Jimi Hendrix — Red House
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There's a red house over yonder
That's where my baby stays
Lord, there's a red house over yonder, baby
Oh, that's where my baby stays
I ain't been home to see my baby
In ninety-nine and one half days
Wait a minute, something's wrong here
The key won't unlock this door
Wait a minute, something's wrong
Lord, have mercy, this key won't unlock this door, something's going wrong here
I have a bad, bad feeling
My baby don't live here no more
That's alright, I still got my guitar
Look out, now
Well, I might as well uh, go on back down
Way back upon the hill
Lord, I might as well go back over yonder
Way back yonder 'cross the hill
Guess if my baby don't love me no more
I know her sister will
That's where my baby stays
Lord, there's a red house over yonder, baby
Oh, that's where my baby stays
I ain't been home to see my baby
In ninety-nine and one half days
Wait a minute, something's wrong here
The key won't unlock this door
Wait a minute, something's wrong
Lord, have mercy, this key won't unlock this door, something's going wrong here
I have a bad, bad feeling
My baby don't live here no more
That's alright, I still got my guitar
Look out, now
Well, I might as well uh, go on back down
Way back upon the hill
Lord, I might as well go back over yonder
Way back yonder 'cross the hill
Guess if my baby don't love me no more
I know her sister will
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There's a slightly different version of this on Smash Hits that I think I prefer over this one. They're both great, though.
jules44 wrote:
The ladies in my pottery studio aren't diggin' this.....
bruceandjenna wrote:
Find a new studio.
Or find new ladies ;)
This one blows right by 11 to at least 23.
This entire album is pure gold!
Mopping the floor as this is playing. Not sure it's going to be cleaner, but it makes doing it a lot more fun!
nutrod42 wrote:
I thought the inference from 99.5 days was that he's been in prison for that time and thus unable to go home to his baby. I assumed that the sentence was not to exceed 100 days, so the judge made it 99.5. "Baby" apparently didn't bother to visit him in prison during that time so he doesn't know that she moved out.
Maybe my inference of a prison scenario is all in my head, but I thought I read sometime long ago that that was the idea. I'm getting old enough that nonsensical imaginings and what is reality regarding the past is becoming blurred.
Mr. Hendrix, given the fact that you haven't been home to see your baby in 99 and one-half days, do you really feel like you have the right to continue to call her your "baby"? It's no wonder she moved. And as to your confidence that her sister will love you, I happen to know that your baby and her sister are now living together and dating an accountant and a lawyer, respectively.
I thought the inference from 99.5 days was that he's been in prison for that time and thus unable to go home to his baby. I assumed that the sentence was not to exceed 100 days, so the judge made it 99.5. "Baby" apparently didn't bother to visit him in prison during that time so he doesn't know that she moved out.
Maybe my inference of a prison scenario is all in my head, but I thought I read sometime long ago that that was the idea. I'm getting old enough that nonsensical imaginings and what is reality regarding the past is becoming blurred.
On_The_Beach wrote:
It does indeed. Thanks for pointing that out.
Nice pic, sfyi2001!
Looks like Jimi just sawed off one of the cutaways on a right-handed Strat (copy) to access those high frets.
It does indeed. Thanks for pointing that out.
Sound sucks, the music transcends. SRV, knock yourself out.
The real KING !!
jules44 wrote:
Get thee to a pot studio instead. That may induce some diggin'.
The ladies in my pottery studio aren't diggin' this.....
Get thee to a pot studio instead. That may induce some diggin'.
dwlangham wrote:
Well, now you know why he had to shoot his woman down, down on the ground. Not nice, but I heard it going down.
Is he happy or in misery? Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on him
Well, now you know why he had to shoot his woman down, down on the ground. Not nice, but I heard it going down.
Is he happy or in misery? Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on him
Oh no!
My speaker caught fire!
My speaker caught fire!
nutrod42 wrote:
Well, now you know why he had to shoot his woman down, down on the ground. Not nice, but I heard it going down.
Mr. Hendrix, given the fact that you haven't been home to see your baby in 99 and one-half days, do you really feel like you have the right to continue to call her your "baby"? It's no wonder she moved. And as to your confidence that her sister will love you, I happen to know that your baby and her sister are now living together and dating an accountant and a lawyer, respectively.
Well, now you know why he had to shoot his woman down, down on the ground. Not nice, but I heard it going down.
