WFMU: Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 16, 2021

Listener comments!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Halooooooooooo
	♥ 3:02pm Yvang: Hi Larry and the testifyers! Can't go wrong with Jimi Hendrix!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Yvang!
	3:02pm TDK60: Hi Larry! Rare Jimi? Wow.
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: TDK60!
	♥ 3:03pm doctorjazz: Hi Larry and Testifiers!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: hey Doc!
	3:04pm TDK60: DJ Larry, I don't get a chance to brag too often, but I can say I saw Jimi. Once.
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: Wow! Where and when?
	♥ 3:05pm doctorjazz: Wow, TDK60!
	♥ 3:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'll be back for this one ! :)
	3:06pm TDK60: Fillmore East. Jan. 1, 1970. Band of Gypsys; last of four shows over two nights.
	♥ 3:06pm Yvang: I would brag all the time about having seen Jimi Hendrix.
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rev!
	3:06pm SquigY0: Yes! You stuck with Jimi! settles in
	♥ 3:06pm dreamyandseedy: excited for this show! always down to learn more about Jimi
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - That's amazing! I would have loved to have seen BOG
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: SquigY0!
	♥ 3:07pm Yvang: But he died before I was born...
	♥ 3:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dreamy!
	3:07pm TDK60: One more fact from history: As I left the Fillmore I had trouble removing my lower jaw from my chest.
	3:07pm SquigY0: Hi Larry and all! testifies
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: I got to see Stevie Ray Vaughan a bunch of times, and Richard Thompson as well, so I have been in the presence of guitaristic greatness, but too young for Jimi.
	3:09pm Erica: Hi everyone.
	3:10pm TDK60: Funky: Got to see R. Thompson round '03. Front row. Acoustic show with Danny Thompson on bass. Incredible.
	♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica!
	♥ 3:12pm Funky16Corners: Wait for the Beatles reference!
	♥ 3:12pm listener Rey: Hey there Larry and all. I'm ready to testify at the Altar of the Burning Stratocaster
	♥ 3:12pm doctorjazz: Seen Richard Thompson many times, Stevey Ray once, Jimi I missed...
	♥ 3:12pm doctorjazz: Jerry Garcia,v on the other hand....
	3:13pm northguineahills: Dig!
	♥ 3:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	♥ 3:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: The only other guitarist I really wish I'd been able to see is Django Reinhardt, but I was negative decades old when he passed.
	♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: Only one decade, Django passed in 1953
	♥ 3:15pm doctorjazz: But there are many Django followers out there now to get a sense of his playing.
	3:16pm Erica: What a week it has been so far. My new kitten has been driving my family crazy.
	3:17pm Erica: I'm ready for the Hendrix show by the way.
	♥ 3:18pm doctorjazz: Stephanie Wrembel has a Sunday night residency at Barbes in Brooklyn. Great show, in the Django tradition.
	3:18pm SquigY0: I think I'm learning kittens are some BS. you're the 3rd person this month that's told me their life is completely uprooted by a new kitten or kittens
	3:25pm Erica: Yes SquigY0 I have a new kitten named Autumn and she is a handful.
	3:25pm SquigY0: awwww yeah
	3:25pm TDK60: I liked your thoughts, Larry. I recall getting this LP in '67 as a teen. A musical flying saucer landing.
	♥ 3:26pm Funky16Corners: Kittens are a lot of work, but they're also among the world's cutest creatures. I miss when our cats were little,
	3:26pm David Shortell: How many people have heard the answer song to this, "Yes, I Am Experienced" by the New Animals?
	♥ 3:27pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - I think that this is an amazingly mature album from someone who only a year before had been backing R&B/soul artists as a sideman and hadn't recorded any of his own music before.
	3:27pm Erica: Yeah Larry before I know it Autumn will be a full grown adult cat.
	♥ 3:27pm Funky16Corners: @David - I have not! When is it from?
	3:27pm TDK60: It was one of /those/ 60s albums that changed everything right away.
	♥ 3:28pm doctorjazz: Also Got this when it came out-knocked me out!
	3:29pm TDK60: I read about one of the Isley's first listen with Experience. He thought it was a joke. Then listened again and again, blown away.
	3:29pm Erica: Speaking of Hendrix, I had a guidance counselor who looked like a hippie and once mentioned to a student who had an afro that he had hair like Jimi Hendrix lol.
	3:29pm Marie: I am with you today, David. Always felt I needed more Jimi Hendrix edumacating--more of the experience! Howdy!
	♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: It's amazing that a year earlier Mitch Mitchell was playing with Georgie Fame.
	3:30pm David Shortell: It's from the 1967 album "Winds of Change" by Eric Burdon and the Animals--the debut LP from that new group. The hit "San Franciscan Nights" was also on it.
	3:30pm Marie: I mean Larry! Sorry, my brain.... was listening to Random Road
	♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: I only have a best of CD by the psychedelic Animals. I have to grab the albums.
	♥ 3:30pm doctorjazz: Cowbell forever!
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: Hi Marie!
	3:31pm Marie: Hi Larry!!!!
	♥ 3:31pm dreamyandseedy: Recently listened to this show about Jimi, there's a bit of talk about how he achieved certain sounds in the studio and with his guitar www.nts.live...
	3:32pm TDK60: I also saw some Isley LP back cover (or was it one of those unofficial Jimi ones?). Story: The Isleys played Jamaica. During an intermission Jimi snuck out, was playing feedback improv to the audience. One of the Isleys came out, realized Jimi was Ahead.
	3:32pm TDK60: Love the coda!
