theAudience said:

ok i wont mess witcha on that man..now thatcha put it that way..

TheRealFiness said:

Cool.




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paligap said:

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I know I'm gonna catch shit for this, but I have to give Alan Douglas a "little" respect. He was the one in the 70's who kind of kept the "new" Hendrix music pumping. I read a while ago that Hendrix records really didn't sell that well in the mid to late 70's. (Disco perhaps?..lol). I kind of wish Eddie Kramer would have been able to get permission back then from the Hendrix estate to help mix the recordings, but I know he doesn't care for Douglas. Anyway, it's good that the family has the reigns of the music now and Eddie is involved when asked. Oh that reminds me, I picked up the new "Eddie Kramer approved" Digitech Hendrix effects pedal (but that's ANOTHER story for another thread -lol).

Hendrix was gettin' ready to go off the charts, IMO. That kind of genius left incomplete almost brings a tear to my eye.

SPYZFAN1 said:

Yeah, It's weird--- on one hand, Alan Douglas was the one who kept gettin Hendrix together with the Jazz players like John Mclaughlin, and also artists like Lightnin' Rod (Jaleel of the Last Poets), which led to recordings like the proto-rap single, "Doriella Du Fontaine", and the tapes that first surfaced as Nine To The Universe, with artists like organist Larry Young(Khalid Yasin), which was cool---
--and yet, this is also the same man who fucked up Jimi's recordings, and in the mid-seventies put out crap like "Crash Landing". I was glad when the Hendrix family got control back -- I haven't been crazy about all of Janie Hendrix's decisions, either, but at least the Music is coming out, and usually in much better form...



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kdj997 said:

Give her a break, Eline's only 16 and at least curious. Does everyone around here have to be already in on the game to post and ask questions? If that's so, I better check out now.

Who's this Hendrix fellow I hear you guys go on and on about?

psykosoul said:

"Look at him. Used to be a genius. Used to book the numbers, didn't need paper or pencil."...



..."Look at him. Now he can't remember who he is."




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paligap said:

More on Hendrix and "the noise"...

In Hendrix's day he was making the difference between noise and sound - that was the threshold Hendrix was on and by organising feedback, he moved noise all the way into sound...

~Kodwo Eshun (More Brilliant than the Sun : Adventures in Sonic Fiction)

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On New Year's Day of 1970, turmoil was the best word to sum up American society. There were riots in the cities, unrest on campuses, an unpopular war being fought on the other side of the world -- and the days of peace and love seemed long ago. It was in this atmosphere of anxiety that Jimi Hendrix unleashed his composition "Machine Gun."

For over 12 minutes, Hendrix used "Machine Gun" to paint an unblinking portrait of the horror of conflict. Using a complex chain of guitar effects -- Vox wah pedal to Roger Mayer Axis Fuzz to Fuzz Face to UniVibe to Roger Mayer Octavia --Hendrix became the master of a tone so massive that it remains unequaled today.

The stage was set by Jimi's lyrics of war -- "The same way you shoot me down, you'll be going just the same, three times the pain" -- before words yielded to pure sound as Hendrix began his harrowing journey across a sonic battlefield. Notes cloaked in other-worldly tonal garb arched from Jimi's amplifiers, soaring high and then diving into detonations of grumbling feedback and howling agony. Never does Hendrix' electronic manipulation become mere noise -- every disturbing second was a controlled expression that stands as one of the most direct and powerful communications of an artist's deepest visions ever captured in any media.

~Frank Moriarty (BOLD AS LOVE: The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

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The great innovator, however, was undoubtedly Jimi Hendrix, who constructed a whole catalogue of noise effects, using them with virtuosity in his blues-inspired rock compositions.

~Torben Sangild (The Aesthetics of Noise)

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Jeff Beck once recalled the first time he saw Jimi Hendrix play guitar. Indeed, it was something he would never forget. "He did 'Like a Rolling Stone,'" Beck recalled, "and when it was over, smoke was pouring out of his amp. I looked at the ground and thought, 'F--- it, I better go home and think about what I'm gonna do with my life.'"

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To listen to Hendrix today is constantly to be reminded of his gifts. His precise and rapid picking, his recognizance of sound and noise (from the most common blues rhythm guitar run, to the walls of distortion he created, to his ability to range between pure blues and avant-garde jazz forms), and more importantly his improvisational ability - all point out the totality of his delivery.


But if one feat of his remains paramount it would be his ability to play with feedback, control it, and make it melodic. I had heard Peter Townsend of the Who say that he had pioneered the use of feedback. I spent a few hours going through all of the Who's shit without ever hearing anything that approached Hendrix's control or melodic use of feedback within a song.

~David Henderson - ('Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky)

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More than any other musician, Jimi Hendrix realized the fullest range of sound that could be obtained from an amplified instrument. Many musical currents came together in his playing. Free jazz, Delta blues, acid rock, hardcore funk and the songwriting of Bob Dylan and the Beatles all figured as influences. Yet the songs and sounds generated by Hendrix were original, otherworldly and virtually indescribable. In essence, Hendrix channeled the music of the cosmos, anchoring it to the earthy beat of rock and roll.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum

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[Edited 5/7/05 17:48pm]

just when i thought i knew so much about Jimi...