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Lesoiseauxensilence

Dwam posted a photo:

Lesoiseauxensilence

A travers nous s’envolent Les oiseaux en silence. O, moi qui veux grandir Je regarde au dehors, et l’arbre en moi grandit.

[Jim Thorpe, New York NL (baseball)] (LOC)

The Library of Congress posted a photo:

[Jim Thorpe, New York NL (baseball)] (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

[Jim Thorpe, New York NL (baseball)]

[ca. 1917]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards: Thorpe.
Title devised by cataloger.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, http://1.usa.gov/1D9d3AE

General information about the Bain Collection is available at http://1.usa.gov/1HWc8Jc

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://1.usa.gov/1L9PJq3

Call Number: LC-B2- 4318-6

Hendrix Hits London – How Nine Months in London Made Him a Star

Born in 1942, James Marshall Hendrix grew up in Seattle and honed his craft as a guitar slinger in the South and New York City, but he became star in London.

In 1966 Hendrix was playing in Greenwich Village and struggling to find an audience with his group Jimmy James and the Blue Flames when ex-Animals bassist Chas Chandler saw him perform. Chandler promised he could make Hendrix a star if he moved to England. Hendrix agreed, on one condition: that Chandler introduce him to British guitar gods Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.

Within a week of arriving in London, Hendrix and Chandler assembled bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell to create the Jimi Hendrix Experience, and the group quickly jumped into the Swinging London scene. Over the next nine months the trio toured endlessly, released three hit singles and a chart-topping debut album, and became darlings of the British music press.

For much of his time in the public eye, Hendrix called London home. Without the city, his musical gifts may never have reached a worldwide audience. Hendrix had the talent, the showmanship, and the ambition, while Chas Chandler had the clout and the connections. But Swinging London had the fashion, the music, and the unique culture that proved vital to Hendrix’s success.

Curator of ‘Hear My Train A Comin’ – Hendrix Hits London‘ and Hendrix fanatic Jacob McMurray guides James Lachno through the celebrated US musician’s explosive first trip to London and how it made him a star. Hendrix died in an ambulance on the way to hospital, apparently suffering from a drug overdose, on September 18 1970.

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Jimi Hendrix at the Saville Theatre, London, 1967 (Picture: Bill Nitopi)

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Mitch Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix and Noel Redding, promotional photograph (Picture: EMP Museum)

“In summer 1965, Hendrix quit Little Richard’s band for the second time and moved to New York. The story goes that Linda Keith – at the time Keith Richards’s girlfriend – saw Hendrix at Café Wha? in Greenwich Village with ‘Jimmy James and the Blue Flames’. She was impressed and told her friend Chas Chandler, who was doing his last tour as the bassist of The Animals. Chandler saw the band and thought Hendrix was amazing, so he brought him to London. From the first week, Jimi was jamming with Cream, and he met Andy Summers, pre-Police, on the first day. The Jimi Hendrix Experience formed about a week later, with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell.”

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Early lyrics to ‘Love or Confusion‘, penned while staying at Hyde Park Towers hotel, October-November 1966 (Picture: EMP Museum)

“Chandler set Hendrix up at the Hyde Park Towers Hotel. All indications suggest he wrote these lyrics to Love and Confusion in November 1966 while at the hotel, and supposedly he also wrote Stone Free early on in London. Maybe he had these songs in some form in New York, but his music there had been so different – it was rock and soul, R’n’B, blues covers. These new compositions were rave-ups, beat songs. They pushed the boundaries, but were essentially pop songs.”

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Acetate recording of “Hey Joe” / “Stone Free”, from November 1966 (Picture: EMP Museum)

“The band played its first gig in Evreux, France, on October 13, 1966, on a big package tour headlined by Johnny Hallyday. They recorded the Hey Joe/Stone Free single on October 23, not even a month after getting to London. Hey Joe was a popular song to cover in the US – The Leaves, Love, and Frank Zappa had covered the fast version, but Hendrix was one of the first to do it slow, from a version by folk singer Tim Rose.”

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Howlin’ Wolf, More Real Folk Blues, Chess Records, 1967, part of Hendrix’s personal record collection (Picture: EMP Museum)

“Hendrix owned dozens of records in London, and was heavily influenced by the blues. There’s a story about when Hendrix sat in with Cream within a week of getting to London, and started playing Howling Wolf’s Killing Floor with them. It’s meant to be an incredibly difficult song to just start jamming with other people on. Jack Bruce said everyone was raising their eyebrows, thinking ‘wow’.”

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Vipassana : Confessions of a Serial Meditator, Tales of the Mind, Vol 1: 2nd Edition (less typos)

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Title: Vipassana : Confessions of a Serial Meditator, Tales of the Mind, Vol 1: 2nd Edition (less typos)

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Self Published

Volume: Volume 1

Language: English

Subjects: Non fiction., Philosophical biography., Meditation.

Collection: Philosophy

Description: One Man. Ten days. No talking.
One Centre. 102 meditators. No eye-contact.
One Course. 105 hours of meditation. No gestures.
One Law. One Truth. One Universe.

This story isn’t about me, it’s about you. It may read as if it’s about me, but if you’ve ever sought the Truth, then it’s about you too.

Surrender; it’s the only way to win the war, the one being fought within, deep down in the trenches of your mind. Wherever that may be . . .

Can I do it? And if so, what then?