James Marshall Hendrix

Archie Nicol R.I.P. · From: Ayrshire, Scotland

It's just after midnight here and I'm listening to a live version of `Red House`.
I can't believe it's 35 years since this sad loss. I was 13 then and still love the music now.

Thanks, Jimi.
Arch.

Steinar Gregertsen · From: Arendal, Norway, R.I.P.

Waterfall
Nothing can harm me at all
My worries seem so very small
With my waterfall

I can see
My rainbow calling me
Through the misty breeze
Of my waterfall

Some people say
Daydreaming's for all the
Lazy minded fools
With nothin' else to do
So let them laugh, laugh at me
So just as long as I have you
To see me through
As long as I have you

Waterfall
Don't ever change your ways
Fall with me for a million days
Oh, my waterfall

Jimi Hendrix - "May This Be Love"

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Eric West · From: Portland, Oregon, USA, R.I.P.

Me too Arch.

I listen to my collection a lot. I spent a lot of time this winter trying to get a steel thing going for 1983/Moon Turn the tides, but alas.

One thing's for sure.

There'll NEVER be "Another Jimi Hendrix"

And so Castles made of sand...

EJL

Ron Whitfield · From: Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA

In 3 short years/3 short LPs, he completely re-wrote the book of music, and no one has done as much since.

The guy's life is an incredible study and fortunately we have plenty of prime time A/V to enjoy/critique.

Anybody see the new DVD yet, of his (mostly?)complete Woodstock performance?

Bob Watson · From: Champaign, Illinois, U.S.

I was 14 when Jimi died. Me and a couple of friends of mine were hitchiking down to campus to play pinball after school and a beautiful hippie chick driving a VW picked us up and gave us a ride. We heard the sad news on the radio a few blocks after she picked us up. Jimi was one of the most innovative guitarists to ever live. Archie, thanks for reminding us about this historic day.

[This message was edited by Bob Watson on 18 September 2005 at 11:20 PM.]

Skip Edwards · From: LA,CA

If he'd lived long enough, he might have gotten into pedal steel.
That would have really been something.

Mike Perlowin · From: Los Angeles CA

I got to see him with the original trio in 1967. Mike Bloomfield and the Electric Flag were on the same bill .

Joe Goldmark recorded a neat version of "3rd Stone from The Sun" on one of his CDs. Joe gets about as close to sounding like Hendrix as a steel player can.

[This message was edited by Mike Perlowin on 19 September 2005 at 12:18 AM.]

David Doggett · Posted 19 Sep 2005 6:40 am

Oh yeah. I'll never forget hearing the Experience album for the first time, as a senior in college, sitting on the floor of an off-campus apartment, in a purple haze, as it were. He took electric guitar into a whole new world. I got to see him at the Atlanta Pop Festival in '69(?). It was 4th of July, and he did his famous version of the National Anthem as fireworks went off. Like, wow, man!

Not long ago, I was in Atlantic City, and there in the Hard Rock Cafe is that yellow jacket with the big eyes from the cover of the Experience album. It's just sitting right there at eye level, with only a pane of glass separating you from it. I was like a true believer discovering a long lost religious relic. Seems like that thing ought to be in a museum or something, instead of right there next to a fat guy stuffing down a burger with fries.

Jimi was one of those wonders who defy imitation to the point that they create a one-man genre that lives and dies with them. I never really tried to play his stuff on steel - wouldn't know where to start. But occassionally in a jam one of his numbers comes up, and I'm always amazed at how well some of his riffs work out on steel. His slides and bends, and the way he did it all within chords makes it all work very naturally on steel. I think he would have loved the instrument if he had tried it.

Dave Mudgett · From: Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee

I remember that day like it was yesterday, as well as the first time I heard him, in the cafeteria at Amherst High School in 1967. Jimi galvanized people who were tired of the "same ole' same ole'" in music. Funky like Jimmy Nolen, sweepingly bluesy like Albert King, melodically cool and toneful like Kenny Burrell, and as flamboyant as Screamin' Jay Hawkins, he put it all together like nobody has before or since.

Often imitated, never duplicated. It seems that people like this are destined to burn hot and fast.

Mark Lind-Hanson · From: Menlo Park, California, USA

I can vividly recall the first time I heard the first Hendrix album... I was twelve or so- some friends of mine in Palo Alto had this garage band which (conicidentally) featured Ron McKernan (of the G Dead)'s kid brother on keyboards. "You want to hear my brother's album? " he asked. "Okay"... so I sat listened to it.
I MUST have liked it- But you know, it actually went in one ear and aout the other, because the NEXT thing we played was the first Hendrix record!
"let me stand next to your FIAH!"-
I was running around for a week, singing that one...
And it was a YEAR before someone else approached me with that first Dead album saying, "you have to hear THIS>>>)"
During that year I picked up Hendrix's @nd album, and coincidentally, my best friend shows up at my door- thinking we were going to blow each other's minds, I answered the door hodling the gatefold cover out- and there was my friend, standing there, with the same thing.
That really DID blow our minds...
I think one of Hendrix's greatest contributions to the world though was not just the music, and his being of a musician's conciousness a great human being, was that he took racial conciousness to a different level. He really was beyond racial stereotyping, and so far into musician conciousness, that it would not have mattered if he was purple... I think he tended to LIVE what Martin Luther King preached... before there were very many others capable of that level of perception...
add that he was the premier guitarist of his generation and perhaps (arguably) the most inventive one, and his early demise seems all the more painful, to think of what he DIDN'T get to create...

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