What do all the legal problems have to do with a great album?
Live at the Fillmore 1969-70 New Years Eve........best playing ever done by Hendrix and I was listening to Jimi before you were even alive son.
Calm down wes, this is the intra-web, & with all due respect, I am 40 (June 19th just gone) so unless you are in your 60's - I ain't your fucking
SON buddy.
You are going to have to concede here, that this is just your opinion.
I know better, & so do the multitude of music critics who have opined on the live shows that Hedrix performed during his, all but to short career.
On that
NYE in
NYC, he was tired, stressed out (due to not just his legal issues) as he was being hounded by the 'Black Panthers' to join their cause (now that he had a Black line up).
Hendrix was not stupid & knew what this could mean for him, he was already in the cross hairs, for being one of the leaders of the counter-culture that Nixon & the CIA were determined to nuke!! Plus being entangled in the civil rights movement (against his will) at the same time?? this was fucking his head up. Rioting in Watt's - Tanks on the streets, yeah he needed to be the new figure head for all that shit, of course he did (I could go on).......
His playing that night was flat & uninspired (with the exception of machine gun, & let's face it that was an anti-Vietnam composition)
his choice of scales during improvisation was limited to the Pentatonic, where as he used to venture into the 'Aeolian mode' a lot when he was cooking, his trade mark 'wide vibrato' was missing, & the playing of Miles on the drums was repetitive, not to mention that the timing was all over the shop (he was high FFS, it was NYE) Billy Cox was having a nervous break down as he knew they were being followed (turns out by the CIA) & would at times hide in his hotel room refusing to come out (during that period leading up to the show in question) so he was not firing on all cylinders either.
The term 'going through the motions' (for that night at the Filmore East) is defiantly in context, he was not even getting paid for the show FFS!! they were getting $100,000 + a show during 68/69
Hendrix was a wreak emotionally & physically, look at what happened a few weeks later at the 'isle of White festival', he just violently threw his Strat down on the stage & walked off, sound like a Guitarist that was in the zone & playing his best shit??
Here is what his playing should have sounded like, on fire & heading for outer-space!! & it just didn't at the Fillmore (listen to how tight the drums & bass are in this clip & tell me Miles & Cox were on point that night, yeah right-O) & these are just some random guys in a small club some-place!!
as said "stick to BB'ing Wes" you could have been listening to Hendrix, since before Hendrix, was born, you still don't know shit about his playing.
There I said it, deal with it.....................
PT