	3:33pm Marie: @TDK60--so cool that you got to see Jimi live--I assume it was a great show?
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - There were a number of anecdotes about Hendrix getting fired from bands for flashy playing.
	3:34pm TDK60: Marie -your assumption is correct although possibly an understatement! Hee.
	♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: I have yet to find a really good book about Hendrix, that takes his music making into account as much as his clothes and girlfriends
	3:35pm Marie: Yeah, no surprise TDK, based just on pieces of footage I have seen and heard here and there
	3:35pm TDK60: Funky and that's a damn shame. Rock hagiography gets in the way, and that Haze too.
	3:36pm Marie: Maybe a bit of racism going on sometimes for Jimi @(
	3:36pm TDK60: This is simply a devastating song.
	♥ 3:38pm Funky16Corners: @Marie - The history of rock critics basically ignoring/denying Hendrix's blackness, and the importance of black music to his musical development needs to be remedied.
	3:38pm TDK60: Larry, totally agree.
	3:38pm David Shortell: I read David Henderson's 1981 bio "'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky" when I was in high school. What did you think of that, Larry?
	♥ 3:39pm dreamyandseedy: I just love his singing!
	3:39pm Marie: @Larry--right... wish I could make my work computer volume higher right now--beautiful
	♥ 3:39pm dreamyandseedy: this song and 1983 a merman i should turn to be, get me!
	♥ 3:40pm WR: Hi Larry. Sorry I missed the first set. thank the drummer for the archive.
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: @David - I liked it. I got one for Christmas last year that was a drag. I can't remember the title right now (Bright orange cover) but it was gossip obsessed
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: @Dreamy - Right? GREAT singer.
	♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR!
	♥ 3:41pm doctorjazz: Wind Cries Mary, fabulous! (Maybe the best on an album of bests...?)
	♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: An absolutely remarkable song.
	3:41pm TDK60: Docjazz- I run out of things to say.
	♥ 3:42pm doctorjazz: The coda...
	3:42pm David Shortell: David Henderson is the poet who co-founded BAM, by the way.
	♥ 3:43pm doctorjazz: Here it comes (not a coda, but still)
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: I got to see Stevie Ray play this a few times. Pretty amazing.
	♥ 3:46pm Funky16Corners: The book I read this year was Wild Thing, by Philip Norman. A drag.
	3:46pm Marie: All of this is really floating my boat today. I appreciate this drumming here a lot too, in addition to the vocal/sound play
	3:46pm TDK60: Some Mitch M. drum flashiness here!
	♥ 3:46pm Funky16Corners: Mitchell was a badass drummer.
	♥ 3:46pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & guitar gurus.
	♥ 3:46pm Funky16Corners: Jazz-influenced in a way that didn't take away from the rock
	♥ 3:47pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	3:47pm David Shortell: The spoken word in this track "3rd Stone From the Sun" is parodied in the Phantom Surfers' "The Extremely Stupid Files".
	3:49pm TDK60: Just the timbre was sociologically a nova.
	3:50pm Marie: Really amazing
	3:50pm TDK60: I just about fell over when I first heard Castle.
	♥ 3:50pm Brian in UK: Seeing Jimi on Top of the Pops was a real eyeopener. I can still recall hearing The Wind... sometime in May around 8.30pm on the radio. I was so impressed that he could play something so seemingly simple; especially as I am not an electric guitar fan, unless played by an African.
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: A tribute to a big dance hall/night club in Seattle where the Kingsmen/Sonics would play
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Thanks always to the British for letting Jimi happen in a way he might not have over here.
	♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: The Spanish Castle: www.historylink.org...
	♥ 3:54pm Brian in UK: Larry, it is the darndest thing. To think that this would not have been heard is nuts.
	♥ 3:55pm Funky16Corners: It's a pretty spectacular leap from Jimi in Greenwich Village 1966 to Jimi in London 1967.
	3:56pm TDK60: Larry, yet another US Black musician going to Europe, to get more breathing room.
	3:56pm David Shortell: I suppose this song's use in "Easy Rider" was the first inclusion of Hendrix' music in a fictional movie's soundtrack.
	♥ 3:57pm Funky16Corners: I think you're right, David
	♥ 3:57pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Think of all the jazzers that did the same thing
	♥ 4:00pm Brian in UK: Arthur Lee knew which side of the ocean his bread was buttered. To mix a metaphor!!
	4:00pm TDK60: The Axis album also had such a new sound in a rock LP, in part due to its great engineering.
	♥ 4:01pm Funky16Corners: They knew how to USE the studio.
	♥ 4:04pm Funky16Corners: I'd love to know what the balance was between Jimi, Eddie Kramer and Chas Chandler
	♥ 4:05pm Funky16Corners: Also, there's about hairsbreadth between this and Curtis Mayfield...
	♥ 4:05pm doctorjazz: Gill Evans did a great version of this (and HERE'S that great coda...)
	♥ 4:06pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I played a bunch of Gil's Jimi covers a while back
	4:07pm TDK60: ..another coda coming too.....hee....
	♥ 4:07pm dreamyandseedy: Little Wing is too short!!
	♥ 4:07pm doctorjazz: I saw the Gil Evans band cover Jimi, they used to so Monday nights at the old Sweet Basils in NYC..
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: @Dreamy - You can always tack on the Derek and the Dominoes version
	♥ 4:08pm doctorjazz: Ahh, I keep jumping t the coda gun...
