Jimi Hendrix. Monday Morning Blues. Rare recording wmv

[swiggy58a]

To be such a "great guitarist"; Jimi Hendrix made some of the crappiest, sloppiest recordings I've ever heard! Guess that's why I've never listened to him much. Beatles and Stones made better records than this 5 or 6 years earlier!

[magslave]

I cannot be certain that these recordings are from n.y.c. 1964, but mike ephron tells the story on the back cover of 'jimi hendrix at his best', vol.2 released by saga records. The other songs include 'down mean blues', 'feels good', 'fried cola', 'jimi is tender too', and 'madagascar'.

[haulofrecords]

The congas start out fighting the slow blues guitar but eventually Hendrix gives in and plays in time to the nutty conga beat.

[sharpstat]

Sounds like it's from the Mike Ephron tapes! That same slightly out of tune keyboard can be heard. If you've ever heard those recordings you'd remember the keyboards.

[colyzee]

@sharpstat It is indeed from the Mike Ephron tapes.Do you have copies of any of the other tracks from the tapes, Namely: She Went To Bed With My Guitar Free Thunder Cave Man Bells Strokin' A Lady On Each Hip Baby Chicken Strut Down Mean Blues Feels Good Fried Cola Jim Is tender Too Madagascar Young Jim Lift off Swifts Wing Spiked With Heady Dreams Giraffe

[blackdude57]

@colyzee is that jerry velez playing shit on the congas ??? so thats how he was sounding at woodstock no wonder they shut them all off its crap he is playing in those blues (i mean the conga guy ) not jimi

[colyzee]

@blackdude57 I think this is Juma Sultan on the congas, who also played with jerry velez on congas at Woodstock. As far as I know the Woodstock lineup rehearsed for less than two weeks before the festival and never really got it together, plus jimi was up 3 days straight, which didn't help any, after leaving the stage he then collapsed with exhaustion.

[blackdude57]

@colyzee If you have noticed they dont sound on any recording from woodstock hahaha if this was the way they were playing its justified

[Folkmill]

@sharpstat What you say implies that it may be a Fender Rhodes electric piano. These generate notes by way of reeds. The upside of this is that they don't need to be plugged in, the downside is that they can't really be re-tuned. It is possible that it was a tone-wheel Hammond being plugged through a low quality, or overloaded, electric system and that this slowed down the tone generator wheel, leaving it slightly flat across its range. Now, whoever has the sleeve notes, quote me wrong...

[elecktrick9s]

@sharpstat yeah i have some lp's called the genuis of hendrix vol. 1,2 &3 - all with those keys, bongos and clean strat- maybe recorded up in woodstock? the albums claim to be recorded in nyc '64 but i think not

[snapperjohn1000]

its rare because it sort of sucks. Like man jimi did better stuff than this.

[colyzee]

@snapperjohn1000 The reason I uploaded it is because I thought people would like to hear Hendrix's lesser known tracks, wheather it's any good or not is neither here nor there. Show me a good track of Hendrix that I haven't heard. If someone offered you a crap painting done by Van Gogh, do you think you would say, No I don't want that it's crap.Personally I would rather have a crap painting done by Hendrix, than any painting done by Van Gogh, without taking monetary value into account of course.

[MarnieDK]

How do you get these rare recordings? Are they gathered on a rare album?

[colyzee]

@MarnieDK This particular track came off a 4cd set my brother found in a 2nd hand shop, you will probably never find something like this for sale as new, your best bet is to look in charity shops, I think anyone that has these won't be selling them. It's not that they are worth a lot, they are just nice to have.

P.S. the set is titled "The Jimi Hendrix Story " 1991 distrubited by The Hughes Leisure Group, Australia

[MarnieDK]

@colyzee Thanks a lot! Great answer, great upload, great f-ing music!! Thanks for taking your time!

[PieterdeRooijHolland]

@MarnieDK : these 1969-recordings were released in 1972 on the album 'Jimi Hendrix at his Best, Vol.2' on Sagapan Records. I bought this album around 1978, this one: w w w .discogs.com/Jimi-Hendrix-Jimi­-Hendrix-At-His-Best-Volume-2/­release/1471649 . Also released with other sleeves. Some of the material appears on sets like the one mentioned by Colyzee and I've also seen some of this material in a dutch archive on a Hendrix-lp set titled 'Baroque Impressions' (but no trace of it on the web!).

[sigimaster14]

i got this LP ^^ with a lot more rare songs

[Drakula00]

1,716 wiews and i rated it as 10th . Jimi R.I.P. ! gr8 song btw !

[arjhendrix]

can not believe that i'm the first to rate after some 200 views....sheesh@peeps.

good one bro and gl to you.

RIP James

[colyzee]

@arjhendrix thanx dude, I'm just about to upload a version of Voodoo Chile, It's just over 7mins long and its slightly different from any version I've heard, have a listen and tell me what you think ( maybe its not as rare as I suspect )

[jimihen234]

hell yeah luv it :-)) good find man. beautiful

[colyzee]

@jimihen234 yea, its a great track, my brother found a 4 cd set in a second hand shop a few years ago, I think he paid £10 for them. Its hard to believe Hendrix was only 27 ( same as yourself, going by your profile ) when he died, he really did pack a lot into his time here. The commercial, good quality stuff that sells is only the half of it.