Killing Floor Jimi Hendrix Eric Clapton

If that isn t musical prowess i don t know what is.

Killing floor jimi hendrix eric clapton.

The band and many people in the crowd were shocked by this at first but cream gave jimi the nod. He had come on stage and cutoff clapton. Hendrix s version simply wowed the audience. Jimi hendrix was a rock god and.

Best of rock blues guitar. We got up on stage and chas chandler says i ve got this friend who would love to jam with you it was funny in those days anybody could get up with anybody if you were convincing enough that you could play. In this scene chas chandler introduced hendrix to eric clapton and asked if h. Jimi kills it on the killing floor.

Hendrix broke into a version of killing floor by chicago blues man howlin wolf. Hendrix went up plugged the bass amp and played howlin wolf s killin floor a track that clapton was having a hard time playing. Eric clapton hubert sumlin clarence gatemouth buddy guy santana jeff beck jimi hendrix robert cray robert johnson woody guthrie l. Eric clapton writes in his biography.

Hendrix took the stage and tore through a version of killing floor in double time. Hendrix buoyed by said sincerity took to the stage and grabbed a guitar to cover howlin wolf s killing floor eric clapton told planet rock. Jimi hendrix covered this classic blues tune in 1966 playing it live for the first time when he sat in with cream. In 1966 eric clapton was the undisputed king of rock guitar in britain.

Eric clapton loved to play the song but had a hard time playing the song. Only jimi hendrix could take a blues tune like killing floor and play it so well that even eric clapton was too afraid to attempt it. Hendrix came up on stage and plugged his guitar in. He ended up playing a song killing floor that even clapton had expressed he had not been a fan of playing because of it s difficulty jimi played his bum off and owned the entire song.

Everyone was gobsmacked.