This week I’m taking a break from the truly bizarre to have a short visit with the only moderately bizarre. So if you’re looking for something that sounds like a vacuum cleaner motor in distress, you may be disappointed. On the other hand, if you’re a huge Jimi Hendrix fan and are easily upset with less than respectful covers of his hallowed material? Well, you won’t be disappointed. Or maybe you will. Or something.
Anyway, guitarist Marc Ribot has been putting his sideways spin on music for decades now. When Rootless Cosmopolitans first came out, it was the originals that blew me away. The covers (including a completely busted take on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”)? They made me laugh.
And so here is a recently live version of Ribot and Ceramic Dog playing “The Wind Cries Mary” as a post-apocalyptic, blistering funk. Sure, it sounds nothing like the original. Is that what you were expecting?
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