@@richardross9296 I can't believe you saw machine gun, power of soul and all of the other songs live on those nights. Man that must of been an experience. Did you have a feeling that this was pretty special and did you know they were recording?
Wrong, This dude has Hendrixs play style down like on other ive seen copy and paste his name here on UA-cam look at a handful of his videos. *Julijan Eric*
Hendrix is 🎸 people still trying to figure it out. And this cool cat didn’t bother to play a million notes per second . Just a million feelings and emotions . Way to go man , new sub here 💪👊
I remember walking around the streets of Berkeley, Ca. on the weekends during my high school days jamming the shit outta this lp on my cassette tape recorder, and people lookin at me like I'm crazy. Especially, Black people, because they hadn't been exposed to Jimi. But, after seeing him and actually having the opportunity to come face to face with him @ Berkeley, I found myself in a different world, far as music was concerned. And, I was enjoying the hell out of it!
100% correct. - according to Buddy Miles. I only talked to him a few times, but one of my friends who also happens to be a damn good Hendrix impersonator, was a very good friend of Buddy's. We've talked about this riff, and he told me Buddy confirmed it starts on the lower notes
And if you ever do start a Hendrix forensics series, I'd be happy to put you in contact with my friend. He's spent countless hours talking to Buddy about Jimi
100% correct - according to Jimi Hendrix. I have only communicated with him a few times via an ouija board, but during one séance he talked about this riff and he told me it starts on the lower notes.
The hippest thing about this tune is how it oscillates between a swing feel and a straight 4/4 and also his phrasing on the solo breaks has an eerie hue to it and has all these strange black panther/Vietnamese/Indian qualities. Miles Davis said "Jimi was playing all these funny Indian melodies" Also worth noting that the performance of this song and machine gun from the 2nd night of the Fillmore shows came after Bill Graham critiqued Jimi on the first night, telling him that he shucked and jived but didn't really play. Jimi asked him if he'd would be around for the second show, and the following night he opened with those tunes back to back. After he got off stage he walked up to Bill and said "satisfied, mutherfucka'?" Bill said, and I paraphrase here: " What followed, with respect to Carlos, Duane and Clapton and all the other greats, was the single greatest performance I have ever heard. He just stood there stock still and played and played. It was emotionally devastating and I don't ever expect to hear it equaled." Good work RJ. You are digging into the subtleties of Jimi's playing.
True story and after blowing Graham away and seeing his reaction he went out for the encore feeling super validated and did.nothing but the tricks. guitar behind head.with tongue teeth hump ing the strat.....
find the new one, we have access to millions now, to me it's not about technically perfect insta players, it is one in million, something fresh and original, we won't know it till we hear it.. it's imagination..
JImi had definite ideas about intros to songs and drum patterns he wanted played as in the famous drum intro to All Along the Watchtower. There was an album called Loose Ends that was just that, studio out takes and such and part of it was snippets of the rehearsals for the Fillmore New Years shows. They were just jamming on Blue Suede Shoes and Jimi had a high hat intro he wanted Buddy to play and Buddy just wasn't getting it. Jimi was singing the part he wanted and Buddy was trying to repeat it but Jimi kept saying, "no, no man. Like this!" and you can hear the frustration in his voice. And this was for a song they were just jamming and weren't going to play at the gig. That's why Jimi regretted not being able to read or write music, it was hard for him to get across what he was hearing in his head to others and he really wanted to do more structured pieces with lots of players doing parts he wrote, not just jamming along.
Mindless self-indulgence: having heard this riff (note the drum entry) correctly scored me the job as a fill-in bassist for the great Randy Hansen on his tour of Germany, who certainly never played it wrong. Aaaah, typing while watching, of course you mention Randy. You're the best RJ, tell them!
Randy Hansen is criminally underrated. Not only an amazing guitar player, but one of the greatest showmen of all time. I’ve noticed though that a lot of people can’t see past the whole Hendrix act, sadly.
@@marionsmith8707 Thats because in the realm of Art authentic/original self expression is first and foremost. Randy is a great guitar player but the guy doesn't have his own vision. The lesson to learn from Hendrix is to do your own thing. Jimi couldn't stand to look or sound like anybody else.
