Jimi Hendrix was the Godfather of rock n roll guitar. His guitar playing style, sound, and technique were so innovative that he became the role model for rock guitarist to this day.
Name any artists, any interview you can think of, any guitarists...when ask where did they learn that groove, that lick, that chunky riffs, tuning, the amp set up, the timing, the picking, chords etc. across all genres of Rock n' Roll and even pop guitarists, they all point their finger to Jimi Hendrix.
Cla - I brought the Experience album back from Key West, Florida in about 68 or 69. The kids at St. Cloud Minnesota college thought I had lost my mind. They were all Beach Boys and Little Rascal fans.
Jimi's story is pretty amazing. He grew up in a poverty stricken and broken home. His parents would get drunk and fight. He would hide in the closet to get away from their conflict. For a significant period of time when he was growing up he was bounced around from relative to relative. As a child in elementary school he used to carry a broomstick to school and pretend it was a guitar. He did that so often that the school counselor asked the school to buy him one for his own good but that request was turned down. Finally when he was 15 his father and he were working for someone moving some boxes and other things out of a space and he found a ukelele with one string. Jimi asked the woman who was paying them if he could keep it and she said yes. That was his first instrument ever. He didn't get his first electric guitar until he was 17 years old. And even though he played left handed, sometimes with a right handed guitar strung upside down, he could play guitar equally as well with either hand. And he actually drew inspiration from listening to classical music. A one of a kind musical genius.
Jimi was also an airborne ranger in Vietnam. He was so shy in his early stage performances that he strung up a blanket as a screen and he hid behind it.
Us kids back in the sixties and seventies had some epic guitar players. Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Pete Townsend and so many more.
There's a story about how one time Clapton and Townsend went to see him for the first time in a London club. Apparently, after hearing him, Clapton looked at Townsend and said: "We're in big trouble." 😎
I grew up in the 80's, and the guitarists you mentioned inspired the greats from my generation: Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Slash, Dave Mustane, and the list goes on. 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's - great stuff!
For anyone curious, there was a whole culture of playing guitar with teeth and behind the back in certain circles of blues music, which is where Hendrix picked it up. He took it to the next level, but he credited artists like T-Bone walker and the like (there's a picture of T-Bone playing the guitar behind his back while doing the splits). And yes he was the goat. Other guitarists have pretty much just been imitating his sound for the last 70 years.
I was lucky enough to see Jimi Hendrix twice (in 1968 and 1969). He just tore the stage down both times. And him playing using his teeth is absolutely real. At the ‘69 show, he ran onto the stage wearing a black silk bodysuit with silver sequins running down his sleeves and pant legs and a red headband. I forgot what he was wearing at the ‘68 show.
Even in the late '60s...you have to have SOME charisma to pull off the fashion that Jimi wore! Most of us would look complete idiots wearing 18th Century braided military jackets, big ruffed shirts etc. but Hendrix just pulled it off and you just can't imagine him in jeans and a tee!
@@TheEnigma64 Ha Ha, that’s one of the funniest replies I’ve ever seen ! 😄 I’m trying to imagine Hendrix in some Cowboy boots to go with his jeans and a tee 😄. He should also have a 10 gallon Cowboy hat and carry a spit cup for his chewing tobacco.
Yeah! This man right here, big influencer for a lot of people. With myself being a musician, songwriter and vocalist he was one of my big influences too. Even as great as a guitar player as Eddie VanHalen was, two of his favorite guitar players were Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. This was the first time I saw your channel and the expressions on the two girls faces were great. Especially when Jimi said that about shooting his old lady. Their facial expressions were priceless. And the young girl looked even more shocked by it. Great job from all of you.
Jimi was definitely beyond his time as much as he accomplished in a matter of 3 1/2 years is incredible. He played with so many inspirational artist and never got any credit so he went out on his own and hit the big time but sadly he lost his life, very young imagine if Jimmy was still alive how much different music would be today G.O.A.T
@@ron88303 nobody changed the game like Jimi did. There's many reasons beyond just playing that make him the greatest. Your lack of historical context shows your ignorance. 👍🏽let ppl have their own opinions
Jimi was the original, influenced so many including SRV. I read somewhere that SRV use to dream about Hendrix and in some of those dreams he was learning how to play Vodoo Child! Like Jimi was teaching him. Any way you slice it Jimi and SRV were 2 of the best!!!
I was with Jimi and The Experience at gigs on multiple occasions. Jimi could play guitar with his teeth, behind his head, behind his back, and between his legs. He was, in my own opinion, the greatest guitarist that has ever lived. The things that man could do with electric guitar was beyond belief. The likes of SRV and Prince were just the disciples of Jimi, as Jimi was a disciple of Eric Clapton. Both Jimi and Eric were self taught on guitar. What to watch and listen to next? Johnny B Goode Berkeley is a totally breathtaking performance. The Wind Cries Mary Stockholm is a beautiful piece. The Lulu Show Cream Tribute, another exceptional performance. The Watchtower is a Bob Dylan song made legendary by Jimi. All these can be found on You Tube. There is additionally a full performance in Stockholm on You Tube where Jimi starts out, as he did at many of his gigs, with the Howlin' Wolf track Killing Floor. The death of Jimi at age 27 was the greatest loss to music of a generation. I wept at that loss.
Hendrix was no disciple of Clapton or any of the British guys. He cut his teeth on the black southern blues circuit, where if you couldn't put on a "show" while playing guitar then you couldn't play according to the other guitar players. We went to the bars on the weekends, back then the weekends were Friday and Saturday, just to check out the bands and see how wild they would be. Hendrix came straight up out of the blues circuit before he was "discovered".
