I didn't know you were a Hendrix fan, Mick. Oh yeah. I find Band of Gypsys so preferable because of its sparse sound, more soulful rhythms and (as you said), the live, "echoey" vibe. Yeah, well, as Frusciante says in the interview I've posted, since Hendrix was in a bad mood that night, his anger really comes out in his playing and adds something to the music.
"Somebody told me when the bomb hits, everybody in a two mile radius will be instantly sublimated, but if you lay face down on the ground for some time, avoiding the residual ripples of heat, you might survive, permanently fucked up and twisted like you're always underwater refracted. But if you do go gas, there's nothing you can do if the air that was once you is mingled and mashed with the kicked up molecules of the enemy's former body. Big-kid-tested, motherf--ker approved."
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