Re: Laptops Hendrix

[Rev Fever <revfever@ubergadget.com>]

On Jun 14, 2007, at 11:07 AM, midifriedchicken@comcast.net wrote:

> Would he smash his laptop? Cause that would be cool.

Indeed. But, no burning though. Our air is bad enough as it is. :-)

And today, not entirely cost prohibitive either, since older laps can  
be purchased for relatively cheap.
Maybe even a tax write off too, as a "performance expense"? OK.  I  
will stop now...:-)

-Rev. Fever

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> From: "samba -" <sambacomet@hotmail.com>
>
> >
> > Hendrix was a very important part of my life,I saw him more than  
> once
> > first time at age 13. But I must say speculation about what he  
> would ,and
> > would not have used if he were alive seems kinda silly to me.  
> Some think he
> > used whatever was cutting edge,perhaps so but his use of chords and
> > knowledge of theory don't seem to reflect that at all,his harmony  
> knowlegde
> > was pretty basic,nowhere near the cutting edge.Of course he went  
> beyond
> > edges all together with pure soud explorations.Hard to put in a  
> neat box.
> > Miles is known to have been on various cutting edges alll his  
> life,but did
> > his actual playing do that? I would say not,his  
> compsotion,arragement
> > presentation did,though often by drawing on what was happening  
> elsewhere (
> > notably imitating Hendrix,and SLy)and adding it to 'serious'  
> jazz .His chops
> > and articulation didn't really stay on the cutting edge after his  
> pioneering
> > use of electronics. Hendrix when he died was already getting  
> bypassed in
> > terms of technique by fusionoid stuff that was a response to his
> > trailblazing. Maybe he would've woodshedded his modes and started  
> dropping
> > in extreme substitutions- who knows. Thye laptop doesn;'t seem  
> kinetic
> > enough a performace tool though,eve i the studion he was more  
> iterested in
> > live expressio than elaborate intellectual architecture.
> > Hendrix got really extreme at putting on a show as a way to get  
> some where
> > in the music biz, and it worked but after he made it he felt  
> trapped in that
> > freakshow role.He said in interveiws he wished people could just  
> close their
> > eye and let the music take them.
> >
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