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When I was a teenager in the 70’s I distinctly remember buying the album Are You Experienced? by Jimi Hendrix and listening to “Third Stone from the Sun.” The song was one of the major catalysts for me to become an instrumental guitarist. Not only does the song take you on a total tonal psychedelic trip, but the guitar melody is unforgettable with those wonderful octaves and expressive tremolo bar phrases…
Jimi Hendrix was an exceptional musician, a rock’n’roll pioneer, innovator, and experimentalist, and his music has left a huge impact and lasting influence on music and musicians over the last 50 years or so…
Jimi Hendrix fiery interpretation of Bob Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower, from Hendrix’s classic Electric Ladyland struck a deep and resonant chord on its release in September 1968. According to Dylan, Hendrix “could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them” and with all along the watchtower he found something which spoke to the frustrations and confusion surrounding US involvement in the Vietnam War in both the pro and anti war camps.
Not one of the tracks that Classic Rock radio called a Hendrix classic but one of the tracks that I believe shows off what an amazing player he was and you have to remember all Hendrix music was recorded more than 50 years ago and still sounds fresh truly amazing and still his style has never been matched or challenged.
He sings of clouds, moonbeams and riding the wind, Jimmy Hendrix, the one and only, not only a master on the guitar also a thought provoking songwriter. So what is he talking about? I think this is about vulnerability, beautiful girls he meets along the way that are willing to be open and vulnerable with him. Not only physically, but emotionally. These women stand out from the crowd in a good way, even though he believes they will meet with pain through their openness.
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“Hailing from Elazig, a town in East Anatolia, but born in Ankara in 1954, Erkan Oğur started on violin as a child and learned cumbus, a small fretless lute, from local musicians playing traditional dances at weddings. Hearing Jimi Hendrix on the radio was a major shock, and in high school he began studying guitar…