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10th anniversary Thanks Jimi Festival and Guitar Guinness World Record

Bericht und 60 Fotos online

Link to Trailer For Upcoming Film Based On Jimi Hendrix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw9ECBTuTLM

Info On The Star Of The Film's Hendrix Tribute Show:
http://www.myspace.com/voodoochildbleu

Europe, der Star des Gitarren Guinness Rekords!
1. und 2. Mai in Breslau, ein Jahrestag, die 10. Edition des Gitarren Guinness Rekordes. Schon heute starten wir den Final Countdown bis zum Event, an dem wir gemeinsam mit den Erschaffern des unsterblichen Hits “The Final Countdown“ durchstarten – Europe!
Jedes Jahr versammelt der Gitarren Guinness Rekord, welcher im Rahmen des Thanks Jimi Festivals stattfindet, tausende Gitarristen, zehntausende Fans des Events und Zuschauer auf der ganzen Welt verfolgen den Versuch im Fernsehen, den Weltrekord durch kollektives Spielen von „Hey Joe“ von Jimi Hendrix, erneut zu brechen. Seit 2 Jahren versuchen die Teilnehmer des Festivals den Rekord von 2009 zu brechen, an welchem 6346 Gitarristen teilnahmen. Ein Jahr später wurde „Hey Joe” von 4597 Leuten, und 2011 von 5601 Gitarristen gemeinsam gespielt.
Das Gitarrenfest wird dieses Jahr ganze 2 Tage andauern – traditioneller Weise wird der Guiness Rekord Versuch auf dem Marktplatz in Breslau am 1. Mai durchgeführt und anschließend finden die Konzerte am 1.und 2. Mai auf der Wyspa Slodowa (Insel) statt. “Der Guinnes Gitarren Rekord ist nicht nur ein Fest für Gitarristen. Es ist eine Veranstaltung an der Senioren, Jugendliche, Kinder, Geschäftsmänner, Lehrer, ganze Familien usw. teilnehmen können…- kurz: all diejenigen, die das Event besuchen und das Außergewöhnliche spüren wollen“, sagte Leszek Cichonski, der Organisator dieser Veranstaltung.
Du musst kein Musikvirtuose sein, um dich auf dem Marktplatz in Breslau mit einer Gitarre sehen zu lassen. Alles was erforderlich ist, ist ein Instrument und gute Energie. Und diese wird es sicher geben, denn der Star des Gitarren Guiness Rekords ist die Band Europe. Die Band gründete sich im Jahre 1979 und wurde weltberühmt dank Kult Hits wie “The Final Countdown” und der Rockballade “Carrie”. 1992 beendete die Band ihre Aktivitäten und startete erneut im Jahre 2003. Ein Jahr später veröffentlichten sie ein Album “Start from the Dark”, von welchem die Single “Hero” stammt. Ihr letztes Album “Last Look at Eden”, veröffentlicht im Jahre 2009, erhielt viele Fünf-Sterne-Beurteilungen in der ganzen Welt und Großbritanniens Classic Rock Magazine nominierte es für den Award “Bestes Album des Jahres”.
Am zweiten Tag des Thanks Jimi Festivals wird Marcus Miller auftreten, ein weltberühmter Bassgitarrist, bekannt durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit Künstlern wie Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin oder Luther Vandross.
Nehmt Euch die Zeit, stimmt Eure Instrumente – Breslau Gitarrenstadt!
Mehr Informationen über den Gitarren Guinnes Rekord und über das Material zum Üben von “Hey Joe” und anderen gemeinsamen Melodien auf der Seite www.heyjoe.pl.

"Father of loud" Jim Marshall gestorben
Was wäre Jimi ohne Marshall Verstärker gewesen?
Ermöglicht hat diesen Sound Jim Marshall der am vergangenen Donnerstag im Alter von 88 Jahren gestorben ist.

Online Kondulentbuch: http://www.facebook.com/JimMarshallOBE

Fender, guitar maker for Clapton and Hendrix, files to go public in $200 million IPO washingtonpost.com

Gitarrenbauer aus den USA  Einmal so spielen wie Jimi Hendrix  von Susanne Janssen stuttgarter-zeitung.de

