Remembering Jimi Hendrix

[kpete]

1970 - I met Mr. Pete, our first date was Jimi Hendrix concert - so this is really a special find (40 years later):
HERE: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/18/903033/-Remembering-Jimi-Hendrix

[MrMickeysMom]

1. Thank you so much for that...

How I wished I had the chance to see him. He died when I was a Junior in high school. So many things changed that year, and I still had so many more years to go before I could tell what was going on around my world.

Today one of our public radio programs had a great compendium of Hendrix. It's nice to get a feel for where he may have been going. He was here long enough to make contact with a changed generation, so full of hope. Keeps me going to this day.

[Steely_Dan]

2. There Was No One Else Like Him...

and there will never be another.

[tridim]

8. I believe there will be another, but it might take 100 years. nt

[struggle4progress]

3. His Star-Spangled Banner was brilliant

[Kat45]

4. I still remember the day he died.

When I heard it on the news, I went into my room and played my "Are You Experienced" LP. My boyfriend is one of those fortunate enough to have seen him play.

[Twinguard]

5. Hendrix changed music forever.

I have been a guitar player for most of my life, and Jimi is my idol. There has never been anyone better and there never will be. In his playing, Jimi could portray a feeling, a mood, or an idea. His expression was second to none. Without Jimi Hendrix, the electric guitar would not be what we know today. Jimi was light years beyond his fellow guitar players in not only expression, but technique. The closest anyone came to Jimi's playing was about ten years later when Stevie Ray Vaughn shredded up a stratocaster to Jimi's songs.

Jimi Hendrix was as influential as the Beatles in the world of guitar. The Beatles get all sorts of recognition for being THE most influential band in history. What people fail to realize is that without Jimi, there would be no Stevie Ray vaughn, no Eddie van Halen, no Joe Satriani, no Steve Vai, no Orianthi, no hard rock, no heavy metal, virtually no overdriven or distorted guitar tone, and without Jimi Hendrix, the wah-wah pedal would be a flash in history's pan.

While some people might love him and some people might hate him, nobody can deny that Jimi changed music.

I have been playing the guitar for nearly twenty years, and I know I will never be as good or as influential as Jimi. All I can do is to practice hard and do my best to learn from his experience (the guitar playing part of his life, not the bad parts =])

RIP James Marshall Hendrix

[JustAmused]

16. Jimi and Jazz

Former musician here. From what I have heard, Jimi was scheduled to do a session with I believe the Gil Evans group, doing all jazz. Now that would have taken a lot of music in different directions. I heard something a few years back that someone wanted to try to do the recording he was going to make. I don't know if anything came of that or not.

Aha !!! Google and wiki...lol

"Evans had a particular interest in the work of rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix's 1970 death made impossible a scheduled meeting with Evans to discuss having Hendrix front a big band led by Evans. In 1974, he released an album of his arrangements of music by Hendrix. "

I think I heard those years ago when I was still playing. But a collaboration between those two would have been amazing.

[tridim]

20. Have you ever heard his posthumous blues album?

I think it was released in 94, and it's spectacular. Pure, raw, sexy blues, played Jimi's way.

[Desertrose]

6. Saw him at the Electric Factory in Philly....

pre-19170....those dates are all hazy now.

I can still see Jimi playing that guitar with his teeth...he was something else for sure. :(

RIP Jimi

[tridim]

7. I've been listening all day

Jaw agape.

There is gold in some of his more obscure songs too.

[Waiting For Everyman]

9. WTH? Well I can add something "after 40 years in the spotlight

but thanks to blogging" (whatever that means)

Like a correction, for petes sake (to what I can only surmise is supposed to be the "Purple Haze" lyric): it's "excuse me while I KISS THE SKY", not "excuse me while I kiss this guy". OMG, how dumb is that? What kind of lyric would that be? And who the hell believes that Hendrix would write something that lame? "Excuse me while I kiss this guy"! Really?! It makes me wonder if that writer has listened at all to any of this music he claims to be so into? Ozzie Nelson (if gay) might've written that lyric, ok? See the cognitive dissonance now?

And "Foxey Lady" doesn't even make the top 10 list?

Ok, whatever.

It just seems like every time I get online lately, I'm confronted with yet another example of some absurd drivel written about my era - which is beginning to drive me f***ing nuts.


Sorry, kpete, I don't mean that to in any way dampen your personal memory, or Hendrix' memory, of course.

