The Awesomeness of Jimi Hendrix

[MJtheIndicator]

I love Pali Gap. That was the song that turned me on to all the post Gypsys jams, stuff like Hey Baby/First Rays of The New Rising Sun. Pali Gap to me is a more realized Ezy Ryder. The Dolly Dagger from Rainbow Bridge ain't no slouch either.

 

[delta9nxs]

i saw him at winterland in oct 68 and at the fillmore later sometime. the winterland show i saw was recorded and became part of the album. there was general admission and open seating back then. you could wander around and try different viewpoints. the floor in the center was the ice rink and it was wide open with no seating, a thick blue haze was visible everywhere and there was acid being handed out free to anyone who wanted it.

he burned his guitar at this show. he set up a feedback thing, put the guitar on the floor, squirted lighter fluid on it, and walked off with the guitar still playing.

lots of people today can perhaps imitate technically what he did back then but i have never heard anyone play his stuff with the same soul. he put a spirit of reckless abandon into almost every show.

 

[MJtheIndicator]

your world wonders me

your world wonders me

I paid way too much for the Live at Winterland LP back when it came out from Rykodisc. It was a special album in a way because it was one of the few bonafide "new" Hendrix releases in the 80's. To this day I still prefer it to Radio One. The version of Tax Free from Winterland is where its at.

I'm not jealous of your witnessing a historic concert like that, in truth I feel love for the joy and wonder it has brought to your life and I'm honored to hear all these stories and accounts. For me its not the same ole' back in the day bullshit. At least to me it means so much to hear you folks talk about it. On the real.

 

[Genghis Kush]

i saw him at winterland in oct 68 and at the fillmore later sometime. the winterland show i saw was recorded and became part of the album. there was general admission and open seating back then. you could wander around and try different viewpoints. the floor in the center was the ice rink and it was wide open with no seating, a thick blue haze was visible everywhere and there was acid being handed out free to anyone who wanted it.

he burned his guitar at this show. he set up a feedback thing, put the guitar on the floor, squirted lighter fluid on it, and walked off with the guitar still playing.

lots of people today can perhaps imitate technically what he did back then but i have never heard anyone play his stuff with the same soul. he put a spirit of reckless abandon into almost every show.

lucky man!

They have the entire winterland run on Spotify!!! it amazing!!

 

[Jellyfish]

Anybody got a photo of the entrance to Thee Experience night club Sam the Skunkman mentioned? I've seen it but I can't find any pics of it on the www.

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

Here is the building......
But not with Jimi on it....
-SamS

 

[Jellyfish]

This is the cover for a Jimi Hendrix bootleg album

This is a bootleg album from Rubber Dubber with the Coca Cola logo on the front and a coke bottle on the back with Jimi Hendrix written on the bottle.

Los Angeles Forum, Los Angeles, CA Saturday 1970-4-25

 

[yesum]

I think Hendrix peaked with his first album. Monterey music festival was about the best I ever heard him play. Could have done without the burning guitar and forward rolls from his Airborne days, but he thought they wanted a bunch of crap so he gave it to them.

Saw flashes of brilliance later on but he peaked real early imo. Voodoo Child slight return is one his best songs but the rest of that album seemed lacking. The longer Voodoo Chile is not a great song, standard slow blues.

Do not think he was really very happy other than at the beginning when he hit it big around the time of the Monterey show. Was a slow decline in song writing and in his quality of life in general.

Was he the best ever? At the time he was the best rock guitarist or at least as good as any, little doubt about that. Others were fairly close and at times as good, West, Winter, Page, Beck, Clapton. He said that people only respect you when you die and there is some magic that surrounds him from dying young.

He was a fearless innovator and always did some original guitar work when playing live. The greats survive the test of time, so I think he was and is great. Been a long time since he was alive and here we are talking about him. Bach has been gone 265 years but people still listen to his music and talk about him.

Hendrix became more popular after death, same with Bach. You don't know what you got till it's gone.

