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Jimi Hendrix and psychedelics

slimvictor

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Hi all,

There is something so special to me about the music of Jimi Hendrix when I am on psychedelics that I wanted to see if others share this feeling.

When I started tripping, almost 25 years ago, I listened to Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane, and Miles Davis on nearly all of my trips.
I enjoyed all of the music greatly:)
But something about the Hendrix...<3

Around 10 years ago, I began to listen to Jimi for about half of every trip, and the rest was filled with Ali Farka Toure (African Blues), or Hamza El Din (Nubian Music), or Bob Marley or John Coltrane. I still appreciated the music I used to listen to, but only Jimi remained in the "must hear" group for each trip.

Now, I find that I listen to Bob Marley for the first hour, and Jimi for the rest of the trip, essentially every time. (Maybe I listen to Bach at the very end, when I wish I were asleep.)

Jimi's music moves me in a certain way that just goes perfectly with the psychedelic experience. It is so powerful, so funky, so colorful, so full of movement, so passionate - more than anything, it is the pure passion that gets me, I think.

I had a +4 experience on Ayahuasca when I couldn't manage to listen to much music, but kept babbling "Jimi Hendrix.... Jesus Christ... the same? You decide" for several hours.

Sometimes I feel that Jimi's music takes me deeper and farther than any other music.

Anyone else have similar feelings?
Do you frequently just prefer Hendrix to anyone else, and listen to hour after hour of his magic while tripping?
 
man you should listen to Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

its super psychedelic and great for trips.

i totally get wehat youre talking about. its like with hendrix and marley, i can see the notes as colours and psychedelic swirls.

its been said that hendrix has whats calle 'perfect pitch' which means he can perceive the different frequenciess of sound in a different way from most people seeing them more as you and i see colours as different frequencies of light. i may be rambling a bit here but maybe theres something to it.
 
The spirit that flows through me while on psychedelics just feels to be on the exact same wavelength as the spirit that is behind that kind of music.

When the two mix its like an explosion of everything awesome in the universe.

It's like the spirit of happiness, love of all, and excitement all rolled into one. The spirit and essence of life itself maybe.

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I frequently enjoy Hendrix whilst tripping. I had listened to him a lot before I took my first blotters aged 16 in 1990, so his style was something familiar to latch on to in the new experience. But, LSD opened my ears up to a different level of listening.
Jimi's music has an energy and optimism which shines brightly through an altered perception! There is a sense of humour and fun that I like, along with straight all-out kick assery and his iteration of the blues.
I usually reach for a live recording these days (Band of Gypsies - there's a tasty boxset now, and the Woodstock gig) although I started with the studio albums. I have a particular fondness for Axis.
Anyway, he's up there with the best in my psychedelic playlist. However, there are a great many other artists before and since, that have produced work that resonates with that state of mind. I tend not to over use any particular artist more than others so as preserve my listening enjoyment. Most intelligently created music works, including stuff which might normally be off my playlist. I have found ways to appreciate some pretty odd stuff over the years, thanks to the old psychedelic headphones.
Peace - Pipp.
 
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Slimvictor, thank you so much for starting this kick-ass thread.

I love Jimi Hendrix so much, seeing him play on stage he just goes so hard, and just laughs and is all about having a good time.

Jimi Hendrix Live at woodstock is my favorite tripping music, It's like I was there in 1969 :D
 
I don't listen to Jimi's studio stuff when I'm tripping but I like watching DVD's of him live. The Royal Albert Hall gig, Berkely, Woodstock, Rainbow Bridge, that 1973 doc about him called "Jimi Hendrix".

You pick up on things when he's improvising live that you don't notice so much when you arn't tripping. The way he'll play a line, then reverse it, then go halfway up it, then down another way back to the root note. It's staggering the way he plays with melody and rhythm with such ease.

Interesting that he regularly used to play gigs tripping on acid and it didn't affect his playing in a negative way - I can't imagine many people being able to play such intricate guitar while tripping. Lemmy says he used to score acid for Hendrix and Hash for Mitch. "Jimi would give me the money for 10 blotters and he'd take 7 and give me 3. He was a very generous guy".

One of the funniest urban myths I've read is that he used to go onstage with his headband soaked in LSD. Someone else said "He didn't soak the entire headband in LSD, he would just put one or two blotters under it for when he started sweating". Obviously all bullshit - he'd have eaten any acid rather than waste it by putting it under his headband.
 
