Foxy Lady

"Foxy Lady" (or alternately "Foxey Lady") is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from their 1967 album Are you Experienced. It can also be found on a number of Jimi Hendrix greatest hits compilations, including Smash Hits (1968/1969) and Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix (1997). The Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at #152 in their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

The song is best known for its repeated guitar riff using the thumb on the lower string in F#^{[citation needed][original research?]}, and solo^{[original research?]}, and is one of Hendrix's earliest uses of feedback in a studio recording. The song is also known for its use of the Hendrix chord^{[citation needed]}.

The US version of Are You Experienced (also released in Canada) listed the song with a spelling mistake as "Foxey Lady"^[1] and this is how it is still known among many USA fans and critics today.

The group had difficulties deciding how to end the song. Bass player Noel Redding claims that the last chord was his suggestion.^[2]

Hendrix commented on his own lyrics by saying that he did not approach women in such a straight forward manner as the lyrics might suggest ("You got to be all mine" etc.)^[3]

Covers

• Recordings
  • 1979 • The Cure • Three Imaginary Boys
  • 1989 • Roger Taylor's The Cross • Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
  • 1999 • ESP • Lost and Spaced
  • 2007 • ZZ Top • Live From Texas DVD (bonus track)
• Live performances
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers[1] and ZZ Top [2] sometimes cover this song live.
  • Paul McCartney occasionally plays this song after playing "Let Me Roll It"^{[citation needed]}
  • Guitarist Buckethead is known to play the song live as well as the song "Purple Haze"^{[citation needed]}
  • The song was covered by Mick Jagger with Jeff Beck live.
• Other
  • Is played frequently on G3 tours during the G3 jam^{[citation needed]}

Popular references

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• This song appears on the soundtrack for Gran Turismo 2.
• The live recording from Woodstock is available as downloadable content for the game Guitar Hero World Tour.
• Garth (Dana Carvey) is 'captivated' in a scene from the movie Wayne's World as "Foxy Lady" plays in the background.
• This song is played in an episode of Boston Legal.
• Part of this song played in the Family Guy episode "Brian Sings and Swings". A disgruntled neighboring family of a selfish Thomas Edison begs him to share his newly invented electricity as they are cold, but he merely insults their lack of genius and storms back into his well-lit house, blaring "Foxy Lady" on the stereo.
• In The Simpsons episode "Bart the Daredevil", Otto the Bus Driver hums the song into the radio on the drive to school after the stereo breaks.
• On the soundtrack for Purple Haze
• The title of "Family Guy" episode "FOX-y Lady" is a reference to the song.

References

1. ^ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/hendrix.guide/lifetime.htm
2. ^ Liner notes of Are You Experienced album, 1992 CD issue
3. ^ Liner notes of Are You Experienced album, 1992 CD issue

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