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Hendrix - Little Wing (Original Post) marble falls Sep 27 OP
A Classic ProfessorGAC Sep 28 #1
Good cut. Fprgot it was on the album. Think I'll dig it out and listen while I putter around today. ... marble falls Sep 28 #2
I've Heard The Sting Version ProfessorGAC Sep 28 #3
This from their '97 album "reunion" album with the los Illegals. I'm not sure, I think it was Johnette ... marble falls Sep 28 #4
I Looked It Up ProfessorGAC Sep 28 #5

ProfessorGAC

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1. A Classic
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 11:04 AM
Sep 28

We had a pal to come to jam nights. He was a musician but not something for jam night. He played trumpet in the school bands.
Anyway, he learned these lyrics & would come si he could sing it. The guitar guy learned the chords and we started doing it when he showed up.
I played keys on it, but a few times, I'd step away and do the 2nd guitar solo.
Here's my favorite version of it. Much more dense, which I think suits my ear.

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marble falls

(62,047 posts)
2. Good cut. Fprgot it was on the album. Think I'll dig it out and listen while I putter around today. ...
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 12:33 PM
Sep 28

... have you heard this lusher version

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Here's an brighter version

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One of my favorites

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ProfessorGAC

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3. I've Heard The Sting Version
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 01:09 PM
Sep 28

The Concrete Blond version actually owes quite a bit to the Dominoes' version.
Is that Cocker singing with Santana? Sure sounds like him.

marble falls

(62,047 posts)
4. This from their '97 album "reunion" album with the los Illegals. I'm not sure, I think it was Johnette ...
Sat Sep 28, 2024, 06:43 PM
Sep 28

... but Concrete Blonde wasn't a group I followed closely and I am not familiar with her voice though I had seen videos from them on MTV(?), it could actually be one of the Illegals. It's also on their album 'Bloodletting' as a bonus track from an EP.



I don't think that's Cocker.

Concrete Blonde lead vocalist Johnette Napolitano said of the album:

It was pretty miserable. It's not a happy little disc. We had a string of bad luck and [Bloodletting] was the tail end of it. A particularly bad relationship. It had never happened to me until I was 29 years old. I had a hard time getting over it. So, it's not a happy record, but I could do two things: I could make a self-indulgent record, which is what this is, or I could lock up all these songs in a closet and do something that wasn't sincere. This will never happen again, this record.

Johnette Napolitano – vocals, bass guitar, production, album cover

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