so basically say anything on the rockier, more funky side of 60s/70s pop. Sort of motown-y, blues-y in places, rock-y stuff like Dolly Dagger, Izabella, Crosstown traffic etc
Thanks
so basically say anything on the rockier, more funky side of 60s/70s pop. Sort of motown-y, blues-y in places, rock-y stuff like Dolly Dagger, Izabella, Crosstown traffic etc
Thanks
'Love'
Try the album, 'Da Capo', and 'Forever Changes', although Forever Changes is more like if Hendrix was a focussed songwriter rather than killer guitarist. Still worth checking.
Also there is a band called Birds of Maya that are a fuzzier, lo-fi sorta Hendrix style.
The new Dead Meadow album 'Old Growth' is pretty Hendrix too.
Delaney & Bonnie Bramlett, perhaps?
The Allman Brothers
Bits of Parliament / Funkadelic
and everyone should find some love for Tower of Power
SANTANA
no joke answers please
I'm not bothered about instrument virtuoso, Hendrix is pretty much my only reference point for this type of thing so i had to say it.
you think i'm joking?
FUCK YOU
Like ACTUALLY?
He wrote good pop songs? actually? Not just a good guitarist? ACTUALLY?
I've got the woodstock video so i'll watch his bit in it.
that's the best part of the movie
that and Alvin Lee and Mad Dogs and Englishmen
perhaps check out some fusion jazz?
y'know, i think miles davis really wanted to hook up with jimi, but never got round to it.
although a lot of the fusion material sound dated today, the stuff miles recorded is definitely worth seeking out. 'bitches brew' is a milestone (literally), but probably a bit too heavy on the ears if you're not familiar with the jazzier side of things. go with some later records, like the incredible swampy jungle funk on the two-headed live monster that is agharta/panghea. it's from '75 and loose and funky as anything. if you like what you hear, check out his earlier records from the 70's; stuff like live-evil, get up with it, on the corner etc. killer records.
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You want stuff that sounds like Jimi Hendrix AND Motown?
You deserve joke answers.
And actually, I'd tell you to get Santana, too. That's what Hendrix would have gone into had he not done loads of drugs and died in his own vomit.
hendrix wrote motown-ish pop songs towards the end of his career
See: band of gypsies stuff
He got more bluesy and "black" because he was getting to much criticism for appealing to a primarily white audience.
Band of Gypsys is NOT pop
wanky extended R&B jams are not pop music, even if they throw in some nice melodies in between all the fretwank indulgence
Santana played "songs" with melodies and which were poppy and that, but also had a tendency to drop into extended instrumental freakouts with sexface guitar wailing. There was a populist base with structure and poptastic riffs aplenty, even when in the same song they explored more esoteric latin jazz fusion styles. Basically, Santana is Band of Gypsys but much much better
nah, that does it a disservice
Santana is Band of Gypsys much much better, Band of Gypsys with an actual groove and with instrumental playing which actually sounds passionate (even if it does tend towards sexface a lot of the time), as well as containing all the best of late 60s pop songcraft
re: santana
So basically if jimi hendrix wasnt as cool? Yeah, brilliant.
Sly & the Family Stone
'Stand' and 'Fresh', rather than 'There's a riot goin on'
^
Lenny Kravitz!
God I hate him. But my favourite Hendrix stuff isn't the Crosstown Traffic stuff. I like pretty much everything anyone did from 1967, including Jimi.
But maybe bits of Led Zep? Celebration Day? Maybe not but its worth a go. Its such a tune.
I think I need to make some things clear
I'm not looking for guitar based stuff, just the more rocky end of the pop spectrum.
T Rex!
JET
this may be off but there really isn't much that sounds like hendrix cept
other blues players and Bitches Brew for his fusion sound.
I say fuck all this and buy all the Traffic cd's you can find. Traffic is so underrated and it pains me. Whenever people start expressing interest in that era I point them in Traffic's direction.
sorry, carry on with your weird, off killter gropings.
Roxy Music
esp 'For your pleasure'
in every dream home a heartache
i blew u up and you
blew my mind
Hendrix was good friends with
Arthur Lee, the brainchild of 'Love' and they actually did an album together that i havn't yet tracked down. But it sounds more like this is the kind of band you wanna hear.
the love album with hendrix was called false start
they wrote the 1st track together then i think hendrix helped with recording the rest of the album. it was on the blue thumb box set released last year. the songs are mostly good but it just sounds like diet hendrix.
a better album to go for would be funkadelic - standing on the verge of getting it on. eddie hazel's guitar playing on it is just incredible. the most underrated guitarist of the 70's. he was as good as hendrix. but way funkier.
hell yeah
Hendrix/Hazel style
This comp of funk stuff with heavy Hendrix/Funkadelic influence
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/962
Is really good. It has a Curtis Knight song on it and he's the guy who at least claimed he'd discovered Jimi Hendrix
http://home-3.worldonline.nl/~suzannex/ckdisco.html
Muddy Waters
'Electric Mud' most of his fans hate it with a passion, but I like it. Captain Beefheart's more immediate albums 'Clear Spot' & 'Safe As Milk'- CS especially so.
Also
Donovan- Barabajal
* Barabajagal
.
Maybe try stuff like
Jimmy Smith, Blue Cheer, Billy Cobham, Buddy Miles (the Band Of Gypsys drummer), Madhouse, Beefeaters...?
Oh
Vanilla Fudge perfectly fit the 'rocky end of the pop spectrum' thing!