The live track that equals or surpasses the studio version. What few beside Jimi has ever had a prayer of that? Someone on RP, writing about another JH track, had the temerity to say he was an overrated guitarist. Play this until your ears bleed, bro.
Textbook slow walking blues. Don't get no better. Is there an 11 ...
So fine ! Loved it in 69......still moves me
bruceandjenna wrote:
Spoken like someone with no understanding of history. Doomed to repeat it, as they say.
BTW, you do know that all of us here listen to RP, a mixture of old and new.
Old, recent, and new...
Spoken like someone with no understanding of history. Doomed to repeat it, as they say.
BTW, you do know that all of us here listen to RP, a mixture of old and new.
Old, recent, and new...
You can know it was a 1-in-a-million musician when the 'live' version is at least as good and often better than the original studio track. Jimi was one of those 1s.
Bill, the lyrics to Red House need some serious revisiting. I can send you needed editing if you like.
Much love brother.
Much love brother.
You know he and the song were exceptional when the live, raw version is equal to or better than the studio trickery track.
nutrod42 wrote:
Mr. Hendrix, given the fact that you haven't been home to see your baby in 99 and one-half days, do you really feel like you have the right to continue to call her your "baby"? It's no wonder she moved. And as to your confidence that her sister will love you, I happen to know that your baby and her sister are now living together and dating an accountant and a lawyer, respectively.
John Hiatt had it in Real Man - early '80s I think from the album Warming Up to The Ice Age - "Get no shocks from your computer program come on and rock with a real man". He wasn't talking about the difference between affection for Hendrix and something sort of similar for lawyers and accountants but he might have been. Papernapkin wrote:
Spoken like someone with no understanding of history. Doomed to repeat it, as they say.
BTW, you do know that all of us here listen to RP, a mixture of old and new.
If your fav list is made up of mostly dead people, maybe it's time to find new music.
Spoken like someone with no understanding of history. Doomed to repeat it, as they say.
BTW, you do know that all of us here listen to RP, a mixture of old and new.
jules44 wrote:
Find a new studio.
The ladies in my pottery studio aren't diggin' this.....
Find a new studio.
martinc wrote:
Just music from a master. Lucky you.
Saw Jimi at the Bank Street theatre, I think 1969. He said he was having equipment troubles and was going to jam on a new song that had been working to work on the kinks. This was the song he played. It was an old theatre. Subway trains were coming out of his amp. Junk of the ceiling were falling down. That was my first rock and roll concert.
No glowing cell phones swaying to the music, as if detached from their humans? No laser lights and smoke? No beams of light searching the crowd like a prison yard?Just music from a master. Lucky you.
lyndonwatkins314 wrote:
This is my all time favourite Hendrix track, soooooo good, Red House
sfyi2001 wrote:
SEATTLE'S own ~
SEATTLE'S own ~
Sasha2001 wrote:
Maybe there's room in the pantheon for more than one master...
Not on Jimi's throne.
Maybe there's room in the pantheon for more than one master...
Not on Jimi's throne.
Dosequis wrote:
Maybe there's room in the pantheon for more than one master...
This guy is ok. The real Master is Jeff Beck !!
Maybe there's room in the pantheon for more than one master...
k3rmit wrote:
Jimi Hendrix is way better then the blues I agree with you I did never understand the blues but I do understand Jimi Hendrix song like the
red house.
If you don't understand the blues, then listen to "Red House" until you do.
Jimi Hendrix is way better then the blues I agree with you I did never understand the blues but I do understand Jimi Hendrix song like the
red house.
If you don't understand the blues, then listen to "Red House" until you do.
Nice pic, sfyi2001!
Looks like Jimi just sawed off one of the cutaways on a right-handed Strat (copy) to access those high frets.
Looks like Jimi just sawed off one of the cutaways on a right-handed Strat (copy) to access those high frets.
SEATTLE'S own ~
Ms_E_Smith wrote:
Yes, definitely. My 10
C'mon... The Best!!!!
Yes, definitely. My 10
Almost 50 years later, still mind blowing.....
C'mon... The Best!!!!
SchoepTone wrote:
Nice joke
This guy is pretty good on the guitar. Is he new on the scene?
Nice joke
IDEAL BLUES : )
This guy is pretty good on the guitar. Is he new on the scene?
JIMI
Ya mean there use to be guitar players that could play mind bending, hypnotic, melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, dissonance, trippy music that could get you "high"?
