Douglas Sager so true. I couldn’t get enough of his music with Julie Driscoll. They were in the middle of a huge explosion of music and they were one of the most polished, sophisticated bands of the bunch.
lucky enough to catch him and the oblivian express(sp) in Atlanta at Richards in the early mid `70s; a friend and I went to see him in Cincinatti (sp) and stood in line in the snow only to find Joan Jett & The Blackhearts when we hit the door so we just left.
I met Brian once in a nightclub when he was between sets and I spent about ten minutes with him telling me about working with Hendrix. I'm just an ordinary bloke, but he sat down and conversed with me. I got his autograph as well. Brian is an amazing musician.
Brian Auger did for Hammond organ what Jimi did for the electric guitar. In that era, the mid-60s, Auger was THE jazz/rock keyboard player on the London scene. It's nice to see he is still on the ball and hear his perspective on Jimi's playing.
@@gktde9874 Emerson was a bit flowery for my taste. Rick Wakeman could play anything. But neither of those guys had the edge that was Auger's trademark style. He avoided using rotating Leslie speakers, which tended to mellow the Hammond B3's sound. Instead he went through guitar-type amps and using them, Auger made the B3 sound manic and agressive. He pioneered modal jazz improvising to a hard rock beat.
Imagine Jimi casually walking into that vibrant exciting London scene of the late 60s and literally blowing their collective minds. This is why I chuckle when I read comments cutting down his playing. Naysayers with no sense of history.
I don't blame folks for liking or not liking his playing. He's my all time favorite. But trying to denigrate his talent or genius is just plain dumb. I just wish he'd taken better care of himself. We were robbed.
I've seen Brian Auger on tour 2 or 3 times in the last 15 years, the last time was a very small venue. Afterwards he took time to talk to people after the show, and was telling GREAT stories of his past with different musicians, Jimi included. It was fantastic just to listen to him expound on the music scene he was a part of, you could tell he was enjoying visiting with everyone, and answering questions. Brian is a very nice man to talk with.
I have been a fan of Brian Auger since 1973 and this is the first time I ever heard him in an interview. What a down to earth guy, yet so legendary. He is so compelling to listen to, Fantastic.
I was introduced to Brian's music at age 16 by my brother-in-law in 1972 and I was hooked. I finally had the chance to see him at the Baked Potato in L.A. three times now, sat 5 feet away from him, met and talked at length with him and son Karma. This is a great interview and I keep finding out more tidbits about his history that blow me away ... Brian is linked to so many of my favorite musicians. "Straight ahead" was my anthem as a young man, he will always be an influence to me.
In Jimi's brief four-year reign as a superstar he expanded the VOCABULARY of the electric guitar more than anyone BEFORE OR SINCE. Nuff said!! Hendrix was a MASTER. 49 years later this man is STILL #1 worlds greatest guitarist, NOBODY can touch him BEFORE OR SINCE!!
Jimi was beyond amazing, but he was largely emulating Buddy Guy, who played that way long before Hendrix and long after Jimi's death; Hendrix took distortion and feedback to a new level, but his playing was built on Guy's shoulders. To hear true vocabulary changes in the guitar lexicon, one needs to grok Alan Holdsworth's contemporaneous explorations of unusual modes, of Metheney's expansion of what a guitar actually DOES.
I saw Brian open for the Pat Metheny Group at Zellerbach hall in Berkeley California back in 1981. I sat in the front row about 2 feet from Lyle Mays. As a music professional myself watching Mays work from that vantage point was an awesome experience. Brian was good that night, too!
One of the most kind and forthcoming rock/jazz musicians alive. Had the experience to meet and speak with Brian, and he was a pleasure to speak with. Had the good luck to meet Keith Emerson at the same venue. A big difference in temperament between the two, but Keith wasn't in good shape by then. My two keyboard God's.
In the 70's I owned a Hammond B-3 + Leslie that was stored at a major concert hall because we were always renting it out to the touring bands that needed an organ, Brian played the hall and had his own organ with him but when he was done he or his roadie had switched his beat-up organ bench for my mint B-3 bench stored in a basement room, we didn't find out till later and he was long gone......
Jimmy was Is And will always be A force to be reckoned with He was a lightning rod in rock and roll He lives long enough Crazy enough To give us sounds that many have tried to imitate You can always pick up what’s Jimmy and what’s not He was brute Powerful Brash Explosive Yet gentle one on one
As a musician, if you're secure in your own skin, like George Harrison or Jeff Beck or Pete Townsend...you don't see Jimi as a threat or competition. You see him as making the whole party brighter by walking into the room. Eventually, EC came around.
On seeing Hendrix for the first time Jeff Beck said, in his own words, "I'd better find something else to do". Glad he didn't though, Jimi told him he'd lifted the air-raid siren effect from what Beck had played on The Yardbirds' "Happening Ten Years Time Ago" which obviously convinced Beck he should carry on. Hendrix and Clapton had enormous respect for each other's playing, Eric was stunned by Jimi's spontaneity and magic conjuring of previously unimagined sounds , and Jimi was as impressed as everybody else by Eric's control and the efficiency of his bends, vibrato and phrasing, saying "Sometimes I just wish I could play real pretty like that".
I heard of Brian Auger in the year 1994, i really wished and wrote a letter to ITV the south bank show, to play and document his story...the guy to me is a god
As a guitarist of 43 years Jimi Hendrix was and will always be The greatest guitarist that ever lived. Just like Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee are still even in death the greatest artists of their craft
Like Clapton, Beck also considered a career change after hearing Jimi play. I'm glad they both stuck with guitar, because both of them have given us great music over the decades.
These Jimi "first time" stories are great... because of it being Jimi Hendrix , the requests made by those who have previous knowledge of his playing, to those who don't are now , possibly, the most uniquely priceless in music history. To have the greatest ever virtuoso their instrument, blues rock electric guitar, discovered by a DIFFERENT country, and plucked from his own and brought to theirs, so TOTALLY anonymous, really is one in a billion stuff. So let's call it the weight of chance, most of it being the weight of Jimis one in a billion talent,, starts to warp basic human reasoning, certainly within that field. Giddy disbelief all round and always leading up to the revelation of his playing, all kinds of WTFs going on, or just no feelings at all. Why they couldn't make a good movie out of this stuff is beyond me.