Spirit of Hendrix comes alive with speed artist Salvador pbpulse.com

Galerie Walden, Potsdamer Str. 91, 10785 Berlin. 29. Februar bis 3. März: Die Ausstellung "Jimi´s Jetlag" mit Fotografien von Jimi Hendrix aus Berlin (von Klaus Achterberg, Hans-Peter Goldbeck, Detlef Lövenich, Peter Schoening und weiteren), aus Hamburg (von Günter Zint und Petra Niemeier) und vom Fehmarn Love & Peace Festival vom 4. - 6.9.1970 mit Jimi Hendrix letztem Auftritt (von Angela Weidling, Kiel) sowie Materialien zum Film "Jimi und das Fehmarn Festival" von Rasmus Gerlach, Wolfgang Neitzel und Paul Kulms.
Die Veranstalter waren: Rasmus Gerlach (Kurator, Hamburg- und Fehmarn-Fotos), Bernd Sauer-Diete (Berlin-Fotos) & Reinhold Gottwald (Inhaber der Galerie). Die Fotos von der Vernissage am 29.2.2012 stammen von Michael Nürnberg, Hans Schuhmacher und Bernd Sauer-Diete. Zur Vernissage kamen etwa 50-60 Besucher_innen. In der Remise neben der Galerie wurde zeitgleich der Film "Jimi Hendrix in New York, 1968) von Ira Schneider gezeigt, der in Berlin lebt und persönlich anwesend war. Er feierte zwei Tage später seinen 71. Geburtstag. Parallell zur Ausstellung lief vom 1. - 3. März im Kino Eiszeit in Kreuzberg der Film "Jimi & das Fehmarn-Festival" von Rasmus Gerlach, Wolfgang Neitzel und Paul Kulms.
Video Bericht: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5brHG-g9OOc

10th anniversary Thanks Jimi Festival and Guitar Guinness World Record
May 1st 2012 will see the 10th anniversary edition of the Thanks Jimi Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. This will include an attempt to break the festival's own standing Guinness World Record of 6,346 guitar players playing together in Wroclaw's old market square (this more than tripled the previous record in the USA).
So everyone is invited to join us on May 1st 2012 to create a Guitar Union !
In addition to those taking part in the free event in Wroclaw others will be joining in worldwide via the web in both organized smaller events as well as individually online so you are welcome to join us in person in Wroclaw or online from anywhere in the world (only those in Wroclaw can count for the actual record number though).
"I always emphasize that in this event is not about just the record", says Leszek Cichonski, originator of the event, "It is a unique group encounter with music, in which all participants are performers. You arrive with teenagers and hippies, parents with their children and children with their parents - and grandparents, to feel this amazing energy that carries the common edges. I would like to thank everyone who came to the Wroclaw center, it's them who create this atmosphere and them who put my heart in my throat, when they all raise their guitars at that moment at the end of the song."

	       Special guests guest joining us this year include:

	       Leon Hendrix 
	       Marcus Miller
	       John Norum (EUROPE)
	       Gwyn Ashton 
	       Stan Skibby
	       Internationally renowned jazz and rock violinist Micha¿ Urbaniak
	        
	       and top polish guitar players:
	       festival founder Leszek Cichonski
	       Marek Raduli
	       Wojciech Hoffman
	       Piotr Lukaszewski
	       guitarist/bassist Mietek Jurecki
	       bassist Wojciech Pilichowski 
	       and many others.
            

Many bands will play throughout the day and there will be associated concerts that night including Swedish stars Europe and through the next day including a concert by Marcus Miller.
Please join us! You can find all the details, including how to play the songs we will play together and how to participate online, at:
English: http://heyjoefest.com/
Polish: http://www.heyjoe.pl/
German: http://heyjoefest.de/
Italian: http://heyjoefest.it/
Czech: http://heyjoefest.cz/
Facebook: facebook.com/GitarowyRekord

YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpPzNduP_rI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jg1ctYuVko
This event is presented with the support of the city of Wroclaw and in association with Guitar Player Magazine.

