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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 4, 2009 - 12:22am PT
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A great book on all things Hendrix: Jimi Hendrix - Electric Gypsy by Harry Shapiro and Caesar Glebbeek.
The collision of the 70s and Valley climbing is evidenced in the number of references to the music of that time period, and Hendrix has his due there. I was a couple of years too young to ever see him in concert. My climbing partner Mike who's three years older than me got to see him play the Berkeley Community Theatre.
I've always loved Hendrix, but almost no one else in my immediate family really could tolerate it. My most recent bout of obsession was collecting as many recorded tracks as I could... but settling for most of the "legitimate" recordings, a lot of the bootleg stuff is poor.
While the legacy is mixed there is a lot of great stuff which is seldom heard. Considering he died when he was 28, and only produced three studio albums, the cat was driven to produce.
Amazing...
What I have is this:
Jimi Hendrix - Atlanta 1970
Jimi Hendrix - Ballad Of Jimi
Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys (Capitol Pressing)
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys 2
Jimi Hendrix - Blues
Jimi Hendrix - Crash Landing
Jimi Hendrix - Early Classics
Jimi Hendrix - Experience At Royal Albert Hall
Jimi Hendrix - First Rays Of The New Rising Sun
Jimi Hendrix - Flashing
Jimi Hendrix - Get That Feeling
Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix Speaks- Jimi Hendrix Interviews
Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix in the West
Jimi Hendrix - Isle of Wight
Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Hendrix Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix - Jimi Plays Monterey
Jimi Hendrix - Kiss The Sky
Jimi Hendrix - LA Forum 26th APRIL 1969(CD 1)
Jimi Hendrix - Live & Unreleased - The Radio Show (Disc I)
Jimi Hendrix - Live & Unreleased - The Radio Show (Disc II)
Jimi Hendrix - Live & Unreleased - The Radio Show (Disc III)
Jimi Hendrix - Live At George's Club
Jimi Hendrix - Live At Winterland
Jimi Hendrix - Loose Ends
Jimi Hendrix - Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues
Jimi Hendrix - Midnight Lightning
Jimi Hendrix - Nine To The Universe (Vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - On The Killing Floor
Jimi Hendrix - Paris 1968
Jimi Hendrix - Radio One
Jimi Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge
Jimi Hendrix - San Diego 1969
Jimi Hendrix - Something on your mind
Jimi Hendrix - Sound Track Recordings
Jimi Hendrix - Stockholm 1967
Jimi Hendrix - The Cry Of Love
Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Concerts
Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Vol. 1
Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Vol. 2
Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Vol. 3
Jimi Hendrix - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Vol. 4
Jimi Hendrix - The Last Ever Show - Love and Peace Festival - Isle of Fehmarn - 6th sept 1970
Jimi Hendrix - The Last Experience
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Soup
Jimi Hendrix - War Heroes
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis- Bold As Love
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (Disc 1)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland (Disc 2)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Singles Album Part 1
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Singles Album Part 2
Lightnin' Rod & Jimi Hendrix - Doriella Du Fontaine
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - BBC Sessions (Disk 1)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - BBC Sessions Disk 2
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At The Fillmore East (Disk 1)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live At The Fillmore East (Disk 2)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Psycho
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Looks like it could be 4.3 gigs, to me. If you count the Swedish FM, bit.
"Ninety miles an hour,
is the speed I Drive..."
"don't be late!"
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BrassNuts
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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"they call him Astroman"... I just call him The Master. Rent a Hendrix flick sometime - great stuff!
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Gotta love the seatbelt idiot light...
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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How many of those records have different tracks? I have a lot of Jimi, but there are a bunch of repeat songs on them.
I'd like to see a catalog of songs in one place.
A couple of years back I bought that re-mix of the first rays of a new rising sun. It's pretty good. Takes a lot of the old tracks that have been floating around and puts the finishing touches on.
By the way, I tried to name my son Jimi (not jim, james, or jimmy), but the wife wouldn't go for it.
Tom
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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Nice Thread, Thanks Ed. JH is so Fine!!!!
