Album: Axis: Bold As Love, released 1967 Sometimes, there are certain venues which become a crucial part of a music scene, with strong roots that hold it down as the source of that scenes activity. The Spanish Castle, built just outside Seattle in the early 1930s, was just an ordinary ballroom dance establishment (albeit with a particularly enticing design), until local radio stations began bringing bands to perform there. By 1959, popular local groups such as The Wailers were staple performers. Years later, a little known guitar player called Jimi Hendrix performed there with his first bands, and even penned Spanish Castle Magic in its honour. Hows that for a memorial? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96joNo5sBRU The tracks lyrics reflect Hendrixs teenage years, where he regularly visited the Spanish Castle. The fact he placed the venues name right in the title gives the track a sense of nostalgia and longing, reflecting on how he had found somewhere to belong in a heavily segregated period. The Spanish Castle was demolished in 1968, but it remains ingrained in Hendrixs work. Surely the greatest tribute for any music venue is to be recognized in the music it hosted?
English graduate from the South East, writing my way through my twenties. Also a YouTube partner, playing games and filming vlogs under "ZeppelinG1993." Middle name Zeppelin (after the band, not the blimp), so destined to be a music lover.
