What a lot of people don't understand is that Hendrix was a pioneer in studio production. With his third and final album Electric Ladyland, he finally took control of every aspect of his music(with great help from producer Eddie Kramer). He created a soundscape unrivaled at that time.
If you play this track back on a Dolby system you will find it will bounce around the room. Surprisingly, it will also do that in stereo if you have a decent system. It’s because Jimi would include out of phase elements in his mix. He was of course, a master in the use of the phasing effect. It made mastering a complete bitch. But that album is still ahead of pack, and probably always will be. Don’t forget he’s only 25 here…
I have "are you experienced?" tattooed across my collar bone from my right to left shoulder! Oh and a huge pic of Jimi on my calf. Whenever I play this song, it's like the first time I've ever heard it and I've played it 1000s of times.
What gets me about this track, every time, unlike any other track I've heard from anyone is that feels like somehow Jimi managed to encode his existence into the recording, and he is resurrected every time it is played. It might as well be a magic spell. This shit is like the pyramids, it is forever.
Another competent voice on Hendrix: Nigel Kennedy, doctor of musicology who studied at the Juillard school of music, wrote on his album with Hendrix songs that he counts him among the great composers of the 20th century. I agree.
Yes, Hendrix was unique, and he paved the way for countless others. His face is on the Mt. Rushmore of electric guitarists, along with Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck and Shawn Lane
El otro día el novio de una amiga, músico que toca jazz. Canta en coros de opera y se ve sabe mucho de música. Me decía que como no me podían gustar los Beatles. Yo le digo lo que le digo a todos... en serio basta de esa dicotomia Beatles o Rolling Stones. 2 notas de hendrix ya vale más que lo que pudieron hacer todos los Beatles en 10 vidas
@@kevlarV2rocketRSV As great as SRV is (and darn he's amazing) I would have loved it if somehow they could have jammed together (with Clapton? Heck add Beck there and make it a G4) I'm sure they would have both grown and developed probably a new vocabulary not just for guitar but music in general. Seriously, tremendous musicians!!!
I love all three of his main studio albums, but EL was a quantum leap creatively, sound-wise, and the number of things he pulls together--gutbucket blues, funk, soul, R & B, psychedelia, acid rock, hard rock--is astonishing. I don't think there's another double rock album that sounds this great and masters so many different genres.
You're absolutely correct about his mastery of the instrument. Listening to his solos in this song, you hear moments when he shreds as well as anyone. But the way he changes speed and dynamics, and the entire feel of his playing that shows that there was something unique about him. That entire album is a joy to experience start-to-finish.
Jimi was on a different level, a different plane of existence from the rest of us. He always has been the best in my book. He was here as a visitor and left us at a young age. Nobody will ever be as ground-breaking as Jimi.
Jimi had only been playing guitar for 10 years at this point. I had been playing for 20 years when I was finally able to play this song well enough to play it onstage without humiliating myself.
@@jeffk.9075 I saw Jimi free at my local pub. He turned up while John Mayall's Bluesbreakers were playing and borrowed Mick Taylor's guitar for the second set. Mick was not a happy bunny.
That is why he will always be the best. He controlled electricity and shaped into whatever sound(s) he wanted. That is not a thing you can learn, no one else has ever done that and I don't think anyone will again.
I listened to this album so many times in high school I knew every note. A side of Hendrix most don’t know, and many who even heard this track didn’t quite register its genius is: “Rainy Day” -among the funkiest bluesiest funniest ever set to record 😉
What always blows my mind when I hear this is the quality of the recording and how close it makes me feel to being in the studio when I close my eyes. It's so raw and detailed. Especially at 06:49 when Jimi plays lightly you can almost "see" his guitar and you can hear how loud the amp must have been.
One of the greatest guitar songs ever written, most guitar players are measured by how well they can execute this. Much in the same way as classical players are measured by how well they can execute certain pieces. A pretty vital work I would say.
I love the timing of JH and I think that is really where he shines. When he gets to the middle part of this song, while doing this percussion/staccato thing he makes you feel that he slows down. He makes max use of the liberty that music and rythm gives. And it is underestimated (if that could ever be). Bands today play on click tracks and they think that's the right way to play music. Never seen a philharmonic orchestra do this: they all look at the conductor expressing FEEL for the way it should be played. Great stuff. Thanks to Doug.
My sister gave me this album for Christmas that year and being as it was really before headphones were readily available, I remember my mom had a small Panasonic stereo on top of her baby grand piano and putting the speakers on the floor underneath and laying down in between them and listening to the whole album over and over. AND, I still have it! 🤠👍👍👍
For contrast, I suggest you give "Little Wing" from the "Axis: Bold as Love" album a listen, I consider that piece to be one of the most melodic and beautiful songs to ever come from a guitar.
I love Little Wing. My only complaint is that it is over so soon. It's almost like musical haiku. Concrete Blonde does an excellent cover that draws it out and lets you linger in the beauty of that guitar line.
My first concert was Hendrix on May 10, 1969, Houston, TX...Noel Redding's band, Fat Mattress, and a new band, Chicago Transit Authority, were opening acts. Great way to start off my "concert going career"!
Hail Jimi- Trying to get a grip on what and why he was playing what he did is a herculean task. His notes often don't even register as being in diatonic harmonies. It was a sound from outter space travelling to another sound ......from outter space. What a guy ! LOL.