YES YES YEE RJ!!! I’m yelling in my car I’m so happy you did this video! I knew EXACTLY what you were going to say before I even watched it. THANK YOU!! I have never ever seen anybody play this correctly with the G on the 1. And your video on Hendrix string gauge with the slinkier G string was a revelation! You are ace man!
I remember the day that album came out we listened to it over and over and over again ... happened to be on acid at the time...I vowed I would NEVER defile this music by learning it......week later I knew every song by heart...😎🎼🎸
Great stuff. This has always been my favorite Hendrix. Billy Cox's simple bass lines are so full of life, and funky as hell. Buddy Miles voice is like butter. BTW, that solo you did with Tim was killer.
I love Hendrix over 30 years. He talk with his guitar and made every note Alive. He was a speaking person who knows talking to the people in there soul 😊
This is a surgical analysis of the facts... being a Jimi fan I can say that this video honors, in a very memorable way, two people... Jimi and R.J. for your excellent analysis. Cheers!!!
reminds me of Kid Anderson "things people play wrong", very cool! a new way of hearing the song after 50 years. Now i have to go back and listen to it.
Ooooh!! Fabulous!!! Thank you!!! You are so right!! You sound just like the original. Oh God, I LOVE Jimi!!! I love his guitar, his voice, his songs - him - everything!!!
Ah, very interesting! I agree with you... I've been starting it on the D, and NEVER thought it was actually on the G note. I wonder what even had you doubting it in the first place. You're like the Indiana Jones of music Archaeology. Good Job researching this, R.J.!
Bravo! And no, none of us could ever hear it the way Jimi did because he was from another dimension! He was not of this world. Thank you and thanks to Jimi for expanding our conciousness.
Hey RJ! Nice (and fun) to see one of your exhibits & research results is a VHS recording of my 1997 TV show! Yes, I was the guy who invited Buddy and his "New Band Of Gypsys" via the promoter for Italy to perform live and be interviewed, exclusively for my show on TV Capodistria, for the benefit of the cameras and the really packed, enthusiastic audience in the beautiful small hall of the Gravisi Palace, a Venetian historic building in Capodistria, Slovenia. So, glad to have met Buddy, and Randy and Neil, and brought legends to my hometown, and... glad to have contributed to your discovery (with which, as a guitarist and Hendrix scholar, I wholeheartedly agree, btw)! 😉👍 Gonna follow your channel - if you feel like returning the favour and following mine, there will be some recording and Hendrix related content I believe you will find interesting coming very soon. Cheers from the Adriatic coast, AF
The version of Who Knows that we're all familiar with got an ''extended'' cut on the new Songs For Groovy Children boxset where you can actually hear that it starts on that lower note. I have already listened to that side of the record ten times before it hit me.
you got it right and you're also right that not only is it one of the most classic riffs in rock history (along with Whole Lotta Love, Paranoid and Sunshine Of Your Love) but I find it amusing that so many try it and get it wrong. And the whole song (indeed the whole album) is bluesy and funky as doo doo.
Jimmy never plays the whole thing twice, just as the same, a free spirit flows far far away whitout moving... Great job R.J.!!! 2:43"...huiahuiahuiahuia
I actually always heard it this way, listen to where the bass and drums enter, where the solos start,, where jimis vocal enters…plus I ASKED BUDDY MILES, WHO CONFIRMED IT!!
Great take on Who Know's. In the concert he is tuned down a whole step. Probably to give his voice a rest...Also, you mentioned other recordings..well, THERE ARE. Look into the Baggy Rehearsals. This is where the BOG rented a garage in Manhattan and rehearsed for 3 days straight for the gig at the Fillmore East. They break down Who Knows from infancy to the beginning and with ad lib lyrics...
