People need to STOP comparing SRV’s version to Jimi’s version of this song. Jimi WROTE it, CREATED it, and FELT it in his SOUL. SRV COPIED it. It’s like when a comedian imitates an actors voice, it may sound a little like Christopher Walken or Robert Deniro, but it’s NOT them. When Jimi plays this song, that he thought up in his head, you can feel it from every fiber of his being. SRV practiced this song every day from childhood and yes, he mastered all the notes and chords, but it’s rehearsed and played exactly like the record. Jimi NEVER played this song the same way twice, nor did he care how perfect or clean it was. EVERY time he played it live, he played it differently. It was about Jimi FELT in the MOMENT on stage. SRV plays a nice imitation, that’s it. Jimi was THE improvisor and the ORIGINAL. NO disrespect to SRV, but C’MON, this song BELONGS to Jimi all the way!
Well and perfectly said. It is like all the idiot metal heads who say Jimi was sloppy or that 'there are many bar bands out there with better lead guitarists.' What makes my favorite 'Holy Trinity' guitarists (Jimi the father, Jimmy Page the Son and Jerry Garcia the Holy Spirit) who pushed me into guitar music is their improvisational skills and sense of melody and texture. Most 'great guitarists' are very linear and overly focused on pure technique. This is great for hired musicians but far less so for truly creative artists whose music lives 'in the moment' @@prescriptionexercise3899
I actually don’t think “Machine Gun” is played as well as this honestly. The first few bars of that solo are his best ever, but overall this is much tighter and the tune is much more concise; less meandering.
The fact that Jimmy Hendrix made the type of impact that he did at such an incredibly young age and in such a short amount of time speaks so much to his talent. He is known the world over as one of the greatest musicians that ever lived and died at 27 years old. I can’t even attempt to process that 🤯🤯🤯
The thing about his impact isn't just that he inspired probably the majority of people who picked up the guitar since he lived to do so, or that he changed how even his contemporaries approached their music, but that he changed how people thought about music in general. He showed us the purely emotive human language of empathy. Of course that is still lost on those hammering out soulless solos with no personality, but jimi showed us what is possible. It's a mind fuck because STILL no one can figure out how to take it further. His guitar sounds like his soul connected to the amp and you hear the primal expressions of love and pain as we all feel them. But can you ever really know what another person feels? By listening to Jimi's music, you will feel what he feels. As humans we are all disconnected from what others feel without expression, Jimi expressed himself in a way no one else ever has.
The thing about his impact isn't just that he inspired probably the majority of people who picked up the guitar since he lived to do so, or that he changed how even his contemporaries approached their music, but that he changed how people thought about music in general. He showed us the purely emotive human language of empathy. Of course that is still lost on those hammering out soulless solos with no personality, but jimi showed us what is possible. It's a mind fvck because STILL no one can figure out how to take it further. His guitar sounds like his soul connected to the amp and you hear the primal expressions of love and pain as we all feel them. But can you ever really know what another person feels? By listening to Jimi's music, you will feel what he feels. As humans we are all disconnected from what others feel without expression, Jimi expressed himself in a way no one else ever has.
In this case at the end he took the best from each of his earlier bands (the original Experience and the Band of Gypsies) with Billy Cox on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. IMHO Buddy Miles is almost as good but was more narrow in his drumming and a difficult fit personally while Noel Redding was simply out of his league and should NEVER have been Jimi's bass player. He was a mediocre guitarist and had to be shown note by note what to play. Imagine if Paul McCartney or John Entwhistle had been his earlier bassist. Maybe Jimi would not have had to record his own bass lines in the earlier studio LPs. Noel could play very simple basic lines well enough to fake live concerts.
Now, remember, this guy is playing a right-handed guitar upside down and backwards... Because he couldn't afford a left-handed guitar when he was young.
Doesn't make it more difficult just different than a majority of other players. Even if he didn't reverse the strings it still wouldn't be more difficult. To me Jimi is all about his creativity.
People always say crazy stuff like this. It's just a right hand guitar played lefty and restrung for a left handed player. Really nothing special about it except the knobs might be in a a strange position. This is not that uncommon for left hand players to play right hand guitars.
@@anthonyv6962 I'm a lefty and I play righty. I can tell you that it would have been easier to learn if I started playing left like Hendrix because picking mechanics are so much easier from the get go with your dominant hand. Much of the required movement you unknowingly practice your whole like when you write, color, erase, etc
I saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience twice in 1968, and I can tell you that there was nobody like Jimi as far as creativity, stage presence and performance, and virtuosity. You would swear that this cat came from another planet or world or dimension. He really was THE Voodoo Child .....
