Episode 157 - Jimi Hendrix - The Cry of Love - Part 2

[00:00:04] Speaker A: This is our musical reaction breakdown and commentary analysis of this song. Under fair use, we intend no copyright infringement and this is not a replacement for listening to the artist's music. The content made available on this podcast is for educational and informational purposes only, notwithstanding a copyright owner's rights under the Copyright Act. Section 107 of the Copyright act allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders for purposes such as education, criticism, comment, news, reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. These so called fair uses are permitted even if the use of the work would otherwise be infringing. Now onto the Roc Roulette Podcast. [00:01:03] Speaker B: Foreign. [00:01:15] Speaker C: Welcome back to another episode of Rock Roulette Podcast. That's right, the crazy Ass podcast. It took over 1, 500 albums. Stuck them in a list, stuck them in a wheel, and typically every other week we spin the wheel. She picks a record for us and we go through a track by track, talk about the music, the lyrics, the production, the melody and the arrangement, and we give it scores. Again, just a bunch of friends who love music want to do a podcast. We want to thank anybody who listens. As always, we really appreciate it. Spread the word. Again, this is the continuation of our third year anniversary and I mentioned it last week and I mentioned now because anybody who's been here for three years with us, we really, really appreciate that. Reach out to us. It'd be great to know someone who's been listening to us for three years because we never thought we'd be here or that anybody would listen to us because we don't even listen to us. Imagine that now. We do sometimes, but it's fun. We are foursome tonight, which is awesome. We got Frank back. [00:02:05] Speaker D: My name is Frank. [00:02:12] Speaker E: And I'm sexy. [00:02:19] Speaker F: Great to be back, everybody. [00:02:21] Speaker C: We have Steve, Steven. [00:02:24] Speaker G: Behave yourself, Steven. [00:02:26] Speaker E: Behave yourself. [00:02:29] Speaker C: What up, Mark? Oh, hi, Mark. [00:02:32] Speaker G: What's up, guys? [00:02:33] Speaker C: And I'm Sev. [00:02:34] Speaker E: Ciao, buena sira. [00:02:35] Speaker C: As has been the tradition with our anniversaries, we picked the next in line from Jimi Hendrix. And this was Cry of Love, which was a posthumous release. We're not totally sure unless Mark did some more research on exactly what was completed, what wasn't completed. I think some things came across to us as being completed last week, and some things may not have been. I know two songs without a doubt stuck out for me. The more rocking songs and. And unfortunately I gave some lower scores than Steve and Mark, but it's still Hendrix. And those two songs are actually two, some of the best songs that I've heard. Freedom and I Forgot the other one. But I'm sure Mark will remind me. Mark, I mean, overall, as, let's say, the biggest Hendrix fan, Where does this rank for you in terms of. Of his records? [00:03:15] Speaker G: I don't think it beats any of the first three. It probably doesn't even bend the gypsies. More than likely. There's some cool stuff on here, like Freedom is on here, Easy Rider. There's a couple of songs on the next side which are really good. I mean, I think it's good. I wish he was actually alive and they could have finished this up. We'll never know what exactly would have happened to every kind of music, popular music, if he would have stayed alive into the 70s, into the 80s, who knows what it would have been? I do like the album. I think there's some good stuff on here. I wish he was here to finish it, though. [00:03:40] Speaker C: Easy Rider, that was the other big one I liked. I remember associating it with the movie. Steve, what's your overall take so far? [00:03:46] Speaker E: So it's interesting. I'm actually liking it. The part that I'm not liking is the unfinished aspect to it. It's wanting me to want more, but I know I'll never actually get it. It's a little bit of a disappointment, I guess. [00:03:57] Speaker C: Frank, you weren't here last time to listen to it as we were listening to it, but you did check it out. What' takeaway so far from the first side? [00:04:04] Speaker F: Classic Hendrix. Love it. I think that there was a little bit of a debate if this was considered his fourth studio album or not, because a lot of artists out there were saying to be considered complete, all tracks would have been laid out and arranged by Hendrix. And apparently he only did half the arrangements, and the other half was. Some of the other albums were arranged differently. I think that was a big debate. But I like it. I think it's great. I hear a little bit of that early, early 70s funk sound a little bit in some of those jams that he has. There would have been great. Just to see how his talents would have evolved through the 70 and 80s, and what it would have been like. [00:04:36] Speaker C: I have one question, which I'll propose one thing that we've kind of talked about before and I guess we can talk about now. Mark, I'll start with you. Let's say Hendrix still alive all these years. Do you think he would have kept going? He would have kept progressing through the technology? Do you think he would have simplified? Do you think he would have just kept blowing everyone away? What do you think, Mark? [00:04:55] Speaker G: I mean, it's hard to tell. I think he would have embraced whatever technology came up because he kind of did that through the 60s. He was kind of on the cutting edge of all that stuff, so I would assume he would continue to do that. I think pop music would have been different. I think the 70s would have definitely been different. Whether he would have transitioned to the 80s, well, I don't know. Take the 70s would have been way different than it ended up being. Who knows if even favorite bands we have now from the 70s would have even happened? Who knows? You don't even know what his impact would have been. I don't really know, but I think he would have taken the technology and whatever it was and used it to his advantage. [00:05:25] Speaker C: Frank, do you agree with that? [00:05:26] Speaker F: 100%. Guys like that, they don't stop evolving. They don't stop reinventing things. They just go to the next level. Honestly, I do believe that if he was still alive, he would have taken guitar playing to much higher levels. That may perhaps would have completely changed the way we hear guitar play today. I don't think we would have guitar playing in its form today. If he was still around, it would have been much different, probably. [00:05:48] Speaker C: Steve, do you concur? [00:05:49] Speaker E: Yeah, I can concur that someone like him would definitely evolve with everything. As the technology evolved, I think it would, like, peak curiosity and. Good one. I'll just keep going with it and how do I use it, how do I master it, and how do I do something that other people aren't doing is that's the thing. Yeah, I can see that. [00:06:05] Speaker C: I agree too. I just want to see if you all agree with me. I do think he would have used the technology to its utmost potential. And God knows what he could have done. Look at the stuff he's done in terms of recording. And Mark, you always bring up, hey, this was done this way. It couldn't be done that way. It had to be done this way and cut this way and reverse this way. We mentioned Tom Morello a lot. I always feel that when I hear his approach, his interesting approach, and he can shred to too. We found that out listening to their first record. Just that interesting additions and spin that he put on the solos. I always kind of think I could picture Hendrix kind of smiling like, hey, man, yeah, right on. You know, you're kind of doing this shit. That's the shit that I would have done. I may have done it earlier, but, hey, cool, we get to continue the second side today, which is always cool. But obviously before we do that, we have our newest segment, which is the New Bets. [00:06:56] Speaker E: In a world where new music is not easy to find, welcome to New Bets. [00:07:14] Speaker G: Okay, it's New Bets time. [00:07:18] Speaker C: Oh, another call. How do they know? Mark, I think you have to answer. [00:07:25] Speaker G: Hello? [00:07:27] Speaker H: Hey. Hey guys. So like, what is this, Rock roulette? I think my phone dialed itself myself. I was trying to order tacos. Uh, yeah, so hi, I'm the Trickster. You know, from TikTok. I'm the guy who duct taped 47 bananas to my ceiling while doing the Macarena in a Spider man costume. Yeah, 12 million views. Oh, and I also invented the backwards skateboard sandwich challenge. Google it. Or don't. Wait, what? This is your three year