Earlier in 1967, the same year "Disraeli Gears" was released, Cream's bassist, Jack Bruce, went to see The Jimi Hendrix Experience perform in London. From that live concert came the inspiration for the iconic blues-rock riff that formed the basis of Cream's biggest hit, played in unison in the song on both lead and bass guitar. In the 1995 book "Jimi Hendrix: Electric Gypsy" by Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek, Clapton remembered what happened next.
According to Clapton, the set that Hendrix and his band played that night was "blinding." To Clapton's knowledge, Bruce was unaware of Hendrix's music prior to that point but once he was, he was so inspired by what he saw that he went home to write the "Sunshine" riff. "It was strictly a dedication to Jimi. And then we wrote a song on top of it," Clapton said, and that was not the last time that Jimi Hendrix would play a part in the song's story.
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