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jimi hendrix was gay?
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:09 pm
by steve56
according to a new book out,idont think i bother reading it though.
Re: jimi hendrix was gay?
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:25 pm
by Arnold Layne
If he was , he must have swung both ways, he had to beat the groupies off with a shitty stick, not that it matters, he was a fucking genius
Re: jimi hendrix was gay?
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:28 pm
by steve56
according to the notw in 1970 he had lots of orgies.
Re: jimi hendrix was gay?
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:47 pm
by mart
It probably claims he was a great musician too.
Mart
Re: jimi hendrix was gay?
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:47 pm
by Jacques
Just a scam he cooked up to get out of the army
Re: jimi hendrix was gay?
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 4:49 am
by steve56
there was a rumour the wind cries mary was written about the test card,now i read it was about his girlfriend.
Re: jimi hendrix was gay?
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:20 am
by Jacques
We have Arnold Layne saying 'he was a fucking genius' and mart saying 'It probably claims he was a great musician'.
So was he a genius or seriously over-rated?
I personally think he was somewhere between the two, ground-breaking but not as good as people make out.
Over to you lot...
Re: jimi hendrix was gay?
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 5:30 am
by RetroDon
It was written about a girlfriend, but the testcard influenced the opening lines "after all the jacks are in their boxes, and the clowns have all gone to bed"
He spent a great deal of time in England in 66-67, and when you think about it, the testcard is quite surreal is a very "english" way... very "of-it's-time" and even better for the fact it was used for 25 years or so. In fact, what a great "screensave" it'd make.. Inspirational!
Re: jimi hendrix was gay?
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:25 am
by Deuce Bigolo
His music was secondary when compared to his stage performance
Eric Clapton said he was the Guvnor after seeing him play Live I believe so he must have been doing something right
cheers
B....OZ
Jimi Hendrix was cool
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 6:34 am
by RetroDon
I wouldn't say he was "the best" (though arguably he was the greatest all-round guitarist), but having listened to Hendrix since I was 13 I find his stuff gets better the more I hear it. All the output released in his lifetime is superb, any dross was released post-1972 when the record companies went for the cash-in by tarting up out-takes and unfinished demo's.
"Are You Experienced?"
"Axis: Bold As Love"
"Electric Ladyland"
"Band Of Gypsies"
"First Rays Of The New Rising Sun" (incorporating "The Cry Of Love" & "Rainbow Bridge" ost)
All the above are 5-star classics I'd recommend to an music lover.
There are some great live albums as well, and bear in mind this legacy was all created in less than 4 years, amazing by anybody's standards.