Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile - (Electric Ladyland)

Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Electric Ladyland [Steve Winwood organ, Jack Casady bass, Mitch Mitchell drums [and here featuring Linda McCartney’s picture of the band playing in New York’s Central Park and would have been Jimi’s choice for the cover as he didn’t think the nude models were respectful enough]

and then the world began! 

Well it IS Friday!

"Voodoo Chile" evolved from "Catfish Blues", a song that Jimi Hendrix performed regularly during 1967 and early 1968. "Catfish Blues" was a homage to Muddy Waters, made up of a medley of verses based on Waters' songs, including "Rollin' Stone", "Still a Fool", and "Rollin' and Tumblin'".

“Voodoo Chile” was first released as the fourth track on Hendrix’s 1968 album, Electric Ladyland. If you thought “Free Bird” and “All Too Well (10 Minute Version)” were extensively long, “Voodoo Chile” runs just one second short of 15 minutes. The lyrical sections are broken up by long instrumentals, putting Hendrix’s electric guitar skills on full display. It is the longest song Hendrix ever recorded.

Since “Voodoo Chile” ran so long, the last song on Electric Ladyland is a shortened version, titled “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).” They cut the song down by ten minutes, leaving it at just over five minutes long.

Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady played bass on the original 15-minute studio jam of "Voodoo Chile". He recalled to Uncut magazine: "It wasn't as simple as a jam, there was a full structure to the song, so it was an extended song that you able to improvise in. We took directions through the language of playing. Jimi was able to experiment with his ability and with effects in order to create an atmosphere. 'Voodoo Chile' has a really eerie sound that kind of places you in a different world."

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Martha McCartney . . . . . 🐶

Martha McCartney by Linda McCartney 🐶❤️

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Macca picture of the week : JUNIOR’S FARM

PAUL McCARTNEY and daughters HEATHER and MARY watching a sheep being sheared. 1971. 

Photo taken by LINDA McCARTNEY.

The Wings Fun Club Newsletter from before the launch of Venus and Mars, the party on the Queen Mary (feat. Prof Longhair) Spring 1975

Look what I found!

sorry about the quality but my scanner packed up so these are shot with my iPhone . . . . . I will improve them when I get a new printer!

Worth a read though hey? 

 

50 years later . . . . . 

Fess - Mess Around (Live on the Queen Mary (MPL Productions 1978)

Venus and Mars Rehearsals 1975

Paul McCartney & Wings - Bon Voyageur (New Orleans 1975)

Bon Voyageurs . . . . . . . 

Picture of The Week | Linda McCartney - Paul, Mary and Heather Scotland 1970

Paul, Mary and Heather McCartney, Scotland, 1970

© Linda McCartney | Scanned by lindamccartneysphotography 

 

Paul coming to terms with his grief! Not a dry eye in the house . . . . . . .

Paul and Carl

In 1981, just after John was killed, Paul and Linda invited legendary rockabilly musician Carl Perkins to stay with them on the Island of Montserrat, where producer George Martin had a studio. Paul wanted Carl’s help in recording a song called “Get It” for his new “Tug of War” album. 

It was literally just weeks after John’s murder, and both George and Ringo came to spend time with their former bandmate.

The night before Carl was scheduled to leave, a song came to him that summed up his warm feelings about the visit. The song was so clear in his mind that he didn’t even write it down, which was unusual for Carl. 

The next morning he played the song, “My Old Friend”, for Paul and Linda, explaining that it was a gift for having him as a guest. 

Halfway through the song when Carl sang the words “if we never meet again this side of life, in a little while, over yonder, where there’s peace and quiet, my old friend, won’t you think about me every now and then?” 

Paul stood up and abruptly left the room with tears streaming down his face. 

Not sure what had just happened, Carl stopped playing, and Linda hugged him. She thanked him for helping Paul grieve, explaining that he hadn’t been able to fully break down since John passed. 

Paul later explained that the last words John spoke to him in the hallway of the Dakota building were “think about me now and then old friend”.

