Talk:Purple Haze/Archive 1

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purple haze is one of the best jimi hendrix songs ive ever heard

I heard a rumor from somewhere that said that the purple haze was smoke bombs that they used in the Vietnam war. Can anyone back this up. RENTASTRAWBERRY  FOR LET?   röck  00:13, 2 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes. This is true.  They were used to mark helicopter landing zones.

Remove advert use and LSD reference
I think these should be removed, the use of the song in an advert is not relevant and the LSD paragraph, if true, needs a reference. LDHan 21:59, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with you on the LSD-thing, but how's the use of a song in a commercial irreleveant? -- [[Image:Weather rain.png]] Soothing R  22:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I cut the LSD bit, which is blatant crap. The advert, on the other hand, is justifiable as trivia. Deltabeignet 22:35, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Wait, isn't purple haze supposed to be marijuana? LSD isn't smoked... marijuana does create a sort of haze from its smoke. Plus, purple could be a reference to the color of THC crystals or the purplish color of south asian canabis plants, called Kush. Jolb 12:44, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, no. The commercial LSD made by Sandoz came in small purple gelatin capsules. It was widely believed in the 1960's that the song referred to LSD. Owsley Stanley stated that it did not refer to his LSD, and he manufactured "Monterey Purple".Pustelnik (talk) 18:00, 19 March 2011 (UTC) Pustelnik (talk) 23:23, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Another interesting fact
If you listen closely to the words that are spoken in the break for a small guitar interlude about in the middle of the song, theres a voice over top of guitar. Its muttered, can't completely figure out what it says, seems like a hidden message to me...anyway, intriguing.


 * Yeah; From the First Time I heard the Song, I've always wondered what the hell was being spoken. Think you'd have to do some effects; reduce the music. G.AC, 17 July 2006, 13:40.


 * Personally I would imagine its just studio talk

okay once and for all purple haze is a type of marijuana...actually the most common type of "exotic" type of weed on the market it is usally sold for $10-$20 for bags and half a vicks go for $60 vicks for $120 and ounce for $500 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.156.29.141 (talk) 15:24, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Contended lyric
'The song's lyric "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" has been widely misheard as "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy."'

Is there any specific source for which lyric is correct? I'd personally consider the latter more likely to be correct, given that Hendrix is reported to have faked homosexuality to be discharged from the U.S. Army (see Early life of Jimi Hendrix).

You can go to http://www.kissthisguy.com for other mis-heard lyrics.Pustelnik (talk) 23:14, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Alternatively, both could be correct, in the same way that Pharoahe Monch's appearance on Mos Def's 'Oh No' contains a lyric which is both ese and essay.

-- Sasuke Sarutobi 03:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Someone removed the entire mondegreen section stating that it was untrue in their comment. That is inaccurate, it is true, the real lyric is "Scuse me while I kiss the sky," but, Jimi Hendrix himself actually used the mondegreen as a joke in some live performances, which I added and cited.146.85.233.245 (talk) 01:19, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Original Lyrics
Anyone see the paper with the drafted lyrics on the album? Makes references to Jesus and fetus' and whatnot

Purple Haze in Other Media
I didn't put this on the main page because I can't remember exactly what the commercial was for. In the late 80s, probably early 90s, there was a commerical that said something like "Put on your 3D glasses" and it showed a gumball (actually was in 3D if you had the red/cyan glasses) while Purple Haze was playing. May have been for Nutrasweet???

Could be Nutrasweet. They mailed out millions of gumballs in the US as a promotion.Pustelnik (talk) 03:09, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

The commercial with the shaking red gumball in the late 80's was for Nutrasweet and it played Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze. It was a TOTALLY awesome commercial that was actualy in 3D if you had the glasses to wear! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monalisa2009 (talk • contribs) 05:19, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

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Bill Hicks
Sorry, but can I not add the fact that Bill Hicks used the song at the start and end of his shows in the trivia section? Seems every bit as relevant as the Bill Cosby part to me. Why was it removed? I'm putting it back up, if you're taking down again, at least leave a decent reason. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.42.194.3 (talk) 22:47, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

mostly because you are meant to be REMOVING trivia sections, not adding to them 86.140.189.88 (talk) 18:56, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Fair enough. In that case, why was The Bill Hicks refence removed and the Cosby one not? JackorKnave

tritone rewrite
As can be seen from the history page, I rewrote the use of the tritone in the song. The definition as it stood before may have been taken verbatim from the Wiki entry tritone. Be that as it may, in the tritone "popular music" section, the reference is in a more general context of the sound combination itself, not particularly of how it's used in this song. Shlishke (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 21:51, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Is the tritone commentary accurate? The famous E dominant 7 #9 does not contain a Bb. The dissonance in this chord is from the semitone interval between the sharp 9 and adjacent major third.

