Best Hendrix Song

[Shelly]

Alice in Chains Unplugged is awesome. One of the best ones recorded. We have the cd and DVD.

back to Hendrix...

[Guru of Nothing]

And not one person has mentioned The Wind Cries Mary.

[baseline bum]

Voodoo Child ... Castles Made of Sand is a close second.

[MannyIsGod]

I was thinking that GoN. It's up there though.

[T Park]

Voodoo Child

who is right here, me or Manny????

[MannyIsGod]

I am right, it's Voodoo Chile

[T Park]

haha, I knew that woudl come.


Bum, you sure you got that right? Manny is IMO one of the better musicly knowledgeable guys here, so im gonna trust him.

[Guru of Nothing]

Manny is IMO one of the better musicly knowledgeable guys here,

I would berate my own children for such abuse of the English language.

[T Park]

MORE MUSICLY KNOWLEDGABLE GUYS HERE


Damn. If I had known there would've been a test, I would've studied more.

[desflood]

Musically

[ClintSquint]

I like Purple Haze.

[IcemanCometh]

castles made of sand

[mookie2001]

voodo child

purple haze

little wing

[mookie2001]

true
but they do fall in the sea
eventually

[T Park]

Now manny, Mookie said Voodo Child.

I mean come on, whats going on.....

[mookie2001]

its both man
both
child is different
and traditionally live

[Guru of Nothing]

"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" is both one of Jimi Hendrix's best-known and influential songs and, at the same time, one of his most confusing, with the le being rendered several different ways. There are two similarly named tracks listed on the Jimi Hendrix Experience's third album, Electric Ladyland, "Voodoo Chile," a 15-minute recording that took up most of the first side of the first disc on the original double-LP release, and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," a five-plus-minute song that ends the album. That's right, the first one is spelled "Chile" with an "e," and the second "Child" with a "d." This is the way Hendrix himself spelled the les in his handwritten credits for the album, which were reproduced in the CD booklet of the 1997 reissue. Both tracks feature what is essentially the same composition musically, a blues progression with a chorus in which Hendrix declares himself to be a voodoo chile (or child). But the lyrics are otherwise different, as are the performances and some of the musical elements. Both tracks were recorded on the same day, May 3, 1968, albeit at different recording sessions, at the Record Plant in New York. Hendrix arrived at the studio early in the morning following a night spent at Steve Paul's the Scene, a nearby club. He and Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience had had a falling-out the day before, and he had drafted Jack Casady, bass player for Jefferson Airplane, for the session, as well as Steve Winwood, organist for Traffic, along with regular Experience drummer Mitch Mitc . This pickup group recorded the lengthy "Voodoo Chile," which was designed to sound like even more of an after-hours jam than it really was, as Hendrix later overdubbed crowd sounds to complete the club atmosphere, finishing the session at 9:45 a.m. Later on May 3, Hendrix returned to the Record Plant with Mitc and a reconciled Redding. The group's publicist had arranged for ABC-TV to film the group recording, and they obligingly cut "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" before the cameras. (The footage was subsequently lost.) For this version, Hendrix began with a new guitar riff played with a wah-wah pedal. It was a sound that would be borrowed by the Temptations and other R&B performers, leading to its becoming the primary motif in Isaac Hayes' Academy Award-winning theme from Shaft several years later. Hendrix also sang different lyrics from those he had sung that morning. The earlier words were a combination of old blues motifs, science fiction references, and even a paraphrase of William Blake. The new ones were even more gargantuan ("I stand up next to a mountain/Chop it down with the edge of my hand") and ominous ("If I don't meet you no more in this world/I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late," which turned out to be almost the last words sung on Hendrix's last studio album before his death). "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" was released on Electric Ladyland in October 1968. The album topped the U.S. charts and sold over a million copies. Hendrix performed "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" frequently at his concerts, and after his early death live versions frequently turned up on posthumous record releases. The song has earned a handful of covers over the years, the most prominent being the one by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble on their 1984 Couldn't Stand the Weather album. There has been considerable confusion about the le, which has been rendered on Hendrix records and other releases by its correct name, as "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)," as "Voodoo Child," and as "Voodoo Chile," plus other slight variations. But no matter the spelling and whether or not the parenthetical sub le is included, the recordings are generally of the shorter, more properly spelled "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)," not "Voodoo Chile."

[mookie2001]

hyeah thats exactly what i said
but different

[baseline bum]

puta madre

[T Park]

Son of a .


T Park was right the first time.


gracias

[timvp]

Manny just got owned by T Park.

I guess he isn't the better musicly knowledgeable guy he's made out to be.

[MannyIsGod]

you guys.

which has been rendered on Hendrix records and other releases by its correct name, as "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return),

[Mark in Austin]

for me, Stevie Ray Vaughan did for Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) what Hendrix did for Dylan's Watchtower:

He made it his own.

[MannyIsGod]

Sometimes I do a Dylan song and it seems to fit me so right that I figure maybe I wrote it. Dylan didn't always do it for me as a singer, not in the early days, but then I started listening to the lyrics. That sold me.

— Jimi Hendrix, from Beat Instrumental magazine, 1969.

[MannyIsGod]

I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way. Funny though, his way of doing it and my way of doing it weren't that dissimilar, I mean the meaning of the song doesn't change like when some artists do other artists' songs. Strange though how when I sing it I always feel like it's a tribute to him in some kind of way.

— Bob Dylan, from the liner notes to the Biograph CD box set, © 1985 CBS Inc.