Studio Haze
Sorti en 1993 (INA 6)
- Titres 1 à 10 aussi connus sous le nom de "Chas Chandler Tapes" ;
- Titres 10 à 20 aussi connus sous le nom de "Billy Cox Tapes".
01. TAKING CARE OF NO BUSINESS [1967.05.04, added in 1988: Noel's bass, tuba & sax]
02. GYPSY BLOOD aka: CRYIN BLUE RAIN [1969.02.26, added in 1988: Mitch's drums, Noel's bass]
03. LOVER MAN [February 1969, added in 1988: Mitch's drums, Noel's bass]
04. LITTLE ONE [1968.01.26, w/ Dave Mason on sitar, added in 1988: Mitch's Drums, Noel's bass (?)]
05. ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS [1969.02.14-16, added in 1988: Mitch's drums, Noel's bass]
06. MR BAD LUCK [1967.05.04, added in 1988: Noel's bass (?)]
07. THE SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE [February 1969, added in 1988: Mitch's drums, Noel's bass]
08. SHAME, SHAME, SHAME [February 1969, added in 1988: Mitch's drums, Noel's bass & rhythm guitar (?)]
09. CAT TALKIN TO ME [January 1968 or February 1969, added in 1988: Mitch's drums, Noel's bass]
10. FREEDOM [June 1970]
11. LOVER MAN [Summer 1970]
12. VALLEYS OF NEPTUNE [Summer 1970]
13. FREEDOM [Instrumental, Summer 1970]
14. DOLLY DAGGER [Outtake, 1970.07.01]
15. BLEEDING HEART [Outtake, 1969.12.18 or 1970.03.24]
16. EARTH BLUES [Outtake, 1969.12.19 additional recordings: 1970.01.20]
17. EZY RIDER [Outtake, 1969.12.18]
18. IZABELLA [Autumn 1969]
19. EZY RIDER [December 1969, includes a short false start]
20. ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS [Outtake, 1969.11.17]
Notes & Comments: Courtesy of UNIVIBES MAGAZINE (Peter Herzig & Caesar Glebbeek)
Que semble rejoindre le lien suivant :
http://plaza.harmonix.ne.jp/~hitoshi/Jimi/Discogra/Version/S927.htmlLes infos de Brumepourpre :
Citation :Brumepourpre a dit :
En fait en 1988 lors de travaux aux Studio OLympic de Londres, un ouvrier a mis la main sur 64 boîtes master.
Chas contacté a demandé à Noel et Mitch de revenir en studio.
Il voulait sortir un album mais il n'avait pas les droits.
Un pirate est sorti à notre plus grande joie qui fut l'un des meilleurs: " Studio Haze" avec Taking Care of no business avec des cuivre etc... |
A noter que "
Shame Shame Shame" est en fait une prise différente de "It's Too Bad" !
On retrouve les mêmes paroles traitant de ses rapports avec Leon Hendrix, son frère.
Sur le même sujet :
Citation :Purple Jim a dit :
En février 69 aussi. Sur le CD "An Eveneing With The JHE" il y a trois répétitions du group pour les concerts Albert Hall. Pendant "Room Full Of Mirrors" Jimi utilise les mêmes paroles. |
Noel Redding à propos des scéances de ce boots :
Citation :| A more interesting collaboration took place in 1986 when Redding and Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell (with whom Redding has since fallen out) traveled to former manager Chas Chandler's Newcastle home and recorded new tracks to at least four unreleased Hendrix demos. (In this they were pioneers, as this well preceded the Nineties trend of overdubbing incomplete tapes by famous dead people.) Redding could recall none of the titles of these songs aside from "Sunshine of Your Love." "There was a party thing, like a sing-along thing at a wedding, and another tune that had like a sitar in it," he says. |
Source :
http://www.wholenote.com/default.asp?iTarget=http://www.wholenote.com/news/item.asp?i=265Redding est mort avant de terminer son projet évoqué dans ce lien.
Petit retour sur les "
Chas Chandler Tapes" :
1. Taking Care Of No Business
2. Cryin' Blue Rain (aka "Gypsy Blood")
3. Lover Man
4. There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With That (aka "Little One")
5. Room Full Of Mirrors
6. Mr Bad Luck (aka "Look Over Yonder")
7. Sunshine Of Your Love
8. Shame, Shame, Shame (aka "It's Too Bad")
9. Cat Talkin' To Me
Inédit officiellement lors de la publication de "Studio Haze", "
Taking Care Of No Business" (4:07) est désormais disponible sur le coffret pourpre publié en 2000 par Experience Hendrix LLC.
Comme les neuf premiers titres de ce pirate, cette version contient des overdubs post mortem. Chas Chandler a ici fait rajouter un tuba qui joue une ligne de basse
old style ainsi qu'un saxophone qui joue quelques phrases surannées mais prolongeant efficacement l'esthétique originale.
