Jimi Hendrix Both Sides of the Sky - new album coming March 9, 2018

I’m sure he’s picked up some things over the years but even when composes classical works he has always passed the melodies over to someone else to transcribe.

 

One can know how to read music and not be shackled in the least by “rules”.
I’m just talking about where the notes are on the staff and what rhythm notation might be.
A master degree in music theory for everyone?
Imagine if everyone had to play the tuba upside down!

 

Absolutely

 

Now just imagine Jimi fronting this band! Heck....they almost already had the name! Just a slight change....The Jimi Hendrix Tony Williams Life Time Experience!

 

You don't think the thought would have crossed Paul's mind of "Well I wonder who bailed on the session? Obviously they wouldn't have booked studio time to record an album without having a bass player booked/confirmed. So obviously I couldn't have been their first choice. Less than a weeks notice...Hmm..would that make me their 2nd choice(?) third choice(?) tenth!(?) WOW - I'm so honored "

 

But you seem to be claiming it is (or should be) necessary for him to be able to read.

WHY?!

 

Tony was a great composer too.

 

That's not very respectful to say about a dead man

 

They are not a 'family' but a corporation despite what they market themselves as and I would have thought people here would be aware

 

You’re misunderstanding. It’s not necessary for Paul to read music. I just don’t believe that after 75 years on the planet with all the experiences he’s had that he doesn’t know at all how to read at all. That’s all.
Carry on with Jimi.

 

Well I'm sure whoever was bankrolling the session would have definitely saw negotiations/clearances as being of vital importance to have been worked out ahead of time, since having paid the full recording cost of a legally unreleasable album probably wouldn't have been considered by them (the person or record company) to have been a wise financial investment.

 

How does his being dead alter the facts about what he did. If he did something stupid while alive, does it suddenly become unstupid at the moment his heart stops beating?

 

I think some of the things Douglas done regarding Hendrix was wrong (or he did under pressure from the record company etc dependent on which point of view you listen to) but he did some great things for Hendrix, Jazz and the record industry and was certainly not an 'Asshat' what you said is wrong and showing a lack of knowledge about Alan Douglas's career in the recording industry, it was just a couple of albums big deal and there success put Janie Hendrix through law school so everyone in the Hendrix story did great in the end !!

 

What are you talking about? Where did I make reference in my "asshat" comment to his posthumous productions of Jimi's music (or in fact ANYTHING else outside of the specific contents of that telegram?)

 

Im assuming you dont play an instrument. Once you are proficient on any instrument, reading music offers very little. I cant really think of any advantages. Its way more common than you suspect. Id suggest most of your music heroes from the fifties threw to today are musically illiterate.

 

I'm conscious about that. Just mentioned it the way as it's saying on the hype stickers of the CDs.

 

I know it’s extremely common. You’re misunderstanding and reading more into it than what I’m saying. I’m a professional musician. Carry on. I’m done .

 

That strikes me as kinda like saying, once you know how to walk, there's no reason to visit a foreign country.

 

Wait, this thread is about Both Sides of the Sky, right?

 

There seems to be at least two sides of the thread as well.

 

Every thread turns into a Beatles thread here.

 

And both sides seem to fancy themselves official spokespersons for Jimi Hendrix.

 

I've told this before here at the forum, but I'll repeat it since people are bringing up the "What if?" question again. Back in the '80s, I had a music teacher at the University Of Oregon campus (who has since passed on) named Bill Strange. He used to teach a class called Dylan & Others. Anyway, during one of our private conversations I had with him, he told me that there had been people suggesting to Jimi that he take a full year off from the treadmill he was on and to go to the School Of Music at Julliard to learn to read music. Please forgive if I've overlooked a mention among the comments here, but Jimi was also beginning to think in terms of symphonic ideas as well. He was beginning to envision using orchestration in his music. A lot of you are focusing on the Fusion aspect. What's being overlooked is that he had Classical ideas swirling in his head too. It is a terrible tragedy that Jimi never lived to see any of these possibilities through.

 

He is a very good musician with a great ear.

 

Are you aware that there are almost certainly more rock musicians that can't read music then there are that can? It's not something that's unusual.