An article published by Far Out showed that Jimi Hendrix considered King Crimson the greatest band of all time. It all started during a Q&A event as part of Patricia Fripp’s “Compelling Stories: The Inside Secrets” documentary album.
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King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp was asked if it was true that Jimi Hendrix shook his left hand. “Yes, he did,” Fripp replied, trying to play it down before telling his story about the moment the two great guitarists’ paths crossed.
“The only time I met Jimi Hendrix was at The Revolution Club in Mayfair (London) when [King] Crimson was playing in 1969, and it was the first time I sat down,” Fripp revealed. At this point in their career, King Crimson was only in the early months of its infancy. In fact, Fripp had just turned 23.
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In the audience that night, Jimi Hendrix appeared with his arm bandaged. After the show, Hendrix approached Fripp, who described him as one of the most “luminous” men he had ever met.
Years later, Fripp met the sister-in-law of King Crimson’s first drummer, Michael Giles, in a bookstore. She was present on the memorable night that Hendrix shook Fripp’s hand and, as fate would have it, she was sitting at the table next to Jimi. What she revealed to Fripp about that night probably left him so perplexed that he had to sit down if she happened to catch him standing.
“He was jumping up and down,” she told Fripp, shouting, “THIS IS THE BEST GROUP IN THE WORLD!” She stated that he yelled this over and over again over the booming sound of the stereo. “With all due modesty,” Fripp concludes the story. “That’s one of the best credentials any working musician can probably present.”
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