La comparaison avec le travail d'Alan Douglas s'impose : contrairement à ce dernier, Chandler prolonge l'esthétique initiale, ne la trahit pas.
"
Gypsy Blood" (2:40), aussi connu sous le nom de "
Crying Blue Rain", date selon l'Encyclopedia de la session du 16 février 1969 à l'Olympic. C'est un blues en Mi (qui contient une transition I D I A I), dans un esprit similaire à "It's Too Bad", mais autrement plus embryonnaire : le chant de Jimi se limite à quelques "
Yeah". Il y a un climat... mais c'est un peu léger pour une édition officielle en grande pompe.
"
Lover Man" (4:36), aussi connu sous le titre de "Here He Comes (Lover Man)" date sans doute de la même session. Les overdubs de Noel Redding et Mitch Mitchell de 1988 donnent certainement au titre une autre saveur que celle qu'il devait avoir au départ. Le jeu de Mitch est plus lourd, moins subtil qu'alors. Contrairement aux versions de 1970, le tempo est ici nettement plus lent, et la grille d'accords moins évoluée : c'est un blues en 12 mesures en Si.
A l'origine, "
Little One" était un instrumental en La datant du 28 décembre 1967 avec Jimi à la guitare, Mitch à la batterie et Dave Mason au sitar enregistré à l'Olympic (si l'on se fie aux crédits de Noel Redding : "The Experience Sessions").
En 1988, il est devenu "
There Ain't Nothing Wrong" avec l'ajout de la basse et du chant de Noel, sans doute pour rendre le projet plus accessible au grand public. La voix de Noel Redding étant ce qu'elle est, la réussite n'est pas tout à fait au rendez-vous...
"
Room Full Of Mirrors" (2:30) provient aussi de la séance du 16 février 1969. Contrairement à la version studio officielle publiée sur "Rainbow Bridge", le titre était alors joué en F#, sur un tempo plus lent. Comme sur "Crying Blue Rain", on distingue la présence d'un percussionniste (aux congas) : ajout post mortem ou non ?
"
Mr Bad Luck" (2:57) est une chute de l'Experience datant de 1967. Le titre deviendra l'année suivante le "Look Over Yonder" qui fut d'abord publié sur "Rainbow Bridge". Le titre est en Mi bémol, à moins qu'il ne soit en Ré : Jimi s'accordait moins souvent un demi-ton en dessous en début de carrière. Bonne version.
La reprise du "
Sunshine Of Your Love" (5:36) date là encore certainement de la séance du 16 février 1968. De même que les versions Live de l'Experience, elle est en Si, alors que la composition originale est en Ré. C'est une interprétation intéressante même s'il y a fort à parier que la version sans overdubs datant de 1988 était supérieure à celle-ci : Mitch fait moins dans la finesse qu'à l'époque...
Le groupe cite sans surprise "Outside Woman Blues".
Plus proche de la jam en studio que d'une reprise aboutie, le résultat est loin d'être déplaisant : il y a de l'énergie !
On poursuit avec cette session à l'Olympic avec "
Shame, Shame, Shame" (1:56)... qu'il faudrait rebaptiser "
It's Too Bad". Chas Chandler a sans doute joué sur le terrain de Douglas ici : "Shame, Shame, Shame" est certainement la suite de "Room Full Of Mirrors", séparée en deux titres par Chandler pour avoir plus de matériel. Outre un rythme quasi identique, on entend que le titre débute dans la même tonalité (en F#) avant de passer en Mi puis de revenir en F# avec un passage chanté ("
Yeah, Yeah") typique de "Room Full Of Mirrors"...
"
Cat Talkin' To Me" (2:41) est à Mitch Mitchell ce que "Little One" est à Noel Redding. Mitch a en effet ajouté ici un chant à ce qui était à l'origine un instrumental en Mi de l'Experience. Le résultat n'est guère plus réjouissant : ces deux titres sont très nettement en dessous du matériel publié par l'Experience en 1967 et 1968.
Au final ? Chandler avait produit en 1988 des titres plus authentiques que ceux produits par Douglas en 1975. La présence des membres survivants de l'Experience y est pour beaucoup, même si ceux-ci sont paradoxalement peut-être trop envahissants par moments. Pour autant, il faut reconnaître que si un tel objet était sorti en 1988, il aurait été un bien pâle successeur du troisième album de l'Experience.
Pour un pirate, c'est par contre un must have.
Remarques intéressantes de Chris M sur le forum de Steve Hoffman :
Cat Talkin' To Me. It is a finished backing track of a JHE original. I'm not sure if this is a Noel original or something Jimi wrote. It doesn't sound like one of Noel's songs to me.
