White Knight
Spectral Warrior con passion
John, absolutely; he left a gap which will probably never be adequately filled by anyone.
Jimi Hendrix vs. Stevie Ray Vaughan
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White Knight
Spectral Warrior con passion
I'll join in that request as well.
John Watt
Member
I'm living to finally finish my guitar, build a new backdrop and make some videos.
It's more than just gratifying to catch some interest from you, in this domain.
If there's one thing about me that I still don't understand, it's my limited use of music.
I've played full time, travelling across Canada and living in major cities,
but I never cared to record and saved my songs and riffs for myself.
I'll be sixty this May 1st, but I can qualify for band contests as a non-recording artist.
I know, I know, but in my mind I'm just starting out all over again.
My new guitar, my new style and songs, singing better, enough to feel some new nerves.
Too bad you're not around! I'd say let's jam!
It's more than just gratifying to catch some interest from you, in this domain.
If there's one thing about me that I still don't understand, it's my limited use of music.
I've played full time, travelling across Canada and living in major cities,
but I never cared to record and saved my songs and riffs for myself.
I'll be sixty this May 1st, but I can qualify for band contests as a non-recording artist.
I know, I know, but in my mind I'm just starting out all over again.
My new guitar, my new style and songs, singing better, enough to feel some new nerves.
Too bad you're not around! I'd say let's jam!
White Knight
Spectral Warrior con passion
John, please trust your gift and RUN WITH IT! I'll be sixty a couple of months after you, and I just know we both have a lot of life and things to share with the world left in us, especially a talented musician such as yourself.
I hope you don't choose to deprive the rest of us of your obvious abilities.
Peace--white knight
ohn, GO WITH IT! I'll be sixty right after you. WE still have a lot of life left in us.
John Watt
Member
white knight! You're right, but I'm a selfish person. I want to live my own life,
and I'm moving on all the time. I don't leave evidence behind, preferring to be influential.
Where I'm frustrated, at our age, is still having the fingers, maybe in better shape now.
I've always worked on keeping them in shape, using jazz and classical advice.
So I like to play, and feel like I can get into it everywhere I go, but, it's just not me onstage.
And for someone who was so into Jimi Hendrix, I never wanted to record myself.
That's right, I've never even tried to do that, and I've never played a Jimi song in a band.
So I'd qualify as an entrant in a band contest, something that might take off for me.
Believe me, when I get a new video backdrop built, finish refinishing my guitar, and get an original song down,
what I'm working on with a small acoustic,
I'll be here with bells on, getting a video together.
After a recent mayoral debate, the head of our local cable company said to call him when I'm onstage next.
That's a nice invite to have. Sorry. I gotta get into blatant self-promotion.
You got me feeling ambitious enough to type my domain name.
www.johnwatt.ca
Click at your own peril! It still freaks me out how this all works.
and I'm moving on all the time. I don't leave evidence behind, preferring to be influential.
Where I'm frustrated, at our age, is still having the fingers, maybe in better shape now.
I've always worked on keeping them in shape, using jazz and classical advice.
So I like to play, and feel like I can get into it everywhere I go, but, it's just not me onstage.
And for someone who was so into Jimi Hendrix, I never wanted to record myself.
That's right, I've never even tried to do that, and I've never played a Jimi song in a band.
So I'd qualify as an entrant in a band contest, something that might take off for me.
Believe me, when I get a new video backdrop built, finish refinishing my guitar, and get an original song down,
what I'm working on with a small acoustic,
I'll be here with bells on, getting a video together.
After a recent mayoral debate, the head of our local cable company said to call him when I'm onstage next.
That's a nice invite to have. Sorry. I gotta get into blatant self-promotion.
You got me feeling ambitious enough to type my domain name.
www.johnwatt.ca
Click at your own peril! It still freaks me out how this all works.
White Knight
Spectral Warrior con passion
Great page indeed John; I only wish I'd been living in your town so I could have cast my vote for you!
Please be sure and let us know when you'll be launching your music/video.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Peace Out--wk
Please be sure and let us know when you'll be launching your music/video.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Peace Out--wk
John Watt
Member
Okay.... I did type my address, as a link, but really, I'm not suggesting it for your attention.
It's been like that since last September.
The story about tripping around with an Inuit elder in Goose Bay Labrador,
part of the Jimi Hendrix page, is my favorite.
I've got to get online in my new residence and keep building.
It's been like that since last September.
The story about tripping around with an Inuit elder in Goose Bay Labrador,
part of the Jimi Hendrix page, is my favorite.