[tridim]

11. I read about this today, and apparently Jimi did sing "kiss this guy" live a few times

He sang it as a joke because people were confusing the lyric. No big deal.

[Emit]

12. Diarist Eddie C says it was a joke ~ it's one of the top 3 mondegreens

follow the comments

It's one of the top three mondegreens (misheard lyrics) and Hendrix was known to deliberately sing them in concert:

The top three mondegreens submitted regularly to mondegreen expert Jon Carroll are:

* "Gladly, the cross-eyed bear<3> (from the line in the hymn "Keep Thou My Way" by Fanny Crosby, "Kept by Thy tender care, gladly the cross I'll bear") Carroll and many others quote it as "Gladly the cross I'd bear".

* There's a bathroom on the right (the line at the end of each verse of "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival: "There's a bad moon on the rise")

* 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy (from a lyric in the song "Purple Haze", by Jimi Hendrix: "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky").

Both Creedence's John Fogerty and Hendrix eventually capitalized on these mishearings and deliberately sang the "mondegreen" versions of their songs in concert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen#Examples

[DiehardLiberal]

10. I was lucky to meet him and see him play...

I grew up in LA in the 60's and saw him the first time at Monterey Pop Festival. He blew everyone's minds - so much they had him play twice. Then I was in London in with a mod designer friend and we went to a Mother's of Invention concert at the Royal Albert Hall. My friend was making gorgeous velvet jackets with crescent moons and stars and Jimi came up to us at the interval to see about getting one. He was so sweet and soft spoken. Then a year or so later, I was at the Whiskey on the Sunset Strip with a band who opened for John Mayall there and Jimi sat at our table for awhile. Again, just a really nice guy. I saw him in concert a few other times and he was incredibly sexy. But in person, he wss a very low key guy. I was devastated when he died. Such a tragic loss...

[NBachers]

13. I saw Jimi at the Oakland Coliseum in 1969

I had a wonderful little girl friend who lived in the projects, in sight of the Coliseum.

I had another friend who'd just scored some excellent green bud in the days when almost everything was seeds, stems, and shake.

Kathy and I walked over to the concert from her place- she lived in old World War 2 barracks that had been converted into public housing.

Just last week I was reflecting on what people expect to happen after they pass on- I saw myself visiting with Jimi and being greeted as a brother . . .

And over the years, I've often wondered what happened to my beautiful little Hawaiian Kathy from Oakland . . .

[Dark]

14. "All along the watchtower" was the best anti-war song EVER. And I'm a millenial.

Seriously. Listen to it. It is beautiful.

[exboyfil]

18. Hendrix did a cover of the Dylan song

"All Along the Watchtower".

Still the Hendrix version is better, and Dylan even agrees and modified his own performances as a tribute to Hendrix.

Kind of like "With a Little Help from my Friends" - The Beatles version is a fun song, but Cocker made it his anthem.

Robert Johnson, Holly, Valens, Brian Jones, Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin, Redding, Allman, Vicious, Van Zant, Cobain - all died before 30. How much more music would we have if they had lived.

[flamingdem]

15. Little Wing still blows my mind nt

[ThomWV]

17. I feel the same way about "Red House"

[pipi_k]

22. "Watchtower" and "Voodoo Child" for me....

:)

[madokie]

19. How was this for a concert for 2 bucks

In the Navy while stationed at Warner Springs California's SERE school and Hendrix, the Doors and Janis Joplin came to the San Diego Coliseum and the Navy scored us some tickets for two bucks. Been too long to remember who was the head liner but I seem to think it was first the Doors then Janis then Hendrix's, all three were big at the time. Warner Springs was way the fuck up there in the boonies so the Navy gave us special privileges such as getting these tickets for us. Best I remember there was around 6 of us who went. There was a couple others who wanted to go but they were on duty that night so they couldn't go due to the fact they couldn't find anyone to set in for them. The SERE school had about 90 people who were stationed there and about 60 of them lived off base so it was hard on weekends to find someone to trade duty with or pay for setting in for you. I kept my ticket stub for years but finally surrendered it to one of my girlfriends, who collected such things, and needless to say I've not seen her or the ticket stub in years, don't really care too either. Would like to have the ticket stub back though. We took a Navy six passenger dodge pick up truck to the concert too. Another one of those special privileges we enjoyed. What a time in my life back then

[Scurrilous]

21. K & R

:thumbsup:

[pacalo]

23. Jimi could make his guitar speak. Greatest guitar player ever, imo.