It's been about 15 years since I was in my "Hendrix only" phase. I didn't even know what the internet was back then, so I was at the mercy of things like the Rolling Stone Rock Encyclopedia and Irwin Stambler's Encyclopedia for biographical information. They, of course, made no mention of any of this. I only knew that he seemed pro-life to me, with Belly Button Window. In an interview, he claimed this was an anti-life song, so who knows. At any rate, this is making me want to break out my albums after a long period of not having heard them. I always particularly liked Cry of Love, even though it was finished after his death and may not have fully represented what he would have wanted for the songs. Still, Angel and Drifting are just incredible. I need to get First Rays of the New Rising Sun.
This post made me think of some mildly contradictory lines in If 6 Was 9:
White collar conservative flashin' down the street
Pointin' their plastic finger at me
They're hopin' soon my kind will drop and die
But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high, high!
LOL. Okay, I know it's not a "he's a liberal, get him!" moment, but it's kind of funny. That is a cool song from a great album.
"This post made me think of some mildly contradictory lines in If 6 Was 9: "
Moe,
Is that you?
Funny - I quoted the same song - and the anti hippie line.
Machine Gun is the only anti Nam song I recall and that was the influence of Buddy Miles and ? in Band of Gypsies I think - boy it has been a long time - anyways, I was in YAF in the 70's and Hendrix was not the typical anti war glitterati rocker.
BTW - remember the poster of Hendrix by the German guy where he was "wired" into the universe with all the cables coming out of his Afro?
I always thought that was the inspiration for all the silicone valley kids in smoke filled rooms to create the internet.
"Don't need you no more in this world...
meetcha in the next one and don't be late
DON'T BE LATE"