Man, that guitar. With Hendrix it wasn't the speed it was the tone and the POWER not to mention the touch and the tastiness of the intensity. The fact this still sounds so awesome now one has to remember this was released in 1968. Not to mention what a great song. What made Hendrix so great was like Bob Dylan not only was he an innovator he was also a great songwriter.
Imho, Jimi is still THE greatest exponent of wah wah use since the creation of the effect. No one has used it more tastefully, expressively, or lyrically. It was literally another voice on the instrument in his hands. I have loved electric guitar playing all my life, and even though there certainly are later players of brilliance, no one speaks to me on the guitar in the way that Jimi still does. His playing was otherworldly.
"Machine Gun" from the Band of Gypsies record, with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, is both unique in Hendrix's catalog (at least in my view) and band composition. At 12 minutes, it may feel like a marathon to some.
It's impressive that someone still are listening to his music so many year's later it will be interesting to se how long the pop music are standing so many years later.
Voodoo Child (slight return) studio version is exquisite, but my go-to favorite performance is his performance of it at Royal Albert Hall. That was one of his signature concerts, of course. The vibe he had on that...
FINALLY! Someone picks up on Jimi playing a right-handed guitar with his left hand! I can't believe that, so many people don't pick up on this! But I'm not surprised that it took a classical composer to pick up on this. Thank you, sir! 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
Having Jimi and Mitch Mitchel happening to be in the same place at the same time, that’s more than simple coincidence those two took us to emotional places we’d never even dreamed of,that’s art
One of Jimi's last ever gigs was Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 : Just after Jimi tries out a relatively new song, ‘Midnight Lightning’, as the song ends, Jimi immediately hits the long feedback note for the more familiar ‘Foxy Lady’ and announces “This is dedicated to Linda. To the cat right there with the silver face'' … The ''cat with silver face'' he was refering to was the mighty Nik Turner of Hawkwind, whom had come to the front of the audience with Tim Blake of Gong to enjoy Jimi's gig, while tripping on LSD and likely any other hallucinogenics he could get :) This was where Hawkwind's massive underground career, as being the ultimate people's band and soundtrack to the ongoing 'counter culture' , major inspiration for Punk and then Dance Rave music, kicked off . (They are also cited by many as being the original 'Space-rock' band) Hawkwind were not there to play the main stage, they instead built an alterante free festival outside the gates of the Isle Of Wight festival, they then took loads of LSD, and shared as much to the audience they could , and played for hours on end , blowing people's minds. Would love to hear Doug now review some Hawkwind classics and to discuss the career of the band and they (and all the offshoot bands they had over the years) have changed the course of history, both musically and in terms of positive alternate culture and solutions to the corporate distopia we all stiil have around us. A good place for Doug to start would be the likes of the whole of the first side of the 'Warrior On The Edge Of Time' album from 1975 (the last album Lemmy would play with them before forming Motorhead) ..this album gives just one taste of how diverse Hawkwind were / are. Their whole back catalogue from 1970 t0 mid 80's is full of 'gold'
That's awesome. Always noticed that in the recording and then seeing the documentary video I was like oh ya, there's a dude with a spray painted face lmao never had a clue who it was that's awesome thanks for the info!!!
@@neiljones7715 same here, I started getting into them just as I left school and got into smoking weed and taking shrooms. Then saw then live and was blown away and went and got as much of their back catalogue from 1970 to 1984 as quickly as I could. They've been my favourite band ever since. Amazing music and outstounding lyrics that are more relevant that ever. 😎🙏👌✊🌎🌞🌛🌠🌌
@@claytonpaul4259 nice one. It is on UA-cam too somewhere. I recently checked it out as Nik Turner sadly passed away at the age of 82 just a few months ago. What a legend . He played and toured until the end. Met in in real life a few times as he lived nearby where I used to live in Wales. He used to busk with his wee 3 piece band outside Tescos. A load of us Hawk fans would spot him and then the busking session would turn into a mini concert with him taking requests for Hawkwind tunes or anything else people wanted. May his spirit be flying high with Robert Calvert , Lemmy and many more legends of the underground 🙏👌
As something else for consideration is a young bluesman named Justin Johnson, he does a tribute to Lemme when he passed away,he did ACE of SPADES. Justin has been making and selling his three string electric guitars, which are made from an actual spade, ya know a shovel. It's played with a slide,and if you don't watch the video you'd never know the difference. Worth a watch !
It's great hearing classical composers enthusing so much about Jimi! Voodoo Chile is an incredible piece of music and his guitar playing goes way beyond technical virtuoso ability and is just about expression. There are many technically superior guitarists, but none can capture the magic that Jimi achieved.
Jimi was able to paint a musical landscape that have never even been in someone's imagination and that's why he remains immortal and on a spiritual level.
@@johnloving9401 I don’t think casual fans understand the level of genius Hendrix displayed. He was composing, doing everything in the studio, and then going out on a manic tour schedule and playing brilliantly, even with occasional chemical miscalculations.
I was mad stoned the first time I heard this. My head almost exploded. Sometimes I feel like I'm still inside that room with that girl and that weed. That's the power of Hendrix.
