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.
