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...Beatles released Sergeant Pepper's. The "San Francisco Sound" and the "heavy" English sound are all derivative of Beck's work on Over, Under, Sideways, Down. His emphasis on solid chord progression and his use of electronic distortion gave his music the sledge hammer quality we associate with Jimi Hendrix and Grace Slick. It was during this period that Beck was doing his most famous work: "Shapes of Things," "Hot House of Omagarashid," and "Jeff's Boogie...
Nonetheless, in a tedious attempt to fill their repetitive pages with news, the rock press every three or four months chooses some musician to elevate to the rank of "superstar." People such as the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, James Taylor, the Cream, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young have been accorded this dubious honor, but none has displayed much real staying power. Hendrix and Joplin shuffled off their mortal coil after three albums apiece, and none of the rest of them has been able to do anything exciting since each of their second records. A new Lennon Harrison, Dylan...
When I got out America had reached the moon, Jimi Hendrix, Nassar, De Gaulle, and Janis Joplin were all dead. I had seen only one newspaper in the fourteen months at the interrogation prison; otherwise I only heard whatever the Secret Police decided to tell me--which didn't include a Harvard Satirical troupe performing nude on stage or that Encounter and Marathon were now American rages. In fact for me and most of the other political prisoners the only way for us to "relate to our environment" were not Encounter sessions but by rapping out morse code messages...
...counterculture also turned away from that No. 1 mind tripper. In 1969, the culture switched in large numbers to Methedrine or speed, a drug that led many to chaotic, aggressive behavior. Then last year the heroin pushers moved in, and the damage was complete. The drug deaths of Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were symbolic; across the country, thousands were dying of overdoses, needle infections and drug-related accidents. Terrorized by the influx of debilitating drugs, diluted by Woolworth hippies, the movement limped through the past two years a paranoid, fragmented version of its former self. Its political wing, which...
.../Sailin' for your love/Sailin'home." Big-beat songs like Freedom and Nightbird Flyin' do hark back to the past, yet for once, there is no screech or reverberation to get in the way of the music. For the uninitiated-or for those who turned off when Jimi turned on before an audience like a black Elvis Presley-The Cry of Love should be sufficient proof that there was indeed heart beneath his mod show-business veneer...