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Topic: Forty Years Since Jimi Died. |
Archie Nicol R.I.P.
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 3:18 pm |
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I was thirteen years old and had never heard of a pedal steel guitar. Years later, when I was playing(?) in a rock band, I found myself trying to imitate the great man on steel. I'm sure there are many of us who were influenced by him.
Cheers, Jimi.
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Clete Ritta
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San Antonio, Texas
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 5:25 pm
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I just watched a special on the Biography Channel, narrated by Bootsy Collins (as Jimi) in Jimis words. It was informative, funny, and showed a side of Jimi that I wasnt aware of previously.
I was 13 and heard Red House Blues. I was hopelessly stricken with guitar fever ever since.
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 5:35 pm
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| When I die, just keep playing my records - Jimi |
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Marc Jenkins
From:
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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Posted 18 Sep 2010 5:43 pm
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| Ron Whitfield wrote: |
| When I die, just keep playing my records - Jimi |
Will do! |
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CrowBear Schmitt
From:
Ariege, - PairO'knees, - France
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Posted 19 Sep 2010 1:33 am
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i was 16 when Jimi played at the Café Wha in the village
he was just part of the scene at the time
(this was before he went to England & fame)
i caught Jimi rehearsin' the Band of Gypsies concert at Baggies in Soho
the last time i saw Jimi he was sittin' on a fire hydrant outside of Electric Ladyland during the Cry of Love sessions |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 19 Sep 2010 1:45 am
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I think Jimi Hendrix could play almost every style of music.
He was also the producer of some records... Cat Mother is an example.
I read that he also liked the soft pop music that he heard when he came to Britain in '67. While on a package tour with various artists, incl. entertainers like Engelbert Humperdinck, he found something good in him, at least that's what I heard. |
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Joe Casey
From:
Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
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Posted 19 Sep 2010 7:43 am
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Gee it doesn't seem like a day over 39 years..  |
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 19 Sep 2010 12:11 pm
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That's because it's a day over 40!
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 19 Sep 2010 2:56 pm
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I'll have to get my recording of "Castles Made Of Sand" out. 
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 19 Sep 2010 8:13 pm
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Jimi never died in my head - his spirit and music live on. I have always felt that he would have gone on to much greater things, and that the history of (at least popular) music would be quite different had he survived. I think especially of jazz-fusion - it needed a Jimi to stay grounded and not get so far detached from the people, as it ultimately did. Just my opinion.
I think he got it - that famous quote (I believe from the Dick Cavett interview) about always wanting to sound like Kenny Burrell - I think that was completely for real. I truly and fully expected him to make the transition to jazz. He'd have been a mofo. |
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Bob Hoffnar
From:
Austin, Tx
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Posted 19 Sep 2010 9:31 pm
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I was on a bus full of new music/jazz players going to play a concert years ago. We were headed from NYC to Virginia. Every player on the bus had a story about how Jimi changed them forever the first time they heard him.
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2010 6:51 am
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I think it's quite awful/tragic/ridiculous how his popular image has been reduced to "one of those hippie acidheads" and his classic rock radio contribution has been reduced to "Foxy Lady, "Purple Haze" and "Hey Joe." The things he was doing with overdubs at the very end - I defy anyone to find a better use of multitracking than "Angel", "Astro Man", "Night Bird Flying", "Belly Button Window."
However, the most credible account of his death does ascribe it to basic hippie stupidity - he was into numerology as well as a lot of other -ologies, his personal magic number was 9, so he took 9 painkillers, of which a single one was the dose for a full-grown man. Oops.... |
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Ray Minich
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Bradford, Pa. Frozen Tundra
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Posted 20 Sep 2010 7:32 am
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According to the records, Janis Joplin died on October 4, 1970. Another unwelcome anniversary.
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Bill McCloskey
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Posted 20 Sep 2010 10:55 am
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So who saw him live?
I saw Janis live, but not Jimi, so much the pity.
Did see Stevie Ray Vaughn though lots of times before he was known when I lived in austin. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2010 12:04 pm
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I've come to accept that he was destined to write THE BOOK on extreme soul guitar and being the coolest dude playing it. Having done that his artistic future was to be a bleak blessing/curse with an even worse end. In some ways it's best he left when and as he did.
SRV was awesome in his own Texified way, mucho similarities between Stevie/Jimi and how they could wring out endless top shelf riffs/quotes and stream of consience jams from a Strat neck.
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 20 Sep 2010 12:06 pm
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Me in '68 in Zürich, Switzerland.
Not so important: I remember the tickets were made out of round paper cartons, like frisbees, and people were throwing them towards the band and he threatened to stop playing if they didn't quit. |
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 20 Sep 2010 12:15 pm
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| Joachim Kettner wrote: |
Me in '68 in Zürich, Switzerland.
Not so important: I remember the tickets were made out of round paper cartons, like frisbees, and people were throwing them towards the band and he threatened to stop playing if they didn't quit. |
Way cool, JK, lucky you, and the tickets tale is an all-things-Jimi important aside. |
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Ron Whitfield
From:
Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2010 10:05 am
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Wow, I'd never seen ANY of that footage, thanx!
Looks like Jimi was up for giving a great show. Was that a gold Strat? |
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 24 Sep 2010 10:34 am
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I really have no idea, but I think the guitar was white. I was more of a fan of the British Invasion groups, and the softer side of it, you know...
I just happened to be there, because some friends went along and my parents allowed a fourteen year old to go. But I really like him now! |
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Archie Nicol R.I.P.
From:
Ayrshire, Scotland
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Posted 24 Sep 2010 2:10 pm
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Pity we didn't have sound. Looks like Mick Taylor at :27 who was to join the Stones the following year. I think he was with John Mayall, also featured, at the time.
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Michael Johnstone
From:
Sylmar,Ca. USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2010 7:36 pm
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Saw him play a number of times. Hung out with him. Miss him. Got a few pics.
Here's a couple....
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Joachim Kettner
From:
Germany
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Posted 24 Sep 2010 10:48 pm
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Here are some pictures of him and the other bands:
http://www.monsterkonzert.ch/home_en.html
RW you may click on photos WR 17 and EB6 from the thursday concert and you will see the guitar closer.
 Amplifier set- up. Not many monitors. |
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