	♥ 4:08pm Mike Sin: I still think the major unsung hero of the Jimi Hendrix story is Chas Chandler. It's amazing to see what Jimi was up to throughout 1966 in and around NYC, but once Chas gets his to London, there is no wasting time. Chas really had the vision here. He really didn't sit on hands with any aspect of launching the Experience. Many years ago, Mojo mag did a day-by-day account of Hendrix's moves once he landed in London in late 1966 culminating with his Monterey performance in June 1967 -- it really was an incredible string of events.
	♥ 4:09pm Little Danny: Hello Larry, hell friends
	♥ 4:09pm Little Danny: *hello friends
	♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mike! Danny!
	♥ 4:09pm doctorjazz: Wait forit...
	4:09pm Marie: such expressive guitar
	♥ 4:09pm Little Danny: but also 'hell friends'
	4:10pm Erica: Hello Danny.
	♥ 4:10pm Little Danny: hi Erica!
	♥ 4:11pm Brian in UK: Mike Sin without Chas C where would he have been. That said, Chas brought him here. Having faith.
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I played four tracks from the Gil/Jimi album back in July during an extra long show: wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:13pm Brian in UK: London was the place to be seen and heard in 1966/7.
	♥ 4:13pm Funky16Corners: Best Dylan cover ever? I think so...
	♥ 4:14pm Funky16Corners: If you have your headphones on, you get to hear those tambourines jangling in both channels
	♥ 4:14pm Brian in UK: Larry, you bet. From the first note you are there. Full on attention.
	♥ 4:14pm doctorjazz: No question! I think Dylan approved.
	♥ 4:14pm dreamyandseedy: never ever ever get tired of this one!!
	♥ 4:15pm Funky16Corners: Of all the cliched "The 60s were a turbulent times" tracks, I could listen to this one every day
	♥ 4:15pm Brian in UK: Pop music as you never imagined.
	♥ 4:15pm Little Danny: Larry, I missed your intro, was there a reason behind the Hendrix blowout today? Not that you ever need a reason.
	4:16pm Marco Esquandolas: Hi Larry, digging the Jimi today. I remember a Dylan interview (don't remember from where) and Dylan was basically trashing musicians that covered other musicians songs, mainly his songs. The interviewer asked Dylan what he thought of Jimi covering All Along the Watchtower. To which Dylan replied that was an exception. . . that Jimi had more right to play the song than he himself did haha
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - No, just struck by inspirado!
	4:17pm TDK60: I recall when I first heard him on radio. It was Hey Joe. I thought it like a mix of Richie Havens and Dylan. Maybe the R.H. was a bit off, but there was Watchtower and earlier Rolling Stone at Monterey.
	4:17pm SquigY0: Hi Little Danny! Hope your flame is staying cool and blue. Larry always makes plans to show us how smart he is and entertains/educates us in the process
	♥ 4:17pm Little Danny: Heya Squigo, 'tis, thanks!
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: C'mon, I'm not that smart...
	♥ 4:19pm Little Danny: I bought the Are You Experienced LP as a young lad and "Third Stone" was fully how I imagined the psychedelic experience
	♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: One of the purest distillations of all things psychedelic.
	♥ 4:20pm Little Danny: Yeah it still blows my mind, up there with "Tomorrow Never Knows" for sure
	4:20pm TDK60: Hi DJ LD.
	♥ 4:21pm Little Danny: TDK! Hello!
	4:21pm Erica: Aww yes Voodoo Child.
	4:22pm Marie: I can only imagine how powerful this would be live
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: Don't forget to stay tuned for Kip and Discotech Underground at 5PM - wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:22pm dreamyandseedy: i can never decide if this is my fave Jimi song or Watchtower, I also like Pali Gap tho it is instrumental
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: @Marie - I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan do it at least four times and every single time it was a mindblower. Pure imitation, but by another guitar master.
	♥ 4:24pm Discotech Underground: Good Afternoon Larry and testifiers!
	♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kip!
	4:24pm TDK60: Funky, does it matter? Such "imitation"? What about a cellist imitating Bach?
	♥ 4:24pm Little Danny: Hiya dreamy! I think we're the only Texans here today
	4:24pm SquigY0: Greetings!
	♥ 4:24pm doctorjazz: The Jimi connection hit me immediately when I saw SRV.
	4:25pm TDK60: Yeah dreamy, Pali Gap is good.
	4:26pm TDK60: Glad your eyes cleared. I recall that feeling.
	♥ 4:26pm Brian in UK: TDK60, Pablo Casals playing Bach's Cello Suites are without peer.
	4:27pm TDK60: Brian how goes? Yeah, Casals and Bach. Yikes!
	♥ 4:27pm dreamyandseedy: hello little danny! are the nights getting cool out there? it's been in the 60s/70s here lately
	♥ 4:28pm Brian in UK: So far so good. Seasons changing.
	♥ 4:28pm Little Danny: Yes, mid-'50s last night dreamy! The mornings here are delicious, and unlike the rest of the country it's been a temperate summer.
	4:29pm Erica: Still getting summer temperatures here in South Jersey.
	♥ 4:34pm Mike Sin: re: Electric Ladyland Dave Mason playing 12-string on "All Along the Watchtower"
	4:34pm moog1 Radio: Going to join Electric Larryland in time for the covers!
	🥁 ♥ 4:34pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hey there, Larry and folx. Been listening awhile and digging it entirely!
	4:35pm moog1 Radio: I’d kill for this 45 btw
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt! Mx, Bab a Bee!