The Octavia fuzz pedal was the first octave pedal and one of the first distortion pedals made by Roger Mayer which Jimi made famous right here in Seattle. before that he was punching holes in his speakers to get them to rattle/ distort. Great video guys!
Nonsense. First off Roger Mayer is English, he did not invent the first pedal, and jimi didn't poke holes or cut his speakers. The first pedal ever was a fuzz pedal, but designed by Glenn snoddy in 1962, and sold to gibson, who named it the maestro fuzz tone. Roger Mayer began making fuzz pedals around 65, for Jeff beck, Jimmy page, big Jim Sullivan and others, on the side while working for the ministry of defence. At the same time in the uk, sola sound was formed and copied/modified the maestro and sold it as the tone bender. They also put the circuit in the vox tone bender, the marshall Supa fuzz, and and rotosound fuzz. Virtually all early British fuzz pedals were tone benders. They made a 2 transistor version as well (only a few were made), which was copied as the fuzz face. Prior to Hendrix going to England he was photographed using a maestro fuzz tone with Curtis knight, by November of 66, Hendrix was photographed using a fuzz face. Jimi and Roger met at the bag o nails in early January 67, Roger had been working on the octavia, and thought Hendrix was the guy to use it. Jimi invited Roger to come to the next recording session, and used the octavia on the first solo of purple haze (the second solo is a sped up clean guitar) and the solos for fire. The rhythm tracks on both songs was done on a fuzz face. The octavia was used quite sparingly. Hendrix rarely used it in a studio and almost never took them to a gig, (the only live recording of the circuit is at the fillmore east on December 31 69/January 1 1970). he instead used customized fuzz face circuits in the studio, and regular fuzz faces on the road. Poking holes or cutting speakers doesn't result in distortion, it results in the sound of the cone paper slapping together, and it sounds awful. The volume drops, and the speaker ends up tearing itself apart. I'd bet any story of intentionally cutting or poking holes in a speaker are apocryphal. Amplifiers, from the very beginning have always been able to make distortion, all one had to do was turn up the volume, most people didn't turn them up.
@@rebeccabailey527 I agree with basically everything you said except poking holes in his speakers to get distortion you’ll notice when a speaker cracks you get a level of ‘distortion’ from the bass frequencies who’s to say he didn’t try it.. I hear he did turn up his amps to blaring volumes and tho you get distortion from decreasing headroom the distortion channel on a Boogie Mesa 2 channel is a lot different then turning up an old fender single channel. Were you there? No
There's a documentary that was released a few years ago about this concert in Maui and it's incredible. What's mind blowing is how high quality the footage is from this, like it looks just as good as most of what you'd see today.
Excellent choice! This concert was filmed professionally as it was going to be made into a film. But, you know how it is...that darn Maui Wowie got in the way and the project was put aside...probably while someone went to get some more skins or something. Some of the songs from the performance got onto an album though, 'Rainbow Bridge', including the well-worth-a-listen 'Dolly Dagger'. Oh, and yes, Jimi's guitar was upside down! He played guitar left handed; right hand frets, left hand strums. His signature guitar was a right handed Stratocaster that was strung and set up for a left handed player so it was upside down when he played it. THE man, THE legend.
"Rainbow Bridge" the film was released and is available on DVD. It is about 1/2 this concert and the rest space-talkin' with Jimi. The Rainbow Bridge Meditation and Occult Research Center (if I recall) just booked Jimi for a private show. In Hawaii. Sigh.
I just visited The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a few weeks ago and they have sketches he did when he was 12 years old and they are just plain amazing for someone that age!
@@gennled His cover sucks compared to the writer of the song, and the master Jimi Hendrix. Fu*k SRV, he was basic, there was nothing experimental with his sound, and he was not an innovator at all. If there was no Jimi Hendrix, or Albert King, there would be no SRV. What sound did he innovate, ZERO? I can think of ten songs Jimi wrote, and played which will be remembered another 50 years from now. How many songs did SRV write and perform which people will remember another 50 years from now. To hell with his cover. It's disgusting how much people like you try to elevate an imitator over the innovator.
