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Post subject: Hendrix Major Motion Picture
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 5:24 am
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I saw the previews. Andre 3000, the "Hey Ya" guy, is the lead role. It looks pretty accurate from what I've seen, and is getting rave reviews. I think they even included the story about Hendrix sitting in with Cream...

I wanna see it.


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Post subject: Re: Hendrix Major Motion Picture
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 6:17 am
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See the other thread about the Hendrix strat. Not accurate. Not by any stretch. And that's not just the guitar..


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Post subject: Re: Hendrix Major Motion Picture
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 7:36 am
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Aw that stinks. You would think the producers of the film would realize that most people into Hendrix are likely gear heads.


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Post subject: Re: Hendrix Major Motion Picture
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:26 am
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WildintheStreets wrote:
Aw that stinks. You would think the producers of the film would realize that most people into Hendrix are likely gear heads.


Yeah the movie might be good but supposedly not accurate at all according to his girlfriend at the time who was never consulted, none of Jimi's music can be used since his family would not allow it (they want to use it for another movie), and the strat is a copy with the wrong headstock and no Fender logo.....which speaking for myself might ruin the whole thing for me. However from the clip I saw it seems this movie is more about his personal life while in London rather then his music and performances.

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Post subject: Re: Hendrix Major Motion Picture
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 10:42 am
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ebaysux wrote:
... However from the clip I saw it seems this movie is more about his personal life while in London rather then his music and performances.


Yea... that would be like Daryl Hall having a cooking show...

OH... Wait... :lol: :lol:

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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:03 am
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WildintheStreets wrote:
Aw that stinks. You would think the producers of the film would realize that most people into Hendrix are likely gear heads.

Would not sell many tickets then if going for gear head viewers!

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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 11:34 am
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ebaysux wrote:
... none of Jimi's music can be used since his family would not allow it ... the movie is more about his personal life while in London rather then his music and performances.

Since there is no Jimi music, it better be about the back story in his personal life. The good thing about Hendrix is that he was very much into improvisation and jamming. Hence, they could get away with some Jimi-ish jamming and guitar soloing without doing Hendrix tunes.

Along those lines, there was an amazing Hendrix album that came out in the 1980s called "Nine To The Universe". I consider it to be best of all the post-mortem releases. It is a bunch of studio jams, but is just really excellent (it is actually one of my favorite Hendrix albums). If you are a Hendrix fan and don't have it, then get it -- you are in for a real treat.

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Post subject: Re: Hendrix Major Motion Picture
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:42 pm
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I agree. It seems even from the trailer there is Hendrix-ish type riffs going on which any good player influenced by Hendrix could pull off. I have read they are going to use a few covers he did being the Hendrix family does not own the rights.

Bottom line if the movie was well written and the acting good it can still be a good movie. This is a major picture and not like those really low budget ones I see on cable from time to time. But if you go in already negative about it knowing it is claimed not to be factual, none of his original music is used, and a bogus Strat will be seen then it will most likey be dissapointing if one can not get over those issues. And to some those are pretty big issues and not petty details.

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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 6:10 pm
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ebaysux wrote:
... they are going to use a few covers he did being the Hendrix family does not own the rights...

Yeah, they could go to town on that, actually. "All Along The Watchtower" and "Hey Joe" were two of his biggest hits. And there is also his most famous performance of burning his guitar at the end of "Wild Thing" at Monterey Pop.

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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 6:27 pm
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01GT eibach wrote:

Along those lines, there was an amazing Hendrix album that came out in the 1980s called "Nine To The Universe". I consider it to be best of all the post-mortem releases. It is a bunch of studio jams, but is just really excellent (it is actually one of my favorite Hendrix albums). If you are a Hendrix fan and don't have it, then get it -- you are in for a real treat.


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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 7:02 pm
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01GT eibach wrote:
ebaysux wrote:
... they are going to use a few covers he did being the Hendrix family does not own the rights...

Yeah, they could go to town on that, actually. "All Along The Watchtower" and "Hey Joe" were two of his biggest hits. And there is also his most famous performance of burning his guitar at the end of "Wild Thing" at Monterey Pop.


Well we should be able to get an idea of which covers will be used according to this write up.. "While music does abound throughout the narrative, with covers of Muddy Waters, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones, this is not a movie about Hendrix and his relationship with music. If anything, its about Hendrix’s relationships with other people, specifically the women in his life." The rest of the write up is here.. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn ... y-my-side/

So it seems this movie is going to be focusing more on his personal life, specifically when he was in London and whatever sex and drugs debauchery went down or did not go down and is embellished by the writers.. As far as Monterey according to another write up "The film culminates with Hendrix being invited to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, the historic all-star concert that made him an icon". Not sure if the movie will depict Jimi playing there but even if.. it seems he would be burning and smashing a Strat copy with a non Fender headstock and no logo. :roll: Unless they are going to use a Monterey Hendrix Strat clone and didn't tell us. But other scenes from the trailer show him using a fake.

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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 6:40 pm
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The fact that they made the movie without consulting Kathy Etchingham or Eric Burden (Jimi's longtime girlfriend-3 years-and best friend respectively) really makes me wonder just how true to life it could be.If anyone could shine a light on what Jimi's life was like or what life with Jimi was like,it would be these two,since most of the other members of Jimi's inner sanctum such as Chas Chandler,Gerry Stickells,Noel Redding,Mitch Mitchell,Buddy Miles etc.,have passed away.This just seems to me to be just another cynical attempt to make a quick buck off the mystique about Jimi that survives to this day.To have a movie about Jimi without his music is just plain ludicrous as his music was so much a huge part of him,to leave it out would pretty well make any movie about his life pointless.His music was based so much on his life experiences that his songs were truly a soundtrack of his life.

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Post subject: Re: Hendrix Major Motion Picture
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:32 pm
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You hit the nail on the head but I will end up seeing the movie anyhow. Probably not in the theater but when invited to someones house and they have access to it. I already have criticisms before even seeing it and have a good idea most if not all of it is embellished being the very people who would really know exactly what went down were not consulted.

I think the thing to keep in mind is that this is a movie "based" on a part of Jimi's life, not a documentary or biography by any means. There already are several documentary's and biography's out there that are for learning, this one seems it is just for entertainment purposes for the masses and not geared to those who are really interested in historical accuracy.

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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:38 pm
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ebaysux wrote:
I think the thing to keep in mind is that this is a movie "based" on a part of Jimi's life, not a documentary or biography by any means. There already are several documentary's and biography's out there that are for learning, this one seems it is just for entertainment purposes for the masses and not geared to those who are really interested in historical accuracy.


Bullshit!!!

Patronize this pathetic piece of crap if you wish but I'm not putting a nickel into that opportunistic wench Jaynie Hendrix's pocket.

I wouldn't piss into her goddamm mouth if her head were on fire.

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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:34 pm
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ebaysux wrote:
I think the thing to keep in mind is that this is a movie "based" on a part of Jimi's life, not a documentary or biography by any means. There already are several documentary's and biography's out there that are for learning, this one seems it is just for entertainment purposes for the masses and not geared to those who are really interested in historical accuracy.


Bullshit!!!

Patronize this pathetic piece of crap if you wish but I'm not putting a nickel into that opportunistic wench Jaynie Hendrix's pocket.

I wouldn't piss into her goddamm mouth if her head were on fire.

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Take it easy brother....you left out the part where I said I will watch this when a friend invites me over to see it. I am not giving them a dime. It is just a freaking movie it is not like I am pissing on Jimi's grave by watching it..not that he would notice I peed on his grave or watched the movie because he is....dead.

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