	4:35pm Marie: I love this already
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: This is (weirdly) a big Northern Soul fave
	4:35pm SquigY0: It's kinda Purple Haze meets Time Of The Season
	♥ 4:35pm dreamyandseedy: Larry: yes please do a rock/psych intersection show :)
	4:36pm Marie: that one guitar is just percolating
	♥ 4:36pm Funky16Corners: BTW - Johnny Jones and the King Casuals made some GREAT soul 45s
	4:36pm moog1 Radio: Sampled by William Orbit and Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto among others
	♥ 4:36pm Funky16Corners: Nashville Soul!
	4:38pm Erica: My favorite version of Purple Haze would have to be the Dion version. It's mellow and it played in a Peanuts parody video.
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I love his version!
	🥁 ♥ 4:38pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Brian in UK: thanks for the Pablo Casals tip—there are still so many greats in music history that I haven't heard yet. I always learn so much on the WFMU chat boards.
	4:38pm Marie: @Erica--that sounds amazing
	4:38pm Erica: Indeed Larry.
	♥ 4:39pm Funky16Corners: I should work on an all-Hendrix covers show
	4:41pm Erica: Now that would be cool.
	♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: Keyboards by Donny Hathaway on this one
	4:42pm TDK60: Funky, as you mentioned earlier there were also the Jimi-sound inspired bands like Robin Trower, Mahogany Rush, etc.
	4:42pm SquigY0: this version needs engine sounds and horns honking
	♥ 4:43pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Bridge of Sighs is the finest imitation-Hendrix
	♥ 4:44pm Brian in UK: Mx. Baba Bee (e/they) here is the story. www.cpr.org...
	4:45pm SquigY0: oh that's some hard drummin
	4:45pm TDK60: And don't forget the Isleys later added a Jimi sound.
	♥ 4:46pm Funky16Corners: Yes!
	♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: I just realized that I'm hearing the same bell/chime that Idris used in Nautilus by Bob James
	4:50pm Erica: I hear it too Larry, in the keyboard riff.
	4:53pm SquigY0: BONGO SOLOOOOOOOOOOO
	♥ 4:54pm doctorjazz: Thanks Larry! Great show!
	♥ 4:55pm Little Danny: Thanks and thanks Larry!
	4:56pm TDK60: Thanks for the show today Larry. Great to hear Jimi's music again; hadn't listened in a spell. Good discerning attitude too.
	4:56pm Erica: This was a groovy show Larry.
	♥ 4:56pm dreamyandseedy: really enjoyed the show today, thank you!
	♥ 4:57pm Yvang: Thanks Larry ! Great Jimi show !
	♥ 4:57pm Brian in UK: Great music, Larry.
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks all for listening!
	4:57pm Erica: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou!
	4:58pm SquigY0: hits it don't quits it
	♥ 4:58pm WR: Thank you Larry!
	4:58pm SquigY0: Thanks Larry! Looking forward to the covers just as much as this show!
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks SquigY0! Got some cool stuff lined up!
	♥ 7:35pm Michael 98145: Wonderful! Thank goodness for the Archive®...!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 16, 2021

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September 16, 2021: Testify! - Experience Jimi Hendrix

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Approx. start time
Funky16Corners	Testify! Intro "Testify! Intro" by "Funky16Corners"	Best of Funky16Corners Volume One	Funky16Corners	2017	MP3	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Little Richard	Dance A Go Go "Dance A Go Go" by "Little Richard"	45RPM Single	Veejay	1965	45	0:01:26 (Pop-up)
Lonnie Youngblood	Go Go Shoes "Go Go Shoes" by "Lonnie Youngblood"	45RPM Single	Fairmount	1966	45	0:04:22 (Pop-up)
Isley Brothers	Testify Pts 1&2 "Testify Pts 1&2" by "Isley Brothers"	45RPM Single	T-Neck	1964	45	0:06:57 (Pop-up)
Ray Sharpe	Help Me (Get The Feeling)	45RPM Single	Atco	1966	45	0:12:51 (Pop-up)
Billy Lamont	Sweet Thang "Sweet Thang" by "Billy Lamont"	45RPM Single	20th Century Fox	1968	45	0:15:21 (Pop-up)

Jimi Hendrix Experience	Are You Experienced	Are You Experienced	Reprise	1967	LP	0:25:01 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	Stone Free	Are You Experienced	Reprise	1967	LP	0:29:10 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	I Don't Live Today	Are You Experienced	Reprise	1967	LP	0:35:37 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	May This Be Love	Are You Experienced	Reprise	1967	LP	0:36:41 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	The Wind Cries Mary	Are You Experienced	Reprise	1967	LP	0:39:50 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	3rd Stone From The Sun	Are You Experienced	Reprise	1967	LP	0:43:09 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	Spanish Castle Magic	Axis Bold As Love	Reprise	1967	LP	0:49:56 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	If Six Was Nine	Axis Bold As Love	Reprise	1967	LP	0:52:56 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	Wait Until Tomorrow	Axis Bold As Love	Reprise	1967	LP	0:58:28 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	Castles Made of Sand	Axis Bold As Love	Reprise	1967	LP	1:01:31 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	Little Wing	Axis Bold As Love	Reprise	1967	LP	1:06:40 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	Bold As Love	Axis Bold As Love	Reprise	1967	LP	1:06:41 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland)	Electric Ladyland	Reprise	1968	LP	1:10:42 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	All Along The Watchtower	Electric Ladyland	Reprise	1968	LP	1:12:53 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	Rainy Day Dream Away	Electric Ladyland	Reprise	1968	LP	1:18:41 (Pop-up)
Jimi Hendrix Experience	Voodoo Child (Slight Return)	Electric Ladyland	Reprise	1968	LP	1:20:37 (Pop-up)

Johnny Jones and the KIng Casuals	Purple Haze	45RPM Single	Brunswick	1968	45	1:34:38 (Pop-up)
Kossie Gardner	Fire "Fire" by "Kossie Gardner"	Pipes of Blue	Dot	1969	LP	1:37:50 (Pop-up)
Phil Upchurch	Crosstown Traffic "Crosstown Traffic" by "Phil Upchurch"	Upchurch	Cadet	1969	LP	1:40:30 (Pop-up)
Booker T and the MGs	Foxy Lady "Foxy Lady" by "Booker T and the MGs"	Soul Limbo	Stax	1968	LP	1:44:18 (Pop-up)
Idris Muhammad	The Power of Soul "The Power of Soul" by "Idris Muhammad"	Power of Soul	Kudu	1974	LP	1:47:32 (Pop-up)

Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers	I Gotta Go Now (Up On the Floor)	45RPM Single	Like	1966	45	1:57:00 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	♥ 3:01pm Funky16Corners: Halooooooooooo
	♥ 3:02pm Yvang: Hi Larry and the testifyers! Can't go wrong with Jimi Hendrix!
