Electric Ladyland was released today in 1968

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I didn't grow up with this but I'm a fan of Classic rock. Electric Ladyland is probably one of the best albums out there. The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s 1968 double album Electric Ladyland is widely hailed as a watershed masterpiece of psychedelic rock, blues, and studio innovation. [1, 2, 3]

You can't beat songs like:

1. ... And the Gods Made Love
2. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
3. Crosstown Traffic
4. Voodoo Chile
5. Little Miss Strange (written and sung by Noel Redding)
6. Long Hot Summer Night
7. Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)
8. Gypsy Eyes
9. Burning of the Midnight Lamp
10. Rainy Day, Dream Away
11. 1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)
12. Moon, Turn the Tides... Gently Gently Away
13. Still Raining, Still Dreaming
14. House Burning Down
15. All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover)
16. Voodoo Child (Slight Return

So Psychedelic :love:


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Da best! Saw him in Virginia Beach in August 1968. Me and my teen-age buds were surf tripping down the coast from Jersey in a '63 Ford Country Squire station wagon. We just happened to be in the right place at the right time. With Jimi in our heads, we could wreck waves like he wrecked geetars. And yeah, we too were wreaked.
 
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mburner said:
Da best! Saw him in Virginia Beach in August 1968. Me and my teen-age buds were surf tripping down the coast from Jersey in a '63 Ford Country Squire station wagon. We just happened to be in the right place at the right time. With Jimi in our heads, we could wreck waves like he wrecked geetars. And yeah, we too were wreaked.
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Nice ! Lucky you, I love his style.
 
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Near the end of "Third Stone from the Sun" on his first album Are You Experienced, Hendrix says" "You'll never hear surf music again." Little did he know that urfers back then had Jimi buzzing their brains with every wave big or small they caught. Plus, if you give a careful listen to the likes of Dick Dale and Link Wray and the Ventures and countless other so-called surf music groups, you'll hear how guitar-forward the music is and how many electro-techniques these guitarists introduced that were picked up by the rock-gods of the late 60s, Hendrix included.
 
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this is a Soul song from the early 60,s, featuring Jimi on guitar....one of his very 1st efforts as a side man,,,before becoming famous
 
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ogibowt said:
this is a Soul song from the early 60,s, featuring Jimi on guitar....one of his very 1st efforts as a side man,,,before becoming famous

How'd you dig that one out? Even in this song you can hear riffs and fills he used a few years later. By 1970 he was well on his way to flipping over to jazz, with a collab with the arranger/pianist Gil Evans in the works. But he felt pressure, either from his fans or record label, to keep on doing what he was doing. Not saying this is what killed him him back in those ingest-everything days, but he certainly was down in dumps about where his career was going.
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mburner.....my favourite genre of music is 60,s Soul and R&B.....not here to boast, but im proud to say i have an extensive collection of Soul, R&B and Blues. as singles Albums and CD,s.and i have read at least 4 or 5 books about Soul music...and i learned about jimi playing on this Don Covay record from one of those books.....to be truthful, i never got into jimi,s music that much when he was alive and making music...but later in my life i came to appreciate his talent
BTW...Hey Joe...was his cover of a folk song ...well kinda like a folk song...the original referred to money and Jimi,s version referred to a gun
 
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Love soul as well, though a lot of Motown stuff was overly produced for my liking. Give me Memphis/Stax any ol' time. Can't listen to that in the car though as I'm dancing like crazy in the driver's seat while cruising at 80.
 
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mburner said:
Love soul as well, though a lot of Motown stuff was overly produced for my liking. Give me Memphis/Stax any ol' time. Can't listen to that in the car though as I'm dancing like crazy in the driver's seat while cruising at 80.
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i feel the same way about Motown.....but a couple of acts stand out...Jr Walker and Brenda Holloway.....and Martha & The Vandellas
 
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...and Smokey and the Temps and MarvinG. And some other Motown as well, too. Even some Supremes. Never really go into the 4Tops. I grew up with blues and jazz, as that;'s all I ever heard at home, what with my dad having an album collection stretching back to the 1930s.
 
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mburner said:
...and Smokey and the Temps and MarvinG. And some other Motown as well, too. Even some Supremes. Never really go into the 4Tops. I grew up with blues and jazz, as that;'s all I ever heard at home, what with my dad having an album collection stretching back to the 1930s.
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i think you and i are 2 peas in a pod....my dad,s collection included blues and jazz....upon his death i inheretided his albums....kept most of the blues ones, but donated the jazz albums to a radio station
funny you say about Smokey etc......never really got into his music..and Marvin?..only his early stuff.....Supremes?..after Where Did Our Love Go...lost interest
but Stax?..dont get me started.....such a great catalogue....i treasure all the Stax Albums and its Artists which i bought as a kid

Mburner,,,it,s like Rolling Stones or Beatles....i choose the Stones
Stax or Motown..I choose Stax
 
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Jimi recorded for Reprise Records, part of the Waner Bros family. Stax was subsidized by Warner/Atlantic. Most of the music was before my time, I learned of it through The Blues Bros. Imho this Stax classic is the No. 1 song of the 60's.


Before he became a Blues Bros, Steve Cropper was Otis Redding's co-writer and orchestrator.
 
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steve Cropper...hell yes
his guitar work on this song, are like the oars of a canoe crossing a lake
 
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mburner said:
Da best! Saw him in Virginia Beach in August 1968. Me and my teen-age buds were surf tripping down the coast from Jersey in a '63 Ford Country Squire station wagon. We just happened to be in the right place at the right time. With Jimi in our heads, we could wreck waves like he wrecked geetars. And yeah, we too were wreaked.
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I saw Jimi with the Band of Gypsys at the Jan. 1, 1970 concert at the Fillmore East in NYC.

One of the two concerts they performed there on New Year's Eve, and New Year's day, parts of which were recorded and released on an great album.

Quite a show....

Btw, Motown, Stax, I love them both about the same, though each of them had their own production styles, and target markets.
Berry Gordy Jr., the president of Motown, was aiming straight at the white crossover market, with an eye on Vegas, while Stax was just producing incredible southern soul...
 
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Getting back to Jimi for a moment: That Band of Gypsies live LP was unreal. Must have been the concert of a lifetime. You can hear how loose and freely Hendrix played untethered from his usual trio and with his old Army buddy on bass.
 
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mburner said:
Getting back to Jimi for a moment: That Band of Gypsies live LP was unreal. Must have been the concert of a lifetime. You can hear how loose and freely Hendrix played untethered from his usual trio and with his old Army buddy on bass.
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I’ve honestly always preferred band of gypsys. I always appreciated how you get to hear Hendrix with no overdubs for a whole album. The experience albums are great too but they’re a totally different animal with respect to the guitar performances.
 
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