Talk:Foxy Lady/Archive 1

2006 comment
Definitely needs to be organized TheDavesr 00:06, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Foxy of foxey?
Seems to me that the song name is supposed to be spelt without an "e". Pictures of album back covers that I found on the web were all spelt without an "e" and mentions that it was incorrectly spelt with an "e" on the US version of Are you experienced.—Vadmium 05:35, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

On the back of "Are You Experienced?" [UK] it is spelt without an E. However, when you insert the CD into a computer it automatically is called "Foxey Lady". In the dictionary it is spelt "Foxy", but who knows?! Personally I'm for Foxy.

This is true. There is no 'e' in 'foxy'. But the way things are working today on the 'Niki Wiki' this will take at least years to fix. JW has a layer of apparatchiks under him today he's not aware of.

The reason it comes up with "Foxey" when you insert the cd is because that data is pulled down from the CDDB where it is spelled incorrectly. The correct spelling is Foxy. Wikipedia is not for propogating typos made by the first person to enter the data into the CDDB. Changing name and reference. Octothorn 06:06, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * The article is currently inconsistent, using one spelling for the title, and another to start the first sentence. That's not ideal; which spelling should we go with? -GTBacchus(talk) 19:35, 7 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I'm changing it to 'foxy' - it seems to be the general consensus. Im.a.lumberjack 22:33, 11 April 2007 (UTC)


 * It is known both ways. I changed it to say both, which is a Wikipedia convention. --Trweiss 20:09, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * However, most people I know (being from the US and a Jimi fan) spell it as Foxy - it's not a US thing. Edited appropriately. --Garykempen 3 Sept 2008  —Preceding undated comment was added at 22:09, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

IT'S FOXEY!
Why does anyone even consider it being called "Foxy?" It's without a doubt foxey! i have the album, and it's spelled foxey!!!$!@#$!@%#QW"DOF —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.198.114.127 (talk) 02:58, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, in the US, it is spelt "foxey", but that doesn't make it correct.  R ad io pa th y  •talk•  03:07, 29 September 2010 (UTC)

Sampled by Travis on As You Are
Surprised nobody has mentioned that the beginning of the song in used in the middle of As You Are by Travis. It's a little pitch shifted if I recall correctly. I'd add it to the article myself, but it's my own OR so far as I cannot find it online anywhere. -- But | seriously | folks   22:40, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Dominant Seventh Sharp Ninth Chord?
"After the amplifier is allowed to feed back, Hendrix slides down to the rhythm figure, which uses a dominant seventh sharp ninth chord, a jazz and rhythm and blues-style chord, often referred to as the "Hendrix chord".

I'm pretty sure this is incorrect. "Purple Haze" and "Spanish Castle Magic" utilize the dominant seventh sharp ninth chord but not "Foxy Lady". The main riff in "Foxy Lady" is based over a minor seventh chord (F#m7), not a dominant seventh sharp ninth chord. The inversion of the chord that Hendrix uses in "Foxy Lady" sounds very similar to a dominant seventh sharp ninth chord but is missing the major third. Hendrix hits the root note (F#) on the low string and then follows up by simultaneously hitting the seventh (E) and the minor third (A) on the high strings. The major third is the only different note between a minor seventh chord (m7) & a dominant seventh sharp ninth chord (7#9).

The reference to the "Hendrix chord" in the biography by Harry Shapiro only mentions "Purple Haze" as using the chord, not Foxy Lady. Furthermore it can be seen in video footage of live renditions of the song that Hendrix is fingering an inversion of an F#m7 chord.

According to this article on the Fender website it states that the chord is "implied" in Foxy Lady. This I believe is fair to say but only if the song is considered to be in F# major as this scale has the major third.

"The chord is also implied throughout “Foxey Lady”, which appeared alongside “Purple Haze” on the U.S. version of the landmark debut album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1967’s Are You Experienced."

Phaze 5 (talk) 04:44, 11 November 2017 (UTC)