Jimi Hendrix Power of Soul 12/31/69

Fillmore East 1st Show

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[drjimiboy69]

stomp ass, pimp sawggering, wah wah saturated, hard message funk...just a harbinger of the final 9 months of inspired, driven, self-actualized cultural productions bestowed on us by the magic man himself...tapping the axis and collective soul of the living, the ancestors, and lives yet to be lived. the beginning and the end.

[nationalparksign]

It's just stupid how good this trio sounds.

[badmuddy]

@dannon2010 a common misconception; buddy was a FAR better player than the public's perception of him. the guy COULD play AND swing (despite the post- "concrete" foot putdowns}. he pointed the direction that mitch cleverly picked up on & re-incorporated into the band. plus, mitch had the originality that jimi's band relied on, he was a sum-of-all-equal-parts kinda player, but never at the expense of adventure, THE ingredient that made jimi's music so singular amongst the average...

[drjimiboy69]

@badmuddy You phrase it well. In order to return to the R&B/soul foundation that shaped him, JMH had to move away from it in order to synthesize it with other incarnations of black/Euro/world music. Cutting his teeth with the soul circuit, JMH destroyed the rock world and then came home a fully developed artist, reinventing black music like John Coltrane would if he had the black strat, the wah pedal, and the Marshall amps. Mitch, Buddy? Love and respect for both is called for.

[badmuddy]

jimi really needed mitch's more colourful/toneful style of playing to support his reaching for the stratosphere. personally, i always thought that billy cox was the glue that made mitch swing more, while increasing the throb factor of the music. he's one of my all-time fave rock bassists, & VASTLY underrated. the band's last incarnation, which brought mitch back into the fold, were easily the most cohesive in terms of covering the spread of material from the jhe & the bog's...

[boxingin]

This is good but the version from the 2nd show is far better.

[zwwwz12]

2.19 The best Hendrix lick ever.

I started listening at this when I was I twelve. Back in 63.

He was god and will be.

[74choppzilla]

@dannon2010

mitch had a great quote about buddy"people thought i had some animosty towards buddy but it was far from it. the guy was like william the concreter!"

[thinlizzy44]

I wish Band of Gypsys would've stayed together. Jimi was bassically told to get back together with the white guys. Noel punked out, and unfortunately Jimi didnt' get to complete the new ideas he had in his head. Mitch and Miles are different drummers completely; I always thought Mitch was kind of choppy like Keith Moon, filling in spots all the time, while Buddy chugged the sound along. Buddy was right for the sound of Band of Gypsys and there was never a better live performance than this.

[dannon2010]

@billywhizz1984 yeah, he's no Mitch..that's for damn sure...it's kinda painful BOG doing EXP stuff at times...BOG is typically more grounded in Soul, Funk and R&B....but the famous New Year's Machine Gun is basically the apex of Western music.

[blackstrat6897]

@billywhizz1984 BoG made some of the best because of the connection with the roots of them all. Most of the songs that BoG did is not be Mitch's style imo.

[billywhizz1984]

Great song, one of my BoG faves, that said Buddy Miles ain't no Mitch Mitchell....