Totally! First heard him when I was a teenager, and boy what an experience it was… One cannot play Hendrix in the background, one mustexperience it. Cheers
I REALLY REALLY wish you did the 14 min jam session they did of the same name, voodoo chile, it comes on earlier on in the album and its hands down the top 5 greatest performance I've ever listened to. From the organ, to the drums, to hendrix's solos. if Slight Return is a teaspoon of the jimi hendrix experience, than Voodoo Chile is the an entire quart size of pure bless
Doug does mention he has heard it, but I agree totally that the full fat track is utterly awesome. The "conversation" between Jimi and Stevie Winwood on Hammond is absolutely one of my favourite pieces of musicianship.
There are stories of when Jimi first appeared in a small London club. Word had spread, and the likes of Pete Townsend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood and George Harrison came to see him and stood amazed. One or two said they'd throw their guitars away! But yes, he was deeply influential on everyone who saw him.
I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix live in 1966. I was 12. I have never put the guitar down since. This is the same story for many others. Still today seen as a guitar God.
Yup, that's right, a film crew did film all this live. ABC went to retrieve the film in 1973, only to find that it had been stolen, never to be seen again
hardly anyone knows this. i learned it when ABC published a list of their biggest fuck ups. they were mainly misreportings of current affairs and missing scoops like Watergate and “we filmed Slight Return and then lost the tapes”.
The writing evolution of Hendrix from album to album is astounding. The man was always on a different level from everyone else. His album he was working at his death (New Rising Sun) was another leap forward. The man will always be on a different plane.
I just love when you say "Great!", he kicks off in a new awesome solo. Pure magic. This is just such a awesome and badass song. Jimi set the bar for literally every guitar solo player after this. You can just hear it. Listen!
My desert island song...if there was just one song allowed, this wound be it ❤️ Note: Jimi played right-handed guitars but strung left-handed, so a strat looks upside down when flipped to left hand but its conventional lefty 👍 There is a story that Eric Clapton actually bought a left- handed strat for Jimi, but didn't get a chance to give it to him 😒
Nice reaction. One of the advantages that Jimi had in playing a right handed guitar, left handed, was that the string lengths were reversed and this meant that the thinner strings, being shorter, would drop in pitch much sooner, making the higher pitched strings go lower than most people could do on nearly any guitar at that time. Also, Jimi used a particular type of Fender strings, which, probably just luck they were gauged this way, made certain whammy bends 'sound a little more in tune' with each other, but it was also Jimi that sort of mastered exactly how to exploit this, as he would also use his fingers, in subtle ways, in helping it sound this way too. And that's mostly from just playing all the time until it becomes instinctive, plus Jimi's great ear and imagination.
A really informative and interesting take from someone in the classical genre. Thank you for respectfully playing the song all the way through - there are others from your domain who feel the need to react every ten seconds - essentially moving the focus from the artist to the video host.
Jimi was connected to a spiritual realm which helped him play his guitar and create those sounds. He says it himself, quoted by one his girlfriends, on the Hendrix tapes, I think it's called.
Here’s a bizarre fact - Jimi was struggling to find the guitar sound that he heard in his dreams. His producer was chatting with George Martin the Beatles producer about it. George had also been a producer of comedy novelty records so knew how to achieve all sorts of sounds. George showed Jimi’s producer how to do phasing. He showed it to Jimi who spent hours playing with the effect - but it was in mono… with experimentation they got the stereo effect you hear here.
Listen to the bold as love track on axis bold as love ,the last part of this track has a superb example of phasing in stereo ( probably one of the first stereo phasing effects on record )
great intro background talk ! listening to this now in may 2023 ..still electrified me again , even through crummy computer speakers ...regarding what J Satriani says , All Along the Watchtower takes some beating as a guitarists manual and guide !
This certainly qualifies as heavy metal to me - it may have had a blues base to it, but it definitely had heavy metal attitude. I'm glad you were finally able to get this one unblocked and posted. There's so much great Jimi Hendrix music that's not available any more. When I was a kid I the albums "Crash Landing" "Rainbow Bridge" (the STUDIO version of the Star Spangled Banner is absolutely jaw dropping ua-cam.com/video/j9rgKPf2a_o/v-deo.html ) and "Midnight Lightning" were on my turntable pretty much constantly; it's all sadly out of print these days; if you look around you can find bits and pieces of it that survive on other compilations.. "Crash Landing" was such a great album; you could really hear a lot more of his Soul and R&B influences - here's a pretty good recording of the title track "Crash Landing" ua-cam.com/video/LnG6qXE7xWk/v-deo.html The entire album had a similar sound and feel to it.
Jimi is the guitar god hands down. Purple haze is my favorite song. “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.” He must be so high back then and that is my opinion.
That was great! I didn’t know what to expect when I saw “Classical composer…” but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks. I would love to hear your review of the long, slow version.
I recently "re-examined" this song while on a cross-country drive in the middle of the night. Listening, alone in the dark, I am not sure that Jimi didn't try to conjure up demons with this song! Enjoy your videos. Thanks.
Speaking of homage’s to Muddy Waters… the melody “I’m standing next to a mountain, chop it down with the edge of my hand.” Is the same as, “I'm goin' down to Louisiana and get me a mojo hand.” Which Muddy got from Lightning Hopkins…
Jimi Hendrix , Yngwie Malmsteen , Robin Trower , Tonino Baliardo . Excellent Music . Voodoo Child or Chile was about the New Orleans beliefs about Witch Craft . Red House , Hear My Train a Comin , In From The Storm / Live .
