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[janradder]

Is it possible that Jimi Hendrix's Axis:  Bold as Love is the best guitar record ever recorded?  It has some of the most beautiful, sublime and soul stirring guitar work I have ever heard.  It's the kind that seems to well up inside your chest and roll down your arms to the very tips of your fingers, making your shoulders tingle and your body ache.  There are moments, like during "Bold as Love," that I just feel like crying at the sheer beauty.

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[haddayr.livejournal.com]

I don't know from Axis, but dood that description is so HAWT.

I mean you have a beautiful soul and stuff.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks. Just don't let my wife know you said that. (Seriously, though, how can you not feel HAWT when you listen to Jimi Henrix?)

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Aw, I've met your wife. She talks big, but I think I could take her.

[barthanderson.livejournal.com]

"Castles Made of Sand" is exquisite. I ADORE this album. It's one of the few that I've loved since high school.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

It really is a great song. There are so many on that album it's really hard to single one out -- "Little Wing" and "One Rainy Wish" are also amazing. I used to get into arguments with jazz musicians and metal heads in high school about Hendrix and they'd always tell me that he wasn't so great because there were tons of guitarists who could play faster, completely missing what made him a great guitarist. Exquisite is a good word to describe him.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

Dude, that's not very punk of you.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Jimi Hendrix is totally punk rock and I will argue to the death with whoever says otherwise!

Seriously, though, what he did with blues and rock was just as revolutionary and different as punk in the 70's. Besides what appeals to me about punk is the emotion, the originality and the pushing of genre and boundaries and I like that in any type of music whether it be punk, jazz, classical, or just plain rock. I still think Axis: Bold as Love is the best guitar record ever recorded. It's absolutely beautiful.

[silk-noir.livejournal.com]

My 75 year old mother is getting into Hendrix.

No, I'm not saying that as a put down. Hendrix transcends. I just like teasing you (gently) about the punk thing.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know that you were teasing. That's why I used my Donald icon. Sorry if I came across as angry or touchy -- I certainly didn't mean to (it's just my own Aspie-ness, I guess)

(My mother, by the way, who should like Hendrix because she liked sixties metal, absolutely hates Hendrix. She thinks all of his songs sound the same)