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The Jimi Hendrix ExperienceXXXXXXXX

SONG TITLE: HEYXXXX JOE ALBUM: N/AXXXX RELEASED: 1966XXXX LABEL: TRACK/POLYDORXXXX GENRE: ROCKXXXX

PERSONNEL: JIMIXXXX HENDRIX(GTR) (GTR + VOX) NOELXXXX (VOX)REDDING (BASS) MITCHXXXX (BASS)MITCHELL (DRUMS) XXXX (DRUMS) UK CHART PEAK: 6 UKUS CHART PEAK: N/AXXXX US CHART PEAK: XXXX

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BACKGROUND INFO NOTES

TheXXXX Jimi Hendrix Experience’s version of ‘Hey Joe’ It could all have been so different. Mitch got the was their first single and helped launch them in the Hendrix gig on the toss of a coin (Aynsley Dunbar UK. The Hendrix sound was born complete from was the loser on this occasion). Mitch had previously the start in this power trio that featured the energetic been a ubiquitous session musician and also featured drumming of the late Mitch Mitchell. in the Rolling Stones’ doomed 1968 Rock ‘n’ Roll Circus film where he played in the ‘Dirty Mac’ supergroup that also featured John Lennon on guitar THE BIGGER PICTURE and vocals and Keith Richards on bass. After the death of Hendrix, Mitch kept the flame alive with Hendrix’s signature riffing and chord play rest on tribute gigs and produced some of the immediate the firm foundations of Mitchell’s confident, tight and posthumous releases. He was the last member of the fast groove work. This perfectly complements the Experience to die, in November 2008 aged 61. ’s passion and trickery as well as driving what is a fairly repetitive song along at breakneck pace. This interplay between them set the pattern RECOMMENDED LISTENING for much of what followed in the band’s first album and tracks such as ‘Red House’ and ‘Fire’ stand out 1967’s Are You Experienced contains more as much for the stickmanship as the guitar playing. classic tracks than most artists’ entire greatest Mitchell, like many British drummers of the time, was hits collections, among them: ‘Foxy Lady’, ‘Manic heavily jazz-influenced. Depression’, ‘Red House’ and ‘Fire’. The 1968 follow up, Axis: Bold As Love is equally stacked, boasting Hendrix had huge respect for Mitch’s abilities and ‘Little Wing’, ‘If 6 was 9’ and ‘Spanish Castle Magic’. liked to record guide tracks in the studio with Mitch Electric Ladyland was the last release with the original and no-one else which explains the tightness of the lineup and contains ‘Voodoo Child (Slight Return)’, interplay on the recordings. ‘Crosstown Traffic’ and their sublime cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘All Along The Watchtower’. Rockschool Classics Drums Grade 5 Rockschool Classics Drums Grade 17 Hey Joe

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Words & Music by Billy Roberts

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Metallica

SONG TITLE: MASTER OF PUPPETS ALBUM: MASTER OF PUPPETS RELEASED: 1986 LABEL: ELEKTRA GENRE: METAL

PERSONNEL: (GTR + VOX) KIRK HAMMETT (GTR) (BASS) (DRUMS)

UK CHART PEAK: N/A US CHART PEAK: N/A

BACKGROUND INFO NOTES

‘Master Of Puppets’ is the lead single from the Tennis’ loss is music’s gain. Lars Ulrich, an third Metallica album of the same name. This classic upcoming tennis pro from Denmark, placed an ad for early-period Metallica song features their signature a band in a local Californian newspaper in 1981 that fast, tight riffing underpinned by a syncopated drum was answered initially by James Hetfield. The heart groove full of rhythmic variation and lightning quick and soul of the band is essentially the creative rivalry accented snare stabs courtesy of Lars Ulrich. At more between these two giant personalities, both masters than eight minutes in length, the full version of the of their game. The tracks on Master Of Puppets reveal song is an intense workout requiring power, control just how talented a player Ulrich is: speed, accuracy and stamina. and power are all within his compass and he has complete control of rhythmic variations, changes in time signature, syncopation and groove displacement. THE BIGGER PICTURE He hardly ever plays the same groove without some form of development and it is this rhythmic interplay Master Of Puppets was Metallica’s first album for behind the riffing and powerplay out front that makes a major label and was followed by their first tours Metallica’s output of this period so compelling. outside of the US. The effect of major label input was instantly noticeable: a more polished sound and greater songwriting inventiveness than seen on the RECOMMENDED LISTENING records immediate predecessor (1984). Despite having no radio play and no video Master Of Puppets is replete with releases, the album notched up over 500,000 in sales classics, including ‘Battery’, ‘Welcome Home in the US alone and was a hit with both fans and (Sanitarium)’, ‘Disposable Heroes’ and ‘Damage, Inc.’ critics. Metallica entered the big league with a record Master was followed by …And Justice For All (1988) that many consider the best metal album of all time. and then by the monster that is the Metallica (or In recent years, at several live shows, the band have ‘Black’) album of 1991 that features ‘’ treated their audience to a performance of Master Of and ‘’, after which the band was Puppets in its entirety. one of the biggest on the planet. Rockschool Classics Drums Grade 5 Rockschool Classics Drums Grade 25 Master Of Puppets

Metallica Words & Music by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton & Kirk Hammett

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