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U68: CURTIS KNIGHT REMEMBERS JIMI HENDRIX [Color 1986]
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2021
- In 1986 Curtis Knight dropped by the WWHT U68 studios in Newark to discuss his friendship with Jimi Hendrix, a friendship fraught with controversy.
NOTE: The Hendrix Estate made me delete the "Star Spangled Banner" from the closing credits. Feel free to hum it to yourself.
what an articulate man - incredible interview - the best i've heard about Jimi Hendrix...who this man obviously knew very well and loved
Man i got goosebumps!!! Back in the 90s i found a cassette of "rare Jimi sessions". It was 10 instrumental songs of Jimi jamming. An older guy i knew borrowed it and returned it a few days later saying it wasn't Jimi and there are fakes out there. I knew it was Jimi.
I didn't figure it out until tonight it was Jimi jamming with Curtis!!!!! Then to find this interview and hear him explain it?!?!!! Priceless!!! I hope i can find it. I threw out most of my cassette tapes. Can't find it on ebay yet. Nobody loaded it on YT. Thx for this interview, amazing!!!
Great interview! Thanks for uploading.
He loved Jimi so much that he guilted Jimi into doing sessions with him after he was successful. He promised Jimi that the sessions would not use his name to promote the recordings. That promise was instantly broken and those recordings have been issued illegally thousands of times as Jimi Hendrix recordings. Knight has spent the rest of his life dining out on his "friendship" with Jimi. With friends like these.....
He was still a good musician.
@@ILoveGod06 Not really!...and he was also a part-time pimp!...Jimi actually became involved with a woman named Carol Shiroky....who was one of Knight's "ladies".
Also, this guy's Karma caught up with him...he died years ago, from Prostate cancer.
I’m surprised he didn’t say it was a prostate given to him by his dear friend, Jimi.
Great interview! Even I’ve never heard it..😊
Thank you!
He didn’t discover Hendrix…
Who in your opinion did discover Jimi?
@@WinstonErrolScholsberg that’s hard to say really.. was it Little Richard, the Isley Brothers, Chas Chandler?
I think Hendrix discovered himself, the English Music Scene helped too.. He needed to get out of that Chitlin Circuit , so I would say Chas Chandler helped Hendrix to discover himself
@@MrBrungers i agree with your analysis and I played with Curtis Knight so I think all the people you mentioned had a part in forming Jimi. Musically he’s his own creator.
SMH
if it wuzn't 4 dis brotha, GIVING Hendrix opportunitiez, Linda Keith, woulda never gotten 2 c him per4m.
Give Knight sum credit.
@@WinstonErrolScholsberg Winston- did you ever have the chance to see Jimi or speak to Curtis about him?
Jimi did have Curtis knight and elmore james singing style
I agree and it's impossible to be original. We learn from eachother right.
@@WinstonErrolScholsberg facts!!
@@WinstonErrolScholsberg of course it's impossible to be 100x100 impossible. Not even the greatest of the genius, in any art whatsoever.
But every now and then, there comes somebody who looks like it... Because he/she makes the art jump 3 grounds at a time instead of 1, and opens 3 doors at a single slam, and unless one knows all his "fountains", he sounds so fresh that it looks like a revolution. And maybe, he/she is the last one to be aware of his talent! 🧐... Until the moment he is clapped".
In my guitar book, it happened with EC in early 66, and then with Jimi in late 66 in London.
Yess I agree 😃 I can hear it too 🎼🤘🏻
I always heard Linda Keith brought Chas Chandler to see Jimi at the cafe Wha to see Jimi with his band Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. Chas also said pretty much the same thing as Linda Keith.
Linda Keith was briefly attached to both Keith Richards and Jimi.
There's even a UA-cam video of Jimi and Keith backstage at a Stones concert and Jimi asks Keith about Linda. This makes Keith very uncomfortable and he walks out of the room.
@@jono1457-qd9ft I did not think that Keith Richards was uncomfortable, but he did indeed leave Jimi alone pretty quickly after that conversation!
I always thought the Curtis Knight sessions were before Chas Chandler.Not sure this interview is accurate
Wow, Curtis said things I always wondered about with Jimi. Apparently he was a star before he was a star.
I remember 1986. The entire year was in color as was the previous 20 years.
This clip is in color too.
Maybe your next joke will be something intelligent
@@hys1171 yawn
@@hys1171
i am envious of anyone who's never read ur past comments, let alone ur next...
@@EdKazO-Vision I think @mcsplivens is merely expressing his disdain for this high-tech, digital-dystopia that's supposed to produce the best visual art!
This vas fantastic.
This interview is from 1986 - - it is now 2023 - - -has anyone heard of the MIDNIGHT GYPSIES - back in 1986 - or now in 2023 ? - - that Curtis said were a big thing ?
No, never heard of them either,,,,,,,I believe Curtis has used Jimi's name like so many others he thought where his friends!.
Respect. Thankyou for sharing
Please don’t tell me Curtis was comparing this shit to Hendrix 18:04
"Its hard out here for a pimp!"
Great interview !
"Hey Joe" was not first recorded by the Leaves!
True Hendrix aficionados will pick this nonsense to pieces....
I am doing my best!
