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And more incredible recordings like “Suddenly November Morning” from Jimi’s Greenwich Village apartment, which includes the seeds of a new song that flows into “Drifting.” His talent is baffling to this day. After leaving the military, Hendrix pursued his music, working as a session musician and playing backup for such performers as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, and the Isley Brothers. He served in the army until 1965 when he was discharged because of an injury. There are recordings in hotel rooms: the Band’s “Tears of Rage,” an early work version of “Hear My Train’ a Comin’,” an easeful version of “Long Hot Summer Night” and the tender “Angel.” There are more live recordings at the Fillmore, outtakes from the Band of Gypsys album (“Stone Free,” “Foxey Lady”). Even as a soldier, Hendrix found time for music, creating a band named The King Casuals. “Castles Made of Sand” is another fantastic instrumental version where Hendrix’s guitar is sharp and the tone is downright scary. The lp does not present the songs as originally recorded, all tracks were re-mixed with the guitar as much to the fore as possible and some of the other instruments were mixed out. From there come terrific remixes mostly by Hendrix’s engineer Eddie Kramer that reveal greater sound, since Kramer went back to the original tapes to offer versions before mixdowns. In addition to the 2 original 45s alternate versions of the recordings that Jimi did with The Isley Brothers were released in 1971 on the lp 'In The Beginning'. The first part of this collection features Hendrix’s work with the Isley Brothers, Don Covay and Little Richard. Finding that material was often difficult or available only through inferior bootleg channels. The Jimi Hendrix legend has always included stories about all the great things he did as a sideman for other musicians.
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September 1971. The first track of the Isley Brothers' album GIVIN' IT BACK is a potent medley of Neil Young's "Ohio," about the murder of students at Kent State University, and the Jimi Hendrix Vietnam War protest song "Machine Gun." I wish it weren't still very relevant today.
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When Ernie Isley first picked up the guitar as a teenager, it was to learn Jose Feliciano’s acoustic version of the Doors’ “Light My Fire” — and, of course, one-time Isley Brothers guitarist Jimi Hendrix had lived with the family when Ernie was an adolescent. So he was ready for the spotlight when he took his soaring solo on “That Lady,” in 1973, done in a single take. ”I plugged in, and when I hit the very first note on the ‘That Lady’ rhythm track, it went from black-and-white to 3D Technicolor,” he recalled. “It was astounding.” The song had an immediate, outsized impact on the Isleys’ sound — his long solos were a feature of both the band’s classic Seventies albums and their live shows — and his irradiated, ecstatic fuzztone remains a marker of a halcyon era.—M.M.
Key Tracks: “That Lady,” “Voyage to Atlantis”
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On this date in music history, and it wasn’t all rock…
June 14th
1961 - Patsy Cline
Patsy Cline was seriously injured in a car accident. During her two month hospital stay, her song "I Fall to Pieces" gave the singer her first Country No.1 and also became a huge country-pop crossover hit.
1963 - The Beatles
During a UK tour The Beatles played at New Brighton Tower in Wallasey supported by Gerry and the Pacemakers. Tickets cost 6 shillings in advance. Between 1961 -1963, The Beatles played at The Tower Ballroom on 27 occasions.
1964 - David Bowie
The Manish Boys, (featuring David Bowie) auditioned for the UK television talent show Opportunity Knocks.
1964 - The Beatles
Touring Australia The Beatles arrived in Melbourne and were greeted at the airport by over 5,000 fans. Another 20,000 fans lined the route from the airport to the hotel, army and navy units were brought in to help control the crowds, cars were crushed, hundreds of girls fainted and over 50 people were admitted to hospital with broken bones.
1967 - The Doors
The Doors appeared at Steve Paul's Scene, New York City, Jimi Hendrix was in the audience to see the show.
1974 - Ray Stevens
Ray Stevens was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'The Streak' a song about the latest British craze of streaking, (running naked in a public place).
