British guitarist analyses Jimi Hendrix taking on Chuck Berry live in 1970!
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Tonight we're taking a look at Jimi Hendrix with his own take on 'Johnny Be Goode'!
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TIME STAMPS -
0:50 Performance
2:40 Analysis Start
7:23 Guitar
9:51 Playing with Aggression
11:48 Thumb Position
13:15 Lead to Rhythm Changes
15:04 Performance Part 2
17:13 Analysis Resumption
18:11 Transition into Open Wah
20:37 Ending Lead
show off !! 😊 👏❤️🌟
Machine Gun off BOG Album you should please do sir.
Thanks for this.
16.45 Knocks the wah wah back on with his hand - cos he can - cos hes a fuckin genius
The last time stamp is worth the whole video.
I was in the front row, directly in front of Jimi at Hunter College in March 1968, and I am still recovering at the age of 70! He was my hero then and now!
One of the few times this 65-year-old wishes he was a little older. I was too young, and in the wrong hemisphere, to hear the man live.
It truly was the experience of a lifetime! I saw Jimi play live 3 times, and I met him one night at a club in Greenwich Village. I was only 16 and he was my hero!
Wow I wish I could have been there
@@jimjim7819 Speaking of recovering, tomorrow is my anniversary. I have been Clean and Sober for 18 years, and I haven't had a cigarette in over 30! It has taken that long to recover from the 1960s. It was an amazing decade, but it left a lot of devastation in it's wake.
@@katsujinkin60 wow I envy you! Amazing!
He COULD play a guitar just like ringing a bell!
But did he carry it in a gunny sack?
@@chipurBillWhite Hah! Any gig bag in a storm, I guess!
@@lynndow3185 Right you are 😉
@@lynndow3185 are You referring to Jimi or Fil? (Hee, hee)
@@drewpall2598 Haaa!!! ALL of 'em! Jimi, Fil, Chuck and Johnny B.!
Jimi's bend at 2:35 gives me a lump in my throat, a chill down my spine and a tear in my eye. It is the sound of my entire youth. I can't explain it better.
Fil, thank you for highlighting that moment and his mastery of feedback! Jimi doing what he did with the equipment available at that time is like Aristotle harnessing nuclear fusion with an oil lamp.
Phil is as good at explaining it as Jimmy was doing it
I think that could be the greatest guitar note in history. If it fell into my hands I wouldn't know what to do with it, but for Jimi, it was just another step on the path.
An excellent analogy. Truly one of the greatest, most creative single notes in all of rock guitar. The first time I heard it, I had to sit down and take a deep breath.
@@52split100% agree, and I have always been grateful that we have a video of it, so we can see how perfectly that note came out into the world, with the arm flying over his head and his mouth open, like the note was created with his whole being and not just the pluck of a guitar string.
Gotcha there too
Jimi's greatest Live performance ever recorded. I like how when Chuck Berry was asked about it, he said that Jimi "played the hell out of it."
To add another level of awesome, Jimi looks at the neck just once during the entire song.
Saw Chuck Berry from like 15 ft away ...his tone was magical...we forget how many musicians he inspired ....rest well Chuck and Jimi 🌹
Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones), Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix.
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I see Chuck Berry doing with a guitar what Louis Jordan did with a saxophone and Moon Mullican did with a piano. But of course, Guitar Slim and Sister Rosetta Tharp were in there, too.
This was taken from the first show May 30, 1970. I was fifteen years old and sitting in the 10th row with a high school friend. What a way to be introduced to live music, as this was my first "big boy" concert. (Hey...What's that smell" ?) While waiting for my parents to pick us up, we listened to part of the second show from the recording truck behind the theater. There was also a minor riot by people trying to get into that sold out second show. Such a great analysis, Fil (as usual !) Such a great memory. Thanks!
Great story! Thanks a lot for sharing it.
My Dad (still with us) was one of the fans able to get on stage with Jimi at Woodstock.. Spoke to him & shook his hand too. Memories for him..✌🎸🎵❤🔥
Wow great stories!!!
James Williams thumbs up
My dad brought me to see Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Fats Domino 6 years before this.
