kizanski Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 17 minutes ago, hamerican gigolo said: Were you born a prodigious Richard, or is it something you've worked on your whole life??? If your definition of "being a dick" means I don't buy into people's moronic theories, then I guess I had to work at it. Maybe you were born a dick, but like I said, we're two different people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGale Posted September 12, 2021 Share Posted September 12, 2021 YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE DICK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beezerboy Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 pretty sure I can guess who is the "Richard" here... just sayin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 Well, @cmathes, I guess you have to add Jimi to the politics/religion list. 😂😂😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeboy Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 It seemed to me that Jimi was moving to a funk-rock direction. The 70s was the decade of funk and I think he may have embraced that genre heavily. Hendrix liked to groove and can you imagine his incendiary guitar over some disco grooves? Who knows what would have transpired? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Haynie Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 We would have all still said disco sucks, and Jimi was not real disco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diablo175 Posted September 13, 2021 Author Share Posted September 13, 2021 This appeared on my Google feed today: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/jimi-hendrix-s-are-you-experienced-10-things-you-didn-t-know?utm_source=pocket-newtab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 On 9/9/2021 at 8:27 AM, kizanski said: If you look at the direction in which Jimi seemed to be headed, he was looking to make a departure from the whole blues/guitar-centric genre, or at least turn it into something less so than he had been creating. I've always felt that his legend was saved by him dying in the Rock Star way that he did. He could have very well stuck around too long, like Muhammad Ali, leaving his fans to wonder, "Why is he doing this?" I think if you read the signs, he was going to eventually wear out his welcome. And this is coming from someone who always knelt at the Hendrix altar, so it pains me to say it. Faith No More has some lyrics in a song called "Star A.D." that makes me think of folks like Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and other rock icons who die young every time I hear them. "And when you die You'll become something worse than dead You'll become A legend" We have this tendency to make up the rest of the story as lost glory, but every rock star whose output went on to disappoint you - which is most of them sooner or later - was one who didn't die. And I'm not saying it's better that they died at all, but I tend to think the vast majority of them would have fallen far short of the fantasy that has been created for them had they lived. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynic Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 6 hours ago, Jakeboy said: incendiary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynic Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 The most impactful for me was Axis: simply because it was my first exposure beyond radio play. EL would soon become my goto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizanski Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 1 hour ago, LucSulla said: We have this tendency to make up the rest of the story as lost glory, but every rock star whose output went on to disappoint you - which is most of them sooner or later - was one who didn't die. Totally agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtrdaddy Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 On 9/13/2021 at 9:20 AM, Jakeboy said: It seemed to me that Jimi was moving to a funk-rock direction. The 70s was the decade of funk and I think he may have embraced that genre heavily. Hendrix liked to groove and can you imagine his incendiary guitar over some disco grooves? Who knows what would have transpired? He was going to join the Grateful Dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kizanski Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 28 minutes ago, gtrdaddy said: He was going to join the Grateful Dead. I would have killed him myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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