Thursday, April 20, 2006

experiencing the JH experience



Jimi Hendrix-Live in Berkeley, 2nd show

if you have good speakers you'll feel as if you were there, at the foot of the stage, with the students in dashikis and camisoles waving flags and flashing ... lights all around you

he plays jazz! At the core, it's blues, and you know what descends from blues right? jazz

above all it's genius. the complexity of the arrangements surprised me. you know how evey now and then critics come up with lists of must-have recordings, the self-sufficient musical library upon which build our instruction in notes? well this is one of those - in my humble opinion

pair this with live "Inca roads" by Zappa. then light it up: it's gonna blow up right IN YOUR FACE.

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