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<\/a>\nNo, not even this guy…<\/p>\n
Just kidding.\u00a0 This was his tool of choice:<\/p>\n Okay, I’m rambling and babbling again, but it’s been a while since I posted something here on this here blog here, so here.<\/p>\n Why am I bothering you with stupid “jokes” about Jimi Hendrix on this fine Thanksgiving day?<\/p>\n Well, you’re only wondering that under circumstances that are very unlikely to have coincided.<\/p>\n That pretty much just leaves me.\u00a0 Maybe Uncle Furry is reading this too.\u00a0 Hi Uncle Furry!<\/p>\n To answer the question nobody read above, it’s because I am in the process of “Mikeifying” my Jimi Hendrix music collection and getting it onto my iPod.\u00a0 I’ve already done the three “Experience” albums today, and I’m in the process of doing the much maligned “Voodoo Soup” compilation.<\/p>\n This CD is also swell.\u00a0 I didn’t know much about it back in 1995 when I bought it.\u00a0 I only knew that it was a compilation of tracks that Hendrix had left completed or unfinished before he could get around to making his next album.\u00a0 I didn’t know that these had been compiled from 3 posthumous albums put out by a producer who had hired musicians to “fill in” or replace some bass, drum and even guitar parts to make a string of posthumous Hendrix albums.<\/p>\n A dubious practice for sure, but I look at it like how Phil Spector killed that woman a few years ago<\/span> finished “Let It Be” for the Beatles.\u00a0 Phil, that ol’ ladykiller, made a listenable and enjoyable album out of some unfinished tracks and demos.\u00a0 I like “Let It Be” for what it is, even after hearing “Let It Be: Naked”.\u00a0 I don’t believe I’ve ever listened to “Let It Be” naked, however.<\/p>\n Anyway (remember folks, using that word means I’m a bad writer), some bloke (British for dude) named Alan Douglas went and “finished” a bunch of songs and milked them for all they were worth in the ’70s.\u00a0 This Voodoo Soup compilation has some of the more egregious trickery, fuckery and rookery removed, but the tracks “Room Full of Mirrors” and “Stepping Stone” do contain drumming by some dude who was in The Knack.<\/p>\n Ahem.<\/p>\n Also, apologies for using the term “rookery” above.\u00a0 It has nothing to do with the topic at hand.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nTHIS guy.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThis blog post is about the late great Jimi Hendrix, and his awesome talent with the Play-Doh Mop-Top play set.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nMan, no one could use that thing like he did.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nYikes!\u00a0 It’s VERY SCAAAAARY in German!!!<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nThat’s a picture of Jimi lighting his harmonica on fire.<\/p>\n\n
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\nI happen to like Voodoo Soup.\u00a0 It’s got all those essential vitamins that keep me repeatedly arriving at my job and doing my job like, you know, a zombie.<\/p>\n