anniversary. Oh, wow. Congrats, I guess. Uh, yeah, I totally meant to call. I love, uh, rocks and spinning. Yeah, big fan. Is this like gambling with guitars or something? You like, spin a wheel and a little tiny Kiss member pops out like you guys spin rocks? Or is it like you gamble with guitars? Someone told me I'd win a free raccoon if I called. Was that a lie? Oh, it's a podcast. Well, uh, happy birthday or whatever. Three years is like older than my attention span, so that's pretty cool. I mean, that's commitment, man. I can't even finish a Hot Pocket without getting distracted. Okay, I gotta go feed my lizard now. Love you, Rock Spinning Podcast. [00:08:37] Speaker D: Byeeeee. [00:08:39] Speaker C: I feel out of touch. I have no idea who that is. [00:08:42] Speaker G: You've never heard that voice on every video that's out there. He's everywhere, that guy. [00:08:46] Speaker C: Oh, I thought it was a bad spongebob impersonator. I don't know him. I'm sorry, you guys know him? I don't know him. The world guy? [00:08:55] Speaker G: No. [00:08:55] Speaker C: But hey, I guess we're big enough to attract whoever tapes Bananas to the ceil. We have a very varied audience. [00:09:02] Speaker G: Yes, we do. Okay. [00:09:06] Speaker C: Someone'S calling on the POTS line. That sounds like a real phone. [00:09:12] Speaker G: Should we answer it? Yeah, okay. [00:09:14] Speaker C: Hopefully somebody I know. [00:09:18] Speaker G: Okay. Hello? [00:09:19] Speaker I: Yeah, baby, this is the Red Rocker himself, Sammy Hagar. I heard old Diamond Dave already called in. Probably did one of his little high kicks and screamed in your ear, huh? Look, that guy talks a big game. He's always dancing and flashing those teeth. But let's be real, I'm the guy who kept that Van Halen train rolling while he's out there swinging swords and spandex. I'm actually driving 200 miles an hour with rock roulette on the stereo. So I just had to call in and say, happy third anniversary. Three years of spinning the wheel and cranking the rock. Now that's something to celebrate. Keep that volume up. Keep the party in the fast lane. And hey, next time you need a real front man to call in, forget Diamond Dave. You got Sammy. There's only one way to rock. [00:10:07] Speaker C: So do you think the reason he can't drive 55 is because of us? [00:10:12] Speaker G: Maybe. [00:10:14] Speaker C: He does 200 listening to us. [00:10:16] Speaker E: That's impressive. [00:10:17] Speaker C: Maybe he wants it over as quickly as possible. [00:10:20] Speaker G: Well, it looks like he has something against David Lee Roth, though. [00:10:22] Speaker C: I guess so. I thought those two are the best of friends. Oh. [00:10:27] Speaker G: Oh, boy. Wow, it's been an eventful third year. We got lots of people calling this time. Some people we didn't even know listen to us. [00:10:33] Speaker C: I'm glad celebrities know that we're having our year anniversies. And that's when they call. [00:10:36] Speaker G: Yeah. Why don't they call the rest of the year? That's my question. [00:10:38] Speaker C: I guess you take what you can get, right? [00:10:40] Speaker G: Guess so. Okay, so let's do it. Here is the new bets wheel. [00:10:58] Speaker C: Blank labels, Drive. I defer to you, Mark, as I do most of the times. You spin this wheel because you put these on. [00:11:03] Speaker G: I have no idea what the this is. [00:11:05] Speaker C: Anybody know blank labels before we look them up? [00:11:07] Speaker E: No idea. [00:11:08] Speaker F: Nope. [00:11:08] Speaker G: We've been getting some weird stuff on this wheel. Although last week we got Rolling Stone, so that was good. [00:11:12] Speaker C: Which was cool. Alternative rock band from Wichita Falls, Texas. They're known for their diverse sound, with each song offering a unique feel. The band is currently working on new music and has singles like Drive available on stream. [00:11:23] Speaker E: Cool. [00:11:23] Speaker G: Let's see what this is like. This is blank labels Drive. [00:11:31] Speaker B: Baby, I could drive all night if you're just by my side. We ain't gotta go nowhere if you. [00:11:40] Speaker D: Just hold me tight. [00:11:43] Speaker B: All the people stop and stare? You say you gotta fix your hair? But I wouldn't change a thing about you? Oh, you drive me crazy? Come on, baby, just ride me into the night. Oh, our cat so down when we get into town? You know it's so hard to do with you around? All the people stop and stare? You know I don't really care. [00:12:40] Speaker E: The. [00:12:41] Speaker B: Faster we go you know they're not really there. You drive me crazy? Come on, baby, just ride with me into the night. Why you drive me crazy? Come on, make it ride me into the night. You drive me. [00:13:41] Speaker E: Crazy? [00:13:43] Speaker C: Just ride with me into the night. [00:13:50] Speaker B: You drive me so crazy? Come on, baby, just ride with me out of the night. You drive me so crazy. Come on baby just ride me into the night. You drive me feel so crazy. Come on baby get drive with me into the night. You drive me so crazy. Get rid into the night. [00:14:52] Speaker C: I thought that was cute. That's the word that I think of, cute. [00:14:55] Speaker E: It was an upbeat like song. [00:14:57] Speaker C: They sound young. I could be wrong. [00:14:59] Speaker G: I don't know. I know nothing about them. In some ways it's very 90s and in some ways I this very 2000s. [00:15:05] Speaker E: Yeah, I was thinking as 90s sound with 2000s production. That's kind of how I felt. [00:15:11] Speaker C: Blink 182 with a little bit of southern accent with something else. [00:15:15] Speaker F: One of those High School musical songs. Just nice upbeat, made you smile. Not something I would listen to. I'll repeat. [00:15:21] Speaker C: It did make me smile. It does like. I could almost do like the batusi to it. [00:15:26] Speaker G: The batusi. [00:15:27] Speaker C: It was cute. [00:15:30] Speaker G: I mean it wasn't bad. [00:15:31] Speaker C: No. [00:15:32] Speaker G: What did you think of the drum sound? [00:15:34] Speaker C: I wouldn't say it wasn't as bad, but I'll be honest with you, I wasn't paying attention as much to it. Shaking my head from side to side. [00:15:39] Speaker G: Yeah, I didn't think it was bad. [00:15:40] Speaker C: No, it wasn't terrible. [00:15:41] Speaker G: Production was a little weird because it felt like it was clipping at the top. I don't know if that makes sense to you. [00:15:47] Speaker C: I heard that. I agree. [00:15:48] Speaker G: Song wise though, it was catchy. [00:15:49] Speaker C: Very catchy. I wish them luck. [00:15:51] Speaker G: Good for them. If you like it, let us know. If you don't like it, let us know. And let's do our rubber stamp. [00:15:57] Speaker E: In a world where new music is not easy to find. Welcome to New Bets. [00:16:16] Speaker G: Well, let's continue. This next song is called Straight Ahead. [00:16:28] Speaker B: Sam, so happy to see you again. [00:16:57] Speaker D: I was so alone all by myself but it couldn't make it. Have you heard, baby? What the wind's blowing round have you heard, baby? Whole lot of people's coming right on down. Communication, yeah, it's coming out strong. Don't give a damn baby if your hair is show up long. I said get out of your crane. Everybody is dancing in the street. [00:17:56] Speaker B: Parking. [00:17:58] Speaker D: Do what you know, don't be slow, you gotta practice on the bridge, yeah. Cause it's time for you and me Come to fake reality Forget about the past baby, things ain't what they used to be. Keep on straight ahead. Keep on straight ahead. [00:18:46] Speaker C: I'm definitely digging the groove without a doubt. I do feel like this could be one that may not have all been there, though there's a slight sloppiness. I feel that's kind of going on in it and I could be wrong. I don't know if you guys are picking up on it. [00:18:58] Speaker B: It. [00:18:58] Speaker C: Steve, what do you think so far? [00:19:00] Speaker E: I'm digging the funkiness to it and the groove. But yeah, I feel like there's something a little funny. And I feel like that verse that they just did was way longer than it should be. I kind of just dragged on. [00:19:11] Speaker C: Agree. It kind of just went on and on and even Mark didn't stop it. [00:19:16] Speaker G: I didn't know where to stop it. That's the problem. Felt like it just kept going. I was waiting for the chorus to happen. Even when you look at the words, it's definitely not right. Whoever wrote the words down, they're thinking what the chorus and what the verses are. I don't even know where verses and choruses are coming and going. So I've tried to get it to where I thought the name of the song had happened. And that's where I kind of stopped it. The groove is great. I think this is definitely an unfinished track. There are parts