beat ) , dave holland ( famous jazz bassist , who played with miles davis amongst others ) , and roland robinson ( not so well known , he played on several of buddy miles ' later projects ) on bass , hendrix regular mitch mitchell , buddy miles from buddy miles express & ( the almost unknown ) rocky isaacs , of the , ( not well known ) , pop group ` the cherry people ' ( as was al marks - percussion ) , on drums , backing vocals by devon wilson on '' message from nine to the universe '' were wiped from the original recordings .