"Excuse me while I kiss the sky"    Eine Ausstellung von Andreas Ole Ohlendorff mit Werken aus der Serie "Legenden der Rockmusik"
Vom 24. März - 8. April 2012 Galerie Dreiklang Hannoversche Straße 2 34346 Hannoversch Münden Tel: 05541 - 955636 Mobil: 0152 - 23588748 www.galerie-dreiklang.de
Die Vernissage ist am Samstag, d. 24. März 2012 um 18 Uhr (der Künstler ist anwesend) Musikalisch untermalt wird die Ausstellungseröffnung vom Jazzpianisten Christian Münch (Dozent an der Musikhochschule Hannover) und der ukrainischen Jazzsängerin Inna Vysotska (mehrfache Preisträgerin bei internationalen Wettbewerben)
Andreas Ole Ohlendorff, geboren am 26. Februar 1958 in Winsen an der Luhe (bei Hamburg) lebt und arbeitet in seiner Heimatstadt als freischaffender Maler. Seit mehr als 20 Jahren ist die Kunst für ihn nun schon zum "Ariadnefaden im Labyrinth der Sehnsucht" geworden und dient gleichsam zur Aufarbeitung der eigenen Biografie. Vormals war Ohlendorff von 1975 bis 1981 Polizeibeamter in Hamburg, auch auf der weltberühmten Davidwache (Reeperbahn / St.Pauli), danach tätig u.a. als Roadie, Werftarbeiter, Kurierfahrer, Koch, Weltenbummler" und seit 1990 als freischaffender Künstler. Eine wahre "Achterbahnfahrt des Lebens" und so bunt wie die Palette des Malers. In der Itzehoer Künstlerinitiative "Hilfe für Menschen in Not" engagiert er sich seit 1992. 1993 ist Ohlendorff Mitglied der Winsener Künstlergruppe "KUNSTASYL" und ein Jahr später Mitbegründer der "Winsener Kulturtage".
Inhaltlich setzt sich der Kulturpreisträger 2009 des Landkreises Harburg seit jeher kritisch mit aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Themen auseinander. Seine künstlerische Handschrift nimmt dabei surrealistische und symbolische Traditionen ebenso auf wie die Formensprache der Pop-Art. Die Gemälde sind dabei so vielschichtig wie der Künstler selbst. In seinen Bildwelten spiegeln sich persönliche Träume und Erfahrungen wider, teils düster und apokalyptisch - tiefgehend die Seele auslotend - dann aber auch wieder enthusiastisch und voller Lebensfreude. Wer Andreas Ole Ohlendorff kennt, mag auch viel "Winsen" auf der Leinwand entdecken. Rückblenden in die Kindheit und Jugend, in Beziehungen und Trennungsschmerz, in lang genug verdrängte Erlebnisse. Dass Ohlendorff sie noch einmal anpackt und für bildwürdig erklärt, hat vielleicht etwas mit Vergangenheitsbewältigung zu tun, sicherlich aber nichts mit Rückwärtsgewandtheit in seiner Kunst. Wenn Ohlendorff also Bilder malt, dann interessiert das Gegenwärtige. Bestandsaufnahme von dem, was "draussen vor der Tür und drinnen in meinem Kopf abgeht", resümiert der Künstler, ""es gibt immer nur diesen Weg nach vorn."
Bundesweites Renommee erwarb er sich aber mit seinem Bilderzyklus "Legenden der Rockmusik", eine malerische Hommage an verstorbene Musiker aus Rock, Pop, Beat, Blues, Jazz und Punk. Im Jahr 1996 begonnen, umfasst die Serie mittlerweile 100 Porträts, die u.a. im Hamburger St.Pauli Museum 1996, beim Burg Herzberg Hippie-Festival 1997, der Popkomm in Berlin 2008 und im Deutschen Rock & Popmuseum in Gronau 2009 zu sehen waren. Das Kunstschaffen von Ohlendorff spiegelt hier auf vielfache Weise die Sehnsüchte und Träume, die Protesthaltungen, aber auch die Irrungen und Wirrungen der sogenannten Subkultur wider. Der Maler hat damit eine Form der Erinnerungskultur geschaffen, die einem generationenübergreifenden Lebensgefühl Ausdruck verleiht, und er hat gleichzeitig Töne in Bilder und somit ein ganzes Musikzeitalter auf Leinwand gebannt: "quasi von Woodstock bis nach Winsen/Luhe. Ohlendorffs Bilder befinden sich in privaten wie öffentlichen Sammlungen, u.a. im Rolling Stones Museum in Lüchow (Wendland), Hotel Residenz Hafen Hamburg (St. Pauli), dem Deutschen Rock & Popmuseum in Gronau (NRW), Kunstarchiv Lüneburg und im Trophäensaal des brasilianischen Fussballverbandes CBF in Rio de Janeiro. Für die Ausstellung in der Galerie Dreiklang zeigt Ohlendorff eine Auswahl seiner "Rocklegenden. In einer malerischen Hommage erstreckt sich das Spektrum dabei von Jimi Hendrix bis zu Amy Winehouse.
Der Ausstellungstitel "Excuse me while I kiss the sky" stammt aus dem Song "Purple Haze" von Jimi Hendrix und untermalt hier eindringlich Ohlendorffs Auseinandersetzung mit den Themenfeldern Porträt, Identität, Einsamkeit und Vergänglichkeit.

	
Es geht also nicht um Stars und die Anbetung ihrer Asche.
Es geht um Leben.
Um Musik.
Um Tanz.
Um Gefühle.
Es geht um Dich.
Um mich.
Um uns.
Und um das Weiterreichen des Feuers...
            

