Re: my brain might melt today

[Moreen5000@xxxxxxx]

   Yeah that page of Phil Keaggys is definately an interesting read and well 
known to Hendrix fanatics like myself, and I wish Experience Hendrix would 
get around to a definative answer on the question ... I used to have those 
Glass Harp LP's with Keaggy on guitar, who's really quite a good guitar 
player and was definately the only thing good about Glass Harp as far as I 
remember. He later gave up rock fairly early on to make Christian music. I 
offed my Glass Harp LP's in the late 70's towards some Tages LP's or EP's 
cause I really didn't dig 'em all that much ... 
   As for Hendrix and his eclectic tastes, that's an understatement... 
there's a neat article in the first issue of Mojo Collections, on Jimi's 
record collection which Cathy Etchingham had Sothebys auction off back in 
1991, and is now owned by the Experience Music Project, where I imagine they 
have put it on display. It's a pretty varied collection too ... in amongst 
the expected Dylan, Albert King, Jimmy Reed, Cream, John Lee Hooker, Beatles, 
Lightnin' Hopkins, Electric Flag, Ray Charles, Richie - Havens, Ravi Shankar, 
Stones, Band, and Mayall LPs are these goodies ...

E Power Biggs - Bach on the Harpsichord
Afro Blues Quintet Plus One - Introducing
Bee Gees - s /t 
Bonzo Dog Band - The Donut in Grannys Greenhouse
Captan Beefheart & Magic Band - Safe as Milk
Byrds - Fifth Dimension, Younger Than Yesterday
Tim Buckley - Goodbye & Hello
Canned Heat - s /t
Johnny Cash -Folsom Prison
Spencer Davis Group - Autumn '66
Dr. John - Babylon
Free Spirits - Out of Sightand Sound
Friar Tuck - and His Psychedelic Guitar
Bobbi Gentry - Ode to Billy Joe
Sam Gopal - Escalator
Handel - Excepts from the Messiah
John Handy Quintet - The Second John Handy Album
George Harrison - Wonderwall Music
Pierre Henry - Le Voyage & D'Apres Le Libre Des Morts Tibetans
The Hollies - Sing Dylan
Gustav Holst - The Planets
Chuck Jackson - Encore
Love - Da Capo
Lovin' Spoonful - You're a Big Boy Now
Charles Lloyd Quartet - Journey Within
Mothers of Invention - Freak Out
Red Crayola - Parable of the Arable Land
Otis Redding - The Immortal
Santana - s / t
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Jimmy Smith - At Club Baby Grande,  Jimmy & Wes - The Dynamic Duo
Nina Simone - Pastel Blues,  'Nuff Said
Subbulakshmi - The Sounds of India's Greatest Singer
Temptations - Cloud Nine ,  Puzzle People
The Trip - soundtrack
Vanilla Fudge - s / t
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
The Zodiac Cosmic Sounds -  s /t

pretty eclectic, and yes he had 2 of his own " Are You experienced " and 
"Smash Hits " and according to Etchingham he was " terrible " about putting 
his records back in their sleeves, and if he did, they were usually in the 
wrong sleeves.

and for those not bored by this post already, here's a list of other folks 
Jimi mentioned digging in interviews to add to Zoot Horn Rollo and the 
Marmalade ...

George Harrison, Dylan, Peter Green, The Beatles, Clapton & Cream, Jack 
Casady - (Jefferson Airplane bassist ), Bearnie Leadon ( lead guitarist for 
the Flying Burrito Brothers ), Mountain, Chambers Brothers, Young Rascals, 
Larry Coryell, The Fugs, Duane Eddy, Brian Auger, Family, Procol Harum, 
Roland Kirk, The Move, Mothers of - Invention, Mozart, Bach, Steve Winwood, 
Traffic, Nina Simone, Soft Machine, Cactus, 
Big Brother & the Holding Company as well as Janis, Rick Derringer, Johnny 
Winter, 
Mike Bloomfield and the Electric Flag, Steve Stills, Jeff Beck, The Who, John 
Mayall,   
Chicago Transit Authority and their guitarist Terry Kath, Hollies, Charles 
Mingus,
The Ace of Cups ( a San Franciso based female vocal group ), Pink Floyd, 
Miles Davis,
Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Spirit and Randy California, Canned Heat, 
Denny Laine and the Moody Blues, Love, the Band, John Hammond, Albert King, 
Muddy Waters ...
absolutely sure I forgot someone ... maureen           
 





 

  
In a message dated 12/3/01 10:04:08 AM, BlackMonk@email.msn.com writes:

<< >Jimi dig think Billy
> was an exceptional guitar player and he did give Billy a pink Fender
> Stratocaster that Billy still has. I can't tell ya for sure if he did say
> they Billy was one of " America's Best Young Guitarists " or not, even tho
I
> saw him on the Tonite Show appearance in July '69 ( guest host Flip Wilson
> making a total ass outta himself ). Jimi did play " Lover Man " which he
> dedicated to Brian Jones. On Jimi's 2 Cavett Show appearances both also in
> 1969, I can't remember him saying it, and the show ( s ) with the
Sidewalks
> were back in '68.

Here's a page that disproves a variation on that story,
http://www.snopes2.com/music/artists/keaggy.htm . It says that he did talk
about Gibbons on the Cavett show though.

I've also seen it reported that he made similar comments about Zoot Horn
Rollo and the liner notes of the first album by Marmalade quote him as
praising "I See The Rain." If those are true, the man had pretty eclectic
taste >>