@@TJ-xs5bn Yes, Jimi toured the Chitlin' Circuit with the likes of Ike and Tina Turner, the Isley Brothers, and Little Richard playing backing. Sure. BUT one of Jimi's stipulations to Chas Chandler to come to England was that he meet with Eric Clapton. Both Jimi and Eric were self taught on guitar. They had the same tastes as it turned out in music. As it turned out Chas Chandler knew Eric, and so this was not an issue. And yes....Jimi met Eric.
GOAT period!!! Notice he is a lefty who learned on a right-handed guitar, the guitar is flipped upside down and restrung and he still played it behind his head perfectly. Jimi learned on the old African-American entertainment circuit where you had to be fantastic but also flashy to get noticed...he learned his lessons well. Saw him LIVE twice and each time was just as stunning as this was for you. Hendrix, CCR, Cream and the Doors got many a Viet Nam grunt through the slog of their tour. Ask any great guitarist and he is always mentioned as a idol for them. Sadly joined the "27 Club" before his greatness was ever truly realized, often wonder how great he would of been if he lasted longer and had a chance to play with the more modern wireless instruments.
@@KathyLuluandDonna I got a chance to see Stevie Ray Vaughn once. It was five dollars admission to get into the Arizona state fair and had no idea who was playing that evening and boy was I stunned watching him.
Watching your guys reaction to Jimi made me feel normal again, for all these years I thought it was just me, thank God for Jimi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the end , you dont hear the audience much because they were in shock of what they just saw. This concert you saw was : Hendrix Live At The Monterey Pop Festival. Whatch the whole show🤙🎸
On why Jimi played his guitars upside down. - He was used to playing them like that - It put the volume knob by his thumb, so he could control the level of distortion in his sound, if you pay close attention, you can see him constantly working that knob. There's footage of him playing a genuine left-handed guitar, and you can see him reach for the volume knob but not finding it where he expected it to be.
Both Bruce Lee and Jimi Hendrix Share the Same Birthday 27th of November Bruce was Born on That Date in 1940 and Jimi Hendrix was born two years later in 1942.
Every guitarist during his career and since took inspiration from him. He is THE GOAT and no one even comes close. He did all that as a lefty playing a right-handed guitar.
💙💙💙💙💙... another great reaction!! I've been subscribed to your channel for a minute now... I really enjoy you both... and your daughter is a little gem!!! Keep up the great work!!
If interested, see Billy Cox musicians hall of fame interview on here. He was Jimi's best friend & bass player who later joined Hendrix's band, Band of Gypsys & re-formed Experience. He tells of the mostly unknown yrs Hendrix spent training in Nashville before being discovered. I grew up in Nashville & was the only kid I knew who was even aware he'd lived here after reading a brief paragraph in one of his biographies when I was a teen in the '80's. Little did I know he spent 5 yrs playing the club circuit with Billy! Maybe publicists thought Country Nashville not good for his image? I later got into music & around 2000 helped an old hippie with his traveling road-show he posted on Nashville Public Access TV station. One day at a station picnic in the park my friend said you have to meet Billy! He's a good dude. He took me to Billy's RV & left us alone. We talked music over beers, but I had no clue who I was talking to. Just thought he was a cool old black dude who did his own music show. After about 30 mins my friend came back. As we were leaving the park I asked my friend what Billy did for a living? When he said he was a musician I asked his last name & my jaw hit the ground! I couldn't believe it! I must've been the only musician in the last 30 yrs he'd talked to who didn't even mention the name Jimi Hendrix?!😅 A couple of wks later I was in a grocery store & heard my name called. I turned around & it was my new friend, BILLY FREAKIN' COX!!!🤣🤣🤣 It's been yrs since station shut down & he's in his '70's now, so I hardly see him, but he puts on free Blues Festivals in the park from time to time, where he always pays tribute to Jimi with a rendition of their old blues staple "Hey Joe", & I'll go down & take a friend or two & introduce them to Billy. Also if interested, the very first Hendrix tv performance is on here, Night Train '65. He's a backup player. It was a Nashville show that was the inspiration for later hit-show Soul Train! See ya! ✌🌎❤
@@KathyLuluandDonna This was my first time seeing y'all pop up on my radar. I always enjoy seeing people react to that performance, had a min so took a min, friend. I never thought about someone reacting to that interview. It's only about 30 mins, & even though many die-hard life-long Hendrix fans still haven't heard about the Nashville days, & they'd love it, Idk how many random views it would pull? That 1st live performance, even though he just played rhythm backing, would probably pull a few more curious newbies in like me to your channel? As an old dude now😅, I greatly enjoy these reaction channels. They really are community, even if mostly subliminal on this end, & what the world needs now more than ever! So even though y'all seem to be just having fun, it really is a Blessing & is appreciated!🙏❤❤❤ I'll try & stick around. See what else y'all got here?! Subbed!✌😎
The Goat! It's easier to be a great guitar player after you see what can be done with the guitar, and how entertaining can a guitar performance be after he mastered the instrument.
I'd love to hear a reaction video for his song, "House Burning Down" which, in my opinion, was Jimi Hendrix at the top of his game as a musician and studio producer. Trust me, you've never heard anything like it. And it was recorded in 1967!
