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...Elvis Presley, Bo Diddley, Bill Haley and the Comets--continue to live on in just about every live rock performance. It's as though every group feels a need to pay homage to the originators. The Stone's always include one or two Chuck Berry numbers in their concerts, Jimi Hendrix always liked to play "Johnny B. Goode" and even at the Concert for Bangladesh the band gave a rendition of the '50s rocker "Youngblood." Sha Na Na attempts to create '50s rock both physically and musically...
...show the world that rock would live despite its losses, the Doors released an album and went on tour, and the Allman Brothers said they too would continue to tour, although they would try to replace Duane (as if it were possible). Reprise posthumously released two Jimi Hendrix albums, The Cry of Love (representing his last studio work) and Rainbow Bridge, the soundtrack from a yet-to-be-released movie...
...best effort in years. The tightly interwoven lead guitar work of Allman and Clapton, ranging from dense, driving chords to ultra-high register wailing, is a rock masterpiece and surely the most perfectionistic endeavor in the field of pristine white blues. Funky, it ain't. If portions of Jimi Hendrix's music represent one pole--chaos--of the blues spectrum, then Derek and the Dominoes must be the pole of order. (This contrast can be clearly seen on "Little Wing." Hendrix's version of which is loose and airy. When Derek and Co. do it, they create...
...relevance to all others. Not only were they creative, but each (with Pigpen standing at the side guzzling beer or reaching for his harp) a technical virtuoso. And just exactly why can't one be considered a virtuoso on the electric guitar or bass? (Just check out any of Jimi Hendrix's last albums for the word on encompassing the creative possibilities of a particular instrument). They made it up as they went along, and it came out beautiful...
...Vanilla Fudge broke up with the passing of the psychedelic age. Carmine Appice, the drummer, and Tim Bogert, the bass player, asked Jeff Beck to come over from England to see if they couldn't cash in on the success of the "heavy" sound being popularized by Cream and Jimi Hendrix. But Beck was involved in an auto accident and never made it. So Tim and Carmine hung around Long Island wondering what to do. Somehow they got hooked up with Jim McCarty, former lead guitarist of the Buddy Miles Express, and vocalist Rusty Day. This meeting produced a group...