Tuesday night Jimi Hendrix on PBS: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.1500376
Tuesday night Jimi Hendrix on PBS: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.1500376
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I was 14 when I saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience here in L.A. in April of 1969. Even at that age my friends and I knew that he was a special musical gift that came from beyond. He is one of the reasons that I later got into prog, because he showed me where the music can be taken, and he certainly took the guitar to places no one ever dreamed could be possible. Looking back on those years now, and realizing just how much he contributed to music in the short time he was around, late October 1966 to September 1970, seems like a surreal dream, but he really did happen. Sometimes the God-gifted like Hendrix only shows up for a short time on Earth to show us the way. I feel very lucky to have been around when he was, and for me seeing him perform was akin to seeing someone like Beethoven conducting. He WAS a Voodoo Child, a magic boy.
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Thanks for the tip. I almost missed that!
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Excellent!
Cool. I just bought the DVD, but being a lazy bastard it's very easy to DVR it and view it that way. For those Hendrix fans, the DVD is still worth getting as there are some decent bonus stuff on it, that's not part of the documentary.
set to record - my 18 year old is a big fan
Thanks for the reminder, I saw it coming up, but then forgot about it today.
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Really good documentary. The absence of Eric Burdon was glaring, IMO. What's up with that?
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Yeah, it was a good doc, enjoyed it. I can't believe he passed at 27 or 28 whatever it was. Why was the absence of Eric Burdon glaring. I guess I don't know the connection there?
Watched it last night. I didn't learn much that I didn't already know, but I enjoyed it. I think my favorite part was when Eddie Kramer soloed up all of the guitar tracks on "Little Wing."
I saw Jimi and The Experience live when I was a teen. That's reason enough for not minding being as old as I am.
Fun documentary. Reminded me of Duane Allman, who also carried his guitar everywhere. Both guys should still be with us today. Sad also how many of those folks in the film are also gone. Jimi burned so, so brightly while here. You're lucky to have seen him, Ernie. I was 15 when he left us.
Really?Originally Posted by rapidfirerob
I think I was 15 years old at the time. Before the curtains came up, Jimi played a lick, just to be sure his gear was working and the crowd went nuts! At the end of the show, he played "Taps;" threw his guitar at his amp stack and it crashed to the ground; then they all walked off the stage as it laid there, feeding back. Good times!
Where was this and what year? What material did he play, if you recall? Questions to get progressively harder as we go.Really?
I think I was 15 years old at the time. Before the curtains came up, Jimi played a lick, just to be sure his gear was working and the crowd went nuts! At the end of the show, he played "Taps;" threw his guitar at his amp stack and it crashed to the ground; then they all walked off the stage as it laid there, feeding back. Good times!
I already flunked.Where was this and what year? What material did he play, if you recall? Questions to get progressively harder as we go.
Well, it was at The Civic Opera House in Chicago and I think it was '67. "Axis" had just gotten released, but I don't they played any material from it. Soft Machine opened.
Perfect! What chemicals were you on?
None, I was a latecomer to that scene, though I might've made up for lost time five years later.Perfect! What chemicals were you on?
Kidding; to be honest, I never did LSD, even during it's heyday. Weed, well that's a different story...
I never did LSD either. Tried mushrooms once, but they must have been beyond the expiration date.
Weed, hmm.
Sunday, 25 February 1968 The Experience Chicago Civic Opera House
1. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. Fire
3. The Wind Cries Mary
4. Foxy Lady
5. I Don't Live Today
6. Hey Joe
7. Please Crawl Out Your Window
8. Manic Depression
9. Like A Rolling Stone
10. Purple Haze
BTW, notes from Taps was often played during Purple Haze.
From the Chicago Tribune 26 February 1968
THE SHATTERING HENDRIX EXPERIENCE
Electric guitar hiding his face, he started plucking the strings with his tongue and teeth. He scraped the guitar against the mike and made suggestive gestures with It. Across the stage the bass player threw his instrument behind his neck.
Then Hendrix began rushing the amps, banging the guitar against them, each time with a louder thud. He finally stop- ped, backed toward the audience, and flung the Instrument crashing Into the equipment. He turned around, smiled a supercool smile, and said goodbye.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience was over.
Yesterday afternoon's Opera house audience sat stunned, having gone thru it, many having fought it most of the way, and most of them having lost.
The Experience overwhelm their audience, beat them down, dominate them with sound and onstage magnetism, make thee embarrassed captives -musical masochists- who In spite of themselves are excited and fascinated by the cascading violence.
For one of those who fought and lost, who doesn't like the albums, who finds Hendrix's voice bothersome and harsh and the group's sound fractured and distorted, it posed a curious question: Can destruction and creativity co-exist?
The music is undeniably powerful. Without coming right out and saying so, it lets you know there is a war in Viet Nam and there will be more big city riots next summer, that the world is not very pretty and people don't commun- icate and want to escape, that there are things like sex and drugs and violence which people are afraid to talk about but maybe should.
Hendrix writes almost everything that the three-man group does, though there is occasional homage to Dylan or the Beatles. The sound is hard and a bit too much the same thruout, but the lyrics are good, particularly on the new album (which for some reason, they avoided here).
Preceding The Experience was another superb three-man group from London, The Soft Machine, lead by a drummer vocalist in black bikini trunks. They're touring with Hendrix.
They sit in front of a large projection screen. Their light show has the rare distinction that it works - floating images coincide with the musical line and comment on it. "Your eye becomes your ear, the first song says - and it does.
Amoeba like, the sounds jump onto the screen. Big ones grab little ones. They split, they unite, they explode.
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^Thanks a lot! No songs from Axis.
Yeah, they didn't play a whole lot off that album, unfortunately. "Spanish Castle Magic" and "Little Wing" were pretty common. Apparently, he played "Axis" once or twice, although I've never heard it. "Wait Until Tomorrow" was, as far as I know, only played live on the BBC once. And, I have what seems to be the only live performances of "EXP" and "Up from the Skies." And, it wasn't until the past year or so that I actually came across a live performance of "Little Miss Lover," aside from the BBC version.
That's pretty much it.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Thanks for doing the homework for me, ronmac!
The connection is that Eric and Jimi were close friends, that's all. Eric got plenty of facetime in another documentary about Jimi.
Jimi was 27 when he died, as was Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. They all died within a year from one another. The "summer of love" was clearly over after that.
Definitely enjoyed the documentary....recorded it to watch again. Man, Mitch Mitchell was insane, eh?
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