Nah....that never happened. If it really did, you would see today's bands continuing the tradition, wouldn''t ya?
Nah....that never happened. If it really did, you would see today's bands continuing the tradition, wouldn''t ya?
The ladies in my pottery studio aren't diggin' this.....
Is this like the "hit single" version? I don't recall hearing one anywhere near this short - this clocks in at under 4 minutes! I guess he felt like making this one short and to the point.. it's still great, but let's hear the man jam!.
Thanks. Love this song.
Peter_Bradshaw wrote: ........ luv it a lot so for me 10
I'd give it 11
........ luv it a lot so for me 10I'd give it 11
Excellent! He left us way too early...
Great song, indeed. The best rendition I know of appears on his difficult to find live album Hendrix in the West. .That rendition is incendiary.
10 times 10 to the tenth.
unclehud wrote:
No, it's just a reminder that we are (I am) old. There are quite a few new artists on my iPhone, but they're outnumbered by Stones, Doors, Zep, Beatles, Humble Pie, Mountain, Greg and Duane, Little Feat, Ella, Coltrane, Miles, Frank, Bing, Mozart, Brahms, ..... and Jimi eff'in Hendrix.
Oh unclehud - were I to have the capacity to write prose in such a manner that simply states fundamental commonsense. You have eloquently consigned 'napkin to his / her place. I was merely tempted to yell "@#$% off". My only criticism is that you had not included Borodin, Saint-Saens, Holst and of course, Beethoven. All power to you.
No, it's just a reminder that we are (I am) old. There are quite a few new artists on my iPhone, but they're outnumbered by Stones, Doors, Zep, Beatles, Humble Pie, Mountain, Greg and Duane, Little Feat, Ella, Coltrane, Miles, Frank, Bing, Mozart, Brahms, ..... and Jimi eff'in Hendrix.
How simple-minded to believe that music by dead people no longer has value.
Oh unclehud - were I to have the capacity to write prose in such a manner that simply states fundamental commonsense. You have eloquently consigned 'napkin to his / her place. I was merely tempted to yell "@#$% off". My only criticism is that you had not included Borodin, Saint-Saens, Holst and of course, Beethoven. All power to you.
Man that sound gets the haze moving again!
Let there be no doubt that the man was a genius with a guitar.
Let there be no doubt that the man was a genius with a guitar.
Thank you, wow. I needed to hear this just now. :)
........ luv it a lot so for me 10 martinc wrote:
That is pretty f' ing awesome.
Saw Jimi at the Bank Street theatre, I think 1969. He said he was having equipment troubles and was going to jam on a new song that had been working to work on the kinks. This was the song he played. It was an old theatre. Subway trains were coming out of his amp. Junk of the ceiling were falling down. That was my first rock and roll concert.
That is pretty f' ing awesome.
thewiseking wrote:
Jimi and Johnny Winter were the best at this, hands down.
Johnny's still at it, although walking through it wounded. Playing tonight in Columbus. https://concertful.com/concert/johnny-winter/ Dosequis wrote:
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Hmmmm....three chord blues...OK.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Hmmmm....three chord blues...OK.
Papernapkin wrote:
If your fav list is made up of mostly dead people, maybe it's time to find new music.
No, it's just a reminder that we are (I am) old. There are quite a few new artists on my iPhone, but they're outnumbered by Stones, Doors, Zep, Beatles, Humble Pie, Mountain, Greg and Duane, Little Feat, Ella, Coltrane, Miles, Frank, Bing, Mozart, Brahms, ..... and Jimi eff'in Hendrix.
How simple-minded to believe that music by dead people no longer has value.
This guy is ok. The real Master is Jeff Beck !!
Jimi and Johnny Winter were the best at this, hands down.
I think this compilation - Blues - is probably the best overall collection of Jimi's music. I listen to it a lot.
thank you psd, for this gift from Heaven! (squelched off Decemberdreks)
"I know her sister will"... So dodgy, but hey, boys will be boys 
Pure, basic, stripped-down blues rock from a master of the genre. Unbeatable. 9 from the bluesy Nottingham jury.
Oh yeah! This one following Ben Harper who did really a good cover of Red House. Not a ten like this one, but a solid eight. Listen to Ben Harper and Relentless7 @ Montreal International Jazz Festival 2009.
