The SUBSIM Music Thread

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

and this also remains one of my favorites if not my favorite from Rachmaninoff.

Rachmaninoff is one of my favourite composers as well. My return to your Rachmaninoff offer is his 3rd piano concerto played by Martha Argarich and the RSO (today DSO) Berlin. My father played in the orchestra and I was sitting in the audience during this performance. I know no more energetic performance of this, including Rachmaninoff and Horowitz - both were also fast, but both made more mistakes in their playing of this piece, the pros say (most people porbbaly cannot hear it). Argerich had a fire that consumed the air in the philharmonic already in the first minutes. She really blew the roof up.



I posted this some years ago already, I know I know. But who cares.

[Aktungbby]

Hendrix completed hisparatrooper training in just over eight months, and Major General C. W. G. Rich awarded him the prestigious Screaming Eagles patch on January 11, 1962...

One of the most notable renditions of the anthem was Jimi Hendrix's screaming solo guitar performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, captured on the documentary the event. Closing the four day show..clad in Red, White, and Blue, Hendrix played the anthem with a number of distorted regressions — some mimicking the "rockets" and "bombs" of the anthem's lyrics — to great acclaim from the audience.

Although contemporary political pundits described his interpretation as a statement against the Vietnam War, three weeks later Hendrix explained its meaning: "We're all Americans ... it was like 'Go America!'... We play it the way the air is in America today.

He played it out of respect and he put his sweet, sweet licks all over it out of love. It's a masterpiece and the only rendition of the SSB that anyone will ever remember, ever. People have been listening to it repeatedly for 47 years in awe. We are still talking about it.

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

One of the most notable renditions of the anthem was Jimi Hendrix's screaming solo guitar performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, captured on the documentary the event. Closing the four day show, Hendrix played the anthem with a number of distorted regressions — some mimicking the "rockets" and "bombs" of the anthem's lyrics — to great acclaim from the audience. Although contemporary political pundits described his interpretation as a statement against the Vietnam War, three weeks later Hendrix explained its meaning: "We're all Americans ... it was like 'Go America!'... We play it the way the air is in America today.

I never doubted it, but today bby you proved your worth. Classic and IMHO the best guitarist the world has ever known. Often copied, never bettered. Hats off ol' mate. Miss you Jimi

Fube

[Mr Quatro]

Speaking of Woodstock 1969. The protesters were right all along !

[Fubar2Niner]

Sorry 'bout the picture quality, if anyone finds a better vid please pm me

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by Mr Quatro

Speaking of Woodstock 1969. The protesters were right all along !

Very relavent comment on that Mr Q;

It's funny cuz it's still relevant, wait no, I guess that means it's depressingly sad cuz we haven't learned anything in 40+yrs :/

That was from a year ago.

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by Fubar2Niner

I never doubted it, but today bby you proved your worth. Classic and IMHO the best guitarist the world has ever known. Often copied, never bettered. Hats off ol' mate. Miss you Jimi

Fube

NAH! Everybody copied everybody in the sixties. My personal favorite: Eric Clapton holds his own-Hey I'm still playin' my original vinyl Wheels of Fire here on a real turntable!!-primarily because as true student of the American Blues he knew when to start re-learnin' and developing his enormous talent:

Clapton understood this immediately... Hendrix was invited to play in on a Cream set... he jumped in on Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor". Clapton said of this: He played just about every style you could think of, and not in a flashy way. I mean he did a few of his tricks, like playing with his teeth and behind his back, but it wasn't in an upstaging sense at all, and that was it ... He walked off, and my life was never the same again.

[Eichhörnchen]

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by me

Everybody copied everybody in the sixties.

ORIANTHI: VOODOO CHILE AND just to 'broaden' Fube's horizons a tad...Johnny B Goode Chuck Berry would approve! as clearly...

Originally Posted by Fubar2Niner

if anyone finds a better vid please pm me

"blonds have more fun!"

[vienna]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

One of the most notable renditions of the anthem was Jimi Hendrix's screaming solo guitar performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, captured on the documentary the event. Closing the four day show..clad in Red, White, and Blue, Hendrix played the anthem with a number of distorted regressions — some mimicking the "rockets" and "bombs" of the anthem's lyrics — to great acclaim from the audience.

Good choice, Aktung! It is a true testament to the genius of Hendrix that for a very long time, and probably still, venues of all sorts played the Hendrix recording of The National Anthem to start whatever event was/is being held. It was never really seen as a protest against anything in particular, but it is a sonic encapsulation of the emotions of the time and stands relevant even now...

Regarding Hendrix and Killing Floor, Clapton has stated he had been long trying to find a means of performing the song in the Cream's trio format and had been frustrated by the complexity; Jimi came along and totally blew away Clapton with a masterful version of the number; of course, it helps if you are Hendrix and you can somehow sound like you are two guitarists in one...

(Unfortunately, there is no YT video of Hendrix performing Killing Floor at Monterey Pop in '67, so here is a link to a Daily Motion video, with apologies...)...


http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x40...-18-1967_music


As a frame of reference, here Howlin' Wolf's original:





...and a case for all those rockers to stand in shame for stealing from The Wolf...





Some time back, in another thread, in a universe far, far away (sorry, got carried away...), I posted about the time I saw Hendrix perform and had no idea it was him. There used to be a club at the far east end of the Sunset Strip and, during the daytime hours in the summer, they used to open these big doors that formed the outside wall. A lot of the local people would drop by, mainly musicians, and hang out, sometimes have loose acoustic jam sessions. I'm there one day, and in comes this sort of shy black guy dressed in the sort of hippies clothes of the time. He sat and listened to the jam for a while and finally asked if he could join in; he borrows a guitar and proceeds to play beautifully but not in a flashy manner, impressing the other players present. After a coupe of numbers, he excused himself and left...

Some months later, I drove my mother to a large box-type store, and, while she was shopping for what she needed, I went over to the record department and looked through the new arrivals. There, in the new record bins, was an album by some guy named Jimi and his new group. I recognized the face and thought to myself, "Whaddya know, that guy got a record contract"...

..and Aktung, you may well be a pioneer in a new resurgence:

Vinyl records are so popular that Sony plans to make them again --

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.08b03eaf89e0




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[Aktungbby]

Yeah that! I went with his Stockholm rendition of 'Killing Floor' in post #1553. I used to do security occasionally for BB King at Eli's Mile High Club, Oakland: and one Dead concert and an Aerosmith private event on SF's Treasure Island for 18,000 Oracle employees, circa 2010 in the midst of my year on the island, doing security for the TV show: Trauma.

[Fubar2Niner]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

AND just to 'broaden' Fube's horizons a tad...Johnny B Goode Chuck Berry would approve! as clearly... "blonds have more fun!"

Why five guitars when one is clearly all that is needed ? Gimme Jimi any day. Nice try ORIANTHI ............... !!!! but No Dice, "Not in this world"

This is how it's done;



Even Stevie Ray makes a better job;

Best Rock of GDR... 1979

[Jimbuna]

[vienna]

A truly sad loss today, 4 July 2017. John Blackwell Jr., a very highly respected and influential drummer who played across several genres passed away today after a battle with brain cancer. Best known as the drummer in Prince's band for twelve years, he also had extensive credits with other notable performers and bands. The fact the Prince, well-known for demanding perfection from his backing musicians, retained Blackwell for those dozen years speaks volumes. Here is his Wikipedia entry; it is well worth a read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blackwell_(musician)


Here is Blackwell performing at a Buddy Rich memorial tribute concert as a featured performer:





...and here he is performing live on TV with Prince and displaying his skills:







RIP, John Blackwell, Jr. ...




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