Brian and family have played many gigs in St Louis the past years and he is a gentleman and very friendly guy. Signed autographs or albums or people ! his son and daughter are talented and beautiful. The whole lot are just good people.
is there more of this interview anywherre? really enjoy hearing from folks that interacted with Hendrix. the Chris Squire interview was funny and entertaining.
Brian Auger still one of my all time favorites and so TALENTED!! I know his son and daughter gig with him now but i would love to see Julie back for one reunion club tour. That would be heaven.
Oh, he was invited to come on stage and play because Hendrix was a big fan. He wa son stage for a short time and then walked out of the club, angry. He was "god" after all... lol
@@johntechwriter Was??? You made me gasp and go to Wikipedia. Phew! Brian Auger STILL IS a fantastic keyboard player (and a really nice guy). ua-cam.com/video/hjoJa2ztQdU/v-deo.html to get the blood flowing ua-cam.com/video/WhCrub59MNg/v-deo.html now turn off the lights, close your eyes... (oldies but goodies, classics really from '74)
Auger had this intense driving style on the Hammond, employing a modal jazz improvisational style that made Jimmy Smith's blues-based improvisation obsolete in about one week.
First Brian Auger one I've viewed- love it. Julie Driscoll could hit 3 octaves(fully); just listen to the song, "Czechoslovakia". Wow. Anyhowz, all the stories from the scenes back then are interesting, and it's cool to finally hear Brian's memories. Love BA's Oblivion Express!
Actualy Jeff saw Hendrix second night at the Blazes, and Clapton on the first time they played together. Nobody big was there and Hendrix was discovered by Linda Keith.
Wait....there could have been a band formed in late 1966 that would have had Jimi Hendrix AND Julie Driscoll AND Brian Auger and the Trinity???? Anybody else sobbing quietly over what might have been? The sex appeal alone of Jimi and Julie would have melted any stage. And Jimi's soaring guitar matched with the Brian Auger (better than Steve Winwood, imho) and the Trinity???? ARRRGGGHHH!!!!
all those great what ifs.... Between Brian Auger , Julie Driscoll and Hendrix ... one band could never contain that much power..... Like Jeff Beck and Rory Gallagher being considered as Mick Taylor's replacement in the Stones before settling on Ronnie. Those two would have never sat back in the Mick Keith operation.Some folks are leaders others are born sidemen... Strange though ,when ELP got together Jimi was interested in joining them ( according to Fripp who was also interested ) but Keith Emerson wasn't keen to work with a guitar player it seemed.... All we can do is wonder ....
Yeah Jimi was the only thing good about the Experience How about Chris Squire and Ansley Dunbar or ANY other top shelf UK players Wish M Jeffrey was never in the picture
@@arvidsmith1038 By the time Mick Taylor left A) the Rolling Stones were finished B) the over dominant Keith Richards would have dampened or put out the fire of any new replacement..Jeff Beck would have lasted one album and one tour..As far as Keith Richards is concerned it is his Franchise..no one is going to get a piece of it man.And that is what made that group obsolete.
Every living player today, who is listed on the One Hundred Best Guitarists of All Time, as published by Rolling Stone, will unanimously agree that Jimi Hendrix was, is, and always will remain the number one player of all time. Those who don't know his music need to study up because you don't know.
@@ChromaticHarp brotha first of all nobody can play like Hendrix idc who it is, “ technically “ sure but no cover can put do Hendrix version. Randy Hansen who’s Been imitating jimi for about 40 years hasn’t yet. Hendrix isn’t about soley guitar playing. Either u need to listen to more Hendrix to understand or you need more soul.
@@nasc1008 there has never been anyone to play like Jimi, he still blows me away… has been a huge influence on so many…including Miles Davis and the like!
@@ChromaticHarp no there isnt. None of them can write a song worth a fuck, and songwriting is more important than fretboard masturbation.
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I love the story of Hendrix. I think he was a fresh reminder to the brits of London, that this wave of music they were innovating in is started first and foremost from the struggle of black Americans.
If I remember rightly Jimi done some jamming with Keith Emerson as well. Jimi was a big fan of the Nice and used to watch them side stage. And as we know there was talk of jimi joining Emerson lake and palmer, luckily it stayed a keyboard lead group.
I saw Jimi together with Brian auger at Blaises. I remember Wild Thing, Like a Rolling Stone. Am,gazing stuff-all played on the guitar he borrowed from the guitarist in the band. It was beyond comprehension-the more so as it was played upside down left handed. Turns out he had played the Cromwellian days earlier. Wish I had seen that one. He was nothing short of astounding. Great to hear Brian Augers side of the story. I was later managed by Chas Chandler-a trivial detail I think. Hail Hail Jimi....
Freedom Jazz 1973 what our stage band had on the background when setting up in our high school...great sound and musician....saw him years later in a small venue in Mpls....a wow show!
Would love to have seen Jimi & Brian jamming together; I think the only recording I’ve heard featuring Jimi & a Hammond organ is the long version of Voodoo Chile, with Steve Winwood on keyboards… an incredible track which is one of my all time Hendrix faves!
This is how Lol Coxhill met Jimi Hendrix too. Playing with him live on the stage with various other musicians. The what it's in life. Hendrix was directed towards forming a trio by manager Chas Chandler because the group Cream were so successful. But Jimi Hendrix's heart was somewhere else working in the Chitlin Circuit he had played with various bands like Little Richard and there was a Memphis brass section and a fuller sound like the Wattstax style. If Hendrix had his way he would have started in the UK with people like Brian Auger, Keith Tippet, Michael Ratledge, Lol Coxhill and the people that were fusing the Jazz and Rock together. Interesting how Soft Machine ended up being managed by Chas Chandler too and Soft Machine and the Jimi Hendrix experience went on tour around Europe and America. That is when I first saw them both in 1968 at the Washington Hilton Hotel. George Harrison ended up being greatly influenced by Eric Clapton and his subsequent band Derick and the Dominoes. Only if Jimi Hendrix had become friends with George Harrison and all those fabulous English Jazz Rockers hd played on George Harrison's first solo record "All things must pass" with Robert Wyatt playing drums. George Harrison could have kept these hungry musicians in work for years and in my opinion the music would have been better. Instead of George chasing windmills working with Phil Spector.
