But if you leave your mojo out in the sun too long, you end up with a Mojo Raisin!
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Let's spread some musical misinformation
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But if you leave your mojo out in the sun too long, you end up with a Mojo Raisin!
There is a misconception here. Mr. Mojo is actually a type of bread that was popular in the South during the late 19th century, particularly among the blacks and creoles. Its popularity dwindled in the 20th century when it was linked to Voodoo worshipers. Mojo rising was a code meaning there would be a Voodoo ceremony that night, but meant to sound like praising the bread getting ready to bake. Jimi Hendrix's song Voodoo Child was a veiled song about Mojo bread. It was one of his favorites as it has some secret ingredients.
Voodoo Chile was about Jimi's run in with the black arts while on tour in South America. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) was about his second night playing in Santiago.
Jimi Hendrix didn't like his "Voodoo Chile (Full Return)", so it was returned to the studio and he/record label got his/its money back — they just met the 30-day limitation on the return policy so a full refund was issued.
Subsequently the tape was then recycled and used to record Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble's version of "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)", but the tape was left unlabelled and got mixed up with some others so SRV had to re-record the song on another tape.
Subsequently the "(Full Return)" tape surfaced again near the turn of the millennium, but was used (unwittingly) to record Bryan Ferry's rendition of the Cole Porter hit "You Do Something To Me", which contains the lyrical phrase "...do that voodoo that you do so well..." at which point if you play the Bryan Ferry track backwards you can hear Jimi Hendrix's backward-tracked solo from "Voodoo Chile (Full Return)" — but of course you then hear, albeit faintly, the solo as tracked in its natural FORWARD state...
The tape was stolen shortly thereafter, and is rumoured to have been smuggled to Haiti by the high-priestess of a voodoo cult, one "Seance Sean" the former bass player of Whyte Xombie, as a charm or totem in various rituals.
The cursed tape's current whereabouts now, are spectorulative at best...
Subsequently the tape was then recycled and used to record Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble's version of "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)", but the tape was left unlabelled and got mixed up with some others so SRV had to re-record the song on another tape.
Subsequently the "(Full Return)" tape surfaced again near the turn of the millennium, but was used (unwittingly) to record Bryan Ferry's rendition of the Cole Porter hit "You Do Something To Me", which contains the lyrical phrase "...do that voodoo that you do so well..." at which point if you play the Bryan Ferry track backwards you can hear Jimi Hendrix's backward-tracked solo from "Voodoo Chile (Full Return)" — but of course you then hear, albeit faintly, the solo as tracked in its natural FORWARD state...
The tape was stolen shortly thereafter, and is rumoured to have been smuggled to Haiti by the high-priestess of a voodoo cult, one "Seance Sean" the former bass player of Whyte Xombie, as a charm or totem in various rituals.
The cursed tape's current whereabouts now, are spectorulative at best...
Everyone knows MC5, the rock band, but few know that they are all members of the Greek intelligence service ΜΓ5 and have been spying on the US and sowing the seeds of dissent. The ultimate goal being the re-assertion of Athenian civilization.
A bunch of Irish lads smitten with Van Halen formed a tribute band, named it after a little-known track that was meant to be on the thus-far unreleased Van Halen III album (while the song has also yet to be released, it did lend its name to a more recent album release with Haggard singing).
After finding some success playing in their school cafeteria, this tribute act, known as "OU812" by their school-chums, pooled their resources and booked a small hall above a pub.
The singer couldn't remember the lyrics, the band couldn't play the riffs and it was a disaster with people walking out, so the singer started to ad lib —
"If you walk away, I will follow you..." and the band hit their instruments as hard as they could...
The marquis outside McDaid's had faulty lettering, and most of the letters/numbers fell onto the ground leaving the band's name with only one vowel and one numeral:
T R I B U T _ – B A N _
T O _ I G H T : " _ U _ _ 2 "
The rest as they say, is history.
After finding some success playing in their school cafeteria, this tribute act, known as "OU812" by their school-chums, pooled their resources and booked a small hall above a pub.
The singer couldn't remember the lyrics, the band couldn't play the riffs and it was a disaster with people walking out, so the singer started to ad lib —
"If you walk away, I will follow you..." and the band hit their instruments as hard as they could...
The marquis outside McDaid's had faulty lettering, and most of the letters/numbers fell onto the ground leaving the band's name with only one vowel and one numeral:
T R I B U T _ – B A N _
T O _ I G H T : " _ U _ _ 2 "
The rest as they say, is history.
The pub as it stands today, its faulty marquis sign replaced by a Guinness advert. The hall above is still available for rental.
You mean playing faster than The Shadows. But they didn't play very fast anyway, so not much of a challenge. Jet Harris left because he wanted The Shadows to become the first speed metal band, and Hank Marvin just looked blankly at him and asked him what metal was, as it hadn't been invented in 1962.
Little Richard and Little Stevie Wonder are second cousins coming from the Little family of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Voodoo Chile (slight return) is a misprint for Voodoo Chilli (slight return) and is about a spicy meal and it's after effects. My uncle related how Eric Clapton told him he and John Mayall recorded a song in a bathroom, which was officially for the acoustics, and not at all related to the previous night spent having a vindaloo at the Raj in Elephant and Castle.
And the whole time I thought it was Vindaloo Chili (slight rear burn).
