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Through the clouds
With a circus mind
That's running wild
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
And fairy tales
That's all she ever thinks about
Riding with the wind
When I'm sad
She comes to me
With a thousand smiles
She gives to me free
It's alright, she says, it's alright
Take anything you want from me, anything
Anything
Fly on, little wing
I kinda wish this could go on about 10 minutes instead of just 2.
That's what the SRV version is for.
and as far as covers go, I've always quite liked this live version by The Gun Club
RIP Jimi and Jeffrey, and thank you, for everything
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stevesaw wrote:
Well - still building the big sailboat, but this spring I built a sailing dinghy that now resides in Quebec province; that one is named "Petite Aile"
I'm building a sailboat - might steal your name...
Well - still building the big sailboat, but this spring I built a sailing dinghy that now resides in Quebec province; that one is named "Petite Aile"
The four great lights of our times...
How many people have covered this? Don't know, actually. Had a CD with ten different artists playing Little Wing.
My kids have heard this million times: "If I hit the lottery., I'm buying a $2 million sailboat and naming her Little Wing."
I'm building a sailboat - might steal your name...
This is Hendrix at his finest. Well, maybe Voodoo Child (Slight Return) beats it by just the tiniest fraction of a point. Maybe.
I dunno, Machine Gun from the Band Of Gypsys album is the benchmark for me ... The groove between him, Buddy Miles, and Billy Cox on that track is just freaking phenomenal. The whole album is pretty stellar although not as commercially oriented and consequently not as popular, or commercially successful if you will, as most of his Jimi Hendrix Experience albums. And it was all captured live at the Fillmore East, New Years Eve '69/'70
How many people have covered this? Don't know, actually. Had a CD with ten different artists playing Little Wing.
My kids have heard this million times: "If I hit the lottery., I'm buying a $2 million sailboat and naming her Little Wing."
And no one has topped the original. This is so perfect.
a_genuine_find wrote:
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Hem - Half Acre
In this mix, perhaps an 11 is in order?
Interesting list. REM with Country Feedback would fit in nicely.
Are you sure you're hearing the same song?
8 makes sense, but 3? Possibly a typo on your part?
Hope he's having a great time up there! And thanks for bringing such great music to us.
My kids have heard this million times: "If I hit the lottery, I'm buying a $2 million sailboat and naming her Little Wing."
Tomasni wrote:
translation:
"My Frontal Lobotomy did not go well."
Just a millennial.
Nothing ever happened before they were born & if it did it was bad.
Funny, the same thing could be said about baby-boomers.
To be honest, sometimes a big bowl of Haagen-Dazs is just as fine . . . but not always. ; )
I'll jump in here for CoJo, knowing he'd probably think something similar should be said about "a big bowl" of something.
Now that would be cool; a new indica hybrid combining Haagen + Dazs. I'd blaze that bowl!!
To be honest, sometimes a big bowl of Haagen-Dazs is just as fine . . . but not always. ; )
...and what competition might Mr. Hendrix have won when he was 18 years old?
Right! Right? 8 bars in to the shortest and yet somehow one of the greatest guitar solos ever written and he (or someone) just decides to end it.
Was there anyone at any point who could have said, "You know Jimi, you've written a lot of great solos but something tells me this is one of the best. Maybe we should let it ride for a few more bars?"
I think the early cut-off is an essential part of experiencing the greatness of this song. Often it is better to get only a glimpse of perfection, than to be given all of it and allowing oneself to be overexposed to it.
Love this track. I've heard it performed at 4 different concerts, including Randy "sounds like Jimi" Hansen, Slow hand (with Robert Cray) , Paul "the Voice" Rogers and Steve "guitar" Miller.
10s across the board!
The original album version also gets a 10, if not just because of how beautiful the song is, because of how much of a 'staple' in rock/blues guitar it would become.
Long Live RP!
Right! Right? 8 bars in to the shortest and yet somehow one of the greatest guitar solos ever written and he (or someone) just decides to end it.
Was there anyone at any point who could have said, "You know Jimi, you've written a lot of great solos but something tells me this is one of the best. Maybe we should let it ride for a few more bars?"
There were other epic Hendrix fade outs which left us wanting. The ultimate was on Bold as Love. Just blazing, then gone away...
https://vimeo.com/164528604
Look, a temporal Nazi!
Just a millennial.
Nothing ever happened before they were born & if it did it was bad.
Look, a temporal Nazi!
Look out now!
So I was talking to the wife and we were discussing who you would choose if you could see anyone in concert. I know, it's dumb. But my choices came down to three: Janis, Jimi, and The Doors. I gotta go with Jimi here. Probably because at the end of the day I think he was the most other worldly talented and because between Jimi and the next amazing guitar player, there is so much distance.
I got to see The Doors but the wife got to see Jimi's last NA concert in LA. I think she won that one.
Thanx for introducing the Stevie Ray Vaughan version, in fact - Stevie himself is new to me
Lucky you! Enjoy the discovery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pO6yg9KBGU
Thanx for introducing the Stevie Ray Vaughan version, in fact - Stevie himself is new to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pO6yg9KBGU
So I was talking to the wife and we were discussing who you would choose if you could see anyone in concert. I know, it's dumb. But my choices came down to three: Janis, Jimi, and The Doors. I gotta go with Jimi here. Probably because at the end of the day I think he was the most other worldly talented and because between Jimi and the next amazing guitar player, there is so much distance.
So I was talking to the wife and we were discussing who you would choose if you could see anyone in concert. I know, it's dumb. But my choices came down to three: Janis, Jimi, and The Doors. I gotta go with Jimi here. Probably because at the end of the day I think he was the most other worldly talented and because between Jimi and the next amazing guitar player, there is so much distance.