--Lucas gonze (talk) 23:22, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

The reference to the tritone interval is not talking about the E7#9 chord. It is talking about the two-note octave alteration at the very beginning of the song, just before the famous riff is played. This tritone observation used to confuse me when I was younger, because that part is single-note, but what it means is that while Jimi alternates between the two Bb notes, Noel simultaneously alternates between two E notes on bass; the distance between E and Bb is three whole steps, or a tritone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.157.80.4 (talk) 17:18, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

Purple Haze in culture
In one episode of "The Simpsons" (the one where the famous retired western actor was in) they were viewing old performances done by the retired actor and for some reason he did a detective role where he "did nothing but shoot hippies" and the name of the episode they viewed was entitled "'Scuse me while I kill the sky". I believe this could be added to the 'use in culture' section —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aldious465 (talk • contribs) 14:46, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Heavy Metal?
Seems to be a (minor) edit war about this. Why not speak your pieces here and we'll see where it leads. (John User:Jwy talk) 03:00, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

This song isn't heavy metal. For the ones who don't believe it, just listen to it yourself. It is hard rock only, not Psychedelic rock.Phymacheo (talk) 08:26, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Hendrix took LSD before this song was written
Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Cross refutes the statement that the earliest eye-witness-confirmed point in time at which Hendrix took acid is 6 months after the song was written. It's on the first few pages of Chapter 12, which are 130-133 in my paperback edition (that may be the only edition there is). On page 360, Cross cites personal interviews with Taharqa Aleem, Tunde-Ra Aleem, Diana Carpenter, Paul Caruso, Ed Chaplin, Billy Cox, Janice Hargrove, Richie Havens, Linda Keith, Mike Quashie, Bill Schweitzer, Danny Taylor, and Lonnie Youngblood as his sources for that chapter. I'm not very active on Wikipedia (I read, but don't contribute much, that is), so I don't know if I'm supposed to provide some sort of link or whatever, and I don't know how, either. If this comes down to a dispute, and I don't see why it should, I may need some minimal assistance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by24.116.171.29 (talk) 22:22, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Frank Zappa's Parody
Could someone please include a reference to Frank Zappas parody of this song, it was on the Album the best band you never heard. I would but I am not well versed in the rules of wiki formatting. please and thank you.

It reminds in climax of 'Walking the Dog'
By Rufus Thomas. Was he influenced? --213.16.180.66 (talk) 20:33, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Pre-16th century Purple Haze?
In Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en (1500-1582), chapter 26, 7th poem, the 1st part of the 1st verse also mentions a purple haze: 珠樹玲瓏照紫煙 I pasted it from the Wikisource: http://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E9%81%8A%E8%A8%98/%E7%AC%AC026%E5%9B%9E The whole poem is: 珠樹玲瓏照紫煙，瀛洲宮闕接諸天. 青山綠水琪花艷，玉液錕鋘鐵石堅. 五色碧雞啼海日，千年丹鳳吸朱煙. 世人罔究壺中景，象外春光億萬年.

the 1st part of the 1st verse (of four) is translated by W.J.F. Jenner as: Trees of pearls glowed with a purple haze.

Perhaps this could be mentioned under the heading "Lyrics", because Dickens is mentioned as well.

Rachid12051 (talk) 20:29, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

etymology
Of a related term: Apparently "lavendar haze" was 1950's slang for being in love, perhaps in the early (smitten) stage. I just heard it used in season 2 of Mad Men by a woman in California (in episode 12, "The Mountain King" in a flashback to before the series began, which would place it sometime in the 1950s). So there is some support for alternative use of the term... El duderino (talk) 02:51, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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