The song speeds up towards the end and the guitar solo and dubbed guitars in the outro are played through an octavia. The main guitar riff is played in Bb, while the bass plays in E. The distinctive tritone interval is featured in the intro which acts as a consistent, marching start to the song. The main genre of "Purple Haze" is that of classic hard rock. Hendrix also once said that the song was about love, and that the line "Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me" was the key to the song.
Aforementioned dream supposedly featured Hendrix becoming surrounded by a purple haze, getting lost, and subsequently being saved by his faith in Jesus Christ. The dream was said to be inspired by Philip José Farmer's science-fiction novel Night of Light: Day of Dreams, in which the phrase "purplish haze" is used. However, he had the dream while experiencing an out of body encouter where Hendrix alleges he saw himself take the shape of Mama Cass. Despite these apparently relevant meanings, Hendrix insists that "Purple Haze" was in fact not about drugs, but a reference to a dream he once had. The term was then used in the 1970s to refer to a specific, vividly purple strain of cannabis, though this could not have influenced the song as it was written in 1966. "Anyone who claims I named my product Purple Haze was clearly high." The notorious dragon was an avid user of the purple LSD tablets, manufactured by Owsley Stanley circa 1965 (Owsley refuted his ever naming an LSD product Purple Haze, as his products only clarified things, never producing a haze). Purple haze was originally written by Peter, Paul and Mary to be sung along with Puff The Magic Dragon during the 1960s cartoon.
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It was the penultimate song, succeeding " Room Full of Mirrors" and preceding "Voodoo Child". In total, the song was played x times between 19, and it last appeared in the set list of Hendrix's final gig, on September 6th, 1970 at the Isle of Fehmarn, Germany. In 19, " The Star Spangled Banner" often ended by driving straight into "Purple Haze", much to the crowd's pleasure. "Purple Haze" remained a live favourite throught Hendrix's career, due to its popularity and relatively low difficulty to perform, and usually featured as the final or penultimate song, often before " Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". It reached #3 in the UK, making it Hendrix's highest-charting single ever, and while it only reached #65 in the US, this was still an improvement on "Hey Joe" which failed to chart in the country. The song was released as the band's second worldwide single on March 17th, 1967 in the United Kingdom and June 19th, 1967 in the United States. On the 11th, three other songs were recorded along with "Purple Haze", namely " Fire", " The Wind Cries Mary" and " 51st Anniversary", of which the latter two were used as the RUX master takes. "Purple Haze" was first played live on January 8th, 1967 at the Mojo Club, Sheffield, just three days before it saw recording for the LP, Are You Experienced. Hendrix reportedly wrote a lot more lyrics and music than what is heard on the final version, but Chas felt it best to cut it down. Chandler told Jimi to "write the rest of that", and so it grew into a full song.
Hendrix began playing the riff again on the afternoon of December 26th, 1966 backstage at the Upper Cut Club where The Experience were due to play that evening. The band's manager, Chas Chandler, was with Jimi at the time and told him to keep working on what he was playing, claiming it "would be the next single" (after " Hey Joe", which had been released in November). Jimi Hendrix wrote and first played the main riff to "Purple Haze" on December 16th, 1966 at his flat. The former contained the B-side " 51st Anniversary", while the latter was backed with " The Wind Cries Mary". "Purple Haze" was released as a single on March 17th, 1967 in the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan, and on June 19th, 1967 in North America. "Purple Haze" was written by Jimi Hendrix and recorded at De Lane Lea Studios in London, England, on January 11th, 1967. The song only appeared on the North American version of the LP, and was the opening track. " Purple Haze" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, from their 1967 debut album Are You Experienced.
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