― M Matos, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
you really think so? i find his drumming boring and pedestrian, kind of like ?uestlove. i keep waiting for him to break out of his set patterns or vary them in some way or something. mitchell, on the other hand, really stretches himself (often to the point where he can't keep time, which i've been told is why other drummers hate him). check the 'jam back at the house' (i think?) track in the woodstock set, again, he really does some interesting things.
― Dave M., Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J Blount, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Miles keeps it simple most of the time, but his time feel and big sound makes that worth listening to for me. He's a much more 'grounded' player than Mitchell, more r&b based I think. And when he does throw something in, it's often very cool.
― Jordan, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brg30, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
mitch mitchell over buddy fatso miles any time for me too.
― unknown or illegal user, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Joe, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― V, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mms, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also it has rainy in the title!
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
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.
― Winkelmann, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dan, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ejad, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Machine Gun live at the Filmore with the Gypsies (can't say which version tho) over Wait Till Tommorrow.
― Roger Fascist, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Ball (James Ball), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
he was going for that invisibly funky al jackson thing, he wasn't trying to be flashy
bu yeah, mitchell suited hendrix better
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Benya, Wednesday, 5 February 2003 17:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
Mitch Mitchell WAY over Buddy Miles!
― CretanBull (CretanBull), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Power of Soul""Third Stone from the Sun""Dolly Dagger""1983 (A Merman I Shall Be)""Manic Depression"
One of my favorite songwritahs evah!
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 21:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― thesplooge (thesplooge), Monday, 7 June 2004 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 7 June 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Fillmore East is so fucking beautiful and sick
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
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
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 7 January 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
Room Full of Mirrors
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 7 January 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
"Voodoo Chile" -- the longer jam session version with Casady and Winwood
― Steamtable Willie (WmC), Saturday, 7 January 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
"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
― Blah Sabbath (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 7 January 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
in some ways i think i'd go with "Bold As Love"
― Thug Luftwaffle (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 January 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 7 January 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
the 1994 release titled Blues springs to mind and it is really lovely indeed
― epigram addict (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 7 January 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
Dolly Dagger!
― Turrican, Saturday, 7 January 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
Recommend some to someone who's never really understood people's obsession with Hendrixhighly highly recommended - http://theheatwarps.tumblr.com/post/1129618708/saturday-will-mark-40-years-since-jimi-red-wined
― tylerw, Saturday, 7 January 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
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
― 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
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
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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 (five years ago) link