For Jimi Hendrix fans

[Sugar Mr. Poon?]

Excellent documentary on Jimi. You can watch it with the link below or check it out on PBS. Just watched it, it gave me chills several times. Good stuff, enjoy.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmast...-a-comin/2756/

[Guest070818-1]

Thanks for posting this, I absolutely love Jimj Hendrix! Listened to Purple haze this morning.

[TheWanderer]

His music, like The Doors has become so mood inducing and mood setting as to become classical. His music ends up in so many movies because it sets the stage and creates a background that defines a scene.
He was one of the greatest artists of all time.

[hd]

Never again will there be an era of music like the late 60's and 70's !

[yewhew]

Thank you for sharing.

[phildo]

I watched some of this, but more Hendrix, less chat, please. When he was playing, well, that's a whole vocabulary that still doesn't have dictionary entries.

He was also a futurist, envisioning the ECCIE culture in his songs...

"Cause if my baby won't love me...her sister will!"

"Is this love, or is this just confusion?"

"I know what I want, I just don't know how to go about gettin' it"

Jimi Hendrix

I could start a rerun thread in coed with any of those lines!

When you listen to Hendrix, crank it till the neighbors complain, it's the only way.

[Kennedy85]

Never be another like Jimi! Merman i should turn to be n' purple haze are some of my favorie Jimi songs.Thanks for posting that link!

[Prolongus]

We recorded that and forgot...thanks, gonna watch it tonight.
He was a genius with the guitar. His Star Spangled Banner from Woodstock still gives me goosebumps...the U.S. is smack in the middle of Vietnam and in his version, you can hear bombs dropping and exploding, jet engines, machine gun fire, children crying...the sounds of war. How anyone can think of incorporating "Taps" in the anthem...just WOW.

The greatest protest song ever, IMHO.

[Chung Tran]

"you're a woman.. at least you taste like you are"!

[Prolongus]

"Scuse me, while I kiss the sky..." Or...was it:
"Scuse me, while I kiss this guy..."

[Guest092216]

I haven't seen the documentary yet but will check it out for sure! Thanks for posting the link.

I fell in love with Hendrix after a very tragic event in my life when I was a young adult. The lyrics and music moved me to a place where my confusion became tangible and outside of myself. Every time the world got to be too much I would listen and find some peace again.

Didnt he think of his guitar as a woman and when he played he thought of it as making love to his guitar? That would explain so much about why he was able to do what he did with his music.

Fave songs, red house, manic depression, wind cries mary, freedom and stepping stone

[phildo]

From Rick Wakeman's review of Keith Emerson's "Pictures of an Exhibitionist"...

"There is no doubt that Keith's apprenticeship prepared him well for stardom. To have worked extensively with Jimi Hendrix (in 1967 The Nice opened for Hendrix at the Marquee in London then toured Britain with him; Hendrix often played with Emerson then) is something to be relished, and relish it he did. As a musician myself, I would have liked to know much more about this particular era, though, as so little has been written about the collaborations between Hendrix and Emerson."

Little IS documented, save for a short 8mm film Jimi had of Emo wrestling with the M-100, dagger all which he ran backwards and forwards and found incredibly amusing. Hendix and Emo both mentioned Keith woking on Axis, which never happened. Damn.

Too much ego to ever have happened, in spite of all the HELP rumours, but I'd have paid money to see that shit, even the soundcheck jams. Holy feedback fuckballs!!

[Black Navy]

Prior to Keith Richards in 1967, Jim Hendrix played in backing bands with Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Little Richard, and the Isley Brotherss, and nothing beats that period of music 60 & 70, Motown, R&B, Electric Rock, Rockabilly, Jazz, Blues, Funk, Punk and Hip Hop great shit!

[phildo]

Hendrix trivia...what cheesecake no-panty wearing female movie star had Hendrix as the studio guitarist for a single she released in 1965?

Extra points for the song title

Who did Hendrix first tour with in the UK that makes the 7 Monkees dates look almost sane?

[Chung Tran]

"cheesecake, no panty...

hmmm... that let's out Patty Duke

I'm guessing Bridgette Bardot?

I don't know the other question... Chad & Jeremy?