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LOL. That was quite traumatic back then. I frisbeed Robin Trower’s “In City Dreams” back in ‘77 too and ended up loving that album some 10-20 years ago. I think those are the only 2 albums I frisbeed.I agree about the first two albums, but you waited until NOW to tell me that this thing I've been enjoying for 4-5 decades sucks???
Gee, Bronze. Thanks. Thanks a LOT.
Screw it. I'll just keep enjoying it anyway.
I also remember seeing Queen at the old Chicago Stadium on the Day at the Races tour. The fans booed the hell out of them when they played anything from either of those records. We were metalheads so those two records were kryptonite. Geez, one guy heaved a giant snowball at the stage and Brian May ended up face down on the stage with his acoustic guitar underneath him. I remember Freddie threatening to end the show. But he didn’t. I always wondered how they got that giant snowball inside.
Hey Joe?
I've always loved the music of Jimi Hendrix. The man could just flat out freakin' play. As a guitarist he influenced every rock and metal guitarist as well as many musicians from other genres.
Many think Jimi wrote "Hey Joe". He did not.
The story of “Hey Joe” begins with a song called “Baby, Please Don’t Go To Town,” which was composed by Niela Miller, a singer-songwriter who was part of the urban folk revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She lived in New York and achieved some modest success when Dave Van Ronk covered her song “Mean World Blues.” Sometime around 1955 she wrote “Baby, Please Don’t Go To Town,” a mournful song about the joys and perils a young woman faced in the city. Her boyfriend at the time, Billy Roberts, was also a singer and he took a liking to her song and wrote some new words for it. The new lyrics told the story of a man named Joe who murdered his lover.
The full Hey Joe story along with the only known original version by Niela Miller can be found here with a few subsequent versions.
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Over the years many have covered Hey Joe. There is one stellar guitarist who's version, perhaps, rivals the intensity of Jimi's. Roy Buchanan (RIP). I think Roy's version has more soul and more of that "hit ya in the gut" feel.
"One of the pioneers of the telecaster sound, he was noted for his use of note bending, volume swells, staccato runs and "pinch" harmonics. He is considered by many to be one of America's most soulful guitar masters, and even 20 years after his death, he maintains an army of devoted fans, including some of rock guitar's greatest (just ask Jeff Beck, Robbie Robertson or Billy Gibbons). This performance, captured on the ACL stage on November 15, 1976, shows Roy Buchanan in his prime at the age of 37. Indeed, it may well be the best high-quality audio/video recording of his complete performance known to exist."
Here is Roy's version from ACL on 15 November 1976.
Here is Jimi playing Hey Joe live at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
I've always loved the music of Jimi Hendrix. The man could just flat out freakin' play. As a guitarist he influenced every rock and metal guitarist as well as many musicians from other genres.
Many think Jimi wrote "Hey Joe". He did not.
The story of “Hey Joe” begins with a song called “Baby, Please Don’t Go To Town,” which was composed by Niela Miller, a singer-songwriter who was part of the urban folk revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s. She lived in New York and achieved some modest success when Dave Van Ronk covered her song “Mean World Blues.” Sometime around 1955 she wrote “Baby, Please Don’t Go To Town,” a mournful song about the joys and perils a young woman faced in the city. Her boyfriend at the time, Billy Roberts, was also a singer and he took a liking to her song and wrote some new words for it. The new lyrics told the story of a man named Joe who murdered his lover.
The full Hey Joe story along with the only known original version by Niela Miller can be found here with a few subsequent versions.
Song of the Week: How “Baby, Please Don’t Go To Town” became “Hey Joe” - Fretboard Journal
In 1966 Jimi Hendrix scored his first hit with a song called “Hey Joe,” a dark and disturbing moan about a man who murdered his lover because she was fooling around with another guy. “Hey Joe” tells an old tale and Hendrix’s raw take conjures up some ancient demons but most people are surprised...
www.fretboardjournal.com
Over the years many have covered Hey Joe. There is one stellar guitarist who's version, perhaps, rivals the intensity of Jimi's. Roy Buchanan (RIP). I think Roy's version has more soul and more of that "hit ya in the gut" feel.
"One of the pioneers of the telecaster sound, he was noted for his use of note bending, volume swells, staccato runs and "pinch" harmonics. He is considered by many to be one of America's most soulful guitar masters, and even 20 years after his death, he maintains an army of devoted fans, including some of rock guitar's greatest (just ask Jeff Beck, Robbie Robertson or Billy Gibbons). This performance, captured on the ACL stage on November 15, 1976, shows Roy Buchanan in his prime at the age of 37. Indeed, it may well be the best high-quality audio/video recording of his complete performance known to exist."
Here is Roy's version from ACL on 15 November 1976.
Here is Jimi playing Hey Joe live at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
SRV... nuff said. 
Stevie Ray Vaughan (RIP) was another musician taken waaaaay too soon. We saw him in concert a few times. First time was in '84. The last time was on 25 August 1990 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre - the night before his last performance ever (also at Alpine).
SRV could play anything on guitar. He also knew well the art of the ballad and fully understood it's "the space between the notes", along with note selection, that create and deliver the emotion.
Here he plays "Lenny" a song he wrote for his wife Lenora. It's from the El Mocambo, Toronto on 20 July 1983.
SRV, like all the great blues musicians, understood the art of call/response and easily delivered it in waves. Stevie spoke the language of the blues greats with an effortless eloquence and finesse.
Stevie Ray Vaughan (RIP) was another musician taken waaaaay too soon. We saw him in concert a few times. First time was in '84. The last time was on 25 August 1990 at Alpine Valley Music Theatre - the night before his last performance ever (also at Alpine).
SRV could play anything on guitar. He also knew well the art of the ballad and fully understood it's "the space between the notes", along with note selection, that create and deliver the emotion.
Here he plays "Lenny" a song he wrote for his wife Lenora. It's from the El Mocambo, Toronto on 20 July 1983.
SRV, like all the great blues musicians, understood the art of call/response and easily delivered it in waves. Stevie spoke the language of the blues greats with an effortless eloquence and finesse.
Djent?
Djent (pronounced “gent”) is an umbrella term for a subgenre of heavy metal music and a style of progressive metal identifiable by its repetitive power chords, unusual time signatures, and the use of polyrhythms, or two different and contrasting rhythms within the same musical composition.
When Steve Vai first heard Tim Henson and his group Polyphia he praised them as a "monolithic kind of shift". A couple years ago in his private FB group Vai suggested checking out Polyphia. He said "these kids can flat out play", and well, he wasn't kidding.
Tim Henson, the groups leader and founder, started out playing violin as a youngster and then guitar. His practice regimen? 12 hours each day. That's total commitment to your craft.
Many have called their song "Ego Death", from their latest album "Remember That You Will Die", the song of the year (2022). It features Steve Vai. The tune just freakin' kicks azz from beginning to end.
Djent (pronounced “gent”) is an umbrella term for a subgenre of heavy metal music and a style of progressive metal identifiable by its repetitive power chords, unusual time signatures, and the use of polyrhythms, or two different and contrasting rhythms within the same musical composition.
When Steve Vai first heard Tim Henson and his group Polyphia he praised them as a "monolithic kind of shift". A couple years ago in his private FB group Vai suggested checking out Polyphia. He said "these kids can flat out play", and well, he wasn't kidding.
Tim Henson, the groups leader and founder, started out playing violin as a youngster and then guitar. His practice regimen? 12 hours each day. That's total commitment to your craft.
Many have called their song "Ego Death", from their latest album "Remember That You Will Die", the song of the year (2022). It features Steve Vai. The tune just freakin' kicks azz from beginning to end.
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