Jimi Hendrix passed 52 years ago today September 18, 1970.
Tonight we watched this documentary I'd never seen before made about him in 1973. My first concert was seeing him at the Anaheim Convention Center in 1968. Even after seeing most of the great acts of the 60s, 70s and early 80s his performance remains one of the most creative and unique of all I attended.
RIP Jimi!
Tonight we watched this documentary I'd never seen before made about him in 1973. My first concert was seeing him at the Anaheim Convention Center in 1968. Even after seeing most of the great acts of the 60s, 70s and early 80s his performance remains one of the most creative and unique of all I attended.
RIP Jimi!
@ WBS
Jimy concert Lucky you, that for sure most exciting decades in the modern music history.
Jimi Hendrix - If 6 Was 9 on Vimeo
In my memory about punk, rock, electronic, jazz, folk, baroque, classic music live concerts are plenty of excellent souvenirs.
For example, Lester Bowie (Art Ensemble of Chicago) and Brass Fantasy was enjoyable.
Operas are not my usual favorite music style, but shocked me how fantastic Puccini sound is
with great orchestra and large hall acoustic.
High pitch soprano voice perception was so different in such big space.
Pure live " magical " music bliss,
..recordings can try modestly simulate..
Conclusion : in the future I want to hear more frequently live concerts evenements.
Jimy concert Lucky you, that for sure most exciting decades in the modern music history.
Jimi Hendrix - If 6 Was 9 on Vimeo
In my memory about punk, rock, electronic, jazz, folk, baroque, classic music live concerts are plenty of excellent souvenirs.
For example, Lester Bowie (Art Ensemble of Chicago) and Brass Fantasy was enjoyable.
Operas are not my usual favorite music style, but shocked me how fantastic Puccini sound is
with great orchestra and large hall acoustic.
High pitch soprano voice perception was so different in such big space.
Pure live " magical " music bliss,
..recordings can try modestly simulate..
Conclusion : in the future I want to hear more frequently live concerts evenements.
@ cubicincher
When I hear thunder in the distance I'll now think Jimi is plugging in his guitar up there! Haha!
@ Soundhappy
Funny thing you should post the If 6 was 9 video... Axis Bold as Love was the first album I ever bought for myself.
I completely agree with you about the magic of live performances, when they are good, and if it's needed the sound system is up to par. I've never experienced opera, however sitting in the 15th row for the San Francisco Symphony's performance of Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major was near bliss.
OTOH, Rick Danko performing at a small venue, clipping his solid state amp at painful levels, was memorable for how BAD a live performance could be!
My wife and I are hoping for the day when COVID mutates into something less virulent so we can once again enjoy live performances!
When I hear thunder in the distance I'll now think Jimi is plugging in his guitar up there! Haha!
@ Soundhappy
Funny thing you should post the If 6 was 9 video... Axis Bold as Love was the first album I ever bought for myself.
I completely agree with you about the magic of live performances, when they are good, and if it's needed the sound system is up to par. I've never experienced opera, however sitting in the 15th row for the San Francisco Symphony's performance of Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major was near bliss.
OTOH, Rick Danko performing at a small venue, clipping his solid state amp at painful levels, was memorable for how BAD a live performance could be!
My wife and I are hoping for the day when COVID mutates into something less virulent so we can once again enjoy live performances!
When I was in high school, I participated in a chorus at a university. I had to audition via cassette tape to qualify. There were 2000 voices. 500 each S A T B. It was recorded and I have the vinyl album. The experience gave me chills. No stereo system has ever gotten close to the live experience.
Mahler with Tilson-Thomas & SF Symphony was to die for! The tones they would extract……
Never saw Jimi. I lived in Monterey and was about 14 when the Monterey Pop Festival happened, but Ididn’t know enough about music and FM alternative radio at the time. My mother said “ ew! all those hippies coming to town” sad, my friends that went to it lord it over me to this day.
Never saw Jimi. I lived in Monterey and was about 14 when the Monterey Pop Festival happened, but Ididn’t know enough about music and FM alternative radio at the time. My mother said “ ew! all those hippies coming to town” sad, my friends that went to it lord it over me to this day.
@ woofertester
Your experience immediately made me think of Oh Happy Day recorded by the Edwin Hawkins Singers in the Ephesian Church. That chorus still brings chills to my spine every time I hear it!
@ Variac
Yeah, MTT & SF Symphony was an incredible combination. However I can't remember for sure who the guest pianist was. Might have been Andre' Watts. Good times!!!
Your experience immediately made me think of Oh Happy Day recorded by the Edwin Hawkins Singers in the Ephesian Church. That chorus still brings chills to my spine every time I hear it!
@ Variac
Yeah, MTT & SF Symphony was an incredible combination. However I can't remember for sure who the guest pianist was. Might have been Andre' Watts. Good times!!!
@ Diyers
In my town we have two operas in activity.
By far my favorite is the ancient Opéra de La Comédie a two different concert halls
with excellent acoustic and XIX century very beautiful style.
They do play Claude Debussy in twenty22
In my town we have two operas in activity.
By far my favorite is the ancient Opéra de La Comédie a two different concert halls
with excellent acoustic and XIX century very beautiful style.
They do play Claude Debussy in twenty22
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Cathedrale_De_Maguelone on Vimeo
Oh yeah in Italy so many operas, concert and theater halls with extraordinary good acoustic.
Past years I visited the music festival's place who is a bit more "confidential" the La Cathédrale de Maguelone.
It's like a small "paradise island" far from the city's and the noisy cars on the roads.
Nature all around is preserved and transportation is possible only by bicycles and small electric train.
