Comments on: Regarding Jimi Hendrix http://tedfoo.net/2008/05/22/regarding-jimi-hendrix/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:59:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: tedfoo http://tedfoo.net/2008/05/22/regarding-jimi-hendrix/comment-page-1/#comment-23475 tedfoo Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:28:38 +0000 http://tedfoo.net/?p=488#comment-23475 Once again, thank you kindly for these internet gifts. Once again, thank you kindly for these internet gifts.

]]> By: timd http://tedfoo.net/2008/05/22/regarding-jimi-hendrix/comment-page-1/#comment-23468 timd Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:03:06 +0000 http://tedfoo.net/?p=488#comment-23468 Adding a link for http://www.badassmail.com/buabs.mp3 Hendrix playing "Born Under a Bad Sign" and you can say that it may have been true. Adding a link for http://www.badassmail.com/buabs.mp3

Hendrix playing “Born Under a Bad Sign” and you can say that it may have been true.

]]> By: timd http://tedfoo.net/2008/05/22/regarding-jimi-hendrix/comment-page-1/#comment-23467 timd Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:48:35 +0000 http://tedfoo.net/?p=488#comment-23467 Listen to "Born Under a Bad Sign" from the posthumously released "Blues" record. It is the musical equilavent of "The Illiad and the Odyssey" except it's way more relevant. Because I don't really frequent church, I have this idea that religion is where you find it and I like songs that sound like prayers wether they be verbal or instrumental prayers. The infamous woodstock "Star Spangled Banner" is a prayer. "Little Wing" is a prayer without being so literal I believe. The entire "Live at Leeds" record by the who has several segments where you can almost imagine the entire audience in collective reflection which I recently learned by reading a Townsend interview was their exact intention and they started putting their shows together to promote this idea that going to a rock concert should be like going to church and should provide the same kind of experience. Now that I said that I don't go to chuch, here is a song that I recored with Lysa at the River Falls Unitarian Universalist church on Sunday. http://www.badassmail.com/orphan_train.mp3 Listen to “Born Under a Bad Sign” from the posthumously released “Blues” record. It is the musical equilavent of “The Illiad and the Odyssey” except it’s way more relevant.

Because I don’t really frequent church, I have this idea that religion is where you find it and I like songs that sound like prayers wether they be verbal or instrumental prayers. The infamous woodstock “Star Spangled Banner” is a prayer. “Little Wing” is a prayer without being so literal I believe. The entire “Live at Leeds” record by the who has several segments where you can almost imagine the entire audience in collective reflection which I recently learned by reading a Townsend interview was their exact intention and they started putting their shows together to promote this idea that going to a rock concert should be like going to church and should provide the same kind of experience.

Now that I said that I don’t go to chuch, here is a song that I recored with Lysa at the River Falls Unitarian Universalist church on Sunday.
http://www.badassmail.com/orphan_train.mp3

]]> By: johanna http://tedfoo.net/2008/05/22/regarding-jimi-hendrix/comment-page-1/#comment-22717 johanna Sat, 31 May 2008 04:48:55 +0000 http://tedfoo.net/?p=488#comment-22717 I was driving through Highland Park tonight, giving a 22 year old mom of a 4 year old a ride home because she doesn't own a car and lives with her Dad and Step-Mom. Taco stands everywhere with packs of people waiting for their warm bags of carne asada. Latino hair salons with swarms of men, women and their children. Darkly lit bars. Brightly lit fast food. A helicopter circling over-head, swooping the most recent crime scene. Then, a mob of fire trucks and police cars surrounding an old apartment building, a corner in flames. My little Esme asleep in the back seat with a soft blanket draping her body. It was weird. And in the background the whole time, KPFK playing "Are You Experienced?" and me thinking, "...how'd Hendrix know?" Anyway...it made me think of your comments. I was driving through Highland Park tonight, giving a 22 year old mom of a 4 year old a ride home because she doesn’t own a car and lives with her Dad and Step-Mom. Taco stands everywhere with packs of people waiting for their warm bags of carne asada. Latino hair salons with swarms of men, women and their children. Darkly lit bars. Brightly lit fast food. A helicopter circling over-head, swooping the most recent crime scene. Then, a mob of fire trucks and police cars surrounding an old apartment building, a corner in flames. My little Esme asleep in the back seat with a soft blanket draping her body. It was weird. And in the background the whole time, KPFK playing “Are You Experienced?” and me thinking, “…how’d Hendrix know?” Anyway…it made me think of your comments.

]]> By: patrick http://tedfoo.net/2008/05/22/regarding-jimi-hendrix/comment-page-1/#comment-22712 patrick Fri, 30 May 2008 03:40:16 +0000 http://tedfoo.net/?p=488#comment-22712 copious drug abuse? copious drug abuse?

]]> By: dmarks http://tedfoo.net/2008/05/22/regarding-jimi-hendrix/comment-page-1/#comment-22687 dmarks Sun, 25 May 2008 18:08:48 +0000 http://tedfoo.net/?p=488#comment-22687 It wasn't entirely accidental. Moving aside the supposed claims he commited suicide, he did choose to engage in copious drug abuse. A very risky behavior which everyone knows can result in death for a variety of reasons. I know so little about his music. I am curious which of his song that you find the most inspirational in the way you described. It wasn’t entirely accidental. Moving aside the supposed claims he commited suicide, he did choose to engage in copious drug abuse. A very risky behavior which everyone knows can result in death for a variety of reasons.

I know so little about his music. I am curious which of his song that you find the most inspirational in the way you described.

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