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: Yvang!
	3:02pm TDK60: Hi Larry! Rare Jimi? Wow.
	♥ 3:02pm Funky16Corners: TDK60!
	♥ 3:03pm doctorjazz: Hi Larry and Testifiers!
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: hey Doc!
	3:04pm TDK60: DJ Larry, I don't get a chance to brag too often, but I can say I saw Jimi. Once.
	♥ 3:04pm Funky16Corners: Wow! Where and when?
	♥ 3:05pm doctorjazz: Wow, TDK60!
	♥ 3:05pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...I'll be back for this one ! :)
	3:06pm TDK60: Fillmore East. Jan. 1, 1970. Band of Gypsys; last of four shows over two nights.
	♥ 3:06pm Yvang: I would brag all the time about having seen Jimi Hendrix.
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rev!
	3:06pm SquigY0: Yes! You stuck with Jimi! settles in
	♥ 3:06pm dreamyandseedy: excited for this show! always down to learn more about Jimi
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - That's amazing! I would have loved to have seen BOG
	♥ 3:06pm Funky16Corners: SquigY0!
	♥ 3:07pm Yvang: But he died before I was born...
	♥ 3:07pm Funky16Corners: Hey Dreamy!
	3:07pm TDK60: One more fact from history: As I left the Fillmore I had trouble removing my lower jaw from my chest.
	3:07pm SquigY0: Hi Larry and all! testifies
	♥ 3:08pm Funky16Corners: I got to see Stevie Ray Vaughan a bunch of times, and Richard Thompson as well, so I have been in the presence of guitaristic greatness, but too young for Jimi.
	3:09pm Erica: Hi everyone.
	3:10pm TDK60: Funky: Got to see R. Thompson round '03. Front row. Acoustic show with Danny Thompson on bass. Incredible.
	♥ 3:10pm Funky16Corners: Hi Erica!
	♥ 3:12pm Funky16Corners: Wait for the Beatles reference!
	♥ 3:12pm listener Rey: Hey there Larry and all. I'm ready to testify at the Altar of the Burning Stratocaster
	♥ 3:12pm doctorjazz: Seen Richard Thompson many times, Stevey Ray once, Jimi I missed...
	♥ 3:12pm doctorjazz: Jerry Garcia,v on the other hand....
	3:13pm northguineahills: Dig!
	♥ 3:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey NGH!
	♥ 3:13pm Funky16Corners: Hey Rey!
	♥ 3:14pm Funky16Corners: The only other guitarist I really wish I'd been able to see is Django Reinhardt, but I was negative decades old when he passed.
	♥ 3:15pm Funky16Corners: Only one decade, Django passed in 1953
	♥ 3:15pm doctorjazz: But there are many Django followers out there now to get a sense of his playing.
	3:16pm Erica: What a week it has been so far. My new kitten has been driving my family crazy.
	3:17pm Erica: I'm ready for the Hendrix show by the way.
	♥ 3:18pm doctorjazz: Stephanie Wrembel has a Sunday night residency at Barbes in Brooklyn. Great show, in the Django tradition.
	3:18pm SquigY0: I think I'm learning kittens are some BS. you're the 3rd person this month that's told me their life is completely uprooted by a new kitten or kittens
	3:25pm Erica: Yes SquigY0 I have a new kitten named Autumn and she is a handful.
	3:25pm SquigY0: awwww yeah
	3:25pm TDK60: I liked your thoughts, Larry. I recall getting this LP in '67 as a teen. A musical flying saucer landing.
	♥ 3:26pm Funky16Corners: Kittens are a lot of work, but they're also among the world's cutest creatures. I miss when our cats were little,
	3:26pm David Shortell: How many people have heard the answer song to this, "Yes, I Am Experienced" by the New Animals?
	♥ 3:27pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - I think that this is an amazingly mature album from someone who only a year before had been backing R&B/soul artists as a sideman and hadn't recorded any of his own music before.
	3:27pm Erica: Yeah Larry before I know it Autumn will be a full grown adult cat.
	♥ 3:27pm Funky16Corners: @David - I have not! When is it from?
	3:27pm TDK60: It was one of /those/ 60s albums that changed everything right away.
	♥ 3:28pm doctorjazz: Also Got this when it came out-knocked me out!
	3:29pm TDK60: I read about one of the Isley's first listen with Experience. He thought it was a joke. Then listened again and again, blown away.
