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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Mr. Air on May 18, 2011, 07:49:24 PM
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Lets praise the great master by telling which of his songs that's our favourite and why.
Mine is "Bold as love". It begins with what I regard as the classic Hendrix playing technique and tone which I really dig and then moves on to become more power rock oriented with some classy psychedelic lead - the best of two worlds. I also think that the melody is quite catchy and suits the song well.
I just noticed how the Mothers Milk 60's rock clip that Nolly have made for the BKP homepage reminds me of "Bold as love" and I guess that's why I find this clip so unbelieveably nice :D
So what's your favourite Hendrix song?
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So many too chose from....
But for me its Hear My Train a'Coming - the perfect blend of blues with Jimi's psychedlic guitar. That and no two recordings are the same, so you get great variations of Jimi at the height of his powers.
alternatively the cover of Daytripper on the BBC Sessions is just massive.
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Red House, or if covers are allowed All Along The Watchtower...
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Gotta go with either wait till tomorrow for signs of Hendrix's great soul/blues/funk playing or Bold as love same as Mr Air, it's just beautiful to my ears
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For sheer craziness I vote for The Stars That play With Laughing Sam's Dice. That wah wah riff always kills me.
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For sheer craziness I vote for The Stars That play With Laughing Sam's Dice. That wah wah riff always kills me.
Yes!! I thought I would be the only person who would vote for Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice! Choucas, you are my brother.
Also, check out Bleeding Heart (Blues in C Sharp) from The Jimi Hendrix concerts. One of the best blues performances you will ever hear.
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I think I'd find it impossible to choose between Voodoo Chile (slight return) and Little Wing. Both are extremely memorable songs with inventive, passionate guitar, killer tone and proper Hendrix spaceship to the edge of infinity blues cool. If it's a cover then Star Spangled Banner from Woodstock is as coherent a piece of political and social commentary as one guitarist, a Strat and a bajillion watts of Marshall grunt could muster I reckon.
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Highway Child
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMFS_jIKJn8
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I'm glad this thread has appeared because JH is normally discussed as a great guitarist, but equally he was a great songwriter. As has been said there are so many to choose from, but the other day I was out and about and Gypsy Eyes came on and gave me goosebumps.
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Little Wing, Highway Child, Voodoo Chile, all great.
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So many- can't narrow it down- I change according to mood.
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...yeah 38th, there's just too much confusion...I can't find no relief
I would say that All Along the Watchtower is not so much a cover as a re-interpretation 8)
And, for anyone who has not watched the remake of Battlestar Galactica - the song was not written by Bob Dylan but by a Cylon 152,000 years ago!
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Little Wing all the way for me. His cover of Like a Rolling Stone is also great!
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God, it's such a long time since I listened to any Hendrix! :o
First thing that springs to mind is "Who Knows" from Band of Gypsys, for some reason.... also love "Them Changes" from that album, although it's a Buddy Miles song... but let me think...
I always preferred Electric Ladyland to the earlier albums, and although it's not a very imaginative choice, I'm going to have to go for "All Along the Watchtower". It's a rare case where a cover version completely eclipses the original and becomes the definitive version. It's extraordinary. And I think it's one of those recordings where neither the song nor the performance could be any better - not just good, not just excellent, but 3 or 4 minutes of absolute perfection (other examples: "Ace of Spades" by Motorhead and "Don't Believe a Word" by Thin Lizzy)
I'm probably forgetting some great songs though....
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I like all of the above plus Machine Gun too! Cheers!!
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Castles made of Sand 8)
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The track I always put on first when I fancy listening to some Hendrix is Killing Floor, which is a live number from Monterey. It's a Howling Wolf cover I think. Anyway the opening rhythm guitar in Ab is Played with so much oomph it never fails to impress. The tone is massive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hqM7xys3U&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I also like Foxy Lady as it's the first Hendrix song I ever heard as a 10 year old. Good for tennis racquet air guitar and jumping off your bed! :D
I like too many. Manic Depression, Are You Experienced?, Ezy Rider ect
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I'm going to go straight for the jugular- Purple Haze.
He's obviously done bucketloads of great tracks but hearing that for the first time when I was 12/13 set me on edge like nothing before or since; it was revolutionary, a monolith of passion and brilliance that was too good to come through mere headphones, too good to be described as music. To me it redefined what music was, and what it should be. I came in to school with my mp3 player trying to get everyone to listen to it but most of the day I spent on my own listening to it over and over again. Absolute perfection. Absolutely fantastic.
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Re the above, in january 67 I was watching TOTP and he popped up doing Hey Jo and I couldn't believe my eyes and ears. Two months later he on there doing Purple Haze, jeezuus! For my money the best rock single ever.
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Like many others, it changes all the time, but I remember how it felt as a kid to hear "Crosstown Traffic" and "Angel". My dad had all the Jimi Hendrix vinyl albums, and those two songs have always blown me away. I'm listening to "Angel" now, and the drama and emotion of the arrangement is just incredible. I love all the effects and the different strands of guitar that come in and out.
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I'm like a lot of people here it's kinda hard to choose as I love loads of his stuff all for different reasons.
'Voodoo Chile' as it's the track that really made me want to pick up and learn guitar.
'Crosstown Traffic' for the genius that is the comb n paper kazoo.
'All Along the Watchtower' again as others have said it completely redefined the song, only example other example I can think that does that is Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah (I'm sure there are many others)
I could go on.....
Just realised I've not been on here in ages.
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gotta be Voodoo Chile (slight return) for me, no question - when that kicks in all hell breaks loose.
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I keep meaning to post on this, but can't make a choice...
So it's between:
A bunch of songs on Are You Experienced (the title song itself is a stunner, and Fire, Manic Depression, Love or Confusion, take yer pick...)
Highway Chile, what a stunner.
Stone Free - omigod.
But I am VERY fond of one of the four sides of Electric Ladyland (side 3? can't remember - and listening to it on CD nowadays doesn't help me remember :lol:). The side with all the dreamy sh1t on it - Rainy Day Dream Away, and 1983 a Merman I should turn to be, or something like that. I've never even managed to figure out where one song ends and the one next starts. But if I could have only one side of Hendrix - that's what I'd ask for.
The best songs, though, for me, are those killer pop-rock ones on Are You Experienced.
The most stunning guitar playing, or at least the stuff that floats my boat the most, is on a live Stone Free and on an instrumental called Driving South on the BBC Sessions.
EDIT: Just realised I've completely by-passed Axis. I do love it, but given a choice I'd put Experienced on first, then Ladyland, then the newer "unreleased albums" - two of them, can't remember what they're called - and only then Axis might come out before the live albums. It was the first one I owned in the early 80s, and it feels like mebbe it's one of those "classics" I played to death so I don't fancy putting them on, but when I do it's "yeeeaahhh..."
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For me it's got to be Midnight from the Hendrix CD (South Saturn Delta).
That tune is just f@#kin amazing, it's got Hendrix splashed all over it.
Play it loud until your ears bleed and your brain turns to mush, excellent the ultimate Hendrix track.
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I'd have to say either Angel, Red House, or maybe Wind Cries Mary.
Little Wing is a favorite but is too short.
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I'd have to say either Angel, Red House, or maybe Wind Cries Mary.
Little Wing is a favorite but is too short.
From what I understand you saying is that Little Wing is so brilliant you wish it where longer. :)