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Thread started 09/08/05 12:09pm

heckaslammin

Your top five Jesse Johnson songs

The most underrated guitarist ever. Dare I say it, better than Prince. Mine are as followed:
1. Can you help me

2. Bare my naked soul

3. fast girls

4. Love struck

5. Vibe.-(Does anybody know the year this was recorded?)
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Reply #1 posted 09/08/05 1:57pm

mltijchr

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1 CAN YOU HELP ME

2 FREE WORLD

3 GET TO KNOW YA

4 CRAZY

5 FOOL'S PARADISE
I'll see you tonight..
in ALL MY DREAMS..
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Reply #2 posted 09/08/05 3:04pm

MadameS

I'm Just Wanting You
Special Love
Love Struck
Free World
Can You Help Me
Bonus Cut: So Misunderstood
[Edited 9/8/05 15:16pm]
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Reply #3 posted 09/08/05 3:08pm

thesexofit

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1) Baby I'm the one
2) Jump for it
3) I want my girl
4) So misunderstood
5) crazay (check out the middle 8- its awesome)
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Reply #4 posted 09/08/05 7:19pm

vainandy

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1. Free World
2. She (I Can't Resist)
3. Color Shock
4. Just Too Much
5. She Won't Let Go
Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #5 posted 09/08/05 8:44pm

ThePunisher

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Reply #6 posted 09/08/05 11:43pm

sms130

1. Can You Help Me
2. Free World
3. I Want My Girl
4. Craazy (ft. Sly Stone)
5. I Want To Be Your Man

These r Purple. I'll sum it up just like Prince did 20 years ago "It Chocolate." Most of my top 5 was hurt, but I don't know.[list]
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Reply #7 posted 09/09/05 12:38am

DavidEye

1) "She (I Can't Resist)" (1986)
2) "I Want To Be Your Man" (1985)
3) "Do Yourself A Favor" (1986)
4) "So Misunderstood" (1988)
5) "Addiction" (1986)


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Reply #8 posted 09/09/05 4:57am

BlurredEye

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1. Addiction
2. Baby Let's Kiss (12" Version)
3. Fool's Paradise
4. I'm Just Wanting You
5. Be Your Man (12" Version)

I see nobody as mentioned the track with Stephanie Spruill! lol
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Reply #9 posted 09/09/05 9:17am

TheCrucialExpe
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1 - Free World
2 - Can You Help me
3 - Crazay
4 - Baby Lets Kiss
5 - Be Your Man

* - I Want My Girl


ANY list that doesn't have Free World on it isn't a valid list.
[Edited 9/9/05 9:18am]
"But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire." -- W.E.B. Du Bois --
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Reply #10 posted 09/09/05 3:03pm

mrwigglesdaw1r
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1.Free World
2.Can You Help Me
3.Special Love
4.Crazay
5.I Want My Girl

bonus: Vibe and She (I Can't Resist)
[Edited 9/12/05 16:58pm]
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Reply #11 posted 09/09/05 3:26pm

PrettyMan72

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Fools Paradise
She (I Can't Resist)
Crazay
Baby Let's Kiss
Love Struck
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Reply #12 posted 09/09/05 4:01pm

ThePunisher

heckaslammin said:

The most underrated guitarist ever. Dare I say it, better than Prince. Mine are as followed:
1. Can you help me

2. Bare my naked soul

3. fast girls

4. Love struck

5. Vibe.-(Does anybody know the year this was recorded?)

1. Krazay (Sly Stone!)
2. Free World (Oomp-Shookabop GOOD LORD!)
3. I'm Just Wanting You (Love his guitar playing on that track!)
4. Being Black In America (A Personal Favorite)
5. I Wanna Be Your Man (The brother in the video smoking a square while playing the drums is hilarious)
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Reply #13 posted 09/09/05 4:14pm

heckaslammin

ThePunisher said:

heckaslammin said:

The most underrated guitarist ever. Dare I say it, better than Prince. Mine are as followed:
1. Can you help me

2. Bare my naked soul

3. fast girls

4. Love struck

5. Vibe.-(Does anybody know the year this was recorded?)

1. Krazay (Sly Stone!)
2. Free World (Oomp-Shookabop GOOD LORD!)
3. I'm Just Wanting You (Love his guitar playing on that track!)
4. Being Black In America (A Personal Favorite)
5. I Wanna Be Your Man (The brother in the video smoking a square while playing the drums is hilarious)

Yeah that guitar lick on I'm just wanting you is cool.
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Reply #14 posted 09/09/05 4:17pm

MadameS

heckaslammin said:

ThePunisher said:


1. Krazay (Sly Stone!)
2. Free World (Oomp-Shookabop GOOD LORD!)
3. I'm Just Wanting You (Love his guitar playing on that track!)
4. Being Black In America (A Personal Favorite)
5. I Wanna Be Your Man (The brother in the video smoking a square while playing the drums is hilarious)

Yeah that guitar lick on I'm just wanting you is cool.

nod It's tight as hell.
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Reply #15 posted 09/10/05 8:56pm

Ronny

I can't just pick his top five without breaking it down into two obvious sections, 'pre Bare my naked soul' and then afterwards!

