I kind of wish Jimi Hendrix were my college professor.
Despite all the "sex/drugz/r&r" of the times he was in, Jimi Hendrix was wise beyond his or anyone's years if you ask my not so humble opinion.
I've been studying his fretboard logic and his cultural place in society since I was about 13 years old.
The lyrics to his song "Little Wing" are profound, sublime, and beautiful.
Several quotes attributed to him in interviews about world politics are equally aestetic and pure.
His innovations within the technology of Rock and Roll both in Britain and the United States will be discussed for decades to come, if not another hundred years or more, (if Mother Earth survives...) and his influence on the musical styles of people everywhere from heavy metal, to pop, to hiphop, to spoken word, and even to jazz and classical is immense, not to mention the entire genre of blues.
That's pretty much all I want to say today besides "happy birthday," since he would have been about 73 years old the day before yesterday.
I'll close with a couple examples of what I just mentioned and call it a week.
Cheers,
marco frucht
songwriter, poet, ethnomusicology teacher and plain old human bean.
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LITTLE WING LYRICS:
Well she's walking through the clouds
With a circus mind
That's running wild
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
And fairy tales,
That's all she even thinks about
Riding with the wind
But when I'm sad she comes to me
With a thousand smiles
She gives to me free
It's alright, she says
It's alright
Take anything you want from me
Anything
Fly on, little wing
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QUOTE:
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace"
"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out."
"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5sXBI51ghw