# Hendrix and Clapton on same album?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 4, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423 "2006-01-04T17:39:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/1 "2006-01-04T17:39:03Z")
A radio station was playing a variety of Stephen Stills songs across his career the other day, and it reminded me of his first solo album.
He brought in Eric Clapton on “Go Back Home” and Jimi Hendrix on “Old Times Good Times” along with other big-name friends.
Is this the only time that Clapton and Hendrix ever played on the same - original, non-compilation - album? Did they ever record together? Play on the same song? Is there any recording of the time Hendrix sat in with Cream at the Central London Polytechnic in 1966?
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/2 "2006-01-04T18:20:20Z")
I have all but four or five of the recordings Jimi Hendrix ever made, or were made of him, anywhere. That’s approximately 300 CDs. Eric Clapton isn’t on any of them.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/3 "2006-01-04T19:02:47Z")
Maybe one more, depending on what you mean by “being on the same album” (though not together, and not playing).
Clapton and Hendrix both appear on the cover of “We’re Only In It For the Money.” The credits indicate the Clapton did perform on the album (weird vocals). In addition, Zappa credits “Spider” from “a group that hasn’t rotted your minds yet.” That could have referred to Hendrix (supposedly Zappa showed Hendrix how to use the wah-wah pedal). But in any case, they did \*appear \* on that album – the cover at least.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/4 "2006-01-04T19:11:46Z")
Correction: Clapton performed on the album; Hendrix appeared on the inner sleeve. But if Hendrix was “Spider” (I can’t see any mention of it one way or another), then the both performed.
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### Author:  [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/5 "2006-01-04T19:18:11Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#):
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> I have all but four or five of the recordings Jimi Hendrix ever made, or were made of him, anywhere. That’s approximately 300 CDs. Eric Clapton isn’t on any of them.
**fish** , given your extensive bootleg collection and expertise in this area, that’s impressive. What about all of the vault stuff that Eddie Kramer, Hendrix’ old producer, seems to keep pulling out?
And didn’t Hendrix record a lot of jams he did live with other people?
**Exapno** - I have never heard that the Hendrix appearance with Cream was recorded. Boy do I wish it was - Killing Floor with Hendrix blowing Clapton offstage…
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/6 "2006-01-04T19:46:51Z")
> [@WordMan](#):
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> **fish** , given your extensive bootleg collection and expertise in this area, that’s impressive. What about all of the vault stuff that Eddie Kramer, Hendrix’ old producer, seems to keep pulling out?
Oh, I should clarify - I was speaking in terms of both official and unofficial releases. Of all the stuff that was ever snuck out of a studio and traded on tape or put on an LP or CD, I’ve got all of _those_ but four or five. There’s still more stuff in the vaults that nobody has got to yet! But concerts, apartment jams, demos, outtakes, alternate mixes, works-in-progress - there’s hardly anything I don’t have.
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> And didn’t Hendrix record a lot of jams he did live with other people?
Definitely. There was a phenomenon around Jimi that existed with only a handful of other people in the world, like The Beatles - everywhere he went, somebody had a tape recorder running. Now it’s just astonishing how many recordings of him there are, and how many are accessible by one means or another.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/7 "2006-01-04T19:53:17Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> In addition, Zappa credits “Spider” from “a group that hasn’t rotted your minds yet.” That could have referred to Hendrix (supposedly Zappa showed Hendrix how to use the wah-wah pedal). But in any case, they did \*appear \* on that album – the cover at least.
Nope, that referred to Spyder Barbour from the band Chrysalis, who was one of the “piano people” on_We’re Only in It for the Money_’s companion album, _Lumpy Gravy_.
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/8 "2006-01-04T20:10:34Z")
I could have sworn Clapton had played on Timothy Leary’s [You Can Be Anyone This Time Around](http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/youcanbeanyonethistime.htm), which features Hendrix on bass(!). Apparently I was mistaken.
Rats. I was hoping to scoop the Dope. I should have known better.
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### Author:  [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/9 "2006-01-04T22:24:12Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#):
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> Is there any recording of the time Hendrix sat in with Cream at the Central London Polytechnic in 1966?
I have a bootleg lp I bought back in 1969 that puports to be Hendrix playing with Cream. The recording quality is atrocious! Later on when I get home, I’ll dig it out and report the details.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/10 "2006-01-04T22:28:53Z")
Stills on guitar and Hendrix on bass? That’s beyond weird.
The guest appearance on Still’s album is supposed to be Hendrix’s last official recording. Is that true **fishbicycle**?
I can’t help thinking that if they’d known, they’d have had the two of them play together for the one and only.
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### Author:  [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/11 "2006-01-04T22:39:47Z")
Jimi performed on sessions in London for Stephen Stills in March 1970.
