NEWS: Clapton and Prince on Hendrix tribute disc - Power of Soul
Martin
rock icon's half-sister Janie Hendrix will feature a previously unreleased
Stevie Ray Vaughan medley, as well as newly recorded covers from Prince,
George Clinton and Bootsy Collins, Eric Clapton, Musiq and several others.
Titled "Power of Soul," after Hendrix's song of the same name, the disc will
benefit the United Negro College Fund.
Full article here: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/031206/325/egf40.html
Another article here: http://tinyurl.com/xy4s
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Jake Gittes
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Any guesses on what this will be? RAH?
"Martin" <martin.o_brien@[no-spam]which.net> wrote in message
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Mix
Hendrix issue of _Guitar Player_ touted by you-know-who that hasn't yet
materialized, and that probably is yet another reprint of the 1975
"collectors'" issue. In it, Robert Fripp states that Hendrix corrupted an
entire generation of guitarists due to Jimi's lack of musical training and
credentials.
I think the DVD that EH will next issue will be the bio-film they've
already released for broadcast to VH-1. It's actually very good, though not
as contemporaneous as _AFAJH_. I would welcome that release, but I hope I'm
wrong and you're right. RAH would be the bomb release.
- D
"Jake Gittes" <gitte...@hotmailnospam.com> wrote in message
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sluggo
". In it, Robert Fripp states that Hendrix corrupted an
> entire generation of guitarists due to Jimi's lack of musical training and
> credentials.
...hell I`m still waiting for Jimi`s Tribute to Ravi Shankar disc.........
sluggo
Elmo' 7#9
but the presence of *Sting*
always sets alarm bells ringing in my mind.
'**********************************
There *is* a reprint of sections of "Jimi Hendrix - Musician" in a current
guitar magazine
(whose name escapes me right now)
But the magazine is about 1/4 the price of the book and has nothing extra to
say
(save your cash, buy the book!).
'**********************************
Mix, on the 1975 Guitar Player article, said:
> In it, Robert Fripp states that Hendrix corrupted an
> entire generation of guitarists due to Jimi's lack of musical training and
> credentials.
You can hear a Jimi-related Fripp anecdote (in his own rustic accent) at:
http://www.fripp.com/robertfrippclips/jimi.ram
I like Fripp almost as much as Jimi,
but he *is* the Anti-Hendrix and, in the late 1980's,
"corrupted an entire generation of guitarists"
with his "Guitar Craft" courses .
<----GUITARISTS ONLY BEYOND THIS POINT---->
I tried Fripp's "Guitar Craft" scientific techniques and "new universal
tuning"
(Without laying out $600 to live in a barracks without sleep, meat or weed
see Eric Tamm's http://www.geocities.com/pitkin_family/tammfripp.html - he
did!)
and, after ten years, came to the following conclusions:
1. The CGDAEG tuning is no use for blues lead playing...
It's great for almost anything else (classical, country, bebop)
but it's hard to play double-stopped small intervals
so blues sounds too "clean".
2. The method of execution (minimisation of effort, mostly)
produces a regular, even tone that's more suited to
blending a group of "sit-down" guitarists
than producing expressive lead playing...
You might as well put a kid's keyboard through your Marshalls.
Elmo' 7#9
'****************
PS
The available examples of "Guitar Craft" music are barely listenable
- like a music student has discovered polyrhythms for the first time
and has written a piece for his friends, to see what his theories sound
like
(and the Ovation electroacoustic guitar's plastic tone doesn't help!).
Mix
the DVD _Rave Un2 The Year 2000_. I've heard rumors for years that he
performed "Purple Haze" in his live shows, but I've never been able to
access any recordings of said performance.
The SRV medley alone will probably be worth the price of admission, as
will Eric Clapton's contribution(s)..
Clapton and Bootsy Collins have performed on previous Hendrix tributes --
Eric on the title track of _Stone Free_ (with Chic (!) as the backing band),
and Collins, somewhat less effectively, on _In From The Storm_. As for
George Clinton, his P-Funk Guitar Army (fronted by the belated Eddie Hazel)
recorded an entire album of Hendrix covers. Collins also performed "If Six
Was Nine" with Funkadelic, oops, I mean Axiom Funk.
As for Sting, yeah, I had to cringe when I read that he would contribute
to the album. I enjoyed his earlier work with The Police and his first
couple of solo albums, but when his music began to take on an agenda, I
checked out. A friend of mine believes that his version of "Little Wing" is
*the* definitive version of the song. To each his own. I myself found it a
complete waste of Hiram Bullock's substantial talents as a guitarist and
proven interpreter of Jimi's music. I'd sooner listen to Tuck & Patti.