In 1988, after the Olympic outtakes were discovered, Chas brought Mitch and Noel in to re-record the original drum and bass parts and inexplicably add new lyrics to some of the unreleased songs. Mitch wrote new lyrics and added a vocal track to Cat Talkin' To Me with predictably awful results.
Some sources list it as a May 1967 recording but going but it doesn't sound anything like recordings from that era. I think the 1/68 date is much more accurate.
Even worse Noel wrote new lyrics and added a vocal track to Little One. A song he had absolutely nothing to do with. That track was Jimi, Mitch and Dave Mason. Why Chas of all people thought this was a good idea is beyond me. It seems everyone thought it was ok to screw with Jimi's tapes. (...)
What is odd is overdubs on some tracks (Cat Talkin', Lover Man, Sunshine, etc) have these incredibly dated 80's drum sounds with tons of reverb but others (Crying Blue Rain, Room Full of Mirrors, Shame Shame Shame) are tasteful. I wouldn't be surprised if the drums and bass on those 3 tracks are Mitch and Noel's original contributions but with lots of reverb added 20 years later.
BTW, those 3 tracks are part of a medley. Chas split them up into 3 seperate tracks but they run together on the raw tape. There is more playing before Crying Blue Rain turns into Room Full of Mirrors on the raw tape. Extrait d'un entretien de Noel Redding avec Michael Fairchild, publié par en 1991 :
Michael Fairchild -
Have you heard the new tapes that Chas Chandler has uncovered of the Experience that he's had for all these years? Weren't you going to re-do some of the rhythm with him?Noel Redding - Yeah. We went to Newcastle and overdubbed everything about three years ago. I did nine tracks in a day. Mitchell took two weeks to do one track. There's a bunch of tracks on there that have never been heard, about ten I'd say. They're from the
Are You Experienced? and
Axis period. One track is like a party.
Michael Fairchild -
The "Devil Jam?"Noel Redding - No, that was done in Los Angeles in October, '68. There's a lot of songs that are related to other Hendrix-type songs. I think we do "Sunshine Of Your Love." Chas told me he's got enough unreleased stuff for three albums. But the album is already bogged down with legal stuff, so the tapes are at a stalemate. When they release them it's going to be like multi-platinum in about ten minutes. It's all unreleased stuff, not alternate takes of what's out there.
Titres existants sans les overdubs de Chandler :
- Taking Care Of No Business
- There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With That (aka "Little One")
- Mr Bad Luck (aka "Look Over Yonder")
- Sunshine Of Your Love
- Cat Talkin' To Me
TAKING CARE OF NO BUSINESS
[roadie Howard Parker aka ‘H’ is the voice of the barman]Jimi : Now, now then, woa you’re not making them, them tinkle, wait, wait, you’re not
making them tinkle. Hold them by the, here like this, tink them together don’t stroke them together, don’t rub them, just tink them, hold them at the very tops of them and tink. All right, ready, but not too much though you’re over doing it now. Okay now, now, okay now.
Noel: Hey give us a beer can you, one for me, one for me, one for me, two beers ha-ha-ha
HP : “Get out you bum -hey what’s goin’ on- we don’t want your kind in here any more.” Oh
Lord, o-oh.
Layin’ in the alleywa-ay
Maybe some rich fool will come my wa-ay
And throw me a dime
That’s all I need to get me more wine
All I got is to my name is a
Beat up guitar with three broken strings
And I sure kno-ow
I just ain’t takin’ care of no business
Looky here, hey kitty cat where are you goin’
uh-This part of the alley is my home
Walkin’ all over outside my wall
Boy you sure got a whole lot o’ gall
I had sandwich in a paper ba-ag-uh but a
But a rat stole it u-huh ain’t that some drag
Lord I know, I know I
I sure ain’t-uh takin’ care of no business
Play the horn doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo
(Sing it to me)-doo-doo-doo-doo…[etc.]
Now I tried to get me a job-uh
Feedin’ chickens and washin’ down hogs
But that meant standin’ up all of the time
And standin’ up to me is just like dyin’
I’m so lazy that-uh I could cry-y
The tears are just too lazy to fall out my eyes
Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord I’m so-uh messed up-uh-hah
Can’t even take care of no business
Play it one more time, doo-doo-doo-doo…[etc]
Yeah-ah doo-doo-doo-doo…[etc.]
Oh woe is me
oh-I sure wish I had me a sandwich, o’ah anything
I’m so broke I can’t even pay attention
Lord, I’m so poor I couldn’t even-uh give you the time
Yeah
The damned cat spilled the last bottle I had, hmm-hmm-hmm
Mr. BAD LUCK [aka ‘Look over Yonder’]
Look over yonder here come the blues
The thirteenth of any time dressed like a fool
A double breasted, clear red, polka dot coat *
Playin’ the violin hittin’ wrong notes
Wow look over yonder he’s comin’ my wa-ay
When he’s around I never have a happy day
He gives me bad luck by rubbin’ his ring **
See that I just broke a guitar string, downg
Ow!
