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...Reunion on the Méric Terrace and Gauguin's bronze bas-relief Three Breton Women) are first-rate. From the moment you walk in the door at the Musée de la Musique, to the sounds of Little Richard and Muddy Waters, it's obvious that Jimi Hendrix Backstage is going to be unlike anything you've experienced in an art gallery. The exhibit, the first devoted to a rock musician by a traditional European museum, opens with childhood memorabilia - family photos, class photos, snapshots from the days before Hendrix became a rock god. Surprisingly good drawings...
Guitarist Eric Krasno was no less impressive. Moving fluidly between jazz chord voicings, Hendrix-like blues riffs and soulful lead lines, Krasno is a master of his instrument in all capacities. He spent the night leaning against a bar stool, often mimicking his guitar lines with moaning facial expressions...
...Saturday by Turkish police in a province near the Syrian and Iraqi borders 23% of workers surveyed think news is the most addictive content available on the Internet, 5% more than pornography, according to an online poll $528,000 is the high bid offered for a guitar Jimi Hendrix burned on stage in 1967 and which Frank Zappa later restored and played in 1976 $44,000 is how much an Enron trademark logo, a 1.5 m tall, stainless steel, tilted "E", was sold for at auction last week...
...counterculture interest in Eastern religion, and he eventually served as spiritual adviser to such celebrities as Carole King, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern. Satchidananda founded a number of ashrams, including Yogaville in Virginia, where he made his home. At Woodstock he shared the stage with rock luminaries Jimi Hendrix, the Who and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young...
...happened, history was with the guitar; Elvis and Buddy Holly, B.B. King and Bo Diddley, The Beatles and the Stones, Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck, ad infinitum ad gloriam, closed that case. And Jerry Lee would be the definitive piano rocker in part because he was, in the music's infancy, one of its last. (The saxophone, primal ax of early rock, also went nearly extinct.) He worked under another disadvantage: A pianist, unlike a guitarist, couldn't take his instrument to a gig; at least back then he didn't. Janes ascribes some of Lewis' extreme behavior...