yeah forgot watchtower! that song still gives me shivers, especially the intro, it as if he's swooping down from a cloud, or a mountain, it kind of whooshes in.
in the u.s. many songs that could have been weren't issued.
hey joe was a huge single in the u.k. i think foxy lady too.
yeah forgot watchtower! that song still gives me shivers, especially the intro, it as if he's swooping down from a cloud, or a mountain, it kind of whooshes in.
in the u.s. many songs that could have been weren't issued.
hey joe was a huge single in the u.k. i think foxy lady too.
Everything he did was freakish..He was a Freak of nature... They sure broke the mold when he died..
Ps I recall some people saying that he was killed by the CIA.....coz of his anti-war stand.....or some such....\
playing guitar to jimi was like whistling to you and me, there was no thought process, it just came out.
in bill graham's (owner of the fillmores and legendary concert promoter) autobiography he tells a story of a night at the fillmore (east) when he felt jimi was just going through the motions, you know doing all the gimmicks , lighting the guitar on fire , humping it. playing behind his head, the whole nine yards. after the show jimi asked him how he liked the show.
graham hemmed and hawed and jimi told him HE REALLY wanted to know what bill felt.
bill told him (and i'm summarizing a long interchange here) that he went through all the motions and did all the tricks but forgot to play. bill said that he heard sounds coming from hendrix but nothing that he felt was coming from the heart.
hendrix explodes! and says "did you hear that ovation man? they went f*cking nuts!"
graham replies "you could have brought out your guitar and pissed on that stage and for them, it would have been a thrill"
hendrix curses and yells according to graham but he didn't feel it was directed at him, he felt jimi was cursing at himself. he just looked at graham and said "okay" and when he was going out the door jimi asked "you going to be here for the second show?"
graham says yes, jimi asks "you promise?"
graham introduces jimi and watches from the side of the stage and says that for the next 75 minutes jimi never moved three feet from side to side, all of his movements, which weren't many, were to the music.
graham said that other than otis redding he'd never seen a show as intense as this, jimi just played, graham says jimi got the kind ovation only bullfighters get. he was a man possessed.
jimi finishes and comes over to bill and says "good enough for you, jack? huh? you gonna leave me go now? you gonna give me my space now, bill? huh?"
bill just said "jimi, you were just great."
then jimi went back out and encored with all the schtick.
being a one hit wonder doesn't diminish your talents, many great artists technically are one hit wonders.
I think your definition of a one hit wonder is a bit off. The chaps you name all have had their careers before and after their hit got picked up. One hit wonders, however, are (at least IMO) the people who come from nothing, floor the world with one song and then disappear back into nothingness again. Think Vanilla Ice (although he did have some schnabble afterwards), or Rick Astley. If I hear "One Hit Wonder", I think of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and I have never considered any of their stable-steeds as talented people.
i remember selling a rick astley tape to a black lady, and she just looked at the tape and looked at me and said, "he's white? he's a skinny little white boy?"
I don't even think Rick Astley fully counts as a "one hit wonder", as he seemed to have had a good number of songs on one album that sent the Top 40 chart afrenzy for a little while- one right after the other. What was one-hit-wonder-esque is that all the frenzy died out pretty quick once that album was through. So I guess that makes him a one hit album wonder?
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in the u.s. many songs that could have been weren't issued.
hey joe was a huge single in the u.k. i think foxy lady too.
Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
yeah forgot watchtower! that song still gives me shivers, especially the intro, it as if he's swooping down from a cloud, or a mountain, it kind of whooshes in.
in the u.s. many songs that could have been weren't issued.
hey joe was a huge single in the u.k. i think foxy lady too.
Everything he did was freakish..He was a Freak of nature... They sure broke the mold when he died..
Ps I recall some people saying that he was killed by the CIA.....coz of his anti-war stand.....or some such....
in bill graham's (owner of the fillmores and legendary concert promoter) autobiography he tells a story of a night at the fillmore (east) when he felt jimi was just going through the motions, you know doing all the gimmicks , lighting the guitar on fire , humping it. playing behind his head, the whole nine yards. after the show jimi asked him how he liked the show.
graham hemmed and hawed and jimi told him HE REALLY wanted to know what bill felt.
bill told him (and i'm summarizing a long interchange here) that he went through all the motions and did all the tricks but forgot to play. bill said that he heard sounds coming from hendrix but nothing that he felt was coming from the heart.
hendrix explodes! and says "did you hear that ovation man? they went f*cking nuts!"
graham replies "you could have brought out your guitar and pissed on that stage and for them, it would have been a thrill"
hendrix curses and yells according to graham but he didn't feel it was directed at him, he felt jimi was cursing at himself. he just looked at graham and said "okay" and when he was going out the door jimi asked "you going to be here for the second show?"
graham says yes, jimi asks "you promise?"
graham introduces jimi and watches from the side of the stage and says that for the next 75 minutes jimi never moved three feet from side to side, all of his movements, which weren't many, were to the music.
graham said that other than otis redding he'd never seen a show as intense as this, jimi just played, graham says jimi got the kind ovation only bullfighters get. he was a man possessed.
jimi finishes and comes over to bill and says "good enough for you, jack? huh? you gonna leave me go now? you gonna give me my space now, bill? huh?"
bill just said "jimi, you were just great."
then jimi went back out and encored with all the schtick.
it was the band of gypsies new years show.
Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
being a one hit wonder doesn't diminish your talents, many great artists technically are one hit wonders.
I think your definition of a one hit wonder is a bit off. The chaps you name all have had their careers before and after their hit got picked up. One hit wonders, however, are (at least IMO) the people who come from nothing, floor the world with one song and then disappear back into nothingness again. Think Vanilla Ice (although he did have some schnabble afterwards), or Rick Astley. If I hear "One Hit Wonder", I think of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and I have never considered any of their stable-steeds as talented people.
i said "he's a brit too"