[Solo]
Oh, look over yonder he’s smilin’ at my babe
Now she says she’s gonna leave me any day-uh
I don’t need bad luck like-uh him hangin’ around
Now he’s knockin’ on my door
And now my house is burnin’ down
Crackle, crackle
Woa, look over yonder this is the end
He’s just now said he wants to be my friend-uh
When he’s around I can’t do nothin’ uh-right
He’s got me wearing shades In the middle of the night
Look over yonder, yeah
Look over yonder, baby
Got to, get away, get away from me now
Oh, look over yonder yeah, look over yonder baby
Got to, got to look over yonder, yeah
Look over yonder
Where’s my shotgun so I can blow this fool away
Get away from me
Ow! look over yonder baby
Yeah hey, look over yonder
Look over yonder baby
Look over yonder yeah, yeah
* Very sixties Carnaby Street - a double breasted, clear red plastic coat with white polka dots
** see The Beatles film ‘Help!’CAT TALKING TO ME
[voc. Mitch Mitchell, bootleg release]Here I am the master of a vessel in distress
This love affair is turning sour, just one big ugly mess
I’m a cat who’s in your dog house, sure ain’t havin’ fun
Whining, moaning late again, the inquisitions come
I feel a storm arising, time to go below
So batten down the hatches girl, oh no
Losing self control
Hmm pirates of your soul
My treasure chest is close to empty
Running low on gas
The ship you sail is laden
With captains of your past
The rocks are getting closer now
My dear our time has come
That life raft sure looks tempting
Though I’m not about to run
I think I’ll go and talk to that cat
It makes a lot more sense
Are you seeking vengeance
Is bitterness so sweet
Maybe your pain is pleasure
It sure ain’t, not for me
My friends now call you ‘Leg Irons’
They’re wrong your name is ‘Gnaws’
Diploma from ‘Piranha School Of Nagging’
With honours, that’s yours
Sunday 16 February 1969
Olympic Sound Studios, London, England.JHE with session conga player Kwazi ‘Rocky Dijon’ Dzidzornu, who also played on the classic albums: the Rolling Stones ‘Let It Bleed’ and Nick Drakes ‘Only Five Leaves Left’ that year. Gypsy Blood [instrumental], Room Full Of Mirrors & (“Shame, Shame, Shame”?/”It’s Too Bad”?) [See ‘It’s Too Bad’] are a continuous jam, cut up later & slightly edited by Chas Chandler
GYPSY BLOOD...
...ROOM FULL OF MIRRORS *# 2...
Yea-ea-eah
Yeah, yeah, yea-ea-eah
I used to li-ive in a roo-oom full of mirrors
A-all I seen was me
Well, I take my spirit and I crash my mirror
Now the whole World is here for me to see-ee
Well the whole World is here for me to see-ee
Yea-ea-eah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah ,yeah, yeah, yeah
Said now broken gla-ass was all in my hea-ead
uh-Broken me and janglin’, cuttin’ all inside my hea-ead
uh-Broken glass was all in my head-head-head
It used to fall out my dreams and cut me in my bed
It used to fall out my dreams and cut me in my bed-bed-bed
Yea-eah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yea-eah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yea-eah, yeah, yeah, yeah... [etc.]
*On one level at least, a reference to breaking free from drugs - mirrors are what you use to chop out lines on - "
I crash my mirror, now the whole world is here for me to see"
..."SHAME, SHAME, SHAME"? or "IT’S TOO BAD"?...
It’s a shame, shame, shame
That my brother can’t be with me today
Well the last time
The last time that I seen him
He asked me for help
And I turned him right away. He asked me for help
And I turned him away
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Hey, hey, hey
LOVER MAN (3) *
Jimi: Yeah, my fault, I’m sorry. Yeah, see, you know, when I’m stopped playing but just keep it going, you know, just, no, eh, all the time. No, it was my fault then…
Here he comes, baby
Here comes your lover ma-a-an
Hey, here, here he comes
Here comes your lover ma-an
I see him out the window
I better get the hell out o’ here as fast as I can
Reach up baby
Hand me that walkin’ cane
Reach up baby, now
Hand me down my walkin’ ca-a-ane
I think I see your man
I better get the hell out as fast as I can
*
[Music: BB King’s ‘Rock Me Baby’. Lyrics are a mix of Elmore James’s ‘Look On Yonder Wall’ (Bill ‘Jazz’ Gillum) & Howlin’ Wolf’s ‘Meet Me In The Bottom (Willie Dixon) Jimi related this song to the Vietnam war veterans returning, as the original ‘Look On Yonder Wall’ did to those of World War 2, the missing verse being: "Your husband went to the war, I know it was tough, I don’t know how many men’s he killed, but I know he done killed enough."] 
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