The Awesomeness of Jimi Hendrix

[MJtheIndicator]

i read somewhere that his manager killed him because he wanted to leave.
manager supposedly confessed on his death-bed. sorry, no sources.

Hendrix was pronounced dead on the 18th of September 1970 at St. Mary Abbotts Hospital, Kensington, London. In May 2009, the UK media reported claims by James "Tappy" Wright that Jeffery had murdered him. Wright, who was a roadie for The Animals in the 1960s, had just written a book, in which he claimed he was with Jeffery in 1971, one year after Hendrix's death, and Jeffery confessed to having murdered Hendrix by plying him with pills and a bottle of wine in order to kill him and claim on the guitarist's life insurance. At the time of Hendrix's death, the coroner recorded an "open verdict," stating that the cause was "barbiturate intoxication and inhalation of vomit". The pathologist who did the autopsy on Hendrix, Donald Teare, reported a low blood alcohol level.

I debate how deeply Michael Jeffery was involved in decisions post Band of Gypsys. Something tells me those were the last contracts he was truly involved with. McDermott states Jeffery had input on Cry of Love, but this sounds somewhat ambiguous. I feel Alan Douglas was the one trying to steer Cry of Love and other posthumous releases like Crash Landing/Midnight Lightning and probably had deeper input which sets in to question how much influence if any Jeffery had after the Ed Chalpin mess was addressed.

 

[Jellyfish]

God, what a bunch of old women! Why don't you go start a thread about how Jimi died? We're having fun here, posting up the GOOD stuff of Jimi. Jeezus, what a buzz kill. Oh yeah, and "Jimi's overrated", LOL!

 

[genedigger]

he iw dude.listen to his music.i can trip on acid and play the same shit.part of posting up something you like is to expect that not everyone is gonna be a fan.i personally would never glorify any one musician.their all great in there own way,but seriously look at the music that is coming out today.theres guitarist doing way crazier shit then jimi ever dreamed of.celebrate someone thats not overrated.check out some of the quotes by eric clapton about what he thought of jim as a guitar player.there not all positive and claptons style is way more striking then the jim man

 

[Jellyfish]

.part of posting up something you like is to expect that not everyone is gonna be a fan.

But this is a FAN page, dipshit.

 

[7thson]

 

[Weedninja]

I named the best plant I got out of a Kerala/Haze hybrid "Little Wing" for her antidepressant properties.

Best song ever:
[YOUTUBEIF]https://youtu.be/EwRDEKL2GrY[/YOUTUBEIF]

 

[MJtheIndicator]

check out some of the quotes by eric clapton about what he thought of jim as a guitar player.there not all positive

“What I found refreshing about him was his intensely self-critical attitude toward his music,...

'He had this enormous gift and a fantastic technique, like that of someone who spent all day playing and practicing, yet he didn’t seem that aware of it. I also got to see the playboy in him. He loved to spend all night hanging out, getting drunk or stoned, and when he did pick up the guitar, it was very throwaway to him, as if he didn’t take himself too seriously...

'The next day, I heard that he had died,” Clapton writes. “He had passed out, stoned on a mixture of booze and drugs, and choked on his own vomit. It was the first time the death of another musician really affected me. We had all felt obliterated when Buddy Holly died, but this was much more personal. I was incredibly upset and very angry, and was filled with a feeling of terrible loneliness.”

previous excerpts from Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton, after first hearing Hendrix perform, as quoted in "Jimi Hendrix: 'You never told me he was that good'" by Ed Vulliamy in The Guardian (8 August 2010)

Who knows or cares what Slowhand has to say about a seminal Blues player like Hendrix, he was equally baffled as most brits then were by players like Buddy Guy and Albert King, the latter arguably why E.C. was so attracted to Jimi. If you can't hear Albert in Jimi then your judgement of Black American music is lacking and not to be trusted. There is lineage to be noted spanning Elmore James to Robert Johnson, Kokomo Arnold and the like. Insult Jimi Hendrix and don't be shocked if you are ridiculed for doubting the breadth and heritage of Black American music.

So if we are to retain context in modern guitar centric recording which is a cottage industry at best in 2015, we should be reasonable enough to admit there are standards and benchmarks. If any guitarist (and I do mean any) can't admit the contemporary benchmark for the electric guitarist is indeed Jimi Hendrix then what probably happened when said guitarist first heard Jimi is they lacked the courage to attempt learning his material or were too dismayed by such a task. Hey cheer up tough guy we all sounded pretty lame when first learning the dominant seventh sharp ninth chord and minor pentatonic scale. Regardless, nothing is worse than having to sit through another weak musician attempt their own failed tribute to rock guitar's core source of inspiration, (but please kids go out there and fail because it builds character). Nobody is saying you must worship, but don't expect to walk into sanctuaries, voice unqualified opinion and assume minions will admit, "You know what, fuck that dude, there's plenty of other guitar heroes." Why pretend to be objective in one breath and exclude someone who is by majority accepted and honored as the greatest rock guitarist of all time?

