This Day In Music History (10-23)

[DazedandConfused]

I break up all my bud on a Hendrix album case, in honor, before a bowl or joint or whenever, but i always do. whichever one I find first. What's your favorite song by him? Red house is good, I like after he says he still has his guitar, then he goes into that cool blues solo deal, that shit is amazing!

[DazedandConfused]

Isn't Freedom on a commercial? Actually I know it is, and it might only be the tune, but there is definitely a commercial that has that song playing. Everytime I hear it it reminds me of a commercial, I just don't know which one. It might be a couple years old

Edit: I think it's a credit card commercial, or maybe a cell phone, and they're using the song Freedom because you don't have to sign contracts?? Anyone remember?

[beachguy in thongs]

What's your favorite song by him? Red house is good, I like after he says he still has his guitar, then he goes into that cool blues solo deal, that shit is amazing!

I couldn't tell you my favorite song, I know that Jimi Hendrix didn't like Purple Haze, he wrote a funny message about it, and one time at a concert, he almost felt forced to play Purple Haze, for an enchore.

The Isle of Wight Festival, in Sept. 1970, is the best, I think, that he's been captured, on tape. During that show, Machine Gun is played so dramatically that you'll stop believing in Music after. Said Lenny Kravitz, "After listening to Machine Gun, I have to go and take a nap." Same concert, every single song is awesome, the Red House version of that is the best you're ever gonna hear. At the beginning of the concert, He plays "God Save The Queen". Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Spanish Castle Magic. All Along The Watchtower. Machine Gun (of course). Lover Man (awesome...Hear he comes, I said. Here comes your lover man), also taken off of "Rock Me Baby" from his earlier days. Freedom. Foxey Lady. Message To Love (probably his best song). EZY Ryder (better than Message To Love). Purple Haze. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - Isle of Wight version is my favorite version of this song/He ends the song beautifully. Last song on the DVD/CD, produced by Janie Hendrix and John McDermott, is In From The Storm.

All of the stuff he was working on when he died (that can be found on The First Rays Of New Rising Sun CD), and is better than everything most people have heard. The Hendrix family albums are starting to bring justice to his music.

[chakruh]

have u heard that cherokee mist rendition?... waaay back I bought this illustrated book of Jimi Hendrix and it came with this cd that contained home recordings... o man I really need to find that book, it had trippy illustrations of jimis whole life... even the night he died, i remember the page had neon green sleeping pills and jimi was sleeping... gotta find that book

[beachguy in thongs]

Yes, I had a 4-tape box set, called Lifelines. I first heard it on that and then, when I went up to Plattsburgh for college, in 1996, it was stolen out of my car. I had one tape out of the box when it was stolen, and that's the one with Cherokee Mist and Angel taped on his home tape recorder in 1968. Have you seen that movie "24: The Last 24 Hours of Jimi Hendrix' Life"? I have this book called Electric Gypsy, it also tells of how his death has been falsified for over 25 years (and still is).

And I was blown away, today, when I was listening to Freedom, live at the Isle of Fenharm, his last concert (besides the jam at Ronnie Scott's house). There's a bridge about a minute and a half into the song where he plays at octaves at lightning speed, I can't explain it, I'd have to show you. That song was brought to life at that concert, download it.

That song is on a Ford Explorer commercial (or some truck). Or car.

[DazedandConfused]

My girlfriend is supposed to get me 24 for my birthday later this month. weve looked for it together and havent been able to find it in any stores. shell probably order it.
oh yeah and awesome. i knew it was on a commercial too.

[beachguy in thongs]

My g/f bought me something, I'd already had, at SunCoast Motion Pictures (a different Jimi DVD), so I looked at their website and found "24", but when I got there, they didn't have it, and they ordered it for me. They said it'd be in the following Wednesday, maybe, but definitely by the one after that.

Two months went by, I had to call them, they had to call the place where they got it from, and, I think, the week after, it finally arrived at the store. Either the week after or the following one.

[F L E S H]

Jimi was indeed about to revolutionize rock when he died... Unfortunately, the people who took up where he left off, like John McLaughlin and a very young Carlos Sanata and others, either remained a bit obscure (McLaughlin) or eventually changed style (Santana).

[beachguy in thongs]

Maybe it's good that I've never recorded myself, professionally, and I've stuck with Hendrix (though I have some pictures of me with a couple, dirfferent girls standing over the John Lennon "Imagine" stone memorial in Central Park). I love Lennon, and I understand the views that He and Hendrix saw in Music and how it could change the World. His Apple/Devil was his soft and tender side, where he'll devote himself entirely to a girl (Yoko Ono). I don't know the politics behind his death, just that the guy was stalking him for several months.