The absolute master, nobody could do what he did!.
A friend of mine played this to me in the summer of 1972 when I was 11 years old. It absolutely blew my mind. I was listening to the Monkees, The Partridge Family, Jesus Christ Superstar...and then this. Good Lord! I was off to the races and never looked back...
I was 11 in 72 also and listening to the Monkeys, and the Patridge Family but unfortunately never listened to Jimi until the late 80's.
@@raphaelbernard7954 That wailing, haunting guitar note in the solo that Fil talks about is probably the greatest single guitar note in history.
Jimi shoved Johnny B Goode in a 1960s muscle car and floored it.
Exactly that's way he was the Goat!!
He does that to every song he covers.
Great analogy.
“Something that hasn’t happened before.” Encapsulates Jimi’s guitar playing in one phrase.
With good listening WeAll Can Play what we’ve never played or heard before
This one man shocked the world, and changed the direction of Rock and Roll. Jimi was simply amazing.
When I was in college, one of my friends brought in the album with Purple Haze on it. Everything changed after that.
@Led Zeppelin dawg you probably live a sad, unfulfilling, life
That Berkeley show must have been something. Jimi was smoking here!
It was...
@@jimz68 You must have seen so many great ones back then, huh?
@@obbor4 Yes, I was very lucky to live where there were so many venues for music. Berkeley, Winterland, Fillmore West, etc. Some weekends we were going to one show on Friday and another on Saturday. And I am now, at 65 paying for it with hearing problems.
"The perfect blend of chaos and organization" - you nailed it!
Total, complete and utter mastery !! All that man wanted to do was play that guitar, it was his all.
The man who broke the mold of what guitar playing could be ... the greatest innovator of sound ... he opened the door for every other guitarist who followed.
He changed the paradigm.
Well said!
Correct.
A true trail blazer.
I don't care what anyone says ,if he isn't the best, there isn't a long line ahead of him
Agreed 💯% . Jimi had been playing the guitar for only 12 years by the time of his death so to me he is the greatest guitar player ever he's like the Michael Jordan of the guitar.
Everyone did this song. (They still do it!) It was like a rite of passage. Jimi, Johnny Winter, SRV, et al... They all recognised Chuck as the man to master... Jimi's version is pure adrenaline... His comping of the bompa-bompa chords and the classic double stop riff (that Chuck borrowed from T-Bone Walker, and jump blues after all!) is rock solid, befitting of a back-line player, well schooled in all those chitlin circuit bands where you could be fined if you missed a beat or lagged a note, over which he paints astral dreams of sheer sonic bliss...
Don’t you wonder had jimi lived
52+ years later, we're still mesmerized by what this man was doing with & to a guitar.🤯
L E G E N D .
Fil...your skill is amazing and Jimi's influence has everything to do with that!!...✌♥️🤘😊
Thanks Lori!
Dancing on the edge of feedback.....great description.....
Never has the universal libido flowed so effortlessly as it did through Jimi.
There is nothing to break down here.
There is no other electric guitarist other than him.
Everybody else is playing AT it ...and as flashy and as virtuosic as they may be----they can't touch him.
His energy is incinerating...He was like prometheus stealing fire from the Gods and gifting it to the world.
It's not fair that I can only give "1" thumbs up!!
👍
What an awesome version of Johny Be Good. “Perfect blend of chaos”. Sums it up, Fil...thank you for this.
Hendrix's control of feedback was almost spooky at times: the way he could create that sound that almost sounds like ufos flying past or making his amp sound like it was possessed.
In one of his books he describes seeing a UFO while traveling to another gig
He just got lucky every time👍🫥😶🌫️🐦🕊️
One of the greatest songs ever written, and the best guitar intro EVER, played by possibly the greatest guitarist....❤️❤️
This is the best rendition of this song by anyone ever. Different gravy
Wow...have you ever heard Chuck Berry?
no , its ok but Chuck was the best
He sure could crank it out. He was in the zone alright, still gives me goose bumps to listen to his solos.
Nothing Jimi does "correlates" to anything anyone ever does on the fretboard. His hands are so unique, as big as Chuck's, which were something else...
