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Jimi Hendrix
By: AJ Date: June 20, 2017, 10:38 pm
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I was 15 in 1967. I was aware of Monterey, primarily from the
print press. I'd just moved from the South side of Houston to
the west side. Didn't know anybody at all. Started a new
school...Discovered a little music shop, walking distance from
our house and started hanging out there. Bought bass strings and
picks..So as to not feel guilty about hanging out. One afternoon
I was in there and noodling on a Vox bass and noticed A kid I
recognized as being on one of my classes. We gave each other
nods...Y'know....Next day at school He asked me If I played bass
and I said I'd been playing about a year. He asked me if I'd
like to come jam with him and another guitar player and I said
sure. Later that day in another class, a guy I'd started talking
to, just the day before had mentioned he drummed, so i told him
about the jam and asked if he'd be interested. He said sure.
Getting to the point....We all got together that weekend...At
the unmet guitarists place. I think we started with "Gloria",
then "Walk don't run". Then I asked if they knew how to play
"Hey Joe", by The Byrds..Everybody said yeah and so we hit it.
After that The guy I knew from class asked if I'd heard the way
Jimi Hendrix played it...I said "No", I'd heard of Jimi
Hendrix..strictly from print..but I'd never heard Jimi Hendrix.
I'd never heard him on radio.
But after I heard the "Are you Experienced" album that weekend
with those fellas....I never listened to music the same way
again.
That was a hell of a musical year...For me...For the
World...Sgt' Pepper's...Monterey Pop...Moby
Grape....
HTML https://youtu.be/TKAwPA14Ni4
HTML https://youtu.be/TKAwPA14Ni4
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: indigo_dave Date: June 21, 2017, 8:44 am
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I became aware of Hendrix around the same time. I was 14 when I
got the album for Christmas. It was mind blowing. I didn't have
a lot of money at that age, so any record album I acquired was
special. I had a guitar I'd gotten for Christmas when I was 13.
I had a Mel Bay chord book which gave me a few chords to play
with. I remember trying to play along with "The Wind Cries
Mary". That was about all I could attempt.
I also remember buying "Axis: Bold As Love". Thinking about it
now, I think it is my favorite of his albums released during his
lifetime. I remember hearing something about Monterey around
the time it happened. There wasn't a lot of information
available in my little town back then. When I discovered
"Rolling Stone" a couple of years later in a news stand (in the
mall - one of those with hundreds of magazines and newspapers
from a variety of cities around the country) it was like coming
upon an oasis. Reading about bands I'd heard of and the hippie
scene was fascinating for me.
Monterey seems to have sparked the trend in big festivals that
began to appear back then. BTW, if I remember correctly, Moby
Grape could've appeared at that festival but Matthew Katz (their
manager) made money demands that weren't met. If they'd
appeared in that film at the height of their powers, they
might've become stars like Hendrix and Joplin. Of course they'd
still have probably still have self destructed (like Hendrix and
Joplin) with the excesses going on back in those days.
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: AJ Date: June 21, 2017, 5:48 pm
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"Axis" is my favorite Hendrix album as well Dave. It's a more
mature album than "Are you Experienced" and I think it's tighter
in terms of the material than "Electric Ladyland".
If I had to limit myself to one Hendrix album it would be
"Axis".
I subscribed to Rolling Stone for more than twenty years, and
saved every copy until I finally decided enough was enough and
took them to a school paper drive. I saved only two. The issue
with John Lennon's interview after he released "Working Class
hero", and the one he where they interviewed him right before he
was murdered.
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: Luke17 Date: June 22, 2017, 3:42 pm
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First time I heard 'Hey Joe' was by these guys..in 1966.
I bought the 45 ..
My band and I loved it, learned it immediately and covered it at
a gig 3 days later,
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi_oFXA0R0Y
.
Weirdest thing,my brother and I split the vocals and he came out
from behind the keys to sing and bang a cowbell and tambourine
while he sang.
We never saw this vid 'til 1987.. and how the two lead singers
split the vocals..
shocked the shit out of us. :D
In 1967, my brother bought some amazing albums..he had an ear,
he bought Rotary Connection, Time has come today by the
Chambers Brothers, Fresh Cream, surrealistic Pillow by Jefferson
Airplane and of course Are you Experienced by Hendrix..
He said, "wait til you heard this cat's version of 'Hey Joe'"
We were good and stoned and just couldn't believe the smoothness
and flow of it...
But I still truly love the high energy, rawness, and speed of
The Leaves version of Hey Joe..
We opened or closed many a gig with this song..it was a crowd
pleaser to be sure.
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: AJ Date: June 22, 2017, 5:54 pm
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Oh The Leaves version still smokes doesn't it? All the other
songs and albums you mentioned do too...But oddly enough, I
wasn't bowled over by "Fresh Cream at the time. I still dislike
the production values of that album, but it was the times I
guess. The live versions of those tunes was, of course,
phenomenal. "Disraeli Gears" was the album that grabbed me, then
"Wheels of Fire", and "Goodbye'. All of those are some of my
favorite albums of all time.
Yer brother had damn fine ears!
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: Luke17 Date: June 22, 2017, 6:15 pm
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wif you on Cream..that was my first taste of the band..Ginger
Baker was my main focus...
Wot he did on those drums..oh lawdy..
but Wheels of Fire!
oh Mein Gott they even used a fucking Glockenspiel on that
record...
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: AJ Date: June 22, 2017, 6:17 pm
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Ginger was, and still is a beast on the skins! hey I got chat
up...jump in.
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: Luke17 Date: June 22, 2017, 6:23 pm
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only have 3 minutes of juice left on my iPad..AJ...going to the
beach tomorrow..have to git up early..
maybe we can chat maņana bout this time... :)
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: AJ Date: June 22, 2017, 6:23 pm
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[quote author=Luke17 link=topic=6.msg35#msg35 date=1498173780]
only have 3 minutes of juice left on my iPad..AJ...going to the
beach tomorrow..have to git up early..
maybe we can chat maņana bout this time... :)
[/quote]
Roger that Bro...Have a great time with your toes in the sand
and your line in the water!
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: Bucky Date: June 22, 2017, 8:54 pm
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Axis is the best. Experienced has terrible production, and his
tone wasn't grand. Electric Ladyland is too long.
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