Electric Ladyland Chat Excerpts (Press play and follow along.
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(I love putting the colors with our names, but in the interest of time, I'm going to leave it in grey tones.)
Sandy: I'm here listening to "The Gods Made Love" backwards.
oldkid: Of course you are
Sandy: I can hear jimi say, "Okay, one more time"
colonel_mexico: lol
Sandy: and "stay there for a second" Is this about making love or making the track? Are you all familiar with this album? It's new to me
oldkid: I'm familiar with some of the cuts, but there are a number I've not heard
colonel_mexico: just the hits
Bondo: I think All Along the Watchtower is the only song from this album I've heard before, and mostly Dave Matthews Band cover
Sandy: Well, Col. would you like to tell us your thoughts about jimi and what about this album, made you choose it?
colonel_mexico: when it comes to music for me i love guitar players and when asked who the best is i usually like to go with hendrix, but i really only know the hits, so i thought i need to explore an album and this one, while it doesn't have my favorite tune, seemed to be the one that is the most loved
Sandy:
what is your favorite tune?
colonel_mexico: little wing
Sandy: nice
oldkid: Little wing is great. This album does have My favorite jimi, though-- Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
colonel_mexico: though much like bondo, i love stevie ray vaughns cover of it lol
Sandy: I only know a few songs of Hendrix's so I'm really excited about today's album
Bondo: My knowledge of DMB's All Along The Watchtower is more my brother's affection than mine. Otherwise I know Hendrix via Guitar Hero/Rock Band
Sandy:
Sandy: I love the lyrics of little wing
colonel_mexico: ha, whats funny is stevie rays version has no words
Sandy: stevie is missing half the song!
"And The Gods Made Love"Sandy: see now aren't you glad I told you what he said?
colonel_mexico: lol, yes thanks!
Bondo: Had to turn my sound down a bit...this is a little nails on chalkboard
oldkid: There's a skill to backmasking, keeping the rhythm. I think Stone Roses did it best
colonel_mexico: i have the 1968 US vinyl dl, its a little quiet, headphones today
"Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)" Bondo: did everyone else get like a five second song with a little girl's voice?
Sandy: oh, i'm in love with this sound. No, I didn't get the little girls voice
colonel_mexico: no girls voice here
oldkid: I didn't get a girls voice
The BFJunior joined the chat
Sandy: Hi Junior!
The BFJunior: Hello
oldkid: LOL, Junior. Your name. Big change between the first cut and the second. EL has a lot more Motown in it
Sandy: big smile on my face
oldkid: Smooth and pleasant. Really nice.
colonel_mexico: love that fade out guitar
"Crosstown Traffic"Sandy: sounds like a kazoo
Bondo: The drum intro on this had me thinking Ringo from last week, but the guitar is all Jimi.
colonel_mexico: right, i like that
Bondo: The guitar rift right by when he says Crosstown Traffic has almost a doppler effect of a car in motion
colonel_mexico: love the lyrics, cant you see im turning from green to red
oldkid: I've heard CT before. It sounds just generic, but I know it wasn't when it was first made. He was such an original.
colonel_mexico: CT has that cream sound from disraeli gears or something, even the singing is clapton-ish
oldkid: Keeping it busy, like traffic is
colonel_mexico: totally
oldkid: Yeah, Cream-ish.
Sandy: Bondo, I read that this album was mixed in stereo (their only one to do so), so you're going to get that affect some more, i think
"Voodoo Chile"Bondo: I'm curious to compare this one with Voodoo Child...see what similarities they go with to payoff the name play
oldkid: Blues...
colonel_mexico: oh man robert johnson chills right here
oldkid: Yeah...
oldkid: So coooooooollll.... I want to hear this live. In a smokey club
Sandy: In heaven, I'll buy your ticket
colonel_mexico: yeah i bet this one is great live
oldkid: I like the way that the producers left in some band chatter
Sandy: sometime we should pick a night time album listening, so I can close my eyes and drift off whenever.
colonel_mexico: haha good idea
Sandy: then if I stop talking, you know I've left "the building"
Bondo: Radiohead would be a good drift off album. The Bends or something
Sandy: yeah
colonel_mexico: wow
Bondo: Jimi is beyond words
oldkid: The organ and lead guitar work are so psychedelic, but it remains so blusey and smooth
colonel_mexico: yeah ok, its like fast, but smooth
The BFJunior: claps
Sandy: they like what they're doing
Bondo: This is the type of music I wouldn't normally listen to, but set me down on a blanket on grass at a music festival and I just want to chill out to this all day...there may be "substances" inhaled
oldkid: "Way down by the methane sea"
colonel_mexico: lol
The BFJunior: I kinda just want this to turn into his version of the national anthem.
oldkid: Jimi is borrowing from Chicago blues, but he makes it is own when he works his guitar into the ground
colonel_mexico: the drum solo is great
colonel_mexico: ha jr that would be awesome
oldkid: Deep psychedelic vibe now.