Mehr Informationen über Künstler und Werk unter: www.ohlendorff-art.de

Artikel in der HNA  http://www.galerie-dreiklang.de/pdf-datei/HNA-27.03.12.pdf  und ein Video bei youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ytq1qqckn0

Website: Jimi Hendrix’s Death Was the Most Untimely gibson.com

Jimi Hendrix's cousin, Bob, dies at age 65 usatoday.com

Crooked I lets Jimi Hendrix take over  goerie.com

Clark: Hard Rock Café serves full Jimi Hendrix experience  spokesman.com

Das erste Konzert der ASEP STONE EXPERIENCE aus der Schweiz in BERLIN!Donnerstag, 28.6.2012, 20 Uhr, Festsaal Kreuzberg, Skalitzer Str. 130, 10999 Berlin
Asep Stone (* 22. 3. 1969 in Bandung, Indonesien) ist einer der besten Jimi-Hendrix-Interpreten der Welt. Mit seiner Band bringt er den Blues und Soul von JMI ins 21. Jahrhundert. Asep spielt auch eigene Songs im Spirit von Jimi Hendrix. Live ist das Trio ein unvergleichliches Erlebnis für alle Freunde von Blues & Rockmusik. Dieser Gig wird ein einzigartiges "Jimi-Hendrix-Konzert" in Berlin im Jahr 2012, in dem Jimi Hendrix 70 Jahre alt geworden wäre.
Line-Up: Asep Stone: guitar, vocals, Marcel Ricklin: bass, Lukas Meier: drums
Eintritt: 20 €, Vorverkauf (ab Mai): 15 € / Reservierung über bsauerdiete@yahoo.de  - Veranstalter: Bernd Sauer-Diete
Acht Hendrix-Songs der Band, aufgenommen 2012 in Zürich, könnt ihr hier zu hören: http://soundcloud.com/bassbernie
Weitere Informationen gibt es auf der Facebook-Seite "Asep Stone Experience (Berliner Seite)" sowie auf der Myspace-Seite http://www.myspace.com/asepstoneexperience
Auf Youtube finden sich zwei Live-Videos von Asep Stone Expererience,aufgenommen in HD-Qualität im El Lokal in Zürichhttp://youtu.be/acZthQL1AH4+ http://youtu.be/_DKWgwmh1jk/ Und auf flickr ist eine Diashow mit Live-Fotos vom Zürich-Konzert zu bestaunen: http://www.flickr.com/photos/basspunk/sets/72157629672383713/show/

