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Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
There are many different versions of this song so don't get put off if this doesnt go exactly
like your version. This is from the Are You Experienced cd and its the same as the music
video.
Even if the guitar plays a different version it still goes together.
Standard tuning.
Intro:
|---------------------|
|------12---------12--|
|---------------------|
|-10---------10-------| X2
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|--12-12-12-0-12-0---| X7 (slide up on the last time)
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|--7----7----------5------4-5-----|
|0---00---0----3-3---3-55---------| X5 (7 on A string on the last time)
|--------------7-12-----7-12-----|
|-----------/9-------/9----------|
|-/9--7--5-----------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|--7----7----------5------4-5-----|
|0---00---0----3-3---3-55---------| X3 (7 on A string on the last time)
|--------------7-12-----7-12-----|
|-----------/9-------/9----------|
|-/9--7--5-----------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------7------7---------|
|----7------7----------9------9------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------5-----5-5----5------|
|-5-----5-5---5------7----7-7----7---------------------------|
|----------------------|
|----------9999--------|
|-77777777------5555---|
|----------------------| X4
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|--12-12-12-0-12-0---| X7 (slide up on the last time)
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|--7----7----------5------4-5-----|
|0---00---0----3-3---3-55---------| X3 (7 on A string on the last time)
|--------------7-12-----7-12-----|
|-----------/9-------/9----------|
|-/9--7--5-----------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|----------------------|
|----------9999--------|
|-77777777------5555---|
|----------------------| Until song fades out.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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#1 by HammerOffFreak at Apr 7, 1994 at 4:37 AM EST |
| As a budding new band intent on making a go at a career, they found themselves in an all-familiar situation; a brand new record deal followed by a severe case of writer's block. Why is it inspiration ends when success is handed to you? This is about dealing with lack of inspiration when you most need it, and all of the distractions that can keep them from their goal. Everyone has ignored that "Cellophane flowers" is a direct reference to The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky." He's saying that he feels inspired lyrics don't come as easy to him as they seemed to come to one of his heroes, John Lennon. ("Cellophane flowers never happened for me") His role in life seems more about a day job than his chosen field - making music. The need for a day job to pay rent, along with other distractions... girlfriends ("She motions to me, I start turning away"), and alcohol ("Warming the blood flow with poison") are blurring his vision of his ultimate goal, and he finds himself back in the rat race instead of rising above it. ("You'd be surprised, how we race, While our lives, erased.") The song becomes its own irony in that it captures the frustration of writer's block so eloquently. | |
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