maybe not so quite..Sunday Morning Selections#17:Band of Gypsy’s..Machine Gun.
Jul 22nd, 2007 by Dr. Robert
hey WJ.. don’t want to pre-empt you but I just thought to throw this out there.. on this Sunday..with so much coming down on the so-called Political Front.
the scenario is:
New years 69′..at the Fillmore East..3 black dudes did 4 shows over 2 nights..12/31 and 1/1/70..
Here is one of the best Anti-War songs in history…best live performances ever..from , maybe, just maybe , the Best guitar
player..ever.
Seemed like it’s worth a listen.
Think Iraq..instead of Vietnam…and ask “whats changed..”?
and more importantly..how can we do better?
July 22nd, 2007 at 9:29 pm
good one!
I’ll save mine as your’s is more ‘relevant’!
Ha, Ha.
No really good. if we can just get some others to listen!
We can start with getting ‘Beetlejuice’ to hear through the noisel!
C’mon over to our side beetle! It’s just……where the truth be laying!
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Hey,I’m on your side,just disagree politically. Different world view I guess. That’s ok though. Any truth is hard to see through all the noise,I guess we take the facts,mixed around with our feelings/upbringing/environment and come out with our opinions.Is that truth? I don’t know. Does anyone really have the handle on an objective truth? (Mother Ocean,maybe…(God?)
July 24th, 2007 at 4:56 am
fuck me, i’ve never seen live footage of this. listened to the album endlessly growing up. ian’s got the deluxe 2CD version which has a 16 minute “Machine Gun” where he goes WAY OUT THERE. this clip may actually be that take.
but i’m gonna have to be a Hendrix nerd and disagree and say his “Star Spangled Banner” from woodstock tops the ‘best ever’ performance list. if i could hang that flag i would.
July 24th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Your right about the song DR. But as for performance I must agree with the J man. The experience band was far superior than the gypsy’s.
Still a great version.
I’m a little bias cuz Mitchell is my freakin hero.
Buddy’s a great soul drummer but when rockin’ is in order Mitchy blows him bye bye!
It is a little strange to compare the 2 cuz it’s such a different period of Hendrix!
Good post.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
This particular clip first showed up..as far as I know..in the highly recommended”Film About Jimi Hendrix”..which came out around73′.
I think I’ve seen it around 800 times..it is full of gems as is the soundtrack from same.
Saw Jimi 2x’s…once OPENING for the Animals…and on Maui at the Rainbow Bridge concert …which featured Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox…great, even Sacred performance by all concerned.
What I’ve always loved about the Band of Gypsy’s is that it was so different in so many ways from what had come before..Hendrix was in real musical transition and was trying to persuade the audience to get over expecting him to play guitar behind his back,with his teeth, or destroy the thing as a finale.
I love the Band of Gypsy sound…. fluid and powerful.
Best performance…all things considered…strong contender is gonna have to be Monterey Pop..”Killing Floor” (which he opened with),”Like a Rolling Stone”(yes, I know I missed a verse..don’t worry).. and the insane “Wild Thing” ..lighter fluid and all…(take that Pete Townsend!).
Nobody like him..ever.
Hendrix Lives!
July 25th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
At Rainbow Bridge??????
dude!
wow.
Freakin awesome.
July 26th, 2007 at 3:00 am
re: Rainbow Bridge…
I got lucky,..
was on my 2nd trip to Hawaii.. and Maui… I was fortunate to have had had a great entree to Maui and the Hawaiian culture through my dear friend and native Hawaiian..Kamalani Mc Lean Akana Pelekai… aka “Chuckie boy”…(GREAT surfer and Soul..still ripping and a positive force on Maui to this day)!
Was definitely tripping that summer with my girlfriend in a 53′ Plymouth wagon….surfing and camping out.
The Rainbow Bridge freak show came by our campsite one day at Kihei Beach campground…filming a bunch of goofy stuff… and ,as it happened, I had just taken some acid.. and was about 2 hrs into it when these people,including Jimi arrived .
As I recall…I was interviewed and maybe filmed…me and my girlfriend , our tent, vehicle,and the 5′6″ pluto platter that I was riding at the time…. me giving the normal Greenough spiel about time/space continuums whilst in the tube, how surfers were precursors to a new cosmic paradigmn on this planet…you know, the regular stuff.
Jimi was kinda just dancing around by the water..I think wearing cut-offs…I was so stoked to see him, but also so stoned I did not even attempt to talk with him.
Thats how we knew about the concert..which seemed to be some kind of secret event…in any event, Jimi seemed happy and I hope he found some joy in that brief respite on Maui with Hynson and the rest of that crew.
The fact is , he passed on about 2 months later..tired and exhausted.
If you ever see the clips from the Ilse of Wight concert Sept 70..you can see he was on the edge.
….but..at the Maui concert..he really..really was stoked!
Love Jimi Hendrix!
July 26th, 2007 at 3:59 am
that reads as something straight out of a Rick Griffin strip, starring Robert rather than Murphy. how funny.
July 26th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
keep those gems comin’!!!
Great images. Especially in Griffenesque context.