Hendrix plays Monterey
A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of The Monterey International Pop Festival
By Harvey & Kenneth Kubernik - Santa Monica Press ISBN 978-1595800602 288 pages hardcover $45 2011
It's been 45 years since the legendary Monterey International Pop Festival transformed the world of rock music, brought to the public forefront the youth culture, and set the tone for next generation. The event has been heralded as "the epicenter of a youthquake whose aftershocks continue to reverberate through our 21st century culture." Over the years, many books have been written about the event, although this is said to be the first "official history" with the endorsement of festival promoter Lou Adler and the Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation.
Brothers Harvey and Kenneth Kubernik were only teenagers when the Monterey International Pop Festival took place in 1967. While the landmark event has been chronicled in the 40+ years since that Summer of Love concert weekend, the two present a fresh new perspective on the event. Their goal for this volume was to document and present every minute detail surrounding the event that they could unearth. This meant not only talking to the artists who appeared, but getting behind-the-scenes sagas and stories from those who attended the event. Those latter insights are probably the most candid. "The only thing that I asked for, and everyone supported me, is that it's not 200 pages of Otis (Redding) and Jimi (Hendrix) and Janis (Joplin), and 45 pages on everybody else" said Harvey Kubernik, referring to the three performers who made their mainstream debuts at the concert. "Nobody loves Janis, Jimi and Otis as much as me," Harvey later clarified, careful not to lessen the impact their performances had at the festival. "They're the ones who have been the most chronicled, the most acknowledged. It's just so carved in cement and I think that's great." The 288-page hardcover volume is as much as historical dissertation as it is a coffeetable-style photographic recollection.
As Harvey was a writer and the former West Coast A&R director for MCA Records, and his brother Kenneth a journalist and former editor of the southern California-based Music Connection magazine, it"s a well written in depth look at the festival and its impact not only on the music culture, but on those who attended and the societal overtones.
One chapter explores British journalist Keith Altham's flight to the U.S. Hendrix was a passenger. "We drove to London Airport in Mike Jeffery's Rolls Royce," states Altham, noting Jeffery's as manager for the Animals, not Hendrix at the time." We picked up Jimi Hendrix and manager Chas Chandler at their flat and continued to the airport, where Jimi ransacked the book stalls for a science fiction novel." He continues, "The strange thing about Jimi is that everyone looks at his incredible appearance with a mixture of surprise and amusement, but those who take the trouble to say 'hello' " like the elderly gentleman at the Passport Control " find him charming and conventional.
"Jimi makes friends quicker than most people make enemies. The air hostess on the TWA jet we took was apparently delighted with her unusual charge and spent some time sitting next to him and talking about beat groups.
"On the plane over, the main source of amusement were the various taped music channels played through earphones, and every so often Jimi would throw up an assortment of fingers indicating a new delight on a particular channel. He seemed to get a perverse enjoyment from Bing Crosby, Al Jolson and Durante. But more genuine was his interest in the Bach tapes."
Upon arriving in New York, "without pausing to check in at the Buckingham Hotel, Jimi shot down to the Colony record center and bought half a dozen LPs by people like the Doors and the Mothers of Invention." In the evening, "we visited Jimi's old stamping ground, the Village, which looks rather like Soho. Jimi pointed out the Club What. We ate at a restaurant called the Tin Angel, met a couple of the Mothers, and moved on to the A Go Go Club, where we sumbled on what, as far as I'm concerned, was a phenomenom. The man concerned is a folk singer called Richie Havens." The next day, "we left for San Francisco, and our departure was marked by one of those spectacular last-minute appearances by Mike Jeffery, who appears dramatically everywhere at the last minute and disappears just as dramatically.
"We stayed overnight in San Francisco and early the next morning set out to find an 'indestructable' guitar for Jimi. 'I need a Fender,' explained Jimi. 'It gets used pretty hard in act and they are the only make which will stand up to it.' We failed to get the model Jimi wanted, but somehow he later acquired a guitar in Monterey. It was the wrong color but he remedied that by spraying it white and drawing swirling designs all over it with a felt pen." (Note: In another chapter, Owsley Stanley, the LSD patriarch who became renowned as the "chemist-in-residence" at the event, talks about the guitar as he clarifies the urban legend that Hendrix wrote "Purple Haze" about drugs. "The whole 'Purple Haze' thing is nonsense," he says. "I have no idea what Jimi meant by the line, nor when he wrote it, but I do know that the acid at Monterey was not it. We called the purple acids tabs, pressed specially to be given away at the Monterey Pop Festival, 'Monterey Purple.' Jimi did seem to enjoy it " he jammed all night long in the long shed after I was able to organize a guitar and restring it for him." The chapter closes out with Altham's overview of the festival ambience and opening day scene and events. When we get to the chapter on The Who, the old story of "who plays first " The Who or Hendrix," emerges once again. This time, in Pete Townshend's words, "I couldn't deal with the idea of that, at this critical concert, we might go on after him. And he said to me from his insecurity, 'That's not what you really mean. What you really mean is you don't want me to go on first. You want to be first up there with the guitar smashing.' So I said, 'Jimi, I swear to you, that's not what it's about.' Brian Jones was standing with me and Jimi started to play. He stood on a chair in front of me and he started to play this incredible guitar, and it goes down in history as a jam session. But it wasn't a jam session. It was just Jimi on a chair playing at the time. Playing at me, like, 'don't fuck with me, you little shit.' And then he snapped out of it and said, 'Okay, let's toss a coin.' So we tossed a coin, and we got to go on first. I went out to sit with Mama Cass to watch Jimi and, as he started doing this stuff with his guitar, she said to me, 'He's stealing your act.' And I said, "No, he's not stealing my act. He's doing my act (laughs).' For me, it was an act, and for him it was something else. It was an extension of what he was doing." Critic Michael Lydon concurred, noting The Who's smashing of gear was a planned act designed for dramatic intensity, "no meaning whatever. There was no passion, no anger, just destruction." Forward ahead to the chapter on Hendrix. And mind you, this is a book covering the aspects, atmosphere and festival performances. All the artists get their own chapter with overview, commentary and glorious photographic support.
The 12-page Hendrix chapter opens with a full page shot of Hendrix (photographer Nurit Wilde) walking through the crowd in his military jacket and vest. There's also double-truck (2 page) photos of Hendrix walking through the festival's booths (photographer Elaine Mayes), backstage with The Who (photographer Henry Diltz) and a performance shot of the Experience from the side of the stage when Hendrix is burning his guitar (photographer Jerry de Wilde). There's also a full-page shot from the side of the stage during his performance (photographer Jerry de Wilde).
Editorial consists primarily of one and two paragraph commentary from the artists in attendance including Brian Jones, Chris Hillman (The Byrds), Al Kooper, Johnny Rivers, Stephen Stills, Michelle Phillips, Barry Goldberg and Mickey Dolenz. There's a few encapsulated reviews from Michael Lydon (Newsweek), Barry Hansen (DownBeat) and Robert Christgau (Esquire). The authors have even found some audience members to provide their recollections.
"Monterey, for us, was just amazing," says Mitch Mitchell. "Not only was it our first American gig, but the largest audience we'd ever played to. Paul McCartney, bless him, had recommended us to John Phillips for Monterey and we really wanted to deliver. I mean, just 10 months before, Jimi'd been playing in little clubs in New York, largely ignored.
"There was a great atmosphere backstage " all the artists waiting in a huge marquee, wathching the show on monitors. We'd won the who-goes-last toss with the Who and stood watching them, waiting to go on. They were incredibly good, as usual, but we were to on-edge to enjoy it. When Pete Townshend broke up his guitar " which I seem to remember took quite a while, unusual for him " we thought, how do you top this? Mainly due to their excellence, we decdied that it was time to roast-the-fender again. This was only the second time Jimi had set fire to his guitar. "When we came off the stage, drenched in sweat, as usual, the other musicians and groups crowded round to congratulate us, not only the audience approval, but that of our peers as well."
One of the interesting stories came from Al Kooper, a keyboardist who has history with Bob Dylan, Blues Project and the Butterfield Blues Band; and who was acting as assistant stage manager of the event. "When I was setting up Hendrix for sound check, I knew who he was," remembers Kooper. Before even reading the English music magazines about him, he played in New York with John Hammond's backing band at the Cafe Wha! And you could tell that he was pretty special.
"Jimi knew who I was, so when we met it was quite nice. 'I'm gonna play 'Like a Rolling Stone' tonight, do you want to sit in with us?' I said, 'I would love to play with you but I'm working here, I'm the assistant stage manager. I think they would look askance if I did that.' Can you imagine what kind of self-control it took to do that? 'But I think it's inappropriate to do it here because I'm working.'" Of course, Kooper later went on to join Hendrix on sessions for Electric Ladyland.