Thats insane playing.No wonder Clapton had second thoughts.No one has revolutionised the electric guitar as Hendrix did.The most influential guitarist of our time.
Mitch shaking his fist at the end, in appreciation 😬
I didn't see that before....He is reaching for the cymbals...but yeah...he is early there and seems to address to Jimi.....nice one....this very concert was one a the more magical moments between Mitch and Jimi...they went all over the place but sort of telepathy kept them together....very special if other people can feel that,understand it...it is very rare I find people "getting it"....tnx Bazda
WOW! I never noticed that before... Thanks!
@@andrehof7876 How do you feel about Mitch playing drum parts during the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock? I think Billy Cox tapped out after about 6 seconds in
@@the90schildmashups92 ooh, can't remember much drumming there, I think Mitch stopped a bit later than Billy though..
I know Mitch claimed that Woodstock was icy cold, they came on in early morning hours of Monday or so, after endless delays..
Mitch said he played to keep his hands warm most of that gig, being very busy...
@@andrehof7876 Mitch would stop, then came back in during the war sounds part Hendrix was playing, then stopped. Billy decided to not play bass for almost all of it if I heard him right. Interesting details though you shared
Best version of Johnny B Goode ever! High-Octane energy! This specific performance is one of his greatest in playing and top notch showmanship. I wonder if Chuck Berry crapped his pants when he heard Jimi's version. 😂😂
Jimmy seems overrated until you see him play.
Jimi seems overrated until you can play his songs on guitar and not get it to sound ANYWHERE NEAR his level, and until you realise it’s because he combines everything that makes a good guitarist to a level that no one else can really reach.
Another great example of Jimi's mastery of feedback is the Rainbow Bridge version of Hear My Train A Comin. He on que he summons feedback to imitate a train whistle. It is amazing. The control he exhibits over his ax is insane. He was quite simply "Th GOAT." I challenge you to find anyone who could do that let alone with such ease.
Great performance!! I know we’re all captivated by his showmanship and soloing, but man, Jimi was such a great rhythm player!!! ✌🏻🎸🎶
Exactly. The way he weaves between rhythm and lead so effortlessly is stunning. People also don’t mention enough how brilliant Mitch is here.
Jimi's original name was Johnny Allen Hendrix. So Chuck Berry was prophetic.
So "Go Johnny Go" fits!
@@corilia9529 But he was named Johnny but that was also an ex lover of Jimi's Mum so Al had it changed
James Marshall Hendrix
@@meendean69 after his dad took full custody
@@meendean69 He was named Johnny before that
We lost him way too early. Who knows what magic he would’ve brought us in the 70s.
I love that everyone talks about that note around 2:33 - that bend where he throws is left arm over his head in unison with the bending of the note.
I first saw this video as a teenager and this one note touched me in a profound way, and it has stayed with me since then. And I love seeing here that so many people feel the same way.
Amazing example of Hendrix' ability. My first Hendrix album was In The West, which had this and many other incredible live performances. Lover Man is my favorite. I played in a band and of course we played this version of Johnny B Goode.
Special note to guitarists: Regarding that bend at 2:35: wide bends like that are particularly difficult on a Strat, because when you bend, the springs in the guitar stretch and all your strings go flat, so the tremolo is fighting you and you have to push the string even farther to get your note. In addition, the old Fenders have a fingerboard radius of 7.25 inches, so the action has to be a lot higher than on a Gibson with its flatter neck or your bends will fret out and die. As if that's not enough, Jimi's low tuning requires that you push the string farther to achieve the same change in pitch. (Luthier here, as well as guitarist, speaking.). That bend alone, under those conditions, is nothing short of phenomenal. Thanks again, Fil, and nice work on your white Strat!
His cover is a perfect definition of a rock-and-roll classic played by a ROCK musician. Hardly anything was already left from the 50s, it was all late 60s+ in all their richness that still amazes people of today
His opening playing of the song was just incredible
Shout out to Mitch and Noel. Everything that jimi threw at them, they were able to keep up with him.
