It Was Forty Years Ago Today…

…that Jimi Hendrix died.

I’m sometimes amazed that he ever made the big time with the utterly inept “Experience” – Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell – behind him.

Still, he could play the guitar like ringin’ a bell…

I’d never seen this one; my favorite Hendrix song, with my favorite solo (at least musically) played, infamously, with his teeth…

He’d be sixty-seven.

7 thoughts on “It Was Forty Years Ago Today…

  1. Let’s face it: Anybody could have been the backup band for Jimi, he was that good. I caught his act at the Minneapolis Armory in either ’68 or ’69. The crowd rushed into the aisles and the fire marshall stopped the performance until people returned to their seats. He did all his tricks: playing with his teeth, behind his back and closed with Voodoo Child. We would have stayed all night. I’m frankly glad that he isn’t around anymore to play Mystic Lake. Maybe he would have had the preservation of a Keith Richards, but I doubt it.

  2. I half wonder if the reason Jimi’s backup band was not very good is that he was…well…less than sober at many of his performances. Is the simplicity of his band a method of keeping his mind clear for what he was about to do?

    Or it could be the same reason you don’t see (I think) Yo Yo Ma and Joshua Bell in concert together. Two divas….

  3. The tragedy is that Joe has to flee to Mexico after exercising his sacred Second Amendment rights.

  4. On the one hand, catching ones’ old lady “Messing ’round with another man” is not an element in an affirmative claim of “Self Defense” under Minnesota law.

    On the other – we were wondering if you were laying low in Chiapas, yourself? Long time no snark!

  5. Muy busy, muchacho. Developments at work and in Angryclown’s personal life. Look forward to discussing with you in meatspace one of these days.

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