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Burningthe midnightlamp: theJeffBeck Groupand JimiHendrix
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MEETING JEFF AND JIMI
In 1968, my girlfriend and I went to see the original Jeff Beck Group – Beck, Rod Stewart on vocals, Ronnie Wood on bass, Micky Waller on drums – at Steve Paul’s Scene, a small club in New York’s Times Square area. We had seen them once before at the Fillmore East and knew they were a fiery, exciting live group, whose two albums don’t quite do them justice. At the end of the gig, Beck announced that he was bringing a friend out to play with them, who turned out to be Jimi Hendrix. My girlfriend and I sat enthralled at the foot of the stage as they jammed.
Following the gig, we spotted Beck sitting alone at a table and we went over to tell him how much we enjoyed the show. Beck bade us sit down with him, and shortly afterwards Hendrix joined us. Amazingly, no-one bothered us as we chatted away. Beck was really sweet. I was touched by how humble and soft-spoken Hendrix was, given that he was already very famous by then.