there that are great. His guitar parts that he's doing. But I think he would have tightened this up. I don't think this would have stayed like this. [00:19:40] Speaker C: At one point. Did it get lower when it first started? I love the groove and I thought he was going to give us a little bit of shaft in the beginning. But then it was very low and I said, you know what? I remember from last week, I kind of jacked these up because the production is low in general, it seems. I jacked it up and it was sounding better. But then I honestly thought you didn't stop it because it sounded like it was fading a little bit in the volume. I don't know if anybody else caught that or if that was you, Mark. If not, it happened on my. I didn't adjust the volume. [00:20:05] Speaker G: It wasn't me. No. I heard a little bit of a lowering or volume. I just think that this wasn't finished. It's got to be what it is. [00:20:11] Speaker F: Yeah. You could definitely tell that we're just going ahead. Just jamming with the idea of going back and cleaning it up. That's what it sounds like. I agree with you 100%. It kind of goes back to what I may mention. Like when I listen to that first side, you hear a lot of that 70s funk, early versions of it creeping into this sound in this album. [00:20:29] Speaker C: There was a little bit of disco. I felt A little bit of that shaft, a little bit of that. [00:20:33] Speaker F: Kind of what we call the fuzzy bear the wall one. [00:20:42] Speaker E: Used properly, right? Not overused, Correct? Yeah. [00:20:46] Speaker C: Okay. Yeah. [00:20:47] Speaker G: You're like some people that will remain nameless. That person. This is correctly used Wawa. [00:20:52] Speaker C: Steve, want to drop some funky lyrics on us? [00:20:54] Speaker E: Hello, my friend. So happy to see you again. I was so alone all by myself I just couldn't make it have you heard, baby, what's the wind blowing round? Have you are, baby A whole lot of people coming right on down Communication, yeah, is coming on strong And I don't give a damn, baby if your hair is short or long I said get out of your grave oh, everybody is dancing in the street do what you know do not be slow. You go practice what you preach yeah because it's time for you and me Come to face reality Forget about the past, baby, things ain't what they used to be Keep on straight ahead Keep on straight ahead Straight ahead, baby Straight ahead, baby. [00:21:37] Speaker C: He gets it all in. [00:21:38] Speaker E: Yeah. [00:21:39] Speaker C: Very quickly. [00:21:41] Speaker G: It's really long. [00:21:42] Speaker E: It's definitely unfinished, I think. [00:21:44] Speaker C: So There isn't a lot of breakup. But that funk behind is awesome. And yeah, Mark, like you said, his guitar parts are great. So I'm curious to see where else this goes. If it goes anywhere. It just kind of keeps on this trajectory. [00:21:53] Speaker G: He's a little bit of ahead of his time, I think with the funkiness. This he's showing what's going to happen a little bit later on in the 70s. Let's back it up a little bit. Let's see. Here we go. [00:22:41] Speaker D: We gotta stand side by side. [00:22:44] Speaker C: Good stuff. Definitely in line with. With the song. [00:22:47] Speaker G: Yeah, that panning back and forth. There was a lot of panning, like fast panning. Left, right, left, right, left, right. Obviously, the guitar playing is great. There's not much more, I have to say. And there's a lot of wah, wah. But again, you don't feel like it's being overused, even though it's on everything. He knows how to use that correctly and doesn't feel like it's being used as a crutch or anything. It just feels like it's part of what he's doing. Kind of like Eddie Van Halen with tapping. You don't feel his tapping is a thing to show off. [00:23:10] Speaker E: Comes naturally. [00:23:11] Speaker G: Yep. [00:23:11] Speaker C: This is a Wawa song. It fits in perfectly. I know who we're mentioning before, but it's different if you're kind of doing a heavy song and you don't really expect wahua in this solo. And it kind of comes in and sometimes it kind of detracts, I think, from the heaviness. I mean, this is just straight up. Hey, you can play wawa throughout this thing because it just sounds right, I think. [00:23:29] Speaker F: Love it. I love the funkiness of the song. Even though listening to something that in our opinions is very raw and doesn't seem to be complete, it's still so damn good. It just opens up your eyes as to what could have been if he was still with us throughout those 70s. [00:23:43] Speaker G: All right, let's finish this out. Here we go. [00:23:50] Speaker D: We got to stand side by side. We got to stand together and organize. Send power to the people. [00:23:59] Speaker J: Passing with the screaming. [00:24:01] Speaker D: Freedom of the soul, Pass it on, pass along to the young and old. You gotta tell the truth and the. [00:24:08] Speaker B: Truth. [00:24:10] Speaker D: They don't need a whole lot of lies. Because one of these days ain't even dummy running things. So when you give them love, you better give it right. When a child, man and wife. The best love to have is love life. That's love living Spirit of heaven. Hello, my friends. It's so good to see you again. [00:24:59] Speaker B: All by myself. [00:25:01] Speaker D: I don't think I can make it alone. [00:25:38] Speaker C: Mark, you got a fade out and a solo. You must be happy. [00:25:42] Speaker G: Well, that doesn't show you that this is unfinished. Nothing. Well, you can even tell by the lyrics. He's trying to work the lyrics out and figure out what it's going to be, and he just hadn't finished it. But it's great otherwise. [00:25:51] Speaker C: Lyrics aren't bad, at least from what I heard. See if you got some more to read there. [00:25:54] Speaker E: Yep. We got to stand side by side. We got to stand together and organize. Send the power to the people. That's where they're screaming. Freedom of the soul, pass it on, pass it on to the young and to the old. You gotta tell the children truth. They don't need a whole lot of lies. Because one of these days, baby, they'll be running things. So when you give them love, you better give it right. Woman and child, man and wife. The best love, love to have is the love of life. Hello, my friend. It's cool. Good to see you again. How have you been? All by myself, I don't think I can make it totally finished. But maybe even kind of like a political stance maybe. [00:26:33] Speaker C: Yeah, I think it's hopeful. Hey, you know, just watch what you say, what you do. I think we'll let Frank go first since he wasn't here last week. [00:26:39] Speaker F: Man, the lyrics, I do like, even though they kind of. I don't know, it just has that feel. We're just putting a bunch of words and we'll sort out the rest of it. They still sound so good. So I'm gonna give lyrics here a 7. Melo melody. I'll come back to that one in a minute. Music. I love it. Gonna give that an eight. Actually, I'm gonna give eight across the board after that. I just really do love that funk sound. And, like, I shared. It just sounds like the early beginnings of that 70s sound. As far as the melody, I'm gonna give that a six. [00:27:06] Speaker C: Steve. [00:27:06] Speaker E: I think I'm gonna do six with the lyrics. Just because there's things in there that you can see that there are ideas and they're looking around. There's other things that are on board. It's kind of unfinished music. I'm gonna say an 8. Love that funky groove. And the. That was. I was low on that, too. Music is definitely an eight melody. I'll go with rank. I think I'll do a six on the melody. Just because, honestly, I don't believe it's not complete arrangement. Again, it's kind of hard to read an arrangement if it's not a complete song, but from what I heard, I'll give it a 7. Solid production. I'll say a 7. I hear everything. Everything kind of had its place in the mix. It wasn't bad, Mark. [00:27:47] Speaker G: It is unfinished. So the unfinishedness of it is going to dictate what my scores are going to be. If it was a little more finished, I would probably give it a little bit better. I do like song. I like the guitar playing, obviously. Even the drums at the end with some cool Mitch Mitchell stuff at the end, which is great. I'm only going to say six on the lyrics because they're not finished. And you can see he was trying to work out parts. There was some unrhymed things. I'm going to do the same thing for the melody, but then I'm going to give eight on music. I'm going to get seven on arrangement. And even though the production isn't the greatest, I still think it's probably hard to mix this and produce this when it's not everything you need. I'm going to give it a seven just because of that Saf. [00:28:21] Speaker C: Seven on the lyrics. [00:28:21] Speaker B: