The idea of trying "to settle things down a little bit" gets the mind of Cavett going toward the idea of human beings settling down, and later he asks Jimi if he sees himself getting married. When Jimi says he hopes not, Cavett delivers a punchline: "But you'll never get a situation comedy on television." That's funny, because sitting on the other side of Hendrix is Robert Young, the father of "Father Knows Best."
Young looks like an funny throwback to an earlier time, but Hendrix died a year later, and Young lived for 3 more decades.
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No denying Hendrix’s genius, or his overwhelming influence on rock and on guitarists, but most of his output was unlistenable noise. He did some great standard blues tunes, like “My Friend,” and some great melodic rock tunes, like “Angel.” But, too much wild noise generation. Only two tunes get regular play on Classic Rock channels: “All Along the Watchtower” and “The Wind Cries Mary.” Like every electric guitarist (yes, I did that, too), I wore out the records studying him.
"but Hendrix died a year later, and Young lived for 3 more decades"
Those bourgeois values are so overrated.
There is order in chaos that is discernible to the privileged, perceived as noise by others.
Live fast, die young, is a youthful, perhaps green, impulse.
Letterman once said, "I'm not a talk show host, but I play one on television."
Jimi Hendrix appears to have left behind two children born out of wedlock. As he died without a will and without having taken a paternity test, neither inherited a dime.
"but Hendrix died a year later, and Young lived for 3 more decades"
He just saw the wall, and drugs helped him find the other side.
Good does young. Young dies old.
The impressive part about Hendrix is that he created his sound with fairly primitive equipment, by today's standards.
Imagine how different our world would be if Hendrix survived and got the part of Marcus Welby M.D. instead of Robert Young.
Would love to know how you came to this particular video this morning?
What a beautiful soul. All he was trying to do was tell the truth. Take a question seriously and answer it. He seemed utterly without guile, but who knows? Dick Cavett was certainly working hard to keep the conversation going.
Hendrix is famous for his guitar pyrotechnics, but I have one of the innumerable greatest hits CDs and it's full of what can ony be described as mellow tunes. I find it interesting that as far as I can tell, his most covered song is Little WIng.
---Only two tunes get regular play on Classic Rock channels
Maybe that's true, ST, I wouldn't know. But the whole of Electric Ladyland is gorgeous, varied, and beautiful. And many of the individual songs off the albums before that were too. Little Wing. Gold and Rose (One Rainy Wish). A unique talent, much more than mere noise generation!
"That's why I hate compliments. Compliments are so embarrassing, sometimes, because you know the truth, really... It's like a circus that might come into town. So they go feed on that; and they fade away, and feed on the next thing. But it's all right, it's part of life. I'm diggin' it myself."
Cavett was probably more comfortable talking to Robert Young. Which shows how old fashioned he was, despite his age.
So, Hendrix died in 1970, took too many sleeping pills with alcohol by mistake. Only 27. Sad.
Also in this interview: Dick Cavett said that Jimi Hendrix was considered one of the world's best guitarists. Hendrix responded by saying, "How about one of the best sitting in this chair.". Very humble and completely charming.
Other posters have mentioned "Little Wing" and "Angel". Another one of my favorites is "May this be Love".
SRV did Little Wing better than Hendrix.
Couldn't be that great, William50, because I don't even know who or what SRV is. Clapton and his Layla band did it and did it well, but, for me, it still didn't match the Hendrix original.
And Cavett is still alive!
SRV did Little Wing as a pure tribute to Hendrix.
SRV, Stevie Ray Vaughan
Cavett will be 90 this year. He seems even older because he got his network talk show when he was 33 and seems to have lived in people's minds for over 56 years.
Incredibly Cavett and Elvis were pretty close in age. Cavett is about 2 years younger.
‘I’m the one who has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.’ - Jimi
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench , a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. Oh, and there's a dark side to it, too."
-Hunter S. Thompson
Bod Dylan wrote All Along The Watchtower. The Jimi Hendrix Experience only covered it. As did many others. It was an astonishing cover. What set it apart wasn’t the song, nor Hendrix’s voice (which was certainly a fine singing voice). It was his unique and revolutionary voice as spoken through his guitar.
More than any other power trio Redding and Mitchell were keeping up with Hendrix. The Police were more equal as musicians (Sting is an outstanding songwriter but Summers and Copeland are both exceedingly gifted musicians, and both were much better known than Sting before Copeland formed that band). Likewise with Cream, Clapton was if anything less well known that Baker or Bruce, who were arguably even better musicians that Clapton. And in that power trio Bruce did most of the vocals and wrote most of the good songs. It was formed as a super group from known elements.
Jimi Hendrix had been in the Isley Brothers and done a few things in his native America, but had not really been taken much notice right of until he got discovered by Chas Chandler, associated with The Animals, who brought him to London. London got what New York initially missed. That lit up his road to stardom but it wasn’t his singing voice or his songwriting that was propelling him. It was a unique and never quite since replicated way of approaching the electric guitar (Prince was perhaps the closest?), like the high wire act in acircus. The thing is that a high wire act can stand alone a part from a circus, between a couple of sky scrapers for example, whereas for the regular acrobats it’s harder to find an audience without being a part of the big show.
In 1966, Hendrix, Redding and Mitchell signed an agreement giving Michael Jeffrey and Chas Chandler (managers and producers) copyright to the material produced on the Experience recordings. Added to this, Jeffrey was alleged to have stolen most of the band's earnings. When Hendrix died, he had $20,000 in the bank and a lot of debts.
Shouting Thomas said...
No denying Hendrix’s genius, or his overwhelming influence on rock and on guitarists, but most of his output was unlistenable noise..... too much wild noise generation.
Funny, I feel the same about J.S. Bach. Different notes for different folks, and so on and so forth and shooby dooby dooby.
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