I've got to get online in my new residence and keep building.
John Watt
Member
Yes, I'm bad, but bad on purpose, just having fun with it for myself.
This was also a purposeful distraction for those looking to harm me,
nothing really financial or political being portrayed.
I've been a sign-painter on and off, and a computer screen is like a little illuminated sign.
Only instead of having to use stencils, masking and laquer, and making my own letters and words,
I can change colours without a spray gun and overlay paragraphs if I want, experimenting with colour.
The one councillor everyone thought was going to be the next mayor, isn't.
I got the biggest laugh of the evening when I described his street, and events,
and said "you've got one of the biggest grow-ops in Welland across from your house".
He didn't get to be mayor, and I wasn't going for a laugh.
There's a deep background to that story too.
Because of then-constant criminal harrassment and intimidation,
the province moved me into a subsidized and secure apartment,
so even behind the scenes, everything worked out for me.
Now I'll be playing guitar and singing. And I'm back here!
This was also a purposeful distraction for those looking to harm me,
nothing really financial or political being portrayed.
I've been a sign-painter on and off, and a computer screen is like a little illuminated sign.
Only instead of having to use stencils, masking and laquer, and making my own letters and words,
I can change colours without a spray gun and overlay paragraphs if I want, experimenting with colour.
The one councillor everyone thought was going to be the next mayor, isn't.
I got the biggest laugh of the evening when I described his street, and events,
and said "you've got one of the biggest grow-ops in Welland across from your house".
He didn't get to be mayor, and I wasn't going for a laugh.
There's a deep background to that story too.
Because of then-constant criminal harrassment and intimidation,
the province moved me into a subsidized and secure apartment,
so even behind the scenes, everything worked out for me.
Now I'll be playing guitar and singing. And I'm back here!
John Watt
Member
Jimi! Jimi! Was that you! Was that a phased and flanged contrail passing me by,
flying high across this bright blue winter sky?
What other pale shape passing far overhead just keeps going, never having to stop,
and turning and stopping to watch, see it keep going, not coming down,
until it disappears into space far over the horizon.
I thought it was you, Jimi. No other guitarist has occupied your space.
flying high across this bright blue winter sky?
What other pale shape passing far overhead just keeps going, never having to stop,
and turning and stopping to watch, see it keep going, not coming down,
until it disappears into space far over the horizon.
I thought it was you, Jimi. No other guitarist has occupied your space.
EddieRUKiddingVare
New member
^ But I have to vote for Stevie if I had to pick. Both lost to young- but I would go for SRV
farris
New member
There were other indications to why Jimi Hendrix left (had to leave the USA). He already made friends with drugs and the facts of having huge depts, because of the drugs abuse. He was coloured, he was not scollered (educated) in music or on the guitar and his chances for a career in rock & roll, post Elvis Presley were next to none at the time in the USA, where the Civil Rights movement were on the march for better relations for all citizens.
John Watt
Member
farris, you're not very informed, looking racist, or too young to really know.
Let's look at Elvis first, easy to get over.
Elvis was a good pianist, acoustic guitarist, a singer and dancer.
He never wrote an original word or note of music.
If you wanted one of your songs on his album, you had to let him be a co-writer.
Elvis would sign any and all business deal to use his name and image,
as long as he got fifty percent.
When Elvis went overseas as an American soldier,
it was to reform his image for the American public, not serving, just partying.
He was going out with a fifteen year old girl, for one of them.
After he came back to America as a war hero, he never toured or did rock albums,
for twenty-five years, just making soundtrack albums with movies.
In all of American entertainment, he was second to only Mickey Mouse.
His estate of Graceland is second for tourists, after the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington.
At the end, Elvis just laid in bed, urinating in his clothes.
He didn't think he was a drug addict because he was a "skin-popper",
injecting into muscles, not veins.
When he got it together to come downstairs, where everyone else was,
if he sang they recorded it and some hits were released.
He died in the bathroom, trying to have a body function killing him.
Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Lenny Breau, all the same.
Michael Jackson fled America the night he was found unconscious, naked with a dead man,
in a shack outside L.A. They were all-American "pop culture".
Jimi Hendrix was an American soldier in the Air Force, a radar technician.
He took the "expression pedal" from a Thomas Organ and made a wah-wah.
He invented the phase shifter and the flanger as radar technology for amplifiers.
He went to England to meet with James Marshall to design Marshall stacks.
The sign above the door there says "Jimi Hendrix put us on the map".