Ever since I was a kid I've loved Hendrix. I have yet to listen to him while tripping though. For the most part I've been tripping with buddies while doing things. I recently started tripping alone, and there is so much music I want to grasp. My favorite genres are metal (even black metal), folk, funky pop and some electronical (Coil, Mushroom Jazz and similar).
Will be checking out Jimi based upon this thread. If only I could play that way while tripping...
 
i wasnt to into jimi when i first listened. Got turned on to live hendrix listening to like a rolling stone live at montery ripped on one 4/20. Since then ive dedicated a decent amount of time trying to learn his music on guitar and trying to find as many live performances as i could (to say theres ALOT would be an understatement bootleg performances are countless).

He has to by far be one of my favourite artists and easily in any top 3 list as far as guitarists are concerned(including dem classical folk like Segovia but thats kinda like comparing hendrix to bach so lets not go there) .

As far as listening to him while tripping ive loved him no matter what drug im on LSD, Ketamine, MDxx, weed, DXM, anything. I've stayed up whole nights on E, trying to learn bold as love and loved every second of it. The feeling i get while listening and sometimes while playing his music is indescribable. I could listen to the bold as love instrumental 1000 times and not tire of it.

If anyone hear is a fan of live hendrix you definatly have to check out this 9 minute little wing jam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByN1oHmRVrU.

Shits phenomenal, better than the original in my opinion and right up there with Stevies version from the sky is crying.

I know its already been said but thank you for starting this thread i thought i was one of a few that still deeply appreciated hendrix past the point of hey joe and purple haze and im glad to hear that people still appreciate his brilliance.

I only wish he had done less touring ( his managers toured him to death) and more studio recordings. Imagine where his music couldve gone with just one more year of life. I LOVE some of the unique sounds from first rays of the new rising sun

btw anyone else notice youtube fucked around and now its waayyyy harder to find some of his rarer stuff
 
I think Jimi had difficulty leaving his music alone - his best albums were the ones he was pressured into making quick. After Ladyland he seemed to drift aimlessly in his writing. His playing was still first rate tho, his improvising got better and better. Even Isle of Wight has tremendous moments.
 
When i first discovered the magic 4-5 (floyd, zep, doors, jimi, beatles) i fell so hard for the music that my group of friends almost ruined the shit. I haven't listened to floyd in 2 years because of that, I'm striving to make it fresh again.

Just recently I had my 2nd dmt experience whilst listening to The End and it was much more then beautiful, theres no proper words to describe the awesomeness.

Honestly It's been so long that next trip is gonna be a proper old school trip.

By the way. first record i ever listened to on acid. The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators. It melted my brain in the best way possible.
 
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I've been a Hendrix fan for most of my life but for some reason I'm only just beginning to get into his posthumous albums.

Peace in Mississippi <3
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^I've never heard this one before dude, but its AWESOME. I love Hendrix's un-released songs so much, they are so raw, melodic, and just speak to me

These are my two favorite posthumous Hendrix songs. They are so rounded and complete, ahh Jimi takes my breath away.
Pali Gap
Room Full Of Mirrors
 
hendrix is excellent tripping music, but what imho fits even better into an acid trip are the grateful dead. i enjoy jimi more while sober (and even have strat just like the one he played at woodstock, albeit right-handed), but the dead are just perfect for acid. everyone who takes acid should at least once listen to dark star while tripping. it's just amazing beyond words.
 
not sure if you know of this track but 'Gypsie Eyes' produced sometime during those good years, great song though, psychedelic

also a lot of what Hendrix was getting into was jazz kinda stuff so check out stuff by Coltrane and it may blow your mind or kill you.
 
I would advise eveyone to download Innerspeaker as Lazyscience said. It's incredible.
I can tell there's a definate sub-pop/ (possibly) Beatles influence. Their lead singer reminds me of Paul McCartney.
 
FYI, we have a popp'n fresh Big & Dandy Music on Psychedelics thread. Hooray search feature!

Hendrix does go great with LSD. Its not that surprising considering how heavily it influenced his music. There is definitely a lot of great music that is fantastic when combined with psychedelics. Electric guitar is definitely reeeeal goooood, and Hendrix is the fuck'n master.
 
There are very few trips where I haven't listened to some Hendrix (or more often than not, a lot of Hendrix). I have yet to find another musician who gives me quite as wonderful vibes as he.

Band of Gypsies - there's a tasty boxset now
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YES to this one. I love it, it's practically mandatory listening while doing higher dose dissociatives, for me anyway.
 
had my first 2ce trip in the company of hendrix, and he's therefore unforgettable. theres just so much life, color and vibrancy to his songs, it is indeed a pleasure for the mind to listen to.

not to mention that i seem to go back there a little bit evey time it comes on in the headphones.
 
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