And Somewhere A Queen Is Weeping

Well, I covered the feminists, might as well cover the queens, too - this is what I was actually thinking about when I wrote this header. This is actually the better, produced version, but there's no video.

Comments

[Fred Beloit]

All that talent and a stash of Juicy Fruit too. Class act.

[bloodrage bob]

could somebody *kindly* explain the cult of hendrix to me? i'm not a guitar playa, so i have to depend on the word of those who are, but - okay - i'll assume the folks who moan of his technical excellence are right: he was quite a guitar player. fine.

BUT - he couldn't sing worth a damn; he never wrote any decent songs that i'm aware of; listening to his stuff offers no glimpse into any particular 'producing' genius .......

so WTF? compare his alleged 'genius', and more importantly, his *body of musical work*, to say .... jimmy page. in my opinion, it's not even close. maybe - MAYBE - hendrix could play 1% faster/better/whatever makes a good guitarist, but i'd sure pick jimmy page to be in MY band over hendrix anyday. led zep invented a whole new genre, and they were so good no one else has ever even come close to them. jimmy page WAS led zep, except for maybe the songwriting. hendrix ...... well ..... hendrix played the same old stuff as everybody else.

is it because he was black? is that it? because he OD'd and it was all very sad & tragic etc etc?? is it because he did the star-spangled banner with his teeth? at woodstock? is *that* it?

[Dan Riehl]

"is *that* it?"

LOL None of the above, imo - BB. First, a lot of "good" Hendryz is lost in tracks for the Isleys and others. The "genuis" of Hendyx came from doing that which had never been done and taking things to a place and level never before imagined. That "allowed" other, arguably technically better players to come behind him and do much more. I'll post SRV doing Little WIng soon, then you might know what I'm getting at.

[Phoenix]

BB. I swear, I love your comments. Dan said it all, but I'll just add that I am with you 100% on Led Zeppelin. Unique - no one ever touched them. Blues and rock combined, they ruled. Still rule.

[Phoenix]

I had XM radio on tonight and they played a lot of Zeppelin. "When the Levee Breaks" is a hot tune. I wish they'd used that as the soundtrack when Shep Smith was on that bridge in New Orleans screaming his brains out.

[JD]

"could somebody *kindly* explain the cult of hendrix to me?"

In 1967, the dominant music of the time was being played on AM radio by the likes of the Beatles, Monkees etc. FM radio was still fairly new and underground when Jimi arrived.

I'll admit that as a 12 year old at that time, I had never heard of him and didn't listen to that genre of music. It wasn't til the early seventies that I got into rock instead of pop. That's when I became aware of groups like Cream, The Who, Led Zep, Hendrix.... and I didn't really understand what the big deal was about Jimi.

Until I started to dig around and found that guys like Clapton and Hendrix were doing things unique a few years before any of the guitar gods of the seventies. There was just nothing like it out there at the time and that's something you tend to miss by looking back in retrospect. You kinda have to put yourself back in time to really appreciate these guys.

Fast forward to 2007....now the 12 year old kid is an old fart with 35 years of guitar playing under his belt and looks at these guys from a completely different angle....

Who has broken any new ground in music these past 40 years the way that those guys did back then??? It was a special time, the likes that'll never be seen again.

[ma833zda]

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