sorry i missed this last week . hard to believe
it's been so long since he passed . i found this
page on roger eberts site , and thought that
this might make for an out of the ordinary
tribute .please enjoy...
1983 - Wrong Number
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*Finally... the kind of story eveyone likes... a short one... in fact, from
what I heard... a tiny, little one...*
*1983 – Wrong Number*
*“*Larry? I’ve g...
16 years ago
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And the Wind Cries "Jimi."
40 years ago, sheesh! Everything seems 40 years ago that seems like yesterday. sometimes I think the lucky ones as far as remembering icons goes, are stuck in time like Hendrix (Elvis, Janis, Buddy Holly, Jim Croce, Jim Morrison, Ritchie Valens, John Lennon, George Harrision, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, -you name them, they are all frozen in time). He would have been 67!
Other times it's good to be able to be this old and look back at how far we have come and critique it. Or have we been going in circles.."Manic Depression, full straight head miss" or whatever. "Scuse me while I kiss this guy"...hahahahahhaa. Everybody thought those were the lyrics (at least in San Francisco). Today someone sang the Star Spangled Banner and basically an amateur butcher job on it, before the little parade we saw (Nathan had to march in it). If you are going to butcher it, at least let Jimi hendrix do the butchering the right way: I would prefer Jimi's version anyday. He gave an artistic impression of Fourth of July fireworks with his guitar - amazing! He played the guitar not just left handed, but ALSO upside down, meaning the 1st string E was on top (closest to his chin and last string E at the bottom. Amazing again! Let alone his teeth, etc. I wonder if his family is STILL arguing and suing each other over his estate etc.?
well Steve, you've done it again. Excellent! Must I bother saying...Hendrix was and is my all time favorite guitarist, who definately evolved and created his own music. Drugs or no drugs I think he would still have been different and thought outside the box, being true to himself, which I think was and is really admirable and really what it's all about. I still listen to his music all the time and am always anxious to hear anything when they release never before heard tracks or versions of his music. Hard to believe he passed 40 years ago..and of course Mitch Mitchell recently passed also.
it is almost unbelievable it's been 40 years.damn...definitely my favorite guitarist(SRV being second)i abmire dozens of others.and some of the old ones,like mickey baker,les paul and django reinhart ,while mainly jazz,i really like.but jimi was...jimi.never anyone like him,prolly never be another...
why oh why did i not use preview? i meant admire,not abmire sheesh...
Funny, of all those guitarists, only a few have survived today...Clapton being most recognizable, what his name of the the Who, is Jimmy Page still around? Deep Purple's guitar player. I realize Keith Richard is not in their league. Of course they're not in his either, being dead and alive at the same time....lol. But Hendrix was way above all that. I agree he was the Picasso of guitar...turn the art upside down on it's head. Beatles used to know him and hang out at the club with him a little before he was famous...he learned Sgt. Pepper song and played it at his concert three days after the album's release, and McCartney always brags about that as being amazing he would think that much of them and work hard to flatter them like that. This was before the album really took off in popularity as it was only out for three days. (you knew I was going to bring up the Beatles, didn't you? Oh well,,,)
Funny, of all those guitarists, only a few have survived today...Clapton being most recognizable, what his name of the the Who, is Jimmy Page still around? Deep Purple's guitar player. I realize Keith Richard is not in their league. Of course they're not in his either, being dead and alive at the same time....lol. But Hendrix was way above all that. I agree he was the Picasso of guitar...turn the art upside down on it's head. Beatles used to know him and hang out at the club with him a little before he was famous...he learned Sgt. Pepper song and played it at his concert three days after the album's release, and McCartney always brags about that as being amazing he would think that much of them and work hard to flatter them like that. This was before the album really took off in popularity as it was only out for three days. (you knew I was going to bring up the Beatles, didn't you? Oh well,,,)
Oops! Double entry there. And then Janis Joplin followed. By next summer it was Jim Morrison. 1973 Sept. was also Jim Croce. Bummer. My Senior year in High School, I was real disappointed in that plane crash. IN 1985, a childhood icon on TV every week, maybe one of the reasons I ever knew there was a guitar and singing: Rick Nelson New Years eve 1985, what a drag. I was playing my last real gig with the band up north that night, just after Vane, Grandma, and Allan henderson all died and heard it on the radio while waiting for Dave, fonding band member to bring in the last piece of gear. I was kind of broken up because Rick Nelson was my childhood, 5 years old watching him song on TV. Pretty clean cut stuff but it was a young guy, good voice, and a guitar. He was 2nd in record sales only to Elvis for a few years. British Rock and Mowtown, and over exposure redundancy did him in career wise I am afraid. Probably opened up the gates for Hendrix indirectly in a way though. ANyway I think I knew at that point I had to quit playing bars. I was almost thirty and it was really sucking at that point, spinning my wheels. Playing in a band was fun up to a point then, yuch, I need a real job. didn't learn my lesson did I?
Yeah I like all thost guitarists too. I think Tom your referring to Pete Townsend, and Richie Blackmore (saw them) Yes, Jimi was Jimi, one of a kind. Just saw Last photos taken of Jimi the same evening or day he died on youtube, taken by Monika Danneman. Also you can here the last interview with him on there not long before he passed. "I used to live in a room full of mirrors....." :) sorry I broke into song there!
I think the first time I heard the "Are You Experienced" album was when you, Steve, were at our house after Germany and before SD of course. I think we talked about this before. But, it was so cool to here that. And later I went out and bought it and kept playing it, so of course it grew on me. And later on in 5th or 6th grade we could bring records in one week, so a few kids brought in some lame mellow stuff and I of course brought in Band of Gypsy's which was a little heavy, or dark, for them. But I remember being in a band with Tom and we played Purple haze. I was drumming at the time and skipped school (still in elementary) to go over to the Jr. High where Tom was to play, or, audition for the Jr. High Talent show.So some guy just got done singing "Bridge over troubled water, and then we came on and rocked the shit out of them with Purple Haze, really loud, and here are these stuff shirts with ties on listening in the front row, ya know, hahaha. Man, i've got other stories/comments, but the main thing is I really dig Hendrix and have most of my life.
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