Wow all the guitarist battling going on. Even Jimi thought he was the best guitarist in the world. Sitting in the seat for his interview. Watch Dick Cavett interview you might just see the amazing humility and the love he shows the house band playing his song as he enters for the interview. Its amazing to meet these great artists and if they are great their humble.
@PICK THIS There is no documentation that ever happened. The story is apocryphal likely started by a Kath fan. Another version says it was Rory Gallagher. Truth is he never made such a comment about anyone. On Cavett when Dick said he was called the greatest guitarist in the world, Jimi said "How about the greatest sitting in this chair". A very humble man. Especially considering he was the best. His style of rhythm playing is still almost impossible to emulate and the sounds he was able to get given the lack of technology available is just unreal.
@J P OOOPPs I wrote that wrong. Your right! My favorite pat of Jimi is Humility of his playing and knowing he was around some of the most amazing players ever. Man if there was video of him and John MCcLaughlin.
His song writing was many miles away from Jimi NOT even in the same hemisphere, just loud country blues with aggression jimi was from another planet musically
I'm sorry but you're wrong. After that first Cromwellian gig, the Scotch of St. James was hired for rehearsals, hence the confusion. In fact, I met Noel Redding in a Denmark Street coffee shop, on his way to try out as bass player for what was to become The Experience.
Over the last 50 years memories and stories you've heard tend to become conflated and things like his version of the Clapton story result. By most accounts the first time Clapton heard Jimi was when Chas asked if he could jam with Cream at one of their gigs. They did Killing Floor with Clapton and Jimi sharing the same amp. Not only did Jimi play like nothing they'd ever heard before but he did some of his stage show of behind the back and head as well and Clapton was really affected. None of them had actually seen any of their blues idols live in their prime and only knew about their relatively tame album cuts. JImi was something completely out of their realm of experience. Had Jimi playing with Brian Auger been the first time Clapton saw him that you can bet that jam with Cream would never have taken place. Pete Townsend says that Clapton called and invited him to an Experience gig having never called Pete before. He said that when they went in Beck was coming out and told Pete there's this guy stealing your feedback stuff. The story goes that the English musicians of the time decided that the way to deal with Jimi's talent was to claim him as one of their own rather than feel intimidated. What they didn't know was that Jimi already looked up to many of them and was only interested in their appreciation and acceptance something he hadn't found back home so he was only too happy to be part of the English music scene.
good stuff, now you know how it went down, would have loved to have been there just to see jimi early on and watch the reaction of everyone, i forget who said it but I think clapton was on one end of the conversation, someone said 'you have to see this guy he's going to put us all out of business'.
" Alvin Lee...." This sort of association has never made it across the Pond. I think this is the 1st Time ; Alvin Lee is mentioned , among exemplary - astute .....PEERS. Thank You Mr Auger ....🌺
Met Brian backstage and helped his son Karma by getting ice for his sore arm before he played drums. Great guy. Brian and I talked about music and Eddie Harris song, "Listen Here."
Give Clapton his due. Eric was a serious student of American Blues music and his work with John Mayall's Blues Breakers AND Cream AND Blind Faith AND Derek and The Dominoes is revered to this day as some of the best rock blues guitar playing ever recorded. He was surrounded by rabid fans from the time he first recorded a song who thought he was God. Of course that kind of adulation can be hard to process and would do a real number on the ego of a young man. Then Jimi comes along and seemingly reinvents rock guitar on the spot. I bet Eric would have liked to just sit there and take it all in at his leisure but imagine all those (famous)musicians in that room slowly turning their heads to face him with unmistakable pity and commiseration in their eyes. Try that one on for size sometime. It must have felt like the punchline to a long elaborate cruel prank. You're not God! Not even CLOSE!! Damn.. The thing is ironically enough is Jimi loved these British cats and picked up a lot from them listening to his records. If it wasn't for the British rock blues scene it's debatable whether the world would have ever known about Jimi Hendrix. He was being ignored in New York and playing for empty seats most of the time. It took English musicians to make Americans realize how great their (mostly Black) musicians were.
What Auguer said is that Clapton was great, but he still sounded derivative, whereas Jimi seemed to be an original who may have been influenced by others but did not sound like them. Clapton still quotes Albert King, as did SRV. I think only Jeff Beck has gone to a different, original place, at least on some of his songs.
Yeah, there hadn't been 3+ decades already of white Americans loving and buying black American music before Chas brought Hendrix to London (sarcasm). That whole oft-repeated premise is ridiculous (he had to go to London to be famous because of racists America! Like there hadn't been decades of hugely successful black American artists before Hendrix. It's just stupid and I see that comment all the time.) Hendrix was in the right spot in NY's village , playing with the right people and it was only a matter of time before he was "discovered" by an American but due to Linda Keith's keen eye Chas got to be the lucky one! I'm glad it happened the way it did though because Mitch was Jimi's musical soul mate. Towards the end when it was Jimi, Mitch and Billy Cox that was the strongest band Jimi ever had and some of the recordings of those concerts are just jaw dropping. Jimi had progressed an unbelievable degree in those last few years and those concerts of about the last 6 to 8 months are just unreal.
Architecture Whisperer You got to be kidding me! Jimi didn't bring any genre to rock except exceptional showmanship with was already being demonstrated by The Who at the time! He lit his guitar on fire one time, that was the difference between his set and The Who's! He smashed his guitar and humped it but his music was Bluesbased Rock and Roll and he even went on TV in Britain and played a song by The Cream! So, if he played one of their songs the same way they did, weren't they first! Hendrix blew me away when I was a Teen but I've since broadened my knowledge of Music!
@@rondy702 If you broadened your knowledge a bit more you'd know he didn't play Sunshine of Your Love anything like the Cream and there was a tremendous difference between his set and The Who at Monterey, namely some incredible guitar work. Besides all that, his album Electric Ladyland was a pure masterwork. As a guitarist I can tell you his funky, soulful and extremely intricate rhythm work and ear for playing just the right note at just the right time was second to none. Yes, as he admitted, there was much flash and over the top showmanship he used to get noticed, but the progress he made as a player and musician from his incredibly short career in 1966 to 1970 is simply staggering. The last year his performances were much different as he would spend most of his time standing still, focusing on on his playing, which was almost a type of fusion towards the end. The Cry of Love, the out of print album released after his death of uncompleted songs, demonstrates some of these vast changes. Listen to Drifting, Freedom or In From the Storm for examples of what I mean. He also was a brilliant songwriter which often goes overlooked. No, I'd say Jimi is much more than a teen boy's idol rock star and his legacy of amazing music bears this out.