Lyrics. [00:28:22] Speaker C: I like the message. Seven on the music. I'll say six on arrangement, six on production, and six on the melody. I do think it's a good song, but I kind of wanted a Little bit more from it. And I don't think I can give it as much as I gave on the first side. Like Freedom and Easy Rider in terms of the eights for what it is. The groove is great and I would probably listen to it again. I probably like it even more the second time. [00:28:45] Speaker G: I do think that if he had a chance to flesh this out, it would have been a much better song. The chorus isn't super strong. I think he would have fixed that too. I just think this was in some sort of finished state and I guess that's why they used it. Maybe there was other stuff that wasn't even as finished as this and they couldn't use it. So this had to be a hard production to do. Just cuz like one of your best friends just died. It's like only six months later. It's tough. And to get something that you know you were working on that would have been much better to have it in this state and not be able to fix it. The next song is Astro Man. [00:29:27] Speaker D: A little boy inside a dream Just the other day his mind fell out of his face and the wind blew it away My hand came out from heaven and pinned a badge on his chest Just say get out there man and do your. [00:29:54] Speaker B: They call him Astral man and his. [00:29:58] Speaker D: Blood is higher than Battlefield Superman River Cool. Oh, they call him Cosmic Nut and he's twice as famous as Donald Dunn and he'll try his best to screw. [00:30:16] Speaker B: You up the rest of your life. [00:30:22] Speaker C: Parts here I like. Parts here seem a bit rushed. I can't tell. There's probably people that are going to listen to this. You idiots. You can't tell what is and what isn't. Morons. This one is and this one isn't. This one also sounds a bit pieced together. But the bass is cool. The bass line that starts it off. But the base of the song I think is cool too. There's something good there that to me isn't fleshed out perfectly yet, but I'm digging it so I want to keep on going. [00:30:47] Speaker G: Yeah, like the little Mighty Mouse reference at the beginning. That's pretty funny. [00:30:50] Speaker C: Yeah, I meant to mention that. Good. Good job. [00:30:53] Speaker G: There are parts of this that are definitely worked out. And think he knows what he wants to do with the verse. The keys. Verse is kind of worked out. The chorus I think he's kind of working that out. But the verses to me feel like he knows what he wants to do there. And it's that talky singing thing that he does making a story in talkie singing. And I really do like when he does that, so I really enjoy that a lot. I'm just curious to see what happens a little bit later. I forgot. I haven't listened to this in a long time. I don't know if I remember exactly what happens as I listen to it. I'm like, oh, yeah, I haven't heard this in a long time. I think it's in partial states of being. Fan finished. [00:31:22] Speaker E: I like the bass. It's kind of driving and I like the tone, so a nice overdrive kind of tone. I kind of like the concept that he's going with right now, But I think the rest of the song kind of needs to be worked out a little better. [00:31:32] Speaker F: Love how it started off strong, actually. I was laughing to myself because that opening reminded me of that clerk scene where they're sitting down with a Russian guy. And it was cousin rushing. It was. Would you like to. Ticking Clock Berserker. [00:31:49] Speaker C: Great movie. Yeah. [00:31:50] Speaker F: Great classic. You could definitely tell this is one of those songs that they knew the direction they want to go in. You hear it right from the start. I'm just interested to see if it finishes as strong as it starts or if it's just one of those. We had a really good start. We had a really good finish. But the middle had to be hatched out. [00:32:05] Speaker C: Yep. I'm curious, too, Steve, you want to read these interesting lyrics? [00:32:08] Speaker E: A little boy inside a dream Just the other day his mind fell out of his face and the wind blew it away A hand came out from heaven and pinned a badge on his chest it said gag get out there, man and do your best they call him Astro man and he's flying higher Than that old Superman ever could oh, they call him a cosmic nut and he's twice as dense as Donald Buck and he'll try his best to screw you up the rest of your mind. [00:32:36] Speaker G: Yeah. [00:32:38] Speaker C: This is what I expect as far as lyrics from Jimi Hendrix writing Astroman. [00:32:43] Speaker G: Yeah. It's not surprising. This is what it should be, really. I'm surprised that lyric is in there. It's interesting. I think he meant that lyric as to try to provoke somebody. I don't think he means that. [00:32:56] Speaker C: Maybe. Yeah. Because, I mean, he was. Seemed like an all encompassing, groovy dude. [00:33:00] Speaker G: Yeah. Interesting. Again, probably not finished. That wasn't going to be the lyric that actually went on the end part. He probably would have changed that, I would think. I don't know. I don't see him doing that. [00:33:11] Speaker C: Me neither. [00:33:11] Speaker G: All right, let's Continue. Here we go. [00:33:18] Speaker B: Sam Ram. [00:34:38] Speaker C: The bass in this song is so tasty. I love the bass. Right, Steve, Musicianship wise, there's nothing wrong with this. The arrangement and production are lacking a bit here. It still feels kind of jumbled. It's not jumbled to the point where it's unlistenable, but it just feels a bit jumbled because of everything that's going on. And maybe that's it. The levels of things and some of the dynamics that could be there maybe aren't there, but what's being played is good. Mark, do you agree or am I? [00:35:07] Speaker G: It's definitely not finished. In that part that we just listened to, where I was doing the phaser kind of thing, that would have been probably more pronounced. This is not finished. Like we said, with a couple of other songs in the first side and a couple songs here. Is that how good this would have been if he was finished now? He did use the word again in the chorus. Is he really mean to say this? I'm not sure. Doesn't really make sense to me. Unless we're taking the use of that word wrong now. And maybe it meant something different when he was trying to say it. I don't know. Musician wise, I think Steve has a new favorite bass player. Billy Cock. [00:35:37] Speaker E: You, super talented. [00:35:39] Speaker F: He's going to show you the talent that even when it's not complete, it's still amazing. Just next level play here for sure. [00:35:45] Speaker C: Was there anything else or. [00:35:46] Speaker E: No, actually, there's just a little look out for my guitar part and then the chorus and then nothing else. [00:35:52] Speaker C: Okay. So that was it. Okay. [00:35:53] Speaker G: All right. I'll back it up just a little bit and then we can go into whatever break that is. Here we go. [00:36:06] Speaker D: There it goes. [00:36:07] Speaker C: There it goes. [00:36:13] Speaker B: Larry, go. Larry, go. [00:36:17] Speaker D: It's trying to shout out the rest. [00:36:19] Speaker B: Of your mind it's going to power. [00:36:22] Speaker D: The rest of your mind Talking about living for peace of mind I throw out a leaving pieces Happy about your behind Lift you fire out in pieces yeah. Rest of your mind the rest of. [00:36:43] Speaker B: Your mind it's going to have the. [00:36:46] Speaker J: Rest of your mind. [00:37:03] Speaker C: Obviously those aspects remind you of the things that he would do. Without a doubt, some of the volume things. Mark. So you, like I said, some of the panning things, the phasing things a bit. Mumbled for me. Even though the bass of the song is strong, cool. It's like Hendrix jamming, which is cool. He's funky. I like it. [00:37:21] Speaker G: Yeah. To what Frank said. Even though it's not finished, you can tell the talent of him that even in an unfinished song you're like, this song is good even if it's not finished. How much better would it have been if it was finished? And it kind of brings you into the idea of what his technique of writing songs is like. He puts stuff down. How many versions did he put down of this to try to figure out where he was going to go until he got to the part where this is the actual arrangement of this song. He never got to that part. But guitar playing is great. Everything's good. [00:37:45] Speaker C: I think the dynamics to me is where a full blown thing would have in production. Obviously that's kind of where I think the song really would have been fleshed out. [00:37:55] Speaker G: Yeah, I think so. [00:37:56] Speaker C: Steve, anything else to read the requirements. I know he was scatting there at the end. [00:38:00] Speaker