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About This Track
“Little Wing” is played using the unique chord/melody guitar style that Hendrix developed during his early career stints in rhythm and blues bands. In this style, the guitar sounds as though it is playing two parts. This is done by simultaneously playing multiple complementary notes, often parts of chords, and then changing a note within the chord to create a melodic effect. Other songs played in this style include “Life Without You” by Stevie Ray Vaughan, “Rainbow Eyes” by Rainbow, “The Boy From Seattle” by Steve Vai, “Yellow Ledbetter” by Pearl Jam, and “Under the Bridge” by Red Hot Chili Peppers. The unusual flanging sound of the lead guitar part is a result of the Doppler effect which is created using a rotating speaker cabinet, or Leslie speaker.
The studio version features a glockenspiel playing the root note of the chords.
A song by the same name appeared on Neil Young’s 1980 album, Hawks & Doves, but is a different song entirely.
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alfie_noakes Liquid music
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oldiesfanjohn "Take anything you want from me..anything..fly on by"...song for me was too hard to play on guitar,should be left only for Jimi, Duane Allman and SRV to be playing together in music Heaven!... Wow,could you see that trio jamming?!!!
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rolsroyse don t lets get carried away now...! ! !
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rhez77 Yeah this is definitely not the studio version. I'm pretty sure it's off an LP I have called Hendrix in the West. It says it's at the San Diego Sports Arena
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rhez77
This is one of my favorite live versions <3
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RussellChap One of the greatest rock songs ever recorded...
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AnotherKoshka sosososososoooo good. gah.
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EssexNightClubs Lovin it!
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sprocket11 Is there anything better? NOT.
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Roy1968Wood Axis:Bold As Love is Jimi's best album. They are all great but this was his best!
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gregcobra No word ! Absolute perfection !
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wutangmaster Jimi: “…it’s based on a very, very simple Indian style… I got the idea like when we were in Monterey and I was just lookin’ at everything around. So I figured that I take everything I’d see around and put it maybe in the form of a girl or somethin’ like that, you know, and call it ‘Little Wing’, and then it will just fly away. Everybody’s really flyin’ and they’re really in a nice mood, like the police, and everything was really, really great out there. And so I just took all these things and put them in one very, very small matchbox, you know, into a girl and then do it. It’s very simple, but I like it though…” (From an interview in a Swedish paper January 1968:)
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BorisTheBlade19 Not good...Brilliant. It's alright she says, take anything you want from me. Fly on Little Wing
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itsnotoveryet27 so romantic and so yearning
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lyonfreitas damn I luv this track.... [2]
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PsychoKitty2279 damn I luv this track....
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oldiesfanjohn
the standard...that intro..one of his best!
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SaintVitus-fan Jimi's songs said everything they needed to in the length he gave them.
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kalian gorgeous
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DonkeyKongJr13 one of the coolest guitar intros ever
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