Mercy, you are dating yourself! As if I can talk. Lol! Sounds like a fabulous show! When Winterland was being torn down I snuck in with a co-worker. Made sure they weren't using the wrecking ball that day. There were a few posters on the wall. It was the last look. Took a little chuck of the building as a souvenir. Lost it during a move.
@@TheDivayenta Found your poster. It was an avocado! I had almost forgotten about the Lemon Song. Lol! Growing up in the Bay Area was the best for a music fan like me.
Yes, Mike Jeffrey! Should read "Gong Dreaming 1: From Soft Machine to the Birth of Gong" does Daevid Allen have something to say about the day Kevin Ayers dropped acid into Mike Jeffery's tea it's hilarious . Also there is more great memories of Jimi . Let's hope Daevid is enjoying his return to planet Gong RIP Daevid.
Small point but in another interview available here on UA-cam, Jeff Beck says he got a call from a girlfriend telling him about Hendrix so he went to see him at Blaisers which is the first time Beck saw him. Jeff Beck did not see Hendrix the first time he played at the Cromwellian as Brian claims here.
For any music historians out there, I also learned recently that one of Hendrix's early appearances was supporting the Alan Bown Set on the south coast in a polytechnique collega somewhere (Portsmouth or Southamton most likely) as told to me by the set's bass play Stan Haldane. He said that it all seemed pretty disorganised and Hendrix didn't even have his own guitar but had to borrow one. Then he said six month's later the Alan Bown Set were supporting Jimi Hendrix!
When it comes to the "Best" of anything, the conversations would end up a little friendlier if people would put these letters in front of their comments... "IMHO."
Jimi Hendrix's sound is still present in today's rock music/rnb and pop.
One of the most under rated musicians of the sixties and beyond.....Brian is a jazz rock legend
Douglas Sager so true. I couldn’t get enough of his music with Julie Driscoll. They were in the middle of a huge explosion of music and they were one of the most polished, sophisticated bands of the bunch.
lucky enough to catch him and the oblivian express(sp) in Atlanta at Richards in the early mid `70s; a friend and I went to see him in Cincinatti (sp) and stood in line in the snow only to find Joan Jett & The Blackhearts when we hit the door so we just left.
I met Brian once in a nightclub when he was between sets and I spent about ten minutes with him telling me about working with Hendrix. I'm just an ordinary bloke, but he sat down and conversed with me. I got his autograph as well. Brian is an amazing musician.
Brian Auger did for Hammond organ what Jimi did for the electric guitar. In that era, the mid-60s, Auger was THE jazz/rock keyboard player on the London scene. It's nice to see he is still on the ball and hear his perspective on Jimi's playing.
….and Keith Emerson with The Nice 😉
@@gktde9874 Emerson was a bit flowery for my taste. Rick Wakeman could play anything. But neither of those guys had the edge that was Auger's trademark style. He avoided using rotating Leslie speakers, which tended to mellow the Hammond B3's sound. Instead he went through guitar-type amps and using them, Auger made the B3 sound manic and agressive. He pioneered modal jazz improvising to a hard rock beat.
Very astute of Brian to steer well clear of Mike Jeffrey.
"If It weren't for Mike Jeffrey, Jimi would still be alive."---Buddy Miles
Fuckin' Right!
He got what was coming to him. I wonder who inherited all the money he stoled from Jimi ??
Absolutely! The horrible twat.
Wow
mike Jeffrey, col Parker etc...doesn't mean buddy miles's right though....Johnny Hallyday sucks
Imagine Jimi casually walking into that vibrant exciting London scene of the late 60s and literally blowing their collective minds.
This is why I chuckle when I read comments cutting down his playing. Naysayers with no sense of history.
I don't blame folks for liking or not liking his playing. He's my all time favorite. But trying to denigrate his talent or genius is just plain dumb.
I just wish he'd taken better care of himself. We were robbed.
TheBatugan77 Jeffrey robbed us of him. His lifestyle and substance abuse is exaggerated.
Chase Chandler brought Hendrix to England, and Hendix was world famous within 7 days..
@@Texasbluestunes ??...What do you mean?
Paul Shalom ...Jimi manager killed him..
I've seen Brian Auger on tour 2 or 3 times in the last 15 years, the last time was a very small venue. Afterwards he took time to talk to people after the show, and was telling GREAT stories of his past with different musicians, Jimi included. It was fantastic just to listen to him expound on the music scene he was a part of, you could tell he was enjoying visiting with everyone, and answering questions. Brian is a very nice man to talk with.
Si ci ho parlato anche io nei molti concerti che ho visto in Italia. Un mito. Anzi lui mi disse: "ma che mito,sono vivo!!!" :-)))
I have been a fan of Brian Auger since 1973 and this is the first time I ever heard him in an interview. What a down to earth guy, yet so legendary. He is so compelling to listen to, Fantastic.
Indeed...sharp as.
Happy Holidays Mr.James !! Hope All Is Well !! Peace Brother .. Jimmy ...
I was introduced to Brian's music at age 16 by my brother-in-law in 1972 and I was hooked. I finally had the chance to see him at the Baked Potato in L.A. three times now, sat 5 feet away from him, met and talked at length with him and son Karma. This is a great interview and I keep finding out more tidbits about his history that blow me away ... Brian is linked to so many of my favorite musicians. "Straight ahead" was my anthem as a young man, he will always be an influence to me.
.....Once again astute British scene ( US boobs paired Jimi w Monkees ) chops...Auger is exactly what would have benefited Hendrix.
Always love Brian's interviews. So open honest and direct. A no BS guy and one of the nicest people you could meet. ty stagg
In Jimi's brief four-year reign as a superstar he expanded the VOCABULARY of the electric guitar more than anyone BEFORE OR SINCE. Nuff said!! Hendrix was a MASTER. 49 years later this man is STILL #1 worlds greatest guitarist, NOBODY can touch him BEFORE OR SINCE!!
