C&L's Late Nite Music Club with Jimi Hendrix
Jimi is our chief hometown hero here in Seattle (Kurt Cobain being a very close second). This is from probably his most famous performance after Woodstock, live at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. (At the end of his gig, he climaxed "Wild Thing" by lighting his guitar on fire.) Anyway, I used to have an LP from Monterey with Jimi on Side One and Otis Redding on Side Two. (What a great album. Somewhere I lent it to someone and it vanished.) However, it didn't have the whole performance, and this was one of the songs left off -- which was dumb, since this is one of the finest versions of it. "Hey Joe" has been a rock standard for years, but Jimi's version is the standard by which all others are judged. Anyway, it's in the film version, and the newly remastered copy of the film is well worth owning.
PS Our sister site Newstalgia proudly features The Jags -- Live at the Paris Theatre, London, 1979 for your Saturday night listening pleasure.
Jimi was a musical genius!
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In college in the late 80's, one of my poser roomates used to get severely wasted and lie in bed listening to his Jimi Hendrix collection (both record and tape). All day long.
I suspect this scene is played out year after year in college dorm rooms across the nation every year since 1969. :)
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I was at The Flat Rock Playhouse in Hendersonville, North Carolina for the summer.
My "boyfriend" had tickets to this show and wanted me to skip down to Atlanta with him to attend. I didn't go because I was afraid I'd get in trouble:
08-17-68: Municipal Auditorium, Atlanta, Georgia
Headliner: Jimi Hendrix
"Up From the Skies", "I Don't Live Today", "Are You Experienced?", "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze"
The show was opened by The Vanilla Fudge, The Soft Machine, and The Amboy Dukes.
He had a GREAT time and I didn't get in trouble (I was just 18 and it was my first time away from home...)
Oh boy.....
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Mike of "Mike's Blog Round Up" recorded with Hendrix. Maybe he'll chime in..........Oh MIKE!
To this day, we haven't seen anyone like him.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
The very biggest of them all.
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Third Stone from The Sun
Room Full of Mirrors.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Band of Gypsy's. Power Of Love.
Ga night all. Be well.
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I just listened to the wonderful Third Stone from The Sun. Wow!
Thanks for the tunes. Sleep tight :)
dedicate it to the passive-aggressive asshole next door neighbour of mine who totally FUCKED UP the end of my summer, all of September, wrecked my plants, lost me ground where my plants have lived for nearly 2 decades and my gardening space, and Princess, the building manager my erstwhile 'friend' who sided with Mr shit for brains, and lied to the building owner about the situation and me. May they both roast in hell, especially that crybaby, Princess. He's the worst
After doing all that, Passive Aggressive is moving out. One month later after fucking up my program.
If only for the title.
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me-oww!
(ps, cool tune)
I'm so sorry that you had to endure such a horrible situation, miss_kitty. The wrecking of your long-established garden was particularly mean.
Let's celebrate PA's departure! Good times!
it is a good thing!
me-oww!
A gift from Jimi.
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the "Like a Rolling Stone" from Monetery is way beyond what I have ever heard anyone else do
Yep. We ran it awhile back, but I just made a new copy of the vid with my nice edition of it and plunked it on that post. Enjoy.
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or as the say in New Jersey
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speechless-I can watch that video a million times and I never come away NOT awed and amazed at Hendrix's ability to play!
Never much liked "Hey Joe" - it always struck me as misogynistic. Not too keen on that version either - Hendrix is playing well, but there are only a couple of short solo breaks.
I was also a product of the sixties. My favorites ranged from Krzysztof Penderecki to Coltrane to Wes Montgomery to even Jimi Hendrix. In terms of refinement Jimi was the last on the list but he got the spirit right and for many, that is all that counts.
I heard him play in a little club in Ann Arbor in early 1968 where I was a 19 year old student of music. There were not that many people there but my musical cohorts and I decided immediately that we had seen someone who would be around.
Of course, playing with one's teeth or behind the back is pure shtick.
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Jimmy Page Guitar Solo
A great tune for Sunday morning, Red Barchetta.
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Monteray 1967. Woodstock 1969 so this performance was well before Woodstock. I have a hard time imagining that there were no other ifamous performances in that two year period.
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Here's another original, Jeff Beck. He's still playing, better than ever. Hendrix was actually influenced by Beck and vice versa.
Early Beck
2008 Beck
I agree...best "Hey Joe" performance ever. Monumentally good. I can still remember the first time I heard that song on the radio. Back in '66 or '67. And as you'll remember, that was on AM radio (KILT in Houston), since FM and stereo wasn't really happening yet.
Love this song (Hendrix version). Takes me back to a good time, every time I hear it I can FEEL those days. So rich with music...and I was turning twelve and into ALL of it.
And I used to have that very same Hendrix/Redding album. Can clearly remember the cover. Now you've got me thinking...WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO MY COPY???!!!! I'm gonna go dig thru some boxes...
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One of the reasons that Jimi let out all the stops on this performance was he had an argument with Pete Townsend about the order of performance. I forget now if they both wanted to go first or last but whatever it was Jimi lost and got really pissed off at Townsend and essentially told him he was going to show them how it was done. (BTW, I love both groups, saw Townsend and Daltry at a Bridge concert a few years ago and was just amazed, they made the younger groups look like amateurs).
Nice Song....Its Cool!!!
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had that Jimi/Otis at Monterrey record. Both sides of that record were musicians in top form. Absolutely killer.
I think it should be noted that Jimi was absolutely flying on Owsley's finest for his set.
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