Amazing to have the video unblocked! I had a fit about this blocking habit, yet I was proven wrong! One thing I can't fathom about Jimi is how pretty much every other style was copied right when it became popular. Yet I have never heard Hendrix copycat bands that succeed in sounding like him. Or let's say I haven't heard copycat bands of Hendrix because they can't be called copycats if they don't sound like what Jimi was doing. I don't know how he did it, but you will absolutely recognize him anywhere.
Truly a greate and immortal song. Music is magic and seeing your videos is a very treasure. I think your channel still deserve a place for blues, like "Riviera paradise" from the great Stevie Ray Vaughan
Great animated reaction. Like very much that you didn't stop the music to give an opinion, both coming through loud and clear. I like too the Hemingway look.
Others have covered Voodoo Child but this is still the GOAT. Theres another version of it with Steve Winwood playing organ on Jimi's Blues album. Jimmy also played the guitar with his teeth & behind his back.
70 days before my birth. I pause. Left handed for sure, but upside down? Pretty sure the fat strings were on top for Jimi, even though the head of his Strat was upside down by playing a righty lefty.. Upside down can, and is done, but I don't think Jimi went that way. Am I wrong?
It is near impossible to exceed Hendrix’s accomplishments on the wah pedal, but give a listen to this guitarist Buckethead, who I feel comes in equally impressive on the wah solo sections! Siege Engine (Wah) - (Albino Slug CD) - ua-cam.com/video/1sYbbk2yN0o/v-deo.html Pitch Dark - ua-cam.com/video/3Y8a9xMFrVA/v-deo.html Eerie Canal - ua-cam.com/video/-KQ0zBJdxyc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Polipoli8
What a lot of people don't understand is that Hendrix was a pioneer in studio production. With his third and final album Electric Ladyland, he finally took control of every aspect of his music(with great help from producer Eddie Kramer). He created a soundscape unrivaled at that time.
If you play this track back on a Dolby system you will find it will bounce around the room. Surprisingly, it will also do that in stereo if you have a decent system. It’s because Jimi would include out of phase elements in his mix. He was of course, a master in the use of the phasing effect. It made mastering a complete bitch. But that album is still ahead of pack, and probably always will be. Don’t forget he’s only 25 here…
True
Heavily influenced by The Beatles. Can you imagine what the album he lost in the taxi sounded like? The world will never know...
*unrivaled to this day
@@GoliathWarfare I was being modest
Hendrix is like the messiah of rock music. It's Hendrix (BC) Before Hendrix and then, it's Hendrix (AD) after Hendrix. He is the center of it all.
Couldnt agree more. His stuff is still relevant today.
I have "are you experienced?" tattooed across my collar bone from my right to left shoulder!
Oh and a huge pic of Jimi on my calf. Whenever I play this song, it's like the first time I've ever heard it and I've played it 1000s of times.
What gets me about this track, every time, unlike any other track I've heard from anyone is that feels like somehow Jimi managed to encode his existence into the recording, and he is resurrected every time it is played. It might as well be a magic spell. This shit is like the pyramids, it is forever.
Dam, well said, when I read this I realised this is exactly it. Its alive, its breathing, its him, or even more
Absolutely🙏🏼
Dang Man, you nailed that shit all the way down to the ground ,and Jimi right on into the Cosmos!! Wow!!
Play on Electric Gypsy !! Heck yeah!!!
A beautiful statement!
Very well said.
Another competent voice on Hendrix: Nigel Kennedy, doctor of musicology who studied at the Juillard school of music, wrote on his album with Hendrix songs that he counts him among the great composers of the 20th century. I agree.
It isn't about Jimi being "better" than any other musicians. He's the only one in his world, so there's no one to compare him to.
Same thing I said to my self.
Hendrix’s rhythmic sensibility is still unrivaled.
Completely agree - often overlooked - his timing was incredible
The fantastic guitarist who changed the sound of the guitar forever.
He was shredding in the late 60s ffs
@@Donald18838just unreal. He’s the 🐐
Hands down my favorite guitarist. There are many incredible players ... And then, there's Hendrix
Yes, Hendrix was unique, and he paved the way for countless others. His face is on the Mt. Rushmore of electric guitarists, along with Allan Holdsworth, Jeff Beck and Shawn Lane
And then, there's SRV.
El otro día el novio de una amiga, músico que toca jazz. Canta en coros de opera y se ve sabe mucho de música. Me decía que como no me podían gustar los Beatles. Yo le digo lo que le digo a todos... en serio basta de esa dicotomia Beatles o Rolling Stones. 2 notas de hendrix ya vale más que lo que pudieron hacer todos los Beatles en 10 vidas
@@kevlarV2rocketRSV As great as SRV is (and darn he's amazing) I would have loved it if somehow they could have jammed together (with Clapton? Heck add Beck there and make it a G4)
I'm sure they would have both grown and developed probably a new vocabulary not just for guitar but music in general.
Seriously, tremendous musicians!!!
@@kevlarV2rocketRSV But, without Jimi, what would SRV have done?
The sounds in this were so revolutionary at the time. No one had ever heard a guitar sound like this before. Great innovator.
Electric Ladyland, from beginning to end, is still one of the greatest albums ever!
First album I ever purchased.
Jimi’s best, IMHO.