It's Mitch Mitchell on drums, but it's not Noel Redding playing bass. It's Bill Cox.
@@joe22589 Oops, my bad. Either way, Jimi always found top talent to be in his band.
@@FFVison Noel couldn't keep up with this... Billy is a huge upgrade. It's a shame it didn't last.
@@jiminut Agreed. Billy Cox was much more solid and had some solid grooves.
@@jiminut I beg to disagree, it's the other way around, I don't think Billy could keep up with Noel, check out Noel's solo on if six was nine. Billy could never play that! Noel was technically advised Billy wasn't
Jimi was a wild genius who played with a tame untamed style! And Chuck Berry, that guy... well he definitely told Keith Richards he would punch him in the eye once! He also told me the same thing,as I was sitting in with Percy Sledge once on a last minute thing and Chuck Berry was there also and obviously he didn't like my everything evidently!! True story 😂😂😂
Chuck Berry could be a bit of dick sometimes. And that is not even counting the covert filming of women using the can...another scale completely.
I ran sound for Percy in Birmingham Alabama about 30 years ago
~20:30 Talking about being perfect and clean. Beethoven said: A wrong note is not a problem, but a note played without passion is a disgrace.
Take a close look: at 16:44 he was just pushing the WAH pedal with her left hand, while he's making that pull-off licks with his right hand. hahah what a showman he was.
Jimi just covered this song, "Johnny Be Goode" in concert TWO TIMES in his life, just two fkin times. And he is really IMPROVIZING, as always. He mades things easy hahah
On this video, and on his last concerts (take some 70 stuff shows like Baltimore 70, or European tour 70,...) he was a fkin BEAST, really: focuzed, groundbreaking and tasty licks, he literally rewrites the same song musically between one concert to another (for example Hear my Train a Comin', or Red House), understanding that he's always singuin' while playin'!!! I don't ever imagine what he have reached if he'd spend 10 or more years with us. What a loss.
Was he just the coolest guy EVER ?? Yes, yes he was.
My first concert, age 14... After 2 opening acts, The Experience came out at midnight and finished just before dawn! No other live performance came close... RIP Jimi.
When Jimi Hendrix was playing to the best of his ability nobody could touch him, great example here, Star Spangled Banner and Machine gun two other examples that for me are the greatest pieces of guitar playing the world will every hear.
He was God in drag.
Hear my train a comin too was massive in emotion and I feel like it’s him claiming his throne in the guitar world especially the filmore and Atlanta pop version
One trick pony
@@StevieZero Hendrix? One trick pony? Whhatttttt
Even he realised he was a one trick pony.What people forget or don't realise he was being Booed by audiences his last performances& he himself hated his restrictions on guitar.He was about to start learning proper theory before he died and was jealous of guys like Ritchie Blackmore& other progressive players who were starting to emerge.Go and learn about the guy properly and stop being a fanboy.....There's nothing difficult about running blues riffs and power chords through a Wah pedal...
Sick. Typically another "sick", phenomenal performance from The Phenom. Jimi was a genuine human comet, blazing across our skies brightly and briefly and disappearing, and these videos and records are the bits of his cosmic dust trail; through which we can still see him and hear him. Thanks for these insights. There can never be too many.
All I know is that this was over 50 years ago and people are still trying to catch up to Hendrix.
I would love to hear you analyze his Killing Floor Monterey Pop performance..
Fil, I truly have to thank you for this incredible music analysis videos that you provided of Jimi Hendrix-you opened my ears and mind further regarding his overall musicianship. I had to listen to the video separately as you suggested and the listening experience was amazing! Jimi was indeed an incredible musician who demonstrated that blend of-I believe you put it(albeit partially I think)as this-chaos and control and overall technique. After listening to Jimi, now I’m a bit ashamed to say that for years I wasn’t exactly “fannish” about Jimi because of his smashing guitars on stage-I believe that musical instruments are meant for playing, not destroying. So as of now, I’ve put that part aside. Since listening to your music analyses, I’m more open minded and if this is a word, more “open-eared” to all music genres. Yes I know I’ve said this before: From one musician to another musician, I sincerely thank you for all you do, Fil! 🎸
What a pleasure your videos are. I've seen and heard Jimi's version of Johnny B Goode so many times but -- after this -- I appreciate it even more. I've been playing guitar for 50 years now, and I'm still learning from Jimi, and you!