1977 - Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin played the last of six sold out nights at Madison Square Garden, in New York City during their 11th and final North American tour. The 3-hour set included: The Song Remains The Same, Since I’ve Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone, 'Stairway To Heaven', Whole Lotta Love, Rock And Roll and When the Levee Breaks.
1980 - Billy Joel
Billy Joel started a six-week run at No.1 on the US album chart with 'Glass Houses', his second US No.1 album. The album features Joel's first song to peak at No.1 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, 'It's Still Rock and Roll to Me.'
1986 - Ozzy Osbourne
Three fans died during an Ozzy Osbourne gig at Long Beach Arena, California after falling from a balcony.
1987 - Pink Floyd
30 hired hands moved 800 rented NHS beds onto Saunton Sands in North Devon for Storm Thorgerson to shoot what would be the cover of the forthcoming Pink Floyd album 'A Momentary Lapse Of Reason'. Rain interrupted the shoot and the team were forced to repeat the exercise two weeks later.
1994 - Henry Mancini
Composer Henry Mancini died aged 70. Wrote the music to 'Moon River, which was originally sung in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's by Audrey Hepburn, was also the theme song for the Andy Williams television show. Had the 1969 US No.1 single 'Love Theme from Romeo And Juliet.' Recorded over 90 albums, contributed music to over 100 movies, including 'Theme From The Pink Panther.'
1995 - Rory Gallagher
Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher died after a chest infection set in following a liver transplant. Had been a member of Taste before going solo, sold over 30m albums worldwide. Voted Melody Maker's Top Musician of the Year in 1972, auditioned for The Rolling Stones following the departure of Mick Taylor. Gallagher made his final performance on 10 January 1995 in the Netherlands.
2000 - Paul Griffin
American pianist and session musician Paul Griffin died aged 62. He recorded with hundreds of musicians from the 1950s to the 1990s. Griffin worked with Bob Dylan, Steely Dan, Don McLean, the Isley Brothers, Van Morrison, The Shirelles, and Dionne Warwick. He is best known for playing on the albums Bob Dylan albums Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde on Blonde, and Steely Dan's Aja.
2002 - Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger became a Sir when he was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours. It was claimed that the Queen avoided personally giving Jagger his knighthood because she thought he was an inappropriate candidate for the honour.
2007 - Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan won Spain's Prince of Asturias Arts Award, one of the country's most prestigious honours. Jury chairman Jose Llado called Dylan a 'living legend of popular music and the guiding star of a generation that dreamed of changing the world'. Previous winners of the annual prize include US film-maker Woody Allen.
2012 - Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr's birthplace in Liverpool was saved from the threat of demolition. The house, a run-down three-bedroom Victorian terrace, was one of 400 buildings marked for demolition in the Dingle area of Liverpool, but Beatles fans and city residents had successfully lobbied to save the house, along with 15 others in the area. The Liverpool City Council has agreed to give locals the opportunity to fix up the properties
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Hector: A Playlist
Never Can Say Goodbye - Jackson 5 // Strong Island - JVC Force // All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix // I wanna Be Your Lover - Prince // Querida - Juan Gabriel // Rapture - Blondie // Dr. Beat - Miami Sound Machine // Tu y Yo - Chayanne // Jazzy Sensation (Bronx Version) - Afrika Bambaataa & The Jazzy 5 // Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine - James Brown // Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind & Fire, & The Emotions // I Wonder If I Take You Home - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam // A Song for You - Donny Hathaway // Scars of Love - TKA // Boogie Nights - Heatwave // When Somebody Loves You Back - Teddy Pendergrass // In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra // (At Your Best) You Are Love - The Isley Brothers // For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield // Wild Is The Wind - Nina Simone // El Venao - Los Cantantes De Ramon Orlando // One Way Love - TKA // Square Biz - Teena Marie // I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston // Fire & Desire - Rick James & Teena Marie
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Ohio / Machine Gun · The Isley Brothers
A 9-minute social medley of two famous political / social songs of the 60s - the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song Ohio and the Jimi Hendrix track Machine Gun.
