Posted on 09/18/2020 3:43:19 PM PDT by Rummyfan
George Floyd is the second-most famous person from Minneapolis who died of Fentanyl poisoning. Prince was the first.
I remember when Z Z Top was the opening band for Billy Bob Thornton’s band at Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth. I seemed so darned wrong.
Peter Grant physically threatened Grand Funk Railroad’s manager, because GFR was blowing Zeppelin off the stage, and subsequent GFR had to leave the tour.
I’ve said it before, that Tanglewood concert is my favorite YT concert video. They were a machine, and Terry was the engine.
I always thought his playing sucked. None of his music was any good; just noise. He came out after I had graduated high school and gone to VN.
And I became a big fan of Santana while there AND served with one of Santana’s guitarists. He taught me how to play the music from their first album.
And Mike Nesmith was a big fan of Frank Zappa who appeared briefly on the show.
And here ‘tis....Hillarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLXVz5fms10
Little Wing showed what a virtuoso he was. For sure, what Jimi was really really good at was fils and chord melodies. The wind cries Mary is another this aspect of his playing never got the notice it deserved
Neil Schon said Santana kicked him out because Santana knew Schon was better.
How about Led Zeppelin opening up for The Carpenters?
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I think a sub-thread is forming for “weirdest band opening acts you can think of”.
I believe it. GFR was pretty awesome back in the day.
I would have liked to know what Hendrix would have done had he lived, I suspect he may have gone more in the jazz-fusion area, like Jeff Beck did.
Have a listen to Side C of Electric Ladyland. Best guitarist. Best composer. Best ear tuned to the key of C for Cosmos. Then listen to Voodoo Child. Plenty of great guitar players, I love most of them. There’s only one Hendrix like there’s only one Beethoven
I would say, without Hendrix all those other guys probably wouldn’t happen, he totally changed the game.
Machine Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw2L_vGUMtE&list=PL6ogdCG3tAWiNVuEYX1igy9HuUUbOc-0I&index=2
Absolutely.
I play it frequently.
I must agree. He’s like the artist who invented perspective drawing. It was a different World after him.
One of those guys was stoned out of his mind, and it wasn’t Frank.
It was the 60s, so I am sure that copious amounts of drugs had an influence on the decision-making process.
I don’t know who’s the best, but my random Top 5 is Jimi, Eddie, Stevie, Carlos, and Eric.
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