I love all three of his main studio albums, but EL was a quantum leap creatively, sound-wise, and the number of things he pulls together--gutbucket blues, funk, soul, R & B, psychedelia, acid rock, hard rock--is astonishing. I don't think there's another double rock album that sounds this great and masters so many different genres.
He produced most of it too
O album Cry Of Love é maravilhoso !
You're absolutely correct about his mastery of the instrument. Listening to his solos in this song, you hear moments when he shreds as well as anyone. But the way he changes speed and dynamics, and the entire feel of his playing that shows that there was something unique about him. That entire album is a joy to experience start-to-finish.
Jimi was on a different level, a different plane of existence from the rest of us. He always has been the best in my book.
He was here as a visitor and left us at a young age. Nobody will ever be as ground-breaking as Jimi.
Jimi had only been playing guitar for 10 years at this point. I had been playing for 20 years when I was finally able to play this song well enough to play it onstage without humiliating myself.
I was lucky enough to see Jimi once. Dear God he was so good.
Everytime I bought tickets to any concert my dad would remind me he saw Jimi at Temple University for like 4 dollars. Every.single.time.
@@jeffk.9075 I saw Jimi free at my local pub. He turned up while John Mayall's Bluesbreakers were playing and borrowed Mick Taylor's guitar for the second set. Mick was not a happy bunny.
I saw him at SMU in 1968. I just wish I had not been so stoned so I could remember more of it.🎸
Saw him once too, in Hawaii
The greatest studio guitar work of all time. A masterpiece in it's entirety.
I like how the guitar moves between left & right channels.
Jimi Hendrix music will forever be timeless.
jimi's music has an energy behind it that no other musician ive heard has, his music almost plays what you want to hear... if that makes sense lol
The dynamic of his guitar is unparallel. It's like you're using the guitar to control electricity itself. This is a masterpiece.
That is why he will always be the best. He controlled electricity and shaped into whatever sound(s) he wanted. That is not a thing you can learn, no one else has ever done that and I don't think anyone will again.
I LOVE this description. He was a master electrician. The notes jolted off his fingertips.
I listened to this album so many times in high school I knew every note.
A side of Hendrix most don’t know, and many who even heard this track didn’t quite register its genius is: “Rainy Day” -among the funkiest bluesiest funniest ever set to record 😉
Absolutely agree and I finally found a recording that has the whole song part one and two together. It gives me goosebumps.
Glad you appreciate jimi Hendrix greatest guitar riffs ever recorded jimi the goat
What always blows my mind when I hear this is the quality of the recording and how close it makes me feel to being in the studio when I close my eyes. It's so raw and detailed. Especially at 06:49 when Jimi plays lightly you can almost "see" his guitar and you can hear how loud the amp must have been.
One of the greatest guitar songs ever written, most guitar players are measured by how well they can execute this. Much in the same way as classical players are measured by how well they can execute certain pieces. A pretty vital work I would say.
Stevie Ray Vaughan nailed this song.
@@sidneyvandykeii3169 SRV not only nailed, he made his own.
@@turkeytrac1 Just like Jimi did with All Along the Watchtower.
Well said
@@turkeytrac1 Stevie was a tribute guitarist some of the time. And a damn good one
I love the timing of JH and I think that is really where he shines. When he gets to the middle part of this song, while doing this percussion/staccato thing he makes you feel that he slows down. He makes max use of the liberty that music and rythm gives. And it is underestimated (if that could ever be). Bands today play on click tracks and they think that's the right way to play music. Never seen a philharmonic orchestra do this: they all look at the conductor expressing FEEL for the way it should be played. Great stuff. Thanks to Doug.
Everyone knows about Jimi's playing, different world, but Jimi was an amazing singer too.
Hendrix’s guitar was like a ferocious beast that he would let roar from time to time … what a genius guitar player and musician he was..
My sister gave me this album for Christmas that year and being as it was really before headphones were readily available, I remember my mom had a small Panasonic stereo on top of her baby grand piano and putting the speakers on the floor underneath and laying down in between them and listening to the whole album over and over.
AND, I still have it! 🤠👍👍👍
For contrast, I suggest you give "Little Wing" from the "Axis: Bold as Love" album a listen, I consider that piece to be one of the most melodic and beautiful songs to ever come from a guitar.
Also covered by Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
@@briangriffin5524 And don't forget Sting. He covered it on his "Nothing Like The Sun" album.
I love Little Wing. My only complaint is that it is over so soon. It's almost like musical haiku. Concrete Blonde does an excellent cover that draws it out and lets you linger in the beauty of that guitar line.
Don't forget most of his slow love songs were for his dead.mother
@@ericnamikas3386 You beat me to it, the only problem with "Little Wing" is it's too short!
I'm amazed that he could manipulate feedback, and create such soundscapes with the equipment of the day.
Most musical equipment hasn't changed. Sure there's modeling and profiling amps now, but most everything has not changed.
My first concert was Hendrix on May 10, 1969, Houston, TX...Noel Redding's band, Fat Mattress, and a new band, Chicago Transit Authority, were opening acts. Great way to start off my "concert going career"!
Hail Jimi- Trying to get a grip on what and why he was playing what he did is a herculean task. His notes often don't even register as being in diatonic harmonies. It was a sound from outter space travelling to another sound ......from outter space. What a guy ! LOL.