Granted my own position is biased because I feel Cream is better than the Beatles and I recognize that I cannot qualify such an outlandish opinion. For what its worth Eric didn't pick up a stratocaster until Jimi came along and he admits Hendrix had alot to do with that decision. I would hate to think of what Let It Rain would sound like on an SG.

"It was amazing to see him play, and I’d met him before I saw him perform. I saw him at this tiny little club in London, with all of these “dolly birds,” which is what they called girls dressed in their miniskirts. I think they all thought he was going to be a folky, Bob Dylan–type of character [laughs], and he blew the place apart with his version of [Dylan’s] “Like a Rolling Stone.”

I just went, “Ah…this is so great!” It overshadowed any feelings of inferiority or competiveness. It was so amazing. To see someone doing what I wanted to do… I came out a little crestfallen, but on the positive side, here was this guy opening big doors for us. Instead of looking on the negative side and saying, “We’re finished,” I was thinking, No, we’ve just started! I was delighted to have known him for the short time that I did. It was the magical watering hole of the Speakeasy, the club where we hung out in London, that enabled that to happen. It was the one place you could go and be guaranteed to see Eric or Jimi and have fun playing. Those places don’t seem to exist anymore."

- Jeff Beck

 

[Pinball Wizard]

there's only one rub against Jimi...

..he was a peace-time ex-paratrooper who supported the war

edit: that was held against him by the peace-people
the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock wasn't an accident...it was a downer.

 

[Jon 54]

SUPPORTING ACT!!!!!!!

SUPPORTING ACT!!!!!!!

Hard to believe but back in the summer of 1967 I had the chance to go and see the most popular band in the States and Europe at that time.It was the first time that I ever smoked Pot,the Auditorium was just a thick fog of Marijuana smoke a really Cut it with a knife HAZE!!!!. Who do you think drew such a CROWD???

THE MONKEES

No one was there to see the opening act who just happened to be

THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE


What a show, this was his first tour in the States and included the Monterey Pop Festival out in California.This will always be remembered as one of the best concert's that I have and ever will have seen in my life.

Jon 54

This Show was at the Memorial Auditorium, in Buffalo,New York

 

[MJtheIndicator]

there's only one rub against Jimi...

..he was a peace-time ex-paratrooper who supported the war

Machine Gun is a protest song, the seeds of its sonic structure were born of the Woodstock anthem rendition. On Yasgur's farm we can hear the guitar mimic bombs and by the time we get to Machine Gun at the Fillmore '69 we can hear helicopters as well.

Machine Gun [Outro]

Yeah, that's what we don't want to hear anymore, alright
(No bullets)
At least here, huh huh
(No guns, no bombs)
Huh huh
No nothing, just let's all live and live
You know instead of killing

Hendrix completed his paratrooper training in just over eight months, and Major General C.W.G. Rich awarded him the prestigious Screaming Eagles patch on January 11, 1962. By February, his personal conduct had begun to draw criticism from his superiors. They labeled him an unqualified marksman and often caught him napping while on duty and failing to report for bed checks. On May 24, Hendrix's platoon sergeant, James C. Spears filed a report in which he stated: "He has no interest whatsoever in the Army ... It is my opinion that Private Hendrix will never come up to the standards required of a soldier. I feel that the military service will benefit if he is discharged as soon as possible." On June 29, 1962, Captain Gilbert Batchman granted Hendrix an honorable discharge on the basis of unsuitability. Hendrix later spoke of his dislike of the army and falsely stated that he had received a medical discharge after breaking his ankle during his 26th parachute jump.

the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock wasn't an accident...it was a downer.

I thought it was beautiful.

 

[Tudo]

Hard to believe but back in the summer of 1967 I had the chance to go and see the most popular band in the States and Europe at that time.It was the first time that I ever smoked Pot,the Auditorium was just a thick fog of Marijuana smoke a really Cut it with a knife HAZE!!!!. Who do you think drew such a CROWD???

THE MONKEES

No one was there to see the opening act who just happened to be

THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE


What a show, this was his first tour in the States and included the Monterey Pop Festival out in California.This will always be remembered as one of the best concert's that I have and ever will have seen in my life.

Jon 54

That's one of the best I've heard. Don't get me wrong, I was also into the Monkees then but Hahaha Hey Hey we're the Monkees!

 

[Jon 54]

This Should be on Ripley's Believe It Or Not

This Should be on Ripley's Believe It Or Not

That's one of the best I've heard. Don't get me wrong, I was also into the Monkees then but Hahaha Hey Hey we're the Monkees! View Image

I know it sounds crazy BUT IT"S TRUE, You can go back and find Jimi's concert schedule for that summer and see all his dates.

Jon 54

 

[HempKat]

playing the top strings with yo thumb is not that hard.imo i think he is overrated.if he came out of the woodwork today no one would pay attention to him.

Dude, if he came out of the woodwork today he would draw unimaginably huge crowds. I mean who wouldn't want to see the King of electric guitar risen from the dead? Still even if he were just alive and retired, if people like Roger Daltery can still draw a crowd then Hendrix would still pack an arena.

