According to John Mayall, there was already news going around that Hendrix would be in the same club as Cream and the audience were anticipating the performance. So here comes 24-year old Jimi Hendrix in 1966, fresh from America, and virtually unknown in British shores. That is to say, before any of them had met Jimi Hendrix. Combined with Eric Clapton as their guitarist, no one has the skill to upstage Clapton and the band. Many were too intimidated by the band’s reputation as the best in Britain. Photo Credits: Instagram / blueshitbigtownĬharles Cross, Hendrix’s biographer, writes that no one wanted to play with Cream before. An admirer of Clapton’s playing spray painted “Clapton is God” on a wall in Arvon Road, Islington, London, 1965.
Jamming with Cream meant that a musician had to be extremely talented. He played with his band Cream during that time. What happens when two rock and roll legends meet? Let’s take a look at the time when Eric Clapton meets Jimi Hendrix.Įric Clapton was the unrivaled British guitar god in the ‘60s.
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