pali gap sometimes is my favorite hendrix track ever. so laid back yet so much attitude. and the rhythm section just hammering that vamp.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 January 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
Also just gorgeous.
― candyman, Friday, 22 January 2021 22:27 (three years ago) link
i think i know every note of it by heart.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 January 2021 22:28 (three years ago) link
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.
― candyman, Friday, 22 January 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
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.
― candyman, Friday, 22 January 2021 22:39 (three years ago) link
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.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 23 January 2021 01:27 (three years ago) link
Train is also a monster on the Woodstock album
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Saturday, 23 January 2021 09:04 (three years ago) link
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.
― candyman, Saturday, 23 January 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link
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.
― candyman, Saturday, 23 January 2021 14:19 (three years ago) link
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!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 25 January 2021 11:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― candyman, Monday, 25 January 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, January 21, 2021 11:26 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'd like to hear this but the links on that wayback machine capture are rapidshare... has it been reposted elsewhere?
― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Monday, 25 January 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
I'd like to hear it too, though tbh the studio versions of a lot of those songs dont seem good enough.
― candyman, Monday, 25 January 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
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.
― candyman, Monday, 25 January 2021 20:41 (three years ago) link