OPO hendrix

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.

^^^^^^

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.

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.

first rays thang is soooooo good. my favorite hendrix album, sacrilege though it may be.
would be interested to hear yours, though, myonga!

"invalid or deleted file"

Blerg!

i'll hook you up! give me a day or so.

holy shit, tyler. I haven't checked out your blog to the point where I had totally forgot about it.

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.

lol yes. it's definitely one of the top 3 or 4 blogs on the internet imo.

I think that came out wrong. I love it, is what I meant.

2cd set of Carole King outtakes! Jesus fuck man, I've got some catching up to do.

Ok, this thing is definitely sick. Just finished the first side.

y'all: http://ow.ly/9Q9tb

tx, will give this a listen in a bit.

cool thx

lol being a guitar student turned me into a hendrix fan

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.

Burning of the Midnight Lamp yo

oh that tune is SO good

castles made of sand

“Anger/he smiles…”

watchtower

WATCHTOWER

Spanish castle ftw