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Re: Laptops Hendrix
From: "samba -" <sambacomet@hotmail.com>:
>
> 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.
Cool! I remember a friend of mine whose brother was at the infamous
Roosevelt Stadium concert; while we all knew the sad news about MLK the
next
morning in school, what I recall my friend saying about the concert: "He
had
TEN THOUSAND WATTS!" How times have changed.
Actually after all of this thread's existence, I can indeed imagine
Hendrix
using a laptop - one of those Sony's that lit itself on fire... Perhaps
some Photoshop is in order. :)
Stephen Goodman
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