Jimi is the name of my new, soon to be son in law. : }} Cheers !
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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Was lucky enough to see Hendrix in 1970 at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach. CA. I was 17 it was very cool, saw the Doors there also.
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SammyLee2
Trad climber
Memphis, TN
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Damn, Ed, (that's gotta be my salute now)
You got a collection. Jimmy, made a difference in my life. He opened me up to "another" solution. Not the same old Southern sh!t I grew up with. If he could be so different, so, maybe could I. And I am, now. It was a good change.
Part of the thing, was what could a three piece band do? Oh hell! They did alot. Too this day, I love 3 piece bands. Give me some ZZ Top and a Well Dressed Man.
His loss is our loss.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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I can attest, Ed's Hendrix vault is exhaustive and complete, as far as I can tell. I don't think I've heard anything not included on it, anywhere.
Random Play;
Sgt Pepper's lonely heart's Club Band,
Blue Suede Shoes,
Johnny B. Goode
Day Tripper,
and the more familiar tunes, of course.
The Star Spangled Banner, The Ultra extended version, that Jim Dub used to play as an alarm clock the morning of the Phx Bouldering Contest, is in this mass of notes.
I never got see to see Jimi, Dog, but one day, walking home from jr high ('67?) behind three hooods (like proto-stoners with an octane fixation and bryelcreme™), when one punched another and said,
"No sh#t man, I swear by Jimi Hendrix!"
I also missed seeing Bob Marley when he canceled a concert at Redrocks due to a broken (soon to diagnosed as cancer saturated.)
Went out for Chinese food with Supertaco's own, RoadkillPhil, in Golden, that night instead. We looked up at the visible cliff band at the top of the coors mesa.
"I looked around up there doesn't seem like any climbs," mentioned Phil, his mouth full of kung Pao, something or other.
How many guidebooks have there been for that area, since then? Maybe only Rolofson.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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He certainly full advantage of, if not invented outright, the stereo effect of moving sound side to side, speaker to speaker.
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WBraun
climber
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Met Hendrix in Oakland in 68.
What's on the other side .....?
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SammyLee2
Trad climber
Memphis, TN
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I can't match Jaybro's "Exrerience" but I come close. That was my years. I was a rodie in a band, "Fox" that played in the Southeast, from 1968 till 1972 and after. Caused lot's of problems.
Battle of the Bands, warming up for the "Alman Brothers" UnderGrround Atlanta, Cop's trying tio kill us, it was fun times. Handcuffs on, handcuffs off, you know the drill.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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dogtown, Very Cool. I spent alot of time at the Golden Bear too. Who were those folk singers ? Joe and Eddy ???? Wow !
Also Harmony Park Ballroom in Huntington Beach (I think) and the place in Balboa Bay that burnt down.....what was it's name....The Rendezvoux ??? (Dick Dale and the Deltones)
There were some HOT Places on the Strip in LA. The original Black Mo Town for So Cal.....Now that COOKED !!! Being the only non black chicks (mi friend and I were there for the musica) YO sat in the back and did not dance with the dudes.... or the gals would have killed us. But they were very cool and we were tolerated. The music and the dance routines and the jive clothes worn by the performers were over the top GREAT !!!
Thanks for rekindling the memories Bro. : )))
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Russ Walling
Social climber
Upper Fupa, North Dakota
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"ear goggles" Kickassssss™™™
My cell phone start up screen opens with the words "Don't be Late".....
an homage to Walt via Hendrix..... or is it Hendrix via Walt?
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Werner you met Hendrix? Tell us a story! A person like Jimi comes to this planet only very rarely.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2009 - 12:54am PT
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Eddie Kramer "is one of those credited with developing the art of phrasing, the 'panning' effect first heard on the Small Faces single 'Itchycoo Park', and he cites Axis as the first time he got this to work in stereo."
Op. cit. p. 215
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WBraun
climber
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Yeah, I met him accidentally Tom.
Then security grabbed me and threw me out.
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Or like werner, either.