I'll give you some more food for thought: Jimi broke from his normal half step down tuning for a lot of the New Years Eve show and actually played a FULL step down. I'm not sure about Who Knows, but he definitely did on Machine Gun.
hey, youre right! i dont think i can change the way i hear it, but i bet whoever is able to change the way they hear it would be able to improvise with a whole new level of creativity over that riff
I agree, RJ. But as an aside I'd like to say why I think this lp deserves to be considered one of the greatest live albums ever. For one, it captures Jimi at the top of his game. But the other is that it is all new material, played for the first time before a live audience. Who else but Jimi could pull this off? Take Live at Fillmore East by the Allman Bros - they had been playing this same material live for over a year. For Jimi, Buddy and Billy to come out from the practice studio and lay this down was pure genius.
I can't play good enough to know but I can hear. I have the RYKO double CD with the shirt and box so I've listened to that song one million times. The announcer talks over the start but I do think it starts on G.
yes, by all means do more Hendrix content! i think all playrers should study him, and you have really nailed his sound RJ. I could listen to you play all day man, I am so impressed with your knowledge, and that one thing you can't really teach, feeling
HI RJ it's funny but I had the same thoughts all my life about this riff. You're completely right and I have the same difficulty to keep on singing my first phrases on the G note while playing. This is the proof that Jimi came for outer space :)
Thanks for this great video! I always had a feeling there was something a little weird going on with the beat placement in this riff! As you said, even when you know where the "one" should be, it's still hard to feel and hear it in the riff. Reminds me of the intro of Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower - I know where the measure should begin, but it's really hard to feel and hear it until Jimi's guitar solo ends on the intro! (Much easier to hear it on the live version of Watchtower at Isle of Wight.) Can I ask what effects you're using in this video? You really nailed Jimi's tone on Band of Gypsys!
Very interesting how this eludes our ears as listeners. To me the reason is how anchoring the D is as the root, and it too lands on a strong beat (3 if we are to take your perspective from the video), pulling our ear to it as though it was beat 1. In that way the song's meter is almost in 2 rather than 4. This reminds me of the question of which chord is tonic in a two chord vamp like on Fire on the Mountain by the Dead. It comes down to the phrasing of the melody in time, to me. And applying that here, as you did, we arrive at the G being the start, the 1, of the Who Knows riff. Well done. These musical puzzles are kind of holding it in your music in your hand like a three dimensional object - to examine the facets from different angles. One viewer sees chaos in a room-sizsd 3D diorama while another one sees a composite picture from disparate elements. That viewer is the one seeing the piece from the perspective intended by the artist. ;)
I love this kind of stuff what an awesome video! It’s the video I saw first of yours and it made me way to subscribe!! Nice work!!! I llove this: “you’ve all been playing it wrong!!!” So good man! It’s a super killer sound you have on your guitar!! Since I subscribed and will tell everyone I know about you, would you please be kind enough to tell me how you’re getting that guitar sound? Like pedals, amp or settings that make it work? Thanks in advance my good man!
RJ if you don't already do transcriptions, you should. I'd never catch something that subtle, but those things are really important when you want to capture the nuances of an artist. Especially a crazy cat like Jimi!
Nice playing man... you have good ears for Jimi :) He was the man. He had so many "flowers" in his playing. Not many people hear those things :) Randy Hansen is one of those people.
🔴 Check out this recording of the rehearsal (thanks Kevin!) ua-cam.com/video/hyOOVMSNyow/v-deo.html
Actually, listening to this once, I was finally able to hear the correct riff! And now I can't un-hear it which I guess is a good thing.
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I was at both Friday night Band of Gypsies shows at the Fillmore East.
Amazing!
I panhandled the ticket for the second show. Tickets were $3.50, $4.50 and $5.50. I was fifteen years old at the time. Love your channel.
lucky dog!
@@richardross9296 I can't believe you saw machine gun, power of soul and all of the other songs live on those nights. Man that must of been an experience. Did you have a feeling that this was pretty special and did you know they were recording?
Was there a difference between shows? I'd kill to see the recorded version. I was 9, but Jimi is the reason I play guitar.
Well, my whole life is a lie.
🤣 Same.
Rhett Shull that makes three lives ruined.
...mine certainly is, I was meant to be a great guitar player ...hey ho
I can’t handle this!!!!!
Now proceed to watch the video
I love when people go this far into Jimis music
Hendrix forensics. Nicely done.
