**Hendrix appreciation thread***

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  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    norm wrote:
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    Legendary guitar god.
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • Bronx Bombers
    Bronx Bombers Posts: 2,208
    I always found this :lol:

    Hendrix-Monkees1.jpg
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Bronx Bombers wrote:
    I always found this :lol:

    Hendrix-Monkees1.jpg
    :lol::lol:
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Bronx Bombers wrote:
    I always found this :lol:

    Hendrix-Monkees1.jpg

    Kind of an odd pairing. I'm sure Jimi blew the roof off the joint.
    7/2/06 - Denver, CO
    6/12/08 - Tampa, FL
    8/23/09 - Chicago, IL
    9/28/09 - Salt Lake City, UT (11 years too long!!!)
    9/03/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 1
    9/04/11 - East Troy, WI - PJ20 - Night 2
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    dcfaithful wrote:
    Bronx Bombers wrote:
    I always found this :lol:

    Hendrix-Monkees1.jpg

    Kind of an odd pairing. I'm sure Jimi blew the roof off the joint.

    :lol: you've never heard about that tour?
    Hendrix joined the tour in progress in Jacksonville, Florida, on July 8. Predictably, the reception given to the now-legendary rock icon by the young fans of the bubblegum Monkees was less than worshipful. As Mickey Dolenz later recalled, "Jimi would amble out onto the stage, fire up the amps and break out into 'Purple Haze,' and the kids in the audience would instantly drown him out with 'We want Daaavy!' God, was it embarrassing."

    Jimi Hendrix managed to get through a total of only seven dates with the Monkees, culminating in his final show on July 17, 1967, which may or may not have ended with Hendrix saluting the crowd with his middle finger. There was no truth to the widely circulated rumor that he'd been kicked off of the tour after protests by the Daughters of the American Revolution that his show was "too erotic."
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hist ... he-monkees
  • Newch91
    Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    http://www.rollingstone.com/music/video ... e-20121127
    Shows: 6.27.08 Hartford, CT/5.15.10 Hartford, CT/6.18.2011 Hartford, CT (EV Solo)/10.19.13 Brooklyn/10.25.13 Hartford
    "Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    Happy 70th birthday Jimi!!
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    PJ - Auckland 2009; Alpine Valley1&2 2011; Man1, Am'dam1&2, Berlin1&2, Stockholm, Oslo & Copenhagen 2012; LA, Oakland, Portland, Spokane, Calgary, Vancouver, Seattle 2013; Auckland 2014, Auckland1&2 2024
    EV - Canberra, Newcastle & Sydney 1&2 2011
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    The most innovative guitar player, the coolest vocalist too... I believe that somewhere out there in the funkiest, grooviest place to hangout in the heavens, in a cloud of purple haze, Jimi is in good company and quite enjoying his birthday.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    (Rather than start a new Jimi thread, I pulled this one up)

    As much as I'm a huge Jimi fan and as much as I'm generally not at all a fan of sampling, I really dig this number by Beautiful People called "Happiness on the Wind".  Rilly groovy!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf7AYlDmuqI

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Among all of the several books I have on Jimi Hendrix, many of which I've read, one little one escaped my notice until recently (probably because I keep it with my 33 1/3 book collection), John Perry's Electric Ladyland.  This is a marvelous little book and quickly becoming one of my favorite Hendrix books.  Perry was there in London at the beginning, when Jimi went over with Chas Chandler to start up The Experience.  He saw Hendrix several times in some of the small clubs in the early days and his descriptions of those shows are vibrant, detailed and exciting.  And his writings about Electric Ladyland are revealing.  Highly recommended! 


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,130
    Took my awhile to understand what made Jimi so great.  My first exposure was the Woodstock set, which I never really liked that much. Then I saw the Monterey Pop performance and I was blown away.  What a talent!  If you have never seen it, it is a must see!
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Get_Right said:
    Took my awhile to understand what made Jimi so great.  My first exposure was the Woodstock set, which I never really liked that much. Then I saw the Monterey Pop performance and I was blown away.  What a talent!  If you have never seen it, it is a must see!
    Otis Redding won Monterrey Pop. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,130
    dankind said:
    Get_Right said:
    Took my awhile to understand what made Jimi so great.  My first exposure was the Woodstock set, which I never really liked that much. Then I saw the Monterey Pop performance and I was blown away.  What a talent!  If you have never seen it, it is a must see!
    Otis Redding won Monterrey Pop. 
    Funny I was reading about the festival after I posted and Otis is mentioned often as having put on a spectacular performance.  I will have to check it out.  But man that Hendrix set is one for the ages.
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Hendrix is a close second.

    I worship at the altar of Hendrix. My son's middle name is Hendrix. But Otis fucking slayed it and blew those hippies away.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,130
    dankind said:
    Hendrix is a close second.

    I worship at the altar of Hendrix. My son's middle name is Hendrix. But Otis fucking slayed it and blew those hippies away.
    Awesome. I will check it out.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    Get_Right said:
    Took my awhile to understand what made Jimi so great.  My first exposure was the Woodstock set, which I never really liked that much. Then I saw the Monterey Pop performance and I was blown away.  What a talent!  If you have never seen it, it is a must see!
    I was just reading about how American critics didn't get Hendrix right away.  From the John Perry's Electric Ladyland book I mentioned:

    "When Jimi burst on them [American critics] at Monterey, six months later, he was unknown to most Americans as he'd been to English audiences [when he first arrived there].  Yet it was as though they were reviewing a different performer.  Critics wrote of an "undignified", "psychedelic Uncle Tom" whose "gimmick laden" act was a "second-rate copy of the Who's destruction".  Even his speech annoyed them with its "superspade jive".  The shrewd reader may feel a common theme underlies all those responses...

