Jimi Hendrix played with Amen Corner!

by blue on Feb.23, 2009, under Amen Corner, Trivia

Jimi plays with Amen Corner

Jimi used to come and jam with Amen Corner when they had a residency at the famous Speakeasy club in Margaret St. London.
The first time he asked to play bass and so Clive handed over his bass then Jimi turned to me and asked what we were going to play I said Otis Readin’s ”Can’t turn you loose’ he immediately turned to Dennis, the drummer, and counted us in 1-2-3-4- and he had the right key and bass part even though I believe he played with the bass upside down (he was a left-handed player), work that one out!

There are many stories to tell about our tour with Jimi Hendrix I will post them all here eventually.
Did you see the tour? Please tell me about that night.

See the official tour poster on Dennis’s site, Amen Corner was billed directly below Jimi

Can also be seen here on Dennis’s MySpace site

3 comments for this entry:

Val Weedon
February 18th, 2009 on 8:54 am
Now this is interesting because I keep saying to people that I remember seeing Jimi Hendrix at a club in London and thought it was the Speakeasy. When I tell some of my younger friends who are very impressed I sometimes think to myself, am I making this up, or did it really happen? So, what you have said here means I’m not an old lady telling tall stories. Thank you.
blue
February 18th, 2009 on 12:23 pm
Sometimes when I think about this I have to question if I dreamt it, but no it’s a fact. I wish I had a photograph.
Ben
August 2nd, 2009 on 12:39 am
Hello,
May i ask if the date was May 10th 1967 that Amen Corner played with Jimi Hendrix ?.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Take care,
Ben.