Hendrix Forensix! I might have to start a series
@@RJRonquillo Please do dude!!!
@@RJRonquillo Do it!!!
@@RJRonquillo "The EXP Files - the sounds are out there!"
@@RJRonquillo DO IT!!
50 years later I still feel lucky and privileged to have seen Jimi at Woodstock. I'll never play like him nor will anyone else.
I’m jealous
I agree, but Randy Hanson comes very close.
Didja ever see the Dead, man? (~)};)
Wrong, This dude has Hendrixs play style down like on other ive seen copy and paste his name here on UA-cam look at a handful of his videos. *Julijan Eric*
Curious if you can recall how was his tone life compared to the engineering and recording?
Hendrix is 🎸 people still trying to figure it out. And this cool cat didn’t bother to play a million notes per second . Just a million feelings and emotions . Way to go man , new sub here 💪👊
I remember walking around the streets of Berkeley, Ca. on the weekends during my high school days jamming the shit outta this lp on my cassette tape recorder, and people lookin at me like I'm crazy. Especially, Black people, because they hadn't been exposed to Jimi. But, after seeing him and actually having the opportunity to come face to face with him @ Berkeley, I found myself in a different world, far as music was concerned. And, I was enjoying the hell out of it!
This video felt like a magic eye painting, and I had no idea what you were saying until all of a sudden I did.
great analogy!
TRUTH RJ!!!! Top notch work dude. And so entertaining too, loving the pace and slickness of your format atm!
100% correct. - according to Buddy Miles. I only talked to him a few times, but one of my friends who also happens to be a damn good Hendrix impersonator, was a very good friend of Buddy's. We've talked about this riff, and he told me Buddy confirmed it starts on the lower notes
And if you ever do start a Hendrix forensics series, I'd be happy to put you in contact with my friend. He's spent countless hours talking to Buddy about Jimi
The incomparable Buddy Miles.
I ALSO HEARD IT
FROM BUDDY MILES! After I ASKED HIM WHERE 1 Is, He confirmed it!
100% correct - according to Jimi Hendrix. I have only communicated with him a few times via an ouija board, but during one séance he talked about this riff and he told me it starts on the lower notes.
@@shivasirons8971 thats so cool..
The hippest thing about this tune is how it oscillates between a swing feel and a straight 4/4 and also his phrasing on the solo breaks has an eerie hue to it and has all these strange black panther/Vietnamese/Indian qualities. Miles Davis said "Jimi was playing all these funny Indian melodies"
Also worth noting that the performance of this song and machine gun from the 2nd night of the Fillmore shows came after Bill Graham critiqued Jimi on the first night, telling him that he shucked and jived but didn't really play. Jimi asked him if he'd would be around for the second show, and the following night he opened with those tunes back to back. After he got off stage he walked up to Bill and said "satisfied, mutherfucka'?"
Bill said, and I paraphrase here: " What followed, with respect to Carlos, Duane and Clapton and all the other greats, was the single greatest performance I have ever heard. He just stood there stock still and played and played. It was emotionally devastating and I don't ever expect to hear it equaled."
Good work RJ. You are digging into the subtleties of Jimi's playing.
True story and after blowing Graham away and seeing his reaction he went out for the encore feeling super validated and did.nothing but the tricks. guitar behind head.with tongue teeth hump ing the strat.....
I’ve always heard it on the G,and I wish Jimi could come back and play for us all. As with a bunch of other great musicians that we all miss.
find the new one, we have access to millions now, to me it's not about technically perfect insta players, it is one in million, something fresh and original, we won't know it till we hear it.. it's imagination..
JImi had definite ideas about intros to songs and drum patterns he wanted played as in the famous drum intro to All Along the Watchtower. There was an album called Loose Ends that was just that, studio out takes and such and part of it was snippets of the rehearsals for the Fillmore New Years shows. They were just jamming on Blue Suede Shoes and Jimi had a high hat intro he wanted Buddy to play and Buddy just wasn't getting it. Jimi was singing the part he wanted and Buddy was trying to repeat it but Jimi kept saying, "no, no man. Like this!" and you can hear the frustration in his voice. And this was for a song they were just jamming and weren't going to play at the gig. That's why Jimi regretted not being able to read or write music, it was hard for him to get across what he was hearing in his head to others and he really wanted to do more structured pieces with lots of players doing parts he wrote, not just jamming along.
