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...Jimi Plays Berkeley are rock concert crowds. They shout to friends in the balcony and stomp their feet impatiently. And when the house lights dim--after the usual delay peculiar to rock concerts--matches flare and shoulders hunch throughout the theater. Excited, they sit back to let the Jimi Hendrix Experience wash over them...
...peak, Jimi Hendrix was an experience, cultivating not devoted fans, but hysterical fanatics. For a few brilliant months in 1967 and 1968, he injected explosive energy into electric blues and outrageous rock. Playing on his back, playing with his teeth or simply playing it straight, Hendrix and The Experience and their banks of tortured amplifiers seemed to own the future as they burst first upon England, and then, America...
...Hendrix and Joplin legends satisfy precisely this fascination, and a whole school of films has capitalized upon this by exploiting rock's ability to suspend and heighten experience. Monterey Pop, Woodstock and Gimme Shelter use the camera to merely broadcast and reproduce the excitement generated by the music and the performers themselves. Rock and film sometimes mesh as neatly as bass and lead guitar. Gimme Shelter is at its best when the colored lights play over Jagger's body, and the Stones possess the stage. Offstage, without the protection of its excellent music, it grows tiresome...
Buddy Miles. Known, to his less than legion fans as Brotha Bud, Buddy Miles, to a lesser extent than Jimi Hendrix, has begun to appeal to both blacks and whites. Buddy dabbles in many instruments, masters none, and is primarily known as rock's most primitive drummer, a real master at percussive noise. What's carried Bud through something like seven albums, dating from his Electric Flag days, is Funk, and it's not hard to figure out how he got that. Musically, though, it's the result of time put in with big soul bands, like Wilson Pickett...
...mutters the ex-prisoner. Abandoning his pepup and soy derivative, he pushes onward to a record store. His favorites have quite literally passed on. Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix-all killed by various ODs. The Beatles? Fragmented. The unheard of Woodstock? While he was gone it was born, matured, grew senile and became a comic epitaph on an old emotion. Some stalwarts remain here too: Streisand, Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, The Stones. But who are the Partridge Family? Cheech and Chong? Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show...