Warbler keeping thoughts like your's in mind, We took 10 month old Natalie to an (outddor) Ramone's concert (also Debbie Harrry and the TomTom Club) 18+ years later,she's still a Ramones fan. Wish we could have taken her to Hendrix.
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nick d
Trad climber
nm
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Hopefully we will still see even more recordings from Jimi, who was, in my mind, the greatest guitarist ever.
His family recently regained control of his musical legacy, and he apparently recorded just about every time he plugged in his axe, so as unlikely as it seems, there is probably a lot of unreleased material still to be heard. His family finally being in a position to profit from his legacy is hopefully motivated to get them out in the public ear.
Poor guy died on my birthday, leaving me to do a bit of somber reflection every year.
My dusty boots are my Cadillac.
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dogtown
climber
Cheyenne,Wyoming
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Yeah,Lynne
It was called the Balboa Bay Club.
Can't forget the Whiskey of go-go and the Golden West Ballroom. L.A. was the center of the Universe in the 70's Huh?
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Social climber
valley center, ca
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OMG !!!!! Dogtown.....yo know the place of mi teen joy....Hurray and Cheers ! Gezzzz, did this gal have a wholesome blast. (Wholesome, Cause I had the family Woodie (CAR) and had to be home by 1 pm or die.) Can any of yo relate ? : )))
Edit: Yeah, we heard the greats and didn't even realize how great they were. It was just the cool stuff for those happenin' days. : DD
Next Edit: The (old) Righteous Brothers really rocked too. Then there were the Beach Boys and Sam the Sham and the Pharaoh's, Sonny and Shar....in LA we heard all the best of Mo Town ....rockin chair delight tonight!
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Fogarty
Trad climber
So Cal
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Warner you my remember me or not but I was climbing Electric Lady Land in 1984 With STRETCH it was his first wall, we were blasting the Hindrix tunes having the time of our life’s when we were on eagles nest and watched you on Astroman with just a swami on running out full pitches, that was awesome, anyway dose anyone know how to get a hold of STRETCH, he took lots of photos?
MF
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WBraun
climber
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Fogarty
Last time I saw Stretch was years ago when he quit the offshore oil rigs. He told me he was going back Iowa (I think) to tend the pigs.
Russ might know ... throw Russ an email.
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Fogarty
Trad climber
So Cal
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Mr. Braun, Thank you for the info, PS. do you still own the Marmout Burrow I sold you so I could make it home? That was good for 25 years?
Mike Fogarty
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MH2
climber
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I remember seeing a stone marker with his name on it at the Seattle Zoo.
I was probably never within 7 states of Hendrix, but I did hear Denise McCann do a wonderful job on her husband's radio program telling about her meeting Jimi:
McCann became part of the hippie movement during 1967's "Summer of Love" when she worked at the Magic Mountain Festival on Mount Tamalpais and then at the Monterey Pop Festival, where she was befriended by a nervous Jimi Hendrix just before his seminal performance.
from Wikipedia
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona, Spain
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Some of the videos/DVDs are also really worth seeing/collecting. An old one (from '74?) is just called "Jimi Hendrix", I think - it's the one with him wearing a hat and playing "Hear my train" on a 12 string acoustic. Like a Rolling Stone and Johnny B. Good are unforgettable. It has pretty good shots of his fretting hand for would-be imitators to get some clues.
Some of the later releases are also really good. The Jimi Hendrix Experience series v.1 - v4 in particular has a lot of stuff that is really good. I never cared too much for the original released version of Axis (the song), but the version on that set absolutely kicks ass. Also has a weird and great Room Full of Mirrors, a goofy into to 3rd Stone, and lots of other stuff.
So, who believes Jimi really used his teeth?
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drljefe
climber
Toostoned, AZ
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The Rainbow Bridge DVD is worth a watch.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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you know that little
voice most folks have going
on in thier head,
"internal diologue".
my internal diologue is
an ongoing soundtrack
of jimi hendrix.
MOON, TURN THE TIDES....
gently gently away.
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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hendrix was the MAN!