SUNDAZED AND EXPERIENCE HENDRIX RECAPTURE THE JIMI HENDRIX VINYL EXPERIENCE! ROCK'S GREATEST GUITAR LEGEND'S VINTAGE RECORDINGS RETURN TO THEIR VINYL ROOTS WITH HISTORIC 7' SINGLE SERIES
In an historic alliance, the renowned reissue label Sundazed Music has partnered with Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. to release a series of new 7" picture-sleeve vinyl singles featuring unique and hard-to-find vintage performances by Jimi Hendrix.
The ongoing series launches in April with an initial release that combines a pair of historically significant recordings from two different Hendrix 1967 BBC sessions. One is a raucous reading of Bob Dylan's "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?'. Hendrix recorded his version on October 17 for BBC Radio's Rhythm and Blues show. Dylan's original version, one of history's most notable and enduring musical enigmas, wasn't released on a legitimate album for more than 10 years after its first issue. This Jimi Hendrix Experience version was a highlight of the BBC Sessions double album issued by Experience Hendrix/Sony Legacy in October 2010.
'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?' is paired with a fascinating, newly discovered take of the Hendrix original "Burning Of The Midnight Lamp," as performed on August 24,1967 on BBC Television's Top of the Pops, just a week after the song's original studio version had been released as a single in Britain on Track Records. In keeping with strict Musician Union regulations, Jimi was to sing live atop the song's instrumental backing track. The Top Of The Pops presenter announced the Experience, but then 'The House That Jack Built' by the Alan Price Set began to play. A few seconds in, Jimi, ever polite, offered an apology, 'I'm sorry man but I don't know the words...' As panic no doubt ensued within the studio's control room, the program's flustered presenter apologized and implored Jimi to try it once again.
Both sides feature the classic original Jimi Hendrix Experience lineup of Hendrix on guitar and vocals, Noel Redding on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums, and capture the band just as it was beginning to emerge as a major force on both sides of the Atlantic.
As with every release in the series, it will feature a color picture sleeve incorporating rare vintage Hendrix photos that capture the legendary artist's distinctive persona and pioneering spirit. Janie Hendrix, President and CEO of Experience Hendrix L.L.C. commented: "When the Jimi Hendrix Experience first burst into the world's collective consciousness, it was through vinyl 45 rpm singles. Our vinyl single release program with Sundazed honors that brilliant history and, even expands on it in a very real way. It is traditional yet innovative, as Jimi certainly was."
Bob Irwin, President and CEO of Sundazed Music, Inc. commented: "We are thrilled and highly honored to be partnering with Experience Hendrix on this wonderful series. I'm positively elated that my most favorite musician of all time will now be a part of Sundazed."
In a recording career that spanned only three and a half years prior to his tragic death in 1970 at the age of 27, Jimi Hendrix revolutionized the role of the electric guitar, and radically altered the face of contemporary music. He became rock's first guitar superstar, with an effortless charisma that matched his visionary talent and intense performing style. His overwhelming influence continues to live on in virtually every electric guitarist who has followed him, yet none have ever equaled Hendrix's talent and imagination.
ABOUT SUNDAZED MUSIC INC.
In its 22-year history, Sundazed Music has earned an international reputation for its painstaking preservation of vintage rock, garage, soul, surf, R&B and country sounds on vinyl, CD and digital download, consistently maintaining unmatched quality standards for mastering, packaging and pressing. The current Sundazed catalog encompasses over 800 titles, including timeless classic recordings by such artists as Jeff Beck, Booker T. & the MGs, the Byrds, Bob Dylan, Albert King, Wes Montgomery, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Velvet Underground and hundreds more.
ABOUT EXPERIENCE HENDRIX L.L.C.
Founded by James 'Al' Hendrix, Jimi's father, in 1995, Experience Hendrix, has been managed since its inception by family members personally chosen by Al during his tenure as Chairman. It is the official family company charged with managing the music, name, image and likeness of Jimi Hendrix. As a part of its daily operations, under President and CEO Janie Hendrix, Experience Hendrix and Authentic Hendrix oversee Jimi's timeless legacy on a worldwide basis. In connection with its mission, it produces the continuing Experience Hendrix tour of all-star musicians.
A newly-found version of the Jimi Hendrix song "Burning Of The Midnight Lamp," performed on August 24,1967 for the BBC Television's Top of the Pops, just a week after the song's original studio version had been released as a single in Britain on Track Records, will be released as a vinyl 45 RPM disc.
The recording will be issued in a partnership between Sundazed Music and Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. It will be the first issue to be released in a series of Hendrix 7-inch discs. The A sides will be comprised of live Hendrix performances that are difficult to find.
Hendrix's version of Bob Dylan's "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" will be the flip side. The famed guitarist recorded this take of the cover version on October 17 for BBC Radio's Rhythm and Blues show. Ironically, Dylan's original version was not released on a legitimate album for more than 10 years subsequent to Hendrix's first issue of the song. This Jimi Hendrix Experience version was a highlight of the BBC Sessions double album issued by Experience Hendrix/Sony Legacy in October 2010.
Forced to play under the Musician Union strict regulations, Hendrix was to sing live over the song's instrumental backing track. The Top Of The Pops presenter announced the Experience, but then 'The House That Jack Built' by the Alan Price Set began to play. A few seconds in, the ever gentlemanlike Hendrix offered an apology, saying, 'I'm sorry man but I don't know the words...' As panic no doubt ensued within the studio's control room, the program's nervous presenter apologized and asked Jimi to try it once again.
Both tracks showcase the original Jimi Hendrix Experience, with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell. Each 45 rpm disc in the series will have a color sleeve with a rare Hendrix photo.
Janie Hendrix, President and CEO of Experience Hendrix L.L.C., issued a statement about the releases, remembering, 'When the Jimi Hendrix Experience first burst into the world's collective consciousness, it was through vinyl 45 rpm singles. Our vinyl single release program with Sundazed honors that brilliant history and, even expands on it in a very real way. It is traditional yet innovative, as Jimi certainly was.'
Bob Irwin, President and CEO of Sundazed Music, Inc. commented: 'We are thrilled and highly honored to be partnering with Experience Hendrix on this wonderful series. I'm positively elated that my most favorite musician of all time will now be a part of Sundazed.'
With a recording career that was cut short after just three and a half years, as a result of his tragic death in 1970 at the age of 27 in England, Hendrix expanded the limits of guitar playing, technologically, sound-wise and when it comes to composition. Decades later, his prowess on guitar and legendary performances are unequalled.
Sundazed Music is driven by its mission for the preservation of vintage rock, garage, soul, surf, R&B and country recordings on vinyl, CD and digital download. The label's catalog has more than 800 titles, including classic recordings by such artists as Jeff Beck, Booker T. & the MGs, The Byrds, Bob Dylan, Albert King, Wes Montgomery, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Velvet Underground and hundreds more.
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CD u.a. mit Musik von JIMI HENDRIX u.v.m. !
"Wem gehört die Popgeschichte?" Das Audio-Book mit 6 CDs von Gerd Gebhardt und Jürgen Stark
Beschreibung
Popgeschichte ist mehr als eine Aufzählung der Namen großer Künstler mit ihren größten Hits, fatalsten Flops und peinlichsten Ausrutschern. Sie zeigt in einer weit gefassten Perspektive auch die (kultur-) politischen und gesellschaftlichen Zeitumstände auf, unter denen die Popularmusik sich entwickelt und verändert. Die Autoren erläutern jedoch auch, wie sehr außermusikalische Einflüsse sich dort auswirken, wo sich Trends und Bewegungen in der Popmusik länder- und systemübergreifend annähern oder auseinanderdividieren. Wenngleich also die Künstler, die Bands und ihre Musik im Mittelpunkt der Darstellung stehen, bleiben stets auch die 'Begleitschwingungen' im Blick - vom gesellschaftlichen Stellenwert einer sinnvollen Musikerziehung bis hin zum dramatischen Wandel des Musikmarkts mit seinen Folgen für eine Popkultur der Zukunft.
Das Buch beschäftigt sich also mit Brücken und Brüchen in der Popgeschichte. Es zeigt Stillstand und Bewegung in den Zeitläufen, die die Popkultur nicht nur in Deutschland flankierten. Indem die Autoren auch sehr persönliche Erlebnisse und Begegnungen einfließen lassen, wird ihr Buch zugleich auch zu einem Stück erlebter Popgeschichte!
Die Autoren
Gerd Gebhardt (Jahrgang 1951) arbeite lange Zeit für das Medienunternehmen CBS, arbeitete sich zum Leiter International Artist & Repertoire hoch, wechselte dann zu WEA Music, wo er später bis zum President Warner Central & Northern Europe aufstieg. Bis Ende 2005 war er Vorstandsvorsitzender der Deutschen Phonoverbände. Für den Bundesverband der deutschen Musikindustrie (Deutsche Phono-Akademie) ist Gebhardt seit Jahren als Executive Producer des ECHO tätig, des als "deutscher Grammy" bekannten Schallplattenpreises. Weit über die Musikbranche hinaus ist er als "Vater des ECHO" bekannt.
Jürgen Stark (Jahrgang 1957), veröffentlichte zahlreiche Beiträge in Zeitungen und Fachzeitschriften und mehrere Bücher zum Themenumfeld Popkultur. Die Musikzeitschrift Metal Hammer konzipierte er mit und war deren Chefredakteur. Stark entwickelte im Auftrag der Deutschen Phono-Akademie und in Zusammenarbeit mit der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung die "SchoolTour" als Kampagne für mehr Musik und Kreativität an deutschen Schulen. Stellvertretender Direktor für Medienjournalismus beim Institut für kulturelle Kommunikation an der Hochshule Offenburg.
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Randy Hansen Mittwoch, 02.05.2012 (Konzert ab 20.30 Uhr) Galery Music Bar Rütiweg 9, CH-4133 Pratteln
Eintritt CHF 28.50 Randy Hansen Türöffnung: 19:00 Uhr Konzert: ca. 20:30 Uhr
Ticketvorverkauf über  Z7 Konzertfabrik
Weitere Informationen: http://galery.ch/event_details.php?eventid=639

