Slash's Snakepit

One of Slash's projects back from when he was still a part of GnR. Original lineup also has GnR bandmates, drummer Matt Sorum and guitarist Gilby Clarke + Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez + Jellyfish's Eric Dover as a lead vocalist.

Could you even dare to ask for more? Press play if you haven't done that already and be thankful that this kickass piece of music is now part of your life. Or be an audio junkie like me and go listen to the whole '95 album. You are most welcome.

I said no, no, no

Today I'm listening to Amy Winehouse. Enough with the "she has so many fans now that she's not around anymore" whatever, the girl's music stands somewhere right next to perfect, I say it now, I said that when I first heard her, from then on, and from now on. I don't care who she was, as a person, as I usually don't care about the private lives of the artists I listen to, no matter what she went through or what addiction she struggled with when she was alive, it made her write all those soulful masterpieces. And the age of 27 is probably the last thing she has in common with other musical legends such as Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Jim Morrison, with musical value and originality standing way ahead, and one of the few nice things I can say about my generation is the fact that we had Amy Winehouse. Therefore, R.I.P, Amy. ♥

Ain't No Sunshine

Bill Withers' original "Ain't no Sunshine" in 1971 has known, over time, quite a number of covers of various genres, from worldwide known artists such as Lenny Kravitz and Michael Jackson (back from when he was a kid) to more obscure bands that had a different approach to the original song resulting in tracks such as Atlas' smooth-jazzy-funky cover (my personal favourite) or Subsonica's dub sounding version, or, another great one, the drum'n'bass cover belonging to Bachelors of Science, which, i admit, slightly ashamed of my 21st century ignorance, was my first contact ever with this masterpiece. That doesn't change the fact that Bachelors of Science did an awesome job, though :)

The original song was inspired by the 1962 movie Days of Wine and Roses and its characters struggling with alcohol addiction, as they miss something that is obviously harmful to them.

P.S Sidenote on the original clip, that drummer is awesome xD as the people posting the comments noticed it too, "He knows something we don't." *drummer grin*

The Ultimate Experience

Adding another blog post on the biography of Jimi Hendrix to the internet would be somehow unnecessary, since the gentlemen working for Wikipedia and Rolling Stone have done an impecable job already.

Today i felt like doing nothing, which leaves plenty of place for enjoying history written in musical lyrics and guitar tabs by someone who started out as a man who really enjoyed experimenting with sounds.

'42-'70, the time when the earth was walked by one of, if not, the best guitarist of all times, as Rolling Stone claims. He was a true guitar god, completely changing the view upon playing the instrument for the artists that followed. Being left-handed, he played a regular guitar upside-down. Unicity was a keyword for all his shows, always a theatrical presence, playing the instrument with his teeth or behind his back, Hendrix sure knew how to set the guitar on fire (literally, sometimes, like he did at the Monterey Pop Festival).

I don't really know much about Hendrix as a person, and I honestly do not care, his music, a true masterpiece of blues and psychedelic rock, has won him my respect forever. I'm going to dedicate this week to listening to everything ever released, before and after his death.

Meanwhile, my favourite song remains The Wind Cries Mary, which, weirdly, is said to have been written after an argument between Hendrix and his then girlfriend over her cooking. The food must've been awful since she left afterwards and he had to write a song to bring her back :) here's the song, in case you don't know it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvXstzHzkXk. Beautiful.