The Isley Brother called the track "Ohio - Machine Gun". The "Ohio" part of the song partly covered the lyrics written by Neil Young, the most famous song about the Kent State shootings: "tin soldier I hear them coming...four dead in Ohio".
The Hendrix version of "Machine Gun", largely thought to be a protest against the Vietnam War, also provided a commentary on war in general, with the guitars mimicking the sounds of bullets, bombs and helicopters.
In this version, the Isley Brothers also took an anti-war perspective, singing about people running from the war: "bullets flying, children run, mothers screaming...tell me why", followed by some religious content: "forgive them, they no not what they do".
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This is what Britain sounded like in late 1966 and early 1967: ablaze with rainbow blues, orchestral guitar feedback, and cosmic possibility. Jimi Hendrix’s incendiary guitar was historic in itself, the luminescent sum of his chitlin-circuit labors with Little Richard and the Isley Brothers and his melodic exploitation of amp howl. But it was the pictorial heat of songs like “Manic Depression” and “The Wind Cries Mary” that established the transcendent promise of psychedelia. Backed by drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding, the guitarist made soul music for inner space. “It’s a collection of free feeling and imagination,” he said of the album. “Imagination is very important.” Widely assumed to be about an acid trip, “Purple Haze” had “nothing to do with drugs,” Hendrix insisted. “‘Purple Haze’ was all about a dream I had that I was walking under the sea.”
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Funky Friday.
I don’t have too many notes for this week. The playlist should speak for itself. Let the funk get you in the groove.
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/funky-friday/pl.u-oZylMVRCPqDGLE
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5dImxpEUBAz092xnnraHrA?si=PUNKTmOFTTKPBiN3JBV3sg
Funkadelic – “Mommy, What’s A Funkadelic?” (Funkadelic)
Parliament – “Funkentelechy” (Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome)
Bootsy’s Rubber Band – “The Pinocchio Theory” (Ahh…The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!)
Octavepussy, George Clinton & Parliament featuring Funkadelic – “Keep Your Head Up And Hold Your Head High” (Straight From #1 Bimini Road)
Jean Carn – “There’s A Shortage Of Good Men” (Happy To Be With You)
Teddy Pendergrass – “Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose” (Life Is A Song Worth Singing)
Patti LaBelle – “Body Language” (I’m In Love Again)
The Isley Brothers – “Live It Up (Part 1 & 2)” (Live It Up)
Barry White – “Let The Music Play” (Let The Music Play)
Prince featuring George Clinton – “We Can Funk” (Graffiti Bridge)
Trouble Funk – “New Money” (Trouble Over Here, Trouble Over There)
Jimi Hendrix – “Crash Landing” (People, Hell And Angels)
Ohio Players – “Fire” (Fire)
The Temptations – “Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone” (All Directions)
Lee Fields – “Watch That Man” (Let’s Get A Groove On)
James Brown – “Can’t Take It With You” (Get Up Offa That Thing)
Lyn Collins – “Rock Me Again & Agin” (Check Me Out If You Don’t Know Me By Now)
Earth, Wind & Fire – “Let’s Groove” (Raise!)
Trombone Shorty featuring Jeff Beck – “Do To Me” (For True)
Sly & The Family Stone – “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” (Greatest Hits)
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@seconddoubt tagged me to post 10 songs i’ve been listening to a lot lately!🌸
the isley brothers - shout
eddie money - take me home tonight
paul mccartney - the back seat of my car
john lennon - angela
the beatles - i want to hold your hand
fleetwood mac - the chain
jimi hendrix - if 6 was 9
cream - world of pain
100 gecs - 745 sticky
george harrison - brainwashed
tagging: @madmanics, @bbbrianjones, @draculaslut & @eyes-like-a-pisces
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This week there were four talented, inspirational, and trailblazing Black Americans highlighted.
James Baldwin (1924-1987) probably would not have called himself an activist, but we do. He told things how he saw it. He spoke his truth and his peace and he did not care who heard it. He was bisexual and he said that sexuality was fluid and not binary as our society portrays it. He spoke of the Black American perspective from the point of view of Blacks.
