Jimi Hendrix added to proto-prog

And with that, time to move on.

Case closed.

Where will it end ? 13 pages of  patient explanation about the futility of attempting to put the goose back inside the golden egg. My habitually grudging heart goes out to those steadfast souls on PA who volunteer their own time to put up with all this toddler savagery whenever a new toy is thrown INTO the cot.

Given the shrill whining of many of the posts on this thread to date, we could be forgiven that the posters think PA stands for 'pending adulthood'.

^ Allright Patrick, don't tell me you didn't read my thread intro either.

Edited by Easy Money - April 16 2009 at 09:36

Poor Noel Redding, he is an OK songwriter guitarist and his pop song Little Miss Strange on Ladyland has some of that hendrix styled extras in it's arrangement, but he was way out of his league when Mitch and Jimi would do their psuedo jazz thing. Listen to the improvs on if 6 was 9 or 1983, Noel just walks the bass cos he doesn't know what else to do, he's not even listening to the rhythms that Mitch is trying to feed him.

I do believe there was friction between Noel and Jimi, Noel is the only one that doesn't keep coming back.

Edited by Easy Money - April 16 2009 at 10:36

Windhawk wrote: Googled the Davis/Hendrix connection and came across this one: "Miles Davis met with Hendrix frequently, and the two giants planned to record at least one album together. Countless musicians cite Davis as a major influence, but with Hendrix it was the other way around. Davis always credited him as a chief inspiration for his seminal 1970 Bitches Brew album, which marked the birth of jazz fusion. The track “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” is a tribute both to Hendrix’s love of jazz and blues and to the funk that he was dabbling in during the last years of his life." No source references though. http://www.americanheritage.com/rss/articles/web/20060918-jimi-hendrix-1960s-woodstock-guitar-monterey-pop-festival-miles-davis.shtml

Googled the Davis/Hendrix connection and came across this one:

"Miles Davis met with Hendrix frequently, and the two giants planned to record at least one album together. Countless musicians cite Davis as a major influence, but with Hendrix it was the other way around. Davis always credited him as a chief inspiration for his seminal 1970 Bitches Brew album, which marked the birth of jazz fusion. The track “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” is a tribute both to Hendrix’s love of jazz and blues and to the funk that he was dabbling in during the last years of his life."

No source references though.

http://www.americanheritage.com/rss/articles/web/20060918-jimi-hendrix-1960s-woodstock-guitar-monterey-pop-festival-miles-davis.shtml

Easy Money wrote: I am a one hundred percent Miles Davis fan boy and I own at least 3 bios and auto-bios, maybe more. Miles loved Jimi and couldn't wait to work with him. After Jimi passed Miles finally found a replacement in Pete Cosey who took Hendrix's guitar style to new heights. As for the work with Larry Young and Bo Hanson, you can get some recordings if you look around, I got my Larry Young-Hendrix recordings from a radio show about Larry Young

http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/young-larry-jr-khaled-yasin

Young’s association with drummer Tony Williams and guitarist John McLaughlin formed the nucleus of Tony Williams’ newly formed fusion trio Lifetime. The group recorded and released the double album Emergency, which featured the song “Spectrum," and the title track “Emergency." In 1969, Young also jammed and played with guitar legend Jimi Hendrix. Several bootlegs exist of this group, which also featured bassist Billy Cox and drummer Mitch Mitchell.

Easy Money wrote: ^ As mentioned before, Hendrix's last bands were a proggy fusion band with veteran jazz kybdst Larry Young (Miles, McLaughlin, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, Santana). Plus a proggy canterbury/fusion band with PA member Bo Hanson. He was also heading for work with Miles.

Tony R wrote: StyLaZyn wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: Does this mean no prog polka bands? I dunno. I actually scanned down the thread before joining the fray. I just think that it`s sort of clutching at straws to have Hendrix on a site like this. I`ll just say one last thing about Coryell. If you watch his DVD A Retrospective one of his sons ( I forget which ) reflects on how dumbfounded he is that his dad is not in Rolling Stone`s top 100 guitarists.  I doubt that if Hendrix would have lived past 27 that he would have joined in on the short period during the early seventies when the prog ( or art rock )  movement ruled. That's a good point. Clapton certainly didn't after finding the Blues. Shows a distinct lack of knowledge of the subject here. Had he lived Hendrix would have most certainly recorded with Miles Davis in a Jazz Fusion setting.