RE: Apartment life

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Apartment life

in architecturalphotography •  7 years ago  (edited)

It's a pretty neato area. Haha. It has great light and an open vista that's sort of lonesome and mysterious in a sense. I park on the street there and walk down to the beach and it's usually really quiet. Winter mornings are really nice when it's clear.

Have you ever seen Rainbow Bridge? The movie with Jimi Hendrix in it? There's a scene in the beginning of the movie where they are driving down Pacific Coast Hwy and they pass by here just up the road a bit. I tried to find it on youtube but they were all blocked for copyright issues.

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That's a shame ... no, I haven't seen it but it sounds lovely:)

It's a bit of a rambling mess but a cool time capsule and then the legendary concert. Try listening to Pali Gap or Hey Baby (new rising sun) if you can find an original version actually by Jimi and not just a cover by someone else. There are endless cover versions clogging up youtube

I have to confess ... there is an energetic aspect to Hendrix that find unappealing. I love rock and roll .... the Doors, the Stones and other circa greats but Hendrix and Dillion too ... they just don't work for me. I do not know what it is.

That's so funny, when i watch Jimi in concert i see him making mistakes and talking and being shy in front of the mic... he makes funny little jokes and things. Then - i'm a guitar player so it freaks me out completely when he plays - He's so intense it is uncomfortable. There's this beyond the outer limits of skill thing he has. His peers, the bands you mentioned and others would just watch and be speechless. Hmmm, not that it's important really to anyone but us guitar nerds but just be able to control and play a stratocaster through 100 watt Marshall stacks with humming buzzing ground loops, funky failure prone pedals and make music out of it is no small feat. Turning it into a different beast and not playing everything exactly the same every time too. Lol i'm really going off here aren't i?

To do what he did on an instrument would take a sort of confidence and knowing of self that is in a way at odds with the gentle kind person he was and aspired to be more of. This is a topic i absolutely love! Dylan for instance had the very same bravado and sureness of self, looks different but it's there in the lyrics.

I don't want to be an ass here and promote or make anyone wrong for music.

I just had a thought. None of my girlfriends or women i know liked him very much. I forgot about that. I wonder what that is?

It is the energy of the work ... and the spaces in between if that makes any sense.