Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote: It's funny, I'd always regarded it as such, but over the last couple years have really grown to enjoy the other tracks.

I didn't know anything about the history of the release! So thanks for that.

liebzz wrote:The Syd Barrett days are always interesting and often better than I remember.

liebzz wrote:

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

This is the other Hendrix album I drooled over at one point and I just haven’t listened to it in a long while. I have heard this one probably a fair amount less than AYE, but recent years had me believing I preferred AYE. I mean, both are among my favorite albums, but I think I prefer Electric Ladyland. This album is an absolute mind blowing journey into whatever other dimension Hendrix ascended to. His playing on all of this is just on another level entirely, be they solos or rhythm or whatever sounds he’s cajoling out of that thing. And even then, the song choices never fall into the abyss despite ample opportunity, particularly in his suite of psychedelic songs that have him floating away into some alternate oceanic existence (Rainy Day Dream Away, 1983…(A Merman I Should Turn To Be), Moon Turn the Tides…Gently Gently Away, and Still Raining, Still Dreaming). Then there’s pure rock adrenaline and bliss in Crosstown Traffic, Long Hot Summer Night, Come On (Let the Good Times Roll), Gypsy Eyes, and Burning of the Midnight Lamp. There’s House Burning Down that is exceptional but is almost lost in the so goddamn many great songs on here. And even this alone would make for one of the greatest albums, and I haven’t talked about the 2 versions of Voodoo Child, or All Along the Watchtower that has to be one of the greatest covers ever. This is just plain insanely great. Flabbergasting that it’s so good we can just take one of the greatest covers ever riffs and solos on a studio track for granted and talk about the other stuff.

The Essential Track: Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Up Next: Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets

lvc wrote:what were folks like Johnny Cash and Elvis up to in 1969? 50s stars getting to the end of their second decade. Could be interesting to see where they navigated to in the tumult, though that might no make the bar of Essential Studio Album material.

lvc wrote:what were folks like Johnny Cash and Elvis up to in 1969? 50s stars getting to the end of their second decade. Could be interesting to see where they navigated to in the tumult, though that might no make the bar of Essential Studio Album material.

lvc wrote:what were folks like Johnny Cash and Elvis up to in 1969? 50s stars getting to the end of their second decade. Could be interesting to see where they navigated to in the tumult, though that might no make the bar of Essential Studio Album material.

liebzz wrote:I am closing in on 1969 so wanted to see if I am missing anything in particular. This is going to take a while to get through:

Neil Young
The Band
Credence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
Credence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Credence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys
Faces - First Step
B.B. King - Completely Well
B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds
Muddy Waters - Fathers and Sons
Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol Kosmic Blues Again
Ten Years After - Stonedhenge
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II
The Who - Tommy
The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Kool & the Gang
John Coltrane - Transitions
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
The Doors - The Soft Parade
The Velvet Underground
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand
The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
The Stooges
The Beatles - Abbey Road

rick malone wrote:

liebzz wrote:I am closing in on 1969 so wanted to see if I am missing anything in particular. This is going to take a while to get through:

Neil Young
The Band
Credence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
Credence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Credence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys
Faces - First Step
B.B. King - Completely Well
B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds
Muddy Waters - Fathers and Sons
Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol Kosmic Blues Again
Ten Years After - Stonedhenge
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Flying Burrito Brothers - The Gilded Palace of Sin
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II
The Who - Tommy
The Kinks - The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
Elvis Presley - From Elvis in Memphis
Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
Kool & the Gang
John Coltrane - Transitions
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
The Doors - The Soft Parade
The Velvet Underground
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand
The Kinks - Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
The Stooges
The Beatles - Abbey Road

I would add Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band-Trout Mask Replica.

rick malone wrote: I would add Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band-Trout Mask Replica.

liebzz wrote:The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet

The Essential Track: Stray Cat Blues