Thank you to Boris for this story and photo. ❤️

Other September birthdays | Remembering Linda (September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) Yoko Ono Lennon

The first time I met Linda was at one of the Beatles’ recording sessions. Paul introduced her to us. She was attractive, obviously—she had a sunshine smile—but I thought that there was a certain vulnerability about her. Later I came to understand that that impression was wrong, because when I think of Linda’s life, I think of a very strong woman. One day, around the time of that first meeting, Paul brought in to the studio some photographs of Linda in New York, in front of the building where she grew up. She was wearing a camel coat and a white scarf, just looking casual and glancing around. That is the Linda I remember from that time.

During the Beatles’ sessions, Linda and I quickly learned that our husbands were not all buddy-buddy. John and Paul were both talented but very strong-willed people. There was some tension there. Linda and I left them alone. But we didn’t go chummy-chummy, wink-wink, ‘Aren’t they silly boys?’ either. We both stood by our men. That was how we were. Then came the Beatles’ breakup. The world blamed it on Linda and me. The attack was like a storm. I think the fans needed a scapegoat, and they chose us! We both had the love and protection of our husbands. Linda had that very much from Paul. But still, it could not have been easy for her.

The long years after the breakup were not easy, either. John and Paul were not talking. John and I would play Paul’s latest Wings record in our kitchen. John would say some nice things. He couldn’t say it to Paul, but when Paul was not around, John would say nice things about Paul. When Paul and Linda got a farm in Scotland, John said, ‘That’s Linda. She’s good for him.’ Was the ice finally starting to melt? In the late Seventies, Paul and Linda came to visit us a few times in New York. In a fine old Liverpool tradition, the two guys did most of the talking, and we sat beside them as Paul held Linda’s hand and John held mine. It was nice to see the guys talk after all those years, even if a little stiffness existed between them.

After John’s passing, Sean and I started to receive Linda’s beautiful calendar every year. We felt her warmth; and as a photographer she was getting into her most creative years. We both wanted to show our farms to each other. I was about to go to London with Sean at the time. ‘Mine first, then,’ Linda said. So Sean and I were invited to her farm. I say Linda’s farm, because you really felt Linda’s energy there - you just knew that she was the one who had created this environment for her husband and their children. There was something very real about the way they lived. They weren’t surrounded by servants or anything. And it was wonderful. Linda had horses and sheep - it was a working farm, not a manicured estate. She and her children were doing things together. Seeing them with Sean was great. Hopefully, our children will be wiser than us.

What I noticed with sadness was that Paul and Linda’s children were living with the pain of what their mother went through. Their mother was attacked by the world and for a long time not recognized for her achievements. Everything that was good was considered the work of her husband, and everything the public did not approve of was considered her doing. I didn’t hear any of this from Linda. But when I met her children and saw how protective they were of their mother, I felt the pain of their knowledge that the world was not always kind to her.

When I heard of her illness, my first instinct was to share that with the fans at the concert I was giving in London and to pray together. But, of course, I couldn’t. So I dedicated the concert to ‘a friend in England who has been taken ill.’ 'Names!’ they shouted. 'No names!’ I shouted back.
That’s how it was. We were no-name friends.

The last conversation I had with her was in January this year. She sounded like the usual powerful and energetic Linda. I thought she had beaten the disease. Linda and I did not meet up and have coffee and muffins in a corner cafe or anything like that. But we communicated. We communicated in deeds more than in words. When she was strong, I felt strong. She took a sad song and made it better. Her commitment to vegetarianism and animal rights brought her message to a wider audience than that of rock & roll. But her most important contributions were all made in private. Just like so many women before her, she made a difference in silence. It was nice to know you, Linda.

With love,

Yoko Ono, 1998

By Yoko Ono – Rolling Stone September 24, 1998

Read more:

In Your Mind – The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono

The true story of the woman John Lennon loved.

https://linktr.ee/conceptualbooks

Electric Ladyland 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 2018 | Urbanaspirines - A Kostas Special

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: 1968 Electric Ladyland 

50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 2018

A nice tribute look at the Hendrix masterpiece of Electric Ladyland from Kostas this morning . . . . Two CDs including a second 'making of album. . . ' and live in The Hollywood Bowl

I think I shall never forget my pals, brothers Leo and Leon, playing me the album on their Dad's state of the art stereo Hi-Fi when it came out and it blew us all away! Especially the Extended jam of Voodoo Chile with crowd partying, Jack Cassady (bass), Steve Winwood (keyboard) and Mitch on drums too . . .staggering and played LOUD on the finest stereo is a recommended ‘experience’ still (geddit!?)

