Words by Brendan Halloween is a strange holiday, when you think about it. For kids, it's that magical day when you can ask your neighbors for candy and they have to give you some! (Fuck that guy who gave you raisins.) For teens, it's that awkward day where you're too old to trick or treat but you're secretly jealous of kids and their candy so you make mischief and mayhem, instead. (Amiright?) For college students, it's an excuse to get drunk and dress ruhl slutty and get away with it, or an excuse to [...]
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "May This Be Love" In the summer of 1960, Bosley Crowther's feelings about Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho were tepid. In a review in the New York Times, Crowther derided the film's pop psychology and pulp sensibility and assessed the acting as "fair". He did not hate the movie, but he didn't like it either. By December, he had made an about-face, arguing in the same paper that Hitchcock's masterpiece was among the ten best films of the year. So what happened? It's not, I [...]
Some of the best stories are told through music. It's been a while since I posted so I'd like to tell a little story of my own through songs. Bear with me because this is going to be a loose interpretation. I've been in a funk for the last month or so. Not the good, James Brown kind of funk; the kind of funk where you don't want to get off the couch. There are lots of reasons but I won't bore you with the details. Let's just say it's time to make some changes, whether [...]
In the post-Sgt Pepper era when rock n roll got "serious", the single was thought to be kids stuff and not a sufficient medium to relay a "heavy" message, ushering in the album rock era. While the album era certainly yielded its share of excellent LP's, it also encouraged excess. Jimi Hendrix was the consummate artist; one that put great care into what he released in his lifetime, and of course the LP's released in which he had creative control are nearly flawless. I can easily put on Hendrix LP's (of which I have listened to literally hundreds [...]
Well, it does not seem like there will ever be an end to the vast amount of archived material left behind by Jimi Hendrix, as since his untimely passing in 1970, his estate has released eight studio albums, over 20 live albums, and more compilations and box sets than you can shake a leg at. This is not to criticize the most recent release, Winterland , the live album featuring tracks from four of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's original line up (Hendrix-Redding-Mitchell) performing at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom in 1968. The album has three different release [...]
The one CD highlights disc from his legendary Winterland concerts gives a nice taste of Jimi Hendrix's concert style.
Every once in a while I like to run contests for you guys, because I assume anyone who regularly reads this website is a poor, jobless, basement-dwelling troll with no prospects. By the way, remember to power-off your computer speakers before you listen to this week's mix tape - you know how your mom and [...]
Listening to Jimi Hendrix Experience - Winterland - is as always with Jimi Hendrix, an experience. From the second "Fire" starts, it's like being back in the saddle. Yes, I've heard the song many times, even used to sing it in my old cover band...but you certainly know where you are with this one. After a little banter inbetween songs, "Foxey Lady" glides right in. The band is tight, the solo is soaring and Mitch Mitchell on the drums is firing back along with Jimi's guitar. Jimi notes [...]
Let us beat past the arduous task of re-explaining everything we've mouthed on at great length about here , here , and here . With numerous members of our staff pushing 30, it's no surprise that we have such a loyal early-902s fan base amongst us. We were likely born in a cloud of Aqua Net, only to be raised by ravaging alt-rock wolfpacks, and we're goddamned proud of it! For those 702s alumni out there who could stage dive at Alice Cooper with the best of 'em... stop pickin' on me or I'll use my Wayne [...]
The new four-disc set features legendary Hendrix performances.
The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever La compilación empieza con unos cuantos temas clásicos. El primero de ellos es ni mas ni menos que de un grupo más famoso que Jesucristo , The Beatles . Esta canción no supuso el origen de la psicodélia, pero si que fue sin duda alguna la detonante del boom que surgiría durante los años posteriores, y la causante de su gran expansión. Compuesta por el clásico dúo Lennon/McCartney, es con casi toda seguridad mi tema favorito del grupo británico. Como nota curiosa, decir que cuando Brian [...]
Filmed in the early part of 1968 and released in the summer of 1969, Easy Rider was a surprise box-office hit, pulling in over $19 million dollars (~111 million in 2010 dollars) in its initial run. Unafraid of stepping on the toes of conventionality, Dennis Hopper's directorial debut certainly helped usher in a new approach to filmmaking. Much has been written about the film Easy Rider and its subsequent effect on Hollywood; however, little has been written on the film's groundbreaking soundtrack. According to Hopper, Easy Rider [...]
Billowing clouds of smoke, a neon-lit cast of tie-dye colors, and various voodoo references help define The Great Society Mind Destroyers. Chaos is an all-encompassing description once the opening track on the Chicago-based quartet's new album, Spirit Smoke, gets underway. "Temple Lurker" sounds nearly half-ironic in its title; its whirlwind of heavily distorted psych-rock is [...]
Play the entire 25 track mix tape in order here: (!!!) This section of the mixtape has no particular theme, commonality between songs, or particular order that they should be played. This is where I am able to post my favorites that didnt quite fit anywhere else. Before I go further, all five of these posted artists are arguably some of the premier [...]
Para ir abriendo boca mientras graban su nuevo disco, los integrantes de Chickenfoot han colgado en su canal de YouTube un video profesional grabado en directo en uno de sus conciertos. En él interpretan la canción "Foxey Lady" de The Jimi Hendrix Experience , que data nada menos que de 1967. Se trata de una versión excelente que hizo rockear al público de Cabo Wavo que se congregó en uno de los locales de los que el vocalista Sammy Hagar es propietario. Se nota mucho cuando un grupo se lo pasa [...]
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington. His given name at the time was Johnny Allen Hendrix, but it just doesn't have the same ring does it? If there is a Mount Rushmore of Guitar Gods this guy is front and center. Like George Washington. A Man among boys when it comes to playing the guitar, the poor guy didn't even make it to his 28th birthday. Jimi Hendrix died on September 18, 1970 in London. Naturally, there are differing opinions as to how this great musician passed away, but the generally accepted version of events is [...]
In the current musical climate, fans are inundated with an unprecedented number of new bands and songs everyday, thanks to an accessibility created by a "series of tubes." Because of our over-saturation and obsession with what's new (especially mine), it can be refreshing to occassionally turn back the clock. So today is all about Jimi Hendrix: the man, the legend, but mostly, the music fan. When he wasn't lighting guitars on fire, tonguing gnarly riffs or partying with groupies, Hendrix was just your average music-obsessed record collector with a soft side for the Bee Gees. In [...]
Jimi Hendrix Experience - If 6 Was 9 [See post to listen to audio]
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive Decades after opening for the Jimi Hendrix Experience , ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons clearly remembers his favorite live Hendrix tune. "They did the coolest version of 'The Wind Cries Mary,' which still remains one of my favorites," Gibbons tells Spinner. "One of the reasons was it was in an oddball key -- the key of F. It's one fret up from the key of [...]
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