I was born too late to see him live, but his music influenced me since 1977 (my big brother turned me on to rock and roll and the herb). (and that's another story in itself)...
Music has always inspired me before climbing and still does to this day. I have named many an FA after songs.
"venus which is green" was one from a hendrix song.
My music inspirations:
Black Sabbath
Jimi Hendrix
Talking Heads
Led Zepplin
Rush
sounds track to "repo man"
pink floyd
and the list go's on and on..
ks
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can't say
Social climber
Pasadena CA
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I saw Hendrix in April of 1970, right after seeing Led Zepplin on my birthday a month before. I've never been the same since
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Jimi could play by ear and with his ear if need be! Pearly whites---no problem!
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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If you play guitar you love hendrix. Every song is a stand alone instrumental on its own with out the lyrics and melody.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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My first Hendrix album was "Band of Gypsies". It's still one of my favorites and I listen to it probably once a month.
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TYeary
climber
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I never saw Jimi, but I got to see one of his students up close once. My parents lived in Petaluma in the mid 70's. In 73 I was pretending to attend Chico State. I got an education, but it wasn't academic, if you know what I mean.
Anyway I was home for the weekend and my Dad and I stopped at the local "bird and bee" called the Willowbrook Inn, right off US 101 in Petaluma. On the marque was billed the, Ducks; one night only. WTF, we pay our 4.50 and go in. After beer or two the lights go down and the band fires up. I'm watching Neil Young from about ten feet away in a room with 20 people in it. With Crazy Horse, they burn through an hour's worth of tunes. I heard "Like a Hurricane, Don't Cry no Tears, Danger Bird, Cortez the Killer, Powderfinger and others. Neil is playing a black Les Paul with a big button on the neck strap of the face of Jimi. I will never forget that evening. This was, I later learned, the "Great Northern Coastal Bar Tour, and those songs surfaced on Zuma and American Stars and Bars. I have since seen Young 30 times or more, but nothing ever came close to that chance encounter back in the 70's. It was like acid, for the first time. I was never the same. One of the highlights of my young life at that point. Alittle OT, but such is the power of music. Are you experienced ?
Tony
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swam
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Over the Rainbowbridge,
I love Jimi. He is an inspiration to many.
Impressive list. i never made the inventory of my « records » vynils, CD’s but a few on Ed’s collection i don’t have.
I was sadly too young to go to his concerts, or to be really aware of myself, music or the world when i met him in London as a child at around 7-8 years old. We were in a double deck red bus, my mother stayed ground level with my baby sister and pram as i climbed to the second floor and saw him as an ET sitting at the back, where i had wanted to sit. Strange being wearing strange clothes with long dark hands, shining stones, holding a guitar. I was going to cry in shock of seeing the strange apparition, when he started talking to me in a very soft voice, asking questions and comforting me. I will never forget his advice, to learn how to use both my hands. Merci.
As a teen my parents yelled at me for listening to his terrible music, pulled more then once his posters down from the walls: in their opinion Jimi’s music would never last….. time passed, Jimi’s music goes on…. long life to Jimi, RIP
over the rainbow, bridge after life.
icy
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Tarbuster
climber
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Nice!
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Clint Cummins
Trad climber
SF Bay area, CA
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While driving home from Yosemite last weekend, I had Axis Bold as Love in the tape deck, with Astroman (from Cry of Love) spliced into the end to fill out the tape!
I also have a "Jimi Hendrix History" tape, recorded from the radio in the 80s. "Part of Rolling Stone's continuous history of rock and roll." I enjoy listening to it on a regular basis, although I seem to have the dialog memorized now:
"Eddie Kramer remembers Hendrix as an insecure perfectionist..."
"... charting top 10 hits ..."
"The Cry of Love ... it was his least psychedelic collection."
Eddie Kramer: "Jimi would have never, ever, in his right mind, wanted any of that stuff released, subsequent to what I did, period. He wanted things structured...."
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Tarbuster
climber
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While this doesn't seem to be bootleg,
It is "unstructured" early work which I have on vinyl:
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nutjob
Stoked OW climber
San Jose, CA
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Ed, there was a 3-record Woodstock album that ended with Jimi playing a really nice star-spangled banner with a segue into Purple Haze. Is that on another release somewhere?
