--- cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Don't know whether this anecdote is true, but: > B.B.King once asked Hendrix something like: > "Where do all these sounds [of his Strat, > and stuff] come from?" Hendrix had replied: > "I don't know!" > Perhaps sometime in the 80's or 90's, Mike > Bloomfield, or some such guy, told on a > TV documentary, that he still hasn't figured > out how Hendrix created some of the weird > sounds without that much effect gadgetry > (just Octavia, fuzz-box and wah-wah, in > addition to creative use of feed-back?). > I've often thought if it was possible that > Jimi's intensive emotions during playing > somehow could "distort" the sounds without > his conscious effort to do so... naah! Back in the day I was sitting stoned with my friend listening to Hendrix and with both heard him playing an ascending scale simultaneously with a descending overtone scale. We both looked at each other and said what the f**k? Hendrix blew minds with this "extra-dimensional" sound. I'm happy to see that he even didn't have a clue about its source. > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > --------------------~--> > Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make > Yahoo! your home page > http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM > --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> > " > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
