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Hey look at that, the rhythm guitarist played a Ric 360 12 string.

That's actually a pretty good version. Although having said that, anyone would really have be intent on mucking it up to have the end result not be a reasonable facsimile of the original.

Hey Winston, your free time is our education. Don't stop at a measly 3004 posts.

The reason I hang out here Peter is because of the education I get. I am not so sure that it goes both ways, but if you say so...

And I confess, I am hooked. OK there you have it. I am hooked.

Congrats, Brian!

The place wouldn't be the same without you... keep 'em coming, my friend!

We're all kinda hooked. Looks like i'm also going to get to 3000 in near future, but definitely my posts weren't as educative as those of most of the other members...
Ehm... back to the topic, eh?

Hendrix does my preferred "Gloria".

Hm. I haven't found the version by Hendrix on that videos site.

I haven't seen it, only heard it (as a vinyl bonus disc). Don't know if it's easy to find. But it's a recommended hunt! One thing about Hendrix: He made a lot of inspired versons of other people's songs.

Sheena, I remember a time not long ago when we were shoulder to shoulder on passing the Post Number mark #100, mainly from the Searchers Forum. Either you cheated, or you have been quite busy!

Nope, Einar, no cheating, i just got fast unlimited access to the Internet somewhere around April, 2005, and was "removed" from the office to work at home a few months later.
But now i really feel i should cut down, or at least restrict posting to the two sections: this one and the one which was of main interest back then, almost 3 years ago... (but then again, there are people here who managed to post about 5 or 6 thousand messages in a year, so i don't feel too bad )
Ehm, back to the topic (well, one of): will try to find Hendrix' version, even though i've never heard it i'd suggest it should be interesting.

Hendrix also did a great version of "Wild Thing". At least it was great live.

I heard a story about Hendrix the other day. A local DJ and promoter here in BC named "Red Robinson" recounted this on Global Television. I actually heard the story from Red years ago. You see, I used to know Red but quite frankly had forgotten his connection to Jimi and this story.

We had a band here in the early sixties named Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers. They consisted of Bobby Taylor, Cheech Marin (Cheech and Chong fame) on guitar, Jimi Hendrix on guitar, Albert Leroy Harrison on keyboards, Ted Lewis on drums and Eddie Patterson on Bass. Wes Henderson played guitar and Robbie King also played keyboards as they changed out personnel.

Anyway I digress. The Supremes came to Vancouver and played the Cave Supper Club (Here's my slim connection: My band Meddy's People played the Cave the previous week) and Bobby and Cheech invited them back to their place after the show because every place to have a drink etc closed down at midnight in those days.

The Supremes accepted the offer and they partied to the wee hours of the morning. Culminating with Bobby and Tommy performing some of their music for the girls. Diana Ross called Berry Gordy in Motown the next day and two days later in 1967 Bobby Taylor and the Vancouvers were signed to Berry Gordy's label. A label that was to become Motown Records.

Shortly thereafter Bobby fired Jimi because "he was too damned loud on stage and they could not control his volume"

Bobby will tell you that he regrets that act to this day. Bobby soldiered on and managed to have a very successful career in the industry. He is credited with discovering the Jackson Five and many others.

The Shadows of Knight from I believe somewhere in Ca, had THE big hit of Gloria here, I never heard Them's version until years later when FM radio started playing it sometime in the 70's, was revisionist history here as it was not a hit by Them. I loved Them also but still like Shadow of Knights version much better.

I believe the British Invasion was extremely significant here in the States, that's all you heard for several years and almost all of it was great. I think it wouldn't have existed if not for the Beatles however, and they are the only ones really to have made a lasting impact and a huge one at that. I believe they changed the music for the better forever, opened many doors. But also a lot of other great music came in on their coat tails. I loved Hermans Hermits when I was a kid, loved it all, stones of course, Swinging Bluejeans, Them, Nashville Teens, Troggs, on and on. Even Petula Clark was cool to me then, British music had a coolness to it that American music didn't have, I don't mean cool in the sense of groovy man, more like a certain sound, the backing bands were great, the pop music end was another aspect of it you don't think of very often. Petula, Englebird etc.

Speaking of BI - there's an interesting set of videos online:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Albeit you all may have seen it before.

Little Steven's site has some cool BI videos, as well as their American Counterparts (for instance, the Turtles doing Outside Chance)

Thanks for these Sheena your links have appeared on another site as a matter of interest.