    "The liberal American press from Esquire to The Village Voice was perplexed by Hendrix in a way that the English never were."

    That seems so weird to me because the first time I heard a Hendrix tune I was instantly hooked. 

    But yeah, other than Jimi's Star Spangled Banner, Woodstock is not the best place to start.  If you watch the whole performance, there are other moments of brilliance (there always were), but the expanded band was new, scarcely rehearsed and tired from waiting all night to go on.  Monterey is great, but I don't think his best live stuff was ever caught on film.  Concerts, Hendrix in the West and Winterland are excellent records and worth checking out for live recordings.


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    brianlux said:
    Get_Right said:
    Took my awhile to understand what made Jimi so great.  My first exposure was the Woodstock set, which I never really liked that much. Then I saw the Monterey Pop performance and I was blown away.  What a talent!  If you have never seen it, it is a must see!
    I was just reading about how American critics didn't get Hendrix right away.  From the John Perry's Electric Ladyland book I mentioned:

    "When Jimi burst on them [American critics] at Monterey, six months later, he was unknown to most Americans as he'd been to English audiences [when he first arrived there].  Yet it was as though they were reviewing a different performer.  Critics wrote of an "undignified", "psychedelic Uncle Tom" whose "gimmick laden" act was a "second-rate copy of the Who's destruction".  Even his speech annoyed them with its "superspade jive".  The shrewd reader may feel a common theme underlies all those responses...

    "The liberal American press from Esquire to The Village Voice was perplexed by Hendrix in a way that the English never were."

    That seems so weird to me because the first time I heard a Hendrix tune I was instantly hooked. 

    But yeah, other than Jimi's Star Spangled Banner, Woodstock is not the best place to start.  If you watch the whole performance, there are other moments of brilliance (there always were), but the expanded band was new, scarcely rehearsed and tired from waiting all night to go on.  Monterey is great, but I don't think his best live stuff was ever caught on film.  Concerts, Hendrix in the West and Winterland are excellent records and worth checking out for live recordings.


    And, of course, Band of Gypsys. 
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    dankind said:
    brianlux said:
    Get_Right said:
    Took my awhile to understand what made Jimi so great.  My first exposure was the Woodstock set, which I never really liked that much. Then I saw the Monterey Pop performance and I was blown away.  What a talent!  If you have never seen it, it is a must see!
    I was just reading about how American critics didn't get Hendrix right away.  From the John Perry's Electric Ladyland book I mentioned:

    "When Jimi burst on them [American critics] at Monterey, six months later, he was unknown to most Americans as he'd been to English audiences [when he first arrived there].  Yet it was as though they were reviewing a different performer.  Critics wrote of an "undignified", "psychedelic Uncle Tom" whose "gimmick laden" act was a "second-rate copy of the Who's destruction".  Even his speech annoyed them with its "superspade jive".  The shrewd reader may feel a common theme underlies all those responses...

    "The liberal American press from Esquire to The Village Voice was perplexed by Hendrix in a way that the English never were."

    That seems so weird to me because the first time I heard a Hendrix tune I was instantly hooked. 

    But yeah, other than Jimi's Star Spangled Banner, Woodstock is not the best place to start.  If you watch the whole performance, there are other moments of brilliance (there always were), but the expanded band was new, scarcely rehearsed and tired from waiting all night to go on.  Monterey is great, but I don't think his best live stuff was ever caught on film.  Concerts, Hendrix in the West and Winterland are excellent records and worth checking out for live recordings.


    And, of course, Band of Gypsys. 
    It was interesting to me that Perry left Band Of Gypsies out of his book other than to make some brief comment about how that was a whole other thing.  I think in a way he's right.  And within that other venture is "Machine Gun" from Fillmore East which is a whole other universe unto itself, going to places previously untapped. That piece knocks the wind out of me every time.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,462
    Love Hendrix - that purple box set from the early 00s is amazing & one of my faves to listen to. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    2-feign-reluctance said:
    Love Hendrix - that purple box set from the early 00s is amazing & one of my faves to listen to. 
    For sure!  Worth every penny!

    I was thinking about Hendrix this morning and the oft pondered notion of "what if he had lived".  It's almost impossible for us Hendrix fans to not speculate on that "what if", and though I tend to try to avoid that kind of speculation, I found this take by John Perry in his fine little book Electric Ladyland, interesting:

    "There's another possibility to consider, although one rarely hears it from critics. I've heard it voiced most often from people who actually know Hendrix in the last years of his life. The suggestion is that Jimi had done his finest work, exhausted the formula, and come to a creative halt. In late period interviews he certainly sounded depressed, lacking in direction. (Again, this is confirmed by people who met him in the final London days.) One understands why critics wouldn't want to be seen advancing such a negative opinion, but I think it does have to be considered.
    More importantly , it must be recognized that in his brief run Hendrix left a completed legacy. He said what he had to say in the form he wished. He invented a specific form of self-expression as distinctive sounding now as in its own day. He arrived on the scene with a perfectly realized first album, something very few artists achieve. Even now, in a different century, he's still the most influential electric guitarist, bar none. You never feel that given more time he's have perfected his craft. The majority of his work seems beyond improvement. As a player, and as a performer, it's hard to imagine how he could have improved- a judgement from which you must draw your own conclusions."

    Rather than seen as a negative view, I personally find Perry's words as both quite plausible and, if there is ever any possible consoling of the early loss of that great musician, somewhat comforting.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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