 | | | | | |
| LAPDANCE LARRY |
| SEVENTIES SIMON |
| PHOTOGRAPHY |
| COMIC ART |
| INTERVIEWS |
| Sub-menu 1.2.1.1 |
| FESTIVALS |
| EXHIBITIONS |
Hendrix in the West – Jimi Hendrix
Growing up in the seventies had its good and bad points. One good point, the release of albums like Hendrix In The West, a 1972 posthumous release originally available as either 8-track or album only. My copy was cartridge so it was on non-stop play but only after you wedged a matchbook cover in just right to get rid of the rumble. It helped form an important part of the soundtrack of my misspent youth.
As for bad points, we were outright hooligans and almost always got away with it. Our behavior, which would today probably land us in jail, was accepted then as just harmless nonsense from over enthused lads. That point was never better illustrated than by this one afternoon. A friend, let’s just call him Mr. B. drove by to show us some new high performance parts he installed on his truck. He said Let’s go for a spin, so I grabbed the Jimi tape and hopped in.
As we drove, the first couple of tracks got the right foot down only for things to drop back under the speed limit when the mellow track Little Wing kicked in. After that it was back to pedal to the metal. Traffic laws? We don’t need no stinking traffic laws! By the time we got to the screaming covers of Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode and Carl Perkins’ Blue Suede Shoes, Mr. B’s accelerator foot was out of control. We ran out of petrol way before music and stopped at a servo to fill up.
As Mr. B was leaving the station, he was so amped from the music, he floored it and we smoked our way out of the station into the flow of traffic, almost. Halfway trough the burnout, the drive shaft broke, spun itself loose and dug into the asphalt. I was soon staring straight down at the lines on the road as the rear of the truck drove over the broken driveshaft and got flicked up into the air. The motor over revved wildly just before the back of the car slammed back down to earth. Ouch! What a shot to the spine. It was extremely dangerous and stupid but we could have cared less.
In the end, I don’t know which hurt more, Mr. B’s pocketbook, our sides from laughing or my back from the jolt it sustained. A lesson wasn’t learned. Oh and if you’re interested, the Jimi 8-track made it through the ordeal unscathed and even lasted a few more years, right up until the time the cassette tape took over but then that is another story for another time.
Seventies Simon
www.jimihendrix.com
| also featured |
|
| Tenacious D – Rize Of The Fenix Comedy and music have never been the most comfortable of bedfellows. Read more >> Allan Holdsworth – Hard Hat Area When you have a musician with as much facility on their chosen instrument as Allan Holdsworth has on guitar, there is absolutely no limitation on what can actually be played. Read more >> Jack White – Blunderbuss With a work ethic and musical output rivalled by few if any, Jack White sets aside all of those numerous other projects to create a set of songs under his own name. Read more >> The Decemberists - We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11) Facing more obstacles than most in translating their studio confectionary into a meaty live sound, The Decemberists have attempted just such a thing with We All Raise Our Voices to the Air. Read more >> White Rabbits – Milk Famous Using their sophomore album, It's Frightening as a template, White Rabbits take a stab at progression. Read more >> Van Halen – A Different Kind of Truth Do some popular music statements come out of a time warp or do they create their own? Read more >> Slivovitz – Bani Ahead When you have superlative players’ on board, things can easily digress into instrumental insurrection, on Bani Ahead, Slivovitz side step this problem by being almost completely consumed by the groove. Read more >> Big Deal – Lights Out All band notoriety aside, is there any subject matter that creates more column inches than love? Read more >> My Best Fiend – In Ghostlike Fading Like the Werner Herzog film the band is named after, My Best Fiend delivers an album deep in duality. Read more >> |
|
 |
|
| Stay up to date with modmove news | |
| about modmove |
|
| What to know how we got started? Read more >> |
|
| read the modmove blog |
|
| Check out all the random stuff that didn't make it to the website! Read more >> |
|
| contact Us |
|
| If you have any queries or if you would like more information about modmove, we would love to hear from you! Read more >> |
|
| join our mailing list | |
| subscribe to the mailing list and receive the modmove newsletter. |
|
| search | |
|
Privacy Notice | Contact Us | Site Map | Copyright © 2009 modmove.com | Entertainment and Popular Culture in Review at modmove.com