Mindless self-indulgence: having heard this riff (note the drum entry) correctly scored me the job as a fill-in bassist for the great Randy Hansen on his tour of Germany, who certainly never played it wrong.
Aaaah, typing while watching, of course you mention Randy. You're the best RJ, tell them!
Randy Hansen is criminally underrated. Not only an amazing guitar player, but one of the greatest showmen of all time. I’ve noticed though that a lot of people can’t see past the whole Hendrix act, sadly.
@@marionsmith8707 Thats because in the realm of Art authentic/original self expression is first and foremost. Randy is a great guitar player but the guy doesn't have his own vision. The lesson to learn from Hendrix is to do your own thing. Jimi couldn't stand to look or sound like anybody else.
Bitches Love me cause they know I can rock 😎
YES YES YEE RJ!!! I’m yelling in my car I’m so happy you did this video! I knew EXACTLY what you were going to say before I even watched it. THANK YOU!! I have never ever seen anybody play this correctly with the G on the 1. And your video on Hendrix string gauge with the slinkier G string was a revelation! You are ace man!
Yeah you are correct ❤
I remember the day that album came out we listened to it over and over and over again ... happened to be on acid at the time...I vowed I would NEVER defile this music by learning it......week later I knew every song by heart...😎🎼🎸
Great stuff. This has always been my favorite Hendrix. Billy Cox's simple bass lines are so full of life, and funky as hell. Buddy Miles voice is like butter. BTW, that solo you did with Tim was killer.
Finally! Someone got it right! I met Buddy Miles in LA and I ask him where 1 is, and he confirmed it’s where people think 3 is!
Buddy Miles: Hey man, where's the one?
Billy Cox: *Shrugs* Who Knows?!?
I love Hendrix over 30 years. He talk with his guitar and made every note Alive. He was a speaking person who knows talking to the people in there soul 😊
This is a surgical analysis of the facts... being a Jimi fan I can say that this video honors, in a very memorable way, two people... Jimi and R.J. for your excellent analysis. Cheers!!!
reminds me of Kid Anderson "things people play wrong", very cool! a new way of hearing the song after 50 years. Now i have to go back and listen to it.
There's another crazy thought....this is 50 years old and we're still figuring out what Jimi actually did. "Before his time" is an understatement.
Excellent work here! One of my favorite albums. Just bought the guitar book for band of gypsies. Such a fantastic live performance by Hendrix.
Excellent forensics work on the riff. All I can say is thank you for the lesson, love the riff
Thanks brother. Band Of Gypsies were fantastic. I absolutely love Buddy's playing. Jimi,Billy and Buddy were insanely awesome together.
That new compilation of all the New Years performances are very much godsend to all of us fans it’s so great to hear everything, warts and all
You sound like my ex...."YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG !!"
I think I married the same women
So true 😆
@@sgtcaco Same woman just a million different faces
yeah ,she told me the same!! lol
Yeah.your one hundred percent right,when they start the lines singing it all falls into place,thank you R.J.
Trivia...just a bit of this song was played in one of the Sopranos episodes at the Ba-Da-Bing.
Ooooh!! Fabulous!!! Thank you!!! You are so right!! You sound just like the original. Oh God, I LOVE Jimi!!! I love his guitar, his voice, his songs - him - everything!!!
Always nailing Hendrix songs!
Ah, very interesting! I agree with you... I've been starting it on the D, and NEVER thought it was actually on the G note. I wonder what even had you doubting it in the first place. You're like the Indiana Jones of music Archaeology. Good Job researching this, R.J.!
U right man can't unsee it!!!!
Bravo! And no, none of us could ever hear it the way Jimi did because he was from another dimension! He was not of this world. Thank you and thanks to Jimi for expanding our conciousness.