"Jimi-Hendrix"-VERANSTALTUNG in Berlin: Asep Stone Experience plays Jimi Hendrix
Wann Donnerstag, 28. Juni 2012 Zeit 21:00 bis 00:00
Das erste Konzert der ASEP STONE EXPERIENCE aus der Schweiz in BERLIN.. Asep Stone (* 1969 in Bandung, Indonesien) ist einer der besten "Jimi Hendrix"-Double der Welt! Dieser Gig wird DAS "Jimi-Hendrix-Konzert" in Berlin im Jahr 2012, in dem Jimi Hendrix 70 Jahre alt geworden wäre (* 27.11.1942 - 18.9.1970).
Line-Up: Asep Stone: guitar, vocals, Ivo Bucher: bass, Lukas Meier: drums
Doors Open: ab 20h, Konzert: ab 21h Eintritt: Abendkasse: 20 €, Vorverkauf: 15 €, Vorverkauf ab März, davor Reservierung möglich über bsauerdiete@yahoo.de Veranstalter: Bernd Sauer-Diete/bsd-photo-archiv
Weitere Informationen zu der Band gibt es auf den Facebook-Seiten "Asep Stone Experience (Berliner Seite)", "Asep Stone Experience" und "Asep Stone" sowie auf seiner Myspace-Seite: http://www.myspace.com/asepstoneexperience (hier auch mit MUSIK von der Band).
Bei youtube findet ihr auch ein paar Live-Videos, z.B. ein Open-Air-Live-Medley am Züricher See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yh73uyZTs&blend=22&lr=1&ob =5