Some of his comments do not match the historical record. Jimi was long dead when this came out and unable to call bullshit. For example, he "discovered" Hendrix, who left in the same level of fame as he found him. Indeed, Hendrix had been a sideman for years with known acts like Little Richard and The Isley Brothers. Curtis Knight is often cited as one of the many extraneous pressures on Hendrix and he has always been represented as someone who did little for Hendrix but expected a lot in return.
Amen!
For anyone wondering whether to give Curtis Knight the soapbox he craved -- have YOU ever heard the "Get That Feeling" album?
It was a clear case of exploitation of Jimi.
The album blows goats.
If you're really hot and heavy about joining Team Knight, be sure to go out and buy a copy of "Flashing first," which is just as bad. And just before you cast your ballot, you may as well blow good money on the "You Can't Use My Name" album.
Curtis Knight is far from the only opportunist who took advantage of Hendrix.
He's just one more of them.
Maybe the first. Add his book to your examples. Knight begins by saying he was out clothes shopping "...with the intention of buying something flash..." when he first saw Mr. Hendrix. And away he went. Exploitive narcissist.
For real. The title track off "Get that feeling" is so uninspired and was clearly thrown together with no care. Nonsense lyrics, no changes in the groove or chords. It's kinda sad to hear Jimi's playing on it (if that really is Jimi). He's still a great guitarist, but you can tell his heart isn't in it. When Curtis tells him to "play that thing Jimi" he just tosses off a few quick little phrases and gets back to playing rhythm.
It's so funny to hear him in this video talk about how boxed in Jimi was with the soul circuit and then to hear that track of him not being allowed to express himself really. Playing someone else's inferior music.
You can totally picture the conversation that led to that session (because you KNOW it was tossed off in one kinda crappy take): "C'mon Jimi. I could really use some help with this record. With your name on it, it would SELL! C'mon, for old times sake? Remember who gave you your start, baby!"
Also, the whole track is in E standard tuning, which is funny because Jimi tuned his own guitar to Eb most of the time (more slack in the strings, easier bends). It might seem like a silly guitar nerd thing to notice, but I'll bet anything Jimi showed up to the session with no gear (or was asked to come along and didn't know there was a session) and was just handed a random guitar and told to make it work. Or he had his own strat and was told to tune to the band, which is absurd because when you play with Hendrix, you tune to HIM.
Whatevs, I'm certainly anti Knight after hearing that record and watching him talk up Midnight Gypsies like a skeezy used car salesman. I've heard them and they suck.
The "MIDNIGHT GYPSIES" ain't shit compared to Jimi Hendrix.
I’d like to know what guitars he played???
Jimi was a God. Never ever nobody like Jimi. And yeh. He is my Holy. My soul. Screw church. Love Jimi
Let me tell you something, Jimi Hendrix is dead he is not coming back, Jesus Christ died and rose from the dead, he is truly God. Don't idolise or worship someone who is just human like me and you
@@emmadas You speak the truth.
@@emmadas
Datz da sun, ur talking about.
Jimi wuz an actual man.
Jimi knew dis, I blieve.
Tis y he did songz like HERE COMEZ DA SUN.
@@emmadasThank you. Don’t get me wrong Jimi is amazing but we should idolize him. Even Jimi himself didn’t like that.
Lol Jimi just keeps disappearing without a word
Jimi did not have "hair out to here" in 1964!
I thought he was gonna say the club once on Greenwich village turned into a McDonald’s or sum awful thing as such
Curtis Knight used Hendrix. He put Hendrix's Monterey Pop Festival picture on the front cover of
a record called FLASHING without permission! Knight is an impostor!
Curtis didn't do that, Ed Chalpin did it.
He does recount a lot of inaccurate nonsense.
Curtis didn't make the TRANSITION! from PROCESSED! hair to AFRO!
Jimi did. That's y he made it. Going from 🇺🇸 USA to LONDON, 🏴 ENGLAND. People had never seen an 🌍 afro in London, 🏴 England.
This guy was a huckster from the word go! And he wrote one of the worst bios ever, about Hendrix!...In the book, he even claimed that he and Jimi encountered a UFO, while driving one night! Jimi never mentioned that one!
You double-crossed him.
How did he do that in your opinion?
@@WinstonErrolScholsberg Knight was too buddy-buddy with the unscrupulous Ed Chaplin, and he probably talked Hendrix into coming into the studio to help out in 1967. I think Knight was Chalpin's sidekick. Later on, Knight wrote a bad book on Hendrix. He was just cashing in. He didn't know Hendrix all that well, and didn't care about him. He just cared about the money. Ka-ching!
@@lisarochwarg4707 Thanks for your reaction, I played with Curtis for two years here in The Netherlands. What i know about the deal with Ed Chaplin is that there was a contract for records and Jimi left for England with Chas without fulfilling the contract that he signed. That is the reason he lost the lawsuit. I agree that Knight wanted to profit by writing a book. Who knew Jimi really?
@@WinstonErrolScholsberg I think Fayne Pridgeon knew Jimi best.
@@thebeatcreeper I think Curtis asked Jimi to fill in at Chaplin's request. Curtis was working for Chaplin, he was on Chaplin's side, and he knew Chaplin would use Jimi's name when he shouldn't have. Of course, Jimi shouldn't have signed that contract, but Knight wasn't helping.
Chaplin paid one dollar but ended up making a million off Jimi. That might have been legal, but it wasn't ethical. The music business is vicious. Chaplin was a total prick.
Monika Danneman killed Jimi