Totally agree with you. Jimi's scorching guitar beggars belief, even by his own astonishing standards. To my knowledge, nobody has covered that track. How could they? Jimi still remains in a field of one. He has been gone for over five decades, but no guitarist has surpassed him.
@@KathyLuluandDonna I was there Saturday. Saw all the top SF groups like Airplane, Janis and her band, etc. For me it was Otis Redding with the completed iconic Stax backup with Booker T and the MG’s with Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper. Those last two are in the Blues Brothers movie. Also seeing the Paul Butterfield Blues Band! All of these performances are on YT from the film, “ Monterey Pop”. Especially Janis Joplin.
Lemmy told a fabulous story about Jimi playing in front of Pete Townsend and Eric Clapton, at the Bag O Nails in late 1966. Pete and Eric were considered to be the best guitarists at the time. along with Jeff Beck. When Jimi went into his showmanship, Lemmy spotted Pete and Eric both holding hands. Eric looked like he had been crying..... There are great guitarists, and then there's Jimi. Nobody has come even close.
I am so glad that the youngest person here was the one that dug it the most. She could hear how real those lyrics are compared to 'baaybee' 'ooooh girl' etc etc. She just got it. There is hope for the future. They're coming round to see now how we got down back in the day, before we had autotune or bieber snake or nariah jonas, or whatever they've called. This music will never die. I even still remember the day my then 17 year old daughter said dad, can you put your stereo on... why sweetheart what is it you want to hear (expecting something ive never heard to leave me scratching my head) and she said will you put jimi hendrix on. My job at that moment was complete.
Great reaction! I must say I'm glad i didnt have my volume all the way up when y'all paused to EXCLAIM: "HE'S PLAYING THE GUITAR WITH HIS TEETH??" LOL, but the exclaiming was appropriate--this IS Jimi Hendrix, after all--the greatest rock guitarist, hands down. (Or even--especially--behind his head ;)
One of the big reasons Hendrix's sound was so unique -- besides being Hendrix -- was because he was left-handed, but played a right-handed guitar -- upside down. In addition to his re-stringing, this changed how the pickups 'read' the strings. The rear pickup on the traditional Stratocaster is slanted to capture the higher strings near their base, where they have a more piercing tone. On Hendrix's guitar it catches the higher strings farther up, so instead of shrieking, they sing with a pure, resonant sound. It's much the same for the Telecaster, but his best work was on the Strat. Oh, and not only did he play with his teeth, but with his tongue, too. No wonder the ladies loved him... 😏
That whole pickup angle thing is bs started up by guitar magazines in the 90's. It doesn't matter at all. Those guitar magazines also promoted the older is better idea that people still staunchly believe in. Also it doesn't matter which way round a pickup is, it's 6 alnico magnets, with a single strand of copper wire wrapped around all of them. Every pole piece senses the string the same. His use of those awful coil cables did more to dull the high frequencies than anything else, those cables introduce a lot of capacitance, which results in a loss of high end.
One of the reasons Jimi liked playing a right handed guitar was that the guitars control knobs were on the top which he had come to like plus it let him use a Stratocasters Whammy Bar in a then very unique way .
The song " Hey Joe " is actually an old folk song , but he dtix made it his own . Try other songs like : Purple Haze , Foxy Lady , Star Spangled Banner , Room Full Of Mirrors , Voodoo Child , Who Knows ( live at the filmore ) , Machine Gun ( live at the fillmore ) , Message Of Love ( live at the fillmore ) , Ezy Ryder , Lover Man ,
At the time of this gig (Monterey Pop Festival 1967), Hendrix was practically unknown in the U.S. except on the "chitlin circuit" and by some older R&B and R&R artists such as the Isleys and Little Richard. He jammed with them before moving to England. The Jimi Hendrix Experience were already popular in the U.K. and the drummer Mitch Mitchell and the bass player Noel Redding were English.
never in a million years would I think you guys would to my recommendation but yes thats Jimi the man . This performance alone made me drop everything i was doing a buy a strat . Love the reaction you guys have a beautiful and blessed day.
Actually Stevie Ray Vaughan was already playing guitar in 1967. The year that Jimi Hendrix played The Monteray Pop Festival. His older brother, Jimmy Vaughan, gave him his first guitar and guitar lessons.
Jimi was good friends with Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield and Crosby Stills and Nash) and he played on Stephen's first solo album (as did Stephen's pal Eric Clapton). Stills was soon playing in Jimi's style, especially in his band Manassas.
To say...Jimi Hendrix was Awesome. ....Would be a Major Understatement. ...So...I'm going to say that ....Jimi Hendrix was..... 'The Best Rock Guitarist Ever'......And there were/are many great ones also.
There’s an acoustic guitar video I like by Jimi. It’s in color, white background. Blues song. His clothes are amazing. He had STYLE. I was 14 when he was big. I loved old school blues, really old blues. I only learned recently that his beginning was blues. He had a blues mentor. I wasn’t very much into his music but i thought he was very cute!!! The people I knew who played his album all day and night in their rooms with a black light and posters were 13 year old boys.
Central tavern the oldest bar in Seattle Washington aka the grunge bar where grunge bands started at was Jimi Hendrix's favorite bar in the Seattle area. The central tavern is haunted!! Even Hendrix was seen there in spirit.
His stint in England helped Jimi to immerse himself in the local rock and blues scene,and he was ,perhaps,consciously inspired by the Who' s Pete Townsend's use of feedback.