FIRST !!!! this song was not in the playlist , someone from the audience shouted JBG when Hendrix announces....¨ We are going to begin with a jam ¨....so it was improvised and¨ taken by surprise ¨, you can see him giving clues to the band during performance..... Listen to the talk introduction on the - Hendrix on the West- album .....
SECOND DETAIL !!! watch before the solo at the end , how he hits and activates the wah pedal with his left hand after he clutches .....
Please check out Power of Love with Band Of Gypys
Who TF thumbs down this? Ffs. Excellent job Fil, absolutely love your jimi videos. Thanks for doing him justice :) rock on brotha
Jimi didnt need a band , but his band were great !. But Check out Stockholm 1969 concert , watch Jimi tinker with his stack in the first couple of minutes Fil , he's fine tuning his feedback! ..also love your analysis of JBG , its perfect . My hendrix in west LP is now very worn out .
Don't forget the Blue Suede shoes track, the live one
There is a story that when Jimi was in England, the Stones, Beatles, everyone came to see him and could not figure out how he was getting those sounds out of his guitar.
Always a treat to see a critique on one of my favorite guitarists, Jimi Hendrix, from my favorite UA-cam critic. Great job Fil on all your critiques, but this one in particular. I believe for me it was the addition of your very detailed highly skilled hands on guitar explanation that made the difference. Your respect for the original artists in all your videos is obvious and is only amplified by your courteous and humble delivery. So many others on UA-cam start out ok with a critique but quickly shift the focus and dialogue toward their own skill set often limited in comparison to the subject of their critique. Hope you'll do more reviews/critiques like this in the future. Well done sir!
This woke me up Fil: double trouble, Jimi playing Chuck. What a performance. Don’t mind slightly flat with aggressive overdrive, sounds raw and cool. 😎
When I first heard Jimi Hendrix, this must have been in the mid-1970s, around then, the effect was like being hit by a bus while completely disorientated and enjoying the thrill of still being alive. I can remember the B side: The Wind Cries Mary, the A side memory has gone. The sound Jimi made playing his guitar made every piece of popular music guitar playing passe`. Like, nothing else mattered - probably still doesn't. Hendrix blew away everything that came before him and even now, challenges all that has come after him. Because of the tonal variations played on the record, All Along The Watch Tower, will always rate tops on my own list of songs that provided the background to the loss of my personal innocence. Wha wha, sweeping slide, muted fast strumming everything else got stood on its head so that "pop" music would never be the same ever again. I bought Are You Experienced, Jimi's first album accompanied by two white guy side men a situation that Billy Cox, session drummer sounded a disapproval of. Jimi did more than just touched those of us who happily followed the faith and mourned him deeply when at just 27, Jimi was gone. Suddenly, no build up, no warning as dark clouds covered the Sun only a desperate sense of loss. We had been gifted someone, some special and unique, never to replaced and only for a few months. The Great ones always seem to leave us, long before their time and our time too it would seem. But, there they are still, their body of recordings, concert and television appearances - gone, and forever young.
Billy Cox is a bass player, not a drummer and never disapproved of Mitch or Noel. As a matter of fact Jimi and Mitch were very tight as friends and musicians. Third Stone From The Sun is all Jimi and Mitch. That is what makes that song. From what I can tell you just don't know what you are talking about.
I stood on that stage at Berkeley in 2013. Everything is still the same.
I play but your explanation was awesome for non-players. Well done sir!
This is the most dangerous solo ever recorded
Since there is no longer any talent in music nowadays not many can appreciate this. Hendrix will always be the greatest.
The talent is in Bluegrass.
Oh, talent is definitely out there... it just takes more effort to find it because the major labels nowadays prefer to focus more on image and trendiness which they can market easily. Visit small live music venues and you will be surprised by the huge number of highly talented and unique musicians performing there.