Some of his works include:
"Giovanni's Room"
"Another Country"
"Notes of a Native Son"
"The Fire Next Time"
As activists died, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers he mourned, became disenchanted, and his writing reflected his mood and the mood of our community.
Ta-Nehisi Coates (b. 1975) is an author and journalist and he speaks about social, political, and cultural issues, especially in relation to the relationship between Black Americans and White Supremacy. He has won many awards and fellowships and he has written "The Case for Reparations" where he looks at the Black American condition from enslavement to present times and he lays out a case as to why reparations are not only owed but possible.
Some of his works include:
"Between the World and Me"
"The Water Dancer"
"Fear of a Black President"
Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) was a star that burned hot, high, and fast. His mainstream career only lasted 4 years but he created bands during childhood and during his time in the military. He learned to play innovatively because he was self taught, he was a left handed musician who learned to play on a right handed guitar and due to his natural talent. He had the support of his father even as his mother left the family. He had his demons, as many of us do, and he died at an early age, 27, trying to silence them.
He worked with greats such as BB King, Sam Cooke, The Isley Brother, and Little Richard. He built a following within the genre of music he loved and had legends such as The Beatles, Eric Clapton, and The Rolling Stones following his work.
One of his most memorable performances was when he was the last act at 1969 Woodstock and he played an innovative rendition of The Star Spangled Banner. He is still considered one of the most influential guitarist in history.
A few of his songs are:
"Hey Joe"
"Purple Haze"
"The Wind Cries Mary"
Alice Ball (1892-1916) found a viable cure for leprosy at the age of 23. She was the first African American to earn a master's degree from the University of Hawaii and she was the first Black woman to be a professor there.
Due to her work Americans no longer had to be exiled to an Hawaiian island. They no longer had to have funerals before their exile and they could be both treated and cured from their homes.
We have been adding our voice to the narrative of this nation since its inception. Now is the time that we are heard.
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Variances of the Canon:
NME TOP 100 ALBUMS
1. What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye (1971)
2. Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (1968)
3. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan (1965)
4. The Clash - The Clash (1977)
5. Marquee Moon - Television (1977)
6. Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits (1983)
7. The Band - The Band (1969)
8. Blond On Blond - Bob Dylan (1966)
9. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon (1970)
10. Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division (1979)
11. Revolver - The Beatles (1966)
12. The Sun Collection - Elvis Presley (1975)
13. Never Mind The Bollocks... - The Sex Pistols (1977)
14. Forever Changes - Love (1967)
15. Low - David Bowie (1977)
16. The Velvet Underground And Nico - The Velvet Underground (1967)
17. Solid Gold - James Brown (1977)
18. Horses - Patti Smith (1975)
19. Live And Lowdown At The Apollo - James Brown (1962)
20. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys (1966)
21. Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis (1959)
22. Bringing It All Back Home - Bob Dylan (1965)
23. Otis Blue - Otis Redding (1966)
24. The Doors - The Doors (1967)
25. Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones (1972)
26. Anthology - The Temptations (1974)
27. Greatest Hits - Aretha Franklin (1977)
28. Are You Experienced - The Jimi Hendrix Experience (1967)
29. The Modern Dance - Pere Ubu (1978)
30. King Of The Delta Blues Singers - Robert Johnson (1972)
31. Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
32. Anthology - Smoky Bacon And The Miracles (1974)
33. The Beatles - The Beatles (1968)
34. Searching For The Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners (1980)
35. White Light/White Heat - The Velvet Underground (1968)
36. Young Americans - David Bowie (1975)
37. The Poet - Bobby Womack (1982)
38. Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk (1977)
39. Darkness On The Edge Of Town - Bruce Springsteen (1979)
40. This Years Model - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1978)
41. Another Green World - Brian Eno (1975)
42. Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band (1969)
43. The Man Machine - Kraftwerk (1978)
44. The Mothership Connection - Parliament (1975)
45. The Cream Of Al Green - Al Green (1980)
46. Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye (1973)
47. There’s A Riot Going On - Sly And The Family Stone (1971)
48. Rocket To Russia - The Ramones (1977)
49. Greatest Hits - Sly And The Family Stone (1970)
50. Big 16 - The Impressions (1965)
51. Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan (1974)
52. Alan Vega/Martin Rev - Suicide (1980)
53. Another Music In A Different Kitchen - Buzzcocks (1978)
54. Closer - Joy Division (1980)
55. Mad Not Mad - Madness (1985)
56. For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music (1973)
57. The Scream - Siouxie & The Banshees (1980)
58. The Harder They Come - Soundtrack Featuring Jimmy Cliff
59. Entertainment! - Gang Of Four (1980)
60. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (1969)
61. 3+3 - The Isley Brothers (1973)
62. The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell (1975)
63. “Heroes” - David Bowie (1977)
64. Meat Is Murder - The Smiths (1985)
65. Station To Station - David Bowie (1976)
66. Clear Spot - Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band (1972)
67. Get Happy! - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1980)
68. Fear Of Music - Talking Heads (1979)
69. Lust For Life - Iggy Pop (1977)
70. Berlin - Lou Reed (1973)
71. 20 Greatest Hits - Buddy Holly & The Crickets (1967)
72. Music From Big Pink - The Band (1968)
73. Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles (1964)
74. Roxy Music - Roxy Music (1972)
75. Leave Home - The Ramones (1977)
76. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane (1957)
77. Golden Decade Vol 1 - Chuck Berry (1972)
78. The Very Best Of.. - Jackie Wilson
79. In A Silent Way - Miles Davis (1969)
80. Stranded - Roxy Music (1973)
81. Talking Heads ‘77 - Talking Heads (1977)
82. The Correct Use Of Soap - Magazine (1980)
83. Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen (1983)
84. Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell (1974)
85. Strange Days - The Doors (1967)
86. More Songs About Buildings And Food - Talking Heads (1978)
87. LA Woman - The Doors (1971)
88. Chess Masters - Howling Wolf (1981)
89. Armed Forces - Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1979)
90. Steve Mcqueen - Prefab Sprout (1985)
91. Paris 1919 - John Cale (1973)
92. Forward Onto Zion - The Abyssinians (1977)
93. My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello (1977)
94. Rattlesnakes - Lloyd Cole & The Commotions (1984)
95. Best Of - The Beach Boys (1968)
96. King Tubbys Meets The Rockers Uptown - Augustus Pablo (1976)
97. Rubber Soul - The Beatles (1965)
98. Suicide - Suicide (1977)
99. The Undertones - The Undertones (1979)
(Yes, there are only 99 entries in this top 100 list)
Some notable differences from the Rolling Stone list (which only included albums from 1967 to 1987) that would be published two years later: Sgt. Pepper’s is not here; there’s a lot of postpunk and very little SF rock; more reggae; it includes Forever Changes and more black people; Berlin?!
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Throwback: The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Foxy Lady
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience came from Jimi Hendrix's years of being a supporting and session musician for others including The Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Sam Cooke and Ike and Tina Turner. Chas Chandler, who managed English rock group The Animals, took Hendrix to England to start a solo career. Hendrix, Noel Redding (bass) and Mitch Mitchell (drums) became The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Are You Experienced? was their 1967 debut album. "Foxy Lady" was rumored to be inspired by Hendrix's Harlem girlfriend Lithofayne "Faye" Pridgon and it was all about Hendrix aggressively approaching women walking down the street although he was actually shy in his daily life. Hendrix's sultry guitar riffs and bold vocals jolted rock audiences into full attention on the new rock trio. "Foxy Lady" fully represented Hendrix's style that drew from R&B, blues and jazz with his individual psychedelic imprint. Are You Experienced? opened up new possibilities in music for the way Hendrix and his band finessed the blues into transcendental euphoria. The Hendrix-penned "Foxy Lady" was amongst his signature songs that became synonymous with the '60s and one of rock's lasting creations beyond its original time.
