The rock’n’rollers soon adopted the idea, though, and upped the financial stakes. It made Hendrix not just a star in the US but the high priest of onstage destruction, and set a countercultural precedent for instrument obliteration. (The resulting fireball charred his hands and had an emcee rushing to extinguish the flames.) Reviewers dubbed him the “Black Elvis”, and when he repeated the stunt at the Monterey Pop Festival two months later in an attempt to follow The Who’s stage-trashing antics, an iconic photo was taken that would come to define the wildfire creativity and untamed attitudes of the era.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience were closing their support set for The Walker Brothers, with a new song called “Fire”, when Hendrix took a guitar drenched in lighter fluid, laid it down centre stage, and struck a match.įifty-five years ago today, this scorching act raised Hendrix to a new level of Sixties rock mythology. Their inebriated nature never detracts from the power or brains behind their music, which is filled with brilliant little shifts and intricacies.īetween … Trail of Dead’s mayhem and Queens of the Stone Age’s muddy wailing, Club Laga will host the best rock show of the year on Friday.On 31 March 1967, as the flames shot four feet into the air from the strings of Jimi Hendrix’s guitar, it looked, to the stunned crowd at London’s Finsbury Park Astoria, like part psychedelic shaman ceremony, part pyromaniac on the loose. Queens of the Stone Age make sludgy, heavy, drugged-out prog rock from the middle of the desert.
Songs for the Deaf is another one of this year’s standout rock releases, an excellent follow-up to 2000’s Rated R, the masterwork that brought them into the limelight. They also teamed up with ex-Screaming Trees vocalist Mark Lanagan and A Perfect Circle’s Troy Van Leeuwen. On the new record, Queens of the Stone Age put together an all-star lineup, consisting of ex-Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters founder Dave Grohl, who pounds those drums like it was 1991. With their newfound major label success, …Trail of Dead landed themselves on tour with stoner rock vets Queens of the Stone Age, who released their third studio album, Songs for the Deaf, just last week. This frenzied demolition has gotten them banned from many clubs around the country. More importantly, they’re well-known for destroying their instruments. … Trail of Dead is also well known for their intense live performances. Source Tags and Codes is an epic, vigorous and compelling album, easily one of this year’s best releases.
With the February release of Source Tags and Codes, their major label debut, …Trail of Dead, established themselves as more than just an indie rock guitar-smashing brigade with nifty album art, but as one of the greatest young rock bands in America today. One of these bands, from Austin, Texas, is …And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead. And for the first time in a while, there’s a slew of intelligent, energetic and arty rock bands that actually rock on the forefront of the music scene. You just needed to look a little harder to find it. Sure, it may have needed a kick in the rear, but it was always there. By now all those critics and so-called “music connoisseurs” have shut their mouths about rock being dead.
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