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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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