Sandy: feedback as musical notes
colonel_mexico: this album probably influenced so many people, like i can hear the doors in here (i almost choose them for today), some floyd, clapton like blues
The BFJunior: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense
Bondo: This makes me want to listen to Alberta Cross, when I went to the Mile High Music Festival, it was the closest to this sort of bluesy sound, imagine they were inspired by this
oldkid: Jimi influenced everyone
Sandy: you chose well, Col. This is something very special
oldkid: Did you know that he toured with the Monkees, who introduced him to the Stones and the Beatles?
colonel_mexico: i did not
The BFJunior: Musicians: Stealing from black guys since the invention of music
colonel_mexico: lol jr!
colonel_mexico: i remember hearing that he played with little richard but that didnt work out
The BFJunior: i can't imagine it would, no
Bondo: There was a thing in Orange Is The New Black...I think about The Wiz vis a vis Wizard of Oz accusing them of appropriation, I lol'd
colonel_mexico: wow now hes shredding
oldkid: We all do. Africans have music at the center of their culture. Our love of music comes from them. They explored rhythm, etc in a way other cultures didn't
oldkid: Indian music is as deep and interesting.
Bondo: This song includes its own reviews "outta sight"
colonel_mexico: lol
The BFJunior: lol
"Little Miss Strange"oldkid: Wait...
Sandy: this one is different
Bondo: Beatles?
Sandy: turtles
oldkid: Yeah, Turtles
The BFJunior: definitely beatlesish
oldkid: With Jimi backing
oldkid: A lot of variety on this album. Not what I was expecting
colonel_mexico: like octopus garden, ok guys you can have a song
The BFJunior: feels pretty kitchen sink-y
colonel_mexico: ill just shred over here
Sandy:
oldkid: Early Moody Blues
Bondo: I feel like if you say this is your favorite song of the album, they ask you to leave
oldkid: Picks up different guitar...
colonel_mexico: think thats the wah-wah pedal, jimi loved the effects
oldkid: Ah
colonel_mexico: lol bondo
"Long Hot Summer Night" colonel_mexico: long hot summer night, it certainly is
oldkid: Nice to have Jimi back
colonel_mexico: lol yes
oldkid: "woo woo woo" backup. Not one of his classics, but nice guitar work, as usual.
The BFJunior: have we lost our backup singers? at least on albums? where have all the backups gone?
Bondo: Normally I'm mostly a vocalist, but on these I'm often like, hey guys, hush up, I'm trying to listen to the guitar. Maybe those SRV instrumental covers are where it's at.
colonel_mexico: yeah we dont get too much, some of the more recent punk bands like afi use them, but you dont get much of them anymore that i can think of
"Come On (Part One)"colonel_mexico: tickling the notes out in this one. let the good times roll
oldkid: Nice update to the early 60s classic
Bondo adds song to Making Out playlist
oldkid: Got the rock 'n' roll rhythm
The BFJunior: gross
Sandy: haha
oldkid: This guitar solo rocks
The BFJunior: it's very good
oldkid: Chuck Berry, eat your heart out
colonel_mexico: no kidding
Sandy: "flippin' like flag on a pole"
colonel_mexico:
oldkid: lol
I'm so sorry, I lost a very big portion of chat here! We were brilliant! Our words were astounding!
"House Burning Down" ...
St_M: Hippy rap
The BFJunior: yeah, the next two are all-timers, but this is just as good
oldkid: Why have I never heard this before?
colonel_mexico: i heard prince makes good pancakes, i bet jimi makes great waffles
St_M: This is on fire
oldkid: Breakfast in heaven!
colonel_mexico: 10:25 AM
Sandy: I make good pancakes and waffles.
colonel_mexico: on my way
Sandy: but I can't play the guitar.
St_M: Oh man
Sandy: haha!
