I saw Hendrix four or five times, I guess. I don't think I've ever again seen anyone that was in such total control of his instrument. Back in the late sixties when I had the chances to see him in small venues, he did the most amazing things on the guitar and made them appear totally effortless. From the way he acted and bantered between songs, it seemed like to him that his playing was just something that he did. I don't know if he knew then just how ground breaking he really was.
I have that one too.... Great CD!!!! [img]smile.gif[/img]
It's kind of funny that Hendrix only released 3 or 4 CDs before he died....
... yet I own about TWENTY Hendrix CDs. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
I have Woodstock, Montery Pop, BBC sessions, a 4 Disc Boxed Set, 4 different Tribute albums, etc. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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I saw Hendrix four or five times, I guess....
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Do you also have live bootleg with Jimi, Jim Morrison and Johnny Winter? Probably not too hard to find, they sold it at a CD shop here ages ago. Various companies have produced it, all under the title "Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead"
I saw him like three nights in a row at the old Ambassador Ballroom in DC after he got kicked off of the Monkees tour. There couldn't have been more than a couple of hundred people in the audience. I was able to sit right up front about ten feet from him every night. This was when he had one amp and I guess a wah wah and volume control, and that was it for gimmicks. The rest was just pure genious.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH................
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One of the nights, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding switched off on instruments. The Who had played at Constitution Hall that night and Pete Townsend was in the audience. I guess as a Who tribute, Noel knocked over the drums and Mitch, playing bass at that point, put the bass thru the speakers of the amp. Jimi stopped playing and just went:
"Damn, man. That's the only bass amp we got."
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B, You need to check out Yngwie Malmsteen's version of Red House on the new G3 cd, Rockin' in the Free World......"AWESOME" Email me and I'll send you the MP3!
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Got it and Got it.
Saw that G3 concert live with Andyman in detroit and bought the DVD a few weeks ago. I really like Yngwie's neo-classical stuff, but I think he gets a bit too wanky on the blueseyier stuff... quantity over quality and it's not as interesting to me.
I do like the version of Aerosmith's "Dream On" that he did with Ronnie James Dio though.
I think the best vocal-oriented stuff that Yngwie did was with Joe Lynn Turner. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Very Cool.......I'm going to see Clapton just before the picnic, and some of Yngwies coolest stuff is his very first album.......with Black Star, and with Ron Keel in Steeler!