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1. I prefer Axis Bold as Love in Mono. The stereo version has holes in the mix you could drive a bus through.

2. I always thought the stereo effects were an important part of the album. When I was a young lad I used to be on drinking terms with a moderately successful session guitarist. I recall asking him a few months before Hendrix died his opinion of Hendrix ,he replied “not so much a guitarist,more of an electrician”. I don’t recall Hendrix being held in such high regard when he was alive.

3. Dear Paul the Essex boy (at 2014/09/19 at 15:14)

   You said:

   I don’t recall Hendrix being held in such high regard when he was alive.

   You might like to change your recollection. He was considered dynamite as a technician and showman.

   You might consult accounts by Peter Green, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and the other leading guitarists on the scene at the time of what they thought when Jimi Hendrix showed up in London with the Experience.

   In David Henderson’s book ‘Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child (published by Simon and Schuster, 2008) he writes (page 119):

   Hendrix’s relationship with London’s up-and-coming and premier guitarists had become bizarre. In black America competition between musicians, to challenge and be challenged, was accepted as part of the territory, and celebrated. But in England it appeared to be otherwise. The top guitarists were so in awe of Hendrix that several had questioned their continuing with the instrument. Brian May (the guitarist with Queen), Ronnie Wood, and even Eric Clapton had made public statements about perhaps “packing it in” – “that the game was up for all of us”.

   There is also the story of Hendrix rocking up on October 1, 1966 to a Cream gig at the Central London Polytechnic and jamming with them on the classic Howlin’ Wolf song Killing Floor. Apparently, the band soon regretted his contribution and Clapton left the stage and was quoted as asking the ex-Animals musician Chas Chandler, who by then was managing the Experience whether Jimi Hendrix “Is he always that fucking good” (see Martin Power’s book “Hot Wired Guitar: The Life of Jeff Beck” (published by Music Sales Group, 2012).

   best wishes
   bill

4. The Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) solution would be to start by diverting the billions spent on making bombs and weapons and sending troops into fights they cannot win into job creation and poverty alleviation programs.”

   surely military spending doesn’t prevent the government from spending on other things. cutting any spending currently doesn’t guarantee the willingness to provide spending other things, it just increases the risk of having overall spending cut.
   government contractors in the US are already doing an efficient job of sucking in the most amount of money (which they can then spend into the (Chinese) economy to drive demand) for providing the least amount of weaponry to blow shit up.

5. p.s:
   are there any pay ratio regulations for government contractors? if not, it would probably a good idea to start there.

6. Bill cites just one Islamo crime (beheadings) and compares that that whole list of Western crimes (inequality, etc). Well I can play that trick in reverse, i.e. set out a long list of Islamo crimes:

   1. Abducting school girls and selling them into slavery or forced marriage. 2. Perpetrating genocide on members of other religious ISIS style. 3. Pedophilia Rotherham style. 4. Homophobia. 5. Holocaust denial. 6. Killing or threatening to kill the authors and cartoonists you don’t like. 7. Making rape more or less legal.

   Moreover, most of the alleged crimes of the West cited by Bill are equally prevalent or even more prevalent in Muslim countries: unemployment and inequality for example.

   As for Bill’s claim that “that right and virtue is not an exclusive property of one side..”, that’s a straw man argument. OBVIOUSLY no side is 100% virtuous in any dispute. Hitler’s empire building efforts were not a 100 miles from Britain’s empire building over the last 300 years.

   And finally, as is entirely predictable, not one in thousand Western lefties who laud or make excuses for Islam actually choose to go and live in the Islamic part of Nigeria, Pakistan, etc. It’s a bit like West European lefties who lauded central economic planning Eastern Europe style in the 1960s: not one in a thousand chose to go an enjoy the wonders of central planning first hand in Eastern Europe.

7. It’s all so depressing.

8. Ralph Musgrave says:
   Friday, September 19, 2014 at 19:07

   Why do you post here Ralph? It makes no sense.

9. So succinctly impaired in a short space,John G,
   you could almost have said it was at the second ‘that that’ that that man
   said that,that did it for me
   but that would be just sick …sorry Ralph
   Have a good-one

10. So much is a matter of taste. While I certainly think beheadings are gross (and probably extremely painful), I also think botched lethal injections rank right up there, and I wonder if perhaps those who behead might agree with me. Of course the victims aren’t around to confirm or deny, and in any case, no one gets to try both to see which is better.

    I do know one thing however, and that is that it is pretty sick to drum up support for another adventure with America’s killing machine by showing a few beheading videos, when at the same time we recruit as a partner in that effort a country that has had 19 public beheadings this month alone.

    Of course, so much is a matter of taste.

