Posted on 03/03/2013 6:30:42 PM PST by BenLurkin
Given that Jimi Hendrix has been dead for more than four decades, the visionary guitarist has remained awfully prolific: He left behind a formidable tape library, full of alternate takes, discarded ideas and collaborations of varying quality, and those materials have been mined in the making of far more albums and compilations than he churned out during his 27 years. That one such collection would produce a chart-topping single in 2013 is a testament to Hendrix's enduring appeal, not to mention technological advancements and the eternal struggle to maximize the commercial clout of a lucrative catalog.
Thankfully, the newest collection of Hendrixiana (titled People, Hell and Angels, out March 5) is a suitable addition to the guitar giant's large posthumous output, drawn from recordings he'd made between 1968 and 1970 with a variety of co-conspirators. (Stephen Stills even turns up to play bass in "Somewhere.") With producers and preservationists taking great pain to ensure that listeners never notice their work, these polished-up and previously unreleased recordings all shine a spotlight on Hendrix's considerable charisma; it's no fluke that "Somewhere" has already reached an audience well beyond diehards.
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I guess I could have just told you to go to the main link and find the embedded player, but I was trying to dial it in with one click for ya :-)
I'm now hearing the original Villanova Junction in my head!
Yes!!!!!!!!!!! Some people can play a guitar. Hendrix owned it and drove it like a Crazed Mad Man behind the wheel of Mack Truck.
Hendrix
Joplin
Morrison
All geniuses who threw it all away. I miss their music.
Far up! Far down! Far around!
Dude! So did I! LOL
We must be brothers of the Sky Church or something...Pali Gap is one of my very favorite Hendrix pieces. I couldn't get enough of it when the Rainbow Bridge album came out.
Speaking of that, I've still got an unopened, shrink-wrapped copy of that album. Picked it up in 1990 in London and never opened it.
Dig it. We're copacetic, bro'.
I think Jimi was overrated AND underrated. All most people hear on the radio are the same few cuts, which don’t get into his really good guitar work. However, there have been times when I have heard something beyond the usual suspects and thought “Wow!”. There was more to his playing than just the psychedelic sound that most people associate with him, and, like many rock acts, the best stuff often didn’t get released as singles or even properly recorded, or in Jimi’s case, fully developed before he died.
You’re missing a good one here. Look Over Yonder...
That's one of the saddest facts about this great artist's contributions. As a fan from waaaaay back, I'm familiar with his entire catalog of work, so my appreciation of it is a lot more fine tuned than most.
Then again, Hendrix never was everyone's cup of tea. Back in the day, even some friends who liked many of the same artists I did, just could not 'get' Hendrix. Eye of the Beholder and all that, you know?
Never saw Rainbow Bridge.
Pali Gap, yesss. Here's some audio.
Sweet - thanks for the heads-up!
You bet, Gene. Enjoy!
Room Full of Mirrors is great too though some versions are greater than others.
Excellent! Thanks for that. I haven’t often seen Jimi playing anything but his Strat. That video also shows how Jimi could play a lot of complete riffs hammer-style (ie., without picking). Speaking of a different guitar, did you ever see Jimi play a 12-string acoustic?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9LPoU8j7hI
Oh sure. There's the clip of Jimi playing 'Hear My Train A'Comin' ' on 12 string acoustic. It was in the movie about his life (produced by Warner Brothers).
I love that clip. He's actually quite funny in the beginning of it, when he asks the camera crew to start over because, "I was scared to death." He was a real gent with a great sense of humor.
The man would (and could) play just about anything with strings on it.
Villanova Junction’
That is perhaps Jimi’s most beautifully written and rendered song.
Agree, seems he closed Woodstock with this, or at least that was how the Movie was edited.
BFL
Is that a suburb of Petticoat Junction?
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