'Scuse Me While I Kiss The Sky

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from Raw Story:




Some 43 years after his tragic death, rock-n-roll legend Jimi Hendrix will return to relevance on Tuesday with the release of his new album People, Hell & Angels.

The album consists of 12 previously unreleased tracks Hendrix completed in the studio before his death in 1970, brought about by an overdose of sleeping pills.

“These twelve recordings encompass a variety of unique sounds and styles incorporating many of the elements—horns, keyboards, percussion and second guitar—Jimi wanted to incorporate within his new music,” the official Hendrix website explains. “People, Hell & Angels, presents some of the finest Jimi Hendrix guitar work ever issued and provides a compelling window into his growth as a songwriter, musician and producer.”

“We’re thrilled to be able to release People, Hell & Angels, during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of my brother’s birth,” Janie L. Hendrix said in an advisory. “The brilliance of the album serves to underscore what we’ve known all along: that there has never been and never will be a musical force equal to his and that we cherish and take inspiration of what he left us both now and for many generations to come…simply eternity.”


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[Siwsan]

1. It's amazing that at a time we are losing so many 60-70's era musicians, one is resurrected

Jon Lord, Bob Welch, Lee Dorman, Fontalla Bass, Reg Presley, Robin Gibbs, Rick Huxley, just to name a few from the past year.

Now, if they can just find some previously unreleased Janis Joplin tracks........................

[HughBeaumont]

4. Three Motown era artists died within 2 weeks -

Richard Street and Damon Harris from The Temptations
Bobby Rogers of The Miracles

[Siwsan]

6. I just saw the Bobby Rogers news on Huffington Post

I realize they are all reaching that whole 'life expectancy' range, but wow. Of course, it also means that those of us who remember them from back in the day, are following on their heels.

[H2O Man]

15. I have a

5 LP collection from Germany, of Hendrix & friends playing Motown.

[H2O Man]

2. Two weeks ago,

my phone rang at 2:30 am. It was my younger son, who asked, "Guess who is releasing a new album in March?" I was tired, and getting ready to go to bed, and so my answer was the first thing that came into my head, without thinking: "Jimi Hendrix."

"Damn it! How did you know?" asked D. He had trouble accepting that it was just a guess.

I've got my copy reserved when it hits the store tomorrow. At last count, I had 89 Hendrix LPs (and CDs). Lots of bootlegs, European releases, etc.

Recommended.

[bigtree]

3. you totally have me beat

I had 59 at the height of my collection; poor condition now, but well loved.

It's funny, in '73 I went from the Carpenters, Donny Osmond, and the Partridge Family, right into the 'Jimi Hendrix' album with the short version of Red House, and Purple Haze, Wind Cries Mary, and the rest.My life's never quite been the same, since.

Good guess, though. I had the impression that the Hendrix vein was just about tapped-out. I know that, like me, you'll be listening tomorrow with an 'experienced' ear for something truly 'new' and less of a re-working of other tunes of his. Whatever comes out, tho, will be a blast!

[Mnemosyne]

5. 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy! How cool! nt

[caseymoz]

7. Call me cynical, but I think

. . . if the songs were of any quality, they wouldn't have been forgotten about for four decades. I mean, when has the music industry passed up the opportunity to cash in a dead musician before his or her corpse was cold?

And here, they had the songs recorded and everything, and so why did they go from the studio to the warehouse? You know, if an artist dies, the first thing a record company does is raise the price of his albums. Music executives should have seen gold and rushed for it.

It's one thing if the songs were tied up in litigation for decades, or if his label went bankrupt before release, or if a long-lost friend found a tape of that jam session he had with Jimi. However, the fact that these songs were buried for a few generations only to be released to a generation who knows too little about Hendrix to be disappointed, doesn't bode well.

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9. well, most of his stuff was tied up in family squabbles and lawsuits

. . . most of that resolved itself some years back and we saw some good stuff released. My personal hope is that it's stuff i haven't heard before; not just reworkings of existing tracks. We'll see, tomorrow, but I'm already pumped with adrenaline, so, I'm wishing for the best.

[kentauros]

8. Every time I see the first half of that quote, "'Scuse Me While I"

my thoughts go directly to Blazing Saddles

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10. I hear

. . . dun na nun - dun na nun . . . Purple haaaaze!

[kentauros]

11. I was never a big fan of his.

Now Mel Brooks on the other hand...

"Abby ... Normal!"

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12. Compatibility of Jimi Hendrix with Mel Brooks

Physical 57%

Emotional 91%

Intellectual 57%

Overall 68%




report: http://www.facade.com/biorhythm/relationship/?Celeb=Jimi_Hendrix&Celeb2=Mel_Brooks

[kentauros]

13. Okay, that's just ... bizarre!

I'm more interested now in why such a site exists!

[Ron Green]

14. I'm finding that my Jimi Hendrix sides aren't

holding up as well as my Charlie Christian ones.

[Ligyron]

16. "Once upon a time ya dressed so fine ..."

Hendrix only died 'cause God needed guitar lessons

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17. ' . . . Bob Dylan . . . and that's his grandmother over there'

. . . or maybe someone compatible to jam with.

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18. .

[senseandsensibility]

19. Love Jimi. Wow....he would only be seventy now?

He died so young. On a lighter note, I was in elementary school when that song came out and I thought the lyrics were "'scuse me while I kiss this guy."

[Danascot]

20. You can listen to the new album at NPR

http://www.npr.org/2013/02/27/172992228/first-listen-jimi-hendrix-people-hell-and-angels

[cbrer]

21. Lord knows I'm a Voodoo Child

And will be forever...