’s hardly any record of those goings-on.
(Source : Guitar World interview, 2014)
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Jeff Beck : We did six nights in a row there [The Scene Club]. The initial gig that broke us in America was at the Fillmore East with the Grateful Dead. But after that success and the great write ups, we then had to go down-market at a small club for six nights. It gave everyone a chance to watch what they had just seen again, six times in a row. We didn’t really want to be scrutinized like that, in case we just happened to get lucky the night we played the Fillmore, which was quite good.
The first night at the Scene, Jimi didn’t show up, but he came for the rest of the five nights. Around about the halfway mark, he’d come in from whatever recording he’d been doing. The buzz was incredible: the place was packed anyway, but when he came in they were standing on each other’s shoulders. Sometimes he didn’t have his guitar, so he would turn one of my spare guitars upside down and played that way, and I actually played bass at one point. I’ve got a photograph of that. Thank god someone took a picture, because there’s hardly any record of those goings-on.
(Source : Guitar World interview, 2014)