hendrix plays sly stone

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not really a question im asking, more something i just noticed. in the intro to we gotta live together on band of gypsys (which, while im here, is no way the piece of shoddy contractual-bye bye so many decrepit rock crits have made it out to be), hendrix goes into several bars of the guitar line from sly stones sing a simple song. he plays it quite brilliantly too.

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah yeah

― autovac (autovac), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

you said it so much better than me!

― thesplooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not identical, but yeah, it's really close and possibly a nod to Sly. Remember, this was when Hendrix was (self-)consciously trying to attract a blacker audience. And another variation on the same riff was played by John McLaughlin throughout Miles Davis' Jack Johnson soundtrack.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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