Foxy Lady
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"Foxy 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 Hendrix
's greatest hits compilations, including Smash Hits (1968/1969) and Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
(1997). Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at #152 in their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.
The song is well known for its guitar riff, which alternates between the bass G♭ and its octave, which Hendrix played with his thumb on the second fret, and the ringing E–A dyad
at the fifth fret. The bass line is based on the blues scale in G♭, a key more often associated with jazz than rock. The song is one of Hendrix's earliest uses of feedback
in a studio recording. It is also known for its use of the so-called "Hendrix chord
", the dominant 7#9.
The United States version of Are You Experienced (also released in Canada) listed the song with a spelling mistake as "Foxey Lady" and this is how it is still known among many North American fans and critics today.
The group had difficulties deciding how to end the song. Bass player Noel Redding
claimed that the last chord was his suggestion.
Hendrix commented on his own lyrics by saying that he did not approach women in such a straightforward manner as the lyrics might suggest.
The song was used in Wayne's World
in a daydream scene where Garth Algar pelvic thrusts
his way towards his "dream woman" working at Stan Mikita's Donut Shop.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience were an English-American psychedelic rock band that formed in London in October 1966. Comprising eponymous singer-songwriter and guitarist Jimi Hendrix, bassist and backing vocalist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, the band was active until June 1969, in which...
from their 1967 album Are You Experienced
Are You Experienced
Are You Experienced is the debut album by English/American rock band The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Released in 1967, it was the first LP for Track Records...
. It can also be found on a number of Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
's greatest hits compilations, including Smash Hits (1968/1969) and Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix is a greatest hits career-spanning compilation of Jimi Hendrix's best known music from 1966 to 1970 released on September 16, 1997, in the United Kingdom and on November 3, 1998, in the United States....
(1997). Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at #152 in their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.
The song is well known for its guitar riff, which alternates between the bass G♭ and its octave, which Hendrix played with his thumb on the second fret, and the ringing E–A dyad
Dyad (music)
In music, a dyad is a set of two notes or pitches. Although most chords have three or more notes, in certain contexts a dyad may be considered to be a chord. The most common two-note chord is made from the interval of a perfect fifth, which may be suggestive of music of the Medieval or Renaissance...
at the fifth fret. The bass line is based on the blues scale in G♭, a key more often associated with jazz than rock. The song is one of Hendrix's earliest uses of feedback
Audio feedback
Audio feedback is a special kind of positive feedback which occurs when a sound loop exists between an audio input and an audio output...
in a studio recording. It is also known for its use of the so-called "Hendrix chord
Hendrix chord
In music, the dominant 79 chord is sometimes known colloquially as the Hendrix chord or Purple Haze chord, nicknamed for guitarist Jimi Hendrix...
", the dominant 7#9.
The United States version of Are You Experienced (also released in Canada) listed the song with a spelling mistake as "Foxey Lady" and this is how it is still known among many North American fans and critics today.
The group had difficulties deciding how to end the song. Bass player Noel Redding
Noel Redding
Noel Redding was an English rock and roll guitarist best known as the bassist for The Jimi Hendrix Experience.-Biography:...
claimed that the last chord was his suggestion.
Hendrix commented on his own lyrics by saying that he did not approach women in such a straightforward manner as the lyrics might suggest.
The song was used in Wayne's World
Wayne's World (film)
Wayne's World is a 1992 American comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris and starring Mike Myers in his film debut as Wayne Campbell and Dana Carvey as Garth Algar, hosts of the Aurora, Illinois-based Public-access television cable TV show Wayne's World...
in a daydream scene where Garth Algar pelvic thrusts
Pelvic thrust
The pelvic thrust is the thrusting motion of the pelvic region, which is occasionally used in sexual intercourse.-Dance:Pelvic thrusts can also be used as a dance move, often as part of bump and grind. It is explicitly referred to in the song "Time Warp" from the 1970s The Rocky Horror Picture Show...
his way towards his "dream woman" working at Stan Mikita's Donut Shop.
Covers
- Recordings
- 1967 • Black MerdaBlack MerdaBlack Merda is an American rock band from Detroit, Michigan, active from the mid 1960s to the early 1970s and reuniting in 2005. They are considered to be the first all black rock band...
- 1968 • The Human BeinzThe Human BeinzThe Human Beinz is an American rock and roll / frat rock band from Youngstown, Ohio. Originally known as The Human Beingz, the band initially featured John "Dick" Belley , Joe "Ting" Markulin , Mel Pachuta and Gary Coates -Early career:The Beinz started in 1964 as The Premiers, launching their...