	3:29pm Erica: Speaking of Hendrix, I had a guidance counselor who looked like a hippie and once mentioned to a student who had an afro that he had hair like Jimi Hendrix lol.
	3:29pm Marie: I am with you today, David. Always felt I needed more Jimi Hendrix edumacating--more of the experience! Howdy!
	♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: It's amazing that a year earlier Mitch Mitchell was playing with Georgie Fame.
	3:30pm David Shortell: It's from the 1967 album "Winds of Change" by Eric Burdon and the Animals--the debut LP from that new group. The hit "San Franciscan Nights" was also on it.
	3:30pm Marie: I mean Larry! Sorry, my brain.... was listening to Random Road
	♥ 3:30pm Funky16Corners: I only have a best of CD by the psychedelic Animals. I have to grab the albums.
	♥ 3:30pm doctorjazz: Cowbell forever!
	♥ 3:31pm Funky16Corners: Hi Marie!
	3:31pm Marie: Hi Larry!!!!
	♥ 3:31pm dreamyandseedy: Recently listened to this show about Jimi, there's a bit of talk about how he achieved certain sounds in the studio and with his guitar www.nts.live...
	3:32pm TDK60: I also saw some Isley LP back cover (or was it one of those unofficial Jimi ones?). Story: The Isleys played Jamaica. During an intermission Jimi snuck out, was playing feedback improv to the audience. One of the Isleys came out, realized Jimi was Ahead.
	3:32pm TDK60: Love the coda!
	3:33pm Marie: @TDK60--so cool that you got to see Jimi live--I assume it was a great show?
	♥ 3:33pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - There were a number of anecdotes about Hendrix getting fired from bands for flashy playing.
	3:34pm TDK60: Marie -your assumption is correct although possibly an understatement! Hee.
	♥ 3:34pm Funky16Corners: I have yet to find a really good book about Hendrix, that takes his music making into account as much as his clothes and girlfriends
	3:35pm Marie: Yeah, no surprise TDK, based just on pieces of footage I have seen and heard here and there
	3:35pm TDK60: Funky and that's a damn shame. Rock hagiography gets in the way, and that Haze too.
	3:36pm Marie: Maybe a bit of racism going on sometimes for Jimi @(
	3:36pm TDK60: This is simply a devastating song.
	♥ 3:38pm Funky16Corners: @Marie - The history of rock critics basically ignoring/denying Hendrix's blackness, and the importance of black music to his musical development needs to be remedied.
	3:38pm TDK60: Larry, totally agree.
	3:38pm David Shortell: I read David Henderson's 1981 bio "'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky" when I was in high school. What did you think of that, Larry?
	♥ 3:39pm dreamyandseedy: I just love his singing!
	3:39pm Marie: @Larry--right... wish I could make my work computer volume higher right now--beautiful
	♥ 3:39pm dreamyandseedy: this song and 1983 a merman i should turn to be, get me!
	♥ 3:40pm WR: Hi Larry. Sorry I missed the first set. thank the drummer for the archive.
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: @David - I liked it. I got one for Christmas last year that was a drag. I can't remember the title right now (Bright orange cover) but it was gossip obsessed
	♥ 3:40pm Funky16Corners: @Dreamy - Right? GREAT singer.
	♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: Hey WR!
	♥ 3:41pm doctorjazz: Wind Cries Mary, fabulous! (Maybe the best on an album of bests...?)
	♥ 3:41pm Funky16Corners: An absolutely remarkable song.
	3:41pm TDK60: Docjazz- I run out of things to say.
	♥ 3:42pm doctorjazz: The coda...
	3:42pm David Shortell: David Henderson is the poet who co-founded BAM, by the way.
	♥ 3:43pm doctorjazz: Here it comes (not a coda, but still)
	♥ 3:44pm Funky16Corners: I got to see Stevie Ray play this a few times. Pretty amazing.
	♥ 3:46pm Funky16Corners: The book I read this year was Wild Thing, by Philip Norman. A drag.
	3:46pm Marie: All of this is really floating my boat today. I appreciate this drumming here a lot too, in addition to the vocal/sound play
	3:46pm TDK60: Some Mitch M. drum flashiness here!
	♥ 3:46pm Funky16Corners: Mitchell was a badass drummer.
	♥ 3:46pm Brian in UK: Hello Larry & guitar gurus.
	♥ 3:46pm Funky16Corners: Jazz-influenced in a way that didn't take away from the rock
	♥ 3:47pm Funky16Corners: Hey Brian!
	3:47pm David Shortell: The spoken word in this track "3rd Stone From the Sun" is parodied in the Phantom Surfers' "The Extremely Stupid Files".
	3:49pm TDK60: Just the timbre was sociologically a nova.
	3:50pm Marie: Really amazing
	3:50pm TDK60: I just about fell over when I first heard Castle.
	♥ 3:50pm Brian in UK: Seeing Jimi on Top of the Pops was a real eyeopener. I can still recall hearing The Wind... sometime in May around 8.30pm on the radio. I was so impressed that he could play something so seemingly simple; especially as I am not an electric guitar fan, unless played by an African.
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: A tribute to a big dance hall/night club in Seattle where the Kingsmen/Sonics would play
	♥ 3:51pm Funky16Corners: @Brian - Thanks always to the British for letting Jimi happen in a way he might not have over here.
	♥ 3:52pm Funky16Corners: The Spanish Castle: www.historylink.org...
	♥ 3:54pm Brian in UK: Larry, it is the darndest thing. To think that this would not have been heard is nuts.
