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Pete Townshend tells this story in a 90s documentary (which I saw back then, and caught again not long ago).Townshend got a call from Paul McCartney in 1966. Both Lennon and McCartney would regularly cruise the after-hours clubs of London, looking for new talent ... and Paul said (I’m paraphrasing), 'Meet me at the Bag o' Nails club ... there's a guy I want you to see.’So Pete does so ... and at a table were McCartney … and Eric Clapton. Townshend joins them.Out comes Hendrix.They watched his act ... Townshend turned to the others and says, "We are ALL soooo fu*#ed!!!"Pete then said Clapton went home to his flat and shut himself up for a year ... and practiced.I’m going to add this comment to my story … because a couple commenters decided to ‘troll it’.Pete McDonnell1h ago · 1 upvote from Thomas J. BeaverI just saw McCartney on the Stephen Colbert show; he spoke about that evening at length, because it was the first time he’d seen Hendrix; The Beatles had released the Sgt. Pepper album two days before this. As part of the set, Jimi played Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band —the song, not the album. He was very impressed by that. McCartney also said that he and Townsend and Clapton realized that Hendrix’ guitar went out of tune after a particularly vigorous solo, at which point Hendrix laughed and asked the crowd “Is Eric out there? I need him to come up and tune this thing.”And this one:Horace Crane1h ago · 1 upvote from Thomas J. BeaverI saw Paul on Colbert, too. To clarify, Paul said Hendrix had a Bigsby “whammy bar” on his guitar, and he was using it extensively on his solo, and Paul noted doing that puts our guitar out of tune.Okay, here’s the McCartney clip … (Paul says it was at a different theater in London than what Townshend recalled {IIRC, Bag O’ Nail was a club where Hendrix also played}, but who cares, lol)

Four Stories tell the tale: McCartney says so, and Jimi plays “Sgt. Pepper.”Four stories … from Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltry, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker …And, also … here’s two iconic Hendrix clips (from ’66 it seems?) … “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” (Jimi warns, “Watch out for your ears!”) and “Killing Floor.”Story #1 ... Jimi, McCartney, Clapton, TownshendWhen Hendrix had just come to England in fall, 1966 — brought over by the Animals' bassist and now-his-manager Chas Chandler — and was playing in the after-hours clubs in London, word quickly got out about him.And the 'rock royalty' was soon coming to see him, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltry.Pete Townshend and Paul McCartney told of one such viewing, which was the first for Pete ... Pete tells it in a 90s documentary (which I saw back then, and caught again not long ago ... Paul to Stephen Colbert (The Late Night Show) this past fall.(1-a) Townshend's Telling —Townshend said (and, of course, if he exaggerated, etc., that's him-not-me): he got a call from Paul McCartney in 1966. Both Lennon, McCartney, Harrison would all regularly cruise the after-hours clubs of London, looking for new talent ... and Paul said (I’m paraphrasing), 'Meet me at the Saville Theater ... there's a guy I want you to see.’So Pete does so ... with Paul was also Eric Clapton. Townshend joins them.Out comes Hendrix.They watched his act ... Townshend turned to the others and says, "We are ALL soooo fu*#ed!!!"Pete then said Clapton (paraphrasing) “went home to his flat and shut himself up for a year and practiced” (this part of course is apocryphal, for effect ... Cream didn't disappear for a year, they were just getting going).Roger Daltry was with Townshend and Clapton as well when they saw Hendrix, and Roger said (in another documentary - see below), “Eric’s comment after Jimi played was, ‘I’m gonna f***er off and practice’.”(1-b) McCartneys's Telling —McCartney shared this on the Stephen Colbert (Late Night) show this past fall; he spoke about that evening at length ... it was the second time he’d seen Hendrix (Paul and Ringo had first seen him at the Bag O' Nails after-hours club, where The Experience would play). The date, May 29, 1967.The Beatles had released the Sgt. Pepper album two days before this according to Paul, May 27. In fact, it was a bit of a 'release celebration' at the Saville Theater -- Paul had called up Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend, and said, I've got a guy who you gotta see ... Hendrix.(BTW, DID YOU KNOW … on this night at the Saville, the lineup also included ... Procol Harum … it was their songwriter/singer Gary Booker’s birthday (and mine!) … Paul and Linda McCartney had just met on the 15h (see Thomas J. Beaver's answer to The Beatles (band): What was it about Linda McCartney that Paul loved so much?) … and “White Share of Pale” was ‘their song’ … this time — the 15th — everyone was talking’ about the blockbuster new PH single, and they all thought it must be Stevie Winwood singing … Paul saw for himself on the 29th who sang it of course, when PH played it for him {and for the others of course}.)To open his set, Jimi played "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" (the song, not the whole album). A psychedelic, fantastic, version (see the clip, just below) ... two days after the record came out. Paul calls it, "Very ballsy" on Jimi's part to play it in front of the song’s uber-famous creator/performer immediately after the record came out. Paul was very impressed by that: "We released Sgt. Pepper (the album, with the song on it of course) on Friday, and two days later on Sunday, he'd learned it ... and he played it - and he played a great version of it."And Hendrix had a whammy bar on the guitar ... Paul tells it:"He had this vibrator on -- a Bigsby arm on a guitar -- the whammy bar -- and he's going 'gooo-woooo-woooo-wooooooooo-woooo' [see the clip!, just below!] -- and we're going 'WHOA, great! great!' But - we knew - now he's out of tune! ... you're stretching the strings, and in those days that means you've gone out of tune ... and its his first number! We're looking — 'what is he gonna do'?