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Music History Today: December 16, 2021
December 16, 1966: The Jimi Hendrix Experience released the single "Hey Joe." This is the song that started it all for Hendrix. After being discharged from the US Army in 1962, he worked as a backing musician for The Isley Brothers and Little Richard, and in 1966 performed under the name Jimmy James in the group Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. Hendrix introduced "Hey Joe" to the band and added it to their setlist. During a show at the Greenwich Village club Cafe Wha?, Chas Chandler of The Animals was in the audience, and he knew instantly that Hendrix was the man to record the song.
Read more:
https://www.olafsings.com/2021/12/music-history-today-december-16-2021.html
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The Black Elvis?
Michael Lydon, The New York Times, 25 February 1968
SAN FRANCISCO —“Will he burn it tonight?” asked a neat blonde of her boyfriend, squashed in beside her on the packed floor of the Fillmore auditorium. "He did at Monterey,” the boy friend said, recalling the Pop Festival at which the guitarist, in a moment of elation, actually put a match to his guitar. The blonde and her boy friend went on watching the stage, crammed with huge silver-fronted Fender amps, a double drum set, and whispering stage hands. Mitch Mitchell, the drummer, came on first, sat down, smiled, and adjusted his cymbals. Then came bassist Noel Redding, gold glasses glinting on his fair, delicate face, and plugged into his amp.
“There he is,” said the blonde, and yes, said the applause, there he was, Jimi Hendrix, a cigarette slouched in his mouth, dressed in tight black pants draped with a silver belt, and a pale rainbow shirt half hidden by a black leather vest.
“Dig this, baby,” he mumbled into the mike. His left hand swung high over his frizz-bouffant hair making a shadow on the exploding sun light-show, then down onto his guitar and the Jimi Hendrix Experience roared into “Red House.” It was the first night of the group's second American tour. During the first tour, last summer, they were almost unknown. But this time two LP’s and eight months of legend preceded them.
The crowds in San Francisco—their three nights here were the biggest in the Fillmore’s history—were drooling for Hendrix in the flesh. They got it: this time he didn't burn his guitar ("I was feeling mild”) but, with the careless, slovenly and blatantly erotic arrogance that is his trademark, he gave them what they wanted.
He played all the favorites, “Purple Haze,” “Foxy Lady,” “Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire” and "The Wind Cries Mary.” He played flicking his gleaming white Gibson between his legs and propelling it out of his groin with a nimble grind of his hips. Bending his head over the strings, he plucked them with his teeth as if eating them, occasionally pulling away to take deep breaths. Falling back and lying almost prone, he pumped the guitar neck as it stood high on his belly.
He made sound by swinging the guitar before him and just tapping the body. He played with no hands at all, letting his wah-wah pedal bend and break the noise into madly distorted melodic lines. And all at top volume, the bass and drums building a wall of black noise heard as much by pressure on the eyeballs as with the ears.
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The black Elvis? He is that in England. In America James Brown is, but only for Negroes; could Hendrix become that for American whites? The title, rich in potential imagery, is a mantle waiting to be bestowed. Within his wildness, Hendrix plays on the audience’s reaction to his sexual violence with an ironic and even gentle humor. The D.A.R. sensed what he is up to: they managed to block one appearance with the Monkees last summer, because he was “too erotic.” But if Jimi knows about his erotic appeal, he won’t admit it.
"Man, it's the music, that’s what comes first,” he said, taking a quick jerk of Johnny Walker Black in his motel room. “People who put down our performance, they’re people who can’t use their eyes and ears at the same time. They got a button on their shoulder blades that keeps only one working at a time. Look, man, we might play sometimes just standing there; sometimes we do the whole diabolical bit when we’re in the studio and there ain’t nobody to watch. It’s how we feel. How we feel and getting the music out, that’s all. As soon as people understand that, the better.”
