{"id":7533,"date":"2015-03-06T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=7533"},"modified":"2026-07-21T19:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:22:12","slug":"cover-me-purple-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/06\/cover-me-purple-haze\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Haze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can name that tune in one note.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Purple Haze&#8221; was a landmark in psychedelic rock, exploding onto the music scene immediately upon its release in 1967. It would influence would-be guitar heroes worldwide, and Rolling Stone would anoint it the second greatest guitar song of all time and rank it #17 on the Greatest Songs (period) of All Time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGoDaYjdfSg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>And although it never reached higher than #65 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, &#8220;Purple Haze&#8221; clearly and immediately influenced Bruce.<\/p>\n<p>How do we know? Because less than three months after its debut in the United States, The Castiles (Bruce&#8217;s high school band) were already covering it in concert.<\/p>\n<p>Here they are&#8211;&#8220;the band of the year&#8221;&#8211;opening with it at The Left Foot in Freehold, New Jersey on September 16, 1967.\u00a0When you listen to Bruce&#8217;s remarkable performance on vocals and lead guitar, keep in mind:\u00a0He was still a week shy of his eighteenth birthday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qbF_Vh6QkKY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Although we have reason (via a preserved but undated setlist) to believe Bruce played it at least through his Earth era in 1968, this is the only known recording of him performing it.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7844\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/06\/cover-me-purple-haze\/earth-sl-bs\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/earth-sl-bs.jpg?fit=289%2C249&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"289,249\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"earth-sl-bs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/estreetshuffle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/earth-sl-bs.jpg?fit=289%2C249&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7844 size-full\" 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