I wonder if SRV played, sang and chewed gum at the same time too :) A great reaction would Jimi doing " All Along The Watch Tower", a Bob Dylan written tune that helped put Jimi on the R&R map. I still play it today....cheers
This is actually a cover, not a Hendrix original. Best track would have to be 'All Along The Watchtower' also a cover of a Bob Dylan composition. Also note he plays his guitar upside down as being left handed could not afford to buy a LH guitar so taught himself and stuck to it and hard to change back later.
Jimi played this using a right handed guitar upside down as he couldn’t find a left handed guitar and he refused to re-learn the guitar playing right handed.
This was the first time Americans ever saw him (they'd only heard him), so you can imagine their reaction. If you watch the film (Monterey Pop) you'll see the audience after he plays, just sitting not knowing what to do . He blew them all away. After, he plays another, where he's humping the speakers and at the end, burns his guitar ! When he finished, people knew who Hendrix really was.
I met Jimi Hendrix in a recording studio before he set out on his great journey. We talked about sci fi. I had no idea he was a guitar player. Mitch Mitchell was a nice guy.
Wonderful, you guys are just delightful and remarkable here in your reaction. P.s. Just 4 months ago Ace reacted to this again with some guy and yet in that reaction he seems to indicate that he's watching it for the first time. ?
This was his first performance back in America, the country that spurned and ignored his music, after hitting it big in England. Shots of the audience had people starting with their mouths hanging opened and uncomfortable. He burned his guitar at the end of this set. There's no video for it but google "Are you Experienced live at Winterland" and look for the sound cloud version. About a minute of his otherworldly noise and then he launches off into the greatest live electric guitar song ever recorded.
Jimi Hendrix was the Godfather of rock n roll guitar. His guitar playing style, sound, and technique were so innovative that he became the role model for rock guitarist to this day.
It's so crazy how people can do this
Jimi and Eric Clapton (and both standing on the shoulders of the old blues men).
That’s not the godfather that’s the GOAT 🐐
@@gregcable3250When I think of the blues, I don’t think of Eric Caplan
Name any artists, any interview you can think of, any guitarists...when ask where did they learn that groove, that lick, that chunky riffs, tuning, the amp set up, the timing, the picking, chords etc. across all genres of Rock n' Roll and even pop guitarists, they all point their finger to Jimi Hendrix.
I grew up with Jimi Hendrix's music in the Sixties and early Seventies. This reaction NEVER gets old!
Cla - I brought the Experience album back from Key West, Florida in about 68 or 69. The kids at St. Cloud Minnesota college thought I had lost my mind.
They were all Beach Boys and Little Rascal fans.
So did i Jimi greatest Guitarist of all time no doubt
The greatest guitar player of all time. One of my all time favorite musicians ever.
2:24,the look on there faces when the great JIMI HENDRIX plays guitar with his teeth was just priceless.Love there reactions.
This Monterey Festival concert appearance shot Jimi into the stratosphere and made him a global star.
Jimi's story is pretty amazing. He grew up in a poverty stricken and broken home. His parents would get drunk and fight. He would hide in the closet to get away from their conflict. For a significant period of time when he was growing up he was bounced around from relative to relative. As a child in elementary school he used to carry a broomstick to school and pretend it was a guitar. He did that so often that the school counselor asked the school to buy him one for his own good but that request was turned down. Finally when he was 15 his father and he were working for someone moving some boxes and other things out of a space and he found a ukelele with one string. Jimi asked the woman who was paying them if he could keep it and she said yes. That was his first instrument ever. He didn't get his first electric guitar until he was 17 years old. And even though he played left handed, sometimes with a right handed guitar strung upside down, he could play guitar equally as well with either hand. And he actually drew inspiration from listening to classical music. A one of a kind musical genius.
That's an awesome story
Jimi was also an airborne ranger in Vietnam. He was so shy in his early
stage performances that he strung up a blanket as a screen and he hid behind it.
@@anttyzale5455 he didnt like the military...in a stolen car he was caught n offered the army.
From interviews and stuff like that he was such a shy person and when he is on stage so he had swag
He was a cool, modest guy.
Jimi's first concert as an American main act. In the US he usually played in the background. Moved to the UK to become the main act.
Us kids back in the sixties and seventies had some epic guitar players.
Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Pete Townsend and so many more.
There's a story about how one time Clapton and Townsend went to see him for the first time in a London club. Apparently, after hearing him, Clapton looked at Townsend and said: "We're in big trouble." 😎
Blackmore.
Santana.
I grew up in the 80's, and the guitarists you mentioned inspired the greats from my generation: Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Slash, Dave Mustane, and the list goes on. 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's - great stuff!
Jimi's performance at Woodstock is the pinnacle of his career and artistic genius, especially "Voodoo Chile" and "The Star Spangled Banner."
Actually the legend is that the most beautiful performance of his career was when mlk was assassinated. He had everyone crying the entire show
@@disturbed157 Wow, that's something I didn't know. Would love to see that performance...
Disagree,Hendix was exhausted at Woodstock. Hendix is my favorite guitarist of all time,but Woodstock was not one of his better performances
For anyone curious, there was a whole culture of playing guitar with teeth and behind the back in certain circles of blues music, which is where Hendrix picked it up. He took it to the next level, but he credited artists like T-Bone walker and the like (there's a picture of T-Bone playing the guitar behind his back while doing the splits).
And yes he was the goat. Other guitarists have pretty much just been imitating his sound for the last 70 years.
True, but Hendrix is THE HIGH PRIEST!
Stevie killed it on his cover of Little Wing. His behind the back playing on Texas Flood is ridiculous.
