Jimi Hendrix... revisited.
 

I loaded a Hendrix CD in this morning on my way to work, thinking this might be a bit much in the early morning for a 53 year old ? It wasn't, his music still gets to me.

I replayed Voodoo Child several times wondering what it was this Rocker had going on ??

I think I'll dig out my Band of Gypsies CD for tomorrow :D

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Don't forget Janis Joplin's "Pearl" album...

My favorite Hendrix tune is Castles Made of Sand. Gives me goosebumps every time.

Hey Joe

I still haven't met someone who can both play that song on guitar and sing at the same time.

There's Jimi, and then there is EVERYONE else. Still amazing so long after we lost him. Seattle's best contribution to civilization as a whole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX3GNUPlOHM

Jimi was a f***ing alien. That's all there is to it. He didnt die. He went home..

Thanks, cheese dude, you made my day. Awsome. Just freakin' awsome.

Nobody plays like Jimi did! My youngest daughter, who plays an electric guitar, is dressing up as Jimi Hendrix for Halloween.

David

+100!

God bless you, honestly. We need more fathers like you. PLEASE post photos!

Thanks for the links

"All Along the Watchtower". Enough said.

try watching his Woodstock Performance on shrooms or lsd

adds a whole new dimension..., but if watching it from the Woodstock DVD, make sure to FF when the porto potty scene comes by , or the cleanup scene... both just give nasty vibes when spaced out...

Jimi playing Isle of Wight...about 4 to 8 minutes into Machine Gun allmost makes the Guitar talk... Band of Gypsies...Who Knows...

I also have Jimi jamming with Traffic in concert....

Chas Chandler said, "Thers a reason why Jimi was so good, who do U know that would take a guitar and play on the toilette." Also Jim wouldn't miss a chanch to watch any band play no matter how bad to see if he could pick up a riff. Jimi went on before the Who at Monterey in 67.. Pete Townsend said, "how could we compete with him, Jimi did our act."

Nobody has surpassed Jimi...

43 years ago next week, or somewhere around there, I was in the Peppermint Lounge in NYC, dropped off for a few hours by my parents, to see Joey Dee and the Starlighters and the Peppermint Twist. Hendrix was a Starlighter, but during the break, he was Hendrix. An expansion of my mind took place. Then my older brother got a townhouse in the village on St. Lukes Place. He and his roommates were travelling auditors and mostly gone and I was there a lot. Hendrix was in a club not too far. He just got more and more amazing. Thanks for a happy flashback.

..we´re gonna do a thing called 'Like a Rolling Stone'....

...by Bob Dylan...

...and thats this grandmother over there...

...goes something like this !

No one....and I mean no one (Led Zeppelin was close though) played the blues like Jimi. Listen to "Red House" again one of these days. It'll make you weep.

Re: Jimi Hendrix... revisited.
 

Band of Gypsies just floors me. There are parts where I have to stop what I'm doing and sit down.

Another great one is the Jimi Hendrix: Blues compilation from a few years ago... lots of fantastic acoustic blues.

Live at Winterland is one of my favorites.

Jimi was and still is the best.

I've been to his grave site several times. To this day there are always flowers and various memorabilia scattered about; lots of guitar picks.

Manic Depression.

Band of Gypsies. As good as Noel and Mitch were the Experience stuff seemed to lack the "polish" of Gypsies. Not saying Experience was not great, just think it could have been tighter.

There is new documentary on VH1 on Hendrix and another on Janis.

Have lots of unseen footage and a lot of interviews with people that played on stuff with Jimi. I never knew that Steve Winwood and Jack Cassady played on the early Vodoo Child sessions.

Scott

+1

I don't know how Jimi can handle it. At the point to which he was frying, you'd practically have to drop in into your eyes to feel anything.

It has been said that Picasso could "draw like an angel", that we was very well capable of doing the more traditional drawing and painting but chose to leap from there and examine other interpretations. Jimi did the same in music. I have great respect for those that can "play" but chose to be more experimental. In fact I tend to disregard the avant guard unless I know they are capable of standards.