(note: Jimi and his Experience. had an 8 song set to play … the rest were his standard ‘early fare’: “Purple Haze, “Foxy Lady,” “Hey Joe,” “Manic Depression,” “The Wind Cries Mary,” “Are You Experienced.”)Back to Paul: "So he starts looking for Eric Clapton in the audience ... {Jimi call out} 'Is Eric out there, man?' Eric is there, but Eric's hiding ... Jimi spots him — 'Hey, man, will you come up there and tune this thing for me?!"Colbert: "Woooow ... those are some 'brass slingers' right there! Did Clapton come up and tune it?""NO!"(and… here it is … Jimi-n-co. playing “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band” … “Watch out for your ears!”)(Here's McCartney talking about it ...)Story #3 ... Roger Daltry, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker(from the first episode of the BBC documentary, Seven Ages of Rock ... and the Daltry comment above is also from this documentary)The documentary describes in detail the time — also in this same period, in London, 1966 — when Hendrix actually jammed with Cream in a 1966 London gig.(There is a video clip in the documentary of George Harrison walking in with Hendrix ... Chas Chandler, Hendrix's manager and former basis for The Animals, had arranged for Jimi to come up and jam with Cream).Jack Bruce, talking about it, said, “He plugged into my bass amp … he did a version of 'Killing Floor'(Howlin Wolf song - that, according to a reporter who was there, Clapton considered too hard to play) ... Jack Bruce continues: "Blues all the way … he just played his ass off, basically. The first time I saw Eric [Clapton] I thought, ‘Ah, master guitar player’ … but Jimi was some force of nature.”Ginger Baker says about it: “Eric just stands there and plays … we got this guy (Hendrix) and he’s on his knees, and playing with his teeth …”Jack Bruce again: “It was like, WOW … I know it had a tremendous effect on Eric.”Chas Chandler said about it: “Eric’s hands are on the guitar … he just drops his hands, and he just stood there looking at Jimi … and he just walked off the stage … I ran back stage, and Eric was trying to light a cigarette … his hands were shaking … (mumbling) ‘Is he really that good?’”What these stories tell us … regarding Jimi and ‘His Competition’... is that … by 1966 in London … he knew … he knew the competition, and he knew.As Rocci Dispora points out in his answer, by the time Hendrix left America for London in ‘66, elite producer Quincy Jones wanted him … and he’d attracted the attention of elite jazzmen Herbie Hancock, Toots Thielemans and Hubert Laws. And of course he’d already worked for Little Richard and the Isley Brothers, only getting fired because he chafed (and woud do ‘little revolts’) under their ‘backup band’ constraints.And, remember, in NYC in ‘66, he’d told Chas Chandler he’d come over to London if he could meet Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton … he wanted to meet ‘the competition’ as far as The British Blues goes. Chandler held up his end of the bargin … and we know what Beck said as well, when he heard Hendrix for the first time: “It was like a bomb going off in the right place … I couldn’t do what he did ... I just went away from there thinking ‘I better think of something else to do’.” (see: Thomas J. Beaver's answer to What did Jimi Hendrix think of Jeff Beck as a guitar player?)So … Jimi met the competition in London … he was “ballsy,” they were awed.One further comment … My SpeculationI think, in 1966, (I speculate, I should say) he came on the London scene a little strong, just to say, “Hey British Bluesmen, Here I Am!” He did the same with Pete Townshend the next summer at Monterey … I’ve seen the clip where Jimi, afterwards (maybe a year or less later?), told the story of that … Jimi said that after Pete refused to go on after him*, he told Cass Elliott (the co-Producer of the event), “Okay, I’ll go last, but I’ll have to add something a little extra” (and he told the story with a little devilish smile and a glint in his eye) … of course that ‘little extra’ was setting fire to the guitar THEN smashing it, topping The Who’s bit.(*Pete Townshend on why he refused to follow Hendrix (which is Story #4) … he knew better, going back to 1966: “Kit Lambert, our manager, had just signed Jimi Hendrix to our label (in ‘66), and put him on backing us up. And I couldn’t really believe it. ... He knocked the amplifiers over, he set his guitar a-light … he got feedback together, and he played in his own inimitable way. And I went on afterwards and I just stood and strummed.”)(see: Thomas J. Beaver's answer to Which opening acts for The Who became famous bands in their own right?)(Hendrix, The Experience, “Killing Floor” {not with Cream on stage, but in that early period} …)

You would have been expecting RCB as the answer but sorry the answer for me is Rajasthan Royals.Rajasthan looks like a very strong team with batsman like Steve Smith, Jos Buttler, Ajinkya Rahane, Sanju Samson; All rounders like Ben Stokes, J. Archer, K Gowtham; and pacers like O. Thomas, J Unadakat. But in reality this is a weak team and will not be one of the team to advance to play offs because:-Rajasthan is over dependent on overseas players whether Steve Smith, Jos Buttler or Ben stokes. But soon reality will struck them real hard. And they will pay for their over dependency. As you know the players from Australia and England will fly back to their national camps from May 01. It means that the best players of this team will be no more available, that too at crucial stage of the tournament.They have big Indian names, Ajinkya Rahane, Sanju Samson, J Unadakat. These players are not at their best, what we have seen in earlier years. Ajinkya Rahane is not playing too much white ball cricket and reason is pretty simple, low strike rate and low average. Whereas Sanju Samson, who at one time was regarded as the best wicket-keeper batsman at domestic circuit, is out of touch from quite sometime now. His last year IPL was not good and so was last to last year. Then Unadakat, the highest selling Indian player in the IPL auction 2 years back, he doesn't inspire any more, rivals and analysed him and take full advantage of him.Jofra Archer has not shown his true colours. Playing in big bash, J Archer was phenomenal. But he has failed to repeat his performance in the biggest league.And for the ones thinking that RCB is weak,I want to say that they performed bad in the very first match but you have to admit that their some of the crucial overseas players were missing and sometimes a day is bad.