Sandy: my earphones are smoking
oldkid: So sweet...
"All Along the Watchtower"The BFJunior: that opening
Bondo: And here we go
oldkid: Now the classics
Bondo turns up volume
The BFJunior: guys, i think i'm a Cylon
St_M: hahaha
Bondo:
The BFJunior: i want to meet the person who doesn't like this song and punch them
oldkid: I wish I could've seen Dylan's face when he heard what jimi did to his song
oldkid: I bet his mouth dropped
colonel_mexico: no kidding
St_M: This is my favorite version
oldkid: Mine too, easily
oldkid: Dylan probably said, "It's yours Jimi. I'll never play it again" (not true)
Bondo: I prefer to think of this as the original
colonel_mexico: if im a musician at this time and i heard this album, id be like well geology might be a good field to go into, jimis got this music sh*t
Sandy: haha! time to pawn that guitar
St_M: It has a frantic intensity that whips you into the song.
The BFJunior: it's when he starts a word that begins with a vowel with a "w" instead wall along the tower woutside in the cold distance
colonel_mexico: !
Bondo: True fact, Bob Dylan did the best version of zero Bob Dylan songs (may not be true)
oldkid: Yet Jimi actually made more people buy guitars. I don't know why. Who thought, "Yeah, I could do that"
Bondo: Haha
Sandy: i don't know!
The BFJunior: i love putting these two at the end
Bondo: and like that it's gone
The BFJunior: like, ok, you think i'm good, eh?
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" oldkid: Most albums begin with the best
Bondo: gotta put best song third, like a baseball lineup
The BFJunior: gonna throw some 15 minute songs in there just to CINECAST! with you
oldkid: Or second, but last? Who does that? Because jimi is like, "If you don't listen to the end, you don't deserve my best"
colonel_mexico: before i let you go im going to destroy you with cool
Sandy: that's it exactly, Col.
The BFJunior: it's not just cool (though it is very cool) it's genius
oldkid: start deceptively quiet... and then BOOM!
oldkid: Slap em down!
Bondo: Oh yeah, definitely know this
oldkid: Voodoo Chile you could sit back and listen to for hours, VC (Slight Return) you gotta sit up, pay attention... then stand up... you can't sit still
colonel_mexico: never
Bondo: so begs the question, High Fidelity style, has any album ever ended as strong as this one?
Sandy: abbey road
oldkid: Yeah, abbey road
The BFJunior: very few
Sandy: not the same though
colonel_mexico: haha sandy good one
oldkid: Dark Side, maybe
Bondo: Abbey road is great, and I'm gonna let it finish, but Jimi did the best
oldkid: Days of Future Past. Well, they would all go into my top 5 endings. But Jimi's great
The BFJunior
me right now colonel_mexico: lol jr
Bondo: haha, yeah, pretty much
oldkid: lol
oldkid: What, it's over?
Bondo: Wait, how is it over. Why is it over.
colonel_mexico: and just like that he was gone
oldkid: damn
Sandy: there is a void
Bondo This is that album
The Fade Away colonel_mexico: "hes not dead, he just went home"
oldkid: LOLOLOL
St_M: Ahh lol
oldkid: Okay so if we were going to cut this album to make one, what would we include
oldkid: The last two, for sure
St_M: The last 3
colonel_mexico: yeah thanks so much guys, so fun, mind blown
Sandy: gypsy eyes, long hot summer night... hard to leave any out
oldkid: Thanks for choosing this, col!
Sandy: Yes, love this choice.
colonel_mexico: np, glad to do it and of course i believe Burning of the Midnight Lamp has to be on there
Sandy: one of my favorites, lyrics wise
oldkid: I'd leave out little miss strange
St_M: I really love his lyrics - I don't think his vocals get enough credit.
Bondo: Listening to Bob Dylan AATW from Woodstock 94...what is this
colonel_mexico: he is a great singer
Sandy: he really is versatile, vocally.
oldkid: Although cool, I'd leave out the first Rainy day
colonel_mexico: yeah sandy if you get a chance
give little wing a spin, i know we didnt hear it today, but its my favorite hendrix and
stevie rays version might do something to you oldkid: And I'd leave out 1983
colonel_mexico: looking forward to jr's pick next week and the upcoming weeks!
Sandy: I will, Col! and the other version too!
Sandy: So glad you could join us St. Martin! Thanks for dealing with the phone
St_M: Thanks I loved it