...I agree "Genius Guy"...Thank you very much ☮️🕊️🎸😉...✨🎇
All your points are correct, and I’m SO GLAD somebody is finally with me on this one!
Hey RJ! Nice (and fun) to see one of your exhibits & research results is a VHS recording of my 1997 TV show!
Yes, I was the guy who invited Buddy and his "New Band Of Gypsys" via the promoter for Italy to perform live and be interviewed, exclusively for my show on TV Capodistria, for the benefit of the cameras and the really packed, enthusiastic audience in the beautiful small hall of the Gravisi Palace, a Venetian historic building in Capodistria, Slovenia.
So, glad to have met Buddy, and Randy and Neil, and brought legends to my hometown, and... glad to have contributed to your discovery (with which, as a guitarist and Hendrix scholar, I wholeheartedly agree, btw)!
😉👍
Gonna follow your channel - if you feel like returning the favour and following mine, there will be some recording and Hendrix related content I believe you will find interesting coming very soon.
Cheers from the Adriatic coast,
AF
Very enlightening and I’ve listened to this for 25yrs! Makes sense once you mentioned where the singing starts.
Word up! I always kind of wondered about this!
The version of Who Knows that we're all familiar with got an ''extended'' cut on the new Songs For Groovy Children boxset where you can actually hear that it starts on that lower note. I have already listened to that side of the record ten times before it hit me.
I posted this comment and immediatly after that you mentioned it in the video. Life has a way.
Finally someone did it! THANK YOU! I've hearing it THIS way, since the very first time i listended to the BOG record.
Well-argued and persuasive!
I've seen Hendrix twice, you're actually Right..
I've always thought this way💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Great Jimi'ism RJ! Happy New Year!!
Enlightening. Everyone plays Cissy Strut wrong as well.
Very true!
I trust RJ.
This guy is a music college grad & takes music seriously. I wish he offers an online guitar course. I'd love to enroll.
God bless you RJ!
Agree. Listen to the drums
you got it right and you're also right that not only is it one of the most classic riffs in rock history (along with Whole Lotta Love, Paranoid and Sunshine Of Your Love) but I find it amusing that so many try it and get it wrong. And the whole song (indeed the whole album) is bluesy and funky as doo doo.
Jimmy never plays the whole thing twice, just as the same, a free spirit flows far far away whitout moving...
Great job R.J.!!!
2:43"...huiahuiahuiahuia
I actually always heard it this way, listen to where the bass and drums enter, where the solos start,, where jimis vocal enters…plus I ASKED BUDDY MILES, WHO CONFIRMED IT!!
Randy Hansen is the man who knows how to play it.
I've played it since 72 and I agree Rj Good going
Great take on Who Know's. In the concert he is tuned down a whole step. Probably to give his voice a rest...Also, you mentioned other recordings..well, THERE ARE. Look into the Baggy Rehearsals. This is where the BOG rented a garage in Manhattan and rehearsed for 3 days straight for the gig at the Fillmore East. They break down Who Knows from infancy to the beginning and with ad lib lyrics...
Almost fifty, the band of gypsys cd is still my nr.1 cd, untouchable
I'll give you some more food for thought: Jimi broke from his normal half step down tuning for a lot of the New Years Eve show and actually played a FULL step down. I'm not sure about Who Knows, but he definitely did on Machine Gun.
Bro - I'm gonna go play this NOW!
now you mention it it sounds much better withe the G first and works better :) Good job RJ...btw your tone!!! wow you got it man
hey, youre right! i dont think i can change the way i hear it, but i bet whoever is able to change the way they hear it would be able to improvise with a whole new level of creativity over that riff
Yes, this is the right way to count this song. Actually I figured it out about 15 years ago.
My favourite album of all time!
Wow! Amazing ...
Thank you Sir ✌
The man comes with cold hard evidence! I love it. Rock on!
I agree, RJ. But as an aside I'd like to say why I think this lp deserves to be considered one of the greatest live albums ever. For one, it captures Jimi at the top of his game. But the other is that it is all new material, played for the first time before a live audience. Who else but Jimi could pull this off? Take Live at Fillmore East by the Allman Bros - they had been playing this same material live for over a year. For Jimi, Buddy and Billy to come out from the practice studio and lay this down was pure genius.