Very good review, daily Doug; good to hear from you.
All world album side. "Still rainin...", "House burnin down", "Watchtower" and this one!
Once you experience Hendrix, one can never just listen. This song and his rendition of Star-Spangled Banner; quintessential Jimi. Cheers!
Thanks for appreciating Jimi's music.
Man, that guitar. With Hendrix it wasn't the speed it was the tone and the POWER not to mention the touch and the tastiness of the intensity. The fact this still sounds so awesome now one has to remember this was released in 1968. Not to mention what a great song. What made Hendrix so great was like Bob Dylan not only was he an innovator he was also a great songwriter.
He was also a big fan of Bob Dylan ‼️
@@robertcandelaria5486 True.
Imho, Jimi is still THE greatest exponent of wah wah use since the creation of the effect. No one has used it more tastefully, expressively, or lyrically. It was literally another voice on the instrument in his hands. I have loved electric guitar playing all my life, and even though there certainly are later players of brilliance, no one speaks to me on the guitar in the way that Jimi still does. His playing was otherworldly.
"Machine Gun" from the Band of Gypsies record, with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, is both unique in Hendrix's catalog (at least in my view) and band composition. At 12 minutes, it may feel like a marathon to some.
That solo in machine gun sets him apart from other guitarist along with many of his other solos!
To me, Band of Gypsys is the greatest live album of all time. Can you imagine sitting in the Fillmore East experiencing it?
It doesn’t seem that long.
@@joesmith6524 That, and the "Power Of Soul" intro solo. Some are calling it the best guitar solo ever!!
It's impressive that someone still are listening to his music so many year's later
it will be interesting to se how long the pop music are standing so many years later.
Voodoo Child (slight return) studio version is exquisite, but my go-to favorite performance is his performance of it at Royal Albert Hall. That was one of his signature concerts, of course. The vibe he had on that...
was released 55 years ago this last week and will be listened to forever
Also Robin Trower -to keep the Hendrix vibe going -Bridge Of Sighs
He changed the Guitar World forever
Jimi was the Godzilla of guitar players. 🎸
As a lifelong Jimi fan there was a lot of information I've never heard before, really great reaction
FINALLY! Someone picks up on Jimi playing a right-handed guitar with his left hand! I can't believe that, so many people don't pick up on this! But I'm not surprised that it took a classical composer to pick up on this. Thank you, sir! 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
My favorite Hendrix track and one of favorite of all the rock and roll era. How was he so damned good!
Having Jimi and Mitch Mitchel happening to be in the same place at the same time, that’s more than simple coincidence those two took us to emotional places we’d never even dreamed of,that’s art
One of Jimi's last ever gigs was Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 :
Just after Jimi tries out a relatively new song, ‘Midnight Lightning’, as the song ends, Jimi immediately hits the long feedback note for the more familiar ‘Foxy Lady’ and announces “This is dedicated to Linda. To the cat right there with the silver face'' …
The ''cat with silver face'' he was refering to was the mighty Nik Turner of Hawkwind, whom had come to the front of the audience with Tim Blake of Gong to enjoy Jimi's gig, while tripping on LSD and likely any other hallucinogenics he could get :)
This was where Hawkwind's massive underground career, as being the ultimate people's band and soundtrack to the ongoing 'counter culture' , major inspiration for Punk and then Dance Rave music, kicked off . (They are also cited by many as being the original 'Space-rock' band)
Hawkwind were not there to play the main stage, they instead built an alterante free festival outside the gates of the Isle Of Wight festival, they then took loads of LSD, and shared as much to the audience they could , and played for hours on end , blowing people's minds.
Would love to hear Doug now review some Hawkwind classics and to discuss the career of the band and they (and all the offshoot bands they had over the years) have changed the course of history, both musically and in terms of positive alternate culture and solutions to the corporate distopia we all stiil have around us.
A good place for Doug to start would be the likes of the whole of the first side of the 'Warrior On The Edge Of Time' album from 1975 (the last album Lemmy would play with them before forming Motorhead) ..this album gives just one taste of how diverse Hawkwind were / are. Their whole back catalogue from 1970 t0 mid 80's is full of 'gold'
That's awesome. Always noticed that in the recording and then seeing the documentary video I was like oh ya, there's a dude with a spray painted face lmao never had a clue who it was that's awesome thanks for the info!!!
Yeah, Hawkwind... Still out there and still doing there thang... Fuckin'luv'em..🚀🛸🎷🕉️☯️
@@neiljones7715 same here, I started getting into them just as I left school and got into smoking weed and taking shrooms. Then saw then live and was blown away and went and got as much of their back catalogue from 1970 to 1984 as quickly as I could. They've been my favourite band ever since. Amazing music and outstounding lyrics that are more relevant that ever. 😎🙏👌✊🌎🌞🌛🌠🌌
@@claytonpaul4259 nice one. It is on UA-cam too somewhere. I recently checked it out as Nik Turner sadly passed away at the age of 82 just a few months ago. What a legend . He played and toured until the end. Met in in real life a few times as he lived nearby where I used to live in Wales. He used to busk with his wee 3 piece band outside Tescos. A load of us Hawk fans would spot him and then the busking session would turn into a mini concert with him taking requests for Hawkwind tunes or anything else people wanted. May his spirit be flying high with Robert Calvert , Lemmy and many more legends of the underground 🙏👌
As something else for consideration is a young bluesman named Justin Johnson, he does a tribute to Lemme when he passed away,he did ACE of SPADES.