	♥ 3:55pm Funky16Corners: It's a pretty spectacular leap from Jimi in Greenwich Village 1966 to Jimi in London 1967.
	3:56pm TDK60: Larry, yet another US Black musician going to Europe, to get more breathing room.
	3:56pm David Shortell: I suppose this song's use in "Easy Rider" was the first inclusion of Hendrix' music in a fictional movie's soundtrack.
	♥ 3:57pm Funky16Corners: I think you're right, David
	♥ 3:57pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Think of all the jazzers that did the same thing
	♥ 4:00pm Brian in UK: Arthur Lee knew which side of the ocean his bread was buttered. To mix a metaphor!!
	4:00pm TDK60: The Axis album also had such a new sound in a rock LP, in part due to its great engineering.
	♥ 4:01pm Funky16Corners: They knew how to USE the studio.
	♥ 4:04pm Funky16Corners: I'd love to know what the balance was between Jimi, Eddie Kramer and Chas Chandler
	♥ 4:05pm Funky16Corners: Also, there's about hairsbreadth between this and Curtis Mayfield...
	♥ 4:05pm doctorjazz: Gill Evans did a great version of this (and HERE'S that great coda...)
	♥ 4:06pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I played a bunch of Gil's Jimi covers a while back
	4:07pm TDK60: ..another coda coming too.....hee....
	♥ 4:07pm dreamyandseedy: Little Wing is too short!!
	♥ 4:07pm doctorjazz: I saw the Gil Evans band cover Jimi, they used to so Monday nights at the old Sweet Basils in NYC..
	♥ 4:08pm Funky16Corners: @Dreamy - You can always tack on the Derek and the Dominoes version
	♥ 4:08pm doctorjazz: Ahh, I keep jumping t the coda gun...
	♥ 4:08pm Mike Sin: I still think the major unsung hero of the Jimi Hendrix story is Chas Chandler. It's amazing to see what Jimi was up to throughout 1966 in and around NYC, but once Chas gets his to London, there is no wasting time. Chas really had the vision here. He really didn't sit on hands with any aspect of launching the Experience. Many years ago, Mojo mag did a day-by-day account of Hendrix's moves once he landed in London in late 1966 culminating with his Monterey performance in June 1967 -- it really was an incredible string of events.
	♥ 4:09pm Little Danny: Hello Larry, hell friends
	♥ 4:09pm Little Danny: *hello friends
	♥ 4:09pm Funky16Corners: Hey Mike! Danny!
	♥ 4:09pm doctorjazz: Wait forit...
	4:09pm Marie: such expressive guitar
	♥ 4:09pm Little Danny: but also 'hell friends'
	4:10pm Erica: Hello Danny.
	♥ 4:10pm Little Danny: hi Erica!
	♥ 4:11pm Brian in UK: Mike Sin without Chas C where would he have been. That said, Chas brought him here. Having faith.
	♥ 4:12pm Funky16Corners: @Doc - I played four tracks from the Gil/Jimi album back in July during an extra long show: wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:13pm Brian in UK: London was the place to be seen and heard in 1966/7.
	♥ 4:13pm Funky16Corners: Best Dylan cover ever? I think so...
	♥ 4:14pm Funky16Corners: If you have your headphones on, you get to hear those tambourines jangling in both channels
	♥ 4:14pm Brian in UK: Larry, you bet. From the first note you are there. Full on attention.
	♥ 4:14pm doctorjazz: No question! I think Dylan approved.
	♥ 4:14pm dreamyandseedy: never ever ever get tired of this one!!
	♥ 4:15pm Funky16Corners: Of all the cliched "The 60s were a turbulent times" tracks, I could listen to this one every day
	♥ 4:15pm Brian in UK: Pop music as you never imagined.
	♥ 4:15pm Little Danny: Larry, I missed your intro, was there a reason behind the Hendrix blowout today? Not that you ever need a reason.
	4:16pm Marco Esquandolas: Hi Larry, digging the Jimi today. I remember a Dylan interview (don't remember from where) and Dylan was basically trashing musicians that covered other musicians songs, mainly his songs. The interviewer asked Dylan what he thought of Jimi covering All Along the Watchtower. To which Dylan replied that was an exception. . . that Jimi had more right to play the song than he himself did haha
	♥ 4:17pm Funky16Corners: @Danny - No, just struck by inspirado!
	4:17pm TDK60: I recall when I first heard him on radio. It was Hey Joe. I thought it like a mix of Richie Havens and Dylan. Maybe the R.H. was a bit off, but there was Watchtower and earlier Rolling Stone at Monterey.
	4:17pm SquigY0: Hi Little Danny! Hope your flame is staying cool and blue. Larry always makes plans to show us how smart he is and entertains/educates us in the process
	♥ 4:17pm Little Danny: Heya Squigo, 'tis, thanks!
	♥ 4:18pm Funky16Corners: C'mon, I'm not that smart...
	♥ 4:19pm Little Danny: I bought the Are You Experienced LP as a young lad and "Third Stone" was fully how I imagined the psychedelic experience
	♥ 4:20pm Funky16Corners: One of the purest distillations of all things psychedelic.
	♥ 4:20pm Little Danny: Yeah it still blows my mind, up there with "Tomorrow Never Knows" for sure
	4:20pm TDK60: Hi DJ LD.
	♥ 4:21pm Little Danny: TDK! Hello!
	4:21pm Erica: Aww yes Voodoo Child.
	4:22pm Marie: I can only imagine how powerful this would be live
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: Don't forget to stay tuned for Kip and Discotech Underground at 5PM - wfmu.org...
