New Hendrix 5/3/13

Posted by: JBGWild on 22 November 2012

Rollingstone.com have an announcement of 12 new tracks, People, Hell and Angels. From '68 & 69, 'experimental stuff'. Could be interesting........

PS The Tone Audio review of Neil Young's Psychedelic Pill show's the reviewer's art at it's best, very eloquent and spot on, not a one paragraph soundbite. Still the vinyl version to come, amps a warming....

Cheers John

Posted on: 22 November 2012 by Steve J

I read about it also. Jimi plays all the instruments, including drums. Recorded after Electric Ladyland. The production probably won't be that great. I doubt it will be the great lost album. I'll wait and see what it's like before ordering.

Posted on: 22 November 2012 by joerand

Originally Posted by Steve J:

Jimi plays all the instruments, including drums.

Interesting. Anyone know if he played the drums left-handed?

Posted on: 23 November 2012 by jamesbernald

Did he played drums left handed? I did not knew that

Posted on: 24 November 2012 by tonym

And with his teeth I believe.

Posted on: 24 November 2012 by David Leedham

Back in 1980 I once bought a box set of Jimi Henrix that had rare material on it of his "experimental playing"

I have to say it was unlistenable crap!

I reckon he was completely stoned and to his ear at the time it would have made sense.

I feel rather ashamed that I sold it on, would have had some rarity value in a collection.

This news would make me not hold my breath for something other than "interesting"

Hope I am wrong

Posted on: 24 November 2012 by fred simon

Originally Posted by jamesbernald:

Did he played drums left handed? I did not knew that

He played left-handed guitar. From Wikipedia:

Jimi Hendrix was naturally left-handed but his father tried to force him to play right-handed because he believed playing left handed was a sign of the devil. Hendrix took right-handed guitars and restrung them for playing left-handed (Cross 2005:55). Hendrix did continue to write right-handed. Jimi did learn to play right-handed as mandated by his father, he had to play right-handed any time his father was around (and left-handed, upside down, when his father was not around) or risked losing the guitar forever. Once he started making modifications that allowed him to play left handed with the strings in the proper order, he still had to play right-handed with the old man nearby, so he also learned to play right-handed with the strings upside down. His brother Leon's testimony confirms this in Sharon Lawrence's biography "Jimi Hendrix: the man, the magic, the truth" and in quotations from guitar players such as Mike Bloomfield in "Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child of the Aquarian Age" by Dave Henderson.

Posted on: 24 November 2012 by fred simon

Originally Posted by David Leedham:

Back in 1980 I once bought a box set of Jimi Henrix that had rare material on it of his "experimental playing"

I have to say it was unlistenable crap!

I reckon he was completely stoned and to his ear at the time it would have made sense.

The thing is, he also made some of his best music completely stoned ... being stoned, in and of itself, isn't the determining factor.

Posted on: 24 November 2012 by Steve J

Originally Posted by fred simon:

Originally Posted by David Leedham:

Back in 1980 I once bought a box set of Jimi Henrix that had rare material on it of his "experimental playing"

I have to say it was unlistenable crap!

I reckon he was completely stoned and to his ear at the time it would have made sense.

The thing is, he also made some of his best music completely stoned ... being stoned, in and of itself, isn't the determining factor.

Great avatar pic Fred. I remember those days well.

Posted on: 24 November 2012 by fred simon

Originally Posted by Steve J:

Originally Posted by fred simon:

Originally Posted by David Leedham:

Back in 1980 I once bought a box set of Jimi Henrix that had rare material on it of his "experimental playing"

I have to say it was unlistenable crap!

I reckon he was completely stoned and to his ear at the time it would have made sense.

The thing is, he also made some of his best music completely stoned ... being stoned, in and of itself, isn't the determining factor.

Great avatar pic Fred. I remember those days well.

What ... you mean last week? (insert emoticon here)