[DoodleBob]

For about a year I've been listening to a lot of music from Jimi right before Woodstock (see my post on that topic here). The story (which you probably know) is he was burnt from touring and "ran away" to upstate NY prior to Woodstock. He spent months collaborating with a group of guys who weren't rockers, and the recordings reveal a very different Jimi. Management finally got their hooks back into him, and his sound went back to the money-making formula but those Shokan influences couldn't be totally erased.

I never thought of Jimi as metal - I also never got the "Zeppelin is metal" theory so maybe the problem is me. But there are tunes of Jimi's that have a metal attitude, like Can You See Me at Monterey. By that "attitude" metric, even The Who and of course the Fudge could be metal. Personally I consider Wagner to be the father of metal (the overture to The Flying Dutchman seals the deal for me) but I can see where someone thinks Jimi or Blue Cheer or some other band "birthed" metal.

[LS]

Vinny Martell of Vanilla Fudge just put out a book-—kinda. I got a copy, but apparently his backer got the book done before the China Virus, then backed out, so he doesn’t have $ to publish it.

Jimi said very favorable things about Vinny’s guitar playing.

Vinny was also in the U.S. Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis & was down in the Caribbean.