| *Joe Satriani* listed this as his favorite guitar solo: "It's just the greatest piece of electric guitar work ever recorded. In fact, the whole song could be considered the holy grail of guitar expression and technique. It is a beacon of humanity." 'Hopi Indian' cave paintings; "perhaps symbolising the forgotten embers of the human race" - "life of moral corruption and turmoil" or "life out of balance" - "corrupted" or "chaotic", "life" or "existence", literally translating as "chaotic life". - "crazy life", "life in turmoil", "life disintegrating", and "a state of life that calls for another way of living" Johnny Allen Hendrix, born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington, a black American of African, European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent. Died September 18, 1970. Jimi Hendrix was deeply involved in occultism and mysticism and these themes permeated his music. His song "Voodoo Chile" glorified voodoo practices such as out of body experiences. Jimi Hendrix said in an interview with Life magazine (October, 1969) that "music is a spiritual thing of its own. You can hypnotize people with music, and when you get them at their weakest point you can preach into their subconscious whatever you want to say." I tried to create a video to this track using the free windows movie maker 6, with relevant video footage & psychedelic effects to justify this masterpiece. I found creating this video quite difficult, as first it had to have a black background & also the track ... |
