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Now dig this, baby
You don't care for me
I don'-a care about that
You got a new fool, ha!
I like it like that
I have only one burning desire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Yeah, baby
Listen here, baby
And stop acting so crazy
You say your mum ain't home,
It ain't my concern,
Just play with me and you won't get burned
I have only one itching desire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Oh! Move over, Rover
And let Jimi take over
Yeah, you know what I'm talking 'bout
Yeah, get on with it, baby
That's what I'm talking 'bout
Now dig this!
Ha!
Now listen, baby
You try to gimme your money
You better save it, babe
Save it for your rainy day
I have only one burning desire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
Let me stand next to your fire
I ain't gonna do you no harm
Let me stand next to your fire
You better move over, baby
I ain't gonna hurt you, baby
Reference to Chuck Berry's Rollover Beethoven -- there's a new rocker in town...
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I'm intrigued - can't find any similar lyrics in Roll Over Beethoven, at least the CB version. Could you please clarify? Thanks.
Oh move over Rover and let Jimi take over. One of the best lines in rock.
Reference to Chuck Berry's Rollover Beethoven -- there's a new rocker in town...
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I can never forget a special weekend camping trip in late summer of '84 with my buddy Mike up into The Elks Range near Pyramid Pass, way up along Castle Creek, a stream so famously pure we filled our jugs and drank gallons of it... We also had some awesome windowpane, lots of beer and weed, and a big chunk of killer hash. I recall putting the cassette of "Are You Experienced" into the boombox shortly after our afternoon arrival. Somehow, it remained there for hours as we were challenged and overwhelmed by dozens of tasks we started simultaneously but got lost in the doing of -- and totally apropos, every time this song came on, we instinctively gravitated over to the campfire, only to realize that the tent was still NOT set up -- the array of aluminum poles and cords and stakes was just far too interesting to look at and touch and contemplate in various configurations as they lay this way or that on the ground -- and the steaks were still NOT cooked nor even pulled out of the cooler, and we just couldn't bring ourselves to change the tape, despite having an open case full of them nearby. We saw meteors that seemed to come so close that we braced ourselves for explosions, we saw trout watching us watching them as we scooped and drank jug after jug of sweet melted snow from the creek, and we saw foxes and marmots and all manner of patterns and messages in all the rocks, leaves, and lichen. We wandered within range of the music. We scaled ridges. We descended drops. The slightest thing would make us laugh so hard it felt like we'd done endless sit-ups. The song would call, and we'd find ourselves back over by the fire, saying, "Damn. We really oughtta cook up those steaks..." or "Think we can get the tent put together yet?" or "Every time this song comes around again, it sounds different! Not necessarily STONED, but ahh, BEAUTIFUL..." It was well after midnight and the chilly mountain air was so cold that our teeth were chattering when the tent poles finally aligned into the proper crystalline lattice and we climbed inside to sit and eat those fabulous steaks that we somehow finally got cooked. The sky was like a carpet woven of LED lights, and each one had colors that spoke to us. Jimi Hendrix was such an essential part of that whole experience!
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In fact Jimi didn't really like the way Noel played bass and he very often in studio sessions played bass parts himself (yes, Jimi was a great bass player as well).
Noel was a guitar player who switched to bass to play for JHE.
Don't get me wrong, Jimi is a guitar god, but on many of his songs, such as this one, I'm just as, if not more, captivated by the
This song is all Mitch brilliance
Don't get me wrong, Jimi is a guitar god, but on many of his songs, such as this one, I'm just as, if not more, captivated by the
In fact Jimi didn't really like the way Noel played bass and he very often in studio sessions played bass parts himself (yes, Jimi was a great bass player as well).
Exactly! Great insight.
Mitch ain't no slacker either!
Who do you think wrote the bass riffs?
Redding had never played the bass before meeting Jimi and just played what he was told.
By Electric Ladyland and even prior a lot of the basslines were played by Jimi and Redding was just used onstage.
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LOL, that's awesome! Move over rover and let Jimmy take over...
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Jimi's "support group" on this album is incredible! Here's to Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell!
Exactly! Great insight.
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Those drums cause me to rate this tune a 9 instead of an 8!
(The cool story of how the song came about is why it's an 8 and not a 7)
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This song still melts my speakers.
...and this song is not on Axis Bold as Love? (Are You Experienced?)
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This is my unquestionable favorite JH tune as well...
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same mood for me
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Jimi Rox
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Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches be dancing buck ass naked all over the world like bowlegged gypsy muleskinners... love this song... love sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll...
I know what you mean; there aren't many drummers who could play that busily without the performance sounding sloppy or overworked.
Thanks Jimmy!!!
"Fire" was on the original "Are You Experienced" album issued in 1967. The album "Ultimate Experience" was a 1992 posthumous UK issue using the original masters.
1967, I was 14 and saw Jimi at the Bank Street Theatre in Ottawa that winter. Soft Machine was opening act. Got home late and was grounded for a week.
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Jimi was THE SOUNDTRACK to some of the BEST TRIPS!
I'm pretty sure this was 1967.
No matter, a 10. Still love hearing it.
"Fire" was on the original "Are You Experienced" album issued in 1967. The album "Ultimate Experience" was a 1992 posthumous UK issue using the original masters.
Oh, and it was most certainly '67.
I'm pretty sure this was 1967.
No matter, a 10. Still love hearing it.
Jimi, you can always take over!
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Would love to hear Manic Depression from the same album.
Oh, Mitch, you were something special.
True dat.