His last official recording session was August 22, 1970 at Electric Lady, four days before the facility opened, when he recorded a version of “Belly Button Window.”
His last public appearance was September 16/17, 1970 at Ronnie Scott’s Club in London, jamming with Eric Burdon & War. (That was recorded, too.)
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/12 "2006-01-04T22:42:23Z")
> [@jackelope](#):
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> I could have sworn Clapton had played on Timothy Leary’s [You Can Be Anyone This Time Around](http://www.moviegrooves.com/shop/youcanbeanyonethistime.htm), which features Hendrix on bass(!). Apparently I was mistaken.
Hendrix did make a few recordings on bass. He plays the bass part on the studio version of “All Along the Watchtower,” for one. He also appears on guitar and bass on a song called “Doriella Du Fontaine” with Buddy Miles and Lightnin’ Rod. Kind of a really early rap thing.
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### Author:  [@laskarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laskarina)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/13 "2012-04-16T15:58:12Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> A radio station was playing a variety of Stephen Stills songs across his career the other day, and it reminded me of his first solo album.
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> He brought in Eric Clapton on “Go Back Home” and Jimi Hendrix on “Old Times Good Times” along with other big-name friends.
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> Is this the only time that Clapton and Hendrix ever played on the same - original, non-compilation - album? Did they ever record together? Play on the same song? Is there any recording of the time Hendrix sat in with Cream at the Central London Polytechnic in 1966?
I have an ancient bootleg LP - pre 1971 and the label on the sleeve says it is Jimi Hendrix Experience, plus Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and John Mayall, all playing together
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/14 "2012-04-16T16:04:32Z")
> [@laskarina](#):
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> I have an ancient bootleg LP - pre 1971 and the label on the sleeve says it is Jimi Hendrix Experience, plus Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and John Mayall, all playing together
The labeling on bootlegs new and old is really unreliable, though, so I don’t believe that’s correct. If there were a real recording of all those people playing together (nevermind that you don’t find too many jams with two bassists), it’d be very well documented. [Here’s an LP with songs by Hendrix and Mayall and some of the other artists you named](http://www.discogs.com/Jimi-Hendrix-Clapton-Mayall-Baker-Bruce/release/3471541), but it looks like a compilation, not a jam session where they played together.
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### Author:  [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2012, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/15 "2012-04-16T20:22:20Z")
> [@laskarina](#):
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> I have an ancient bootleg LP - pre 1971 and the label on the sleeve says it is Jimi Hendrix Experience, plus Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and John Mayall, all playing together
This is the same bootleg I have - or had. Six years ago, when this thread was started, I said I’d go home, hunt up the album, and report back. I couldn’t find the album. Must have lost it in college and not cared to much since the quality, as I reported before, was atrocious!
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/16 "2012-04-17T04:19:16Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> Hendrix did make a few recordings on bass.
I know I’ve heard a cut where Redding and Hendrix switched roles. Probably a live recording though and I have no idea whether it is available on a non-bootleg ( though I’m sure **fishbicycle** does 😉 ).
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### Author:  [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/17 "2012-04-17T07:16:38Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#):
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> I know I’ve heard a cut where Redding and Hendrix switched roles. Probably a live recording though and I have no idea whether it is available on a non-bootleg ( though I’m sure **fishbicycle** does 😉 ).
Olympia Theater, Paris, 1966 I think.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/18 "2012-04-17T15:16:08Z")
Too bad fishbicycle stopped posting in 2008. There are lots of questions we could ask.
Like whether the Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape is real.
No links. Just Google for the trailer.
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### Author:  [@denparrish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/denparrish)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/19 "2017-08-26T01:52:30Z")
. . . . but not together on the same song.
> **[Stephen Stills (album)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Stills_(album))**
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> Stephen Stills is the debut solo album by American musician Stephen Stills released on Atlantic Records in 1970. It is one of four high-profile albums (all charting within the top fifteen) released by each member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the wake of their 1970 chart-topping album Déjà Vu, along with After the Gold Rush (Neil Young, September 1970), If I Could Only Remember My Name (David Crosby, February 1971) and Songs for Beginners (Graham Nash, May 1971). It was primarily recorded be...
Check out the personnel on the album
Jimi Hendrix – electric guitar on “Old Times Good Times”
Eric Clapton – electric guitar on “Go Back Home”
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### Author:  [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hendrix-and-clapton-on-same-album/338423/20 "2017-08-26T02:00:44Z")
My understanding is that Clapton’s audible presence on “We’re Only In It For The Money” was limited to spoken words.
And: Clapton does not appear on the cover, and is not listed in the roster identifying every face on that cover, provided by Cal Shenkel (who designed it.)
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