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Jimi Hendrix (with Band of Gypsys) - Who Knows (1970).

Date: January 28, 1970.

Venue: Madison Square Garden, New York, USA.

Jimi Hendrix - guitar
Billy Cox - bass
Buddy Miles - drums

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music".

Born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the Chitlin' Circuit, earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later with Little Richard, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965. He then played with Curtis Knight and the Squires before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by Linda Keith, who in turn interested bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals in becoming his first manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with the Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached number one in the U.S.; it was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his first and only number one album. The world's highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.

Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He helped to popularize the use of a wah-wah pedal in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone commented: "Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began."

Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the Pop Musician of the Year, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the Performer of the Year. Disc and Music Echo honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. Rolling Stone ranked the band's three studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth greatest artist of all time.
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Simán el tudom képzelni nyolcvanévesen, hiába csináltak belőle csillogó rock and roll-ikont, gyorsan kiégő show-business üstököst, közhelyes őrült zsenit: sokkal több volt puszta spektákulumnál (meg persze, kevesebb is – jó az úgy). Dekonstruálta a bluest, aztán újra összerakott valamit, ami egészen más volt (és lényegében ugyanaz) – mondhatnám rá, hogy posztmodern gitáros, ha ennek lenne bármi értelme. Utolsó lemeze, a Band of Gipsys – amit már nem az Experience-szel csinált – az addigi zenéjéhez képest is más irányba indult. Piszok jó lett volna hallani, merre, de nem hallhatjuk.
Bulik második harmadában a legjobb feltenni, mikor a társaság már túljutott a kezdeti felszínes ökörködésen, és éppen a világot készül megváltani, de még nem jutott el a „minden mindegy, ki tud szarabbat?” obligát szakaszáig. Olyankor jön el az ő ideje, a (szerintem) legnagyobb gitárosé, a zambo Jimié (nem összekeverendő a Zámbó Jimmyvel), hogy a lelkünkbe vijjogjon, zakatoljon és vonyítson, ízekre bontsa a dallamokat, szétkalapálja a ritmusokat, és az egészet – mint egyszeri cigányember a dobozba zárt ördögöt – minél jobban fickándozik, annál jobban rázza.
Vagy egyedül kell hallgatni, lehetőleg éjszaka.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_of_Gypsys
Simán el tudom képzelni nyolcvanévesen: már nem tépi a fogával a húrokat, mert nincsen már foga, nem térdel le, hogy felgyújtsa a gitárját (micsoda bénázás volt az a gyújtófolyadékkal!), mert nem bírná a dereka. Szikár, sőt göthös vénembernek képzelem, tökkopasznak – mikor hatvan körül észrevette, hogy hullik a haja, tarra vágta, úgy maradt. De az is lehet, hogy dagadt. Vagy átlagos testalkatú (bár ezt valahogy nem hiszem: legyen szélsőséges, ha már kitalálom, milyen). Meglehet, már ülve gitározik, egy bárszéken, egy fotelben, vagy egy tolókocsiban. És biztos, hogy egészen mást, egészen máshogyan, mint akkor, mint a végén, 1970-ben.
És biztos, hogy még mindig ő a legjobb.
Nyolcvanévesen is.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.konok/posts/pfbid0Hn1VXL6yzkQkRihMU6FyxR2QyQ7GxNZgsHWWgAi6eQMww14SSdVw5mPbJtGsQ4Kql
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They don't know
They don't know
Like I know
Like I know
Do you know
They don't know
I don't know
I don't know
What my baby
What my baby
Put on down
Put on down
What my baby
What my baby
Put on down baby
Put on down now
I just came back from
I don't know
I can't count it
I can't count it
I just came back in town
They don't know
I'm lookin' for my seller
I don't know my baby
Have you seen her
Have you freed her yeah
Have you seen her
Oooh hhhooo
Talkin' about my baby
Goin' down
Talkin' about my baby

[solo break]

I just came in
I just came in baby
I just came in
I just came in
Spread the magic honey
All in my bed
She got chains, attached to my head
Talkin' about
Talkin' about
Talkin' about my baby
I don't know about it

[solo break]

They don't know, what I know
They don't know, like I know
All the time been hangin' around
All the time I hang around
She didn't know
Ahh she didn't care
She didn't know
She didn't care
And she go walkin' down the street singin'
Everybody da
Da da dada da doo doo
[etc. [scat singing]]

They don't know
Nobody knows
They don't know
Just don't know
Da da da
[etc. [scat singing]]

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jimihendrix/whoknows.html