“It was amazing,”“and it was musically great, too, not just pyrotechnics.” It scared me, because he was clearly going to be a huge star, and just as we are finding our own speed, here was the real thing.” “I remember thinking that here was a force to be reckoned with. Led Zeppelin later used this song as the basis for The Lemon Song.
So, the killing floor is a metaphor for depression, in Wolf’s case triggered by a woman who was so mad she was literally trying to kill him. One of them, a woman named Helen, was so fed up with his philandering that she got a shotgun filled with buckshot and fired at him from a second-floor window. He said that Wolf played the field, with several ladies in his stable. Hubert Sumlin played guitar on the original version. Wolf released his version in 1964 and it was written by him. According to Chas Chandler…Clapton just dropped his hands and was shocked. Jimi was ripping right through it at breakneck speed. Clapton was blown away by it because he never mastered the song. Jimi plugged into Jack Bruce’s amp and broke into Killing Floor. Jack Bruce later said that Jimi was a brave person to do that because Cream were all top notch musicans.
No one in those days asked to do this because Clapton was “God” on guitar to many people…plus Cream as a unit were super talented.
At a Cream gig he requested a chance to jam with the band. When Jimi Hendrix came to England he made a huge impression right away. This song comes with an interesting story between Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. I just posted a song by Howlin’ Wolf a week or so ago but I’ve been listening to him lately so here is another.
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