The Last Bass Outpost

Sigh, Alanis Morissette has wreaked havoc with a whole generation of female singers. 

But I actually like her version, overwrought vocals or not.

I get the impression she is totally a free spirit. She refuses record contracts and still sometimes busks in Berlin whenever she feels like it, despite now playing to audiences all over the world.  But even Kierkegaard would have been better off with an editor.  And even Hendrix listened to Chas Chandler's advice on how to streamline "Little Wing" down to its pure essence.  Sometimes vocal coaches, managers and producers can be helpful even to those who are really talented.  

I like the Quatermass one even better.

The Quartermass version is definitely good and a lot of people seem to like it.  But the Rainbow version evokes a certain mood which appeals to me a little more. 

That Fat Mattress (which like Jethro Tull also had flutes and foppish band members) never received recognition for their contribution to heavy metal continues to be baffling.  BTW, Hendrix called them "Thin Pillow."

Kim Shattuck's courage was something to be greatly admired.  Amazing how she was able to complete that album and also keep her illness from people.  It looks like she did everything the right way and way better than most could have done. 

Not for the music per sé
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A disclaimer that I should have probably also put on the video I posted.  It's necessary to really stretch the boundaries in looking for EB-0/EB-3 & SG variant basses. 

Bob Babbitt also played on some of the controversial Jimi Hendrix albums that Alan Douglas produced in the 1980s.  Douglas had studio musicians overdub much of the music.  Babbitt is on part of the Crash Landing album and on all of the Midnight Lightning album.  Albums like these were popular especially with people who weren't even very familiar with Hendrix in the first place, but the majority of the fans were critical of Hendrix's original music being tampered with.  I don't really have an opinion because those albums are hard to find and I've never even listened to them.  I'm a Hendrix completist but these are fairly rare recordings that even I don't have.  I've just shelled out $60 for the BOG Fillmore East CD set coming out next month, though, which is standard procedure for me.  I buy anything like that that's available.