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Posts Tagged Jimi Hendrix

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December 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Have You Ever Been Experienced?

Some 20 years ago I got a friend to drive me out towards Porirua to rehearse for a Jimi Hendrix tribute act. My car had been stolen, my drums too (they were in the car). The local guy we hired our PA from let me rent a kit for the weekend for $20. Amazing eh? […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged blackface, Covers Band, Have You Ever Been Experienced?, Jimi Hendrix, Poem, Poem: Have You Ever Been Experienced?, Tribute ·

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December 13, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: On Mondays After Swimming We Drown In Jimi Hendrix

We listen to Jimi Hendrix in the car these days – the way we have with The Beatles, the Beasties and Queen. He’s in awe of Jimi Hendrix and I am too. When I was 13 I felt  the world open up around me as I first  heard Jimi chopping down tunes with the edge […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Jimi Hendrix, On Mondays After Swimming We Drown In Jimi Hendrix, Poem, Poem: On Mondays After Swimming We Drown In Jimi Hendrix ·

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November 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live in Maui

Jimi Hendrix Experience Live in Maui Sony Legacy So the story goes, that ratfink manager (Michael Jeffery) managed to score a couple of million for Hendrix to play in Hawaii and for a doco to be made – the manager made off with half of it and left a mild catastrophe to unfold. The film […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Billy Cox, Hawaii, Hendrix, Jimi, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live in Maui, Live, Live in Maui, Mitch Mitchell, posthumous, Rainbow Bridge, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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September 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Jimi Hendix Has Been Dead For 50 Years And His Music Lives On And There Is No One Better

The first thing I heard by Jimi Hendrix was Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). And then the smelling salts. When I was back on two legs, I remember asking my dad if he knew anything about this guy that sounded like nothing else I’d heard. He laughed and reeled off the names of a few of […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 27, 50, 50 Years, Hendrix, Jimi Hendix Has Been Dead For 50 Years And His Music Lives On And There Is No One Better, Jimi Hendrix, Poem, Poem: Jimi Hendix Has Been Dead For 50 Years And His Music Lives On And There Is No One Better ·

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May 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Rocks Off

He had seen The Rolling Stones one hundred and one times, ask again in two weeks and that number’s gonna be 111! Ten more shows, as he follows them across the UK. He couldn’t pick a favourite, but the time they played in New Zealand and shortly after and off his tree – Keef fell […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Jimi Hendrix, Poem, Poem: Rocks Off, Rocks Off, The Rolling Stones, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Gat This: My Top 10 ‘Guitar’ Albums

A while ago I described something/someone as “guitar music” and was chortled at from all directions; there’s no such thing as guitar music. This is not a genre. This is no way to explain or define music. Andres Segovia and Derek Bailey and Jimi Hendrix and Django Reinhardt and Eddie Van Halen have all made amazing music by approaching the same instrument (or versions of […]
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July 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

DeJohnette/Grenadier/Medeski/Scofield: Hudson

DeJohnette/Grenadier/Medeski/Scofield Hudson Motema Music, LLC As far as modern-day jazz supergroups go – this one is pretty, pretty good: master drummer (occasional pianist and also – here – cameo vocalist) Jack DeJohnette is joined by supple, subtle bassist Larry Grenadier (Brad Mehldau, Herbie Mann, Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman), John Medeski (Medeski Martin & […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bob Dylan, Covers, DeJohnette/Grenadier/Medeski/Scofield, Hudson, Hudson Valley, Jack DeJohnette, Jazz, Jimi Hendrix, John Medeski, John Scofield, Joni Mitchell, Larry Grenadier, Medeski Martin & Wood, Miles Davis, New York, Supergroup, The Band ·

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December 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Music Biopics Usually Get It Wrong: The Problem Is Taking The Page To The Stage

The music biopic has a tough job I guess – it has to satiate the fan, someone who might know it all or be pretty sure they do. It has to also introduce people to the music, it has to explain why there is a narrative fictional film about this person – or at least […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Biopic, Brian Wilson, Chet Baker, Film, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Music, Music Biopics Usually Get It Wrong, Music Biopics Usually Get It Wrong: The Problem Is Taking The Page To The Stage, Nina Simone ·

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August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 651

Tuck & Patti, Love Warriors (1989) Husband and wife duo Tuck & Patti were new to me when I heard this gorgeous sound – the voice was fine, lovely, really good but what really sold me was the guitar playing, it was a cover – I spotted it, though I’d never quite heard it played […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged $1, 1989, America, Castles Made of Sand, Castles Made of Sand/Little Wing, Jimi Hendrix, Little Wing, Love Warriors, LP, Medley, Oakland, Patricia Andress, Record, Rickie Lee Jones, The Vinyl Countdown # 651, Tuck & Patti, Tuck Andress, Vinyl ·

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August 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Betty Davis: The Columbia Years 1968-69

Betty Davis The Columbia Years 1968-69 LightInTheAttic It’s fitting that LightInTheAttic should shine the light on these fabled Betty Davis sessions – via this comprehensive round-up with stellar liner notes, as is the way with LightInTheAttic releases, and of course the good oil being the music – since it was the reissue label which represented […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Betty Davis, Billy Cox, Funk, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Light In The Attic, LightInTheAttic, Miles Davis, Mitch Mitchell, Nasty Gal, Reissue, Soul, Ted Macero, The Columbia Years, The Columbia Years 1968-69 ·

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April 27, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Short Story: Discovery

I used to hate it when my mum would say things like “turn that noise down!” And I would always say back: “it’s not noise!” and she’d say, “It is. It’s noise!” I really couldn’t handle that. I had to say who it was that she was calling noise. I had to yell back something […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Discovery, Headphones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Mum, Music, Short Story, Short Story: Discovery ·

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October 28, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Radio Nowhere by Michael Ross: # 7 – Cities Where Stuff Happened

Something different today, before regular Radio Nowhere service finally resumes… People travel for a lot of fairly obvious reasons – to eat, drink, see the sights, visit friends, and so on. Me? I mainly travel so I’ll have a good excuse for repeatedly missing blog deadlines, and also because there’s a part of me that’s […]
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