search & destroy: the posthumous Jimi Hendrix catalog

Forgot to write, that version of hear my train is the last one he cut in the studio IIRC, and I think maybe the best one (its fierce!), though the acoustic one from the film is great too, but that already came out in his lifetime so I excluded it.

yeah it's really good. it sounds really complete, produced, finished.

pali gap sometimes is my favorite hendrix track ever. so laid back yet so much attitude. and the rhythm section just hammering that vamp.

Also just gorgeous.

i think i know every note of it by heart.

Send my love to Linda is another good one from the last sessions, but it's like loverman, great guitar work, but not much of a developed song there. Would be a great b side though.

Pali gap is def a cousin of hey baby new rising sun, or uses the same guitar tone/effects at least. He was def trying to use a diff guitar palette at this point.

My favourite "Hear My Train a Comin'" is the one on Valleys of Neptune, I prefer the slower, grinding pace to the rush of the People Hell and Angels version.

Train is also a monster on the Woodstock album

I know it was a bit controversial to erase or not record the percussion on the Woodstock show but going from the first Ray's songs, it often just sounds surplus to requirements. Just too busy. I get he was trying to work in Latin, soul and funk influences, but it's much busier than those genres tend to be, while also still more earth bound or street bound than his older songs somehow. A weird tension. I wish someone told Hendrix he didnt have to worry about being outside of modern black music.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/hendrix-the-gigs-that-changed-history-10-atlanta-pop-festival-2

This has some good versions of freedom, room full of mirrors. Really prominent bass in the mix too.

how had i never heard cherokee mist?? like an alternate universe where jimi played in the velvet underground. incredible weird metallic sound on the guitar. hypnotic!

Found another stepping stone which is actually the best one, on the voodoo child compilation. Quite different feel to the rest and more complete than the south Saturn delta one. Just nuts how many alternative takes there are! Theres another Cherokee mist too, but quite different.

My favorite take on First Rays is the John Scannell remix:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120325214917/http://letamancomeinanddothepopcorn.blogspot.com/2008/09/first-rays-mix.html

I never found any of the other versions very satisfying -- not Cry Of Love, not the 1997 First Rays, and especially not Voodoo Soup (with a hapless drum overdub by the Knack's Bruce Gary that constantly drifts in and out of tempo). But the Scannell remix feels like canon to me.

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I'd like to hear this but the links on that wayback machine capture are rapidshare... has it been reposted elsewhere?

I'd like to hear it too, though tbh the studio versions of a lot of those songs dont seem good enough.

Strongly recommend checking out stepping stone and loverman from the Fillmore east shows on spotify. If he wanted to really change his sound, post-experience, these are really great, scaled back examples of how it could have gone.