Musicians plays on the instruments from renassaince and baroque period.
No amplified but pure acoustic sound.
The microphones used is only for archive the recordings.
Conclusion: listening this live performances can be the best sound quality reference useful in the home audio hi-fidelity.
I guess Diyers know similar places..or enjoy to discover one in the local area..
Festival de Maguelone on Vimeo
Greetings
Cathedrale_De_Maguelone on Vimeo
Oh yeah in Italy so many operas, concert and theater halls with extraordinary good acoustic.
Past years I visited the music festival's place who is a bit more "confidential" the La Cathédrale de Maguelone.
It's like a small "paradise island" far from the city's and the noisy cars on the roads.
Nature all around is preserved and transportation is possible only by bicycles and small electric train.
Musicians plays on the instruments from renassaince and baroque period.
No amplified but pure acoustic sound.
The microphones used is only for archive the recordings.
Conclusion: listening this live performances can be the best sound quality reference useful in the home audio hi-fidelity.
I guess Diyers know similar places..or enjoy to discover one in the local area..
Festival de Maguelone on Vimeo
Greetings
Something similar here at "Santa Maria dello Spasimo", an unfinished late Gothic church
in Palermo:
Chiesa di Santa Maria dello Spasimo (Palermo - Wikipedia)
La magica atmosfera di Spasimo 2021 - YouTube
Brass Group - Giuseppe Milici, Lucy Garsia e Orchestra Jazz Siciliana "Omaggio a Ennio Morricone" - YouTube
Well, that church in Southern France looks awesome...
Try the one church in Llivia. We went there once only to find it was closed that day (note to self: call ahead during August ) but I plan to spend a month someday in the mountains around Puigcerda and will spend some time listening to music in there.
Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Llivia | Religiana
Being from Occitan roots myself, I'm not really biased... but I got to say that Catalunya and the Rousillon and the entire Cote D'Azur hold some fantastic jewels from the Roman and Medieval times. Sure, sure, they're likely all over Spain and France too, but as a kid I recall hiking and we'd routinely find medieval or roman ruins when we got to the top of a mountain. It was like a "no big deal" thing to us. What is a big deal is to find the buildings preserved and their acoustics can be simply astonishing for the right kind of music. it's like the music was being written for the acoustics of the architecture.
We once walked into the Barcelona Cathedral while a visiting boy's choir was singing Mozart's Requiem. When they got into the Kyrie I just had to sit down. It was an overwhelming whole body reaction as if my genes, my entire body, my soul were all resonating with the music. It was an EXPERIENCE I can not describe why, but it just did.
And no, playing Eric Clapton with Freddie King doing Farther On Up The Road Live through a Sansui GX7500 and ADSL810 cranked up to 11 ( you know, when 10 is just not enough ) didn't quite match the experience, even if it sure sounded great until I fried a midrange with those guitars.
No audio system ever build and very few modern halls will equal, approach?, a choir in a European Gothic Cathedral... Those massive, high stone wall with those vast spaces have echo qualities that match the slow tempo of the music. It's grandiose: masses voices, organs.....
BTW, when I grew up, my school had it's own neo gothic church. It too had an organ and the priests would drag 160 kids at a time (the church was much larger than that) and train us to sing. Other that purposely singing the wrong song or out of tune to torment the priests and teachers (*), it was quite an experience that likely shaped me into an audiophile before i was nine years old.
(*) They never found us, as it was a coordinated assault by us kids, when they got close to detect the malfeasants we'd switch back in tune while another group, elsewhere, would take up the audible assault.
Try the one church in Llivia. We went there once only to find it was closed that day (note to self: call ahead during August ) but I plan to spend a month someday in the mountains around Puigcerda and will spend some time listening to music in there.
Church of Our Lady of the Angels, Llivia | Religiana
Being from Occitan roots myself, I'm not really biased... but I got to say that Catalunya and the Rousillon and the entire Cote D'Azur hold some fantastic jewels from the Roman and Medieval times. Sure, sure, they're likely all over Spain and France too, but as a kid I recall hiking and we'd routinely find medieval or roman ruins when we got to the top of a mountain. It was like a "no big deal" thing to us. What is a big deal is to find the buildings preserved and their acoustics can be simply astonishing for the right kind of music. it's like the music was being written for the acoustics of the architecture.
We once walked into the Barcelona Cathedral while a visiting boy's choir was singing Mozart's Requiem. When they got into the Kyrie I just had to sit down. It was an overwhelming whole body reaction as if my genes, my entire body, my soul were all resonating with the music. It was an EXPERIENCE I can not describe why, but it just did.
And no, playing Eric Clapton with Freddie King doing Farther On Up The Road Live through a Sansui GX7500 and ADSL810 cranked up to 11 ( you know, when 10 is just not enough ) didn't quite match the experience, even if it sure sounded great until I fried a midrange with those guitars.
No audio system ever build and very few modern halls will equal, approach?, a choir in a European Gothic Cathedral... Those massive, high stone wall with those vast spaces have echo qualities that match the slow tempo of the music. It's grandiose: masses voices, organs.....
BTW, when I grew up, my school had it's own neo gothic church. It too had an organ and the priests would drag 160 kids at a time (the church was much larger than that) and train us to sing. Other that purposely singing the wrong song or out of tune to torment the priests and teachers (*), it was quite an experience that likely shaped me into an audiophile before i was nine years old.
(*) They never found us, as it was a coordinated assault by us kids, when they got close to detect the malfeasants we'd switch back in tune while another group, elsewhere, would take up the audible assault.
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