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Jimi Hendrix - Somewhere Jimi Hendrix Goes Exploring on 'Somewhere' – Premiere January 8, 2013 8:00 AM On March 5th, 12 previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix recordings from 1968 and 1969 will be available as People, Hell and Angels. The legendary guitarist was experimenting with new sounds and musical directions for First Rays of the New Rising Sun, the planned double-album follow-up to Electric Ladyland, and on "Somewhere," Hendrix sits down with Buddy Miles on drums and Stephen Stills on bass for a far-reaching psychedelic blues jam. Recorded in 1968, "Somewhere" rides signature Hendrix wails, long exploratory solos and free-flowing wordplay. Rolling Stone's Greatest Guitarist of All Time shows why he's earned that title with unparalleled skill and eternally innovative sounds, but "Somewhere" suggests his most complex work may have only been ahead of him. http://www.rollingstone.c...e-20130108 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is actually another take of a song (Somewhere Over The Rainbow) that was initially on the 1975 Crash Landing album. Music for adventurous listeners tA  Tribal Records"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 hadn't heard this before so thanks.
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Nice. I prefer the 'Crash Landing' version. This is what you want...This is what you get. | |
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Love Jimi  I will take my place, In the great below | |
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Wicked wah-wah solos. The bridge reminds me of "Purple Haze". | |
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There's a controversial backstory regarding the Crash Landing version and that album (along with two others) in general. One of the seminal figures of '60s counterculture, guitar pioneer Jimi Hendrix died under ambiguous circumstances of an overdose of sleeping pills Sept. 18, 1970, a little more than two months shy of his 28th birthday. His posthumous existence in American culture and consciousness has, sadly, been typified by further scandal as a result of the self-serving and troubling uses many have made of his name, image and music. One of the most egregious examples: Producer Alan Douglas released three albums of new Hendrix music in the early through late 1970s that deleted large portions of the original tracks, rearranged other parts of them, removed some of the original musicians and dubbed in new ones, including--the unthinkable--several guitarists. http://articles.chicagotr...n-lawrence The three Douglas albums – Crash Landing and Midnight Lightning(both in 1975), and Nine to the Univers (1980) – were controversial to say the least. Both Crash Landing and Midnight Lightning had backing tracks erased and other musicians’ parts dubbed in behind Hendrix’s guitar and vocals. Nine to the Universe was a ”jazz album” of studio jams where Hendrix worked out with jazz organist Larry Young. None of the material was ever intended for release. Perhaps the dodgy politics of all that vindicates what Hendrix manager Chas Chandler recalls in the book by Hendrix producer Eddie Kramer and writer John McDermott, Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight. “Hendrix said to me – and I remember the sentence,” Chandler says, “ ’He [Douglas] can help [in business matters] . . . but I don’t want that guy to have anything to do with my music.’ ” http://www.elsewhere.co.n...the-flame/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Music for adventurous listeners tA Tribal Records"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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Fly on, you guitar god, all the way to wah wah heaven - and beyond | |
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Old boy could play some. Thank fuck for Jimi.
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And up in the clouds I can imagine UFOs jumpin' themselves Laughin', they sayin' Those people so uptight, they sure know how to make a mess. Hey!
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I have an advance of People Hell And Angels, listening to it in the car this week, and it's a good one.
Like Valleys Of Neptune, you'll have heard some of the songs before if you collect his posyhumous releases, but the particular mixes & versions have never been released before. And I haven't paid close attention to all that stuff so much of this is new to me. Some of the songs were used on Cry Of Love, Rainbow Bridge and Crash Landing but appear here without the overdubbed backup players. | |
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