Also, which album has Driftin' ?
That's my favorite Hendrix tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EhyGI_ZKe8
Though it would be very difficult to settle for a single Hendrix song and leave so much good stuff behind.
The first record I ever bought with my own money was Jimi Hendrix Experience - Smash Hits, and stuck the needle on All Along the Watchtower countless times as I tried to pick out the solos on my guitar.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Wish I still had the ticket stubs or at least the program flyer - but I saw Jimi as the opening act to The Monkees in 1967 - in South Carolina no less!!!!
Of course, being 9 years old, I was there for The Monkees - but still remember watching Jimi with a few thousand other crazed teen-boppers going WTF???
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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That's a nice tell...
Monkees were a gateway to "harder", um, acid rock 'n stuff.
You did, I mean made out OK Right?!?
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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I don't know Tar - within a few years I had a black light and a lava lamp in my room and even wore paisley and velvet!!!!
The "acid" part had to wait until I moved to California. The only acid in SC came in batteries at the time.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2009 - 07:45pm PT
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there are three recorded tracks of Drifting laid down in June 1970
All released posthumously, one on The Cry of Love, another on Live & Unreleased 3 and the third on a bootleg Acoustical Jams.
Rereleased on Voodoo Soup which was the Cry of Love track. Most recently you could find these tracks on First Rays of the New Rising Sun which is available on iTunes.
I'll have to check if I have the bootleg when I get home, but I also have the L&U3 track... which is about par, I think I have 2/3rds of all the tracks recorded.
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Thomas
Trad climber
The Tilted World
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Have any of you checked out some of the releases on Dagger Records? What is the sound quality like? Any recommendations?
Live at the LA Forum has to be some of the heaviest music on record. Unbelievable.
The tune "Drone Blues" on Nine to the Universe is amazing and provides an interesting glimpse into where Hendrix was heading with his music.
Get these if you can find them!
Back to the hangboard...
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Speaking of "Playing by ear." recently my six yr old niece, Hannah, asked her piano teacher if she could get her music to "Play this" and then played, from memory of listening to her mom practice for her own piano lessons, a fractured, but recognizable, "Hall of the Mtn King." After never having tried to play it. I don't know that she will be another Hendrix, but there are big things in the future for that girl, I just betcha!
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MH2
climber
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there are big things in the future for that girl
Indeed. Hints of mountains, music, Hendrix-appreciation, and good recall.
You've got to stay
Two steps ahead of a woman
Or else you'll find yourself
Down in love
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 5, 2009 - 12:37am PT
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well it took a bit of hunting... Live and Unreleased was a radio program, so various tracks were put in as background, essentially... and the Drifting track backed a piece with Eddie Kramer recalling the inception of the Electric Lady Studio in NYC, but you hear Hendrix in the background working through his piece [url="http://home.comcast.net/~e.hartouni/audio/Jimi_Hendrix-Drifting.mp3"]Drifting[/url]
Here is another piece off of his "home tape" recorder [url="http://home.comcast.net/~e.hartouni/audio/Jimi_Hendrix-Angel.mp3"]Angel[/url] from February 1968.
And some of his studio work [url="http://home.comcast.net/~e.hartouni/audio/Jimi_Hendrix-Send_My_Love_To_Linda.mp3"]Send My Love To Linda[/url] from September 1969
it is fun to sit in on his sessions and listen to what he was thinking...
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Rick L
Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
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October 1967. Junior year of high school. Four of us talked our parents into allowing us to make the treck from Palo Alto to Winterland. One of my goofy friends though it would be cool to soak his MJ in wine to enhance the effect. Result: Moldy, wet weed that was impossible to ignite. He was, however, able to attract the attention of police/security from our vantage point upstairs during an opening act with all of the unsuccessful match flares. The chase was on. We ran down the stairs, dove into the crowd on the floor and wormed our way to the edge of the stage. Lights out. The openng riff of "Foxy Lady", then a spotlight on Hendrix- dressed head to toe in white- including knee-high fur boots. He dive bombs into the song and at the end thanks the crowd gone wild and tell us he has turned down the volume a bit to save our ears. The performance was unbelieveable.