I think you mean 50 years. 70 years ago was 1953.
@@1skyofrogto me srv butchered little wing.
The last 70 years? Are you talking about Jimi?
I was lucky enough to see Jimi Hendrix twice (in 1968 and 1969). He just tore the stage down both times. And him playing using his teeth is absolutely real. At the ‘69 show, he ran onto the stage wearing a black silk bodysuit with silver sequins running down his sleeves and pant legs and a red headband. I forgot what he was wearing at the ‘68 show.
That's awesome that you got to see him twice
@@KathyLuluandDonna They were ! Those were probably the 2 greatest shows I’ve ever seen.
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@@Bill_Jones. that's really cool. And welcome!
Even in the late '60s...you have to have SOME charisma to pull off the fashion that Jimi wore! Most of us would look complete idiots wearing 18th Century braided military jackets, big ruffed shirts etc. but Hendrix just pulled it off and you just can't imagine him in jeans and a tee!
@@TheEnigma64 Ha Ha, that’s one of the funniest replies I’ve ever seen ! 😄 I’m trying to imagine Hendrix in some Cowboy boots to go with his jeans and a tee 😄. He should also have a 10 gallon Cowboy hat and carry a spit cup for his chewing tobacco.
Yeah! This man right here, big influencer for a lot of people. With myself being a musician, songwriter and vocalist he was one of my big influences too. Even as great as a guitar player as Eddie VanHalen was, two of his favorite guitar players were Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. This was the first time I saw your channel and the expressions on the two girls faces were great. Especially when Jimi said that about shooting his old lady. Their facial expressions were priceless. And the young girl looked even more shocked by it. Great job from all of you.
Jimi was definitely beyond his time as much as he accomplished in a matter of 3 1/2 years is incredible. He played with so many inspirational artist and never got any credit so he went out on his own and hit the big time but sadly he lost his life, very young imagine if Jimmy was still alive how much different music would be today G.O.A.T
Top tier; definitely. But to call him THE goat shows your limited knowledge guitarists.
@@ron88303 nobody changed the game like Jimi did. There's many reasons beyond just playing that make him the greatest. Your lack of historical context shows your ignorance. 👍🏽let ppl have their own opinions
@@ron88303 when icons line prince and srv said he was goats joe satriani
@ron88303 Ron is right. Sooo many "goat"s Floyd, SRV...Jimi INFLUENCED Sooo many!!!They are out there. Have fun finding them.
@@claytonpaul4259 🎯👍💯!!!
Jimi was the original, influenced so many including SRV. I read somewhere that SRV use to dream about Hendrix and in some of those dreams he was learning how to play Vodoo Child! Like Jimi was teaching him. Any way you slice it Jimi and SRV were 2 of the best!!!
One of the greatest rock anthems of over half a century ago.
I agree
"I'm going way down south". "Where I can be free".
"WAY down"
I was with Jimi and The Experience at gigs on multiple occasions. Jimi could play guitar with his teeth, behind his head, behind his back, and between his legs. He was, in my own opinion, the greatest guitarist that has ever lived. The things that man could do with electric guitar was beyond belief. The likes of SRV and Prince were just the disciples of Jimi, as Jimi was a disciple of Eric Clapton. Both Jimi and Eric were self taught on guitar. What to watch and listen to next? Johnny B Goode Berkeley is a totally breathtaking performance. The Wind Cries Mary Stockholm is a beautiful piece. The Lulu Show Cream Tribute, another exceptional performance. The Watchtower is a Bob Dylan song made legendary by Jimi. All these can be found on You Tube. There is additionally a full performance in Stockholm on You Tube where Jimi starts out, as he did at many of his gigs, with the Howlin' Wolf track Killing Floor. The death of Jimi at age 27 was the greatest loss to music of a generation. I wept at that loss.
Jimi was the hard rock master of a generation, but his song “ Drifting “ is my all-time favorite.
Hendrix was no disciple of Clapton or any of the British guys. He cut his teeth on the black southern blues circuit, where if you couldn't put on a "show" while playing guitar then you couldn't play according to the other guitar players. We went to the bars on the weekends, back then the weekends were Friday and Saturday, just to check out the bands and see how wild they would be. Hendrix came straight up out of the blues circuit before he was "discovered".
Don't want to be sacrilegious or exaggerated but calling Hendrix a disciple of Clapton is like calling Jesus a disciple of John the Baptist.
@@TJ-xs5bn Yes, Jimi toured the Chitlin' Circuit with the likes of Ike and Tina Turner, the Isley Brothers, and Little Richard playing backing. Sure. BUT one of Jimi's stipulations to Chas Chandler to come to England was that he meet with Eric Clapton. Both Jimi and Eric were self taught on guitar. They had the same tastes as it turned out in music. As it turned out Chas Chandler knew Eric, and so this was not an issue. And yes....Jimi met Eric.
GOAT period!!! Notice he is a lefty who learned on a right-handed guitar, the guitar is flipped upside down and restrung and he still played it behind his head perfectly. Jimi learned on the old African-American entertainment circuit where you had to be fantastic but also flashy to get noticed...he learned his lessons well. Saw him LIVE twice and each time was just as stunning as this was for you. Hendrix, CCR, Cream and the Doors got many a Viet Nam grunt through the slog of their tour. Ask any great guitarist and he is always mentioned as a idol for them. Sadly joined the "27 Club" before his greatness was ever truly realized, often wonder how great he would of been if he lasted longer and had a chance to play with the more modern wireless instruments.
