Jimi Hendrix
So many things that I like - all contained in one little photo.
Northern England
Signs
Lettering
Blue (like Manchester City’s home strip)
Fish and Chips
and
Jimi Hendrix!
Even though it has been several decades since Jimi passed away, the last piece of music I purchased (only this week in fact) was one of his tracks - Little Wing. I play the Stevie Ray Vaughan instrumental version quite a lot but realised that I didn’t have a digital version of Mr Hendrix’s original.
One of my favourite records of all time is Jimi’s version of Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’ which is deemed to be one of the, if not THE, greatest “cover versions” ever. It reminds me so much of the bikers pub I used to frequent when I was sevent….oops I mean eighteen, when it was always blasting out of the jukebox. Several decades later, I still love it.
The chippy is in Tynemouth, about 8 miles away from where Jimi’s manager, Chas Chandler, was born. Chas was in The Animals and later went on to manage Slade. In the 1970s my father once said of Slade, “you’ll never of heard of them next year”. Which is a bit ironic given that even 40 plus years later Merry Xmas Everybody is reputed to earn its writers somewhere between a quarter and a half a million pounds in royalties every year. I once saw them live and they were brilliant. And very loud. My life is blighted by tinnitus these days. I don’t think that Noddy and the boys helped :-(
Jimi Hendrix
So many things that I like - all contained in one little photo.
Northern England
Signs
Lettering
Blue (like Manchester City’s home strip)
Fish and Chips
and
Jimi Hendrix!
Even though it has been several decades since Jimi passed away, the last piece of music I purchased (only this week in fact) was one of his tracks - Little Wing. I play the Stevie Ray Vaughan instrumental version quite a lot but realised that I didn’t have a digital version of Mr Hendrix’s original.
One of my favourite records of all time is Jimi’s version of Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’ which is deemed to be one of the, if not THE, greatest “cover versions” ever. It reminds me so much of the bikers pub I used to frequent when I was sevent….oops I mean eighteen, when it was always blasting out of the jukebox. Several decades later, I still love it.
The chippy is in Tynemouth, about 8 miles away from where Jimi’s manager, Chas Chandler, was born. Chas was in The Animals and later went on to manage Slade. In the 1970s my father once said of Slade, “you’ll never of heard of them next year”. Which is a bit ironic given that even 40 plus years later Merry Xmas Everybody is reputed to earn its writers somewhere between a quarter and a half a million pounds in royalties every year. I once saw them live and they were brilliant. And very loud. My life is blighted by tinnitus these days. I don’t think that Noddy and the boys helped :-(