Just trying to do a little house cleaning here...
But, I will never get tired or jaded listening
to this piece of music recorded over 46 years ago.
So much brilliance, technique, inspiration, just the
idea of speaking through the guitar pick ups.
Why isn't Hendrix as important as Stravinsky in the
context of 20th century musical history? He was only
27 when he died in 1970.
7 comments:
One of my most favorite Hendrix lix ever! I didn't make it to Woodstock but I got to see Jimi play at Byron, the next year, a scant two months before his death. I was under the effective influence of your namesake when he came to the stage that night and was blown away! He didn't play Third Stone that night but I was fully absorbed by the time he got into Voodoo Child ... I don't even remember the encore. Like you I never tire of this great guitar playing legend! Sheer genius ....
I don't mean to gloat, but I was at Woodstock...I was 19, I got busted on the way back in Seneca County NY and spent a week in jail...which led to a host of related legal problems as I had told my probation officer that I was going "camping" and I had to get permission to leave the state of Ohio.
When the anniversary of Woodstock occurred in 2009, I contributed some photos and my anecdote to the book by Joanne Hague. I saw Hendrix 3 times.I didn't actually start to play music my self until 1977...I had moved to NYC to be involved in Graphic Arts....one thing led to another....Now I'm married to the lead singer of the band I was in in 1979/81.....she still has her punkette purple hair...I will never know what her real hair color is. It was Larry Coryell who said of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, It took a black cat to get two white guys to play their asses off...to be fair, Mitch Mitchell was probably one of the greatest rock drummers ever..he was playing fusion jazz before it was invented. I really think that Hendrix transcended the simple label, Rock.By the time he released Electric Ladyland, he was way far beyond...I mean, the song, Electric Ladyland is pure intergalactic Curtis Mayfield!
here's a link to a post I did in 2009 with some of my woodstock photos:http://thebrainpolice.blogspot.fr/2009/08/woodstock-40-years-and-week-later.html
Well .... DAMN MAN! Love the pictures! and I agree with the other commentators from that post ... You Are MY Hero, Too! heh and don't get me started on how great Curtis Mayfield was! You ARE a funkman, ain'tcha'?
Bootsy Collins is the only God I worship....but, really, I totally love Jamie Jamerson...when I was 15 I had the blessed opportunity to go to one of the once great High Schools in America. Cass Tech in Detroit...I was a white pimply punk kid who was trying to be Brian Jones...I peroxided and ironed my hair...pathetic, Right? but it was 1965, I was immersed in an inner city environment and coming from the outer suburban limits of 1965 Detroit, I had very limited exposure to black Americans... that changed...within 5 months I was hopelessly in love with a girl who was a 16 year old Dianna Ross clone...her sister was a top international model who starred in a Fellinni Film,(Donyale Luna)....but I didn't know that at the time,,,,My other friend was a girl named Velvet Savage...who lived in the house that shared a back yard with the Motown Studios on West Grand Boulevard....so we'd hang at Velvet's house and I was the weird little white kid with the Brian Jones Process and got to know Smoky, Marvin, The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas....and Stevie....I was just a dumb 15 year old kid,,,trying to learn how to play a Farfisa Organ....
THAT ... was a great time to be alive ... and living in Motown, too, I'll bet. Velvet Sausage ... now THERE'S a handle that rivals "Wavy Gravy: Chief of The Please Force". Ha!
Velvet is still a professional designer living in Chicago and we are still friends, she has two sisters named Crystal and Tweed...her younger brother was Courtney who rather would be remembered as Buzzard and I am probably one of the only white people who ever witnessed Velvet doing his Kelley wax wrap...but then she also did my white boy peroxide and hair straightening .....so we shared our dirty little secrets....
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