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MEETING JEFF AND JIMI

In 1968, my girlfriend and I went to see the original Jeff Beck Group – Beck, Rod Stewart on vocals, Ronnie Wood on bass, Micky Waller on drums – at Steve Paul’s Scene, a small club in New York’s Times Square area. We had seen them once before at the Fillmore East and knew they were a fiery, exciting live group, whose two albums don’t quite do them justice. At the end of the gig, Beck announced that he was bringing a friend out to play with them, who turned out to be Jimi Hendrix. My girlfriend and I sat enthralled at the foot of the

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