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

Wow, Hendrix peaked early? How do we know? He was gone at 27......
Did you ever see him live?
I think you are confusing what he sold with the talent he was and had.
His best was yet to come, I would think, if he had lived longer.
He made what people wanted and then got tired of it and started doing more what he liked, I have my own favorites, like Pali Gap, I still can hear it in my mind 24/7.
# one was Hendrix, even if I saw many other great Guitar players that were amazing, like Zappa, not on your list but right behind Hendrix in my book......
I liked people that were not just technically great on a guitar but were creatively great also.
To each their own,
-SamS

 

[dbkick]

I thought it was nine pills he was unfamiliar with and a woman involved .
It's a toss up for me, Hendrix or Lifeson for best guitarist.

 

[yesum]

Wow, Hendrix peaked early? How do we know? He was gone at 27......
Did you ever see him live?
I think you are confusing what he sold with the talent he was and had.
His best was yet to come, I would think, if he had lived longer.
He made what people wanted and then got tired of it and started doing more what he liked, I have my own favorites, like Pali Gap, I still can hear it in my mind 24/7.
# one was Hendrix, even if I saw many other great Guitar players that were amazing, like Zappa, not on your list but right behind Hendrix in my book......
I liked people that were not just technically great on a guitar but were creatively great also.
To each their own,
-SamS

He may have gone onto greater things but his first album was his best and the last one Rainbow Bridge was the weakest imo. His albums seemed to get worse over time.

I never saw him live but have heard and seen plenty of live stuff from him on computer or records. I heard a album of his live stuff in Germany soon before he died and it was not great to me.

I think he could turn it on at any time to deliver an outstanding live show though. Always creative to the end. So never a has been or dull to listen to live if he was feeling good and trying.

Zappa, one of my favorite guitarists of the 70's. His own sound not trying to copy anyone. His son Dweezil does not do anything for me with his guitar playing. Technically he can play circles around his dad so.... Same with Steve Vai who played with Frank, most of his stuff is not real interesting to me for some reason, yet he is a great technician and player in general I suppose.

Frank's song writing was not my favorite but was always funny and original as it gets.

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

We will have to disagree on Jimi and Frank, they are my two favorites.
Frank I knew, a bit, his dad even put me on the guest list for a ticket so I could sit in the front row middle to a Zappa concert at the Santa Monica civic in the late 60's, next to Frank senior watching his son. Miss Christine was Zappas babysitter/nanny and I knew her for a long time before she died. I knew all the Zappa freaks, Vito, Suzi Creamcheese, Karl, the GTO's, I used to go to the Zappa concerts with them, we all got in free. Wild man Fisher was around then also. merry go merry go merry go round.........
Jimi I did not know, but I loved his music, some of every album at least.
I think you judge him much to harshly, he was often drunk and he partied hard, and still played better, to me anyway.
I have never listened to any of Dweezels music, I have no interest.
One of my favorite Zappa songs is "trouble comin' every day"
I was in LA during those Watts riots and watched live on TV when the woman driver was machine-gunned from her seat....... Blow your harmonica, son!

-SamS

 

[MJtheIndicator]

I thought it was nine pills he was unfamiliar with and a woman involved .
It's a toss up for me, Hendrix or Lifeson for best guitarist.

Decent comparison in the context of rock trio, but awkward in that Alex is following certainly not carrying Neil and Geddy. No offense intended towards Mitch.

 

[MJtheIndicator]

1. I think Hendrix peaked with his first album.
2. Monterey music festival was about the best I ever heard him play.
3. Could have done without the burning guitar
4. and forward rolls from his Airborne days
5. Voodoo Child slight return is one his best songs
6. but the rest of that album seemed lacking.
7. The longer Voodoo Chile is not a great song, standard slow blues.
8. Was a slow decline in song writing
9. Was he the best ever?
10. Others were fairly close and at times as good, West, Winter, Page, Beck, Clapton.

