OPO hendrix

The Jim Morrison thing is also on a bootleg called "Woke Up this Mornign And Found Myself Dead". I lvoe the bit where Jimi asks someone to remove Jimbo's comatose drunk body.

Machine Gun live at the Filmore with the Gypsies (can't say which version tho) over Wait Till Tommorrow.

he was going for that invisibly funky al jackson thing, he wasn't trying to be flashy

bu yeah, mitchell suited hendrix better

Mitch Mitchell WAY over Buddy Miles!

"Power of Soul"
"Third Stone from the Sun"
"Dolly Dagger"
"1983 (A Merman I Shall Be)"
"Manic Depression"

One of my favorite songwritahs evah!

LP: Are You Experienced?, simply because it's got the best collection of songs (as opposed to "compositions" or "sonic experiments" or "mere riffs disguised as songs") the man ever wrote. (His other LPs had good songs too, just not as many as AYE?)

Song: "Machine Gun"

And I've never understood all the "Mitch Mitchell vs. Buddy Miles: Who Was Better?" handwringing debates myself. They were BOTH great, only different. People have their preferences, that's all. To say that Mitchell was flashier but Miles was funkier is a simplification but a reasonably accurate one. (FWIW, I prefer Mitchell.)

Fillmore East is so fucking beautiful and sick

he comes out, congratulates the USC Trojans for winning their bowl game to which the audience gives some really weak applause, and then he just gets fucking revolutionary all night

Room Full of Mirrors

"Voodoo Chile" -- the longer jam session version with Casady and Winwood

"Castles Made of Sand", followed closely by "Manic Depression", "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", "Love or Confusion", "1983", "Wind Cries Mary"...

and that's not even any of the badass blues stuff he did

in some ways i think i'd go with "Bold As Love"

or fuck, maybe "Third Stone from the Sun"? I dunno.

xp What "badass blues stuff?" Recommend some to someone who's never really understood people's obsession with Hendrix.

the 1994 release titled Blues springs to mind and it is really lovely indeed

Dolly Dagger!

Recommend some to someone who's never really understood people's obsession with Hendrix
highly highly recommended - http://theheatwarps.tumblr.com/post/1129618708/saturday-will-mark-40-years-since-jimi-red-wined

not that it's badass blues stuff (at least not totally) but it is currently my favorite (albeit imaginary) hendrix album

Little Wing, but for rarer stuff Driving South on the BBC sessions is pretty hot

"Burning of the Midnight Lamp", for sure. The Stockholm '67 live version on the Experience box set kills me.

tylerw, I'm pulling that down now. Excited!

What an terrific circa-1975 Herbie Hancock album cover that woulda made!

in the badass Blues stuff category, from the Blues album that long live version of "hear my train a-comin'" is super sublime

this comment on tylerw's blog:

Interesting note about this cover: it was created by Mati Klarwein (Bitches Brew, Live Evil, Abraxas) for a proposed Jimi and Gil Evans collaboration.

makes me want to stare at that cover for six or seven hours and try imagine what their record would have sounded like (presumably not a whole lot like The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix)

ha, yeah - reallllly want to like that Gil Evan Plays Hendrix album, but I can't get through it.

Here are John Scannell's notes about the "First Rays ..." remix linked above ...

http://letamancomeinanddothepopcorn.blogspot.com/2008/09/first-rays-mix.html

Great sequencing and editing!

One Rainy Wish always and forever

Maybe one of those superfast live takes of Killing Floor with Mitch totally tearing it up on the drums.

1983, now and forever.

that fuckin First Rays reconstruction/theory is just so, so, so good

thank u for reminding me to listen to that

I have had this in my itunes for like a year and still not listened to it.

i'd pick Jimi! *HOOOOOOOOOONK*

What is this first rays reconstruction theory thing of which you speak?

"Burning of the Midnight Lamp", for sure. The Stockholm '67 live version on the Experience box set kills me.

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, January 8, 2012 12:59 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES! Love this version. The stripped-down live arrangement really suits the song's introspection better than the harpsichordy studio arrangement.

I have had this in my itunes for like a year and still not listened to it.

when you listen, you're going to say, fuck, I should have listened to it earlier. it stands next to all the other Hendrix albums imo, it's incredible.

What is this first rays reconstruction theory thing of which you speak?

I think it's linked upthread? yes:

Here are John Scannell's notes about the "First Rays ..." remix linked above ...

http://letamancomeinanddothepopcorn.blogspot.com/2008/09/first-rays-mix.html

Great sequencing and editing!

― Brad C., Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:59 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have a weird hangup about mixes without track demarcations. That's the sole reason I'm not jamming this thing out, right there.

May This Be Love for me, but I'm a huge fan of 1983 as well.

I think Isabella @ Woodstock is still my fav, but 1983 also a strong contender and lately I love this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki5AfK0sFrs

btw are we including "Moon Turn the Tides" in "1983" or treating that as a separate song, bc those two combined probably did the most to open up my idea of what recorded music could sound like at a formative age

After that probably Electric Ladyland or Power of Soul

'Dolly Dagger'

i'm gonna change my vote

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to "LITTLE MISS STRANGE"

NOEL REDDING YALL

man fuck that guy

can anyone confirm the rumor that jimi played bass on "third stone?" it seems too good to be noel

yea 1983

― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:49 (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or third stone

― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:52 (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

These strike me as good answers.

"If 6 Was 9"

I feel like 1983/Moon Turn sounds like it was probably the inspiration for In A Silent Way

my short list

third stone > machine gun > 1983 > bold as love

Burning of the Midnight Lamp yo

oh that tune is SO good

castles made of sand

“Anger/he smiles…”

watchtower

WATCHTOWER

Spanish castle ftw