Ha ha...i would loved to time-travel to the Jeff Beck meets Jimi Hendrix sessions ?
Tripped out!!

Apparently whilst he was based in England Jimi would jam with just about anybody. Often with borrowed gear.

From Richard Thompson's web site (the question refers to the 60s, when Thompson was playing with Fairport Convention)

Q: Could you give us your account of the night Jimi Hendrix joined the Fairports onstage in that club in London at your expense? What were your impressions of him then? Did he comment on your guitar? Cheers, Kane

This happened on a few occasions, always, I think, at the Speakeasy Club. Jimi, like many musos at the time, would drive back to town after playing in Manchester or Birmingham, or wherever, and stop in for a meal and a drink. After a round or two, he would feel mellow, and want to play. On one occasion he played bass, otherwise he borrowed my guitar. Even though it was strung the wrong way round for him, it didn’t slow him down too much. He told me to raise my action to make it easier to bend the notes – James Burton told me to lower it. Jimi was a nice, shy, handsome man, quite charismatic.

Arjun Menon wrote: Ha ha...i would loved to time-travel to the Jeff Beck meets Jimi Hendrix sessions ?
Tripped out!!

That'd be quite something. I would also have loved to have seen Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck when they were both playing guitar in the Yardbirds on a night when JB was on form (which he apparently wasn'nt much during that brief period). That Antonioni clip is frustrating, focusing as it does, on JB unconvincingly smashing a guitar.

@Bob at the Boston Tea Party live Fleetwood Mac, P. Green moans a bit about how English bands didn't like to get people up to jam for fear of their guitar player being upstaged - very different from the culture that Jimi came from apparently.

singemonkey wrote: @Bob at the Boston Tea Party live Fleetwood Mac, P. Green moans a bit about how English bands didn't like to get people up to jam for fear of their guitar player being upstaged - very different from the culture that Jimi came from apparently.

There's a set of stories, popular amongst fan boy types and those who think that guitar playing is a spectator sport, about the night Led Zeppelin jammed with Fairport Convention (Jimmy Page borrowed Simon Nicol's guitar). So we have Jimi jamming with Fleetwod, Jimi jamming with Fairport, Zeppelin jamming with Fairport. Of course Green was there, and we have to respect that, but what he's complaining about wasn't universal. Clapton traded solos with Robbie Robertson in the Last Waltz, but maybe he'd been living in America too long.

Thompson is still known to get on stage with various folks, especially at Fairport reunion shows (notably Jerry Donohue, no mug when it comes to guitar playing) and he has recently recorded with Martin Simpson (both men gushed about the other guy's playing). Last year in London he got up on the stage with James Burton, venture Nokie Edwards, Simpson and "funk brother" Dennis Coffee. (Thompson maintains dual bases in London and LA, and Simpson lived in the USA for many years, so maybe they've had the Britishness beaten out of them by now)

However there's another piece of Q&A that I recall from Thompson's web site and that may have relevance here...

Q: You're backstage at Cropredy, watching Status Quo top off the Friday night. They invite you on stage for a balls-out boogie, would you accept the invite?

RT: I would, but they won't.

I've got an old issue of Guitar Techniques where a guy wrote in about an experience with John Scofield. He was invited to a rehearsal by a mate (not knowing it was Scofield playing) and had his guitar with him, and Sco' invited him up for a jam. ? I guess a rehearsal is not "srz bznss" but it's great to hear those kinds of stories, and to know that there are pro's who just love the opportunity to jam with anyone.

There's also a video on youtube of a 13 yr old girl trading licks with Buddy Guy

Arjun Menon wrote: There's also a video on youtube of a 13 yr old girl trading licks with Buddy Guy

you may want to reword that.... ??? he a friend of Roman Polanski ?