@@rookmaster7502 Anybody out there as good as Hendrix or EVH?
@@ericcollette5577 Well, different. With their own unique and original style, just like Hendrix and EVH were. What I've seen, some are definitely as good as EVH, if not better. You really need to go out to these venues and judge for yourself.
@@rookmaster7502 I listen to LA Loyde on the weekly top 40 and havent heard anything remotely as good as Hendrix and EVH guitar wise. Can you name some please?
Hard to believe this was 50 years ago! Loved your analysis and your playing too!
Saw Jimi in 1968 in Nottingham on his first uK tour topping the bill with other artists including Pink Floyd, The Nice, Amen Corner and the Move. Was only 17 and didn’t appreciate/understand what I was seeing!
Now I know I was seeing the GOAT!!
Wearing a purple Jimi t shirt tonight, accident? Synchronic Smiling the Joy-Dancing on the Edge of Feedback. \m/
It's so exciting ..what a trip. He'd always take you to places you never knew existed!!!
Sorry to flood the chat but this is an amazing channeling of Jimi's spirit! I'm blown away by your technical demo but also your appreciation for his balls to the wall approach to performing! It's like nothing was planned. Jimi was forced to play the hits but by 1969 he was improvising everything from the songs to the setlists and of course the instrumentals! Finally, let's hear it for Billy Cox on bass guitar!
regarding the the first analysis Bend , try bending the G-string up a tone then while it is still bent quickly slide up a minor third ( or whatever note you are trying to achieve )keeping the string bent then release the bend slowly . maybe or it could be just feedback but the Lulu voodoo chile bend could be related i feel .all the best
I was in a Shadows type band in 1962, we sacked the lead guitarist because his Watkins Wem amp kept feeding back. Lol😀
Not counting all the hrs Jimi put in from his youth onwards and traveling along with Little Richards' band/troupe (esp in deep south, black clubs....)......
Jimi played with a right handed players guitar; strings upside down (so to speak). Drove other guitarists nuts early on trying to copy, er, "borrow from" him.
Had a lot to do with his playing style/sound. Also, as usual, his drug use was highly influential in what you saw/heard from him.
Jimmy's insane lead always touches the primal in me
His god touches yours. We only exist in the mind of god. Music like this reminds us !!
Man you're not arf complicating the concept of feedback, and bringing microphonic squeal into the equation is kind of confusing and superfluous to what you're trying to describe.
Another way of describing (controlled) feedback is: when the guitar amp is turned up way loud, certain notes coming out of the speaker (being frequency and vibration) will cause certain strings to vibrate in sympathy. Sometimes a harmonic of that note, often an octave (always higher, never lower, than the original note), but not always...sometimes a perfect 5th...it's often unpredictable, which makes it so exciting.
Thank you Mr. Hendrix for pioneering the greatest era of electric guitar EVER! He was so exciting to watch live, sorry I never got to see him in person. Nice analysis as always Fil!
One of the early shows Jimi did when he returned from the UK was a stadium on the west coast where he and the Experience were the warm up band for the Monkeys. Can you imagine the shock given to all those teenage girls who came to see the Monkeys?
You made me smile, when you smiled! The very end solo. I knew we all seen the impossible!
…yes, and he was also singing. That always throws me. That throws him way above people like Beck, Santana, Blackmore, Page. Etc He was on another axis or plane.
That distorted note on the solo is the greatest note ever played. Haunting and otherworldly.
Stone Temple Pilots- STP
Creedence Clearwater Revival- CCR
Wings Of Pegasus- WOP
Catchy.
Hendrix (“In The West Album”) played Johnny B. Goode live at Berkeley Community Theatre on (May 30th 1970) and the rest is legendary history. Like Jimi told Pete Townsend at Monterey,” If I have to follow you I’m pulling out all the stops” ☮️ R.I.P. James Marshall Hendrix 🎸
Ya. Hendrix rode the feedback like a surfer rides a wave - zipping through the tube and shooting out the other end, waving as he did it.
One year later and Jimi's music is back on UA-cam! Can we try for a Pali gap or machine gun breakdown? I love these vids so much. Well done sir. Best tip for anyone starting from scratch learning to play?