Musiq is intriguing. I've heard some his stuff and I like a lot of what
I've heard. How he handles Jimi remains to be seen, though.
The press release I read last year on the same subject also stated that
Earth, Wind & Fire would be contributing a track. That wasn't difficult to
believe, since Janie Hendrix is married to their former guitarist, Sheldon
Reynolds. I notice they were not mentioned in the recent Billboard article,
though. I couldn't see them performing "Voodoo Child", anyway, as was
reported last year.
I tend not to get very excited about Hendrix tribute albums anymore.
There tends to be a general disconnect between sentiment and execution,
IMHO. My favorite tribute album is _Revenge_, because I like Bourelly's
"Electric Ladyland". I can even put up with the screaming female vocalist
("EEEEEEEEEElectric Ladylaaaaaaaaaannnddd") who doesn't belong there. I
also like Corey Glover's "Drifting", and "In From the Storm" from the trib
of the same title.
Please, don't apologize for the gear-head-speak. I personally find it
fascinating, even though I'm not a guitarist.
- D
"Elmo' 7#9" <Elmo_MacDonald*NoSpamHere*@ Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Rhastus69
>Prince, or "0+>", or whomever, actually played a middlin' "Red House" on
>the DVD _Rave Un2 The Year 2000_. I've heard rumors for years that he
>performed "Purple Haze" in his live shows, but I've never been able to
>access any recordings of said performance.
I think the recording of purple haze by prince is a studio recording. Its
definetly uncirculating
He has covered hendrix on several occasions including covers of Voodoo
child(slight return), Who knows and the already mentioned red house
The absolute best non hendrix version of red House I've ever heard is by jesse
Johnson
Rhastus- "get a little alcohol in him and he turns back into Prince"
Matthew Manley
"Mix" <nospamdo...@home.com> wrote in message
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> Prince, or "0+>", or whomever, actually played a middlin' "Red House" on
> the DVD _Rave Un2 The Year 2000_. I've heard rumors for years that he
> performed "Purple Haze" in his live shows, but I've never been able to
> access any recordings of said performance.
>
> The SRV medley alone will probably be worth the price of admission, as
> will Eric Clapton's contribution(s)..
>
This wasn't an uncommon tune for Stevie at his concerts, and at least one
version has already been released on the re-masters Soul To Soul and the box
set. It would have been more exciting if they had promised Stevie's version
of Drivin South, which he takes a little more liberty with. My guess is
that it will be from one of the radio broadcasts, and nothing new to anyone
who collects SRV boots (I only have a couple un-official releases, but I'm
working on upgrading my collection ;-)).
Like Hendrix heirs, Stevies don't give us much when they throw us a bone.
You can generally expect more from a new bootleg than you can from any
official release at least half of the time.
Mix
"Matthew Manley" <matm...@ktis.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Mix" <nospamdo...@home.com> wrote in message
> news:3vdBb.399$Vg3...@fe3.columbus.rr.com...
> > Prince, or "0+>", or whomever, actually played a middlin' "Red House"
on
> > the DVD _Rave Un2 The Year 2000_. I've heard rumors for years that he
> > performed "Purple Haze" in his live shows, but I've never been able to
> > access any recordings of said performance.
> >
> > The SRV medley alone will probably be worth the price of admission, as
> > will Eric Clapton's contribution(s)..
> >
>
> This wasn't an uncommon tune for Stevie at his concerts, and at least one
> version has already been released on the re-masters Soul To Soul and the
box
> set. It would have been more exciting if they had promised Stevie's
version
> of Drivin South, which he takes a little more liberty with. My guess is
> that it will be from one of the radio broadcasts, and nothing new to
anyone
> who collects SRV boots (I only have a couple un-official releases, but I'm
> working on upgrading my collection ;-)).
>
> Like Hendrix heirs, Stevies don't give us much when they throw us a bone.
> You can generally expect more from a new bootleg than you can from any
> official release at least half of the time.
>
contributed a Hendrix cover. Wonder has played/recorded with both Hendrix
and SRV (_BBC Sessions_ with Hendrix, and with SRV on Wonder's album,
_Characters_, where SRV plays a guitar duet with BB).
It can be argued that Hendrix heavily influenced Wonder's musical output
throughout his heyday in the '70s. He was among the first R&B musicians of
that era to incorporate dissonance, reactive noise and non-musical sounds in
his music, in defiance of the tight controls of the Motown label brass.
Many of his groundbreaking LPs from that era were even recorded at Electric
Lady Studios. In the '80s, Wonder correctly predicted that there would be a
"Hendrix renaissance".
Of course, he hasn't released anything worthwhile to listen to in over a
decade, but it would have been nice to see the some acknowledgment of Jimi's
influence. Musicians as political activists are usually boring. Like
Sting.
- D