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
The best explanation I can think of is this anecdote from Robert Wyatt in Charles Shaar Murray's Crosstown Traffic:
Robert Wyatt, whose Soft Machine toured the US as opening act with Hendrix for over a year, recalls, "I saw [Larry] Coryell once -- he was one of the few people who ever got up and tried to cut Hendrix. It was at the old Scene Club in New York, and he was leaping backwards and forwards, his fingers flying, and Hendrix -- when it came to his solo -- just went 'ba-WO-O-O-OWWWW' and it just erased the last ten minutes [laughs] with one note. It was silly for Coryell even to try. It was like walking into a blowtorch . . . the fool!"
― Darth Magus (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
why don't you listen to widdly-widdly guitar muso shit?
― how's life, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
Well I don't particularly like it, and my wife fucking hates it (apart from Hendrix).
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
It seems pretty reductive. They're three profoundly different bands.
― how's life, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
similar mainly in a "classic rock radio" kinda way. hendrix was on another level musically though, probably better to compare him to an instrumentalist like charlie parker than jimmy page...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah he had an awesome jazz feel for improvisation, ... but he also has this killer bluesman way of making his riffs sound like an emotion rather than *just* sounding like guitar widdly widdly wankery. everything he does is in service of the soul of the song, it's never really about hey look how amazing I am. At least I don't think so.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
and I think he's a lovely soulful singer as well. I think it's harder to dismiss him because he brought more than just straight guitar shredding.
The Experience gave him that nice tight platform for him to play around on too, and they could go pretty much anwhere he went and make it work. They really helped to elevate his music and take it where it needed to go to make it reallllly fucking great.
okay I'm done
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
:D
but he also has this killer bluesman way of making his riffs sound like an emotion rather than *just* sounding like guitar widdly widdly wankery. everything he does is in service of the soul of the song, it's never really about hey look how amazing I am. At least I don't think so.
OTM
― Old Boy In Network (Michael B), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
this is and old thread now but i don't even think of hendrix as particularly widdly-widdly. of course he could do that, and did. i think what made him great is his ability to slip between roles & methods of playing seamlessly and instantly. there isn't any division between his chord playing, low-register delta-ish riff playing, mid-register r&b backing type playing, and albert/bb-king-ish lead stuff. he had a really big physical vocabulary on the neck and could do whatever, whenever
― goole, Monday, 8 April 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
That sums it up very well, goole.
― how's life, Monday, 8 April 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah great post, goole
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 8 April 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
People, Hell and Angels is very satisfying, btw. Nice to hear him play funky guitarslinging sideman to Lonnie Youngblood and the Ghetto Fighters. Plus yet another "Hear My Train a-Comin'" for us train-a-comin'-spotters
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 8 April 2013 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
izabella
― KitevsPill, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
I wish someone had told me earlier that Stepping Stone was not the Monkees/Minor Threat song.Probably my favorite of his rave-ups now.
― how's life, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
Machine Gun
― flappy bird, Thursday, 12 April 2018 06:37 (six years ago) link
Would be Machine Gun but for 1983
― imago, Thursday, 12 April 2018 09:02 (six years ago) link
yea 1983
― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
or third stone
― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:52 (six years ago) link
WATCHTOWER
― brimstead, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
May This Be Love for me, but I'm a huge fan of 1983 as well.
― how's life, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
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
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
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
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:32 (six years ago) link
After that probably Electric Ladyland or Power of Soul
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
'Dolly Dagger'
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
i'm gonna change my vote
― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
..
...
to "LITTLE MISS STRANGE"
― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:41 (six years ago) link
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
― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
yea 1983― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:49 (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkor third stone― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:52 (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:49 (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:52 (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
These strike me as good answers.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
"If 6 Was 9"
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
I feel like 1983/Moon Turn sounds like it was probably the inspiration for In A Silent Way
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 12 April 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
my short list
third stone > machine gun > 1983 > bold as love
― the late great, Thursday, 12 April 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
Burning of the Midnight Lamp yo
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 April 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link
oh that tune is SO good
― marcos, Friday, 13 April 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
castles made of sand
― J. Sam, Saturday, 28 April 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link