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Jimi Hendrix made it into the seventies...
"...even some of the best Fusion records can drain the patience of listeners at times. Hendrix' Fire Rose takes this tendency to almost surreal extremes. The double LP is conceptually structured around the funky riff that bookends the first disc. Taken in isolation the 43 second track (called Fire Hose when it first appears, and Froze the second time) might be passable. Repeated in a number of variations across 12 tracks and more than 70 minutes it outstays its welcome by a considerable margin. Hendrix' playing is sluggish, the production murky, and the spark of invention that made his previous 'jazz' record intermittently listenable, if not loveable, is nowhere in evidence.
The second disc comprises the interminable 36 minutes of Theo's, which begins promisingly with the Fire Hose riff dissolving into another tune altogether, but then proceeds to go nowhere at all. Sadly, rather than go nowhere in a banal or easily ignored way, it goes nowhere in an aggressively insistent way, to the extent that it becomes infuriating. To sit through the whole thing could be considered heroic, misguided, or masochistic, but by any measure even Hendrix' most ardent fans will find it a painful experience.
Staggeringly, two years later, Hendrix would release an even worse record with his 'punk' album City Of Bang, the reception to which would see him retire from music for the next seven years..."
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"...even some of the best Fusion records can drain the patience of listeners at times. Hendrix' Fire Rose takes this tendency to almost surreal extremes. The double LP is conceptually structured around the funky riff that bookends the first disc. Taken in isolation the 43 second track (called Fire Hose when it first appears, and Froze the second time) might be passable. Repeated in a number of variations across 12 tracks and more than 70 minutes it outstays its welcome by a considerable margin. Hendrix' playing is sluggish, the production murky, and the spark of invention that made his previous 'jazz' record intermittently listenable, if not loveable, is nowhere in evidence.
The second disc comprises the interminable 36 minutes of Theo's, which begins promisingly with the Fire Hose riff dissolving into another tune altogether, but then proceeds to go nowhere at all. Sadly, rather than go nowhere in a banal or easily ignored way, it goes nowhere in an aggressively insistent way, to the extent that it becomes infuriating. To sit through the whole thing could be considered heroic, misguided, or masochistic, but by any measure even Hendrix' most ardent fans will find it a painful experience.
Staggeringly, two years later, Hendrix would release an even worse record with his 'punk' album City Of Bang, the reception to which would see him retire from music for the next seven years..."
Any sacred cows you want sacrificing?
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