Writing about the Monterrey Pop Festival in 1967...

>is very outspoken about sexism in rock music
>writes the Vespertine review
>writes the Rid of Me review

Christgau pretended to be socially conscious just to get laid

Yeah Jimi's transformation mirrored the Beatles in a lot of ways in that he started out playing what was essentially 50s rock and roll/R&B and then started using drugs and the rest is history.

And it's sad that he died when he did because he never saw the dozens of younger black musicians he influenced, people like Eddie Hazel, Vernon Reid, Rick James, Prince, numerous black guys in metal bands who were never recognized, and more.

PJ Harvey: Rid of Me [Indigo, 1993]
>Never mind sexual--if snatches like "Make me gag," "Lick my injuries," and "Rub 'til it bleeds" aren't genital per se, I'm a dirty old man. And if the cold raw meat of her guitar isn't yowling for phallic equality, I'm Robert Bly, which is probably the same thing. She wants that cock--a specific one, it would seem, attached to a full-fledged, nonobjectified male human being, or maybe an array or succession of cocks, it's hard to tell. But when she gets pissed off, which given the habits of male human beings happens all the time, she thinks it would be simpler just to posit or grow or strap on or cut off a cock of her own. After which it's bend-over-Casanova and every man for him or herself. A

lmao, how did he get away with this?

>pretends to be socially conscious to get laid
>complains when other critics don't give unfairly high scores to women
>poptimist
>a literal cuck
was christgau the first numale?

I agree it was probably generational to an extent, the blacks who were already 20+ liked Motown kinds of stuff and didn't accept Jimi the way young kids did.

I don't like that kind of music, but Christgau has always been a huge fag.

He was a cuck, his wife didn't love him, and took out his hatred for good musicians by shitting on them.

>I'm glad later black rockers like Lenny Kravitz and Living Color avoided this bullshit.
'Hol up there. Vernon Reid started the Black Rock Coalition because he was upset at the lack of recognition given to black rockers. Guys like Fishbone and Lenny Kravitz said that whites were a bit ambivalent on them, blacks didn't like them at all, and record labels pressured them to play R&B. Many times a black rocker has said the label made them do it against their will. Rick James for example bowed to pressure from Gordy to not include guitar solos on his albums.

But all these guys wouldn't have been possible without Jimi Hendrix. Fuck, the poor guy just wanted to remind his own race of their musical heritage and they wouldn't even hear him out.

This guy is a musically illiterate hack, like the overwhelming majority of """""rock critics"""""

>used to have a comfy summer job as a crossing guard in high school
>geriatric fedora-clad /fa/ black guy would always speed by several times a day in a BMW convertible blasting Jimi and psychedelic Motown

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Well in the UK his main fanbase was the long hair crowd who were into prog and blues rock. The soul/R&B audience were a little more skeptical. As for myself, I don't care for Voodoo Child (his only #1 UK hit) at all.

The man was very talented as a guitarist but it's easy to see why the soul/R&B crowd (which I supposed in the US would have meant the black audience) wouldn't like him.

So is the same in the US. But like I said, the older R&B audience who were already in their 20s rejected him, but he was embraced by the upcoming generation of teenagers.

I dunno if it's generational or not 'cause there are a lot of people who just don't like loud, bombastic guitar solos, whammy bar rape, screaming vocals, that kind of thing. I think Christgau would have hated metal no matter what decade he was born in.

To a large extent, Funkadelic did the job of taking Jimi's sound and making it more appealing to black listeners particularly because a lot of blacks just couldn't get behind something as loud and abrasive as Voodoo Child.

Reminds me of my grandpa when he starts into one of his "Kids look so stupid these days" diatribes until I say "But Grampa, did you used to wear a conk back in '61"? I don't remind him he also used to jheri curl and braid his hair, which he denies doing.

And the next time he claims music today is stupid/obscene, I'll go and point out for him the Dominoes--Sixty Minute Man or Work With Me Annie or the Coasters all of whom were his musical heroes when he was a kid. The next time he says hip-hop is dumb, I could bring up Shopping For Clothes, but I don't.

what did any of this have to do with his actual playing. also, robert christgau is a literal cuckold.

Fuck, I hate Christgau

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In the late 70s-early 80s, jheri curls and braids were big among black dudes (think Rick James). It was just a new variation of the conk cut from 20 years earlier and lasted until hip-hop inspired fashions took over from the mid-80s onward.

Whenever a boomer tells you how degenerate music today is, you ought to point out all the dirty blues and R&B from olden days. Like, what generation did Richard Pryor, Nipsey Russell, Red Foxx come out of? They get completely stumped when you bring this up.

>about to post "well duh, Hendrix isn't black enough for him"
>read last sentence
>Psychedelic Uncle Tom
Fucking knew it. What a sad man. Will legitimately be very happy when he's dead.

Anyone heard how Jimi once opened for the Monkees?

>Michael Nesmith had gotten word of the still largely obscure Hendrix and asked their promoter to get him as an opening act
>Jimi gets on stage and starts playing
>the 10 year olds in the audience start yelling for Davy Jones and manage to confuse the words in Foxy Lady as being Foxy Davy
>he quit the tour after a few shows and said "I fucking hate the Monkees."

>it's like always been this badman
No.
youtube.com/watch?v=FzG4uDgje3M

It wasn’t. BOG was formed because Hendrix was REALLY, REALLY bad at business, and he had to record that album to clean it all up.
Hendrix signed an exclusive contract with someone before Chas Chandler signed him and took him to London.
As they always do when someone like that becomes famous, lawyers got involved. The original contract holder was trying to claim all of JH’s earnings under Chandler for themselves as was only right under the previous contract.
It was eventually settled that Jimi would record ONE album for them. That album would be theirs, and would settle his obligations under the old contract, leaving him free to go on under the new recording deal.
BOG was that album, which is why it was released on Capitol (who had bought the rights to Jimi’s old contract), while all of his other albums were on Reprise.

The version I heard was that he got pissed off at the screaming kids, unplugged his guitar, flipped them off, and stormed off stage.

That was the gig that the Daughters of the American Revolution and concerned parents complained about. This was supposed to be a family-friendly event and Jimi's reputation had kind of preceded him. His manager used the uproar to get publicity for the group. They also used the complaints as an excuse to get thrown off the tour since they knew the audience was a bunch of grade schoolers there for the Monkees. The kids who did get to see Jimi performing undoubtedly got an eyeful of something they hadn't seen before and he may have even made some new fans at those shows.

>And it's sad that he died when he did because he never saw the dozens of younger black musicians he influenced, people like Eddie Hazel, Vernon Reid, Rick James, Prince
Nile Rodgers

Christgau's always been an asshole. Lester wrote rings around him.

Even when he gives something a positive grade, he still insults it for most of the review.