Saturday, December 27, 2008

THE GREATIST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME

22."WOODSTOCK IMPROVASATION"-JIMI HENDRIX{GYPSY.SUN & RAINBOWS}

FOR ALL OF THE IMPRACTICAL IDEALISM THAT EMERGED IN THE 1960'S
IT DID,AT LEAST,PRODUCE A GREAT AMOUNT OF ABOVE AVERAGE MUSIC.
ONE PLAYER EMERGED AS THE MOST TALENTED AND INNOVATIVE
ROCK GUITARIST OF ALL TIME AND IT'S HARD TO PICTURE HIM BEING
ABLE TO REACH SUCH A LARGE AUDIENCE AT ANY OTHER TIME IN
MUSIC HISTORY.
MOST OF THE RECORDINGS THAT HENDRIX LEFT BEHIND ARE ROCK
SONGS THAT ARE EXTRODINARILY CREATIVE AND CONTAIN GUITAR
PLAYING AND SOUND MANIPULATION THAT DEFIES ANY STANDARD
DESCRIPTIVE WORDS TO TRY AND EXPLAIN WHAT THEY DO IN TERMS
OF EXPANDING JUST WHAT WAS POSSIBLE ON THE ELECTRIC GUITAR
AND IN COMPOSITION FOR IT-BOTH IN TERMS OF MUSIC AND LYRICS.
HENDRIX WAS SO AMAZING AS AN ELECTRIC GUITAR PLAYER THAT
HIS AWE INSPIRING COMPOSITIONAL SKILLS TEND TO GET OVERLOOKED.
BECAUSE HE WAS SO GOOD AT COMPOSING WE ONLY GOT ONE
CHANCE TO SEE HENDRIX CUT COMPLETLY LOOSE-AND IMPROVISE
FOR A GOOD FIVE MINUTES OR SO-HERE ON THIS TRACK RECORDED
AT WOODSTOCK.IT'S LIKE NOTHING ELSE IN JIMI'S CATOLOG.IN A
RELATIVLY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME HE NAVAGATES EVERY STYLE
OF MUSIC EVER KNOWN TO MAN AND THREADS IT ALL TOGETHER
WITH THE GRACE AND BRILLIANCE THAT ONLY A TRUE MASTER
COULD REALIZE.JIMI HENDRIX WAS NOT ONLY EXPIERIENCED.
HE WAS THE EXPIERIENCE.

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