I'm glad I was able to see him before he died. May, 1970.
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Jimi was beyond amazing, but he was largely emulating Buddy Guy, who played that way long before Hendrix and long after Jimi's death; Hendrix took distortion and feedback to a new level, but his playing was built on Guy's shoulders.
To hear true vocabulary changes in the guitar lexicon, one needs to grok Alan Holdsworth's contemporaneous explorations of unusual modes, of Metheney's expansion of what a guitar actually DOES.
@@ralphmunn1685 yep, so obvious too if you watch some of buddy guys early performances. Heavy heavy influence
And it took nearly a decade for Eddie Van Halen to expand guitar further.
McLaughlin and Holdsworth and Wes Montgomery tho 👀👀👀
I saw Brian open for the Pat Metheny Group at Zellerbach hall in Berkeley California back in 1981. I sat in the front row about 2 feet from Lyle Mays. As a music professional myself watching Mays work from that vantage point was an awesome experience. Brian was good that night, too!
One of the most kind and forthcoming rock/jazz musicians alive. Had the experience to meet and speak with Brian, and he was a pleasure to speak with. Had the good luck to meet Keith Emerson at the same venue. A big difference in temperament between the two, but Keith wasn't in good shape by then. My two keyboard God's.
Love Brian Auger. He was a master of the fusion groove. His records are timeless. Really good guy too.
A great tale of Jimi's move into the London scene. I wish I had been there to see it all go down. I am sure it was mind blowing.
In the 70's I owned a Hammond B-3 + Leslie that was stored at a major concert hall because we were always renting it out to the touring bands that needed an organ, Brian played the hall and had his own organ with him but when he was done he or his roadie had switched his beat-up organ bench for my mint B-3 bench stored in a basement room, we didn't find out till later and he was long gone......
Just met this guy the other day. So nice and so humble
Jimmy was
Is
And will always be
A force to be reckoned with
He was a lightning rod in rock and roll
He lives long enough
Crazy enough
To give us sounds that many have tried to imitate
You can always pick up what’s Jimmy and what’s not
He was brute
Powerful
Brash
Explosive
Yet gentle one on one
It's Jimi not Jimmy!
@@TIMDRY Jimmy Hendricks, yeah, of Jimmie James and the Blue Flames.
He had a duet with Jimmy Shand, called...lighten up, toots. 😛
I've always been a big Brian Auger fan! When I heard The "Closer to It" album, that really got to me.
I love Brian Auger his playing is absolutely incredible!
So do I - he is a great player and a great guy !
Lots of his vids are available right here on UA-cam.
Very accurate assessment of all round dodge pot Mike Jeffrey
Still love the bravery of Brian's Organ used so effectively as a lead. Loved Julie's voice too. Wheels on Fire, if your memory serves you well.
As a musician, if you're secure in your own skin, like George Harrison or Jeff Beck or Pete Townsend...you don't see Jimi as a threat or competition. You see him as making the whole party brighter by walking into the room.
Eventually, EC came around.
TheBatugan77 EC was around before Jimi and was super insecure and was scared of Jimi too
On seeing Hendrix for the first time Jeff Beck said, in his own words, "I'd better find something else to do". Glad he didn't though, Jimi told him he'd lifted the air-raid siren effect from what Beck had played on The Yardbirds' "Happening Ten Years Time Ago" which obviously convinced Beck he should carry on. Hendrix and Clapton had enormous respect for each other's playing, Eric was stunned by Jimi's spontaneity and magic conjuring of previously unimagined sounds , and Jimi was as impressed as everybody else by Eric's control and the efficiency of his bends, vibrato and phrasing, saying "Sometimes I just wish I could play real pretty like that".
I never get tired of these stories !
Much love to you Jimi wherever you are.
I heard of Brian Auger in the year 1994, i really wished and wrote a letter to ITV the south bank show, to play and document his story...the guy to me is a god
As a guitarist of 43 years Jimi Hendrix was and will always be The greatest guitarist that ever lived. Just like Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee are still even in death the greatest artists of their craft
Not sure why but this audio is incredibly clear and well mixed
Mike Jeffrey gave to new meaning to the word CROOK!!
OMG Clapton, Beck, Alvin Lee all there wen Jimi 1st played... WOW
Like Clapton, Beck also considered a career change after hearing Jimi play. I'm glad they both stuck with guitar, because both of them have given us great music over the decades.
These Jimi "first time" stories are great... because of it being Jimi Hendrix , the requests made by those who have previous knowledge of his playing, to those who don't are now , possibly, the most uniquely priceless in music history. To have the greatest ever virtuoso their instrument, blues rock electric guitar, discovered by a DIFFERENT country, and plucked from his own and brought to theirs, so TOTALLY anonymous, really is one in a billion stuff. So let's call it the weight of chance, most of it being the weight of Jimis one in a billion talent,, starts to warp basic human reasoning, certainly within that field. Giddy disbelief all round and always leading up to the revelation of his playing, all kinds of WTFs going on, or just no feelings at all. Why they couldn't make a good movie out of this stuff is beyond me.
He is still ahead of our time, I wonder if he’s sound will ever be considered old
R.I.P. Jimi Hendrix.
Brian and family have played many gigs in St Louis the past years and he is a gentleman and very friendly guy. Signed autographs or albums or people !
his son and daughter are talented and beautiful. The whole lot are just good people.
is there more of this interview anywherre? really enjoy hearing from folks that interacted with Hendrix. the Chris Squire interview was funny and entertaining.
Brian Auger's early 1970s albums are excellent, much better than most of that British 1960s blues/rnb scene.
Befour è uno dei miei album preferiti in assoluto
Brian Auger still one of my all time favorites and so TALENTED!! I know his son and daughter gig with him now but i would love to see Julie back for one reunion club tour. That would be heaven.
Apparently, after Clapton saw Hendrix play, he put his head in his hands, in despair, and said "You didn't tell me he was that f***ing good!"
Oh, he was invited to come on stage and play because Hendrix was a big fan. He wa son stage for a short time and then walked out of the club, angry.
He was "god" after all... lol
Love, Auger...great talent, incredible life in music, down to earth, and superb storyteller.
