Thursday, November 30, 2006

Yahoo LAUNCHCAST song of the day


Artist:Jimi Hendrix Experience

Song:All Along The Watchtower

Album:Electric Ladyland





Of course many people believe that Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist in rock music history. That's pretty good for someone who wasn't around that long. He was great but it's unfortunate that he abused himself with drugs and died on Sept. 18, 1970 at age 27. Electric Ladyland was his third and final album with the original Experience of Noel Redding on bass & Mitch Mitchell on drums. At this point he started bring in outside musicians like Buddy Miles, Jack Casady & Steve Winwood and would subsequently break up the Experience and form Band Of Gypsies with Miles. Electric Ladyland is a classic and it was a commercial success too. The album was #1 on the Billboard Album Chart and this version of Bob Dylan's All Along The Watchtower was a top 20 single. It's too bad Jimi Hendrix died so young because he had so much more music to offer and we never got to hear any of it. The music that he recorded is still great.

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