Perfect poetry
Right! Right? 8 bars in to the shortest and yet somehow one of the greatest guitar solos ever written and he (or someone) just decides to end it.
Was there anyone at any point who could have said, "You know Jimi, you've written a lot of great solos but something tells me this is one of the best. Maybe we should let it ride for a few more bars?"
Yup. Leaves you wanting for more.
Same thing on Bold as Love, perhaps even more so. Listen to what he's doing when the fade comes around the 4:00 mark. Mind blowing.
Hi Laz! I've seen ABB a few times, and I dig Duane. No prob with him at all, loved him. Sex, drugs, & R n' R too!
Just saying why do we try to make larger gods out of those who were already gods when they were still with us on this rock? Aren't we all "divine" in our own way?
Yep this Jimi tune and the many others, I agree. Awesomely great stuff that not so many are making these days. Who among us doesn't miss them all enormously...like air or water? I hope we all get to drink some cold ones together in the next world...if there is one.
Hope you're dancing right now! Here you go! —->>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkdgJ_-Gg3Q
Duane on "Loan Me a Dime?" If that doesn't make you see god I don't know what could.
Everybody in my galactic presidential campain disagrees with you about Duane, but we agree with your position on the other great guitarists you name... we love this song by Hendrix... we love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll... we hope you are having a marvelous time right this minute LowPhreak...
Right! Right? 8 bars in to the shortest and yet somehow one of the greatest guitar solos ever written and he (or someone) just decides to end it.
Was there anyone at any point who could have said, "You know Jimi, you've written a lot of great solos but something tells me this is one of the best. Maybe we should let it ride for a few more bars?"
YES! 20 it is! be brave, just do it!
The Decemberists.
Limp Bizkit; Duh!
Yes, that is a glockenspiel. Apparently it was Hendrix playing it.
It's a 10.
Yah, right. Same goes for Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, et al.
Not sure if you're incredibly ignorant, or just a sad little troll, desperate for attention.
Maybe someone would take you seriously if you didn't rate virtually every song "sucko barfo".
Meh, Duane is lionized because he's dead. I'd put cats like Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Walter Becker, or Mark Knopfler up against him anyday. The list goes on.
Meh, Jimi is idolized because he is dead.
This guy is boring.
I'd agree with those picks (no pun intended).
Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck at 3 & 4, IMO.
Or maybe I'd put Page & Beck ahead of Allman, but it's kind of splitting hairs.
Here on Radio Paradise, we just heard the top two guitar players of all time— we heard Duane Allman, who is number two, with the Allman Brothers for the cover called "Trouble No More",
Meh, Duane is lionized because he's dead. I'd put cats like Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Walter Becker, or Mark Knopfler up against him anyday. The list goes on.
Pieter from Holland
I thinks so too
Not even wrong.
beats hell outa most 80s &90s crap/rap
What? THIS is the original. Recorded in Oct. 1967.
And it was followed by the howling rip rocking cover by Derek and the Dominoes on Layla.
I think Sting may have been in about 8th grade when Hendrix wrote this in Monterey.
Sting was born 10/2/1951, so he was about 15 or 16. And the post you replied to was a joke! But I liked your post anyway.
Not even wrong.
Here on Radio Paradise, we just heard the top two guitar players of all time— we heard Duane Allman, who is number two, with the Allman Brothers for the cover called "Trouble No More", and then we heard Jimi Hendrix, who is the number one player of all time...
as Rolling Stone describes Jimi Hendrix—
He had a kind of alchemist's ability; when he was on the stage, he changed. He physically changed. He became incredibly graceful and beautiful. It wasn't just people taking LSD, though that was going on, there's no question. But he had a power that almost sobered you up if you were on an acid trip. He was bigger than LSD.
What he played was fucking loud but also incredibly lyrical and expert. He managed to build this bridge between true blues guitar — the kind that Eric Clapton had been battling with for years and years — and modern sounds, the kind of Syd Barrett-meets-Townshend sound, the wall of screaming guitar sound that U2 popularized...
love this Hendrix song...
Oh most certainly....for the last 45 years!!
Ah! I saw what you did there...
What? THIS is the original. Recorded in Oct. 1967.
And it was followed by the howling rip rocking cover by Derek and the Dominoes on Layla.
I think Sting may have been in about 8th grade when Hendrix wrote this in Monterey.
Then let us all hope we all are stuck there for eternity. Without napkins :)
Shazam! Love it! Amen!
Eleventy one!
absolutely marvelous... love it...
time to light a match to your paper napkin...
Mitch Mitchell you led me by the arm decades back when it was all analogue/vinyl.
Blessings on the dear departed Maestro!!!!!
I might be alone here, but I just don't think Jimi Hendrix is much of a singer. He came up during the screech era, so I guess was a big deal at the time. Just doesn't travel well.
Best radio station on planet earth, bar none!
....don´t forget floyd.......agreed.......
One of my favourite Hendrix tunes.
Public announcement: Would the folks who ripped off our Grade 10 silk screen of Jimi, please give it back.
:-(
Yes, I know that was 1972 but frankly that was low, really low.
Romeo: A big howdy to all the friends in the hotel room!
One of my favorite tunes. Period.
Bummer 'bout the T, westslope. Praying for your karma...;-)
One of my favourite Hendrix tunes.
Public announcement: Would the folks who ripped off our Grade 10 silk screen of Jimi, please give it back.
:-(
Yes, I know that was 1972 but frankly that was low, really low.
Romeo: A big howdy to all the friends in the hotel room!