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JIMI HENDRIX’S sometime manager Chas Chandler would remember with a twinkle Eric Clapton’s reaction when Cream invited the then-unknown guitarist up to jam at a ’66 show in London. “Halfway through the song, Eric stopped playing,” Chandler said. “Both his hands dropped down to his sides, then he walked off stage. I ran back to the dressing room and he was standing there, trying to light a cigarette with his hand shaking. He said: ‘You never told me

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