My favorite Jimi songs right now are Crosstown Traffic and Hear My Train a Comin (acoustic) . The former as it is a really well put together pop song and the later as it shuts up anyone whom does not think Jimi had the blues. Knowing he could do these things makes his other work all the better.


I'm not the only soul who's accused of hit and run
Tire tracks all across your back
I can see you had your fun
But darlin can't you see my signals turn from green to red
And with you I can see a traffic jam straight up ahead

classic

His very best.. in my opinion is the Star Spangled Banner. I play it on a loud speaker from my boat in a crowded harbor every 4th of July after the fireworks. It's become a tradition. It's perfect. Thank you Jimi....

Charles has a point. If you haven't listened to the Star Spangled Banner thing from Woodstock lately, then give it a listen. At the time it was done, it was WAY OUT THERE in terms of interpretive expression. Today, its genius can be more easily heard. It is a POWERFUL piece. Like Ray Charles' versio of America the Beautiful. You kinda have to be an American to 'get it.'

For me, I've been wanting for many years to replace my missing Cry of Love album. I miss that thing.

"Band of Gypsies" is my favorite Hendrix album. "Who Knows", "Machine Gun" and Buddy Miles singing "Changes". I also heard Hendrix was the opening act for the "Monkees".

Oh, one more: The most astonishing version of Johnny B. Goode I ever expect to hear is the one from the Rainbow Bridge movie and album. Truly astonishing. Hard to think of a better example of the principle of "the great ones make it look easy."

Voodoo child - Woodstock

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True, the tour did not last long as there were differing expectations in the audience.

Johnny B. Goode at Berkeley

I have heard that SRV got his start touring as a Hendrix cover band... explains a lot.

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Jimi Hendrix will be a name known to all even 1000 years from now.

that specific scene rules when on acid
i kid you not
i dropped out one day , and had that on in the dvd player

and as far as i know , i was standing next to Jimi, looking at those crowds....the camera has a sort of fisheye effect as it is sober, and it just adds to the acid experience

another really good scene was Santana, especially on girl they kept showing , very pretty, and pretty much on acid as well

for those who never tried it, i can tell you , heavy lsd will actually put you there as if you were standing where the camera stood
those who do know it , know what i mean... all your senses work together for the illusion...it beats THX, and Dolby Surround by big lengths...

obviously you need to make sure that nobody pushes the remote buttons, and puts it on CNN or Fox news or something...
that ,
would be a bad thing.
especially if they just happen to be showing war footage ( i once watched 5 hours of North Korean parliament footage on repeat on shrooms... laughed myself silly thinking how free i was compared to those goons )

Jimi got tired of the Rock & Roll especially the showmanship stuff he did...Electric Ladylady was the opening gambit of where Jimi was headed...and unfortunately we only got part of Cry of Love...

"Peace and Love and all that Bu11 *****"..."stand up and sing its your national anthem, and if U don't...then fk U.".....Jimi at Isle of Wight


Jimi left a "Voodoo Child" and came back a "Gypsy Boy".. Jimis reflection on who he had become...

I personaly can't listen to Jimis first coupla albums...its only after Electric Lady Lady and the concerts from Woodstock on that I think are truly amazing....

From your countenence in Europe U'd be considered to be "Caravan Trash."

actually that's nonsense tabs
i live in Holland, i don't have a caravan

i have a well paying job, and enjoy the occasional psychedelic trip ( which is not at all illegal here )

it's not because the USA is anal about all drugs, and fails to see that the use of Psychedelics is older then Judism,Christianity and Islam,
that it makes such use a bad thing...Native Americans did it , Ancient Greeks used Ergot, in ancient India no different

many of the great ancient cultures , used psychedelics..

maybe you too , should drop out some day , maybe you'de like face yourdemons and ****, instead of flogging your fears on this board in doomsday threads... no?

Mother handles my demons quiet well thank you....

lol

I thought you just pushed them down the stairs?

Any of you guys get to see the MC5 or anything like back then?

BTW you can crack on the Monkees, but remember that Mike Nesmith had a serious post-prefabfour career as a country rocker par excellence.

This video shows the 1967 version of purple haze which is phenomonal and cuts in the middle to the acid version which "other worldly"