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...feels like being back inside First Avenue in Minneapolis; Prince is on a small stage under purple lights. But something feels different--the Prince on stage is not the Prince of the Purple Rain years. Peach-colored light fills the stage, and Prince begins to jam with very heavy Hendrix-style guitar riffs. By the time Sheila E. comes out on stage with the rest of the concert band, the audience is ready to break with the past...
Most Original Band: Clarkson. The Knight band comes with electric guitarist. How 'bout a little Hendrix to start the game...
...guitar and bass, respectively, and Shankar Ramaswami on drums) and Fred Heiberger on keyboards. They served as the pick-up group for several of the acts and rocked out on their own with "Trim." This was a piece of driving fusion, with throbbing chromatics, and a bit o' Hendrix in Hammond's solo. This otherwise excellent piece fizzled out, however, in banal repetition of a one-measure motif...
That, however, was more than made up for in the second set. It started with an 11-minute rendition of the protest song "They Dance Alone." Then the band launched into Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing," a song which got the band a standing ovation on Saturday Night Live. The inevitable Hendrix-style guitar solo chore went to Jeff Campbell, who seemed to handle the duty tastefully, as he played a tribute to Hendrix rather than a carbon copy...
...come in 1969. The year 1968 was more politically preoccupied. But the personalities and anthems of rock gave pulse to the politics and identity to the young. It was the sound that they inhabited -- Steppenwolf, Country Joe and the Fish, the Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles going into their White Album phase and, above all, Bob Dylan, still. Dylan's music had a genius of portent: "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." Back in 1965 he had written, "Something is happening here...