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Guy Cundell


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Post  Posted 8 Aug 2013 12:53 pm    
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The engineer for Axis Bold as Love explains the origins of Hendrix's 7#9 chord.

Preposterous, hilarious and a little sad, really, but plausible to anyone not across Hendrix's catalog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hABJFiCzbCI&list=FLtW2mZvJNhr9bEn8scZoF6A
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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 8 Aug 2013 2:24 pm    
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Purple Haze be damned.
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Jack Hanson


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Post  Posted 8 Aug 2013 5:12 pm    
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Let's not forget John Lennon's "You Can't Do That."
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Joseph Napolitano

 

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Post  Posted 8 Aug 2013 5:48 pm    
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Allman bros have used this chord in quite a few songs also
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robert kramer

 

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Post  Posted 8 Aug 2013 6:51 pm    
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Wiki for Dominant 7th sharp 9 chord:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_seventh_sharp_ninth_chord

Hendrix certainly got the 7+9 chord from the horns on Bobby Blue Bland's "Ain't That Lovin' You Baby" (1961) (the great Wayne Bennett on guitar!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPXUbejrcgM

"Testify" (1964) Isley Brothers w/ Jimmie Hendrix (first record w/ Hendrix using 7+9)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUdYp-6a4RA

"Purple Haze" from "Are You Experienced" released May 12, 1967

"Spanish Castle Magic" on "Axis Bold As Love" released December 1, 1967

Wiki says the jazz origin is with the bebop but I wonder if it isn't something Ellington came up with.
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Joachim Kettner


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Post  Posted 8 Aug 2013 11:26 pm    
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"I'm A Man" by the Spencer Davis Group:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzN0mMx-sJg
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Tony Glassman


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Post  Posted 9 Aug 2013 4:19 am    
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"Tramp" Lowell Fulsom (original ver)
"Hold-it" Bill Doggett
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Greg Cutshaw


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Post  Posted 9 Aug 2013 5:43 am    
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Buddy Emmons' intro to I Love You Because. A dominant 7th sharp nine disguised as a 13b5!

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Mike Neer


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Post  Posted 9 Aug 2013 6:19 am    
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robert kramer wrote:

Wiki says the jazz origin is with the bebop but I wonder if it isn't something Ellington came up with.


Definitely out of Debussy, whom Parker and all the beboppers were hip to.
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Guy Cundell


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Post  Posted 9 Aug 2013 6:42 am    
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I'll see that Claude Debussy and raise you a Frederic Chopin. Not a full 7#9, I'll grant you, but the first altered dominant, the 7#5.
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robert kramer

 

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Post  Posted 9 Aug 2013 10:16 am    
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Always good to hear the names Debussy and Lowell Fulsom in the same conversation.





Jimmie Hendrix at Monterey playing an F 7#9 chord on "Foxey Lady" (Hendrix tunes down to Eb)



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Brett Lanier

 

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Post  Posted 9 Aug 2013 10:30 am    
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Chuck Berry used a C7#9 in his version of "St. Louis Blues".
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