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Tarbuster
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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
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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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