It’s called Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau:
The version of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, Land of My Fathers, was discovered on the end of a dusty eight-track tape which had languished for years in a forgotten tea chest in a north London recording studio. Experts believe the ear-rattling rendition may be Hendrix as the track appears on the end of a recording by a group which features a friend of his. He is believed to have been in London when the tape was made. And it does sound rather like him.
You can listen to it online here. (via FunkFiles)
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I can’t find any “controls above” to click on so I can hear it.
Rob: the tune starts to play automatically when I go to the page. Perhaps turn up your speakers?
Doh! Thanks, Barry. Sure enough, somebody turned the speakers off. Sounds like Jimi to me.
Just two other examples of anthems, performed by creative people:
– Albert Ayler – The Marseillaise , cfr. his record ” Nuits de la Fondation Maeght”, full force. http://www.ayler.supanet.com/
Ayler was the Hendrix of the saxophone.
– Abdullah Ibrahim, http://www.abdullahibrahim.com/intro.html ( great site, by the way, just have a look) : much calmer South African Pianist, formally known as Dollar Brand.
Made an attempt to create anthems for the new African states ( “Anthems for the New Nations”)
Sorry, but this is not Hendrix. Anyway a good sound, is there more?
Not Hendrix. Hendrix would have used more fuzz, had more obvious rhythm, used less scales and pinches, and judging by the 1970 year, had more funk. . Just some things I would observe comparing this to Hendrix music. Listen to First Rays of the New Rising Sun if you want to see the direction Jimi Hendrix was going in. This definitely wasn’t it.
When I say less scales I mean that the crazy stuff would not have just been long runs in the same scale. He would have been more creative. See Voodoo Child, Villanova Junction, Star Spangled, etc.
If anyone wants the recording, I got it, let me know, I’ll check tomorrow …
you got the recording? where’d you get it? we’re gonna sue yer ass!
It sounds like Van Halen, but no Hendrix… I mean, Hendrix using the ‘tapping’ technique?!
I think the recording has too much delay, and a more modern sound that one would expect from Jimi. It doesn’t sound from the 70’s, but from the 80’s.
I really want it to be Hendrix, because next time we play New Zealand at the rugby and they come out with their meant-to-be- intimidating HAKA ritual, we can just blast ’em with Jimi, like “is that all you got”?
No way is that Hendrix. The tone is wrong, the vibrato is all wrong and done with exactly the same warble all the way through the song, Hendrix would vary it much more. The whammy bar technique suggests something from the locking-tremelo era, i.e. late 70s onwards.