E: Yeah, there's some more to go. There he goes, there he goes, goes. When he stops no one knows. There he goes, there he goes. He's trying to trying to blow out the rest of your mind. He's going to blow up the rest of your mind. Talking about looking for peace of mind. Astro man will leave in pieces. Have you put out of your trouble behind him. Make you fly around pieces, yeah, blow out the rest of your mind. Astro man will blow out the rest of your mind. You thought to blow out the rest of your mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Blow out the rest of your mind. [00:38:34] Speaker G: I think so. [00:38:36] Speaker E: He's gonna blow out your mind. [00:38:38] Speaker C: The rest your mind. [00:38:41] Speaker G: I'll go first. I'm gonna say seven on the lyrics, seven on the melody, seven on the music, six on the arrangement because it's not finished and six on production. I just can't give it straight sevens because it's not finished enough. There's a great song here if it could ever make been finished. Saf. [00:38:56] Speaker C: I think a bit on the lyrics on this one. I say four on the lyric. Not necessarily my favorite. And not even about what was going on in the course. Just in general. I think he's done better. I'll say a seven on the music, six on the arrangement, I'll say six on production and a five on the melody. I wasn't really digging the melody. I don't think it's a bad song. I think there's a really good song there that just needed to be fleshed. [00:39:19] Speaker F: Out a bit more frank and lyrics, melody. I'm going to give those six. I still like the music a lot. I really do. I'm gonna give the music seven the arrangement, seven production. A six. There's Some good bones in here. The way it was recorded the way it is right now. Yeah, I can't give it higher than that, but man, it had such potential. I wish we would have gotten a finished product on this because there's easily nines this song. [00:39:42] Speaker E: Steve lyrics. I think I'm gonna go six. There's more to go with these lyrics. I think it is better that worked. Melody. I'll say six. Probably two. The music. I was originally gonna say six, but that last half of it was kind of just groovy and jammy and I was kind of digging it. So I'm gonna go seven. Arrangement. It's kind of hard to say cuz again it's. It's really not finished. So how do you judge something that's not finished? I'll say six on that. Production was a little weird for me. I heard the volumes going up and down, so I'll see live on production for that. [00:40:20] Speaker G: The next song is Angel. This was recorded just months before he died in September of 1970. It is about a dream he had about his mom. He had this song written even into 1967. Was recorded with the title Little Wing in Olympic Studios in London. But then he changed the name later on. Obviously it went from Sweet angel to Angel. Then he had other titles he called My Angel, Katharina, Return of Little Wing. Connecting to the Little Wing he recorded on Access. Bold is Love. This has been around for a while. After delaying progress on the song for over two years, Hangs returned to work on angel with Mitchell and bassist Billy Cox in July 1970 during census for this planned fourth studio album. The master recording was produced at Electric Lady Studios on July 23, the last of seven takes. Overdubbing and mixing were completed on August 20, and Mitch Mitchell added further drum overdubs on October 19, 1970. This should be fairly complete. [00:41:13] Speaker F: This is one of his hits, though. [00:41:14] Speaker G: This is a song you've probably heard. [00:41:16] Speaker F: I think this is one of his hits for sure. I've heard it on the radio before. I'll look this up while we play it. But I do believe it was a release. [00:41:22] Speaker G: It could have been. This is definitely a finished song. At least from everything I'm reading here, it's finished. Okay, here's Angel. [00:41:48] Speaker J: Angel came down from heaven yesterday she stayed with me just long enough to. [00:41:58] Speaker B: Rescue me. [00:42:03] Speaker D: And she. [00:42:03] Speaker J: She told me a story yesterday. [00:42:09] Speaker D: About. [00:42:10] Speaker J: The sweet love between the moon and the deep blue sea and then she spread her waves high over me she. [00:42:23] Speaker D: Said she's gone, come back tomorrow. [00:42:33] Speaker F: And. [00:42:33] Speaker D: I said fly on My sweet angel Fly on through the sky Fly on. [00:42:50] Speaker J: My sweet angel. [00:42:56] Speaker D: Tomorrow I'm gonna be by your. [00:43:27] Speaker C: I'm pretty sure I've heard this one before. This isn't one of my favorites. [00:43:30] Speaker F: It was released as a B side to the Freedom single in the US and it was an A size single in the uk. [00:43:36] Speaker G: Okay. Yeah. I didn't even know that. Good job. [00:43:38] Speaker C: I mean, obviously listening to classic rock radio and rock radio, they don't always have to play the single. So growing up, I mean, we've probably heard this. I've definitely heard this song. [00:43:47] Speaker E: Oh yeah. [00:43:47] Speaker F: In New York. It was WNEW at late night. I would play these kind of songs. [00:43:51] Speaker C: 10:27 this one's okay. I can like the vibe of it, but the melody and the music to me is slightly off. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be that way. It's okay. It's not one of my favorites so far. [00:44:01] Speaker G: It's definitely finished. This is definitely done. You can tell the difference in the production right off the bat. The last line. Kind of weird. Even though this is supposed to be about his mother coming to see him. Once Steve reads the words, we're going to talk about the chorus and how that kind of impacts what happened. It's kind of foreshadowing a little bit, but I like it. I think I always had a problem with the beat of the drums on this more than anything anything else. I always felt like they weren't synced enough for me. He's playing some really off time things, which kind of throws me off. I think that's the only part that bothers me a little bit. Other than that I like it a. [00:44:31] Speaker C: Lot, but I guess that's what it is too. Maybe. It's still kind of sloppy ish to me. Even in the beginning, when you hear the symbols, they sound a bit off, which is a bit odd for me. No, see, what do you think of this one? [00:44:42] Speaker E: It's not bad. I mean, I've heard this one before plenty of times. I'm definitely familiar with it. I do dig the vibe and the overall notebook quality of it. There is something that may be slightly off on it, but I hear. [00:44:53] Speaker C: Speaking of lyrics, angel came down from. [00:44:56] Speaker E: Heaven yesterday she stayed with me just long enough to rescue me and she told me a story yesterday about the sweet love the moon up Sweet love between the moon and the deep sea and then she spread her wings high over me and she said she's going to come back tomorrow and I said fly on my sweet angel Fly on through the sky Fly on, my sweet angel Tomorrow moon could be by your. [00:45:18] Speaker G: Side It's a little strange if you read the lyrics. This was completed right before he passed away. Angel came down from heaven yesterday she stayed with me just. Just long enough to rescue me. And then she said she's gonna come back tomorrow. And they said, fly on, sweet angel Fly onto the sky Fly on, my sweet angel Tomorrow I'm gonna be by your side Freaky. And I never really realized this was done right prior to him dying. When you take that into consideration, he has some kind of force foreshadowing this was gonna happen. I don't know. Let's play some more and let's see if that theme continues through the rest of the song. Here we go. [00:45:49] Speaker J: Sure enough. This morning came home to me Silver wing silhouette against a child. [00:46:04] Speaker D: And my. [00:46:05] Speaker J: Angel she said unto me. [00:46:11] Speaker D: Today is. [00:46:12] Speaker J: The day for you to rise Take. [00:46:18] Speaker D: My hand, you're gonna be my man. [00:46:21] Speaker J: Gonna rise Then she took me high. [00:46:27] Speaker B: Over yeah, that I said fly on. [00:46:37] Speaker J: My street, angel. [00:46:43] Speaker D: Fly on through the sky. [00:46:50] Speaker J: Fly on, my sweet angel. [00:46:57] Speaker D: Forever. [00:46:58] Speaker J: I will be back by your side. [00:47:05] Speaker C: Again. It sounds off for whatever reason, not the whole song, but there are parts, especially kind of like when the chorus comes in. And I'm not crazy about what he's doing on the drums with the toms and stuff like that, which is for me to be critical of Mitch Mitchell, if that's him. This song just isn't working. Part of the verse that works for me, but the rest of it is a bit. I don't know. [00:47:24] Speaker G: I mean, it's said