I'm a huge fan. I've only known about Brian Auger since last week. I'm a huge fan!
Well, time to get busy, you got a lot of catching up to do.
Cheers!!!
So, Mike Crawford, Brian Auger's instinct about Mike Jeffrey was correct, then?
WOW. Brian Auger. Never heard an interview with him before. Just, WOW.
If you are curious about Auger, who was a fantastic keyboard player, check out his videos from that era here on UA-cam.
@@johntechwriter Was??? You made me gasp and go to Wikipedia. Phew! Brian Auger STILL IS a fantastic keyboard player (and a really nice guy).
ua-cam.com/video/hjoJa2ztQdU/v-deo.html to get the blood flowing
ua-cam.com/video/WhCrub59MNg/v-deo.html now turn off the lights, close your eyes...
(oldies but goodies, classics really from '74)
I had those early Brian Auger albums.. The Oblivion Express…
Met Brian once in the Pantiles in Camberly, Surrey, NIce guy and great Hammond B3 player.
First point: be original whatever you play, find your soul. Second: I wish Jimi was still with us
If you’re playing show gigs to make a living, as a side man, or Broadway pit band, etc…then ‘be original’ can get you fired.
Brian Auger I remember his band Oblivian Expess!!! My favorite song by him was HAPPINESS IS JUST ROUND THE BEND ! :D
jazzynet1 also my favorite BAOE song
Auger had this intense driving style on the Hammond, employing a modal jazz improvisational style that made Jimmy Smith's blues-based improvisation obsolete in about one week.
Brian Auger played electric harpsichord on For Your Love, the original.
Brian and his family are so nice , and talented . Wish they would come around again.
Great to hear Brian give an interview, very insightful!
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Also played back to back piano with Errol Garner! WoW...
First Brian Auger one I've viewed- love it. Julie Driscoll could hit 3 octaves(fully); just listen to the song, "Czechoslovakia". Wow.
Anyhowz, all the stories from the scenes back then are interesting, and it's cool to finally hear Brian's memories. Love BA's Oblivion Express!
No human can sing 5 octaves! That would be the low E open 6th string up to the High E 24th fret of the 1st string. No….
@@THE-HammerMan Roy had a beautiful tenor! However he didn’t have a 5 octave range. I’m sorry.
@@ChromaticHarp OK. Changes made. 3 octaves; with Roy hitting a 4th with a falsetto. You sure are a picky one.
Brian Auger Is Awesome love his Music.
Great video. thanks for sharing
Brian is a great down to earth Guy doing a Job. Ok he is very good at his job.
Actualy Jeff saw Hendrix second night at the Blazes, and Clapton on the first time they played together. Nobody big was there and Hendrix was discovered by Linda Keith.
I saw Brian and his band at Filmore Auditorium in my home town, San Francisco. Dude really gave his keyboard a workout!
Wait....there could have been a band formed in late 1966 that would have had Jimi Hendrix AND Julie Driscoll AND Brian Auger and the Trinity???? Anybody else sobbing quietly over what might have been? The sex appeal alone of Jimi and Julie would have melted any stage. And Jimi's soaring guitar matched with the Brian Auger (better than Steve Winwood, imho) and the Trinity???? ARRRGGGHHH!!!!
hmmmmm....
I thought the same thing. I guess what ended up happening was what was written in the stars.
all those great what ifs.... Between Brian Auger , Julie Driscoll and Hendrix ... one band could never contain that much power..... Like Jeff Beck and Rory Gallagher being considered as Mick Taylor's replacement in the Stones before settling on Ronnie. Those two would have never sat back in the Mick Keith operation.Some folks are leaders others are born sidemen... Strange though ,when ELP got together Jimi was interested in joining them ( according to Fripp who was also interested ) but Keith Emerson wasn't keen to work with a guitar player it seemed.... All we can do is wonder ....
Yeah Jimi was the only thing good about the Experience How about Chris Squire and Ansley Dunbar or ANY other top shelf UK players Wish M Jeffrey was never in the picture
@@arvidsmith1038 By the time Mick Taylor left A) the Rolling Stones were finished B) the over dominant Keith Richards would have dampened or put out the fire of any new replacement..Jeff Beck would have lasted one album and one tour..As far as Keith Richards is concerned it is his Franchise..no one is going to get a piece of it man.And that is what made that group obsolete.
Love to hear these stories.
Every living player today, who is listed on the One Hundred Best Guitarists of All Time, as published by Rolling Stone, will unanimously agree that Jimi Hendrix was, is, and always will remain the number one player of all time. Those who don't know his music need to study up because you don't know.
In his time, Jimi ruled, nowadays there are youngsters on UA-cam who play far beyond what Jimi could imagine. Music evolves.
@@ChromaticHarp brotha first of all nobody can play like Hendrix idc who it is, “ technically “ sure but no cover can put do Hendrix version. Randy Hansen who’s Been imitating jimi for about 40 years hasn’t yet. Hendrix isn’t about soley guitar playing. Either u need to listen to more Hendrix to understand or you need more soul.
@@nasc1008 there has never been anyone to play like Jimi, he still blows me away… has been a huge influence on so many…including Miles Davis and the like!
@@ChromaticHarp no there isnt. None of them can write a song worth a fuck, and songwriting is more important than fretboard masturbation.
I love the story of Hendrix. I think he was a fresh reminder to the brits of London, that this wave of music they were innovating in is started first and foremost from the struggle of black Americans.
If I remember rightly Jimi done some jamming with Keith Emerson as well. Jimi was a big fan of the Nice and used to watch them side stage. And as we know there was talk of jimi joining Emerson lake and palmer, luckily it stayed a keyboard lead group.
I saw Jimi together with Brian auger at Blaises. I remember Wild Thing, Like a Rolling Stone. Am,gazing stuff-all played on the guitar he borrowed from the guitarist in the band. It was beyond comprehension-the more so as it was played upside down left handed. Turns out he had played the Cromwellian days earlier. Wish I had seen that one. He was nothing short of astounding. Great to hear Brian Augers side of the story. I was later managed by Chas Chandler-a trivial detail I think. Hail Hail Jimi....
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Freedom Jazz 1973 what our stage band had on the background when setting up in our high school...great sound and musician....saw him years later in a small venue in Mpls....a wow show!