Pre

Can You Help Me
I want My Girl
She I can't resist
black in america
I'm Just wanting you (love his guitar playing)
Free my world

Post

bare my naked soul
You Don't love me the same
shock to the system
Walk Like Me talk
CryLike the Skies


I just got a the b side to "my life' and it is easily up there too..
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Reply #16 posted 09/10/05 9:10pm

4nowneway

1.Im Just Wanting You 2.Can You Help Me 3.Do Yourself A Favor 4.I Want My Girl 5.Tonite
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Reply #17 posted 09/12/05 2:12pm

blackguitarist
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Fool's Paradise
Free World
She's A Doll
Crazay
Cry Like The Skies (Has to be one of the biggest bites on a Hendrix song title, next to Purple Haze, oops, I mean Purple Rain of course! Jessie may have P beat though. He actually combined to of Hendrix's songs in one. "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Up From The Skies".
SynthiaRose said "I'm in love with blackguitaristz. Especially when he talks about Hendrix."
nammie "What BGZ says I believe. I have the biggest crush on him."
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Reply #18 posted 09/12/05 2:14pm

blackguitarist
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blackguitaristz said:

Fool's Paradise
Free World
She's A Doll
Crazay
Cry Like The Skies (Has to be one of the biggest bites on a Hendrix song title, next to Purple Haze, oops, I mean Purple Rain of course! Jessie may have P beat though. He actually combined to of Hendrix's songs in one. "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Up From The Skies".

I know u said five but I gotta include "Black In America".
SynthiaRose said "I'm in love with blackguitaristz. Especially when he talks about Hendrix."
nammie "What BGZ says I believe. I have the biggest crush on him."
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Reply #19 posted 09/12/05 4:08pm

heckaslammin

blackguitaristz said:

blackguitaristz said:

Fool's Paradise
Free World
She's A Doll
Crazay
Cry Like The Skies (Has to be one of the biggest bites on a Hendrix song title, next to Purple Haze, oops, I mean Purple Rain of course! Jessie may have P beat though. He actually combined to of Hendrix's songs in one. "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Up From The Skies".

I know u said five but I gotta include "Black In America".

If you like "Cry like the skies" you probably like "I Miss" too.
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Reply #20 posted 09/12/05 4:25pm

JesseDezz

Can U Help Me
Lovestruck
Let Me In
Bare My Naked Soul
Brand New Day
I'm Just Wanting You
She (I Can't Resist)
Cry Like the Skies (love that bluesy guitar solo and the rhythm guitar sound)
Fool's Paradise

I couldn't stop at five smile
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Reply #21 posted 09/12/05 5:21pm

TheCrucialExpe
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JesseDezz said:

Can U Help Me
Lovestruck
Let Me In
Bare My Naked Soul
Brand New Day
I'm Just Wanting You
She (I Can't Resist)
Cry Like the Skies (love that bluesy guitar solo and the rhythm guitar sound)
Fool's Paradise

I couldn't stop at five smile


Dawg, HOW'D you leave out FREE WORLD?
"But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire." -- W.E.B. Du Bois --
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Reply #22 posted 09/12/05 6:25pm

MadameS

TheCrucialExperience said:

JesseDezz said:

Can U Help Me
Lovestruck
Let Me In
Bare My Naked Soul
Brand New Day
I'm Just Wanting You
She (I Can't Resist)
Cry Like the Skies (love that bluesy guitar solo and the rhythm guitar sound)
Fool's Paradise

I couldn't stop at five smile


Dawg, HOW'D you leave out FREE WORLD?

Tell'em Q, That's a sin.
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Reply #23 posted 09/12/05 6:48pm

TheCrucialExpe
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MadameS said:

TheCrucialExperience said:



Dawg, HOW'D you leave out FREE WORLD?

Tell'em Q, That's a sin.

Arrest that man! biggrin
"But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire." -- W.E.B. Du Bois --
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Reply #24 posted 09/12/05 8:46pm

JesseDezz

Didn't dig "Free World" as much - guitar was buried too far back in the mix. And since it is a free world, JesseDezz can pick what he wants cool
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Reply #25 posted 09/12/05 8:49pm

MadameS

JesseDezz said:

Didn't dig "Free World" as much - guitar was buried too far back in the mix. And since it is a free world, JesseDezz can pick what he wants cool

Since, you are a funkateer I'll let you slide this time but you'er slippin man. I almost had to snatch your Funk Pass deal.
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Reply #26 posted 09/12/05 10:22pm

TheCrucialExpe
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JesseDezz said:

Didn't dig "Free World" as much - guitar was buried too far back in the mix. And since it is a free world, JesseDezz can pick what he wants cool


Boooo! biggrin
"But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire." -- W.E.B. Du Bois --
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Reply #27 posted 09/13/05 12:59am

JesseDezz

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Reply #28 posted 09/13/05 1:52am

Rhastus

1.Can you help me
2. Bare my naked soul
3. My life- with the above song, one of the best one two opening shots on an album ever
4 I'm Just wanting you
5.baby let's kiss- the single remix version
We don't need no microwave


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Reply #29 posted 09/13/05 1:56am

Rhastus

blackguitaristz said:

Fool's Paradise
Free World
She's A Doll
Crazay
Cry Like The Skies (Has to be one of the biggest bites on a Hendrix song title, next to Purple Haze, oops, I mean Purple Rain of course! Jessie may have P beat though. He actually combined to of Hendrix's songs in one. "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Up From The Skies".


I have a live performance where he did cry like the skies followed by up from the skies. Jesse also does the best non Hendrix version of Red House i've ever heard
We don't need no microwave


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