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 (five years ago) link