Hello David, Ant, dmb, and all Well, according to the Jimi Hendrix biography by Mary Willix (Voices from Home) the song 'Are You Experienced' is about a 15 year old girl who Jimi had the hots for. Guess Jimi ain't around to ask so I don't know for sure one way or another.
Anyway, Dan On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:15 AM, David Harding <[email protected]> wrote: > Everyone's right... > > Hendrix - A hippie - > > "The Hippie rejection of social and intellectual patterns left just two > directions to go: toward biological quality and toward Dynamic Quality. The > revolutionaries of the sixties thought that since both are antisocial, and > since both are anti-intellectual, why then they must both be the same. That > was the mistake. > > American writing on Zen during this period showed this confusion. Zen was > often thought to be a sort of innocent 'anything goes.' If you did anything > you pleased, without regard for social restraint, at the exact moment you > pleased to do it, that would express your Buddha-nature. To Japanese Zen > masters coming to this country this must have seemed really strange. Japanese > Zen is attached to social disciplines so meticulous they make the Puritans > look almost degenerate. > > Back in the fifties and sixties Phaedrus had shared this confusion of > biological quality and Dynamic Quality, but the Metaphysics of Quality seemed > to help clear it up. When biological quality and Dynamic Quality are confused > the result isn't an increase in Dynamic Quality. It's an extremely > destructive form of degeneracy of the sort seen in the Manson murders, the > Jonestown madness, and the increase of crime and drug addiction throughout > the country. In the early seventies, as people began to see this, they > dropped away from the movement, and the Hippie revolution, like the > intellectual revolution of the twenties, became a moral rebellion that > failed." > > Hendrix music is both Dynamic *and* biological.. > > On 12/02/2013, at 2:53 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> There is a sexy quality to the beat and the vocal performance but I'm with >> Ant on this one. Oddly, it's because the lyrics say something like "are you >> experienced? Well, I am. And I can prove it," then the lyrics stop for a >> while and you just hear the pure aesthetic expressiveness of his guitar >> solo, which sounds like mystical experience to me - for reasons I cannot >> say. It's not a secret or anything. I just don't know how to put that into >> words and it's not really an idea or a concept anyway. >> >> >> >>> Hi David, Ant, Jan, >>> >>> Oh, no doubt about it, David. I mean, listen to the words of the song: >>> But first... are you ex... perienced? Have you ever been experienced? >>> Well... I haaave. And the throbbing beat of the music is classic >>> Hendrix. Yep. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. >>> >>> Enlightenment? No, sorry Ant. Jimi just wants some of that sweet stuff. >>> >>> Dan >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:25 PM, David Thomas >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi Ant,Jan >>>> >>>> I think you might consider the SEX part in the sex, drugs, and rock & roll >>>> tripartite. With Hendrix drugs & rock & roll were a constant, but if you >>>> re-listen as though it's a come-on to some sweet golden beauty he was >>>> asking, "Are you experienced?" I think it will click. >>>> >>>> Makes sense to me anyway. >>>> >>>> Dave >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2/11/13 4:58 PM, "Ant McWatt" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Jan Anders Andersson stated February 8th: >>>>> >>>>> People are different and so are bathrooms. Most bathrooms are equipped >>>>> with at >>>>> least one mirror. Some bathroom mirrors are covered by a huge smiley or a >>>>> photo of a film star to disquise the real picture of the spectator. But >>>>> you >>>>> all know how hard it will be to comb your face in front of that. >>>>> >>>>> Some bathrooms have no mirror, the user is left to use the weak shadow in >>>>> the >>>>> window glass or lift the lid and look down into the small round surface >>>>> to get >>>>> a picture of him self. Sad for him if he live in an area without water >>>>> closets. >>>>> >>>>> So in this moment of 'shootgun-philosophy', isn't it just correct to ask >>>>> any >>>>> person coming out from the bathroom: "Are you experienced?" (I never >>>>> understood the title of that album but I like the music) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Ant McWatt comments: >>>>> >>>>> Well, Jan, unless you want to head over to Khoo's haunted house with a >>>>> ouija >>>>> board to ask Mr Hendrix personally, it sounds initially that he might have >>>>> been alluding to the pyschedelic experience. However, because he >>>>> qualifies >>>>> the title song of the album, right at the end, with the statement: "Not >>>>> necessarily stoned, but beautiful"... >>>>> >>>>> I think he is primarily talking about enlightenment. It's my take on it >>>>> anyway and because I always forget the last line of the song, it "gets" me >>>>> every time I listen to it! >>>>> >>>>> Best wishes, >>>>> >>>>> Ant >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> N.B. 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