Clapton effectively agreed
Extract from rockcelebritiesnet - (Hendrix jamming with Cream)
"It was a great opportunity for Jimi Hendrix, and he definitely wouldn’t ruin it. Hendrix took the stage with Howlin’ Wolf’s
‘Killing Floor,’ and gave a terrific performance from beginning to end. Chas Chandler remembers that Eric Clapton was
literally shocked when he heard Hendrix’s guitar playing because he was unbelievably good.
Here is how Chas Chandler
remembers this special moment:
“Clapton stood there, and his hands
dropped off of the guitar. He lurched off the stage. I thought, ‘Oh God, it’s happening now.’ I went backstage, and he was trying to get a match to a cigarette. I said, ‘Are you alright?’ and he replied,
‘Is he that fucking good?’ He had heard ten bars at the most. Within a week, he had his hair frizzed and would come by our flat anytime that he had a spare moment, to be with Hendrix.”
Later on, in an interview, Eric Clapton described Jimi Hendrix’s performance by saying that although Jimi did just a few of his playing tricks, it was enough for Clapton to be
highly impressed. Eric Clapton also stated that his life has never been the same again after seeing Hendrix playing on that stage
Eric Clapton’s
words on Hendrix’s performance:
“He played just about every style you could think of, and not in a flashy way. I mean, he did a few of his tricks, like playing with his teeth and behind his back, but it wasn’t in an upstaging sense at all, and that was it. He walked off, and
my life was never the same again.”