Jimi: All is by my side

not_the_dj

Sambostar said:

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

I watched that the other day (see the def Leppard thread) some hilarious bits, including grey hound buses going down the streets in Sheffield, and a sigh post for the M25 on the snake pass....not to mention the awfull fake playing. Still that was a pretty low budget made for TV film.

Lixarto

WezV said:

I saw it. Terrible and boring.

Bit like the original records then

Philly_Q

not_the_dj said:

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. 

Yeah, I think that's the 1993(?) version.

I have the 1997 EH version with Hendrix's face on the front of the booklet - it might be the original US cover?  The back has a Linda McCartney photo of the Experience playing with some little kids around a statue in Central Park.

musicegbdf

Educate me Philly , why Cry of Love. I actually like that album...
Is there something I don't know about it ?....

WezV

Lixarto said:

WezV said:

I saw it. Terrible and boring.

Bit like the original records then

I would say "you do better" fully knowing that the correct response to that would be to request that I make a better film than all is by my side.

but I think I actually could make a better film.

In fairness I though Andre 3000 was a good fit.   He would have been a better fit when he was first linked with a potential Jimi project - about 10 years ago when he was much closer to the correct age. 

I was really disappointed by the gear inaccuracies too, although less than the pointlessness of the whole film.  They haven't just not got the music rights, clearly they can't show him playing a fender either.   baffling

Philly_Q

musicegbdf said:

Educate me Philly , why Cry of Love. I actually like that album...
Is there something I don't know about it ?....

Shouldn't think so, I like it too.

It was, I think, the first posthumous attempt to construct the album Hendrix was supposedly working on before he died.  I was just saying that the Experience Hendrix album "First Rays of the New Rising Sun", which also purports to be the next album he was going to release, doesn't seem any more legit to me than "Cry of Love" (or "Rainbow Bridge").

Basically I'm just griping about Experience Hendrix's "it's what Jimi would have wanted" stance.

 

not_the_dj

Worse than that the Experience Hendrix estate have recently re-released Cry of Love!

Philly_Q

WezV said:

I was really disappointed by the gear inaccuracies too, although less than the pointlessness of the whole film.  They haven't just not got the music rights, clearly they can't show him playing a fender either.   baffling

That made me think of The Buddy Holly Story, where Gary Busey spends much of the (really quite good) film playing a '70s Telecaster.

Philly_Q

not_the_dj said:

Worse than that the Experience Hendrix estate have recently re-released Cry of Love!

I knew it was out but didn't realise it was EH - I suppose it had to be!

not_the_dj

Rainbow Bridge as well.

Philly_Q

Yeah, I'll probably buy them too.  Haven't heard them for many years.

Philly_Q

Following this discussion, I was up very late last night listening to Hendrix for the first time in many years.  So, late for work this morning, but what the hell.  I'm glad the topic came up.