Fact #32280
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Jimi Hendrix jams at the official opening of Mike Jeffery's Generation Club, 52 West 8th St, New York City, USA, with Roy Buchanan. The gig, sometimes described as a Wake For Martin Luther King, also features B.B. King, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Richie Havens and Buddy Guy.
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B.B. King : He (Jimi Hendrix) didn't at any time play in my band, but we have jammed on stages together. He was a good musician, a good friend. I liked him very much and I believe that anyone who makes a name like he did must influence somebody.
Let's see, we first jammed at the New Generation Club in New York, we jammed there three or four nights, that was in ’68 I think. Yes, it was the year Dr King was assassinated. Then later, we jammed at The Scene; that's another place in New York. I guess that must have been about ten months before he died. To me, his style was as a Rock musician and a hard Rock musician at that. I don't think he played the Blues. That wasn't his thing at all. Now, I don't mean that he couldn't play the blues if he wanted to; but for me, that's just my idea of how he was'.
(Source : interview by David Walters, Time Out, Nov 1971)
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Let's see, we first jammed at the New Generation Club in New York, we jammed there three or four nights, that was in ’68 I think. Yes, it was the year Dr King was assassinated. Then later, we jammed at The Scene; that's another place in New York. I guess that must have been about ten months before he died. To me, his style was as a Rock musician and a hard Rock musician at that. I don't think he played the Blues. That wasn't his thing at all. Now, I don't mean that he couldn't play the blues if he wanted to; but for me, that's just my idea of how he was'.
(Source : interview by David Walters, Time Out, Nov 1971)