I was 12 years old when I saw Hendrix on TV, it was a rainy day and on TV( Belgium 2) there was a concert, that was namely Jimi plays Berkeley. My mother tipped me to it, knowing that I was (and still am) very interested in guitar music. I couldn’t take my eyes off the picture…this was unbelievable, this was how it had to be and this was the sound I liked. That’s where I saw the Marshall stacks, just like AC\/DC. A love of life was born. The Fender stratocaster and wah pedal did the rest. Unbelievable what a sound. After a week, not sleeping from excitement hahahaha I took the plunge and went to a friend of my father’s. My father said go and see him, he has a lot of LPs. Saturday afternoon I rang the bell and he (Pierre was his name) let me in. I asked about the music, Hendrix! Oh boy, sit down, he said, and I’ll let you hear some. That’s where it started, that afternoon my future was formed, we went from Freddie King, to Rory Gallagher, from Allman Brothers to Litlle Feat, from Howlin wolf to ….alles that I didn’t know but he let me hear. This was my music, in addition to the rock and metal I already had at home in small numbers, like Quo, and AC\/DC and Motorhead.After 4 hours I said to him, I saw Hendrix on TV! What do you have from that? What of it! was his answer, but he said, I actually have to go somewhere, but I’ll give you an LP. That album was the Band of Gypsies.
\nWhen I got home I went to my bedroom and put the record on the turntable. What a sound, freedom and improvisation….that record, like Irish Tour by Gallagher, shaped my musical thinking…. from the first notes of Who Knows to the last sounds of We gotta live together…..unbelievable. But that one note of the solo of Machine gun…is the highlight of the record for me. By now I am a big music collector myself, of all kinds of styles, from Jazz ,blues to metal and prog, psychedelics, sixties etc.
\nOver the years I have collected all versions of the Hendrix Band of Gypsys recordings, bootlegs, extra tracks somewhere on CDs, etc., until finally two years ago a boxset appeared with all the tracks from those evenings……. it was complete, just like my search….
\nOnce gaaien I found myself listening to the music, the intensity and the freedom……..it still is for me….Band Of Gypsys changed my musical life permanently….timelessly inspiring musical document of a legend……..Hendrix……Gorgeous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8301","bluesvdmaand","type-bluesvdmaand","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n