Love seeing you guys getting to see a legend of guitar 🎸.
Heard him a few times, but first time actually seeing him. Completely different experience
@@KathyLuluandDonna I got a chance to see Stevie Ray Vaughn once. It was five dollars admission to get into the Arizona state fair and had no idea who was playing that evening and boy was I stunned watching him.
@@travisowens9735 we bet everyone was
Hendrix is simply the best! ♥
Did you not notice, his start castor was upside down as he was left handed
Watching your guys reaction to Jimi made me feel normal again, for all these years I thought it was just me, thank God for Jimi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His greatest song, the instrumental Peace in Mississippi
More Jimi please thanks for the great reaction
At the end , you dont hear the audience much because they were in shock of what they just saw. This concert you saw was : Hendrix Live At The Monterey Pop Festival. Whatch the whole show🤙🎸
That does make a lot of sense
Really animated facial expressions on your young lass. Love it. Great reaction. Keep up the good work guys.
On why Jimi played his guitars upside down.
- He was used to playing them like that
- It put the volume knob by his thumb, so he could control the level of distortion in his sound, if you pay close attention, you can see him constantly working that knob. There's footage of him playing a genuine left-handed guitar, and you can see him reach for the volume knob but not finding it where he expected it to be.
That's a pretty cool detail
I've always loved 60's style, but I never heard of it referred to as "flare heavy!" Gonna steal that term.
Do it!
Jimi was the Bruce Lee of the rock guitarists. There was nothing he couldn't do, except live past the age of 27.
Both Bruce Lee and Jimi Hendrix Share the Same Birthday 27th of November Bruce was Born on That Date in 1940 and Jimi Hendrix was born two years later in 1942.
Jimi! Check out Foxey Lady live at the Miami Pop Festival 1968 and Voodoo Child live at Woodstock 1969 for more Jimi swagger on full display. ✌️
Can't wait!
Playing a restrung right handed strat upside down. He has a large memorial in Renton Wa.
We weren't aware about the memorial
Every guitarist during his career and since took inspiration from him. He is THE GOAT and no one even comes close. He did all that as a lefty playing a right-handed guitar.
💙💙💙💙💙... another great reaction!! I've been subscribed to your channel for a minute now... I really enjoy you both... and your daughter is
a little gem!!! Keep up the great work!!
Jimi Hendrix Wild Thing
If interested, see Billy Cox musicians hall of fame interview on here. He was Jimi's best friend & bass player who later joined Hendrix's band, Band of Gypsys & re-formed Experience. He tells of the mostly unknown yrs Hendrix spent training in Nashville before being discovered. I grew up in Nashville & was the only kid I knew who was even aware he'd lived here after reading a brief paragraph in one of his biographies when I was a teen in the '80's. Little did I know he spent 5 yrs playing the club circuit with Billy! Maybe publicists thought Country Nashville not good for his image? I later got into music & around 2000 helped an old hippie with his traveling road-show he posted on Nashville Public Access TV station. One day at a station picnic in the park my friend said you have to meet Billy! He's a good dude. He took me to Billy's RV & left us alone. We talked music over beers, but I had no clue who I was talking to. Just thought he was a cool old black dude who did his own music show. After about 30 mins my friend came back. As we were leaving the park I asked my friend what Billy did for a living? When he said he was a musician I asked his last name & my jaw hit the ground! I couldn't believe it! I must've been the only musician in the last 30 yrs he'd talked to who didn't even mention the name Jimi Hendrix?!😅 A couple of wks later I was in a grocery store & heard my name called. I turned around & it was my new friend, BILLY FREAKIN' COX!!!🤣🤣🤣
It's been yrs since station shut down & he's in his '70's now, so I hardly see him, but he puts on free Blues Festivals in the park from time to time, where he always pays tribute to Jimi with a rendition of their old blues staple "Hey Joe", & I'll go down & take a friend or two & introduce them to Billy.
Also if interested, the very first Hendrix tv performance is on here, Night Train '65. He's a backup player. It was a Nashville show that was the inspiration for later hit-show Soul Train!
See ya!
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We can definitely add the interview on to the list. I think interview reactions can be a lot of fun
@@KathyLuluandDonna This was my first time seeing y'all pop up on my radar. I always enjoy seeing people react to that performance, had a min so took a min, friend. I never thought about someone reacting to that interview. It's only about 30 mins, & even though many die-hard life-long Hendrix fans still haven't heard about the Nashville days, & they'd love it, Idk how many random views it would pull? That 1st live performance, even though he just played rhythm backing, would probably pull a few more curious newbies in like me to your channel? As an old dude now😅, I greatly enjoy these reaction channels. They really are community, even if mostly subliminal on this end, & what the world needs now more than ever! So even though y'all seem to be just having fun, it really is a Blessing & is appreciated!🙏❤❤❤
I'll try & stick around. See what else y'all got here?!
Subbed!✌😎
@@satyadasgumbyji8956 we're glad you could join in!
This is one of the reactions I ever saw. I love the younger reaction in her eyes. WONDERFUL
This was sunday june 18, 1967.....Monterey Pop Festival......Monterey,Ca. ........the night America was Formally Introduced To The One & Only........
The Goat! It's easier to be a great guitar player after you see what can be done with the guitar, and how entertaining can a guitar performance be after he mastered the instrument.
I dig the "Wind Cry's Mary"..perhaps "Room full of Mirrors".