Justin has been making and selling his three string electric guitars, which are made from an actual spade, ya know a shovel. It's played with a slide,and if you don't watch the video you'd never know the difference. Worth a watch !
It's great hearing classical composers enthusing so much about Jimi! Voodoo Chile is an incredible piece of music and his guitar playing goes way beyond technical virtuoso ability and is just about expression. There are many technically superior guitarists, but none can capture the magic that Jimi achieved.
Jimi was able to paint a musical landscape that have never even been in someone's imagination and that's why he remains immortal and on a spiritual level.
This is the hardest hitting, heaviest song ever recorded.
I've always felt that way!
@@johnloving9401 I don’t think casual fans understand the level of genius Hendrix displayed. He was composing, doing everything in the studio, and then going out on a manic tour schedule and playing brilliantly, even with occasional chemical miscalculations.
this is a great song but that's absurd lol
@@flogginga_dead_horse4022 how so?
@@joefelice5062 uh, there are a million more hard and heavy songs than this. I didn't think it had to be explained.
My all time favourite song by the greatest guitarist who ever graced our planet..
It's great listening to this at 1/2 speed and watching the guy's faces.
Such an epic tune with so many fantastic live versions. Stevie Ray did a great version, but the Hendrix ones are my favorite.
I was mad stoned the first time I heard this. My head almost exploded. Sometimes I feel like I'm still inside that room with that girl and that weed. That's the power of Hendrix.
Totally! First heard him when I was a teenager, and boy what an experience it was… One cannot play Hendrix in the background, one mustexperience it. Cheers
That long-form jam never gets reviewed/reacted. I think it's terrific. Jack Casady on Bass, Steve Winwood on organ, Buddy Miles on drums. Killer!
I remember when I first heard this on its release, like music from another planet.
I REALLY REALLY wish you did the 14 min jam session they did of the same name, voodoo chile, it comes on earlier on in the album and its hands down the top 5 greatest performance I've ever listened to. From the organ, to the drums, to hendrix's solos. if Slight Return is a teaspoon of the jimi hendrix experience, than Voodoo Chile is the an entire quart size of pure bless
Doug does mention he has heard it, but I agree totally that the full fat track is utterly awesome. The "conversation" between Jimi and Stevie Winwood on Hammond is absolutely one of my favourite pieces of musicianship.
When Joe Satriani praises someone like that, that fixes it for eternity.
There are stories of when Jimi first appeared in a small London club. Word had spread, and the likes of Pete Townsend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood and George Harrison came to see him and stood amazed. One or two said they'd throw their guitars away! But yes, he was deeply influential on everyone who saw him.
Dr Doug is my favorite air drummer.
I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix live in 1966. I was 12. I have never put the guitar down since. This is the same story for many others. Still today seen as a guitar God.
Yup, that's right, a film crew did film all this live. ABC went to retrieve the film in 1973, only to find that it had been stolen, never to be seen again
hardly anyone knows this. i learned it when ABC published a list of their biggest fuck ups. they were mainly misreportings of current affairs and missing scoops like Watergate and “we filmed Slight Return and then lost the tapes”.
The one and only : Jimi . The solo of " Machine gun " would blow your mind !!!
The writing evolution of Hendrix from album to album is astounding. The man was always on a different level from everyone else. His album he was working at his death (New Rising Sun) was another leap forward. The man will always be on a different plane.
I just love when you say "Great!", he kicks off in a new awesome solo. Pure magic.
This is just such a awesome and badass song. Jimi set the bar for literally every guitar solo player after this. You can just hear it. Listen!
It's so nice the Hendrix people have his music catalog on UA-cam.
My desert island song...if there was just one song allowed, this wound be it ❤️
Note: Jimi played right-handed guitars but strung left-handed, so a strat looks upside down when flipped to left hand but its conventional lefty 👍
There is a story that Eric Clapton actually bought a left- handed strat for Jimi, but didn't get a chance to give it to him 😒
Clapton said so in an interview and teared up recalling that.
Nice reaction. One of the advantages that Jimi had in playing a right handed guitar, left handed, was that the string lengths were reversed and this meant that the thinner strings, being shorter, would drop in pitch much sooner, making the higher pitched strings go lower than most people could do on nearly any guitar at that time. Also, Jimi used a particular type of Fender strings, which, probably just luck they were gauged this way, made certain whammy bends 'sound a little more in tune' with each other, but it was also Jimi that sort of mastered exactly how to exploit this, as he would also use his fingers, in subtle ways, in helping it sound this way too. And that's mostly from just playing all the time until it becomes instinctive, plus Jimi's great ear and imagination.
I would be interested in your take on the ambitious and mesmerizing 1983 (A MERMAN I SHOULD TURN TO BE), a favourite of mine.
A really informative and interesting take from someone in the classical genre. Thank you for respectfully playing the song all the way through - there are others from your domain who feel the need to react every ten seconds - essentially moving the focus from the artist to the video host.
This longer jam is one of the best J. H. songs!
I never considered Hendrix a "black american artist", but simply an artist.
Jimi was connected to a spiritual realm which helped him play his guitar and create those sounds. He says it himself, quoted by one his girlfriends, on the Hendrix tapes, I think it's called.
