Name these two guys...

BP_ said:
Is that Jimi and Wilson?
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Congrats, you win! 🎉

The same image came up when I Googled their names together. I could have named Jimi (how many Black left handed guitarists were there?) but I would have never ID'd Wilson Pickett.

Here's another pic (at a better angle) that also came up in the search. Pretty cool! :)

cGc


The pics were reportedly taken at an Atlantic Records "release party" held at the Prelude Club in Harlem on May 5, 1966 -- 56 years ago!. Jimi also reportedly played w/King Curtis, Percy Sledge, Cornell Dupree and Ester Phillips at the party. See: The Happening.

This would have been just before the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock in 1969, where he performed, and the rest was history til he passed in 1970.

I visited Jimi's gravesite & memorial located in Renton, WA (SE of Seattle). I also visited Bruce & Brandon Lees' joint gravesite in NW Seattle at the same time. They all died "too young." :(
 
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sgt1372 said:
Congrats, you win! 🎉

The same image came up when I Googled their names together. I could have named Jimi (how many Black left handed guitarists were there?) but I would have never ID'd Wilson Pickett.

Here's another pic (at a better angle) that also came up in the search. Pretty cool! :)

cGc


The pics were reportedly taken at an Atlantic Records "release party" held at the Prelude Club in Harlem on May 5, 1966 -- 56 years ago!. Jimi also reportedly played w/King Curtis, Percy Sledge, Cornell Dupree and Ester Phillips at the party. See: The Happening.

This would have been just before the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock in 1969, where he performed, and the rest was history til he passed in 1970.

I visited Jimi's gravesite & memorial located in Renton, WA (SE of Seattle). I also visited Bruce & Brandon Lees' joint gravesite in NW Seattle at the same time. They all died "too young." :(
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That’s awesome. The only other guess would have been Richard. I knew he played with both of them before he was “famous” and that angle was a little tough. Such a cool pic, amazing story, and yes gone way too soon. All of them. That was back when music was still art, and art was still expression :thumbsup:
 
I knew Jimi. Admittedly didn't know who the other guy was. I am familiar with the name tho.
 
Good going guys.
Wilson "The Wicked" Pickett and Jimi Hendrix.
Another left handed guitarist...one of my ALL time favorites is Albert King!
Jimi Hendrix also played for the Eisley(sp.?) Brothers band, before he went out on his own with The JH Experience.
 
Yes sir most people don’t know that. I think history and the connections are pretty neat. He (Hendrix) also played with Little Richard back around that time, which is why it was difficult to tell. I can’t hardly believe Jimi was a studio guitarist! 😆
 
I grew up in Seattle. Was in High school in the 60's most everybody here knew who Jimi Hendrix was. I didn't, until later. People used to say to me "what is wrong with you, you don't know Jimi Hendrix?" But I was more into rock and roll, folk and classical. Now, every time I go to see my dentist or to the post office I walk past a statue of him on Capital hill. Even my own daughter (who sings and has her own band) gave me the look when I told her I didn't know who Jimi was back in the 60's. She thinks I must have really been a nerd!!
 
I was traveling through North Africa (Tunisia, Algeria & Morocco) in '72. When Muslims would ask me where I was from and my reply was the U.S., they all would say, "Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix"...I kid you not! If I were in those three countries today, I wouldn't have the chance to tell this story!
 
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