not that it's badass blues stuff (at least not totally) but it is currently my favorite (albeit imaginary) hendrix album
― tylerw, Saturday, 7 January 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
Little Wing, but for rarer stuff Driving South on the BBC sessions is pretty hot
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Sunday, 8 January 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
"Burning of the Midnight Lamp", for sure. The Stockholm '67 live version on the Experience box set kills me.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 January 2012 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
tylerw, I'm pulling that down now. Excited!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 8 January 2012 06:00 (twelve years ago) link
What an terrific circa-1975 Herbie Hancock album cover that woulda made!
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
in the badass Blues stuff category, from the Blues album that long live version of "hear my train a-comin'" is super sublime
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― Brad C., Monday, 9 January 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
ha, yeah - reallllly want to like that Gil Evan Plays Hendrix album, but I can't get through it.
― tylerw, Monday, 9 January 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
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, 14 January 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
One Rainy Wish always and forever
― Trip Maker, Saturday, 14 January 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe one of those superfast live takes of Killing Floor with Mitch totally tearing it up on the drums.
― Derartu Cthulhu (NickB), Saturday, 14 January 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
1983, now and forever.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 14 January 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
that fuckin First Rays reconstruction/theory is just so, so, so good
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 22 March 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago) link
thank u for reminding me to listen to that
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 March 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago) link
I have had this in my itunes for like a year and still not listened to it.
― beachville, Thursday, 22 March 2012 12:57 (twelve years ago) link
i'd pick Jimi! *HOOOOOOOOOONK*
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
What is this first rays reconstruction theory thing of which you speak?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
― 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.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 March 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
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.
I think it's linked upthread? yes:
― Brad C., Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:59 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
I have a weird hangup about mixes without track demarcations. That's the sole reason I'm not jamming this thing out, right there.
― beachville, Thursday, 22 March 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^^
― Lil T the Bowed Jet (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 March 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Hm, gotta say I prefer the "First Rays" reconstruction I made my own self a coupla years ago, including questionable/ahistorical choices such as "Captain Coconut". But I guess everyone disssatisfied with the released version has their own ideas.
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 22 March 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
I've gone and at least hand-labelled each of the 4 tracks with all of the track titles that are supposed to be on them, so I'm not looking at goddamn track 1, track 2, and shit. Maybe I'll get this thing off the ground.
― beachville, Thursday, 22 March 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
first rays thang is soooooo good. my favorite hendrix album, sacrilege though it may be. would be interested to hear yours, though, myonga!
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 March 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
"invalid or deleted file"
Blerg!
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 March 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
i'll hook you up! give me a day or so.
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 March 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit, tyler. I haven't checked out your blog to the point where I had totally forgot about it.
― beachville, Thursday, 22 March 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
xp Thanks! And...and holy crap, calling your blog an embarrassment of riches is an insult to embarrassments of riches. I may spend the weekend there.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 March 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
lol yes. it's definitely one of the top 3 or 4 blogs on the internet imo.
― tylerw, Thursday, 22 March 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
I think that came out wrong. I love it, is what I meant.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 22 March 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
2cd set of Carole King outtakes! Jesus fuck man, I've got some catching up to do.
― beachville, Thursday, 22 March 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, this thing is definitely sick. Just finished the first side.
― beachville, Thursday, 22 March 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
y'all: http://ow.ly/9Q9tb
― tylerw, Friday, 23 March 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
tx, will give this a listen in a bit.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
cool thx
lol being a guitar student turned me into a hendrix fan
― goole, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
who knows what kind of horrible albums hendrix might've made had he lived, but he would've made some amazing ones, too. dude was capable of pretty much anything, i think.
― tylerw, Friday, 23 March 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
Woo-hoo! Thanks, tylerw! Can't wait to listen.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for posting that "First Rays" and listened to it all wknd, it sort of blew my mind. Some of those songs are incredible, the whole thing is brilliant!
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 26 March 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, thanks again, tylerw. Even though I was pretty familiar with most of these songs, I was blown away by how cinematic the presentation of the material is here. The problem with all previous First Rays assumpilations was that they were all just collections of songs rather than continuations of the kind of thematic flow he exploited on Ladyland.
― we can be gyros just for one day (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 26 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's what i like about it -- as opposed to an odds-n-sods collection, this one really feels like a rad early 70s double LP.
― tylerw, Monday, 26 March 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
Listening now. Fucking loving it. It's like one of those Bill Laswell "mix translation" things like Panthalassa or the Bob Marley one or the Santana one...only, you know, really fucking good instead of half-baked and lazy.
― 誤訳侮辱, Monday, 26 March 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ Haha hugely OTM
― chr1sb3singer, Monday, 26 March 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
As if Teo Macero did it instead, then, you say.
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 26 March 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
this first rays boot mix might be the best hendrix album
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 5 April 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
it is so rad!
― tylerw, Friday, 6 April 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago) link
I'd like to think that if Jimi and Gil got together, the results would be more along the lines of There Comes A Time--the original LP, or the radically extrapolated CD edition, one of the very first CDs I bought, in a longbox, with Gil's furrowed Canadian brow quietly welcoming me to the brain-jelly jungle (some sylvan glades in there too). An exemplary do-over--I thought a lot of CDs were gonna be like that.
― dow, Friday, 6 April 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
For some unknown reason I never bothered to get the tracklist for First Rays. Does anyone still have the list handy so I could append them to my 4 tracks? Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Message to the Universe>Izabella>Power of Soul>Astro Man>Valleys of Neptune>Angel
Slow Version>Night Bird Flying>Trashman>EZY Rider>Pali Gap>Hey Gypsy Boy
Message to Love>Roomful of Mirrors>Villanova Junction>Dolly Dagger>Burning Desire>Freedom>South Saturn Delta>Drifter's Escape
Stepping Stone>Somewhere>Burning Desire>Hey Baby>Drifting
― how's life, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 08:29 (eleven years ago) link
!! thanks!! you have my eternal devotion :)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
Little Wing came on the random playlist yesterday, prompting Emma to say "why do we like Hendrix? We don't really like any other widdly-widdly guitar muso shit from that era". He's just better than Led Zep or Pink Floyd or whoever, isn't he? But how? Why?
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 13:49 (eleven years ago) link