+
martinc wrote:
And if you can't appreciate great music just because the musician has passed away, I feel sorry for your limited taste.
Yes, the mathematics of the situation say that there are more dead musicians than live ones. So, a varied collection should have more dead artists than live ones. If it doesn't, go back and find what artists inspired the ones you like. I heard Henry Rollins give a shout-out to Mississippi Fred McDowell. *mind blown*
And if you can't appreciate great music just because the musician has passed away, I feel sorry for your limited taste.
Yes, the mathematics of the situation say that there are more dead musicians than live ones. So, a varied collection should have more dead artists than live ones. If it doesn't, go back and find what artists inspired the ones you like. I heard Henry Rollins give a shout-out to Mississippi Fred McDowell. *mind blown*
"There's a Red House over yonder" ... and the goosebumps rise.
'Cause if my baby don't love me no more I know her sister will .................
Aaaaaaaaaaaah!
another terrific song from Jimi. Bluesy and rock and acid-rock and jazzy.
Oh, I can hear Jimi.
Papernapkin wrote:
And if you can't appreciate great music just because the musician has passed away, I feel sorry for your limited taste.
If your fav list is made up of mostly dead people, maybe it's time to find new music.
And if you can't appreciate great music just because the musician has passed away, I feel sorry for your limited taste.
Jimi ...
Another artist whose albums were different depending on the country of release. This was on the English version of Are You Experienced but not on the American. We were robbed back then. Better albums overseas and better quality vinyl. The Beatles are another example of this back then, too.
Another artist whose albums were different depending on the country of release. This was on the English version of Are You Experienced but not on the American. We were robbed back then. Better albums overseas and better quality vinyl. The Beatles are another example of this back then, too.
What a relief to listen to this after Roy Harper. Gather round for Hendrix, Harper fans!
One of the few versions of tunes that are markedly better live than studio — and in the case of this one, that's really saying something.
Saw Jimi at the Bank Street theatre, I think 1969. He said he was having equipment troubles and was going to jam on a new song that had been working to work on the kinks. This was the song he played. It was an old theatre. Subway trains were coming out of his amp. Junk of the ceiling were falling down. That was my first rock and roll concert.
C'mon, Bill! I'm tryin' to get out the door for a bite, and I'm now fairly starving 'cause I can't turn you off!
Jimi sounds so fine here!!
Jimi sounds so fine here!!
kurnatovsky wrote:
No just that time when you were open to new things — which was more than 50 years ago.
The greatest rock and blues guitarist of all time.
No just that time when you were open to new things — which was more than 50 years ago.
If your fav list is made up of mostly dead people, maybe it's time to find new music.
The greatest rock and blues guitarist of all time.
That's alright, I still got my git-tar...
Epic
Epic
Can't you offer a special 'plus 10' category? You know, for the Wolfgangs and Birds of the world, whose light shines twice as bright but only half as long?
For those of us who actually heard Jimi in concert, live, we will carry that experience of hearing and seeing until we are dust in the wind. When Jimi was jumping with the 82d Airborne, it's said that he would go out the door singing some screaming tuneless tune .... Ah, he is with the Gods of Music now dancing and making music on the Eternal Congo Square.
Thought this was 'Smokin Joe' to begin with... very similar sound. 9 here.
9 for now
Very nice!
The_Seeker wrote:
I have to agree with you. I don't like the term "genius"; I think it's been overused. But I really think Jimi Hendrix deserved the label.
Jimi was an alien - the only explanation I have for that otherworldly playing.
I have to agree with you. I don't like the term "genius"; I think it's been overused. But I really think Jimi Hendrix deserved the label.
coloradojohn wrote:
Some drink from a cup, some drink from the trough, and some just jump right in to the sea of being and splash around and get it all over the rest of us and make us remember them like no one else. Jimi's voice and fingers can reach across time and space anytime we put this on AND CRANK IT! Thanks, Bill!
Bill, you'd better never wait 4 years to play this again.
Ah 1969 again. Say Jimi at the Bank Street Theatre in Ottawa. Said he was having equipment problem and wanted to jam it out to fix things up and he broke into this song. Chunks of the ceiling were falling down, subway trains were crossing the stage, what the hell kind of craziness was this. Fantastic!
This is the song where Jimi prooves that he can play the blues with the best of them. It is up there with the songs of BB King,Muddy,Wolf and Buddy Guy!
