What Do You Listen Now?

rokytnji · 10-18-2018, 05:12 PM

ChuangTzu · 10-18-2018, 08:30 PM

Ottmar Liebert—Nouveau Flamenco full album (1990 Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQYceYMLYDc

FredGSanford · 10-18-2018, 09:09 PM

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKn33-q4Ao

Lysander666 · 10-19-2018, 02:52 PM

It seems I have some new annoying neighbours, so I'm introducing myself to them.

Currently playing: Bethlehem - s/t, following by Nekrasov - The Form of Thought From Beast

Should be a fun evening.

rokytnji · 10-20-2018, 07:16 AM

You will not go to space today

Lysander666 · 10-20-2018, 04:24 PM

Alkonost - Песни белой лилии

Probably the best thing I've ever heard come out of Russia.

enorbet · 10-20-2018, 04:38 PM

Hello lysander666 and thank you for responding. I'll do my best to attempt to answer the best I can.

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Originally Posted by Lysander666

enorbet, thank you very much for your post. You've made a very strong statement above, could you qualify it at all? In what ways did he change guitar playing - what are the examples of his influence - why do you think he is underappreciated [because I am sure there are many that do appreciate him]?

Jimi came up HARD. He was shuffled around from relative to relative and had something like two pairs of pants, two shirts, and 5 year old shoes that didn't fit which embarrassed him much of his life in school. He was obsessed with poetry, books, and movies especially escapist fare like Science Fiction, developing a wild imagination to leave his difficult circumstances at least in his head, but Music was always the most compelling, attracting force. His desire to own a guitar was so strong that a school psych councilor noted that he could possibly suffer a breakdown if he didn't get one. Once he did get one instead of just learning scales he tried ti imitate sounds in Nature and from movie special effects and in New York City would sit for hours in his apartment window copying sounds of the street. Nobody had ever done that before Hendrix since most guitarists as Lead Guitar was being invented imitated other instruments, turning to horn fills and piano breaks for inspiration. Before guitars were amplified they existed in bands as sections where several were needed strumming the same chords to be heard as rhythm fill and Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt just 20 years prior were the very first few to play single note lines based in sax and piano. Jimi changed all that forever, just as Charlie and Django were pioneers of the initial change to a lead instrument capable of far more, especially once distortion and other effects made electric become electronic.

In short, Jimi realised that the amplifier wasn't just to make the guitar louder but to make it different and wider, a musical instrument in it's own right. That changed everything that came after and this is only scratching the surface. Miles Davis couldn't understand how Jimi "got clear" without the discipline of studying BeBop but it was because Jimi did his own "research" driven by imagination.

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Originally Posted by Lysander666

You say he inhabits this uncomfortable place between electric and acoustic - but from whence comes the discomfort? His music certainly doesn't sound unnatural, for instance, I didn't know he was playing an acoustic until I saw the video, for years I only had the audio and fairly thought it was an electric. He sounds ahead of his time to me. Innovatively he has found a beautiful midway - a missing link - between the two media which makes playing electric guitar seamless on an acoustic.

Lindsay's guitar in that clip is not an acoustic mic'd up, it just kinda looks like one and I have no clue as to what an unnatural sound might be. I love his playing. However I don't see him as revolutionary, ahead of his time, just melodic and gifted using that discomfort as a method to create a unique and pleasing style. Discomfort isn't necessarily a bad thing since like Stage Fright is actually just a form of energy that one can allow to overwhelm or inspire.

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Originally Posted by Lysander666

I wasn't aware of the politics involved with his sister. Is she in the video? I assumed the girl that kept staring at him on the mic was his wife. I'm sad to learn that that's maybe not the case and maybe it was a close relative out to renumerate in some way. Is nothing sacred.

Here I am utterly confused. Did you actually click that link? There is no video. It is a still image of part of the album cover. There is no view of him at the mic, no girl staring and Jimi never married and was dead by age 27. Everything he ever recorded spans about 10 years and everything he ever recorded that was HIS music done HIS way spanned only four (4) years. Four years!!! in which to change everything ever after. Of course it took an entire lifetime (albeit of only 27 years) to get there, but what he did with that lifetime only was out there to influence others over a four year span of work.

Jimi's half sister Janie is a born-again Christian and there is nothing about Jimi or his life for which she has any love or respect, other than the money he represents. She got Jimi's full brother and Father divested from the estate so she is the sole remaining relative receiving anything and she has worked to "clean up" Jimi's lifestyle as well as pull down any public posts of his music that she doesn't get paid for, which today means very little of the actual power of his existence is getting written into History to keep his legacy alive. Janie is literally killing the goose that, to her, only managed to lay a golden egg. Tomorrow's history is largely being written today on the internet. If you're not there, you essentially disappear, or become a mere footnote. Proof of this is that so many others, just like you, have so little knowledge of just how important Jimi Hendrix was. Paul Allen didn't spend $100,000,000 on a music museum (originally called Experience Music Project in tribute) featuring Hendrix just on a personal whim. It was a measure of how profound his influence actually was.

I don't care about "sacred". I just care about "factual" and just desserts and I deeply care about Jimi Hendrix and how he will be remembered and credited. There has never been another quite like him, before or since. If you imagine that's just one hero worshipper's opinion then check out his work and perhaps see --- Hendrix WIKI --- or the original documentary --- A Film About Jimi Hendrix --- or whatever else might suit your desire to know.