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This is how a bio should be done! It’s a nice treat to have a lineup including Diminutive Richard, Eric Clapton, Pete Townsend, Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, and Mick Jagger provide first-hand recollections of times spent with Jimi. It’s supplemented with friendly veil time for his dad and 3 or 4 musty girlfriends, which is animated. To top it off, there is amazing, well-produced footage of Jimi in concert and in the studio, and the live appearances span his career. You can actually peer him morph from a wide-eyed young prodigy into an exhausted curiosity. You can even hear it in the short interview segments that feature Jimi himself.
This ran as a Friday night midnight movie for about 50 weeks in a celebrated Original Orleans theatre in the early 1970′s and became one of the hottest tickets in Unique Orleans (where shining musicians are truly appreciated) during its speed. I saw it at least a half dozen times then, and it is smooth as riveting today. If you acquire it, you won’t be disappointed, and it is the perfect introduction to anyone who is not familiar with the anecdote of Jimi Hendrix.
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I remember taping this off the TV when I was fifteen (that’s fifteen years ago, folks) because all my school mates trendily professed a tremendous worship of Hendrix, and I had never really understood what all the fuss was about. Let’s face it, if you pull up a chair and listen to your average Hendrix report, it’s splendid difficult to bask in what’s the gigantic deal: his technique might have been groundbreaking at the time, but it’s been a long thirty years in Rock ‘n’ Roll, and there have been a lot of guitar players producing a lot of stunning crazy stuff ever since.
But somehow, seeing it happen in front of you causes the scales to tumble from your eyes, and the interviews with the likes of one-time girlfriend Fayne Pridgeon, two hilarious hipsters from Greenwich Village, Eric Clapton, an Elvis-suited, overweight Lou Reed and most amusingly of all, a heavily stoned and bechecked-suited Pete Townsend, acquire for a inviting documentary which puts Hendrix’s legacy slap bang support into context, and gives a enthralling window into life in 1973 at the same time.
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But what is truly gigantic about this documentary is how it sacrifices neither background context nor music: as well as the interviews there is no shortage of footage of Hendrix live and in the studio. The band’s magnificent performance at Monterey is well represented, with pudgy takes of Hey Joe, the barn-storming version of Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone (Jimi adored Bob Dylan) and of course the noted guitar sacrifice during Wild thing are reproduced in paunchy for your viewing pleasure. Also featured are legendary moments such as the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock, the studio retract, on twelve-string, of “Hear My Articulate A Comin’”, and “Machine Gun” from the Filmore East display with the Band of Gypsies.
Away from his stratocaster Hendrix comes across as a surpisingly fair, almost afraid, figure. Asked in a chat demonstrate whether he recieved hate-mail following his “unconventional” rendition of the national anthem he looks genuinely baffled, and replies “what are you talking about? Unconventional? I idea it was radiant” to an explosion of applause from the studio audience.
If, like I did, you missed Hendrix first time round, then you couldn’t ask for a better primer now. Compulsive viewing.
Sad Smiley