Now here's how you endorse an album
Among Amazon's massive $5 mp3 album sale this month, there's Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys live set. My only purchase from the sale is Lily Allen's Alright, Still, but the Hendrix album gets this reader review.
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[5 stars] Machine Gun – Tay Ninh Province Vietnam 1969, June 15, 2000
By old hombre (Colorado) – See all my reviews
This review is from: Band Of Gypsys (Audio CD)Imagine hearing this album for the first time on the ear-plug "mono" headphones of a battery operated Panasonic mini reel-to-reel tape recorder. Now imagine that that annoying background noise spoiling the mood is from exploding Viet Cong 122mm rockets while you're hunkered down, cold, hungry, and wet from that incessant goddamn monsoon rain. But you're smiling at every riff 'cause you know Jimi knows what you're thinking. Maybe you're surrounded by living hell, but somehow…THIS MAKES YOU SANE! It's been 30 years since I first "experienced" Band of Gypsies. Nothing else will ever come close to having the same meaning to this old 'Nam vet.