that Mitch Mitchell came in and did some more drums after the fact. I don't know what changed. To me, the drums are really the weak part of this song. And that's a hard, hard thing for me to say, because I love Mitch Mitchell. I know you like him, too. And most of the stuff he plays is great. [00:47:36] Speaker C: Absolutely. [00:47:37] Speaker G: Even, like the fills in the chorus, it wants to be on time. Unless this is what he wanted. He wanted that uneasy feeling. I don't know. And there's more foreshadowing in this verse. [00:47:46] Speaker C: Too, so you want to read more? [00:47:47] Speaker E: Dry enough. This morning came up to me Silver rings Sil against the child Sunrise and my angels he said unto me Today is the day for you to rise. Take my hands, you're going to be my man and you're going to rise. And then she took me high over Younger. [00:48:08] Speaker G: Yeah, his mother came down to him again. She said, you're going to be by my Side I'm going to take you it's time for you to rise and she took me high over yonder it's weird. I never really put those two things together. But now you listen to the lyrics and then figure out that it was finished right before he passed away. And he had the song for years and years and years and only decided to record it at that point. It's weird. We'll finish it up. I think this is just solo guitar stuff. That always bothered me a little bit, too, that there was no more. It just ran out onto the solo. It's interesting arrangement. I would have liked it to come back again, especially if they could have got the drum straightened out. He's Jimi Hendrick and I'm not. What do I know? Here we go. [00:49:51] Speaker C: Odd end. I was kind of expecting an odd end. [00:49:53] Speaker G: For some reason, the drums got better. For whatever reason. They felt like they were more on time, though. I don't know what that was all about. Did he have drums on there? Didn't like what it was on there. Without a click. He tried to go back and play it. And maybe that's why it's a little off. [00:50:06] Speaker C: Don't know. Just the fills. I mean, obviously the guy was a master at doing fills. But just that kind of the time with just down there. Bit odd to me. And too much for what was going on too, I think. I think if the fills were kind of Phil. Phil's snares, Toms and things like that, it just sounded odd. And this would be probably the one and only time I've ever criticized Mitch Mitchell. I'm sorry, Mitch, because you were awesome. [00:50:29] Speaker G: Well, then go first. [00:50:29] Speaker C: I knew you were gonna do that. Lyrics aren't bad. I'll say six on the lyrics. I'll say six on the music, five on the melody. I really like the melody. The arrangement was kind of odd to me. So I'll say 5. And the production. I'll say 6. I don't think it's. It's bad compared to some of the others, actually. I'm not even going to compare it. Just in general, it didn't hit me as the other ones did. [00:50:49] Speaker E: I think Steve thinking, I'm gonna go six across the board for this one. Well, it was, I guess, a more completed song. It didn't hit as hard as the previous one that wasn't completed. Well, I did appreciate the vibe it had kind of thing. I'm gonna say sixes across the board for drink. [00:51:05] Speaker F: This has always been one of my favorite Hendrix songs. I give it Nines across. And the reason I give it nines across because I've always listened to this song from the perspective of he's sleeping and he's dre of this vision coming to him about dying. And when you have asleep, half awake, there's a lot of sounds around you. They're kind of fading in and out because you're in that sleeping state. In and out. So I love how the music captures that. That off sound tone that you hear that you mention and the symbols and things, those are very heavenly sounds, but they are because you're zoning in and out of dreaming state while at the same time you're having this vision and this person talking to you, having this conversation that you know it's time to come. That's why I give it nine across. I always thought this song was genius from that perspective. [00:51:47] Speaker C: Screw you and your logic. [00:51:50] Speaker F: That's how I always envisioned it. [00:51:51] Speaker C: I can totally understand that. If anybody's going to pull that off, it's going to be Hendrik without a doubt. [00:51:56] Speaker F: Exactly. Yeah. [00:51:57] Speaker C: But I'm not changing my scores. Even though that does make sense. I can agree with that. [00:52:02] Speaker G: Don't you hate it when he makes sense? Sucks when he makes sense. [00:52:07] Speaker C: Think about the words. It does make sense. It just for me, it still didn't vibe for me. Unfortunately, one wanted it to especially. I could understand the sentiment and even the eeriness of whatever it is. And when it was released, I'm going. [00:52:20] Speaker G: To do sixes across. Like Steve, I never put the two and two together about the lyrics until I read it right now. I didn't realize when it was recorded. I never would have put those two and two together. Now reading the lyrics and reading the time frame of when it was done, I don't know how you can not read through that and go, wow, that's definitely something weird about that. It's never been my favorite song. I also. The drums were a little wacky, even though they kind of fixed themselves toward the end. That's why I think that he went back and did some stuff and since the technology today didn't allow a clip, he probably didn't know how to get back into it. Right. And I don't know, maybe he overwrote the other drums and then they were what are you gonna do? It is the most complete sounding on this side as far as, like, production wise goes. All right, next song is in from the Storm. Here we go. [00:53:13] Speaker B: Back from the storm. I said I I just came back. [00:53:23] Speaker D: Baby I just came back from the. [00:53:28] Speaker B: Storm. [00:53:34] Speaker D: Well, I Did not know within but I was suffering. [00:54:04] Speaker B: LA. [00:54:16] Speaker C: Music is solid. Wish it was a little bit punchier. This could be close to finished. [00:54:21] Speaker G: Yeah. I always like the riffing, the guitar part in this. He definitely has his arrangement the way he wants it. It's not just scatting lyrics out to try to figure out what to do. He knows the part. I think this is one of the more fancy finish tracks. [00:54:31] Speaker E: Back to that old, funky, groovy, Back to where I want it to be. [00:54:35] Speaker F: This is it. And this is like that 70s funk. I like it a lot. It's not finished. Damn. I can't even imagine what the finished song would look like, but loving it so far. [00:54:44] Speaker G: And the bass playing is awesome. [00:54:46] Speaker E: Oh, yeah, dude. Honestly, the bass hasn't really let me down in this whole album right now. It's kind of been solid through the whole thing. [00:54:53] Speaker C: Yep, solid bass. [00:54:54] Speaker G: Yep. All right, here we go. Let's continue. [00:54:57] Speaker D: I want to thank my sweet darling here. It was a flying blue rain that burned in my eyes the wind and lightning struck by surprise it was you, my love who brought me the end I love you so much I'll never. [00:55:54] Speaker J: Stray from you again. [00:56:31] Speaker C: I mean, I would be amazed if this wasn't one of the completed ones, especially with that transition. Everything sounds very smooth again. I don't think the production is great. And not that it's bad. It's not bad. I just. I wish it was a little bit punchier. That's it. To me, this sounds complete. [00:56:45] Speaker G: I think it's probably a good 90% complete. I'm sure there was a little bit more that had to be done. It's as complete as some of the songs on the album. Is it Freedom, Easy rider complete? [00:56:55] Speaker F: No, 80% complete is better than somebody else's 200% effort. Wow. I'm digging it. Can you dig it, Steve? [00:57:02] Speaker C: I know you're digging it. You want to drop some lyrics? [00:57:04] Speaker E: Yeah, actually, I don't think I read the first set of lyrics. I'm just going to read them all right now. Well, I just came back today I just came back from the storm I said it came back back Baby I just came back from the storm yeah, from the storm well, I didn't know then but it was suffering suffering or my love to keep me warm it was so cold and lonely yeah the wind crying blue rain Were tearing me up and then that repeats and then I want to thank you, my sweet darling for digging in the mud and picking me up thank you so much. It was a crying blue rain the burning man, my eye the wind and the lightning struck by surprise it was you, my love, who brought me in I love you so much I'll never stray from you again I just came back to get my baby on her. [00:57:50] Speaker C: Way it's funny, the lyrics