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Post by tom on Nov 26, 2022 22:37:06 GMT
Magician with an electric guitar. Great program about his last days on Beeb two.
Not prog rock, but that guy could swing a great electric cricket bat. IMHO one of the great electric guitar players of the 60's and 70's, if not all time.
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Post by tom on Nov 26, 2022 22:42:01 GMT
I'm sure I saw Hendrix live at one of the major concert, but I'm not sure...life was a blur in those days...maybe it was at Mothers in Erdington...who knows.
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Post by anglais on Nov 27, 2022 2:40:26 GMT
Buggerit, I missed this.
I never "got" Hendrix back in the day. I can remember the day he died like it was yesterday. I was sat upstairs on a No16 bus from Small Heath going up Hill Street in town and a dozen or so youngsters were dressed in black, outside the Golden Eagle and I wondered what that was all about. When I got off in Victoria Square it was the main news on the newspaper vendors stands. It never struck me significant as I was never a fan.
Then about 20 years ago I was mooching through HMV and Electric Ladyland was on offer for a couple of quid so I bought it on a whim. Apart from one track, Noel Reddings "Little Miss Strange" it is a masterpiece. One track, the extended "Voodoo Chile" is astonishing and converted me, I now have everything Hendrix released on CD, and there are a lot of crap compilations.
The most interesting is the live recording of Band of Gypsies where Hendrix goes back to his roots as backing guitarist to Motown's Isley Brothers, except for Machine Gun which is a violent piece many believe to be Hendrix's finest recording.
I was reading an article about the ten most expensive guitars ever sold were a couple of days ago. I thought it was David Gilmores Black Stratocaster but it only fetched 4 Million. The most expensive was Kurt Kobains Martin D18E which he used on "Unplugged" which fetched a cool 6 million. Hendrix's White Stratocaster from Woodstock fetched 2 million donkeys years ago.
There are 2 mega rich American collectors who go "head to head" against each other when interesting guitars come up for auction. Hendrix's Strat must surely be the most iconic guitar ever, Would it top 6 million if it came on the market today?
One of these chaps also paid over 4 million quid for Kurt Kobains "Teen Spirit" guitar. I think its a blue Fender Jaguar but I am not sure.
Is Hendrix the greatest guitarist ever? Not in my book. The most influential and innovative is to me without doubt.
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Post by will on Nov 27, 2022 8:44:23 GMT
I watched the programme last night about the gig on Maui. Very interesting.
Mitch Mitchell was Keith Emerson's and Greg Lake's first choice for drummer in their new band, which is probably what gave rise to the rumours that Hendrix was also lined up to join.
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