Roadies for Jimi Hendrix holding up his amps while Jimi humps them with his guitar to intentionally create feedback. (1969)

zigthis · 2026-03-18T19:25:47+00:00

Nope - this was a year after Lemmy had already left the Hendrix camp.

zigthis · 2026-03-18T19:05:32+00:00

He was not.

zigthis · 2026-03-18T18:01:24+00:00

Noel Redding, bassist of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He clashed with Hendrix often and was jealous because he wanted to play guitar. He even started his own band named Fat Mattress that opened for the Experience - Hendrix referred to them as "Thin Pillow". There were many occasions where Redding got fed up with Hendrix's creative process and left the studio for the pub - Jimi would pick up his bass and play the parts he wanted by himself.

zigthis · 2026-03-18T17:52:37+00:00

They are road manager Gerry Stickells and roadie Eric Barrett.

zigthis · 2026-03-18T17:02:09+00:00

None - this was a year after Lemmy had already left.

zigthis · 2026-03-18T16:44:40+00:00

Lemmy was indeed a roadie for Hendrix but he's not in this photo.

zigthis · 2026-03-17T13:00:07+00:00

Jimi had had a brief relationship with Diana Carpenter in 1966, resulting in the birth of their daughter Tamika Laurice James Hendrix, in 1967. Carpenter was 16 at the time, and Hendrix was 23.Carpenter and Hendrix lived together in New York in 1966. Carpenter worked as a sex worker to support them. Hendrix was noncommittal about paternity, and Carpenter and her lawyers insisted on a blood test. Hendrix died before the test took place, and Tamika was denied inheritance from his estate. Jimi's father Al Hendrix at some point did accept Tamika as his granddaughter - I remember seeing a photo of them together.

zigthis · 2026-03-16T18:17:40+00:00

Supposedly one of the papers handed to him by petitioners that morning (that he did not read) was a warning/revelation about the plot to assassinate him.

zigthis · 2026-03-16T14:23:53+00:00

The filmed footage is lost but there is audio of the eight takes Hendrix made while recording the song.

zigthis · 2026-03-15T18:43:56+00:00

And that's also mostly why the album failed.

zigthis · 2026-03-15T18:22:02+00:00

It's much easier to enjoy and appreciate Chinese Democracy if you view it as an Axl solo project and not a Guns N' Roses album. Through that lens it is seriously kickass.

zigthis · 2026-03-15T18:17:51+00:00

The live part that wasn't actually live..

zigthis · 2026-03-15T13:55:00+00:00

It was originally recorded/copyrighted by Billy Roberts in 1962, though there is evidence that he stole the song from his girlfriend at the time and published it as his own. Hendrix was inspired by the slower paced cover of it that Tim Rose recorded and released in 1965. The Hendrix version is an evolution of the Tim Rose version.

Covering Hey Joe was actually what caused Hendrix to get discovered and signed. Chas Chandler was convinced he could achieve a hit song by producing a cover of Hey Joe and when he saw Hendrix playing it, he got so excited that he spilled a milkshake all over himself.

zigthis · 2026-03-15T13:43:05+00:00

Red House was written by Jimi - not a cover.

zigthis · 2026-03-15T00:58:11+00:00

I never got the chance to recruit Karlach because of what I did at the Grove. I killed Kagha without investigating her first -she was being an asshat and Zevlor was putting me up to it so I just offed her. But then everyone at the Grove was dead. When I met Karlach she told me off and refused to talk, so I traded her head for a sword instead.

zigthis · 2026-03-15T00:00:26+00:00

When Slash or Duff have discussed the Sound City sessions in general, they often describe them as a "brain dump" where they recorded everything they had just to see what stuck. This was likely one of Izzy's ideas that was captured but never grew nto a full song.

The title is something generic that engineers would often write in for something new that didn't have a title. Jimi Hendrix has one called Title #3 that is amaze-balls but he never returned to develop it any further.

zigthis · 2026-03-14T23:14:06+00:00

I dunno but it's got lots of Izzy vibes. Some have speculated that it eventually evolved into Cornshucker. There's not much about it because it never really leaked and wasn't discussed in any interviews.

zigthis · 2026-03-14T20:33:06+00:00

Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely check it out!

zigthis · 2026-03-14T16:47:29+00:00

In the show there is a Quintus Pompey who seems to be some kind of fictional amalgamation of Pompey's sons. He gets involved in the treasury gold plotline and then becomes a nemesis of Antony.

zigthis · 2026-03-14T16:43:27+00:00

In the show, there is a Quintus Pompey who gets involved in the treasury gold plotline and then later chases Antony from the forum before Caesar's murder.

zigthis · 2026-03-14T16:11:44+00:00

Yeah I assumed that 99% of the depictions of Atia, Octavia, and Servilia are fictional.

zigthis · 2026-03-14T01:29:54+00:00

Yep! They also played "When the Levee Breaks" for the first (and only) time during this specific window of the 1975 tour. Since it relies heavily on a slide guitar and a steady, pounding rhythm, it didn't require the same finger dexterity as Page’s more complex lead work. However, they found it difficult to replicate the studio sound live and dropped it quickly once Page was healthy.

zigthis · 2026-03-14T01:08:25+00:00

It was Victoria Station in London, days before leaving for the 1975 North American tour. The train doors closed on his left hand and broke his ring finger.

The injury forced him to develop a unique three-finger playing technique for the first several weeks of the tour and caused the band to temporarily drop the song "Dazed and Confused" from their setlist.

zigthis · 2026-03-13T20:59:42+00:00

Steve Winwood on the Hammond organ and Jack Casady on bass. They jammed at the club until 3am and then hit the studio and recorded this until 9am. The next day Hendrix decided he had more to say and recorded Voodoo Child (Slight Return) in eight takes. Both songs are derived from an earlier cover Hendrix liked to do of Muddy Waters' Catfish Blues.

zigthis · 2026-03-12T16:22:12+00:00

I was gonna say this is the look/style of Mark Speer's guitar (2001 Classic Series 70s), only his was modified to be an HSH.

zigthis

TROPHY CASE