[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Date Index][
Thread Index][
Author Index]
Laptops Hendrix
Hendrix was a very important part of my life,I saw him more than once
first time at age 13. But I must say speculation about what he would ,and
would not have used if he were alive seems kinda silly to me. Some think
he
used whatever was cutting edge,perhaps so but his use of chords and
knowledge of theory don't seem to reflect that at all,his harmony
knowlegde
was pretty basic,nowhere near the cutting edge.Of course he went beyond
edges all together with pure soud explorations.Hard to put in a neat box.
Miles is known to have been on various cutting edges alll his life,but did
his actual playing do that? I would say not,his compsotion,arragement
presentation did,though often by drawing on what was happening elsewhere (
notably imitating Hendrix,and SLy)and adding it to 'serious' jazz .His
chops
and articulation didn't really stay on the cutting edge after his
pioneering
use of electronics. Hendrix when he died was already getting bypassed in
terms of technique by fusionoid stuff that was a response to his
trailblazing. Maybe he would've woodshedded his modes and started
dropping
in extreme substitutions- who knows. Thye laptop doesn;'t seem kinetic
enough a performace tool though,eve i the studion he was more iterested in
live expressio than elaborate intellectual architecture.
Hendrix got really extreme at putting on a show as a way to get some
where
in the music biz, and it worked but after he made it he felt trapped in
that
freakshow role.He said in interveiws he wished people could just close
their
eye and let the music take them.
_________________________________________________________________
PC Magazine’s 2007 editors’ choice for best Web mail—award-winning Windows
Live Hotmail.
http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_pcmag_0507