Jimi Hendrix Pretty Lights Herbstrong

Article Contributed by Lance Herbstrong | Published on Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Last summer, as we were road trippin, we were listening to Pretty Lights. Finally Moving came on and Pete (Peter Di Stefano of Porno For Pyros) said it sounded like Jimi Hendrix. He grabbed his guitar and started strumming All Along The Watch Tower as it played..

 

"No reason to get excited,"

The thief, he kindly spoke

"There are many here among us

Who feel that life is but a joke...

 

We struggled with the Etta James sample.... To be honest, it’s played out, over-used and we spent months over-thinking it. We worried the over-use of it would take away from the beauty of two legends singing to each other from beyond the grave. As we stood on the stage at Wakarusa last summer watching Pretty lights with our team and good friends.. Derek performed Finally Moving. Watching the crowd singing “sometimes I get a good feeling” grooving together in the beautiful Ozark mountains we knew we had to leave it in.

Bill, Pete & Kamal
Lance Herbstrong