• Nobody But MeNobody But Me"Nobody But Me" is a song written by O'Kelly, Rudolph and Ronald Isley, and first recorded by The Isley Brothers in 1963. The most commercially successful and widely known version was a 1968 US top ten garage rock hit by The Human Beinz.-The Isley Brothers:... - 1968 • Booker T. and the M.G.'s • Soul LimboSoul LimboSoul Limbo is the eighth album by Booker T. & the MGs, released in 1968 on Stax Records. The album was the first Stax LP issued after the label severed its ties with former distributor Atlantic Records in 1968....
- 1979 • The CureThe CureThe Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member...
• Three Imaginary BoysThree Imaginary BoysThe album included an uncredited, final instrumental track informally called "The Weedy Burton". The fact was not acknowledged until the Deluxe Edition re-issue.-2004 Deluxe Edition:... - 1989 • Roger Taylor'sRoger Meddows-TaylorRoger Meddows Taylor , known as Roger Taylor, is a British musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the drummer, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of British rock band Queen. As a drummer he is known for his "big" unique sound and is considered one of...
The CrossThe CrossThe Cross were a side project of Queen's Roger Taylor that existed from 1987 to 1993 and released three albums. Although the drummer in Queen, Taylor fronted The Cross as rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist. On its debut release, the classic rock band incorporated dance influences which they...
• Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know - 1991 • Blue CheerBlue CheerBlue Cheer was an American psychedelic blues-rock band that initially performed and recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s and was sporadically active until 2009...
• Dining With the SharksDining With the SharksDining With the Sharks is the ninth studio album by American blues-rock band Blue Cheer. It features a cover of Jimi Hendrix's classic "Foxey Lady".-Track listing:#"Big Noise" – 4:51... - 1999 • ESPEric Singer ProjectEric Singer Project is an American rock band. ESP was founded in the 1990s by Eric Singer, drummer for such acts as Lita Ford, Black Sabbath, Badlands, Alice Cooper, and Kiss, along with it with Bruce Kulick on guitar, John Corabi on guitar and bass, and Karl Cochran on guitar and bass...
• Lost and Spaced - 2002 • Harry ManxHarry ManxHarry Manx is a musician who blends blues, folk music, and Hindustani classical music. He was born in the Isle of Man where he spent his childhood and now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia, Canada....
• Wise and OtherwiseWise and Otherwise"Wise and Otherwise" is a board game published by WiseandOtherwise.com Inc. The game includes a game board, six pawns, and a set of cards containing the beginnings and ends of obscure proverbs, shown on opposite sides of the cards.- Gameplay :... - 2007 • ZZ TopZZ TopZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
• Live From TexasLive From TexasLive from Texas is a live DVD/Blu-ray by ZZ Top. It was recorded on November 1st, 2007 at the Nokia Theatre in Grand Prairie, Texas and released on June 24, 2008 via Eagle Rock Records...
DVD (bonus track)
- 1967 • Black Merda
- Live performances
- 1993 • Paul RodgersPaul RodgersPaul Bernard Rodgers is an English rock singer-songwriter, best known for his success in the 1970s as a member of Free and Bad Company. After stints in two less successful bands in the 1980s and early 1990s, The Firm and The Law, he became a solo artist. He has recently toured and recorded with...
• The Hendrix SetThe Hendrix SetThe Hendrix Set is a live EP by Paul Rodgers of Free and Bad Company fame. Released 2 November 1993, The Hendrix Set consists of covers of five of Jimi Hendrix's songs... - 1998 • Popa ChubbyPopa ChubbyTed Horowitz , who plays under the stage name of Popa Chubby , is an American electric blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.-Life and career:Born the son of a candy store owner, at age thirteen Horowitz began playing drums; shortly thereafter, he...
• The Jimi Hendrix Music Festival - Red Hot Chili PeppersRed Hot Chili PeppersRed Hot Chili Peppers is an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles in 1983. The group's musical style primarily consists of rock with an emphasis on funk, as well as elements from other genres such as punk, hip hop and psychedelic rock...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffGpPy23wMk and ZZ TopZZ TopZZ Top is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "That Little Ol' Band from Texas". Their style, which is rooted in blues-based boogie rock, has come to incorporate elements of arena, southern, and boogie rock. The band, from Houston Texas, formed in 1969...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyJi0CG0nps sometimes cover this song live. - Lenny KravitzLenny KravitzLeonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...
covered the song at the Rainforest Benefit Concert on 19 May 2006. - Paul McCartneyPaul McCartneySir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
occasionally plays this song after playing "Let Me Roll ItLet Me Roll It"Let Me Roll It" is the last track on side one on the Paul McCartney & Wings album Band on the Run. The song was seen by critics as a pastiche to John Lennon's sound, particularly the riff and the use of tape echo on the vocals. McCartney, however, never claimed the song was intended as a pastiche...
