Colin Earl
"I later saw the 'Experience' and Cream at their first gigs at the Marquee club. Hendrix was fantastic, I'd never seen or heard anything like it, but I did prefer Cream mainly because their music was more traditional, especially early on. The other band I saw regularly was Cyril Davies All-Stars, and for me, they were the best, especially when they had Carlo Little on drums and Nicky Hopkins on piano. I later heard an album by Nicky, and it was dreadful! All strings and massive orchestrations, no blues, no rock'n roll, yuk! It's the sort of thing that happens when middle-of-the-road record company 'execs' think they know best."