I'd love to hear a reaction video for his song, "House Burning Down" which, in my opinion, was Jimi Hendrix at the top of his game as a musician and studio producer. Trust me, you've never heard anything like it. And it was recorded in 1967!
I don't think we've ever heard that song, so we're definitely adding it to the list
Totally agree with you. Jimi's scorching guitar beggars belief, even by his own astonishing standards. To my knowledge, nobody has covered that track. How could they?
Jimi still remains in a field of one. He has been gone for over five decades, but no guitarist has surpassed him.
@@robjones2408 The Randy Hansen Band covered it but I won't listen to it because that would be sacrilegious.
Jimi Hendrix honey dipped that guitar
You guys are a beautiful family. So open. Awesome.
Thank you so much!
I was at this festival- the first rock festival- watch Monterey Pop. June 1967!❤ Adorable family!
That's really cool. What was your favorite part?
@@KathyLuluandDonna I was there Saturday. Saw all the top SF groups like Airplane, Janis and her band, etc. For me it was Otis Redding with the completed iconic Stax backup with Booker T and the MG’s with Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper. Those last two are in the Blues Brothers movie. Also seeing the Paul Butterfield Blues Band! All of these performances are on YT from the film, “ Monterey Pop”. Especially Janis Joplin.
I love Lulu's facial reaction!!
Lemmy told a fabulous story about Jimi playing in front of Pete Townsend and Eric Clapton, at the Bag O Nails in late 1966. Pete and Eric were considered to be the best guitarists
at the time. along with Jeff Beck. When Jimi went into his showmanship, Lemmy spotted Pete and Eric both holding hands. Eric looked like he had been crying.....
There are great guitarists, and then there's Jimi. Nobody has come even close.
Jimi Hendrix is THE guitar god. Nobody has ever been better
I am so glad that the youngest person here was the one that dug it the most. She could hear how real those lyrics are compared to 'baaybee' 'ooooh girl' etc etc. She just got it. There is hope for the future. They're coming round to see now how we got down back in the day, before we had autotune or bieber snake or nariah jonas, or whatever they've called. This music will never die. I even still remember the day my then 17 year old daughter said dad, can you put your stereo on... why sweetheart what is it you want to hear (expecting something ive never heard to leave me scratching my head) and she said will you put jimi hendrix on. My job at that moment was complete.
Did you know that Jimi played a right-hand guitar, and he played it upside down with his left hand. Check it out.
While other boys were in their rooms choking chickens, little Jimi was in his room eating out his guitar.
Great reaction! I must say I'm glad i didnt have my volume all the way up when y'all paused to EXCLAIM: "HE'S PLAYING THE GUITAR WITH HIS TEETH??" LOL, but the exclaiming was appropriate--this IS Jimi Hendrix, after all--the greatest rock guitarist, hands down. (Or even--especially--behind his head ;)
We wish we had reacted to Jimi Hendrix before Stevie Ray Vaughan
"Let me stand next to your fire."
One of the big reasons Hendrix's sound was so unique -- besides being Hendrix -- was because he was left-handed, but played a right-handed guitar -- upside down. In addition to his re-stringing, this changed how the pickups 'read' the strings. The rear pickup on the traditional Stratocaster is slanted to capture the higher strings near their base, where they have a more piercing tone. On Hendrix's guitar it catches the higher strings farther up, so instead of shrieking, they sing with a pure, resonant sound. It's much the same for the Telecaster, but his best work was on the Strat. Oh, and not only did he play with his teeth, but with his tongue, too. No wonder the ladies loved him... 😏
That whole pickup angle thing is bs started up by guitar magazines in the 90's. It doesn't matter at all. Those guitar magazines also promoted the older is better idea that people still staunchly believe in.
Also it doesn't matter which way round a pickup is, it's 6 alnico magnets, with a single strand of copper wire wrapped around all of them. Every pole piece senses the string the same.
His use of those awful coil cables did more to dull the high frequencies than anything else, those cables introduce a lot of capacitance, which results in a loss of high end.
@@rickbailey-ty8bq If you say so...
All Along The Watchtower is my favorite by Hendrix. Best cover of a Bob Dylan song ever.
It's an amazing cover that enhanced the original
The studio version is stunning also; just grabs your heart. Jimi is simply the GOAT, nothing today compares.
The man played a right handed guitar stringed left handed look at the head .. amazing. My jimmy of all time is Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
One of the reasons Jimi liked playing a right handed guitar was that the guitars control knobs were on the top which he had come to like plus it let him use a Stratocasters Whammy Bar in a then very unique way .
This was his American debut at the Monterey Pop Festival
The song " Hey Joe " is actually an old folk song , but he dtix made it his own . Try other songs like : Purple Haze , Foxy Lady , Star Spangled Banner , Room Full Of Mirrors , Voodoo Child , Who Knows ( live at the filmore ) , Machine Gun ( live at the fillmore ) , Message Of Love ( live at the fillmore ) , Ezy Ryder , Lover Man ,
An underrated guitarist inspired by him is Robin Trower. His performances from 73-77 are especially incredible.
At the time of this gig (Monterey Pop Festival 1967), Hendrix was practically unknown in the U.S. except on the "chitlin circuit" and by some older R&B and R&R artists such as the Isleys and Little Richard. He jammed with them before moving to England. The Jimi Hendrix Experience were already popular in the U.K. and the drummer Mitch Mitchell and the bass player Noel Redding were English.
never in a million years would I think you guys would to my recommendation but yes thats Jimi the man . This performance alone made me drop everything i was doing a buy a strat . Love the reaction you guys have a beautiful and blessed day.
