# HELP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help/476300 "2008-12-08T20:35:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help/476300/1 "2008-12-08T20:35:16Z")
Perhaps I’m a little slow on the uptake, but I just heard about this… Emerson, Lake, Palmer – and Hendrix? How would that have sounded? They were such a precise, technical band. Hendrix was a bit more free-spirited. I can’t imagine something like Carn Evil 9 or Tarkus with Jimi soloing throughout. I can’t imagine Jimi singing Jeruselem. It boggles my mind. And while we’re at it, is there any truth to the rumor that there was to be a band with Gil, Miles, and Jimi? That sounds more like someone’s wet dream than an actual workable idea. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help/476300/2 "2008-12-08T20:53:54Z")
It would never have lasted. The ego trips and power struggles among E, L & P were already notoriously volatile; add an established superstar to the brew and it would have fallen apart at the earliest opportunity; probably before they ever set foot in a studio. As for what it would have sounded like, it might have been a bit like the original four-man version of the Nice. The trio version of the Nice was obviously a prototype for ELP, but on their first album David O’List was smearing psychedelic guitar parts all over the place, not entirely unlike a bargain-basement Hendrix. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help/476300/3 "2008-12-08T21:12:44Z")
You’re probably right. I know little about Hendrix, but always figured he was pretty humble. I bet I’m dead wrong about that. And had they actually produced some music, I’m sure it would have been far different from what ELP became. I’m guessing there would have been epic solos, though. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help/476300/4 "2008-12-08T21:24:12Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > And while we’re at it, is there any truth to the rumor that there was to be a band with Gil, Miles, and Jimi? That sounds more like someone’s wet dream than an actual workable idea. If you are talking about what I think you are talking about, then in theory yeah there is. Bitches Brew (the first fusion album) was supposed to feature Jimi before he died. He died and John McLaughlin played instead, but it was supposed to be Jimi. No cite, I am going off of memory a lecture on Miles by a Jazz prof from my college days. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help/476300/5 "2008-12-08T21:35:53Z")
> [@NAF1138](#): > > No cite, I am going off of memory a lecture on Miles by a Jazz prof from my college days. That’s my cite as well. 😉 But my prof said that Gil Evans was going to be part of it as well. ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help/476300/6 "2008-12-08T21:36:59Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > That’s my cite as well. 😉 But my prof said that Gil Evans was going to be part of it as well. Well if I was Gil Evans I wouldn’t want to play with John McLaughlin either. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help/476300/7 "2008-12-08T21:41:56Z")
I think the Jimi-Miles and Jimi-Gil Evans projects were two separate things, neither of which ever got past the proposal stage. Gil Evans did eventually arrange and record an album of Hendrix’s music, many years later. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help/476300/8 "2008-12-09T03:28:22Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Gil Evans did eventually arrange and record an album of Hendrix’s music, many years later. I’m wondering if my Secret Santa knows about that album. Hint hint. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help/476300/9 "2008-12-09T03:41:24Z")
I thought Robert Fripp was going to be ELP’s guitarist.