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Jimi Hendrix - 70th Birthday Tribute Tuesday the 27th he'd be 70 years old. What would he have done or be doing now? What other musicians have to say.
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I went to the Tribute with Leon Hendrix @ BB King's in NYC Sunday night....
It was so good!!! We left at midnight (had to get up for work @ 5am), and they were still playing- the show started at 7pm...
Some of the artists were:
There were others on bass and drums whose names I didn't catch, but it was SUCH a good show! I wish I could have stayed for the finale...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JIMI! "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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Wow 70 years of age... what might have been.
Of course I hollered listening to Little Richards memory of Hendrix. | |
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"Big toe shot up in my boot." Eric Gales... "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Love Eric Gales!! :music: I saw him with Voodoo Chile back in October at BB King's!  "Love Hurts. Your lies, they cut me. Now your words don't mean a thing. I don't give a damn if you ever loved me..." -Cher, "Woman's World" | |
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Looks like a cool show. Randy Hansen was probably the original Hendrix tribute artist.
They had a low-key show here last night that one of my friends participated in. Unfortunately, I didn't get out of the office in time.
Music for adventurous listeners "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Eric Gales is definitely a killer player... "Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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Something from a non-musician.
"Ya see, we're not interested in what you know...but what you are willing to learn. C'mon y'all." | |
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I knew from the start that I loved you with all my heart. | |
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a creative window was opened in my life the day jimi kissed the sky.
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A few personal thoughts on this important and poignant anniversary in the Hendrix Universe -
For me, the greatest electric guitar player I have ever heard. I am speaking of his sound here, the onstage pyrotechnics were just showbiz and he had mixed feelings about all that.
Sonically, based on all round skills, originality, tone and sheer soul, no one can touch him for me. His best playing, rhythm and lead both, has a unique sense of urgency and purpose. His creative use of feedback and the whammy bar unequalled.
But he was also a really good songwriter, with a personal vision; a pretty good keyboard player (if you dig a little deeper into the recorded legacy, ie. Burning of the Midnight Lamp on harpsichord and a piano version of Valleys of Neptune), an innovator of the recording studio, volume and effects, a decent bass guitar player and an effective singer.
Also, he had to come to my homeland of Britain and make it there before being accepted at home, perhaps because he was too freaky and extrovert for the ol' skool chitlin circuit crowd. They weren't ready for Buddy Guy meets Guitar Slim meets the 20th Century Avante Garde rock/ blues/ jazz/funk/classical/ electronica sorcerer from Saturn. A guitar based artist with a sense of humour, rare amongst major guitarists imo outside of Frank Zappa and the Blues world
He was the breakthrough electric guitar recording artist of the Rock Age - or World Fusion Age as it perhaps should be called - of all time, in fact. There will never be and can never be another.
In six words - The God of the Electric Guitar.
I made a CD of five of his best live performances of Machine Gun. Listened to back to back, it is almost overwhelming.
Jimi Hendrix left his body at 27, but his sound and spirit is still very much alive at 70 and will be at 170 and as long as electric guitars are still relevant in popular music.
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As I was thinking about Hendrix, and that piece in particular, it reminded me of a section of Michael Herr's book, Dispatches, in which he recounts being a journalist during the Vietnam War:
... “One day I went out with the ARVN on an operation in the rice paddies above Vinh Long, forty terrified Vietnamese troops and five Americans, all packed in three Huey helicopters that dropped us up to our knees in paddy muck. I had never seen a rice paddy before. We spread out and moved towards the marshy wale that led to the jungle. We were still twenty feet from the first cover, a low paddy wall, when we took fire from the tree line.. It caught one of the ARVN in the head, and he dropped back into the water and disappeared. We made it to the wall with two casualties. There was no way of stopping their fire, no room to send in a flanking party, so gunships were called and we crouched behind the wall and waited. There was a lot of fire coming down from the trees, but it seemed that we were alright as long as we kept our head down. Suddenly, I heard an electric guitar shooting right up in my ear, and a mean, rapturous black voice singing, coaxing, “Now c’mon baby, stop actin’ so crazy” and when I got it all together, I finally turned to see a grinning black corporal hunched over a cassette recorder. ‘Might’s well’, he said. ‘We ain’t going nowhere till them gunships come.’
That’s the story of the first time I ever heard Jimi Hendrix, but in a war where a lot of people talked about Aretha’s ‘Satisfaction’ the way other people speak of Brahm’s Fourth’, it was more than a story. It was Credentials.‘Say, that Jimi Hendrix is my main man,’ someone would say, ‘He has definitely got his shit together!’ Hendrix had once been in the 101st Airborne, and the Airborne in Vietnam was fully of wiggy-brilliant spades like him, really mean and really good, guys who always took care of you when things got bad. That music meant a lot to them. I never once heard it played over the Armed Forces Radio Network.”
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[Edited 11/28/12 15:08pm] " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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So which performances are they? I need to put this together and listen to it, too.
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I call the CD - The Machine Gun Variations
To compile it, I used the four different performances at Fillmore East. Then Isle of Wight (the interference in the sound imo adds to the atmosphere and Hendrix's valiant efforts to keep his sound together in this performance).
I would recommend Norman, Oklahoma as an optional extra too. The intro sounds like he's gonna do Hey Baby/ New Rising Sun (another favourate of mine), but then they slowly dig in. And then the first solo kicks in ... Not the greatest sound quality but tormented is not the word.
Listened to right through when in the right mood, this playlist is one heavy trip. Machine Gun is one of the rare pieces of music that nearly makes me cry (The original Maggot Brain by Eddie Hazel/ Funkadelic is almost as moving imo). It's a sonic tragedy movie, a blues painting of stalking, heavy intent, personal and universal at the same time (pardon the purple prose but it gets me that way
And still sadly as relevant as it ever was.
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