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I assume that a lot of interesting musicians, spanning different boundaries, would have wound up working with Hendrix. And because he was such a guitar virtuoso, I assume he would have been making important musical contributions for years, rather than the usual rock thing where a band/artist pretty much says what he/she/it has to say in the first 10 years.<br /><br />You are probably lucky to live in a state with such a large Asian population. The Asian section of Cleveland, where I can be served Chinese food in a restaurant that has large numbers of Chinese sitting inside it, is kind of a drive, and it's a rare treat. Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-13991078515517766872012-11-29T17:03:08.355-08:002012-11-29T17:03:08.355-08:00Yep, the thing with restaurants that serve spicy-p...Yep, the thing with restaurants that serve spicy-peppered food: the chef may vary the levels, even in the same restaurant, same chef. So the locally marketed hot salsa is more reliable. And now I buy different chillies and make my own salsas, experimenting. <br /><br />With chinese food, I love kung pao chicken. But what a dizzying variety of ways it's prepared! I've never been in one restaurant and said, "It's just like they make it over at Emperor Tsin's Palace." And I know the areas of China have something to do with it, but in general, you're right: they think business is harmed by serving stuff "too spicy," so I'd say EVERY time we go into a place that serves Far East cuisine, we have to read between the lines and let the waiter/waitress know we're not your average wussy white guy. Bring the heat!<br /><br />There's a kung pao chicken that features lots of peanuts and lots of whole red peppers on top. You have to ask for that; if you don't they'll give you White Guy's kung pao chicken, and it's tasty, but you don't get the endorphin buzz. It's not an event.<br /><br />Have you ever had an extraordinary experience with very spicy food?<br /><br />Re: Jimi: he's been such a presence in my life that I must agree: biggest loss of talent/pre-age-30 death in rock history. Still: his influence has been staggeringly huge, to this day. If I had to pick one guy alive now who was heavily influenced by Hendrix who, if someone asked who among the Hendrix guys to listen to, I'd point to Eric Johnson, although I've heard 10-15 guys who do the Hendrix "impression" better than Eric. Eric took off from Hendrix, and went in some directions I think Jimi would've gone in had he lived, like more jazzy open-voicings, a wider array but better control of effects, influence of sitar and other instruments, and a Bach violin influence. <br /><br />Stevie Ray Vaughan captured the flashy, bluesy, incendiary Hendrix really well, as did a far-lesser-known virtuoso named Randy Hansen, who did Hendrix impressions as his act for a long time, not sure if he still does. <br /><br />Who knows where Jimi was going to go with the experimental, multi-guitar layerings? He basically designed Electric Ladyland as a sorta 5th-circuit-inducing place to record. His dreamy, science-fiction-y stuff on Electric Ladyland, in headphones, is still a thrill for me. <br /><br />And I don't see how, if he'd lived, he could have avoided playing with Miles Davis at some point. It's easy to imagine Jimi playing on Bitches Brew, maybe along with McLaughlin. We all missed that.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-64735768260290981522012-11-29T14:19:15.523-08:002012-11-29T14:19:15.523-08:00I swear that when I started this piece, I thought,...I swear that when I started this piece, I thought, "I'm going to have to ask Michael about how to order food in a Thai restaurant, because the level of spiciness is the most important consideration." I try to hit the sweet spot, just below active physical pain.<br /><br />We have a Cambodian restaurant in the Cleveland area that is my favorite restaurant. I once went there with my wife and my son (she was my girlfriend then.) I ate so much food I thought I was going to be ill. My wife and my son hated it. They had to eat a turkey sandwich when we got home, but they took so much food home in boxes I got a second meal.<br /><br />Anyway, I had learned to order "medium spicy" in the place. (For those who don't know, "medium spicy" in a southeast Asian restaurant is hotter than "extra spicy" in any Chinese restaurant with a "white people" customer base.)<br /><br />It always came out perfect, except for the time when I ordered medium again and it was, horrors, only mildly spicy. When I complained, they explained that they got too many complaints the food was hot. But it screwed up my system for knowing what to order.<br /><br />About Hendrix: I guess all rock star deaths are sad, but Hendrix's seems like the most tragic I can think of. Given the depth of his talent and his wide range of interests, it's hard to think of what he might have tried if he'd lived. Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.com