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In 1995, while I was struggling to get free of my crack cocaine demons, I managed to stay up late one night without the aid of chemical enhancement and listened to a late night rock and roll interview show on FM radio. The host had Greg Lake and Carl Palmer as guests, and they dropped a huge bombshell.
They said that Jimi had tired of the hype and wasn't satisfied with his old band anymore and he wanted to branch off into new forms of music.
They wanted Jimi to help them put together a new group.
Originally Posted by Greg Lake
"Yeah, that story is indeed true, to some degree...Mitch Mitchell had told Jimi about us and he said he wanted to explore the idea. Even after Mitch was long out of the picture and we had already settled on Carl, talk about working with Jimi continued. We were supposed to get together and jam with him around August or September of 1970, but he died before we could put it together."
However, in the radio interview, Greg said that they did INDEED drop by and "noodle around a bit" at Electric Ladyland. He did not however, elaborate even after being pushed for more clarification by the host.
The group was to be called H.E.L.P. or Hendrix, Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
The mind boggles!
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