13. Jimi Hendrix – Star Spangled Banner (Record Plant, New York, NY, March 18, 1969)
Wem es so vorkommen sollte, als ob es hier extra brummt und dröhnt, dann liegt es möglicherweise daran, dass Simeon Coxe of Silver Apples fame hier mitwirkt. Die Bekanntschaft war über den Apples-Drummer Danny Taylor zustande gekommen, an dem Hendrix der Legende nach fast so sehr einen Narren gefressen hat, wie… äh, ich.
„Yeah, well he and Danny were friends. Danny played drums in his first band. And so when Hendrix got the opportunity to go to England (…) he begged Danny to come with him. He didn’t wanna go by himself and just be there with, you know, have to pick up musicians. He ended up with a pretty good group, but fortunately, Danny didn’t wanna go to Britain. He just didn’t want to go and he said you know, there’s plenty of musicians around here I can work with. And so, thank got, I got him.
And so whenever Hendrix would come back into town, he’d look Danny up and see what he was doing, and so he came around the Record Plant. We both were booked in the Record Plant simultaneously one time for months for doing our third records. And so he’d come in and jam and we’d find, we’d find out what he was doing in his studio and jam along. A lot of times we were using the same studio, his amps would be parked all around my amps.(…)
On many different occasions the engineer had the presence of mind to just roll the tapes and one of the times he got me and Jimi working on the Star Spangled Banner together. It was listed as a solo by Jimi, when in actual fact, if you listen, you can hear me playing six bass oscillators behind three tracks of guitars he’d laid down.”
--
Gewöhnlich glaubt der Mensch - wenn er nur Worte hört - es müsse sich dabei doch auch was denken lassen.