Psychedelic Hippie
Spin The 60’s With Hendrix
There are few artists that do more to bring you back to the sixties than Jimi Hendrix. Listening to “All Along The Watch Tower” or his more famous ”Foxy Lady”, he takes you back to bellbottoms and free love. Hearing Hendrix vinyl will give you that full out flash-back you want. A vinyl record can take you back into a time of your folks’ basement. Remember that muted brown little record player with the beige needle handle that stroked every cranny like good old Jimi stroked his guitar.
Listening to Jimi slow it down on “The Wind Cries Mary” takes your heart to a downward beat in rhythm with the story being played. Only through a vinyl record should that key of F major be heard like it was meant to be. The new and improved CDs or iTunes do not capture that ache of Jimi’s love leaving him after he complained about her cooking. Only an old vinyl record captures his misery of thinking he would never see her again.
Hendrix made “Hey Joe” his own, even though it was first done by The Leaves. In the history of music, this is the best cover ever recorded. Lots of folks don’t know that Jimi didn’t write this song. Everyone from the sleek dark rocker Nick Cave to the siren Cher have recorded this song since Jimi’s version in 1967. To fully capture Cher’s amazing tones or Cave’s lustful vocalization, listen to it all on a vinyl record.
Jimi’s other band, Band of Gypsies, weren’t as popular as the amped up, notorious group The Jimi Hendrix Experience. There are many who inspired him who he pays respect to with this band. Jimi did a Monkees tune, “I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone”, too. This was said to have been done as a thank you of sorts to Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees because he was the first to ask Jimi to tour with them in 1966. Unfortunately, most of The Monkees audience were 12 year old girls who jeered Mr. Hendrix off the stage.
Even though Jimi Hendrix had an abrupt career, his history as an electric guitarist will never be topped. No one has ever been greater even though they try many times over to duplicate his swagger and style. In rock history, Jimi has earned his place in the books.