So I was listening to Jimi Hendrix last night and one of the songs I ran over was the instrumental "Third Stone From the Sun" in which he utters the line ". . . Your people I do not understand, so to you I shall put an end, and you'll never hear surf music again. . ."
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I've heard the story about the line supposedly alluding to Dick Dale having cancer(?) and the opinion that it was just sort of opening people's eyes to their sins of abandoning surf or something. Does anyone really know anything else about the line? Did he mean anything in particular or ever explain afterwards?
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Posted on Sep 09 2006 11:39 PM
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Posted on Sep 10 2006 02:57 AM
that has been subject of a lot of debate and speculation. Ferenc gave the winning answer in this thread when I posted this pic Ferenc responded — Rules to live by #314: |
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Posted on Sep 10 2006 04:15 AM
That's pretty hilarious, and entirely reasonable. Silly ol' Jimi, always dropping guitars and abandoning genres as a result and then talking about it on his records. |
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Posted on Sep 10 2006 06:25 AM
Rules to live by #314: |
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Posted on Sep 10 2006 10:57 AM
Dick likes to tell the story that Jimi said that quote about him. Buy Endless Drummer @ Bandcamp |
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Posted on Sep 11 2006 02:37 PM
I heard somewhere that Jimi used to attend Dick Dale's shows back when Jimi was a "nobody." Here's a link to an MP3 excerpt from that recording with the out-takes. It's pretty funny. |
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Posted on Sep 11 2006 02:48 PM
man he sounds like he's baked there. Ferenc, anyone, Jeff(bigtikidude) —Jeff(bigtikidude) |
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Posted on Sep 11 2006 04:35 PM
I have heard them do 1983 a merman I... but I don't know about third stone. As you know, the Insects play a few bars of it in their song "Third Stone" fd —Buy Endless Drummer @ Bandcamp |
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Posted on Sep 11 2006 07:31 PM
I've heard that the Mermen at least partially took their name from 1983. . . Is that also true? |
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Posted on Sep 11 2006 10:29 PM
Could Jimi Hendrix see the future? OK... Yes I am kidding by this... I just think that people have been reading too much into this... I'm surprised that noone has brought up the 3rd stone version that is on the Hendrix box set that came out about 4 or 5 years ago... It has a line that might make a difference to how everybody is looking at this topic... Right after the "Never hear surf music again" line in the song... So... It's a lie when he says that you will never hear surf music again.... Cheers! P.S. Here's a transcript of what he says on the box set version... (Note there are 2 failed attempts at reciting this on the recording before the start point of this transcript... they sound pretty stoned... imagine that... Ha!) Star fleet to scout ship, please give your position. Over. are you getting all that Jimi Strange beautiful grass of green, Although your world wonders me, That sounds like a lie to me |
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Posted on Sep 11 2006 10:59 PM
Whew! That's a relief. Thanks Fez, I was starting to get genuinely worried. |
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Posted on Jun 28 2007 02:20 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Buy Endless Drummer @ Bandcamp |
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Posted on Jun 28 2007 03:00 PM
I didn't think it was possible to break a Jaguar. |
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Posted on Jun 28 2007 03:42 PM
classic! —Rules to live by #314: |
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Posted on Jun 28 2007 03:42 PM
My band covers Third Stone without all the cool space talk. I just say one line from the song slightly changed, I love Jimi but that always bothered me. I am glad to know he really didn't mean it. —Is that too much reverb? |
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Posted on Jun 28 2007 05:37 PM
I don't Jags burn too well. Not as nice as a strat. The Mighty Surf Lords- Sparks,Nv. |
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Posted on Jun 28 2007 06:45 PM
Actually, with this context - which I'd never heard before - it's simply a line in a song. It needn't have any more meaning outside the song than any other line in the song, e.g., as suggested, we might ponder the sense out of context of "your majestic and superior cackling hen." The visitor likes the scenery and dislikes mankind, but notes that if he should destroy them, then "You'll never hear surf music again." Given Jimi's phrasing, I'd guess he doesn't mean that if he destroys man no one else will hear man's "surf music" again, but rather that if he destroys man, man will never hear "the music of the surf again." |
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Posted on Oct 05 2008 01:39 AM
Just found this video - apparently the earliest one known to exist - of Jimi playing a Jazzmaster. Even in a big soul band, you could tell that's him on guitar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaIxswG7d84&feature=related —Danny Snyder I am now playing trumpet with Prince Buster tribute band 'Balzac' Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF |
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Posted on Oct 05 2008 02:47 AM
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Posted on Oct 05 2008 10:43 AM
I'm sure Jimi was getting too much attention and Little Richard was supposed to be the star of the show. —Danny Snyder I am now playing trumpet with Prince Buster tribute band 'Balzac' Playing keys and guitar with Combo Tezeta Formerly a guitarist in The TomorrowMen and Meshugga Beach Party Latest surf project - Now That's What I Call SURF |
Thanks for posting that. 
Did you know that Jimi played guitar for Little Richard :lol:? That guy was an A$$ Hole, apparently he thought that he was a better musician, and performer, so he fired Jimi Please visit our friends in the surf music community:
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