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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: indigo_dave Date: June 23, 2017, 7:06 am
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Funny coincidence Luke, I also bought Surrealistic Pillow and
Fresh Cream way back when. "Fresh Cream" isn't high on my
favorite Cream albums - but I still like it. I also bought
"Goodbye Cream" as a cutout IIRC (remember them with one corner
of the album cover snipped ?). It may be my favorite due to
"Sitting On Top Of The World" and a song or two I can't recall.
My cousin (who lived 20 miles away) had "Electric Ladyland" . I
bought it on CD in recent years. I like it, but it seems like
sort of an acid trip. In fact when I heard Hendrix on acid, I
thought I was "getting" what Hendrix was driving at. All
those sounds he created.
A few years back there was a new Hendrix release "People, Hell &
Angels" and I actually liked it. Only listened to it on YouTube
though. I still buy a few CD's but not many.
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: Luke17 Date: June 23, 2017, 2:07 pm
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yeah, Dave...we never realized the magnitude and seminal
importance of all the great albums that came out in and about
the summer of '67...
Music History was being made to be sure..
I now Realize that we were lucky muthafuckahs to be a part of
it..
Our cup runneth over with awesome music.
yassuh!
I was still reeling from the vocal masterpiece of 'Pet Sounds'
by the Beach Boys released in 1966"""
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: AJ Date: June 23, 2017, 8:56 pm
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[quote author=Luke17 link=topic=6.msg47#msg47 date=1498244834]
yeah, Dave...we never realized the magnitude and seminal
importance of all the great albums that came out in and about
the summer of '67...
Music History was being made to be sure..
I now Realize that we were lucky muthafuckahs to be a part of
it..
Our cup runneth over with awesome music.
yassuh!
I was still reeling from the vocal masterpiece of 'Pet Sounds'
by the Beach Boys released in 1966"""
[/quote]
The Beat;es were reeling from "Pet Sounds" as well. Paul said
that album inspired Pepper.
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Re: Jimi Hendrix
By: AJ Date: June 23, 2017, 9:06 pm
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[quote author=Bucky link=topic=6.msg41#msg41 date=1498182860]
Axis is the best. Experienced has terrible production, and his
tone wasn't grand. Electric Ladyland is too long.
[/quote]
"Experienced" suffers mostly from the lack of headroom the
equipment used to record suffered from. There's a hell of a lot
of cool recording tricks on that LP.
"Axis" is perfect to my ears. You're right about "Ladyland". It
is too long primarily because of the filler material involved.
"Voodoo Chile", the long jam number really wasn't up to scratch
to my ears....But then you've got "Watchtower", "1983", which
are just f'n great. 'Rainy Day", "Crosstown Traffic", ...Hell
come to think of it, "Voodoo Chile" and "Little miss Strange"
are really the only filler...The rest of it's pretty great..
But frankly...And this may be heresy...Hendrix was a truly
groundbreaking, unreal and unbelievably talented guitarist...He
wasn't a great songwriter. He really wasn't IMHO.
He was one helluva interpreter of other people's material
however. Listen to Dylan's "Watchtower"...Then listen to what
Jimi did with it. Same with "Hey Joe". All the versions by other
people of that song are at breakneck speed. Jimi slows it down
and makes a masterpiece. All his early songs are really just
there for the guitar parts to shine though. they are all built
around the solos really.
To say he was an amazing soloist is to state the obvious. He had
complete command over the instrument. The things he did with
feedback were ahead of everybodys curve really.
Had he not gotten so heavily into drugs there is no telling how
he would have evolved as a guitar player and a songwriter. But
he did, so we'll never know.
He waited too long to get rid of Noel Redding. He needed a bass
player that could push and challenge him a bit. He couldn't have
gotten a better drummer than Mitch Mitchell though. That Cat was
extraordinary.
At Woodstock he'd moved on from the Experience, except for
Mitchell, and had what was a fairly large band including another
guitar player...That could not keep up with him....
I've always wanted to believe that had he pulled out of his drug
fueled descent...He'd have gone the direction that Jeff Beck
went...Fusion. Beck is still an amazing player even in his 70's.
Jeff avoided the pitfalls that Jimi did not, and didn't give a
shit about being a pop star, obvious from his almost exclusively
instrumental output. Also, and interestingly, Beck rarely pens
his own material...relying on others to come up with interesting
tunes he can modify or embellish with his own unique approach.
He concentrates on his part and arranging the tunes.
And now I've gone off to Jeff Beck...
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