Word: hendrix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...limits of rock. That is the dangerous borderland where the best rock music is made, the music that lasts and makes a difference. Elvis Presley lived there. So still do Chuck Berry and John Lennon, Van Morrison and Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Buddy Holly, Sam Cooke and Jimi Hendrix died there. And The Who has taken up permanent residence. The danger that pervades this territory is not a matter of threat, but a kind of proud, blind, spiritual recklessness, forming a musical brotherhood that could be bound by the words of Russian Poet Andrei Voznesensky: "To live...
...improved and the percussion hammers with greater variety. Marley relies often on the harmonica, using it in original ways. Junior Marvin dazzles on lead guitar, interpreting fine intricate melodies though other instrumentation often buries his talent. (Marvin brought the crowd to its feet last summer with his acid-rock, Hendrix-style riffs; when Marley came out, Marvin toned down...
Friday and Saturday--The Jimi Hendrix Story...
...think rock'n roll is more outrageous than what Jimi Hendrix did or Jim Morrison or, um, Jagger, or even Chuck Berry, cause in comparison to the society they were disrupting, they're all pretty outrageous. It's just that as living becomes more difficult...you know, um, it's like you have to go out of your way to have fun these days, and it's so confusing to really spend time doing what you like to do, for some people. So the music has to be more powerful, equally as crazy as the forces keeping you down...
...first appeared with that worn leather, her straggly, filthy looks could not be avoided. This the woman who thinks that orgasm is the highest state of consciousness, who roots her angst in Burroughs, Rimbaud, Hendrix, Morrison, the Bible--symbolists all. Patti Smith has used the symbols of our time exceedingly well, just as Dylan and Springsteen did before her, towards somewhat different ends. Avoiding the swastika, she has flaunted her hair, her leather, her boots, her sickliness, her chains, her sex...powerful symbols which horrified Rotarians and changed rock'n'roll...