Would love to have seen Jimi & Brian jamming together; I think the only recording I’ve heard featuring Jimi & a Hammond organ is the long version of Voodoo Chile, with Steve Winwood on keyboards… an incredible track which is one of my all time Hendrix faves!
Very interesting talk ...
in french très intéressante narration et analyse de cette rencontre avec Jimi Hendrix
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This is how Lol Coxhill met Jimi Hendrix too. Playing with him live on the stage with various other musicians. The what it's in life. Hendrix was directed towards forming a trio by manager Chas Chandler because the group Cream were so successful. But Jimi Hendrix's heart was somewhere else working in the Chitlin Circuit he had played with various bands like Little Richard and there was a Memphis brass section and a fuller sound like the Wattstax style. If Hendrix had his way he would have started in the UK with people like Brian Auger, Keith Tippet, Michael Ratledge, Lol Coxhill and the people that were fusing the Jazz and Rock together. Interesting how Soft Machine ended up being managed by Chas Chandler too and Soft Machine and the Jimi Hendrix experience went on tour around Europe and America. That is when I first saw them both in 1968 at the Washington Hilton Hotel.
George Harrison ended up being greatly influenced by Eric Clapton and his subsequent band Derick and the Dominoes. Only if Jimi Hendrix had become friends with George Harrison and all those fabulous English Jazz Rockers hd played on George Harrison's first solo record "All things must pass" with Robert Wyatt playing drums. George Harrison could have kept these hungry musicians in work for years and in my opinion the music would have been better. Instead of George chasing windmills working with Phil Spector.
Wouldn't that have been amazing to be there on that first jam!
thank you
His guitarist he mentioned. Was Gary Boyle another unsung legend and brilliant player
Yes Mr. Auger Jimi was something else,,,,
Thank you Brian 🌐🎶🎵🌐
Wow all the guitarist battling going on. Even Jimi thought he was the best guitarist in the world. Sitting in the seat for his interview. Watch Dick Cavett interview you might just see the amazing humility and the love he shows the house band playing his song as he enters for the interview. Its amazing to meet these great artists and if they are great their humble.
@PICK THIS There is no documentation that ever happened. The story is apocryphal likely started by a Kath fan. Another version says it was Rory Gallagher. Truth is he never made such a comment about anyone. On Cavett when Dick said he was called the greatest guitarist in the world, Jimi said "How about the greatest sitting in this chair". A very humble man. Especially considering he was the best. His style of rhythm playing is still almost impossible to emulate and the sounds he was able to get given the lack of technology available is just unreal.
@J P OOOPPs I wrote that wrong. Your right! My favorite pat of Jimi is Humility of his playing and knowing he was around some of the most amazing players ever. Man if there was video of him and John MCcLaughlin.
Saw Brian Auger with Maestro, including Kim Simmonds and Tim Bogert.
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Jimi Hendrix started a school that no one has graduated from and prolly never will
Maybe you should listen to Robin Trower and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Both of whom learned a lot from Hendrix and graduated with honors.
@@knybee I cover all three of them 3sets worth of material almost 4hrs of music
Well stated
SRV could replicate Jimi’s sound as close as anyone I’ve heard.
His song writing was many miles away from Jimi NOT even in the same hemisphere, just loud country blues with aggression jimi was from another planet musically
This is not exactly accurate.Jimi had played at The Scotch of St James club previously. But never mind, you get the gist. Jimi was famous in @ 1 week.
Man Jay where you there?
I'm sorry but you're wrong. After that first Cromwellian gig, the Scotch of St. James was hired for rehearsals, hence the confusion. In fact, I met Noel Redding in a Denmark Street coffee shop, on his way to try out as bass player for what was to become The Experience.
Over the last 50 years memories and stories you've heard tend to become conflated and things like his version of the Clapton story result. By most accounts the first time Clapton heard Jimi was when Chas asked if he could jam with Cream at one of their gigs. They did Killing Floor with Clapton and Jimi sharing the same amp. Not only did Jimi play like nothing they'd ever heard before but he did some of his stage show of behind the back and head as well and Clapton was really affected. None of them had actually seen any of their blues idols live in their prime and only knew about their relatively tame album cuts. JImi was something completely out of their realm of experience. Had Jimi playing with Brian Auger been the first time Clapton saw him that you can bet that jam with Cream would never have taken place. Pete Townsend says that Clapton called and invited him to an Experience gig having never called Pete before. He said that when they went in Beck was coming out and told Pete there's this guy stealing your feedback stuff. The story goes that the English musicians of the time decided that the way to deal with Jimi's talent was to claim him as one of their own rather than feel intimidated. What they didn't know was that Jimi already looked up to many of them and was only interested in their appreciation and acceptance something he hadn't found back home so he was only too happy to be part of the English music scene.
@@kkjhn41 This is the story I heard many years ago.
If Peter Grant became Jimi Hendrix's manager, he would have taken good care of him,like his financial affairs! He might have even got him off drugs!
Dunno about that, Grant was mad into the Charlie himself..
i love these stories, another person who didn't like mike jeffrey... hmmm.
good stuff, now you know how it went down, would have loved to have been there just to see jimi early on and watch the reaction of everyone, i forget who said it but I think clapton was on one end of the conversation, someone said 'you have to see this guy he's going to put us all out of business'.
Pete Townsend to Jeff Beck as Pete was walking out of the club..
Nice to put a face to Auger. I picked up some records of his in the early -mid eightes.
" Alvin Lee...." This sort of association has never made it across the Pond. I think this is the 1st Time ; Alvin Lee is mentioned , among exemplary - astute .....PEERS.
Thank You Mr Auger ....🌺
What a band that would have been, Jimi, Julie and Brian!
Nah, Jimi and Brian's styles would totally have clashed. And, both of them were leaders, not ready to share the spotlight.
The Cromwell was very very special club. I went once went when Jimi played.
Met Brian backstage and helped his son Karma by getting ice for his sore arm before he played drums. Great guy. Brian and I talked about music and Eddie Harris song, "Listen Here."
Very interesting observation to mention that most people play like the person from whom they have learned but not Jimi just a genius.
Great stereo on the cans.
Very cool 👍🏻
The what ifs of music history......(Brian Auger looks a bit like Gerard Depardieu).
