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...have much interest or connection with American popular music,” Adams says of Kirchner. “We would study contemporary classical music and try to come to terms with a style that was so dissonant and then go back to our rooms and listen to Jimi Hendrix. I felt an urge to rebel.” Adams adds, “[Kirchner] himself felt that no matter what he did he’d never be as good as Shubert and passed that onto the students. It became a form of self-flagellation, kills the creative spirit...
Look at the tracklist. Who is she covering? Jimi Hendrix. Neil Young. The Beatles. Jefferson Airplane. The Doors. The goddamn Allman Brothers Band. These are all artists she listened to back in the day. And if she knows that music has changed, she doesn’t care...
...REAL-WORLD ECHOES The screening, held at the Massachusetts State House, brought together many recovering addicts, representatives from the Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR), and state representatives to discuss addiction in Boston. One recovering drug addict who attended the screening and who asked to be identified only as Jimi, said he anticipated that HBO’s name-recognition would help spread the film’s message. “Hopefully, struggling drug addicts will see there are programs designed to help,” he said, adding that the medium of television could appeal to a large...
...understand that you had similar distribution problems with Monterey Pop, your film about the music festival, featuring breakout performances by Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix...
...renowned scholar on the African diaspora attributed the timelessness of Jimi Hendrix’s music to his ability to resonate with multi-generational audiences in a lecture held in the Barker Center yesterday. As “an endless improvisor of tradition,” Hendrix was “prepared to lose his identity to find it,” Giddens Professor in Social Theory at the London School of Economics Paul Gilroy said of the cultural icon and his creativity. Hendrix’s innovation is largely responsible for the timelessness of his music, Gilroy said. Following...