Hendrix, Collins, Parker and Brown....the ultimate partnership?

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In This thread, Davlo talks about an mp3 of Morrison and Hendrix.
I've heard of something even more amazing than that, and I'm curious to know if it could've really happened. (I suspect the timeline is impossible though)
Supposedly there is a James Brown album with the following members in the band.
1) Maceo Parker on Horns.
2) a young Boostie Collins on Bass and
3) a young James Hendrix on Guitar.

Please tell me this is real and it can be purchased and listened to.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd have to check the dates but I suspect Jimi was dead by the time Bootsy joined the JBs. This scenario sounds highly unlikely, I've certainly never heard of it and I think it would be a highly legendary and sought-after item if it did in fact exist. (Jimi was more likely to play with Miles Davis anyway...)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 14 March 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

damn

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Nah, Jimi never played w/ JB. Would've been nice though.

He did do a bunch of unreleased sessions with some jazzbos like Larry Young and John McLaughlin though.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

JB would never have worked with Hendrix, total attitude-approach incompatibility: the ParliFunk ppl fled the JBs so as to get happily sloppy and Hendrix-ish.

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 14 March 2003 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm having visions of JB docking Hendrix's pay for having puke-stains on his paisley pants... (and for missing the downbeat when coming out of that solo).

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 14 March 2003 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

The classick story is that emerson, lake & Palmer were originally going to be called Hendrix, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, IE "HELP". I am pretty sure this story is as aopcryphal as the one about "Never Mind The Bollocks" instrumental parts actually being tracked by The Enid, but I have from time to time read it reported as fact in musick papers.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 14 March 2003 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think Hendrix missed a downbeat in his life; half his genius is that he was a great rhythm player

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 14 March 2003 01:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Hendrix Stills Nash&Young

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Dino Desi and Jimi

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Friday, 14 March 2003 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah but there are JB albums with Maceo, Bootsy, and 'Phelps' Collins on guitar which is nearly as good as having Hendrix!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 March 2003 07:32 (twenty-three years ago)

The JBs got together on March 9, 1970; Hendrix died in September of that year. (Collier wrong on Black Music History again SHOCKAH!)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 14 March 2003 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

...But Maceo left JB's employ three or four hours before Bootsy and Catfish Collins joined the band, and didn't return until January 1973, by which time Hendrix was long gone.

There does, however, exist a recording of Hendrix and Robert Wyatt playing together. Which is not the same thing at all, but it's kind of cool to know it happened.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Good one-disc overview of the Bootsy and Catfish Collins band is "Funk Power 1970: A Brand New Thang," which has the long version of "Sex Machine" sans the fake audience, the 14:42 version of "Talkin' Loud," and a nice "Fight Against Drug Abuse" PSA. We went to Cincinnati, Ohio once and wanted to pay our respects to King and JB--the orig. King site was an ugly warehouse for a local chain of convenience stores, right next to the interstate.

Fred Wesley's book "Hit Me, Fred" tells exactly why no one enjoyed working with James Brown too much.

― Jess Hill (jesshill), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Absolutely right, Douglas -- that the JB's even existed is due to bad blood between James and Maceo.

I'm wondering if the aprocryphal story isn't based on the track "Dorella DuFontane", or Hendrix's work with Wilson Pickett.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 14 March 2003 12:32 (twenty-three years ago)

True, true. I still hold the Love Power Peace: Live in Paris '71 is the quintessential JB's album, and the only thing that prevents it from being the best album of all time is no Maceo or Clyde.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 March 2003 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

soft machine toured with hendrix, didn't they?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 14 March 2003 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Somewhere there are tapes of Hendrix jamming with wind-instrument super-freak Rahsaan Roland Kirk that have yet to be released, supposedly because of bad sound quality. I say, pish posh!, release the tapes!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I still hold the Love Power Peace: Live in Paris '71 is the quintessential JB's album, and the only thing that prevents it from being the best album of all time is no Maceo or Clyde.

It is a good one. I think I'd go with "Sex Machine" and the 1970 compilation I mentioned earlier, though. I love the JB's track "If You Don't Get it the First Time, Back Up and Try It Again, Party."

― Jess Hill (jesshill), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:43 (twenty-three years ago)

(" soft machine toured with hendrix, didn't they? " -- at the beginning of 1968, according to various Softs' reminiscences)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

not quite in the same league, but i've heard a track by little richard that has hendrix on guitar.

― pauls00, Friday, 14 March 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

(" soft machine toured with hendrix, didn't they? " -- at the beginning of 1968, according to various Softs' reminiscences)

They were certainly touring with him in early April '68. I remember seeing a documentary where the lighting guy for Soft Machine (a Scottish bloke, can't remember his name) talked about the gig they did the night after Martin Luther King was murdered. There was obviously a debate about whether it should go ahead, but it did, and apparently as a tribute Hendrix walked on stage and, rather than playing the normal set, improvised a guitar piece that the lighting guy described as having an "awful beauty" about it, full of poignancy and rage. A deeply emotional night, as you would expect.

Now, if there's a tape of that doing the rounds I'd love to hear it....

― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 14 March 2003 16:41 (twenty-three years ago)

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