No need to insult the man ;)
@@martintaper7997 O.K. I'll say he's better looking than Depardieu. How about that?
Give Clapton his due. Eric was a serious student of American Blues music and his work with John Mayall's Blues Breakers AND Cream AND Blind Faith AND Derek and The Dominoes is revered to this day as some of the best rock blues guitar playing ever recorded. He was surrounded by rabid fans from the time he first recorded a song who thought he was God.
Of course that kind of adulation can be hard to process and would do a real number on the ego of a young man. Then Jimi comes along and seemingly reinvents rock guitar on the spot. I bet Eric would have liked to just sit there and take it all in at his leisure but imagine all those (famous)musicians in that room slowly turning their heads to face him with unmistakable pity and commiseration in their eyes. Try that one on for size sometime. It must have felt like the punchline to a long elaborate cruel prank. You're not God! Not even CLOSE!! Damn..
The thing is ironically enough is Jimi loved these British cats and picked up a lot from them listening to his records. If it wasn't for the British rock blues scene it's debatable whether the world would have ever known about Jimi Hendrix. He was being ignored in New York and playing for empty seats most of the time. It took English musicians to make Americans realize how great their (mostly Black) musicians were.
What Auguer said is that Clapton was great, but he still sounded derivative, whereas Jimi seemed to be an original who may have been influenced by others but did not sound like them. Clapton still quotes Albert King, as did SRV. I think only Jeff Beck has gone to a different, original place, at least on some of his songs.
Jimi Hendrix was the inventor of an entirely new genre of rock.
Yeah, there hadn't been 3+ decades already of white Americans loving and buying black American music before Chas brought Hendrix to London (sarcasm). That whole oft-repeated premise is ridiculous (he had to go to London to be famous because of racists America! Like there hadn't been decades of hugely successful black American artists before Hendrix. It's just stupid and I see that comment all the time.) Hendrix was in the right spot in NY's village , playing with the right people and it was only a matter of time before he was "discovered" by an American but due to Linda Keith's keen eye Chas got to be the lucky one! I'm glad it happened the way it did though because Mitch was Jimi's musical soul mate. Towards the end when it was Jimi, Mitch and Billy Cox that was the strongest band Jimi ever had and some of the recordings of those concerts are just jaw dropping. Jimi had progressed an unbelievable degree in those last few years and those concerts of about the last 6 to 8 months are just unreal.
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You got to be kidding me! Jimi didn't bring any genre to rock except exceptional showmanship with was already being demonstrated by The Who at the time! He lit his guitar on fire one time, that was the difference between his set and The Who's! He smashed his guitar and humped it but his music was Bluesbased Rock and Roll and he even went on TV in Britain and played a song by The Cream! So, if he played one of their songs the same way they did, weren't they first! Hendrix blew me away when I was a Teen but I've since broadened my knowledge of Music!
@@rondy702 If you broadened your knowledge a bit more you'd know he didn't play Sunshine of Your Love anything like the Cream and there was a tremendous difference between his set and The Who at Monterey, namely some incredible guitar work. Besides all that, his album Electric Ladyland was a pure masterwork. As a guitarist I can tell you his funky, soulful and extremely intricate rhythm work and ear for playing just the right note at just the right time was second to none. Yes, as he admitted, there was much flash and over the top showmanship he used to get noticed, but the progress he made as a player and musician from his incredibly short career in 1966 to 1970 is simply staggering. The last year his performances were much different as he would spend most of his time standing still, focusing on on his playing, which was almost a type of fusion towards the end. The Cry of Love, the out of print album released after his death of uncompleted songs, demonstrates some of these vast changes. Listen to Drifting, Freedom or In From the Storm for examples of what I mean. He also was a brilliant songwriter which often goes overlooked. No, I'd say Jimi is much more than a teen boy's idol rock star and his legacy of amazing music bears this out.
I saw Brian open for Led Zep at the Winterland in SF !
Mercy, you are dating yourself! As if I can talk. Lol! Sounds like a fabulous show! When Winterland was being torn down I snuck in with a co-worker. Made sure they weren't using the wrecking ball that day. There were a few posters on the wall. It was the last look. Took a little chuck of the building as a souvenir. Lost it during a move.
@@adc2327 look for the green poster with an eggplant with eyes for that show ! I was a shocked 15 year old when they first played The Lemon Song!
@@TheDivayenta Found your poster. It was an avocado! I had almost forgotten about the Lemon Song. Lol! Growing up in the Bay Area was the best for a music fan like me.
Brian seems like a very kind man.
excellent
I’ll check this guy out. Chris Squire’s Jimi anecdote is priceless.
@robinstevenson1098 MARQUEE club. Early `67.
Yes, Mike Jeffrey! Should read "Gong Dreaming 1: From Soft Machine to the Birth of Gong" does Daevid Allen have something to say about the day Kevin Ayers dropped acid into Mike Jeffery's tea it's hilarious . Also there is more great memories of Jimi . Let's hope Daevid is enjoying his return to planet Gong RIP Daevid.
THE OBLIVION EXPRESS "WOW"
fascinating
Brian seems like a very very cool guy. This is good.
Jimi was from another planet he came to visit. Even today we are still looking for him.
Small point but in another interview available here on UA-cam, Jeff Beck says he got a call from a girlfriend telling him about Hendrix so he went to see him at Blaisers which is the first time Beck saw him. Jeff Beck did not see Hendrix the first time he played at the Cromwellian as Brian claims here.
Steve Gould absolutely. 👍
For any music historians out there, I also learned recently that one of Hendrix's early appearances was supporting the Alan Bown Set on the south coast in a polytechnique collega somewhere (Portsmouth or Southamton most likely) as told to me by the set's bass play Stan Haldane. He said that it all seemed pretty disorganised and Hendrix didn't even have his own guitar but had to borrow one. Then he said six month's later the Alan Bown Set were supporting Jimi Hendrix!
Chris Squire tells the same exact story but at the Marquee
Chris Choir. Yeah, but that was January '67.
Love listening to people who were directly involved in that scene and period.
When it comes to the "Best" of anything, the conversations would end up a little friendlier if people would put these letters in front of their comments... "IMHO."
I suppose there is no recording of this ocassion but well, is there ?