Jimi was, and still is in a class of his own. I defy ANYONE who rates themselves as a guitarist/performer/artist to play with such passion, freedom and conviction as in this performance. If there is anyone else out there, I’ve yet to see or hear them.
The first time I saw controlled feedback as part of a song was when I saw Hendrix super-fan Joe Satriani on the Flying In a Blue Dream tour (late 1989 I think - maybe 1990). That opening C note, and he held it while staying at one spot on stage (“the sweet spot”), and he would just change the angle he was holding the guitar to switch the feedback to different notes. It was awesome, and technique Joe learned from studying Hendrix. Until then I knew how to make feedback, but had no idea you could actually control the pitch. Great analysis!
I've always thought Jimi was the real life Johnny B. Goode.
16:43 - Notice how Jimi reaches over and turns-on the wah-wah by smacking it with his left hand.
From that point onward, the wah-wah is on.
02:35 - The way he ‘pulls’ that feedback/note out of the guitar.
My head practically exploded when I saw that when I was a kid……so many years ago.
Great observation!
If you look at machine gun from the fillmore East concert you can see that feedback spot he is using when he hit that looooong note at the begin of the solo. He says "heey, machine gun" at 3:52... Closes his eyes and takes one step back to begin that ride of feedback and soloing. The most clear example of this spot he's using there is I think.
You are a GUITAR MASTER. No question. I cannot play, but I certainly know Master Class! I have heard so many in that Astral plane, including Jimi Hendrix and SRV.
Thanks!
Fender Bender !! Good one !!
As Oscar Wild might have said - the only thing more interesting than hearing Wings of Pegasus discuss Hendrix is hearing Hendrix himself play!
With a pick or with his teeth and with feed 'hind his back... With The Master's edge God Given Hands on the Strat...The People trekked for miles goin' up The Country Of God's...To See Him Play his Guitar upon Yasgur's Farm... Gave us Rainbows out of tune with his knack has the charm...On Pegasus he soars Little Wing on his arm ...Go..Go....Fly On... Enjoyed your analysis and playing, Thanks and 'scuse me for that.
Yes when you play thru your HEART and SPIRIT and really really let it happen,let it go...then thats when its a different world...it isnt just knowning the notes,and the tones,its the freedom of spirit within you and beyound you that can really make it happen.
Its gets deep in these waters...nice review. ....Play on Jimi...they'll never be another like you.
Why would anyone dislike this video? It's an excellent breakdown of this underestimated masterpiece of live guitar
'cos I am jealous
Again mitch mitchell a hell of a drummer especially 2 keep up with Jimi
If any guitarist ever personified Johnny B. Goode it was Jimi Hendrix! With major kudos to my personal rhythm section of Billy Cox & Mitch Mitchell, the two Berkeley shows were not only epic but iconic!
Amazing, too bad he couldnt have found a good woman to take good care of him and not alot of shady lady's of ill repute. Just the look in his eyes says alot.
I remember back in 1967 buying "Are You Experienced" in a junk store for 50 cents. I took it home and played it. I could not get into it at all. I thought it was too weird. Not the usual music of the day when people listened to Beatles, The Association, Mamas & Papas, Simon and Garfunkel, the Doors and the Monkees. That's why his album turned up in a junk store. I also bought the Beach Boy's "Pet Sounds" that same time for 50 cents. I did not like that album either. I thought what has happened to the Beach Boys? When by the 70's and 80's I re-listened to those albums then I liked them and now those records are considered famous. Even "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", in the 60's I thought what the hell is this? What happened to the Beatles? I didn't listen to it until the early 70's and then I understood how great it was. Psychedelic music took awhile to catch on. Just saying what I remember. I was there.
I know what you mean. I wasn't into it until much later. Now....I understand it better
sad.
My theory is that Jimi was just visiting from another planet and left everyone behind in his glitter storm.
Gone FAR too soon. ❣
Hoys the wah wah back on with his hand - because he could because hes Jimi Fuckin Hendrix
This makes me smile it's so good.