Your so cool doug...great music feedback. ❤😊😊
Here’s a bizarre fact - Jimi was struggling to find the guitar sound that he heard in his dreams. His producer was chatting with George Martin the Beatles producer about it. George had also been a producer of comedy novelty records so knew how to achieve all sorts of sounds. George showed Jimi’s producer how to do phasing. He showed it to Jimi who spent hours playing with the effect - but it was in mono… with experimentation they got the stereo effect you hear here.
Listen to the bold as love track on axis bold as love ,the last part of this track has a superb example of phasing in stereo ( probably one of the first stereo phasing effects on record )
One of my all time favorite tracks. So Awesome....just screamin' !
What really gets me about this track and a lot of what he did is the panning it’s unbelievable
Maybe his flame burned too bright. I still would loved to listen to him grow musically into old age, like Albert Collins.
great intro background talk ! listening to this now in may 2023 ..still electrified me again , even through crummy computer speakers ...regarding what J Satriani says , All Along the Watchtower takes some beating as a guitarists manual and guide !
I love the way you identify exact notes. Wish I had that perfect pitch like that
This certainly qualifies as heavy metal to me - it may have had a blues base to it, but it definitely had heavy metal attitude.
I'm glad you were finally able to get this one unblocked and posted. There's so much great Jimi Hendrix music that's not available any more. When I was a kid I the albums "Crash Landing" "Rainbow Bridge" (the STUDIO version of the Star Spangled Banner is absolutely jaw dropping ua-cam.com/video/j9rgKPf2a_o/v-deo.html ) and "Midnight Lightning" were on my turntable pretty much constantly; it's all sadly out of print these days; if you look around you can find bits and pieces of it that survive on other compilations.. "Crash Landing" was such a great album; you could really hear a lot more of his Soul and R&B influences - here's a pretty good recording of the title track "Crash Landing" ua-cam.com/video/LnG6qXE7xWk/v-deo.html The entire album had a similar sound and feel to it.
Jimi is the guitar god hands down. Purple haze is my favorite song. “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.” He must be so high back then and that is my opinion.
That was great! I didn’t know what to expect when I saw “Classical composer…” but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks. I would love to hear your review of the long, slow version.
I recently "re-examined" this song while on a cross-country drive in the middle of the night. Listening, alone in the dark, I am not sure that Jimi didn't try to conjure up demons with this song! Enjoy your videos. Thanks.
Gotta luv HENDRIX ...TOP NOTCH GUITARIST
"He thought about the world and approached his music in a unique way, and remains powerful" That's some beautiful commentary! Rock on, Doug!
Speaking of homage’s to Muddy Waters… the melody “I’m standing next to a mountain, chop it down with the edge of my hand.” Is the same as, “I'm goin' down to Louisiana and get me a mojo hand.” Which Muddy got from Lightning Hopkins…
Jimi Hendrix , Yngwie Malmsteen , Robin Trower , Tonino Baliardo . Excellent Music . Voodoo Child or Chile was about the New Orleans beliefs about Witch Craft . Red House , Hear My Train a Comin , In From The Storm / Live .
Hendrix was one of the musicians that were bigger than their instrument
Back then there were guitar players playing guitars..,
Along came Jimi and played sounds changing music and the guitar forever
Amazing to have the video unblocked! I had a fit about this blocking habit, yet I was proven wrong!
One thing I can't fathom about Jimi is how pretty much every other style was copied right when it became popular. Yet I have never heard Hendrix copycat bands that succeed in sounding like him. Or let's say I haven't heard copycat bands of Hendrix because they can't be called copycats if they don't sound like what Jimi was doing. I don't know how he did it, but you will absolutely recognize him anywhere.
WOW! What a wizard of the guitar Jimi was!
You should review 1983, a Merman I turn to be. It's the most complex piece of music Jimi ever composed. It's a stunning piece of work for 1968
Truly a greate and immortal song. Music is magic and seeing your videos is a very treasure. I think your channel still deserve a place for blues, like "Riviera paradise" from the great Stevie Ray Vaughan
Great animated reaction. Like very much that you didn't stop the music to give an opinion, both coming through loud and clear. I like too the Hemingway look.
Others have covered Voodoo Child but this is still the GOAT. Theres another version of it with Steve Winwood playing organ on Jimi's Blues album. Jimmy also played the guitar with his teeth & behind his back.
70 days before my birth. I pause. Left handed for sure, but upside down? Pretty sure the fat strings were on top for Jimi, even though the head of his Strat was upside down by playing a righty lefty.. Upside down can, and is done, but I don't think Jimi went that way. Am I wrong?
When this album came out in 1968 I was in college. I listened to it every day. In 1970 I got to see him in concert.
You mention his sound, his touch... I've never heard anyone else use a wah-wah so well. An incredible artist!
It is near impossible to exceed Hendrix’s accomplishments on the wah pedal, but give a listen to this guitarist Buckethead, who I feel comes in equally impressive on the wah solo sections!
Siege Engine (Wah) - (Albino Slug CD) - ua-cam.com/video/1sYbbk2yN0o/v-deo.html
Pitch Dark - ua-cam.com/video/3Y8a9xMFrVA/v-deo.html
Eerie Canal - ua-cam.com/video/-KQ0zBJdxyc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Polipoli8