Never quite recovered from it . . . . 

Jimi it is well know disliked the naked women cover and felt it didn’t do them justice and was too distorted and therefore disrespectful but preferred this shot and even had notes to that effect. The photographer?

Linda McCartney (nee Eastman) she adored Jimi and they got on

Kostas begins . . . . : 

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix 

(born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)

was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as the greatest and 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.” . . . . . .read on

here . . .

Voodoo Chile

PLAY LOUD!

Hard To Believe That The “Lovely Linda” McCartney Has Now Been Gone 26 Years : TWO DATES | April 17, 1970, - April 17, 1998.

Two very different dates. One is a story of happiness, and one of sadness. One proves that love can conquer all, and one is of losing that love to sickness and death. In the past I have written many times about coincidences in music history. Here is one of those examples. 

On this day in 1970 former Beatle Paul McCartney would release his first solo album after announcing the break up of The Beatles. What many people didn't know at the time was how difficult this record was for Paul to make, and how if it wasn't for his wife Linda it might've never happened. 28 years later in 1998 this would also be the day that Paul would lose Linda when she would die of breast cancer in Tucson, Arizona. 

In September of 1969 right after releasing the legendary Beatles album "Abbey Road" the band would meet for a meeting where John Lennon would announce that he wanted out of the band. 

Previous months all three members had threatened to quit only to be coached back by Paul. This situation would be different though. Paul knew things were about to get very ugly in the coming months. 

After doing personal audits of the band's financial situation with new manager Allen Klein he became very worried at the way Klein had been handling the band. He had never wanted him in the first place, but was outvoted by the other three Beatles, because Paul wanted his father in law, and the others thought he would favor him. Once he was presented with this information he was told there was only one way out. That was to sue the other three Beatles to bring the partnership with Klein to an end. 

History would prove Paul's suspicions correct, and the other three Beatles would be very thankful years later that he did this. Especially after it was proven that Klein was involved in many illegal activities, and could've eventually owned The Beatles. But as it was happening they were furious with Paul. 

It got so bad that Paul would take Linda and his stepdaughter Heather to his secluded farm in Scotland. This would be a very bad time for him. For one he was broke, because all of his money was tied up in the Beatles’ Corporation Apple. He also felt worthless and would become very depressed. Drinking and getting drunk day after day, going weeks without a bath. Feeling he couldn't make it as a songwriter without the band, especially John. It would finally be Linda who would not only use "tough love" on Paul, but offer him the love and encouragement he would need to start writing again. 

It would be through Linda's encouragement that Paul would begin to make a new record. Using just a 4 track tape machine, he would record most of the record at home, where he would play all of the instruments. When you hear the album you sense that "homemade feel" it has. You hear noises and doors in the background etc. Linda would also provide backing vocals when Paul needed the help. 

This album "McCartney" released in 1970 would kickstart Paul's solo career. And through the album you feel the influence from Linda. Songs like "The Lovely Linda”, “Every Night” and especially “Maybe I'm Amazed" show the inspiration Linda was to Paul during this time.

The next 28 years Linda would always be by Paul's side. She didn't want to be part of his band, but Paul told her he needed her to regain confidence in himself. Even though she would be attacked by critics because of her amateur musical skills she still was there for Paul. 

She was a woman who loved her family, raised her kids to learn the value of a dollar. Giving them all household chores, not allowing them to rely on the privileged lifestyle. They all went to public school. She loved animals, and fought for animal rights. She was an amazing photographer in her own right, even before she met Paul. 

She got to go every place all over the world, and her favorite place ?

It was Tucson, Arizona. 

She had gone to the University Of Arizona as a "Fine Arts Major". That's  where she wanted to spend her last days, watching the sunrise, and sunsets, looking at the mountains, riding her horses. It’s one of the big reasons that Paul mentioned “Tucson, Arizona” in his song “Get Back”. 

It's hard to believe she has already been gone over 26 years. Paul has had to move on, getting remarried, but never has forgotten his "Lovely Linda". 

Paul has always dedicated two of his most popular songs to her "My Love”, and “Maybe I'm Amazed" when he plays them live . Beautiful songs for a beautiful woman inside and out.