Good call
Wow, you right, MEN, thanx
The devil 😈😈😈 is in the details!!! Great extensive researching!!!🤘🤘🤘🙏🙏🙏
I agree.
youre correct sir
I can't play good enough to know but I can hear. I have the RYKO double CD with the shirt and box so I've listened to that song one million times. The announcer talks over the start but I do think it starts on G.
Musically it makes sense.Like a one and,two and play beat.I never noticed it.But it totally fits the intro.
yes, by all means do more Hendrix content! i think all playrers should study him, and you have really nailed his sound RJ. I could listen to you play all day man, I am so impressed with your knowledge, and that one thing you can't really teach, feeling
HI RJ it's funny but I had the same thoughts all my life about this riff. You're completely right and I have the same difficulty to keep on singing my first phrases on the G note while playing. This is the proof that Jimi came for outer space :)
Ayyy great vid!
You've just corrected a 14yr old, 39 years later Cheers
More Hendrix!
Great Video and I'm not even a guitarist
I always thought the feel of this Tune was weird. Lol. Thanks for figuring this out.
Great vid!
Omg, This blew my mind.... 😩 My brain keeps changing the one when I listened to it just now.
Nice video! And nice arguments haha
Greatest guitar album of ALL time......
Thanks for this great video! I always had a feeling there was something a little weird going on with the beat placement in this riff! As you said, even when you know where the "one" should be, it's still hard to feel and hear it in the riff. Reminds me of the intro of Hendrix's version of All Along the Watchtower - I know where the measure should begin, but it's really hard to feel and hear it until Jimi's guitar solo ends on the intro! (Much easier to hear it on the live version of Watchtower at Isle of Wight.) Can I ask what effects you're using in this video? You really nailed Jimi's tone on Band of Gypsys!
Great Video RJ, Long Live Jimi!!!
Very interesting how this eludes our ears as listeners. To me the reason is how anchoring the D is as the root, and it too lands on a strong beat (3 if we are to take your perspective from the video), pulling our ear to it as though it was beat 1. In that way the song's meter is almost in 2 rather than 4. This reminds me of the question of which chord is tonic in a two chord vamp like on Fire on the Mountain by the Dead. It comes down to the phrasing of the melody in time, to me. And applying that here, as you did, we arrive at the G being the start, the 1, of the Who Knows riff. Well done. These musical puzzles are kind of holding it in your music in your hand like a three dimensional object - to examine the facets from different angles. One viewer sees chaos in a room-sizsd 3D diorama while another one sees a composite picture from disparate elements. That viewer is the one seeing the piece from the perspective intended by the artist. ;)
You convinced me
The album "Songs For Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts" has a little more of the intro in CD3 1. Who Knows (1/1/70 - 1st set)
It's the same concert as Band of Gypsies album
Hot one Jr great tune
Well…mind blown.
RJ, you’re the best thing to come out of Detroit since the Ford Pinto, As you stated before Dave Friedman is a Taurus
Nice!! Never looked at it like that, makes sense. Totally agree with you!
I love this kind of stuff what an awesome video! It’s the video I saw first of yours and it made me way to subscribe!! Nice work!!! I llove this: “you’ve all been playing it wrong!!!” So good man! It’s a super killer sound you have on your guitar!! Since I subscribed and will tell everyone I know about you, would you please be kind enough to tell me how you’re getting that guitar sound? Like pedals, amp or settings that make it work? Thanks in advance my good man!
There is the version in the rehersals for band of gypsies it can be found on the 5 cd box set jimi hendrix in rehearsal
RJ if you don't already do transcriptions, you should. I'd never catch something that subtle, but those things are really important when you want to capture the nuances of an artist. Especially a crazy cat like Jimi!
Love videos!!!!!!!!!!!!
yes starts in G
Agreed ! Love your tone !!
Nice playing man... you have good ears for Jimi :) He was the man. He had so many "flowers" in his playing. Not many people hear those things :) Randy Hansen is one of those people.
It makes perfect sense because that first note on G makes the whole song SWING!!!!