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I signed in facebook the other day and found a post in Gramatik’s page saying...
“If you still don’t have the new Jimi Hendrix album, I don’t know what the *** are you doing with your life.”
And i kept thinking... What does that Slovene say again?
I searched and after all, Dennis Jasarevic was right!
On the 5th of March 2013, a brand new Jimi Hendrix album was released.
“People, Hell and Angels” is the album’s title...
recorded during 1968-1969, after “Electric Ladyland”.
The band is composed by the famous Hendrix gang…
Billy ***, Buddy Miles, Mitch Mitchell...
while Lonnie Youngblood penetrates the band in vocals and saxophone…
Albert Allen in vocals too, as well as other friends.
Hendrix sounds distant from his rock star image...
loves playing blues, he also remixes Elmore James…
while he experiments with funky pieces and brass instrumentation!
As we know, Jimi had only released 3 albums during his lifetime…
but he had left material for 12 more which were released the following decades.
Like the other albums, “People, Hell and Angels”...
is a sample of the music he would play in 1971, 1972... if he would be alive.
I’ve something more to tell you, though…
a telegram appeared on display at the Hard Rock Cafe in Prague...
that Hendrix had sent on October 21, 1969.
So, what was it about?
"This weekend, we’re recording an LP. So, if you want, come and play the bass. Peace…"
Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Tony Williams.
Those three giants of music…
the best acid rock guitarist of all ages…
the greatest jazz trumpetist...
responsible for changing, 3 times at least, the history of music as we know it…
and one of the most important jazz drummers during the 60's, 70's and 80's…
were going to record something altogether...
And who’s the one they wanted for playing the bass?
Paul McCartney!
The 20th century’s phenomenon of pop synthesis and more…
Paul McCartney never received the telegram...
as he was in Scotland at the time, dealing with the Beatles’ breakup.
His spokesman answered, though, that Paul was expected to return in 2-3 weeks.
The others had never met, at the end and… 11 months later, Jimi passed away.
I could never guess the result of this partnership…
I’m convinced, though, that if we had listened to their notes, we’d live in a different world now!
Next week we’ll be here, together…
we’ll surely find something to talk about again…
Until then, farewell…