The SUBSIM Music Thread

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[u crank]

Todd Rundgren - I Saw The Light

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[vienna]

For some odd reason, these two songs just popped into my mind:








I really have no adequate explanation, really, but professional help may be in order...



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David Allan Coe-Requiem for a Harlequin Part 8



The Paper Train - Brother



Ain't she chic?

SYLVIE VARTAN - Cette Lettre Là (1965)

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[u crank]

Donovan - Sunshine Superman

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Seasick Steve - Down On The Farm

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[u crank]

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower

Well Hendrix is... well Hendrix. His guitar work on this track is stellar as usual but what stands out on this Dylan cover to me is Mitch Mitchell's drumming. He has always been my favorite drummer.

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Originally Posted by u crank

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower

Well Hendrix is... well Hendrix. His guitar work on this track is stellar as usual but what stands out on this Dylan cover to me is Mitch Mitchell's drumming. He has always been my favorite drummer.

Absolutely agree on Mitch Mitchell: very much one of the very best drummers in rock music. If you watch footage of Hendrix playing live, you will very often see how m

[vienna]

Originally Posted by u crank

The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower

Well Hendrix is... well Hendrix. His guitar work on this track is stellar as usual but what stands out on this Dylan cover to me is Mitch Mitchell's drumming. He has always been my favorite drummer.

Absolutely agree on Mitch Mitchell: very much one of the very best drummers in rock music. If you watch footage of Hendrix playing live, you will very often see how much Hendrix and Mitchell lock onto each other; Hendrix very often seems to not even acknowledge Redding's presence at all. The connection between Hendrix and Mitchell is akin to that of Keith Richards and Charlie Watts, of whom Richards has said any other member of the Stones could be replaced, but not Watts; if Watts were to leave, Keith has said, the Stones would have to fold. While it is the vocalists or the flash guitar players whom usually get the spotlights and the fame, no band would be any good without a good, solid rhythm section and drummers are the very basis of any rhythm section, rock, pop, jazz, or whatever. There used to be a club about four blocks from where I live in Hollywood that was called the Sound Check Room. It was a hangout for all levels of musicians from famous pros to local bands to amateur musicians dropping by for open mike nights. Mitch Mitchell was in town some years back and the manager of the club was able to get Mitch to come down and jam with some of the locals. He was a really good sport and the evening developed into a sort of Hendrix tribute, with various musicians playing and/or singing Hendrix numbers with Mitch providing the rhythm. He was impeccable in his playing and the gaggle of other drummers watching his every move was ample testament to his influence. He treated each performer and song with seriousness and didn't just 'call it in'. A great, great drummer and a fine, fine gentleman...

A while back, I posted a link to a video of Hendrix's Royal Albert Hall concert; I have since found a longer, more complete, and a bit better quality version of the show on Vimeo:

https://vimeo.com/164141456

If you don't want to see the full video, here is a link to Hendrix performing Roomful Of Mirrors, a song he didn't finish recording officially in his lifetime, but that he used as basis for live stage jams in his later shows; of interest here is the participation of Dave Mason and Chris Wood, then of the band Traffic, with Hendrix and the Experience:

https://vimeo.com/166280270

I have long liked this version much better than the official "completed" studio version released after Hendrix passed away...

Regarding All Along The Watchtower, Dylan was so blown away with Hendrix's version, he changed his live stage arrangement to be more like Jimi's; as Dylan, himself, said:

“It’s not a wonder to me that he recorded my songs,” Dylan himself wrote in 1988, “but rather that he recorded so few of them because they were all his.”

It is indeed a high compliment when the original writer/performer of a song adapts the song to the style of another musician's cover version; it is even higher still when that original songwriter is Bob Dylan...

Here is a link to an interesting article about how Hendrix's version of Watchtower came into being:

http://www.covermesongs.com/2014/03/...atchtower.html



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