Hi Dan, With that settled, I think the last line,"Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful"...is not as enigmatic. In plain English more like "To be clear, little girl, I'm not necessarily asking you if you've been stoned but have you experienced sex. I have experience both. Want some lessons?"
Dave On 2/12/13 9:50 PM, "Dan Glover" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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