1. Are You Experienced peaked at #5, contrast with Axis: Bold as Love peaking at #3 and Electric Ladyland peaking at #1.

2. Fun concert, better than Otis on that stage? Nah, but forget Jimi's Woodstock showing in citing historic gigs, reference the Berkeley performance to understand how much he had grown and retained from three years prior, that trio was tighter as well.

3. Why not pick on Pete too or is it criminal to watch stage performers having fun? I suppose Evel Knievel is equally guilty of entertainment. That Harry Houdini cat sure was self-absorbed come to think of it.

4. I respect conjecture, but to disregard acrobatics learned on the chitlin circuit or tenure with Little Richard and his stage influence or Chuck Berry for that matter, makes it sound like you're upset Jimi wasn't the best soldier he should have been. Frankly I feel he served his country best out of uniform.

5. He's not defined by a wah pedal, check the song its not all wah, but didn't you just spank him in the name of gimmicks? So why fall for the wah gimmick so eagerly?

6. Crosstown Traffic filler? Burning of the Midnight Lamp fodder? Rainy Day, Dream Away jazz accident? 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" narrow-minded? Still Raining, Still Dreaming, best use of a slip beat in rock. All Along the Watchtower, as if Hollywood could exist without it.

7. Show me a better organ/electric guitar interplay post blues revival, I'm open-minded.

8. He charted with as many singles beyond initial breakthrough, he gets points for chart balance approaching pop status.

9. Yeah, who's on deck Edward? Quite a different legacy and mass appeal.

10. Leslie has Jimi to thank for the leslie and univibe. Johnny, seriously at least throw Collins a bone or any myriad of black players still alive during the blues revival. Am I to believe Winters has anything on Son House? British blues hmm, I suppose there's always a market for secondhand clothing and stepchildren need love too.

I apoligize for sounding argumentative. Let's call it critical debate shall we, in the name of dead rock critics worldwide. Stay strong Dick Dale.

 

[MJtheIndicator]

Rainbow bridge is a cash-in album posthumous release, it does not contain any songs recorded during his concert appearance for the 1971 film Rainbow Bridge. I never confuse the album with the film, I always think of the film first.

Ouch, Frank Zappa a novelty act. Damn you Joe's Garage! I like my gravy lumpy and my fish thingy.

"The present day composers refuse to die. They have realised the necessity of banding together and fighting for the right of each individual to secure a fair and free presentation of his work"
- Edgard Varèse

 

[Mate Dave]

Jimmy invented more styles then another guitarist. He is responsible for the more music genres than funky drummer and his 6 seconds of clean Amen breakbeat what is the most famous piece of music ever recorded..

My favourite Jimmy is this.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jgAdeWK9mU He shows how he can adapt your shit to suit him and it sounds better.. Like I said a pioneer not a follower..

This original album artwork

Mainly he was a genius because he could play both handed and the way he uses a upside down right hand he showed how he could make a unique sound that was made from string tensions and the position of the pickups on the bass and treble and how the strings made a difference resonance ... True genius....

Long live jimmy..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A5aZOfNH28 In this clip he says that they are put off the air and they love it... Basically so the record company could stop people hearing the his cover of The Cream Eric Clapton... It never worked....

The jam @ the start of this is the basis for 3 styles of modern music... legend...

He also used many more add on's and knew how they worked better then others and he used all the guitar pickups...


Opinions are not facts on this matter..

 

[Tudo]

JIMI HENDRIX 12 STRING BLUES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPtv14q9ZDg


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[Tudo]

Jimi Hendrix Rare Onstage Footage "Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze" Early Days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3K8t6wKjdg

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I did Purple Haze when I was in school around the time this song was considered new

 

[Tudo]

I think it was orange sunshine in this year.......

Jimi Hendrix --- Voodoo Child, Live '69
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9irsg1vBmq0


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[dbkick]

Youtube pinkpop 1979 la villa and tell me Alex is following.