| Notes and Quotes: "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" |
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| Hendrix: I really don’t care what our records
do as far as chart-wise. "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp,"
which everyone around here hated, only made number eleven in the charts.
They said that was the worst record, but to me that was the best one we
ever made. I don’t think that people really understood it. (notes to Jimi Hendrix:The
Ultimate Experience, page 16) |
| Hendrix: I wrote part
of that song on a plane between LA and New York. There are some very personal
things in there. I was feeling kind of down. But really have to catch
myself and find out. You go into different moods, and when you write your
mood comes through. You can go back and listen to your records and know
how you were feeling then. (ibid) |
| Hendrix: But I think
that everyone can understand the feeling that when you’re traveling, no
matter what your address, there is no place you can call home. The feeling
of a man in a little old house in the middle of a desert where he is burning
the midnight lamp. You don’t mean for things to be personal all the time,
but it is . . . . (ibid) |
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9 April, 2012
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