Jimi Doll

[Roscoe]

What won't they try to $ell next? Janie, Janie, Janie...

http://www.capnwacky.com/reviews/jimidoll.html

[box011]

Ha ha... Great review!

Post by Roscoe
What won't they try to $ell next? Janie, Janie, Janie...
http://www.capnwacky.com/reviews/jimidoll.html

[Paul Herwin]

The scary thing is that there are people actually buying this stuff!

Post by box011
Ha ha... Great review!

Post by Roscoe
What won't they try to $ell next? Janie, Janie, Janie...
http://www.capnwacky.com/reviews/jimidoll.html

[zuuum]

I was expecting the doll used for the cover art on original Euro release of
"Band of Gypsys" Anyone remember that cover? This thing is just plain
stupid. Or, is that exceptionally stupid?

Post by Roscoe
What won't they try to $ell next? Janie, Janie, Janie...
http://www.capnwacky.com/reviews/jimidoll.html

[Albert Hall]

Post by zuuum
I was expecting the doll used for the cover art on original Euro release of
"Band of Gypsys" Anyone remember that cover? This thing is just plain
stupid. Or, is that exceptionally stupid?

I just can't believe that the people who are supposed to he looking
after Jimi's legacy could approve a thing like that. They even put an
'Authentic Hendrix' stamp on it FFS. "Businessmen they drink my wine.."
Can they sink any lower?

I sure remember the original BoG cover art. No-one knew what to make of
that album when it first came out in the UK -- it was so different from
the Experience. I only ever played 'Machine Gun' at first, but gradually
grew to love the rest of it ;)

The cover art is online here:
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The Wikipedia article on Band of Gypsys says the dolls are of Jimi "and
his band", with John Peel the DJ sitting in front. hmmm, that ain't
Mitch and Noel, who were nothing to do with BoG anyway. I always thought
the other two dolls were Brian Jones and Dylan.

[zuuum]

Post by Albert Hall
I sure remember the original BoG cover art. No-one knew what to make of
that album when it first came out in the UK -- it was so different from
the Experience. I only ever played 'Machine Gun' at first, but gradually
grew to love the rest of it ;)
http://66.116.134.119/locaweb/images/discos/JimiHendrixAndTheGypsysA.jpg

Yeh, I dug Machinegun for hours on end. Eventually, I came to realize that
the entire album revealed how much deeper Jimi's social message had
evolved... from singing about foxy ladies and Purple Haze/Spanish Castle
magic, he moved to... "Shoot down some of those airplanes you've been
ridin' in... especially the ones that fly you too low!! ......With the power
of soul, anything IS possible." and "Find yourself first, and then your
talent. Work hard in your mind for it to come alive. And then prove to
"the man" you're as strong as him. 'Cause in the eyes of God, you're both
children, to him." You can kind of see where the man was headed even before
the Rainbow Bridge connect.

[box011]

I always thought "Paper Airplanes" was about the downfalls of using an
opiate derivative for recreation. "Flying too low," "Come on back up to
Earth," and losing your backbone (being powerless, which is what happens
when indulging in this type of narcotic) are a few examples.

Post by zuuum

Post by Albert Hall
I sure remember the original BoG cover art. No-one knew what to make of
that album when it first came out in the UK -- it was so different from
the Experience. I only ever played 'Machine Gun' at first, but gradually
grew to love the rest of it ;)
http://66.116.134.119/locaweb/images/discos/JimiHendrixAndTheGypsysA.jpg

Yeh, I dug Machinegun for hours on end. Eventually, I came to realize that
the entire album revealed how much deeper Jimi's social message had
evolved... from singing about foxy ladies and Purple Haze/Spanish Castle
magic, he moved to... "Shoot down some of those airplanes you've been
ridin' in... especially the ones that fly you too low!! ......With the power
of soul, anything IS possible." and "Find yourself first, and then your
talent. Work hard in your mind for it to come alive. And then prove to
"the man" you're as strong as him. 'Cause in the eyes of God, you're both
children, to him." You can kind of see where the man was headed even before
the Rainbow Bridge connect.

[albert hall]

Post by box011
I always thought "Paper Airplanes" was about the downfalls of using an
opiate derivative for recreation. "Flying too low," "Come on back up to
Earth," and losing your backbone (being powerless, which is what happens
when indulging in this type of narcotic) are a few examples.

