Jimi Hendrix playing 'Purple
Haze' live in Atlanta, on the
Fourth of July in 1970.'Purple
Haze' is a song recorded in
1967 by The Jimi Hendrix
Experience, released as a
single in both the United
Kingdom and the United States.
It also appeared on the US
release of their 1967 album
Are You Experienced?.Purple
Haze is often cite
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Jimi Hendrix playing 'Purple
Haze' live in Atlanta, on the
Fourth of July in 1970.'Purple
Haze' is a song recorded in
1967 by The Jimi Hendrix
Experience, released as a
single in both the United
Kingdom and the United States.
It also appeared on the US
release of their 1967 album
Are You Experienced?.Purple
Haze is often cited as one of
Jimi Hendrix's greatest songs,
and first international hit.
For many, it is his signature
work. Purple Haze became
Hendrix' second single after
his manager Chas Chandler
heard him playing the riff
backstage and quickly arranged
for him to record and release
the song.The single peaked at
number three in the UK but
only number 65 in the US,
where it was released in June
1967, a month after 'Are You
Experienced?' and three months
after the UK single. In March
2005, Q magazine ranked
'Purple Haze' at number one in
its list of the 100 Greatest
Guitar Tracks. The Rolling
Stone magazine placed the song
at No. 17 in their '500
Greatest Songs of All
Time'.The song is believed to
refer to Hendrix's experiences
with a similarly-named batch
of LSD produced in 1966 by
Owsley Stanley. (In a 1967 BBC
session, Hendrix recorded a
cover version of the Beatles'
'Day Tripper' in which he
shouts, 'Oh, Owsley, can you
hear me now?' during the
climactic guitar solo.) Others
believed that the song's name
was derived from a strain of
marijuana, called 'purple
haze.' However, in interviews
Hendrix would disclaim any
association with recreational
drug use, asserting that the
song was drawn from a dream he
had where he was walking under
the ocean, surrounded by a
purple haze. At another point,
Hendrix said he took the
phrase 'purple haze' from
Night of Light, a science
fiction novel written by
Philip José Farmer that he
was reading at the time.
(However, the phrase appearing
in Farmer's book is 'purplish
haze'.) Hendrix claimed that
the song was about love,
explaining that the line
'whatever it is, that girl put
a spell on me' was the key to
the meaning of lyrics.The song
is distinctive for the
flattened fifth interval which
appears in the intro. The
guitar plays Bb octaves while
the bass plays E octaves. Such
dissonance was unusual in
popular music of the time.
Dubbed guitar track played
through octavia, a gadget that
transfers notes one octave
higher, can be heard during
the outro.(The song's lyric
''Scuse me while I kiss the
sky' has been widely misheard
as ''Scuse me while I kiss
this guy.' However, in some
live performances, as a joke,
Hendrix clearly and
unmistakably sang 'Scuse me,
while I kiss that guy.' One of
these appears on the album
'Voodoo Child : The Jimi
Hendrix Collection [Disc
2].')-Information taken from
Wikipedia.

Category Music

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