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience, now doing a two-month tour (they will be at Hunter College on Saturday and at Stony Brook, L. I., on March 9), was formed in October, 1966, just weeks after Hendrix came to London from Greenwich Village encouraged by former Animal Chas Chandler. Mitchell, 21, came from Georgie Fame’s band, a top English rhythm and blues group, and 22-year-old Redding switched to bass from guitar, which he had played with several small-time bands. Their first job, after only a few weeks of rehearsal, was at the Paris Olympia on a bill with Johnny Hallyday.
Their first record, “Hey Joe,” got to number 4 on the English charts; a tour of England and steady dates in the in London clubs, plus a follow-up hit with “Purple Haze,” made them the hottest name around. Men’s hairdressers started featuring the “Experience style.” Paul McCartney got them invited to the Monterey Pop Festival and they were a smash hit.
But Jimi Hendrix, born James Marshall Hendrix 22 years ago in Seattle, Wash., goes a lot further back. Now hip rock’s enfant terrible, he quit high school for the paratroopers at 16 (“Anybody could be in the Army, T had to do it special, but man, was I bored”). Musically he came up the black route, learning guitar to Muddy Waters records on his back porch, playing in Negro clubs in Nashville, begging his way onto Harlem bandstands, and touring for two years, lost in the bands of rhythm and blues headliners: the Isley Brothers, Joey Dee, Little Richard, and King Curtis. He even played the Fillmore once, but that was backing Ike and Tina Turner and long before the Haight-Ashbury scene.
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“I always wanted more than that,” he said, “I had these dreams that something was gonna happen, seeing the numbers 1966 in my sleep, so I was just passing time till then. I wanted my own scene, making my music, not playing the same riffs.
“Like once with Little Richard, me and another guy got fancy shirts ’cause we were tired of wearing the uniform. Richard called a meeting. ‘I am Little Richard, I am Little Richard,’ he said.‘the King, the King of Rock and Rhythm. I am the only one allowed to be pretty. Take off those shirts.’ Man, it was all like that. Bad pay, lousy living, and getting burned.”
Early in 1966 he finally got to Greenwich Village, where he played at the Cafe Wha as Jimmy James with his own hastily formed group, the Blue Flame. It was his break and the bridge to today’s Hendrix. He started to write songs—he has written hundreds—and play what he calls “my rock-blues-funky-freak sound.”
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“Dylan really turned me on—not the words or his guitar, but as a way to get myself together. A cat like that can do it to you. Race, that was okay. In the Village people were more friendly than in Harlem where it’s all cold and mean. Your own people hurt you more. Anyway, I had always wanted a more open and integrated sound. Top-40 stuff is all out of gospel, so they try to get everybody up and clapping, shouting, ‘yeah, yeah.’ We don’t want to get everybody up. They should just sit there and dig it. And they must dig it, or we wouldn’t be here.”
A John Wayne movie played silently on the television in the stale and disordered room, and Hendrix started alternating slugs of scotch and Courvoisier. He stopped and turned to the window, looking out over San Francisco. “This lookslike Brussels, all built on hills. Beautiful. But no city I’ve ever seen is as pretty as Seattle, all that water and mountains. I couldn’t live there, but it was beautiful.”
Besides his music, Hendrix doesn’t do much. He wants to retire young and buy a lot of motels and real estate with his money. Sometimes he thinks of producing records or going to the Juilliard School of Music to learn theory and composition. In London he lives with his manager, but plans to buy a house in a mews; in his spare time he reads Isaac Asimov’s science fiction. His musical favorites, as he listed them, are Charlie Mingus, Roland Kirk, Bach, Muddy Waters, Bukka White, Albert Collins, Albert King, and Elmore James.
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“Where do you stop? There are, oh man, so many more, all good. Sound, and being good, that’s important. Like we’re trying to find out what we really dig. We got plans for a play-type scene with people moving on stage, but everything pertaining to the song and every song a story.