You have to review his performance of the National Anthem at Woodstock 1969!!! The man was pure genius with a guitar!!!
From Jimi to Morrison that time in history was really magical and dangerous. Best time ever to be young.
Actually Stevie Ray Vaughan was already playing guitar in 1967. The year that Jimi Hendrix played The Monteray Pop Festival. His older brother, Jimmy Vaughan, gave him his first guitar and guitar lessons.
Check out Jimi's performance of Voodoo Child from the Woodstock concert. !
Jimi was good friends with Stephen Stills (Buffalo Springfield and Crosby Stills and Nash) and he played on Stephen's first solo album (as did Stephen's pal Eric Clapton). Stills was soon playing in Jimi's style, especially in his band Manassas.
A British Producer discovered Hendrix and brought him to the UK, this is where he made his name, he sadly Died of a Heroin overdose in London. ☹️
Saw him in November 68 in Ole' St' Lou'. Much better to to watch in person 15 ft. away. Jim
A lot of artists are like that, front row for the best performance. That's really cool you got to see him all those years ago
Jimi Hendrix is the GOAT
Hey Joe was an old song , not so successful when it was first recorded. But Jimi 's version is the one and only.
That's kind of a downer that it wasn't successful at first. It's a great song
To say...Jimi Hendrix was Awesome. ....Would be a Major Understatement. ...So...I'm going to say that ....Jimi Hendrix was..... 'The Best Rock Guitarist Ever'......And there were/are many great ones also.
There’s an acoustic guitar video I like by Jimi. It’s in color, white background. Blues song. His clothes are amazing. He had STYLE.
I was 14 when he was big. I loved old school blues, really old blues. I only learned recently that his beginning was blues. He had a blues mentor.
I wasn’t very much into his music but i thought he was very cute!!!
The people I knew who played his album all day and night in their rooms with a black light and posters were 13 year old boys.
That the GOAT 🐐 of electric guitar 🎸
I lOVE his voice, swagger and talent. All the while chewing gum LOL LOVE JIMMY MR. COOL..
Central tavern the oldest bar in Seattle Washington aka the grunge bar where grunge bands started at was Jimi Hendrix's favorite bar in the Seattle area. The central tavern is haunted!! Even Hendrix was seen there in spirit.
Jimmy was ahead of his time!
His stint in England helped Jimi to immerse himself in the local rock and blues scene,and he was ,perhaps,consciously inspired by the Who' s Pete Townsend's use of feedback.
I wonder if SRV played, sang and chewed gum at the same time too :) A great reaction would Jimi doing " All Along The Watch Tower", a Bob Dylan written tune that helped put Jimi on the R&R map. I still play it today....cheers
Sin duda el mejor de todos los tiempos
Definitely ahead of his time
You notice how he's chewing gum and playing 🎸 as if it was so easy .
This is actually a cover, not a Hendrix original. Best track would have to be 'All Along The Watchtower' also a cover of a Bob Dylan composition.
Also note he plays his guitar upside down as being left handed could not afford to buy a LH guitar so taught himself and stuck to it and hard to change back later.
We had no clue this was a cover. Our whole life is a lie!
Check out Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child live at Woodstock.
Also, Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady live at Miami Pop Festival.
Guys are funny, like real funny!
It appears to me that he was singing and playing guitar with his mouth, while CHEWING GUM!
Yeah we saw that too
Jimi played this using a right handed guitar upside down as he couldn’t find a left handed guitar and he refused to re-learn the guitar playing right handed.
I find it hard to believe that older lady said she never herd of jimi.
It's hard to say, but quite possible
The little Zomer is shocked by the lyrics. Show her SVR!
Be sure to check out all our Stevie Ray Vaughan reactions
This was the first time Americans ever saw him (they'd only heard him), so you can imagine their reaction. If you watch the film (Monterey Pop) you'll see the audience after he plays, just sitting not knowing what to do . He blew them all away. After, he plays another, where he's humping the speakers and at the end, burns his guitar ! When he finished, people knew who Hendrix really was.
I met Jimi Hendrix in a recording studio before he set out on his great journey. We talked about sci fi. I had no idea he was a guitar player. Mitch Mitchell was a nice guy.
Cool!
Lulu's face, omg. She has a good heart.
Your in for a treat - Go Jimmy !
Purple Haze
Wonderful, you guys are just delightful and remarkable here in your reaction.
P.s. Just 4 months ago Ace reacted to this again with some guy and yet in that reaction he seems to indicate that he's watching it for the first time. ?
"Purple Haze" -- "All Along the Watchtower" -- "The Wind Cries Mary" -- "Manic Depression" -- These are a good start. Cheers.
Jimi Hendrix
He was the best guitarist in history. So big that the great J. Page admired him. Excited to see him play!!!
This was his first performance back in America, the country that spurned and ignored his music, after hitting it big in England. Shots of the audience had people starting with their mouths hanging opened and uncomfortable. He burned his guitar at the end of this set.
There's no video for it but google "Are you Experienced live at Winterland" and look for the sound cloud version. About a minute of his otherworldly noise and then he launches off into the greatest live electric guitar song ever recorded.
That would be awesome to watch
I've heard that before... It RIPS!!!
Almost rock guitarist of the world wordship him, He is gods.
Hendrix is simply THE HIGH PRIEST OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR!
The equipment that we had back in the day was powerful but noisy.