He designed the Dallas Arbiter fuzz and distortion with Germanium, a metal.
Jimi wrote and sang and recorded his own music,
his first album being "Are You Experienced",
and he was making more as a three piece than Led Zep and the Beatles.
The amount of overdubs, layers and effects hasn't been half-done by anyone else.
Jimi designed and built Electric Ladyland, a studio that's still hot today.
Who knows what he did with his guitars. Those who have one simply don't show.
As far as this almost sixty-five year old man has seen as a pro player,
Jimi is known for buying hundreds of Strats during his lifetime,
but only three are being shown to the public.
When Guitar Magazine put out a special top one hundred electric guitars,
after the economic melt-down, yeah, as designed as nuclear melt-downs,
all guitars from Beatles to Clapton, were pushed down fifty percent.
Only Jimi's Woodstock guitar, the most expensive, was estimated much higher.
Jimi could play left-handed upside down, left-handed and right-handed.
You have to, to play all the chords and riffs he did. And it's a lefty thing.
What made Elvis hot for rock-a-billy,
was the fact B.B. King was a radio announcer in his home town that Elvis would visit.
Elvis never promoted that. He was too white, even if he wore lots of makeup with a nose job.
Jimi Hendrix said, when I saw him, that he was of Egyptian Nubian birth,
Nubia being a desert kingdom below Egypt,
with a Cherokee grandmother who walked the Trail of Tears.
There are now more travelling Hendrix shows and imitators,
than there are Elvis clones.
I regret the fact that his family, the Hendrix estate and www.jimihendrix.com,
don't understand his creativity or share even a little of it themselves.
Who quotes Elvis?
Jimi Hendrix:
"When the power of love is stronger than the love of power,
there will be peace".
And for your Easter Sunday,
"There once was a girl, whose heart was a frown,
'cause she was crippled for life and couldn't speak a sound.
Until one day, she decided to die,
so she took her wheelchair to the shore,
and to her legs she smiled, you won't hurt me no more.
Suddenly, something she had never seen before,
made her jump up and say,
look, a golden winged ship is coming my way,
and it didn't even have to stop, it just kept on going,
and so castles made of sand slip into the sea, eventually.
Third verse, "Castles Made of Sand", on "Axis, Bold as Love", by Jimi Hendrix.
When I saw Jimi Hendrix in Toronto, he said he didn't use heroin or needles,
and warned the audience about drug use.
I saw two copies of his autopsy, no "drugs" in his system and no needle marks.
Even though he fled to Europe after being kidnapped and "rescued" at gunpoint,
he still died a week before his American record contract ran out.
His family had to sue them for over fifteen years before they got it back.
You lives your life, you takes your chances.
Live and learn, farris.
When Jimi was singing and playing and moving around onstage,
sometimes he would look up and say into the microphone,
"God, I hope they understand".
I'm still trying to figure it all out.
Let's look at Elvis first, easy to get over.
Elvis was a good pianist, acoustic guitarist, a singer and dancer.
He never wrote an original word or note of music.
If you wanted one of your songs on his album, you had to let him be a co-writer.
Elvis would sign any and all business deal to use his name and image,
as long as he got fifty percent.
When Elvis went overseas as an American soldier,
it was to reform his image for the American public, not serving, just partying.
He was going out with a fifteen year old girl, for one of them.
After he came back to America as a war hero, he never toured or did rock albums,
for twenty-five years, just making soundtrack albums with movies.
In all of American entertainment, he was second to only Mickey Mouse.
His estate of Graceland is second for tourists, after the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington.
At the end, Elvis just laid in bed, urinating in his clothes.
He didn't think he was a drug addict because he was a "skin-popper",
injecting into muscles, not veins.
When he got it together to come downstairs, where everyone else was,
if he sang they recorded it and some hits were released.
He died in the bathroom, trying to have a body function killing him.
Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Judy Garland, Whitney Houston, Lenny Breau, all the same.
Michael Jackson fled America the night he was found unconscious, naked with a dead man,
in a shack outside L.A. They were all-American "pop culture".
Jimi Hendrix was an American soldier in the Air Force, a radar technician.
He took the "expression pedal" from a Thomas Organ and made a wah-wah.
He invented the phase shifter and the flanger as radar technology for amplifiers.
He went to England to meet with James Marshall to design Marshall stacks.
The sign above the door there says "Jimi Hendrix put us on the map".
He designed the Dallas Arbiter fuzz and distortion with Germanium, a metal.