The very first concert of ASEP STONE EXPERIENCE from Switzland in BERLIN! Asep Stone (* 1969 in Bandung, Indonesia) is one of the best "Jimi Hendrix"-Doubles worldwide! This gig will be THE "Jimi-Hendrix"-Concert in Berlin in the year Jimi Hendrix would have celebrated his 70th birthday (* 27.11.1942 - 18.9.1970).
Line-Up: Asep Stone: guitar, vocals, Ivo Bucher: bass, Lukas Meier: drums
Doors Open: 20h, Concert: 21h Admission: box office: 20 €, advance sale: 15 €, advance sale starts in march, before march you can reservate your ticket here: bsauerdiete@yahoo.de Organizer: Bernd Sauer-Diete/bsd-photo-archiv
Further information you can get on the Facebook pages "Asep Stone Experience (Berliner Seite)", "Asep Stone Experience" and "Asep Stone" and on the Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/asepstoneexperience (here also with music from the band). On youtube you can find some Live-Videos, f.e. an Open-Air-Live-Medley recored at the Zurich Lake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0yh73uyZTs&blend=22&lr=1&ob =5

Jimi Hendrix Kalender Offizieller Kalender 2012
Größe: Breite 30,5 cm; Höhe 30,5 cm; gibt es bei  www.closeup.de  

Kalender Link: http://www.closeup.de/de/thema/search/q-hendrix+kalender.html

Link auf das ganze Hendrix-Sortiment: http://www.closeup.de/de/shop/jimi-hendrix-shop-302.html

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