are the simplest part of the song. Maybe it's done on purpose because he wanted the music to kind of stand out. [00:57:58] Speaker G: Yeah, there's a lot going on here. And I like the backing vocals, too. Those are pretty cool. [00:58:03] Speaker C: Yeah, we meant to mention that as well, which is another. Another edition. [00:58:07] Speaker G: Those are very 70s funky backing vocals, for sure. The man was ahead of his time. And everything he did, no matter what he was making music, he was always ahead of the curve. Maybe he saw this coming before everybody else. I'm not versed when funk really came on. And who is the first bunches of people to do it? Was it before this? Was it after this? I don't know. [00:58:27] Speaker C: Well, I think about people like James Brown and. [00:58:29] Speaker G: Well, no, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about 70s funk. That was happening right then around that Parliament Funkadelic and all that stuff. That was happening Sliding the Family Stone. All that was in the 70s was after this, though, right? It wasn't in 1970, was it? I'm not sure. All right, let's continue. Here we go. [00:58:57] Speaker B: Sam. [00:59:36] Speaker C: It's a cool little ending. Yeah. Slide was late 60s as well. [00:59:39] Speaker G: Okay. [00:59:39] Speaker C: I thought it was. What? I didn't want to speak out of turn. [00:59:43] Speaker G: I didn't really know exactly. Maybe had a little bit influence in that to him, too. This is definitely not 100 finished. You can tell by the. The end part. He stopped playing, which I don't think he would have done if this was finished. Frank, why don't you go first? [00:59:53] Speaker F: I'm digging the whole vibe. This song. Great follow up to Angel. Strong finish. I don't want to rank it as high as angel, because I just think that song needs to be on its own level for this one. We're going to give eights across. I just simply love that whole late 60s, early 70s kind of sound going on. Even if it's only 80% done, it's still a great song. [01:00:15] Speaker E: Steve, you know what? I think I'm gonna mirror that. When the lyrics were kind of. I don't know, they're kind of fun and just Hendrix, like, the music was just great. It had that really good funky vibe to it, and it just kept going. Music was solid production. You could tell it was close to being done, but even close to being dumb. So sounded great. Arrangement was great. [01:00:40] Speaker G: I was gonna do sevens across, but now I have to do eights because everyone else did eights. I can't not do eights. I always liked it. The song. I'm going to do eight across. I'm going to mirror those two guys. Now it's up to Savino. To it all up. Peer pressure. Peer pressure. [01:00:54] Speaker C: Let me start with my eight. Eight on the music, eight on arrangement. I'll say seven on melody, seven on production. But I don't think the lyrics are deserving of that highest score. I'm going to say four in the lyrics. There's nothing there. For me, it was. They're okay. I think it was a music vessel, but musically, I'll listen to this thing any day. And, I mean, I like the melody over it, too. I just don't think. Especially compared to some of the other stuff that he's done, even on this record alone. But it's a great song. Without a doubt. [01:01:20] Speaker G: Yeah, it's great. The last song on the side, we're at the end. Here it goes. This is Belly Button Window. [01:01:37] Speaker J: Well, I'm up here in this wound I'm looking all around well, I'm looking out my belly by the window I see a whole lot of frowns and I'm wondering if they don't want me. [01:02:05] Speaker C: Around. [01:02:15] Speaker J: What seems to be the fuss out there? Just what seems to be the hang? Cause, you know, if he doesn't want me this time around, yeah, I'll be glad to go back to Spirit Spirit and even take a longer rest before coming down the shoot again. Man, I sure remember the last time Bab, they were still hoging about me. [01:02:53] Speaker C: Sounds like a song that should be at the end. [01:02:55] Speaker G: You know what it's about, right? [01:02:56] Speaker C: I wasn't paying attention to the lyrics. I'll be honest with you. [01:02:58] Speaker G: The belly button window is pretty much looking out. You're going to be born. [01:03:03] Speaker C: I got it. [01:03:04] Speaker G: You want me to come out? Oh, I don't know. If you don't, I'll go back and come back another time. [01:03:07] Speaker C: Once you said, you know what it's about, I said I wasn't paying attention. I took one second. I'm like, wait a second. Because I really wasn't paying attention to the lyrics. Honestly, this is a song that we've heard a bunch of times. Am I saying, does it sound good coming from him? Do I need it to go somewhere more interesting for me to say, wow, yes. That's just my personal opinion. Lyrically, I think he's definitely more Interesting in this, but other than that, I do like the thing that it's not repeated unless I'm incorrect. Because like I said, it was a big attention. [01:03:37] Speaker G: I think it's a fun little song. I like the premise of the lyrics. I think the lyrics are some of his better stuff, believe it or not. He just makes you feel like exactly what he's trying to portray. It's a bluesy thing. He's not doing all the DOC stuff that you normally would do, but it's still there. It's a fun little song to listen to. There's no drums, obviously. Obviously. And I think it's just guitar in him. I can sit here and listen to that. [01:03:55] Speaker C: I think it fits at the end. This is a good end song. [01:03:59] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm kind of digging it. I like how it's just strumming, bluesy kind of thing. I've been reading the lyrics as it's going along. And I'm digging the whole thing that's going on with the lyrics. So far, so good. [01:04:08] Speaker F: I think Southern blues kind of a sound. Just some dude with his guitar hanging out, just jamming along, talking about, well, you know, world, if you're not ready for me, I'll go back where I came from. [01:04:17] Speaker C: Should we sing in this instance, Sinners for anybody who's seen it. Speaking of lyrics, Steve. [01:04:22] Speaker E: Well, I'm up here in this room and I'm looking all around while looking out my belly button window and I see a whole lot of frowns and I'm wondering if they don't want me around what seems to be fuss out there? Just what seems to be the Hank. Cuz you know if I just don't want me this time around I'll be glad to go back to spirit land. Even take a little longer rest before coming down the street again. Man, I sure remember last time, baby Then we're still arguing about me then. [01:04:55] Speaker C: The lyrics are my favorite part of this song so far. [01:04:58] Speaker G: Yeah, they're interesting lyrics. Interesting idea to come up with looking out through the belly button, saying, hey, why does anyone want me over here? Coming down the shoot again? Where do you come up with that? Coming down the shoot again? That's funny. [01:05:09] Speaker C: Well, he says manager. Remember the last time, baby? I wonder if that has to do with Rebirth though. This is not his first time being born. [01:05:16] Speaker G: Yeah, it's about reincarnation too. Let's continue. Here we go. [01:05:21] Speaker J: So if you don't want me now make up your mind where if you don't want me now Give or take you only got 200 days cuz. Cuz I ain't coming down this way too much more again. You know they got pills for ills and thrills and even spills. But I think you're just a little too late. So I'm coming down into this world that daddy. Regardless of love and hate And I'm going to sit up in your bed, mama and just a grin right in your face and then I'm going to eat up all your chocolates and say I hope I'm not too late. So if there's any questions, make up your mind. Cause you better give or take Questions in your mind good if it take you only got 200 days. [01:06:58] Speaker C: Looking all right. [01:07:00] Speaker J: Sure's dark in here. I'm looking out my belly button window And I swear I see nothing but a lot of fries And I'm wondering if they want me oh, around. [01:07:26] Speaker C: I like the little whistle at the end. [01:07:28] Speaker G: Yeah, it's an interesting little song. Definitely an end song. If this was real album in the sequence, this would be the right song for the end. [01:07:34] Speaker C: Cute little way to end it. Stephen owes a bunch more lyrics. [01:07:38] Speaker E: So if you don't want me now make up your mind where or when. If you don't want me now Give or take you only got 200 days because it ain't coming down this way too much now again you know they got pills for ills and thrills, even spills I think you're just a little too late. So I'm coming down to this world, daddy Regardless of the love and hate I'm gonna sit up