Posted on 11/13/2021 6:18:20 PM PST by DoodleBob
Buddy wasn’t on acid...
The Left loves to accuse Elvis of stealing the song You ain’t nothing but a ‘Hound Dog’ sung by Big Momma Thornton, Elvis didn’t steal anything. ‘Hound Dog’ was created, written and produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two white guys. So if we want to call it “stealing”, any black person recording that song “stole” white music.
They have the gall to accuse Elvis and other whites in the music industry of stealing black music. What songs did Elvis “steal”, that Nat King Cole, Lena Horne, Dionne Warwick, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, John Coltrane, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Little Eva, Freddie Scott, Brook Benton, David Ruffin, Luther Vandross, and many other black singers and musicians, who built their careers singing and playing songs written by white men and women, didn’t “steal”?
To be fair, Pete stopped taking drugs in 1969 (he kept drinking) but then fell off the wagon in 1981. He finally stopped drinking in the late 1980s.
I don’t know,
I’m partial to
“Band of Gypsys” myself.
I hear that today and I’m still amazed at sounds he made.
“I don’t know, man,” Hendrix said on his decision to play the track before adding, “I’m an American, so I played it. They made me sing it in school, so it was a flashback.” Cavett then points out that Hendrix is likely to find himself on the receiving end of a barrage of hate mail because of his decision to cover the national anthem in an unorthodox manner, to which Hendrix proudly stated, “It’s not unorthodox, I thought it was beautiful.”
Jimi may not have been a fan of the war, but he didn't hate America. And prior to Woodstock, when not rehearsing, they were also apparently doing some target shooting.
For people who wonder where Jimi may have gone had he lived, I believe the best hints are found in The Shokan Tapes of recordings and jams prior to Woodstock in Ulster County with Larry Lee (guitar & vocals), Billy Cox (bass), Mitch Mitchell (drums, though I believe Mitch didn't arrive until a few weeks before Woodstock), Juma Sultan (bass, flute & percussion), Jerry Velez (percussion), and Mike Ephron (keyboards). Some of these jams are inspiring, and some of this is just good old fashioned rehearsing. You can also give a listen to the live show he did before Woodstock at the Tinker Street Cinema. It has more to do with free jazz than psychedelia and the instrumentation is eclectic.
If Jimi had continued in this direction, he'd have likely opened up a whole new dimension of music. We'll never know.
BFL
I saw Buddy Guy warm up for B.B. King a couple times in King’s declining years. Which means you were really there for the warm up, and to pay homage to B.B., as B.B. wasn’t up to his early years.
There was NOTHING wrong with getting to see Buddy as the “main act” for those shows. He still “had it”.
Same here. About a dozen. But the first time was the standout, at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz in 1986, with his old buddy Junior Wells. Those two brought out each other’s best.
And the extended version of Live at Leeds is in the running for best live rock album ever.
Who were stupid.
Cut your hair old hippie freak.
True that, best live concert I ever attended.
Ping
No wussing out due to the pandemic for this man!
Nov 14 Arcada Theatre St Charles, IL
Feb 25 The Louisville Palace Louisville, KY
Feb 26 Rialto Square Theatre Joliet, IL
Mar 04 Golden State Theatre Monterey, CA
Mar 05 Uptown Theatre Napa Napa, CA
Mar 09 Coach House Concert Hall San Juan Capistrano, CA
Mar 10 The Canyon Agoura Hills, CA
Mar 11 The Canyon Montclair Montclair, CA
Mar 12 Oxnard Performing Arts Center Oxnard, CA
Mar 13 Saban Theatre Beverly Hills, CA
Mar 16 Chandler Center for the Arts Chandler, AZ
Mar 17 Rialto Theatre Tucson, AZ
Mar 19 House of Blues Houston Houston, TX
Mar 20 Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater Austin, TX
Mar 22 House of Blues Dallas Dallas, TX
Mar 24 Von Braun Center Huntsville, AL
Mar 25 Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Atlanta, GA
Mar 26 Ryman Auditorium Nashville, TN
Mar 27 Lexington Opera House Lexington, KY
Mar 30 Hackensack Meridian Health Theatre at the Count Basie Center for the Arts Red Bank, NJ
Apr 01 Paramount Arts Center Ashland, KY
Apr 03 The Palace Theatre Greensburg, PA
Apr 09 Massey Hall Toronto, ON
Apr 21 Revolution Hall Portland, OR
Apr 22 Moore Theatre Seattle, WA
Apr 27 Paramount Theatre Denver, CO
May 04 Marion Cultural and Civic Center Marion, IL
May 19 Aretha's Jazz Cafe At Music Hall Detroit, MI
And this was their simple stage setup for that gig.
Theatrics is one thing. Musical genius is another. Hendrix may have borrowed some stage moves but his musical ideas (which are really his legacy) came from within. To that extent I claim Daltrey misses the point. It’s definitely not all about the showmanship.
“instrumental”
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see what you did there 😎
Funny, I would rather listen to Jimi sing than Roger. I’ve listened to a lot of rock music since I was a teenager, and Roger Daltrey is one of those singers I can only take in limited doses. The Who musically? Outstanding. Kind of the same way for me with Led Zeppelin. Love the music. After a couple of songs with Robert Plant, I’m done.
I always wondered what the deal was on “Magic Bus” with that short little reverse track.
They say the “Live at Hull” tapes were even better than the Leeds ones.
I think they were the best rock band ever!
At the time I was going out with a lead guitar player who took me to all the concerts. I remember when Townsend started his stuff and my bf talked all about how great it was. Shortly after I noticed the other bands starting to imitate the act including breaking the guitar.
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