11. Logic will never justify killing, no matter how perfect you think it (and maybe thus yourself) are. It is an illusion.

12. Seems everyone is talking about whistleblowers today.

    Are there adequate National Whistleblowers Unions yet?

    “You know how to be a whistleblower, don’t you JJ Sixpack? You just put your wits together and blow … that whistle.”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Ay727EYzw

    Is there an adequate National Whistleblower’s Union yet?

    NWU?

    http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-wheres-the-justice-at-justice.html?referrer=&_r=1

    @Thomas_Drake1 @JohnKiriakou @JamesRisen @djhask

13. ‘Little Wing’ is a neat little tune. Clapton’s take on it with Duanne Allman was somewhat overwrought but was still good. Stevie Ray’s version was faithful to Jimi but also added something cool to it. It truly is a masterpiece and a song that can absorb entire afternoons either jamming it or listening to the various versions of it.
    Excellent choice!

14. The videos are suppled by IS, in part because they want us to fight them.

15. For those interested in the ways in which Chelsea Manning thinks Isis should be dealt with, have a look at these articles.
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/16/chelsea-manning-isis-strategy
    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/16/chelsea-manning-criticises-obama-isis-strategy

    He doesn’t think bombing them into the stone age will work. I think he has a point. The right strategy will no doubt turn on a matter of nuance.

16. WTF are you talking about Ralph? What is your point? You remind me of faith-based Marxists from the Seventies who complained about anyone who dared to criticize the work of the great man and Marxists who lived in something other than a hovel, excluding themselves from this critique, of course. You seem to me to be spouting the same kind of nonsense.

17. Go easy on Ralph, you’d be in a bad mood too if the lefties in central planning had reassigned your party’s franchise the the chirpy new UKIP party.

18. “The Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) solution would be to start by diverting the billions spent on making bombs and weapons and sending troops into fights they cannot win into job creation and poverty alleviation programs.”

    Is this a MMT solution or a solution in your personal point of view?

    I actually totally agree with your point of view, but we cannot confuse what a theory tells us and what you tell us based on MMT theory and a lot of other theories and life experience.

    MMT is a theory based on facts, that tells a lot of things about currency and the financial system.
    A War On Unemployment is a personal political opinion about how to make the world a better place.

    We shouldn’t mix both and create confusion.

19. Andre,

    MMT goes beyond the accounting side. The whole PURPOSE is to prove that there are always enough real capital goods in an economy to employ everyone who wishes to contribute to gdp. I will concede that war may be one of those methods, but globally, war is the ultimate example of the broken window fallacy, and serves absolutely no greater purpose. Mass death and destruction in order to steal or secure a few cheap resources is one of the most disgusting traits humankind has.

20. Dear Andre (2014/09/20 at 6:21)

    An aspect of emphasis in MMT is that we can afford full employment and as a matter of efficiency should aim always for that state.

    Military spending creates aggregate demand but does not create full employment, especially in areas where the bombs are dropped.

    Further MMT is virtually alone in constructing the ageing demography story in terms of the need for strong future productivity growth to address the rising dependency ratios. It rejects the fiscal crisis angle of the mainstream narrative in this context. The path to future productivity growth is to create jobs, reduce poverty and invest in people and their education. That is the MMT solution.

    So a War on Unemployment, while resonating with my personal values, is core MMT and is wholly achievable once one understands the power of a currency and the way the financial system works.

    best wishes
    bill

21. Military spending creates aggregate demand but does not create full employment, especially in areas where the bombs are dropped.

    Depends on whether you are bombing away people or capital goods. Though, I’d suspect bombing away people reduces aggregate demand.
    One way to minimize the negative impacts of military spending is to go the Oskar Schindler route and not manufacture working bombs.

22. Hey Paul,
    re Friday lay,in truth in trying to keeping up with a ‘Pure Joy’ rhythm
    I took notes of Ralph’s beat to which by it’s end’s I’d written ‘that’s,that’s’,learnot,4real,as in ‘is this guy for real,at that,I then
    Hit John G’s comments a little reversed,remembered those ‘that’s,that’s again,so I began to scribble-out n 4,in
    also going over-time,
    I thought about ‘That’s again,and at ‘that (learreal) I went to comment to/and played with Ralph’s rhythm…anyway all in fun and now to be seen without full-stops and therefore no personal targets.drawn upon this label remix is centered to Reflect…Thanks
    another great article bill,Pure Joy……..Ralph

23. SteveK9 says:
    Saturday, September 20, 2014 at 2:17
    The videos are suppled by IS, in part because they want us to fight them.

    The videos are supplied by a very shady little company called SITE and its owner, one Rita Katz.

    It’s an interesting history they have. And interesting friends.