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Jimi Hendrix's step sister talking about a new Hendrix album.
"Valleys of Neptune" - sounds really good!
Quote: Chappers @ March 1 2010, 9:26 PM GMTJimi Hendrix's step sister talking about a new Hendrix album.
"Valleys of Neptune" - sounds really good!
You mean there's STILL stuff left in the vaults?!
Quote: Ben @ March 1 2010, 9:53 PM GMTYou mean there's STILL stuff left in the vaults?!
Apparently - yes. A couple of new songs. Some are reworkings of previously released stuff.
Just listening to Courteneers first album.
Incidentally there was a punk band called the Cortinas around 1978. I keep expecting it to be them when I hear them mentioned on the radio.
Big Star - Live
Quote: Ben @ March 1 2010, 5:25 PM GMTI really like Chapel Club at the minute:
They remind a little of the band Gene. Which is a good thing.
Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
Irrit Irrit
Quote: Ben @ March 1 2010, 9:53 PM GMTYou mean there's STILL stuff left in the vaults?!
I don't doubt there is at all, Handrix did a lot of early live jamming type recordings before he came to England. I had a rare cassette once of Hendrix playing covers of 60s pop numbers like Money, Hang On Sloopy and such like, some of them just instrumental in a cheesy Les Paul style. It was phenomenaly different to his trademark stuff but really good and he was clearly having a good time, yet this couldn't have been any earlier than 65 at the latest, because of the chart covers he was doing - there wasn't a hint of his groundbreaking sound that he came out with just two years later! I really wish I'd kept that very curious yet brilliant little tape. Hopefully all that stuff will get a rerelease one day, someone's got to have those tapes.
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ March 2 2010, 11:17 AM GMTI don't doubt there is at all, Handrix did a lot of early live jamming type recordings before he came to England. I had a rare cassette once of Hendrix playing covers of 60s pop numbers like Money, Hang On Sloopy and such like, some of them just instrumental in a cheesy Les Paul style. It was phenomenaly different to his trademark stuff but really good and he was clearly having a good time, yet this couldn't have been any earlier than 65 at the latest, because of the chart covers he was doing - there wasn't a hint of his groundbreaking sound that he came out with just two years later! I really wish I'd kept that very curious yet brilliant little tape. Hopefully all that stuff will get a rerelease one day, someone's got to have those tapes.
I have Strange Things and How Would You Feel? both with Curtis Knight vocals and Jimi vocals. I imagine there's some so far unreleased stuff from the Band Of Gypsies time.
I always wonder what he would have gone on to do. 
Quote: john lucas 101 @ March 2 2010, 9:51 AM GMTThey remind a little of the band Gene.
I used to like Gene, some good tunes.
Yeah so do I, but he wouldn't have faded away like many artists do, he would definitely have gone on to do something, myself I envisage him doing big stadium gigs dueting with guys like Clapton and Jeff Beck, before being asked to be the new Rolling Stones guitarist after Mick Taylor inexplicably left. I would really have loved him to do a guest album and tour with The Who, I think his big sound would have suited The Who perfectly! He would still be performing, and probably still creating great new stuff. Never mind.
That's the great thing about musicians who die young, they often check out before they have chance to dissapoint you! If Hendrix was still alive, he no doubt would have gone on to make some great music, and a lot of cack too.
Definitely great stuff, possibly cack, but only if he became addled with the drink and drugs, which granted, would have been a strong possibility with him, even if he had lived. But he may have got through it, like Clapton, Page, Richards and many others did, but then he may not have! With his skill and charisma I doubt he would have produced too much rubbish, I just doubt that he would have survived his own lifestyle, so in a way, what does a couple more years matter, in the end?