Ed- there are a couple of other bios worth reading. "Room Full of Mirrors" [Charles Cross]; "Hendrix: Setting the Record Straight" [John McDermott with Eddie Kramer]and Jimi Hendrix [Sharon Lawrence}. Different perspectives but all portray Hendrix as a paradoxically shy and kind genius who was ill-equipped to deal with the business of music. Many anecodotal stories of him buying numerous guitars at Manny's on 48th Street and giving them to street kids,etc. There are still invoices on the wall of his purchases. His footprint on music, generally, and the guitar, in particular, was and remains huge. He reportedly inspired, humbled, depressed and scared the hell out of the likes of Clapton and Townsend when Chas Chandler introduced him to London in the fall of 1966. His roots were with black blues musicians that the Brits had only read about and he took off from there in a way no one has approached since. His rendition of Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" still sends a chill down my spine for the music and the symbolism. There are numerous videos of that and other performances at Monterrey on youtube and DVD's. What is more amazing is that he was allegely on multiple hits of LSD at the time. In the end, perhaps David Crosby was correct [paraphrasing] "We were right about 'Peace', man." "We were right about 'Love', man." "We were really wrong about the 'Drugs'." Like our sport, rock and roll has lost too many too young.
Thanks for the post and the sound track to Bong's Away.
Rick
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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That is the most poignant version of 'Angel' I have ever listened to, Ed.
A very similar vibe to the one that comes from Bob Marley's solo acoustic version of 'redemption song'
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drljefe
climber
Toostoned, AZ
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Thank you Ed.
I was born too late, blame it on a simple twist of fate...
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
Redmond, OR
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I came to appreciate Hendrix much more when I began to explore Blues Roots and could better connect the influences and innovations. Some of you should check out my fav, Buddy Guy if you haven't already.
A charming story relayed:
Years ago in my small hometown I met a medical doctor who once attended an upper crust societal party at a residence in Connecticut. Hendrix, then anonymous, was playing at it. The Doctor told me the performance was utterly shocking, especially when he tossed his guitar on floor in front of the dillitantes, squirted it with lighter fluid and torched it!
I'll meet ya on the other side, Jimi
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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There's that eddie kramer quote above about Jimi not wanting this stuff released. I can see that.
There is a track on one of those old records put out after he died called my little angel or something like that. If you listen to the parts of this pretty sweet gem, you can hear that it's the pre cursor to both little wing and angel.
I'll try to find it.
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Double D
climber
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In the closing of the Woodstock movie while they are picking up trash comes one of my favorite Jim songs that was kept in obscurity for years, Villanova Junction.
Tuck Andress, a phenomenal jazz guitarist, used to cover it all the time early in his career and his rendition was awesome. Unfortunately he dropped it from his repertoire as far as I could tell.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Villanova+Junction&hl=en&emb=0&aq=-1&oq=#
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swam
Social climber
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Am azed,,,,
What an incredible thread, strange to find here,
thanks for links and grateful for awesome tracks!
the Angel version is vivid,
Time spiral through generations symbol of 4ever
tea?
i met Dan the day i went to visit Wa Elecric studios, stop in the first tea place next to Electric Studios. 80
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Tarbuster
climber
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Not so surprising to find it here...
For to my mind:
Jimi Hendrix is to trad climbing as Apple Pie is to the US of A
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 01:54am PT
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he was not happy about how his records sounded when they were cut to vinyl, he had what he wanted it to sound like in his mind, but the actual process at that time didn't reproduce that studio sound....
...here's a fragement [url="http://home.comcast.net/~e.hartouni/audio/HaveYouEverBeen_ToElectricLadyland.mp3"]Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)[/url] that I imagine comes closer to what he was hearing himself... now go and play it off the album and imagine yourselves just how much more amazing he would have been if he had had control...
