![]() Jeff Beck was an established and well-known player, and such was Eric Clapton’s prowess, that fans worshipped him as a divine being – the street graffiti famously reading, CLAPTON IS GOD. It also wasn’t in short supply of virtuosic guitarists. The London music scene was like nothing that had ever come before. When Jimi Hendrix touched down in London in 1966, he arrived as an outsider in a music scene that was both cutting edge and well established.Ĭream, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles (amongst others) had achieved worldwide acclaim. So I thought the topic would make a fitting start. ![]() Stevie is one of my all-time favourite musicians, and perhaps the guitarist who first got me hooked on the blues (even if I’ve been thwarted in all of my attempts to learn Scuttle Buttin’…)Įarlier that morning, I had planned a post-haircut writing session and had been debating how to get this site off the ground. ![]() Other than this one moment of madness – I’d rank the chat amongst one of the best I’ve had in a barber’s chair, and I certainly didn’t want to compromise the quality of my haircut by getting into a heated discussion about Stevie Ray Vaughan’s originality. Jimi Hendrix’s Band of Gypsys were playing over the speakers, and the barber himself was sporting a huge tattoo of Hendrix’s face on his forearm.Įvidently he didn’t feel quite the same love for Stevie Ray – the virtuoso blues guitarist famous for songs like Pride and Joy and Texas Flood. So stated my local barber on a damp and dreary Saturday afternoon in London. He has no originality and no licks of his own. ‘I can’t stand him mate – he’s just a total Jimi Hendrix rip off. ![]()
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