“We’ll keep moving. It gets tiring doing the same tiling, coming out and saying, ‘Now we’ll play this song,’ and ‘Now we’ll play that one.’ People take us strange ways, but I don’t care how they take us. Man, we’ll be moving. ’Cause man, in this life you gotta do what you want, you gotta let your mind and fancy flow, flow, flow free.”
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The wait is over! I finally found this record 2day and already this week has started off supa groovy. Being from Cincinnati as the Isley Brothers has always been a badge of honor 2 me so finally getting this album is monumental 2 me. THE ISLEY BROTHERS " GIVIN' IT BACK" T NECK RECORDS Interesting side note to this is that Bill Withers plays lead guitar on the song "Cold Bologna" which Bill also wrote. This whole albums were songs all done and written by other artists. Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, James Taylor, Bob Dylan, War, Stephen Stills, and Bill Withers all had songs remade by the Isley Brothers. Their version of Ohio by Neil Young and Love the One Your With by Stephen Stills are so well done and soulful that they sound better than the originals. Peace & Blessings #cincinnati #theisleybrothers #tneckrecords #soul #soulmusic #givinitback #vinylcollection #vinylingclub #vinyl #albums #albumcollection #recordcollection #ohio (at Spinster Records Dallas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJXJACcnRfT/?igshid=1akb1wpdlxcwy
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Twist and Shout by The Beatles covering The Isley Brothers Route 66 by Depeche Mode covering Nat King Cole Trio La Bamba by Los Lobos covering Richie Valens Louie Louie by The Kingsmen covering Richard Berry Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds covering Bob Dylan Red Red Wine by UB40 covering Neil Diamond All Along the Watch Tower by Jimi Hendrix covering Bob Dylan She's Not There by Santana covering The Zombies The Locomotion by Grand Funk covering Little Eva Blowin' In The Wind by Peter, Paul & Mary covering Bob Dylan Rock and Roll Music by The Beatles covering Chuck Berry Hooked On a Feeling by Blue Suede covering B.J. Thomas You Won't See Me by Anne Murray covering The Beatles Stand By Me by John Lennon covering Ben E. King I Only Wanna Be With You by Bay City Rollers covering Dusty Springfield That'll Be The Day by Linda Ronstadt covering Buddy Holly Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band by Meco covering John Williams It Ain't Me, Babe by The Turtles covering Bob Dylan It's My Life by No Doubt covering Talk Talk Working My Way Back To You/Forgive Me Girl by The Spinners covering 4 Seasons I Think We're Alone Now by Tiffany covering Tommy James & The Shondells Drift Away by Uncle Kracker featuring Dobie Gray covering Dobie Gray Groovy Kind of Love by Phil Collins covering The Mindbenders Got My Mind Set On You by George Harrison I'll Be There by Mariah Carey covering Jackson 5 Last Kiss by Pearl Jam covering J. Frank Wilson Landslide by Dixie Chicks, also Smashing Pumpkins covering Fleetwood Mac Life Is a Highway by Rascal Flatts covering Tom Cochrane Don't Stop the Music by Rihanna covering Yarborough & Peoples Jambalaya by Blue Ridge Rangers covering Hank Williams Always Something There To Remind Me by Naked Eyes covering Dionne Warwick Purple Haze by The Cure covering Jimi Hendrix Superstar by Sonic Youth covering The Carpenters Slip Away by Gregg Allman covering Clarence Carter While My Guitar Gently Weeps by Jeff Healey Band covering The Beatles Without You by Nilsson, also Mariah Carey covering Badfinger American Pie by Madonna covering Don McLean Lady Marmalade by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim Mya & Pink covering LaBelle Tired of Waiting For You by Green Day covering The Kinks L.A. Woman by Billy Idol covering The Doors Imagine by Diana Ross covering John Lennon I Am the Walrus by Crack The Sky covering The Beatles Live and Let Die by Guns N' Roses covering Paul McCartney & Wings You Won't See Me by Anne Murray covering The Beatles House of the Rising Sun by Frijid Pink covering tradtional: Animals, also Joan Baez
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