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 6, 2009 - 02:15am PT
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hey Ricky_D: on the "Monkees Tour" the lineup was: The Sundowners, Lynne Randell, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Monkees...
July 11 1967, Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina
July 12 1967, Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Warbler:
July 25, 1970, Sports Arena, San Diego, CA, with Cat Mother
can't say:
April 25, 1970, The Forum, Los Angeles, CA with the Buddy Miles Express, and Ballin' Jack?
(or in Sacramento?)
Rick L, was that October 1968? 10,11,12?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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This box set is a must if you are a serious Jimi fan. Lots of rarities.
Four CDs in all and lots of liner photos!
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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What about the vocals?
I loved his singing as much as the guitar.
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Jingy
Social climber
Flatland, Ca
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Ed - That's a proud collection!
Do ya get to listen to all of it often?
I thought I was a pretty big fan, but you got me beat.
Good Times
Flashback Edit: I was high on LSD.... from another room in the house I heard the beginnings of Electric Ladyland..... ...And "The Gods Made Love"...... I made my way to the room from which this awesome, powerful noise just in time for the 3 guitar picks at the beginning of "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)"........ I was hooked from that moment on........
cheers all
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 9, 2009 - 02:32am PT
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that is a great collection Steve, and well engineered...
Jingy, I listen to bits of it all the time, lots of it is on my iPod... and sitting in my appt on Haste St. in Berkeley listening to the music melt out of the speakers... BITD...
LEB, mostly we like music from that period of our lives... though I like to think I listen to all sorts of strange stuff from before and after. Born to Be Wild is a good Steppenwolf, but I like their Magic Carpet Ride better... maybe it's a guy thing...
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
Sprocketville
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i think the first flanging was Itchycoo Park, Small Faces with Marriot handling the vocal duties.
Then again, I have heard George Martin's claims, and Les Paul, and Tommy Dowd, blah blah blah who cares.
All Along the Watchtowe, see how good Hendrix would have sounded without that Karamer punk's ego messin everything up.
The claims that guys makes, makes a lot of people want to vomit.
Did you see him at Woodstock? sheesh.
In the Pro Audio world, Kramer is the all time joke.
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Andras
climber
Budapest, Hungary
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The performance at Woodstock is on a double CD already mentioned on Ed's list (Live at Woodstock). It has a very nice essay for "liner notes".
Although the show is not without flaws, the Voodoo Chile (slight return) - Star Spangled Banner - Purple Haze - Villanova Junction jam is one of the greatest live performances ever.
(Some other favorites from 69/70: Machine Gun from Band of Gypsies, and The Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler" and "Sympathy for the Devil" live on the "Get Yer..." LP, the latter with the most amazing Mick Taylor solo!)
On the original Woodstock 3 LP set, the Villanova Junction name was not mentioned, they labeled it "Purple Haze & Instrumental Solo". I've also heard it as Woodstock Improvisation and Farewell.
By the way, I can't even imagine what a collaboration with Miles Davis or with Emerson, Lake and Palmer would have yielded, who were very eager to play with Hendrix.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Feb 18, 2009 - 05:44pm PT
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Bump,
I'm groovin to if 6 was 9.
What's amazing is that Jimi's singing is just as good as his playing, much soul in that man.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 19, 2009 - 12:01pm PT
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With the power of soul, anything is possible.....werd!
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Feb 19, 2009 - 03:19pm PT
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Hendrix was ultimately a blues player, one of the best around. It is interesting to speculate on what he would have done had he lived because he wanted to move on to other things. He was friends with Miles Davis and they played together a few times at Miles' place. Miles would have been able to expose Jimi to a whole different world of music. Jimi always recorded with musicians vastly inferior to him so imagine if he had played with the drummer Tony Williams, Tony would have kicked his ass upward into new heights.
There are very few people who redefined the sound of an instrument and Jimi certainly did that.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Sep 18, 2018 - 07:28am PT
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"The good threads all die so young..."*
wouldn't it be cool to bump ol' Jimi, have him back for however long?
