Jimi: All is by my side

SimonC

That Andre fella from Outkast is playing Hendrix in this biopic out next month.

I just read that the film makers didn't have the rights to any of Hendrix's music so used a bunch of other hits from the period.

Not sure how well this is going to work??

littlegreenman

Is that the one that his old girlfriend tried to stop because it shows Jimi being abusive, which she says never actually happened?

not_the_dj

He played a lot of blues and covers so it could work. I suspect it'll be more about him than the music anyway. There was a clip doing the rounds a while back and that Andre bloke looked and sounded really close.

SimonC

Apparently it's an "Oblique portrait"

Which I gues can be translated as it's very sparing with any actual facts.

boogieman

I take it this is Janie Hendrix, Jimi's sister-who-actually-had-nothing-to-do-with-him-and-is-just-in-it-for-the-money, sticking her oar in and preventing the makers from using his music?

frankus

half sister who met Hendrix twice.

richardhomer

Who did the Gibson 'Strat' signature deal?

Nice....

Deijavoo

richardhomer said:

Who did the Gibson 'Strat' signature deal?

Nice....

I'd never known about this until now.

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/blog-when-is-a-strat-not-a-strat-220867

Just plain....well, yeah....

not_the_dj

So has anyone seen this yet?

It was on at our local Arts Centre last weekend, but we missed it :-(

WezV

I saw it. Terrible and boring.

Adam_MD

It was really really bad.

joeyowen

Shame to hear it was bad

I get the feeling it was hampered my money and rights etc... 

not_the_dj

I'll wait till it's on the telly then.

I had high hopes for this as I'm sure any official "experience hendrix" version would no doubt re-write it to have a happy family home and his loving sister playing a large part....like that docu a while back. 

Although I gather that this film played it a bit fast and loose with the truth in places (if we actually know the truth of course).

musicegbdf

Daughter is a big Hendrix fan and she hated it...

blueskunk

Annoying woman. That gibson strat was just the biggest joke ever hurled upon the guitar world.

Philly_Q

I remember the stick Alan Douglas used to get for curating the Hendrix estate and releasing all those cut-and-paste albums like War Heroes and Crash Landing. 

Then Janie Hendrix came along and it was all portrayed as "great news, the legacy is back with the Hendrix family".... but they've exploited it even more mercilessly.

not_the_dj

Philly_Q said:

I remember the stick Alan Douglas used to get for curating the Hendrix estate and releasing all those cut-and-paste albums like War Heroes and Crash Landing. 

Then Janie Hendrix came along and it was all portrayed as "great news, the legacy is back with the Hendrix family".... but they've exploited it even more mercilessly.

To be fair the EH re-releases have been pretty good. Certainly better than things like Voodoo Soup with all those overdubs

Philly_Q

True, but they pissed me off straight away by tampering with things, like changing the cover of Electric Ladyland.  I know they said oh, Jimi never wanted those naked women on the cover.... but that was the cover, like it or not.

Then they put out things like South Saturn Delta and First Rays of the New Rising Sun which really have no more legitimacy as "real" Hendrix albums than Rainbow Bridge or The Cry of Love.  What the hell does Janie know about "what Jimi would have wanted", really?

not_the_dj

indeed, I turned the sleeve around in my copy of EL as it had the proper artwork on the other side of the booklet.

not_the_dj

not_the_dj said:

indeed, I turned the sleeve around in my copy of EL as it had the proper artwork on the other side of the booklet.

...actually I might be thinking about the previous re-issues that had a processed colour pic of jimi on each of the three experience albums. That was before the EH time. http://jamesostafford.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/hendric-electric-ladyland-93-cd.jpg

Sambostar

It will most probably be as realistic as the Def Leppard film.  Which shows Phil Collen playing really well in his former Glam band....

and when, after they have taken him on board, Steve Clark walking out on a rehearsal because he is intimidated by Collen's technical prowess...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En-n3-NNyF0