Jimi Hendrix Collaborator Eddie Kramer mentioned a mistake in the studio that the pair wanted to repeat but couldn't.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's latest album, Electric Ladyland, was nearing completion at the time, with Chas Chandler's production and Kramer engineering. During a recent Q&A event (via NME), Kramer explained how the incident happened at the Record Plant studio in New York City.
"There was a period when there was something funky with the console and the stages I was doing," Kramer said. “Jimmy was sitting next to me and we mingled together, since there were no computers in those days. But suddenly, there was a sound that caused something strange to happen by accident.
He continued, "Jimmy's guitar" went right behind our heads, and we thought, "What the hell is this?" And Jimmy looked at me, ‘Can you do that again?’ I said, ‘No, buddy — I have no idea.’ It was a mistake that I tried to repeat but I couldn’t get it back!”
Kramer said he and Hendrix had found "the beginning of the sounds going behind you," adding, "If he had lived, he'd be in the middle of this amazing new technology, saying, 'Man, let's move on the guitar this way.'" Or if it had been a studio recording—because it was so edgy and really techno-fueled—he would have wanted me to move around and around the room, which I love to do."
In the same Q&A session, Hendrix's sister Jenny recalled how the guitarist would sit in silence during family visits because he was more interested in listening to them, even though they wanted to know about his adventures. "He was listening a lot, more than we wanted him to because we wanted to hear from him," she said. "That's kind of what his life was like outside of music — just very quiet, shy, soft-spoken." She added that he enjoyed playing Monopoly with the family and preferred to play shoe.
100 Best Rock Albums of the Sixties
Here's a chronological look at the 100 best rock albums of the '60s.
Source link
0 Comments