[Click to View YouTube Video]* Blatantly wrong statement, obviously.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 18, 2018 - 11:27am PT
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Sep 18, 2018 - 11:54am PT
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Because Jimi was such a student of the guitar I believe he eventually would have moved into jazz arrangements. Mitch Mitchell was an excellent jazz drummer who drove Hendrix to even greater heights.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Mark Hudon mentioned "A Band of Gypsies" a while back.
I truly feel that was some of Jimi's best work.
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Nutty
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My older brother Bart by 2 3/4 years was into Hendrix, the Stones, and the Doors etc. so I was too but Jimi was my favorite.
When Jimi played the Hollywood Bowl on 9/14/1968 we asked our mom to let as go.
She worked at the Bowl and was the editor of the program given out at the performances.
And me being just 12 1/2 years old, was grateful she let us go as long as my brother looked after me.
I remember before the show my brother had me call the record store and I asked if they carried the Electric Ladyland album and they said they hadn't heard of it!
This was my first rock concert and this was the show where people jumped into the fountain in front of the stage and danced and swam up close to Jimi for the best seats in the house, I looked on in amazement! Jimi was all I wanted to listen to after that!
Electric Ladyland was released in the US on October 16, 1968.
My brother turned 15 on 10/17/68!
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Gorgeous George
Trad climber
Los Angeles, California
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A few years ago some engineers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were being interviewed on KPCC, a local NPR radio station. They were discussing the Mars Rover, and somehow it was pointed out that when their shift ended, the Rover was turned off for the night, requiring a substantial warm-up time before they could put it through its paces the next day.
The engineers mentioned that they liked to play fast hard rock during the warm-up period, an exercise, no doubt, that served to warm up the engineers more than the Rover. They invited the audience to submit songs for them to play. I chose "Fire," by Jimi, which if you know the tune, has Jimi singing "Move over Rover, and let Jimi take over. . . ." And it is fast.
The next day they called me and said they had agreed it was the best submission yet, they were going to play it again the next day.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jimi Hendrix - The KPFA tapes.
Track list:
1. Lord I Sing The Blues For You And Me (10.38)
2. Dancing Blues (9.21)
3. Cherokee Mist (6.08)
4. Country Blues (with harp) (10.43)
5. Cherokee mist-In From The Storm-Valleys Of Neptune (6.30)
6. Ezy Ryder (instrumental) (3.54)
7. Valleys Of Neptune (instrumental) (3.54)
8. Hendrix - Young Jam (14.18)
Notes:
This is a sort of companion to the Blues Project tracks. These tracks were given by Alan Douglas on DAT to a certain radio station for a special on Jimi. Tracks 1-7 are from that DAT master. The Hendrix-Young Jam (probably 2nd gen) is not from the KPFA tapes but it's been added here to make up the playing time, compare the quality of this version with the one that's been seeded on the jazz forum from the bootleg release.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Dude.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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You guys like Jimi, eh?
My former wife dated Mitch.
They all hung out at the motel in Monterey. She said Jimi was a very friendly guy but perhaps a bit injudicious with handing out drugs to young women.
Home Demos: Jimi By Himself
The Complete Home Recordings
01. Eyes of Imagination (previously unreleased) [12:32]
02. Long, Long, Summer [04:21]
03. 1983...A Merman I Should Turn To Be [04:00]
04. Moon Turn The Tides Gently Away [03:28]
05. Angel [03:22]
06. C# Jam [03:12]
07. Hear My Train A Comin' [01:21]
08. Voodoo Chile/China Mist [06:07]
09. Gypsy Eyes #1 [05:53]
10. Gypsy Eyes #2 [04:15]
11. Song Title Unknown (previously unreleased) [00:37]
12. Three Little Bears (previously unreleased) [02:13]
13. REM (acoustic, first time ever released) [02:38]
14. 1983...A Merman I Should Turn To Be #2 [04:27]
15. Freedom [01:14]
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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...but perhaps a bit injudicious with handing out drugs to young women. The lead singer of my favorite band is serving 20 to 40 for doing exactly that.
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