11
Da Bomb. Essential blues rock 101.
OK. That's it. So now I'm officially proved to have no clue about music whatsoever! - I really and honestly was NOT aware that Hendrix actually able to do GOOD music! o.O
"Look out, baby"!
Illustrates the pretenders........
drtjdel wrote:
Nope. Born Under a Bad Sign. The best electric blues ALBUM ever.
Oooo...tough call. Bad Sign or Redhouse. That's an argument that could last until the wee hours over many Beers!
Rickvee wrote:
The greatest electric blues tune EVER.
Nope. Born Under a Bad Sign.
The greatest electric blues tune EVER.
Oh Baaaaaby - CHILLS
Some drink from a cup, some drink from the trough, and some just jump right in to the sea of being and splash around and get it all over the rest of us and make us remember them like no one else. Jimi's voice and fingers can reach across time and space anytime we put this on AND CRANK IT! Thanks, Bill!
plutodazed wrote:
There is no way to rate this below a "10." Just an awesome tune that Jimi made his own.
Agreed with the first part, but this tune was Hendrix's. He wrote it.
This is the only song that I remember the first time I heard it and where I was at that moment. It blew me away. I think because I could tell how much more it was than just another 12 bar blues tune.
that's allright i still got my guitar
A while back, a band named "Mona's Gravy" did an admirable job playing this in a St. Cloud bar. After ripping out this song, some douche-bag from St. Johns (a private, cake eating college two towns over) screamed out, "play some Jimi Hendrix".
Just another of a long line of anecdotes depicting how clueless and sheltered those who go to private schools can be.
And now, forever more, I will think of this ridiculous moment every time I hear this song.
Isobel wrote:
I think I'm finished listening to it.
Never thought the day would come. ::sigh::
That's too bad...keep listening for the magic, it's still in there!
''Wait a minute, something's wrong..''
He was just soooooooo good playing straight blues.
I love this version so much more than the other one that usually appears on reissues of Are You Experienced... Jimi's solo on here is so much more fiery and undiluted by that echo effect on the other.
This version is the one that was on my Dad's old (mono!) UK version of the Are You Experienced LP.
Jimi was an alien - the only explanation I have for that otherworldly playing.
this is great....thanks...I've been listening to Peter Green all day, what a wonderful transition...
THE BEST BLUES/ROCK SONG EVER!!!!!
ScottN wrote:
IMO the best version of this is on a Brit published live album called "Hendrix in the West". If I could find a CD of it, I'd offer it to RP.
I could be wrong, but much of what was on that "In the West" album (one of my favorites waaaay back in the vinyl day) is on the 4-CD box that came out a couple of years ago...it's just called "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" and is the one with the purple velvet-like stuff on the box lid. It's one of the best box sets I have...brilliant stuff!
Purple Haze - Red House = Real Blues
There is no way to rate this below a "10." Just an awesome tune that Jimi made his own.
I like Jimi, Led Zeppelin, and the "Fab Four",
I can't even being to describe how much ass this kicks. He also has a version on Blue Wild Angel that freakin' rips.
IMO the best version of this is on a Brit published live album called "Hendrix in the West". If I could find a CD of it, I'd offer it to RP.
You know, the first 5,000 times I heard this song, I loved every minute of it. It is genius, after all. But at this point in my life, approximately 30 years after I first heard it, I think I'm finished listening to it.
Ditto Stairway to Heaven. Never thought the day would come. ::sigh::
crowhog2000 wrote: 
JIMI
I agree !!!!!! 
ploafmaster wrote:
I agree that everyone gets an opinion. My opinion is that anyone that does not think that this is the Quintessential Blues Song is an idiot. There. You have my opinion.
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Hey Mungo (yeah, I said that on purpose) - Don't hassle people for rating low! I rated this high, but DON'T CALL SOMEBODY AN IDIOT FOR STATING AN OPINION!
And what the heck do you mean by defending a defenseless position in public? It's an opinion! Or did the entire world just decide that certain people's opinions count for fact now?
Get off your high pretentious horse and let people rate songs how they want, and comment how they want (as long as there's no insult-hurling like Mungo here).
I agree that everyone gets an opinion. My opinion is that anyone that does not think that this is the Quintessential Blues Song is an idiot. There. You have my opinion.
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This guy is ok. The real Master is Jeff Beck !!
Give me a break, who the fuck are you?