Hendrix

[luka]

i never listen to hendrix. theres never a moment in my life where that seems like an appealing prospect but one of my most intense
listening experiences was listening to voodoo chile not slight return the really long one on one of my first ever mushroom trips
one of those times when you find something real and true in a song but you will never access it again also one of those times
when the intensity of the thing is so much that your laughing becasue of the way they draw it out and have you on a string

 

[version]

97.

Jimi Hendrix, 'Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)'

The greatest guitar track ever recorded. As an intense and almost incomprehensible and insane tour de force it reminds me of the ‘Terminator 2 Remix’.

The fact that this was done in one take the morning after they recorded the turgid, endless ‘Voodoo Chile’ (with Stevie Winwood spunking his organ all over the shop) is amazing, really.

Not a lot of guitars on this list, but this tips the balance in one go.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Definitely listened to Hendrix a few times on teenage mushroom trips.

Craner's probably right about the 2 voodoo childs though

 

[luka]

hes not if you listen in the correct state

 

[version]

I like both of them, but Slight Return's definitely the better of the two.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Listening to hendrix on your first mushroom trips is (was) practically obligatory, like listening to Bob Marley when you first start smoking weed.

 

[luka]

id have to listen to them again to decide and theres absolutely no way im doing that.

 

[version]

I watched the rugby world cup then wandered around in the woods on my first mushroom trip.

 

[luka]

the final? which year was it? did we win?

 

[Benny Bunter]

I went in a local country pub on mine when I was 16 to have a pint and the dartboard and carpets started spinning, and I had to leave because I burst into hysterical laughter and everyone was staring at me

 

[version]

the final? which year was it? did we win?

I dunno what stage it was. The French were playing and they had this big guy with long hair and a beard that my friend kept referring to as Jesus.

 

[luka]

Chabal. he retired quite a long time ago but you started about age 15/16 anyway didnt you?

 

[Benny Bunter]

On another occasion round that time I was round my mates house who sat cupping a tomato in his hand and staring at it like it was a sacred object for about 2 hours. We may well have been listening to jimi hendrix at the time - lets just say we were

 

[version]

Chabal. he retired quite a long time ago but you started about age 15/16 anyway didnt you?

Yeah, it was over a decade ago.

 

[version]

On another occasion round that time I was round my mates house who sat cupping a tomato in his hand and staring at it like it was a sacred object for about 2 hours. We may well have been listening to jimi hendrix at the time - lets just say we were

I remember finding this mesh cloth on a dresser when I was on acid at a mate's and noticing if I moved the top layer and not the bottom then it looked like water in a video game. We all stood around taking turns at it.

 

[luka]

On another occasion round that time I was round my mates house who sat cupping a tomato in his hand and staring at it like it was a sacred object for about 2 hours. We may well have been listening to jimi hendrix at the time - lets just say we were

my friend used to call those 'fong objects'

 

[rubberdingyrapids]

i made friends listen to the stereo panning at the start of the axis and EL albums many times when i was a student.
i might start doing it again.