Jimi Hendrix & John McLaughlin Record Plant N.Y 25 March 69

Jimi Hendrix & John McLaughlin Record Plant N.Y 25 March 69 (Link is to YouTube)

When everything else has gone to complete shit and, in case you had not noticed, it has, there is music.  Hendrix and McLaughlin seem an unlikely combination ... until you hear them play.

The video is crap with only a static image but that leaves you free to start it and listen without paying any attention to the screen and the music goes for about twenty-eight minutes of transcendental bliss.  When modern music only leads to sex or a feeding trough, I need to go back to find something like this ... and then the stars light in the sky.

Until this, yesterday was largely one of invitation to conglobate myself out of existence, much like Gimli in Heinlein's "Glory Road" ... but ... then I saw the link from a friend ... and ... beauty and magnificence exploded with even more power than ten billion butterfly sneezes.

(Ed:  you stole that from the Moody Blues)

What?  I should steal something from the middle-aged death metal band which was blowed-up in Paris and whose names are already forgotten in the fervor for killing motherfuckers somewhere else ... all the while selling them fighter aircraft??

So ... the music.  Here's the Sanctuary.

Jimi Hendrix and John McLaughlin had wildly different styles or so it seemed until they played together.  The recording is such a supreme melding of talent you will be hard-pressed to discover who was playing what at any given moment.  In this is the annihilation of self in pursuit of musical perfection.

In a time when journos are stars with no respect for the news and venue owners are stars with no respect for the music, this is music venue owners won't carry and journos won't write about it.  So much the better because they would not understand it anyway.

Fortunately, you, esteemed reader, are not a knuckle-dragging nimrod and may seriously dig it.


From yesterday:

Hendrix & McLaughlin playing music from gods.  Just unbelievable.  Bass and drums are killin' as well.  Genius beyond mortal human reach.

Music to make you think humanity is really good for something after all.