 

[HempKat]

he iw dude.listen to his music.i can trip on acid and play the same shit.part of posting up something you like is to expect that not everyone is gonna be a fan.i personally would never glorify any one musician.their all great in there own way,but seriously look at the music that is coming out today.theres guitarist doing way crazier shit then jimi ever dreamed of.celebrate someone thats not overrated.check out some of the quotes by eric clapton about what he thought of jim as a guitar player.there not all positive and claptons style is way more striking then the jim man

If this were a thread titled "What do you think of Jimi Hendrix?" then you might have a point. Alas it is a thread titled "The Awesomeness of Jimi Hendrix" underline The Awesomeness. Anyone with a couple of brain cells to knock together could spark enough thought to realize criticisms of Jimi Hendrix in such a titled thread would be unwelcomed and inflammatory. I think you have more then a couple of brain cells maybe even as many as a few, which suggests your intent is to draw criticism and created heated debate. In other words, you sir are behaving quite trollish.

 

[indalo]

What a charming person you are Mr . Gene . Have a nice day .

 

[Jellyfish]

try it sober fuckin wingnuts

Oh, I see the problem. You didn't realize this was a forum for stoners. I guess you didn't notice all the pot leaves and things.

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

I saw Jimi play at several concerts in Calif, as well I saw him in Hollywood at a small club called thee experience, only open for less then a year. The front of the building on Sunset Blvd had his picture painted on the front with his mouth being the door..... he would get up and jam he was not on the venue, it was not a concert, just a bunch of mostly friends, and me and my friends. Owned by a guy named Marshall if I remember correctly. Jimi would be drunk, he was still the greatest.... But I was on acid and did not like his drinking at the time. I also lived just down the street from Frank Zappa's house in Laurel Canyon and he did also drop by thee experience also. At the time I lived next to The Rockets who became Crazy Horse, a little later I traded houses with them. Joni lived next door to Frank, and I would see and hear Graham Nash, Steven Stills, David Crosby, practicing with Joni, I could sit on the front porch and listen. Lots of R&R people in Laurel Canyon in the 60's I left in 71 and moved to Santa Cruz when I returned from a trip to Africa and India overland. Laurel Canyon was magic for LA, but so was SC, ocean and redwood forests and Original Purple Haze, hard to beat.
Sorry if I side-tracked a bit.
If you love Jimi's music listen to "Pali Gap" on a psychedelic, my favorite Jimi by a mile.
I was invited to attend the Rainbow Bridge filming in Hawaii, but I was to busy at the time, my bad.... Pali Gap is on Youtube. I have it, RB, on a Laser Disk, old school....
genedigger, lots of people can play Jimi pretty good, but they are not Jimi and can't create what Jimi did, not even close.
Frank Zappa was my second favorite, I heard him play at least 100 times in practice and in concerts. I knew him a little bit, knew Christine Frka on the cover of Hot Rats even better, I knew her when she was in High School, before the GTO's and being a baby sitter for Zappa's kids.
-SamS

 

[Jellyfish]

Great post Sam. I was just a bit too young for all that (just the right age for The Monkees tho, LOL).

Rainbow Bridge is an effed up movie imo, but the concert footage is great!

 

[Betterhaff]

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Dylan has described his reaction to hearing Hendrix's version: "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day." In the booklet accompanying his Biograph album, Dylan said: "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way... Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

 

[Genghis Kush]

I saw Jimi play at several concerts in Calif, as well I saw him in Hollywood at a small club called thee experience, only open for less then a year. The front of the building on Sunset Blvd had his picture painted on the front with his mouth being the door..... he would get up and jam he was not on the venue, it was not a concert, just a bunch of mostly friends, and me and my friends. Owned by a guy named Marshall if I remember correctly. Jimi would be drunk, he was still the greatest.... But I was on acid and did not like his drinking at the time. I also lived just down the street from Frank Zappa's house in Laurel Canyon and he did also drop by thee experience also. At the time I lived next to The Rockets who became Crazy Horse, a little later I traded houses with them. Joni lived next door to Frank, and I would see and hear Graham Nash, Steven Stills, David Crosby, practicing with Joni, I could sit on the front porch and listen. Lots of R&R people in Laurel Canyon in the 60's I left in 71 and moved to Santa Cruz when I returned from a trip to Africa and India overland. Laurel Canyon was magic for LA, but so was SC, ocean and redwood forests, hard to beat.
Sorry if I side-tracked a bit.
If you love Jimi's music listen to "Pali Gap" on a psychedelic, my favorite Jimi by a mile.
I was invited to attend the Rainbow Bridge filming in Hawaii, but I was to busy at the time, my bad.... Pali Gap is on Youtube. I have it, RB, on a Laser Disk, old school....
genedigger, lots of people can play Jimi pretty good, but they are not Jimi and can't create what Jimi did, not even close.
Frank Zappa was my second favorite, I heard him play at least 100 times in practice and in concerts. I knew him a little bit, knew Christine Frka on the cover of Hot Rats even better, I knew her when she was in High School, before the GTO's and being a baby sitter for Zappa's kids.
-SamS

Awesome!

Pali Gap - Rainbow Bridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcL1J9DDZOg