" - Guitarist Roy BuchananRoy BuchananRoy Buchanan was an American guitarist and blues musician. A pioneer of the Telecaster sound, Buchanan was a sideman and solo artist, with two gold albums early in his career, and two later solo albums that made it on to the Billboard chart. Despite never having achieved stardom, he is still...
occasionally played this song after playing "Hey JoeHey Joe"Hey Joe" is an American popular song from the 1960s that has become a rock standard and as such, has been performed in a multitude of musical styles by hundreds of different artists since it was first written. "Hey Joe" tells the story of a man who is on the run and planning to head to Mexico...
" - Guitarist BucketheadBucketheadBrian Carroll , better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi instrumentalist who has worked within several genres of music. He has released 34 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists...
is known to play the song live as well as the song "Purple HazePurple Haze"Purple Haze" is a song written in 1966 and recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It appeared on their 1967 album Are You Experienced...
" - The song was covered by Jeff BeckJeff BeckGeoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an English rock guitarist. He is one of three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds...
with Billy GibbonsBilly GibbonsWilliam Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, actor and car customizer, best known as the guitarist of the Texas blues-rock band ZZ Top. He is also the lead singer and composer for many of the band's songs. Gibbons is known for playing his Gretsch Billy Bo guitar and his famous 1959...
live. - The song was covered by Love Runs BlindLove Runs BlindLRB is a Bangladeshi band, which was started in 1991 by guitarist Ayub Bachchu.- History :Bachchu was born in Chittagong, Bangladesh. He started his music career with a band called Feelings. Then Bachchu spent ten years with a band called Souls, which was one of the first Bangladeshi rock bands...
aka LRB at Sultana Kamal Women's Sports Complex, Dhanmondi, DhakaDhakaDhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...
on July 2011.
- 1993 • Paul Rodgers
- Other
- Boudewijn de GrootBoudewijn de GrootBoudewijn de Groot is a famous Dutch singer/songwriter. He is known for the songs "Welterusten Meneer de President" , "Land van Maas en Waal" , "Jimmy" and "Avond" among others...
already came up with the same riff in 1965, as can be heard in the song "Tegenland" from his first album - Led ZeppelinLed ZeppelinLed Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
guitarist Jimmy PageJimmy PageJames Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Jimmy Page...
used to play Foxy Lady guitar riff performing "Dazed and Confused". It can be heard on band's live albums The Song Remains The SameThe Song Remains the Same (album)Upon its initial release in 1976, the album received some poor reviews, with some critics considering it to be over-produced and lumbering. Indeed, the band's members themselves have since expressed a lack of fondness for the recording...
and How The West Was Won. - Is played frequently on G3 tours during the G3 jam. It appeared on the G3: Live in TokyoG3: Live in TokyoG3: Live in Tokyo is another G3 live performance which featured John Petrucci along with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai in the 2005 G3 tour. It was released as double live album as well as DVD with extra material: G3 Soundcheck featuring commentary by Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and John Petrucci.In this...
DVD, where it was played as the first song in the jam by Joe SatrianiJoe SatrianiJoseph "Joe" Satriani is an American instrumental rock guitarist and multi-instrumentalist, with multiple Grammy Award nominations...
(who also provided vocals), Steve VaiSteve VaiSteven Siro "Steve" Vai is a three time Grammy Award-winning American guitarist, songwriter and producer who has sold over 15 million albums. Steve Vai is widely known as a flamboyant guitar virtuoso....
, and John PetrucciJohn PetrucciJohn Peter Petrucci is an American guitarist and songwriter best known as a founding member of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. Along with his former bandmate Mike Portnoy, he has produced all Dream Theater albums since their 1999 release, Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory...
, with special guest Mike PortnoyMike PortnoyMichael Stephen "Mike" Portnoy is an American drummer primarily known as the former drummer, backing vocalist, and a co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater, as well as the temporary drummer for the hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold. Known for his drumming prowess and technical...
on drums. - Foxy Lady was sampled in "Freedom of Speech" by Body CountBody CountBody Count is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1990. The group is fronted by rapper and actor Ice-T, who founded the group out of his interest in heavy metal music, taking on the role of vocalist and writing the lyrics for most of the group's songs. Lead guitarist...
. - It can be heard underneath Ron Hitler Barassi's 3PBS Christmas MessageThis Is Serious Mum Demo TapeThis Is Serious Mum is a 1985 cassette demo tape by Australian band TISM. Liner notes to their Collected Recordings 1986-1993 boxed set state that only 80 copies of the demo exist...
, although sped up.
- Boudewijn de Groot