Jimi wrote and sang and recorded his own music,
his first album being "Are You Experienced",
and he was making more as a three piece than Led Zep and the Beatles.
The amount of overdubs, layers and effects hasn't been half-done by anyone else.
Jimi designed and built Electric Ladyland, a studio that's still hot today.
Who knows what he did with his guitars. Those who have one simply don't show.
As far as this almost sixty-five year old man has seen as a pro player,
Jimi is known for buying hundreds of Strats during his lifetime,
but only three are being shown to the public.
When Guitar Magazine put out a special top one hundred electric guitars,
after the economic melt-down, yeah, as designed as nuclear melt-downs,
all guitars from Beatles to Clapton, were pushed down fifty percent.
Only Jimi's Woodstock guitar, the most expensive, was estimated much higher.
Jimi could play left-handed upside down, left-handed and right-handed.
You have to, to play all the chords and riffs he did. And it's a lefty thing.
What made Elvis hot for rock-a-billy,
was the fact B.B. King was a radio announcer in his home town that Elvis would visit.
Elvis never promoted that. He was too white, even if he wore lots of makeup with a nose job.
Jimi Hendrix said, when I saw him, that he was of Egyptian Nubian birth,
Nubia being a desert kingdom below Egypt,
with a Cherokee grandmother who walked the Trail of Tears.
There are now more travelling Hendrix shows and imitators,
than there are Elvis clones.
I regret the fact that his family, the Hendrix estate and www.jimihendrix.com,
don't understand his creativity or share even a little of it themselves.
Who quotes Elvis?
Jimi Hendrix:
"When the power of love is stronger than the love of power,
there will be peace".
And for your Easter Sunday,
"There once was a girl, whose heart was a frown,
'cause she was crippled for life and couldn't speak a sound.
Until one day, she decided to die,
so she took her wheelchair to the shore,
and to her legs she smiled, you won't hurt me no more.
Suddenly, something she had never seen before,
made her jump up and say,
look, a golden winged ship is coming my way,
and it didn't even have to stop, it just kept on going,
and so castles made of sand slip into the sea, eventually.
Third verse, "Castles Made of Sand", on "Axis, Bold as Love", by Jimi Hendrix.
When I saw Jimi Hendrix in Toronto, he said he didn't use heroin or needles,
and warned the audience about drug use.
I saw two copies of his autopsy, no "drugs" in his system and no needle marks.
Even though he fled to Europe after being kidnapped and "rescued" at gunpoint,
he still died a week before his American record contract ran out.
His family had to sue them for over fifteen years before they got it back.
You lives your life, you takes your chances.
Live and learn, farris.
When Jimi was singing and playing and moving around onstage,
sometimes he would look up and say into the microphone,
"God, I hope they understand".
I'm still trying to figure it all out.
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John Watt
Member
Wow! Reading through this thread reminded of me when my mind was like that,
and hopefully, me saying I'm better will look that way for you too.
Yes, almost a year ago, and I'm back to where I was, doing more than just surviving.
For the first time I'm planning on a You Tube video of me playing an electric guitar,
with effects, to sound like a Jimi Hendrix solo, or if batteries start fading, Stevie Ray Vaughn,
or the rhythm guitar to "Maneater" by Hall & Oates.
You might think my toned down, more P.A.F. Humbucker sound, with the double leads at once,
is a more exciting Stevie Ray Vaughn,
but that's more about Duane Allman and his work on "Layla" as "Derek and the Dominoes".
Blame it on those hummingbirds, that one summer.
I would have stopped playing acoustic guitar and climbed down that mountain,
if they didn't keep dropping nectar on my lips as long as I kept jamming it out.
And hummingbirds got the best nectar.
and hopefully, me saying I'm better will look that way for you too.
Yes, almost a year ago, and I'm back to where I was, doing more than just surviving.
For the first time I'm planning on a You Tube video of me playing an electric guitar,
with effects, to sound like a Jimi Hendrix solo, or if batteries start fading, Stevie Ray Vaughn,
or the rhythm guitar to "Maneater" by Hall & Oates.
You might think my toned down, more P.A.F. Humbucker sound, with the double leads at once,
is a more exciting Stevie Ray Vaughn,
but that's more about Duane Allman and his work on "Layla" as "Derek and the Dominoes".
Blame it on those hummingbirds, that one summer.
I would have stopped playing acoustic guitar and climbed down that mountain,
if they didn't keep dropping nectar on my lips as long as I kept jamming it out.
And hummingbirds got the best nectar.