in your bed, mama and just grin right in your face And I'm gonna eat up all your chocolates And I'm gonna say I hope I'm not too late. So if there's any questions make up your mind because you better give or take the question in your mind Give or take, you've only got 200 days. [01:08:21] Speaker C: Chorus repeats Lyrics are my favorite part of that song. [01:08:25] Speaker E: I kind of like the lyrics. [01:08:26] Speaker C: I'll go first. I'll make it easy. Seven on the lyrics and I'll say six on everything else. Make it simple. It's fine for an N song. It's Hendrix Mark. [01:08:36] Speaker G: I'm going to do the same exact thing. I'm going to do seven on lyrics and six and everything else. I think that's a fair score for this. Now, one of the lyrics I noticed before we go forward far is. Is he saying, you know, they got pills for ills and thrills and even spills. But I think you're just a little too late. Is that talking about the morning after pill? When was that introduced? Maybe in the 60s. Probably in the 60s, I would guess. Is he talking about that? Is that a new thing back then? [01:08:59] Speaker C: Maybe. [01:09:00] Speaker F: I'm gonna mirror you guys. I like the lyrics. I'm gonna give it the same score. I do like the song. It's pretty unique take on it. [01:09:06] Speaker E: So. [01:09:06] Speaker F: Great way to end the album, Steve. [01:09:08] Speaker E: Yeah, I'm doing. Just going to go with the overall consensus. I think the best part of the song was probably the lyrics, but the rest of it wasn't bad. I mean, you know, this catchy little walky guitar riff thing that was going on throughout the whole thing. These fun little things thrown in here and there. Overall, it wasn't awful. It was a good way to end it. [01:09:27] Speaker C: So, yes, emergency contraception included methods that could be considered. Morning after pills was available in the 1960s. There you go thinking. I mean, that's kind of what it sounds like. Unless we're incorrect. If we are, please let us know. [01:09:40] Speaker G: It's a fun little song. It's interesting. The. The whole premise of it, I assume the 200 days, meaning how long human gestation is. That's my assumption. With those side things in here, it makes you think a little bit. And the guitar parts were fun. I don't know if that was finished. The end of it sounds like it wasn't finished. Well, the three that I know would be Easy Rider, Freedom Angel. And there's probably one more song that's kind of finished. They said there was four. Drifting, maybe. [01:10:04] Speaker C: Which one did you say, Mark, Freedom, Easy Rider, angel. [01:10:08] Speaker G: And then maybe Drifting. Was Drifting a finished song? Maybe. [01:10:10] Speaker C: I mean, in from the storm sound. They're pretty close, even if it wasn't completely. It sounded pretty close, yeah. Belly Button Window has the distinction of being the final studio recording by Jimi Hendrix. He had attempted a full band take the month before, which can be heard on the Electric Lady Studios box set. But this solo demo recorded in Late August of 1970 was Hendrix's preferred version. The song was, after Hendrix's death, leased as the final track on the Cry of love in 1971, plus an electric lady line outtake. So this was his last ever record, huh? [01:10:43] Speaker G: Do you want to hear a little bit of what Belly Button Window sounded like? [01:10:46] Speaker C: Yeah, if you got. I mean, I'd be curious. [01:10:48] Speaker G: Let's play this. Let's try this. Here we go. One. [01:11:18] Speaker B: It. [01:12:07] Speaker C: That's a lot of music. Does it ever get to the lyrics? [01:12:10] Speaker G: I don't Think so. I think it's instrumental, from what I can gather. [01:12:13] Speaker C: Oh, he's just demoing the music. [01:12:14] Speaker G: Yeah. Sounded good, though. [01:12:16] Speaker C: Yeah, it's got a loungy vibe to it. [01:12:18] Speaker G: I guess he didn't like it, though. What are our final thoughts on this album? Frank, why don't you go first? [01:12:23] Speaker F: It's one of those albums that I'm definitely going to go back and listen to again. One of those you can listen to from track one to track 10. A lot of jamming going on in the first side. It continues on side two as well. Of course. My favorite song there being Angel. A lot of good gems here overall. I just like it a lot and I think it's fantastic album. [01:12:39] Speaker G: What do you think? [01:12:40] Speaker E: Totally gave this album. It's kind of depressing that you never know what it could actually have been here. It has so much potential behind it overall. It's definitely something I'd want to listen to again. [01:12:51] Speaker C: There's some very strong stuff on here. Without a Doubt. Probably go back to it. I mean, the songs that I gave high scores to, I like. Even if it wasn't finished, it could have just been him messing around as well. So I can appreciate some of the ideas that we're kind of formulating. I think there's at least four classics on here, Without a Doubt, that I don't really always hear on the radio that I feel could get more play. I didn't know what to expect going into. It was unfinished and maybe it was a little sloppy. [01:13:18] Speaker G: I think I have more appreciation for it, listening to it in this context than I would if I would just listen to it by myself. From that standpoint, I think it may be one of the better posthumous records ever created. Just because it had so much potential that he could have finished and he could have done in he lived. I think the bigger question is what would the music landscape would have been if he had lived through the 70s and into the 80s? Who knows what he would have done that would have changed things and who knows what bands would have came out? But we still have all the bands that we know now. You had different bands just because the sounds would have been different. Who knows, your favorite bands may not have even existed. He was a gigantic force in the music world at that point. So whatever he would have done probably would have forced other people to do different things. I don't know how that would have worked out. [01:13:59] Speaker C: Our third year anniversary is a tribute to Hendrix. As always, we started with him. Mark, what do you think? I don't know. Is there something else that could be Band the Gypsies. [01:14:09] Speaker G: Ban the Gypsies is a big Hendrix album. Do what the people think. Should we continue on? Should we do Band the Gypsies next year or should we change it up? Maybe we can have people give us ideas what albums should be on the anniversary. Maybe we'll stick it into a wheel. Do we have an idea of what album we should put in the anniversary for next year? Maybe we will do that. [01:14:26] Speaker C: Exactly. I can't think five minutes from now this is true. [01:14:29] Speaker G: All right, Sav, why don't you do your thing? [01:14:31] Speaker C: So we are part of the Deep Dive podcast network again. Like I always say, great bunch of guys took us in right away. If you want individual podcasts about bands, check them out. You got Rush, Uriah, He, Judas Priest, Tom Petty, you name it. It's probably on there. So check him out. Mark, where can they find this? On the interwebs. [01:14:47] Speaker G: Rock with that pod and all the social media. Rock with that podcast dot com. Go to the polls, buy some merch, send us a new bets idea or new album idea, put us on your auto download and give us a five star wherever you rate your podcast because that helps us get out to more people. And if you like what we do, share it out. And we appreciate you guys hanging with us all this time and hopefully the next year we'll have some more interesting records. Maybe we'll get some people we haven't gotten, which would be awesome. Next week we get to spin. [01:15:12] Speaker D: Woohoo. [01:15:13] Speaker G: Back to the spin. [01:15:13] Speaker C: Feels like it's been so long. [01:15:15] Speaker G: It's been four episodes because we have Pretty Boy Floyd and then this. So. Yeah, been a month already since we spun. [01:15:20] Speaker C: We had something else. Aussie tribute. [01:15:22] Speaker G: Oh yes, the Aussie tribute. So it's been the six weeks since we spun. I forgot about that. Yes. [01:15:27] Speaker C: I missed the wheel. The wheel is crying for us. [01:15:30] Speaker G: Yeah, the wheel's like I'm on vacation. [01:15:32] Speaker F: It's gonna be great. The wheel's gonna pick all those bands when we spin it. [01:15:36] Speaker C: Something really weird. [01:15:39] Speaker G: Oh, you didn't know? I can pick something weird. Here's some weird. [01:15:42] Speaker C: Yeah, let me show you where I came back from. [01:15:45] Speaker G: All right, we'll see you next week. [01:15:47] Speaker C: Ciao. Ciao. [01:15:47] Speaker F: Good night. [01:15:48] Speaker E: Later. [01:16:14] Speaker B: Later.