Interesting to compare that with the "drag 'n' fly" in Spanish Castle
Magic! Despite Jimi's reputation as a hardcore drug user, it's clear
that he saw through all the glamour and was warning people not to lose
their souls through drug abuse in some of his later songs like 'Power of
Soul' and 'Freedom'.

When you think about it, this is amazing from someone in Jimi's position
at the heart of the Sixties counter-culture. Almost everyone else was
glorifying drugs in 1969/70. The idea that you could change the world
through love, peace and acid was played out by then and getting wasted
for the hell of it had become cool, but Jimi was trying to send out a
much more positive message.

Post by box011

Post by zuuum

Post by Albert Hall
I sure remember the original BoG cover art. No-one knew what to make of
that album when it first came out in the UK -- it was so different from
the Experience. I only ever played 'Machine Gun' at first, but gradually
grew to love the rest of it ;)
http://66.116.134.119/locaweb/images/discos/JimiHendrixAndTheGypsysA.jpg

Yeh, I dug Machinegun for hours on end. Eventually, I came to realize

that

Post by zuuum
the entire album revealed how much deeper Jimi's social message had
evolved... from singing about foxy ladies and Purple Haze/Spanish Castle
magic, he moved to... "Shoot down some of those airplanes you've been
ridin' in... especially the ones that fly you too low!! ......With the

power

Post by zuuum
of soul, anything IS possible." and "Find yourself first, and then your
talent. Work hard in your mind for it to come alive. And then prove to
"the man" you're as strong as him. 'Cause in the eyes of God, you're

both

Post by zuuum
children, to him." You can kind of see where the man was headed even

before

Post by zuuum
the Rainbow Bridge connect.

[box011]

Oh, man! I had never seen it written that way!!! And it makes perfect sense,
too. Is that something you came up with? Did you see it written somewhere
else? There is no correct answer. Just wondering.

If one reads the words from "Purple Haze" as being under the influence of
LSD (which I do, contrary to a science fiction ray gun), he ain't saying
anything positive (promoting) about THAT experience, either.

On the other hand, the pot references are positive (i.e. harmless).

"You gotta, stop smoking..... Uh, CIGARETTE smoking...."

Post by albert hall
Interesting to compare that with the "drag 'n' fly" in Spanish Castle
Magic! Despite Jimi's reputation as a hardcore drug user, it's clear
that he saw through all the glamour and was warning people not to lose
their souls through drug abuse in some of his later songs like 'Power of
Soul' and 'Freedom'.
When you think about it, this is amazing from someone in Jimi's position
at the heart of the Sixties counter-culture. Almost everyone else was
glorifying drugs in 1969/70. The idea that you could change the world
through love, peace and acid was played out by then and getting wasted
for the hell of it had become cool, but Jimi was trying to send out a
much more positive message.

[albert hall]

Post by box011
Oh, man! I had never seen it written that way!!! And it makes perfect sense,
too. Is that something you came up with? Did you see it written somewhere
else? There is no correct answer. Just wondering.

The guys I hung out with back in the day went through a phase of calling
joints "dragonflies" as a kind of catch phrase or in-joke, purely
because of that line from SCM. I don't know who saw it first -- we just
thought it was Jimi's sly sense of humour at work. You had to say it in
a stoner kind of drawl, "uh, pass me that... drag 'n' flyyy", like Jimi
says it in the song. Well -- it seemed funny at the time. "And even
space people" was another phrase that could crack us up for some reason.
It was Monty Python meets the Furry Freak Brothers in those days ;)

[box011]

Thanks for the explaination there, AH!

Post by albert hall

Post by box011
Oh, man! I had never seen it written that way!!! And it makes perfect sense,
too. Is that something you came up with? Did you see it written somewhere
else? There is no correct answer. Just wondering.

The guys I hung out with back in the day went through a phase of calling
joints "dragonflies" as a kind of catch phrase or in-joke, purely
because of that line from SCM. I don't know who saw it first -- we just
thought it was Jimi's sly sense of humour at work. You had to say it in
a stoner kind of drawl, "uh, pass me that... drag 'n' flyyy", like Jimi
says it in the song. Well -- it seemed funny at the time. "And even
space people" was another phrase that could crack us up for some reason.
It was Monty Python meets the Furry Freak Brothers in those days ;)

[Martin]

[...] I always thought the other two dolls were Brian Jones and Dylan.

You thought correctly!