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Reply #90 posted 08/17/12 2:32am
purplethunder3
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MickyDolenz said:
TonyVanDam said:
BTW, Jimi Hendrix is an one hit wonder (his cover of Bob Dylan's Along The Watchtower being Jimi's only career Top 40 hit). And he still had plenty of GHs/BO compilations. 
Hendrix had lots of AOR airplay though. He wasn't a Top 40 act. Parents complained when Jimi was the opening act for The Monkees and some of their audience didn't understand his music, they just wanted to see Davy. Jimi also had to go to England to get recognition.
Hendrix opened for the Monkees?!  What a strange combination... [Edited 8/16/12 19:33pm] "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato
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Reply #91 posted 08/17/12 3:22pm
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purplethunder3121 said:
Hendrix opened for the Monkees?! What a strange combination...
 
You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton |
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Reply #92 posted 08/19/12 10:10pm
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^ Never seen that photo of Jimi with the Monkees at the beach (it looks like it). |
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Reply #93 posted 08/19/12 10:11pm
Timmy84 |
Hendrix is an act that was defined by his artistry rather than a hit single. It doesn't shock me he didn't have a "hit single" in America because their programming was different than in Europe (where he had a lot of hit singles). And technically "Purple Haze", "Hey Joe", "Are You Experienced", "Foxy Lady" and "Voodoo Chile" are seen as his "hits" here too. |
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Reply #94 posted 08/19/12 10:30pm
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Timmy84 said:
^ Never seen that photo of Jimi with the Monkees at the beach (it looks like it).
It's only Peter & Micky, the guys on the left are Mitch & Noel from The Experience. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton |
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Reply #95 posted 08/19/12 10:31pm
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MickyDolenz said:
Timmy84 said:
^ Never seen that photo of Jimi with the Monkees at the beach (it looks like it).
It's only Peter & Micky, the guys on the left are Mitch & Noel from The Experience.
I thought the guys on the left were suspicious. I didn't look at their profiles good enough.  |
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Reply #96 posted 08/19/12 10:55pm
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Timmy84 said:
Hendrix is an act that was defined by his artistry rather than a hit single. It doesn't shock me he didn't have a "hit single" in America because their programming was different than in Europe (where he had a lot of hit singles). And technically "Purple Haze", "Hey Joe", "Are You Experienced", "Foxy Lady" and "Voodoo Chile" are seen as his "hits" here too.
Didn't his albums sell fairly well though? |
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Reply #97 posted 08/19/12 10:56pm
Timmy84 |
aardvark15 said:
Timmy84 said:
Hendrix is an act that was defined by his artistry rather than a hit single. It doesn't shock me he didn't have a "hit single" in America because their programming was different than in Europe (where he had a lot of hit singles). And technically "Purple Haze", "Hey Joe", "Are You Experienced", "Foxy Lady" and "Voodoo Chile" are seen as his "hits" here too.
Didn't his albums sell fairly well though?
Yup. |
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