Jimi Hendrix Arrives in London in 1966, Asks to Get Onstage with Cream, and Blows Eric Clapton Away: “You By no means Informed Me He Was That F-ing Good”
Jimi Hendrix arrived on the London scene like a ton of bricks in 1966, smashing each British blues guitarist to items the moment they noticed him play. As vocalist Terry Reid tells it, when Hendrix performed his first presentcase on the Bag O’Nails, organized by Animals’ bassist Chas Chandler, “there have been guitar players weeping….