	♥ 4:22pm dreamyandseedy: i can never decide if this is my fave Jimi song or Watchtower, I also like Pali Gap tho it is instrumental
	♥ 4:22pm Funky16Corners: @Marie - I saw Stevie Ray Vaughan do it at least four times and every single time it was a mindblower. Pure imitation, but by another guitar master.
	♥ 4:24pm Discotech Underground: Good Afternoon Larry and testifiers!
	♥ 4:24pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kip!
	4:24pm TDK60: Funky, does it matter? Such "imitation"? What about a cellist imitating Bach?
	♥ 4:24pm Little Danny: Hiya dreamy! I think we're the only Texans here today
	4:24pm SquigY0: Greetings!
	♥ 4:24pm doctorjazz: The Jimi connection hit me immediately when I saw SRV.
	4:25pm TDK60: Yeah dreamy, Pali Gap is good.
	4:26pm TDK60: Glad your eyes cleared. I recall that feeling.
	♥ 4:26pm Brian in UK: TDK60, Pablo Casals playing Bach's Cello Suites are without peer.
	4:27pm TDK60: Brian how goes? Yeah, Casals and Bach. Yikes!
	♥ 4:27pm dreamyandseedy: hello little danny! are the nights getting cool out there? it's been in the 60s/70s here lately
	♥ 4:28pm Brian in UK: So far so good. Seasons changing.
	♥ 4:28pm Little Danny: Yes, mid-'50s last night dreamy! The mornings here are delicious, and unlike the rest of the country it's been a temperate summer.
	4:29pm Erica: Still getting summer temperatures here in South Jersey.
	♥ 4:34pm Mike Sin: re: Electric Ladyland Dave Mason playing 12-string on "All Along the Watchtower"
	4:34pm moog1 Radio: Going to join Electric Larryland in time for the covers!
	🥁 ♥ 4:34pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): hey there, Larry and folx. Been listening awhile and digging it entirely!
	4:35pm moog1 Radio: I’d kill for this 45 btw
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: Hey Kurt! Mx, Bab a Bee!
	4:35pm Marie: I love this already
	♥ 4:35pm Funky16Corners: This is (weirdly) a big Northern Soul fave
	4:35pm SquigY0: It's kinda Purple Haze meets Time Of The Season
	♥ 4:35pm dreamyandseedy: Larry: yes please do a rock/psych intersection show :)
	4:36pm Marie: that one guitar is just percolating
	♥ 4:36pm Funky16Corners: BTW - Johnny Jones and the King Casuals made some GREAT soul 45s
	4:36pm moog1 Radio: Sampled by William Orbit and Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto among others
	♥ 4:36pm Funky16Corners: Nashville Soul!
	4:38pm Erica: My favorite version of Purple Haze would have to be the Dion version. It's mellow and it played in a Peanuts parody video.
	♥ 4:38pm Funky16Corners: @Erica - I love his version!
	🥁 ♥ 4:38pm Mx. Baba Bee (e/they): Brian in UK: thanks for the Pablo Casals tip—there are still so many greats in music history that I haven't heard yet. I always learn so much on the WFMU chat boards.
	4:38pm Marie: @Erica--that sounds amazing
	4:38pm Erica: Indeed Larry.
	♥ 4:39pm Funky16Corners: I should work on an all-Hendrix covers show
	4:41pm Erica: Now that would be cool.
	♥ 4:41pm Funky16Corners: Keyboards by Donny Hathaway on this one
	4:42pm TDK60: Funky, as you mentioned earlier there were also the Jimi-sound inspired bands like Robin Trower, Mahogany Rush, etc.
	4:42pm SquigY0: this version needs engine sounds and horns honking
	♥ 4:43pm Funky16Corners: @TDK60 - Bridge of Sighs is the finest imitation-Hendrix
	♥ 4:44pm Brian in UK: Mx. Baba Bee (e/they) here is the story. www.cpr.org...
	4:45pm SquigY0: oh that's some hard drummin
	4:45pm TDK60: And don't forget the Isleys later added a Jimi sound.
	♥ 4:46pm Funky16Corners: Yes!
	♥ 4:48pm Funky16Corners: I just realized that I'm hearing the same bell/chime that Idris used in Nautilus by Bob James
	4:50pm Erica: I hear it too Larry, in the keyboard riff.
	4:53pm SquigY0: BONGO SOLOOOOOOOOOOO
	♥ 4:54pm doctorjazz: Thanks Larry! Great show!
	♥ 4:55pm Little Danny: Thanks and thanks Larry!
	4:56pm TDK60: Thanks for the show today Larry. Great to hear Jimi's music again; hadn't listened in a spell. Good discerning attitude too.
	4:56pm Erica: This was a groovy show Larry.
	♥ 4:56pm dreamyandseedy: really enjoyed the show today, thank you!
	♥ 4:57pm Yvang: Thanks Larry ! Great Jimi show !
	♥ 4:57pm Brian in UK: Great music, Larry.
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thanks all for listening!
	4:57pm Erica: Thanks Larry!
	♥ 4:57pm Funky16Corners: Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou!
	4:58pm SquigY0: hits it don't quits it
	♥ 4:58pm WR: Thank you Larry!
	4:58pm SquigY0: Thanks Larry! Looking forward to the covers just as much as this show!
	♥ 4:58pm Funky16Corners: Thanks SquigY0! Got some cool stuff lined up!
	♥ 7:35pm Michael 98145: Wonderful! Thank goodness for the Archive®...!

Testify! with Larry Grogan: Playlist from September 16, 2021

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