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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 7, 2011 - 10:34pm PT
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The Movie. it kicks ASS!
I've watched it three times in the last three days.
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go-B
climber
Revelation 7:12
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Yep!
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Jimmi was the man!!!
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Jimi was light years ahead and still is in this present time. Something of great magnitude was happening through this man, he was delivering a message of love and harmony through his guitar mastery . . . have a listen to his work. Upside down and left handed is part of his magic formula.
"Just lay back and dream on a rainy day."
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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One of the best movies of all time! Killer music, great documentary and put together really great. Jimi IS the man!
Peace
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NigelSSI
Trad climber
BC
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I dunno how many times I've seen that one!
If only those Band of Gypsys New Years shows of 69/70 were filmed so well...
Monterey's pretty cool, too. There's a double sided DVD version of that with Jimi on one side, and Otis Redding backed up by Booker T. & the MGs + the Bar-Kays on the other side. I bought that for the Jimi, and fell in love with Otis when I flipped it over.
On 'upside down, and left handed',
He flipped the nut, and restrung his guitars 'right side up', so the fingering was still the same... His right hand thumb was all about the bass notes, and you need traditional stringing for that. Part of his sound, and technique certainly came from the reversed pole positions of the pickups, placement of the whammy bar/knobs, and tension of the strings due to the headstock reversal, but that mostly just affected tone, and ease of keeping the whammy under the pinky for immediate use.
That said, he could apparently play a reverse strung guitar pretty well, but most lefties I've met are fairly proficient at that, too.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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I remember my buddy turned me onto the Hendrix/Otis LP. It tore me up.
Then, years later, after I'd worn the grooves out of my original LP I saw the movie, Hendrix @ Monterey Pop... I couldn't believe that half the solos were played with one hand, behind his back, Upside-Down, with his teeth, and so on. Fujick, I'l Loved those riffs, and to see how he played them, made no sense...
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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And then there was Otis...
[sorry, thread drift...]
Bill Graham loved the guy. From his autobiography:
Every artist in the City asked to open for Otis. The first night it was the Grateful Dead. Janis Joplin came at three in the afternoon the day of the first show to make sure she'd be in front of him. To this day, no musician ever got everybody out to see them the way he did. Every musician then into music came. He was THE MAN. THE REAL MAN. If you liked R&B or white rock and roll or black rock and roll or jazz, you came to see Otis.
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On stage the man never stopped moving. He would do a number and at the end of the number, he would strut the stage. "Yeah, Whew! Hey! Oh! Yeah! Party! Oh! Yeah! Whew! One two ..." and right into the next number. Three, four songs into the set on the first night, I was standing on the side of the stage. I couldn't believe how great he was.
He started doing his strut, back and forth. "Yeah! Oh! Damn! Whew!" As he was doing this, there was this woman leaning against the front of the stage. A gorgeous young black lady in a low-cut dress. She started sighing like she just could not hold on. "O-tis, Oh! Ah! Ah! Oooh!" He saw her. He was going back and forth and he said, "Yeah!" He had the microphone in his hand and he saw her and she said, "Unnh!" He walked across the stage, leaned down, took the mike, and pulled a move that has never been equaled.
He leaned down and looked at her, and he was a big, good-looking guy, and she was going "Oh! Oh!" and he said right into her face, "I'm gonna s-s-sock it to you, baby. One, two...." And the whole place went "Hah!" all together.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Now, back to Jimi at Woodstock...
Ya know, he was the only act to get paid at that show, and he demanded to go on last. Jimi was kinda upset, everybody was packing up and leaving during his set, the only morning set he ever played. On a Monday Morning.
Oh, but man, his solo on TSSB.... Nope, he was an alien.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Well, when I was younger than most if not all of you I had every
Hendrix album and knew ever chord change. I loved his music. I was
playing and performing myself in some quiet kind of cult way, but
I understood what he was doing. I used to chuckle at how badly he
would butcher lyrics, how he could blather out a sentence with
only a slight likeness to the original line, but I loved him nevertheless
because he was pure music. I never did understand that dumb experiment
they made in Denver one year where they put different kinds of music
into different rooms, with different kinds of plants. With Ravel, the
vines grew up around the speakers. With Hendrix, they died! He was
life to us, though... Maybe it was just too loud for those plants...
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Maybe they were playing Foxy Lady and Hey Joe instead of One Rainy Wish or Axis Bold as Love.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jimi was beautiful.
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Double D
climber
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My favorite part is when they are cleaning up the trash while he cuts loose with Villanova Junction. That song has soul!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Okay Pilgrims. ARe you ready for Hendrix supporting a completely blotto Morrison? There are quite of few of these on Youtube, many are longer and way explicit; I chose the one that had the awesomely explicit intro cut off of it. Hendrix was incredibly in that situation, you'll have to admit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiNWWlExzm4
If you can handle it, there is the much longer, much more explicit cut:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu5U_7XGMJg
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 8, 2011 - 12:33am PT
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Two buddies of mine, in the 8th grade, turned me onto Band of Gypsies and Cream's Wheels of Fire. I still listen to both a fair bit to this day.
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NigelSSI
Trad climber
BC
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I'll say it again in fewer words,
Jimi didn't play 'upside down'.
He restrung his guitars 'right side up', just as a left handed guitar would be strung.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 8, 2011 - 12:37am PT
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Also, about the movie...
A few people interviewed at the beginning and at the end are talking about Hendrix with just two other guys, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Are they saying that everyone wanted to see those three and not the band that Hendrix had that day? Are they saying that he had changed for the worse or better?
There was a time when he was so much older than me. Now, I'm so much older than him, he looks so young in the film.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Me too, Mark on that. So many of those are like holy writ to us!
Like a Rolling Stone (Dylan or Hendrix).
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Clapton or Harrison),
Why Does Love Have to Be So Sad (Clapton),
All Along the Watchtower (Hendrix or Dylan),
Red House (Hendrix).
Pali Gap (Hendrix)
Queen Jane Approximately (Dylan)
It is hard, looking back, to realize that that period was actually largely conducted by people in their twenties, even teens. As others like to say on ST often, We are not worthy, we are not worthy!
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giegs
climber
Tardistan
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Not the best quality but meh.
I don't remember how my family came into this, but one of my uncles gave copies to all my other uncles and my dad at Christmas years ago. #2 in the background is my uncle AJ. Hendrix is playing the Anthem.
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NigelSSI
Trad climber
BC
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Here's my favourite version of Midnight Lightning... Dunno which version the C4 folks were listening to, but this one never saw release until somewhere around '97, so it may be new to many of you. Live in studio, just guitar, vocals, and a tapping foot. Hendrix didn't do too much unaccompanied, but this is just blues gold. Hendrix finger picking,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suY3OOfhUF8
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