It was 40 years ago today...

[Sir Stewart]

I read somewhere once that the English Rock Royalty went to see Hendrix play in a club somewhere in London the day after Pepper was released & he opened up his set with the title track. And, of course, blew everyone's minds.

I have that.

[Mr. Heartbreak]

He reportedly made the band learn it immediately. Noel and Mitch must have been rolling their eyes, like "This guy is nuts!"

[Analogman]

BBC Documentary - on Saturday

[Analogman]

I read somewhere once that the English Rock Royalty went to see Hendrix play in a club somewhere in London the day after Pepper was released & he opened up his set with the title track. And, of course, blew everyone's minds.

 

That was at The Seville Theater - which was owned by Brian Epstein.

 

Another version of that track was released on a Hendrix album called Hendrix In The West - which I have. The track is now to be found on - Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight.

[Sir Stewart]

That was at The Seville Theater - which was owned by Brian Epstein.

 

Another version of that track was released on a Hendrix album called Hendrix In The West - which I have. The track is now to be found on - Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight.

So...there's a chance my (Napster circa 1999) copy of him doing it is mislabeled?

[tongue-tied lightning]

i'd like to change yer name to Infoman

[Analogman]

So...there's a chance my (Napster circa 1999) copy of him doing it is mislabeled?

 

I don't think that Seville show was taped - I could be wrong.

[tjr]

I have that "It Was 20 Years Ago Today" special on VHS; taped it off of WTTW back in 87. Before the Beatles Anthology series, this was essential viewing for a Beatles fan. The interviews with George, Paul, Ringo, and George Martin are all very interesting for that time.

 

I haven't watched it in a very long time, but I think they show a clip of Hendrix playing "Sgt. Pepper" live.

 

I think I will dig out that tape a watch it again.

 

Happy Anniversary Pepper...

 

It's not my favorite Beatle album now, but it was when I was a kid.... I bought it on vinyl in the 70s when I was a teenager and played it constantly.

[deepseacatfish]

Sgt. Peppers is an amazing album, I remember the first time listening to it, I got it on tape for Christmas when I was in like 5th grade probably and it was just such an enjoyable album--it's only grown in depth for me since then.

 

I wouldn't call it my favorite Beatles album--I'm in the White Album camp on that one, but it is a really great album...and "A Day in the Life" is perhaps my favorite Beatles song.

[Analogman]

I haven't watched it in a very long time, but I think they show a clip of Hendrix playing "Sgt. Pepper" live.

 

 

Probably from The Isle of Wight concert.

[Dude]

It's OT but I love it when Jimi covered Like a Rolling Stone. I think I'll listen to that now. Yes, I will.

[moxiebean]

Hendrix does the Beatles:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQWAkMARoVk

[Sid Hartha]

First album I ever bought. Damn, it's been forty years.

 

While the White Album edges it out slightly over the years, nothing comes close to the impact it had on me (or the world) at the time. Everybody had to work harder on their albums after its release (including The Beatles themselves).

[Analogman]

Hendrix does the Beatles:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQWAkMARoVk

 

Good deal - should have thought of youtube - that is The Isle of Wight concert.

 

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[Sir Stewart]

Which you can also watch - from Monterey Pop.

JIMI!!

[LouieB]

First album I ever bought. Damn, it's been forty years.

 

While the White Album edges it out slightly over the years, nothing comes close to the impact it had on me (or the world) at the time. Everybody had to work harder on their albums after its release (including The Beatles themselves).

I personally don't think the Beatles ever recovered from it either, the bar had been raised so high. (It seems to have done in Brian Wilson....)

 

LouieB

[Analogman]

Of course, some people think it was too much - with all the overdubs, sped-up voices, ADT use, etc. Which is one of the reasons Music From Big Pink, John Wesley Harding and the like were championed as a return to a more simpler form of music making.

[Derek Phillips]

Of course, some people think it was too much - with all the overdubs, sped-up voices, ADT use, etc. Which is one of the reasons Music From Big Pink, John Wesley Harding and the like were championed as a return to a more simpler form of music making.

 

As was the White Album...

[Analogman]

Right - or John taking back some control.

[willywoody]

As was the White Album...

 

and sbs

[a.miller]

I wish I was alive back in 1967 to hear this for the first time. I think it's a fantastic piece of musicianship, but it's definitely different to grow up hearing an album, as opposed to all at once when it was brand new. I hope that makes sense. I would have just loved to experience the "mindfuck" when this came out back then.

[LouieB]

I wish I was alive back in 1967 to hear this for the first time. I think it's a fantastic piece of musicianship, but it's definitely different to grow up hearing an album, as opposed to all at once when it was brand new. I hope that makes sense. I would have just loved to experience the "mindfuck" when this came out back then.

As someone old enough to have heard it at 17 it was a mindfuck.....1967 was a very good year to be alive.

 

LouieB

[Analogman]

The Act You've Known for All These Years: A Year in the Life of Sgt. Pepper and Friends

 

[noyes]

As someone old enough to have heard it at 17 it was a mindfuck.....1967 was a very good year to be alive.

 

i bet. wish i was alive then too.

reading about it is good enough though. haha.

 

i gotta say,

A Day In The Life is without a doubt one of the best songs ever written.

and that ending, the screeching of all those instruments,

ending bombastically and gloriously with that Emaj chord..

masterful.

 

and "Within You, Without You".. what a song, what lyrics.

"Try to realize it's all within yourself, no one else can make you change.

And to see you're really only very small and life flows on within you and without you"

very powerful. bless George.

 

great album.

not my favorite either, but that's irrevelant.

[TCP]

As someone old enough to have heard it at 17 it was a mindfuck.....1967 was a very good year to be alive.

 

LouieB

You're the same age as my dad. Unfortunately as a result of this I was -20 when Peppers was released. I always say that, 1950, as a music fan, would probably be the best year to be born.