People need to STOP comparing SRV’s version to Jimi’s version of this song. Jimi WROTE it, CREATED it, and FELT it in his SOUL. SRV COPIED it. It’s like when a comedian imitates an actors voice, it may sound a little like Christopher Walken or Robert Deniro, but it’s NOT them. When Jimi plays this song, that he thought up in his head, you can feel it from every fiber of his being. SRV practiced this song every day from childhood and yes, he mastered all the notes and chords, but it’s rehearsed and played exactly like the record. Jimi NEVER played this song the same way twice, nor did he care how perfect or clean it was. EVERY time he played it live, he played it differently. It was about Jimi FELT in the MOMENT on stage. SRV plays a nice imitation, that’s it. Jimi was THE improvisor and the ORIGINAL. NO disrespect to SRV, but C’MON, this song BELONGS to Jimi all the way!
as others have mentioned, he did play a right handed guitar that was strung upside down. the result of this is the pickups that would normally be aligned with the high pitch strings were aligned with the low pitch strings and vice-verse. subsequently his tone was unlike any other guitar player. he also mastered effects pedals and took the sonic capabilities of the electric guitar to a place no one before him had.
That's actually false. A fender pickup is a bobbin, 6 magnets, one for each string, and then the whole thing is wrapped with a single strand of wire around 8000 times. The orientation of the pickup doesn't change how it sounds. They always make it seem like the pickup is two parts, it's not. This line of thinking started in the 90s from unscrupulous guitar magazine writers, and just became accepted. Now the bridge pickup of a strat is at an angle, but it makes a negligible difference, especially after the guitar signal is shaped by cables (cables do have capacitance which rolls off high end) pedals, the amp, the speakers and so on.
@@rebeccabailey527 Sorry Rebecca, but you're simply not correct. It is entirely the angle of the bridge pickup that changed everything for Hendrix. Saying the placement of the pickup is negligible is like saying where you strike the pick is negligible. On his bridge pickup, Hendrix could play beyond the tenth fret on the high e-string with less shreik, and more body, than anyone else. No other guitarist at the time could play at the volume that Hendrix played at and get the same tone he could get on the high e-string. This is a fact. Billy Gibbons will tell you the same story.
Hahaha, I LOVE Jimi!! And so did SRV! I can't decide myself who I personally like better. This is going to be so AWESOME to see you guy's wonder that yourselves! ;)
Fun ATL radio trivia...there was a ban on Hendricks "Star Spangled Banner" on Atlanta FM/AM radio until around 1992 or so...used to request it on 96 Rock until one of the d's told me that he liked his job too much...the reason behind it was at his last concert in Atlanta it was broadcast live over both the radio and PBS and the only request was to *not* play the SSB, since at that time Atlanta was at an interesting point of time...heck in the city of Stone Mountain there used to be a sign advising the African American community to leave before sundown...especially on Confederate Memorial Day because the Klan would burn a ginormous cross at the top of the mountain... I was born 18 days after Jimi passed away...and he was a fellow alumni from the "Ft Benning School for Wayward Boys and the University of Vertical Insertion" (aka Infantry and Airborne Schools)...
Just because I didn't hit like, (because my vote is for Alex), don't think for one second that I don't like this video. THE TRASH TALKERS RAPPERS REACT's are all super fun to watch!!!!!!!!
This vid is such drivel. The guitar solo that Hollywood was freaking out over is simply sloppy playing while stomping on effects pedals that aren’t even worth a shit because they were just being developed and nobody even knew how to use them. Alex uses pedals and knows how to. Huge difference.
Great analysis and insight. Categorically, I'd say anytime one is feeling that kind of power literally, you are there. And if only figuratively is fine enough. Anytime we want to be there, we are. As for the time period, seems enuff like a great time(and as you said, 'at least for that scene), we can see differences now and much similarities as well. The literal end of the peace and love era(technically ended at its culmination, only to seemed to be defeated by darker forces, just like the darkness only prevails with the absence of light. But it's the inner light w/in each person and the collective mantra of many as a contiuum which must be maintained in order to defeat such negative forces. They ebb and flow continually. War, hatred, racism and greed are always at the door. Recognizing it and who is wielding the "ring" is subject to its allure for the larger purpose. it's always at our door. One word for the proof of concept: Ukraine). Here we are, once again with the same old story but without the net(hint: there's never been a net but collective humanity). The Vietnam debacle was, by 1970 was wearing upon the following masses, and only bc good press was showing the carnage in real time to the Lawrence Welk and Leave it to Beaver living rooms,beffectively showing up it's lies that all was going great. The carnage went on another 5yrs. Musically, Jimi was perhaps the most instrumental in demonstrating these aspects - before - the press, and he was greatly criticized as dangerously anti American bc of his Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock, his Machine Gun song to name a couple. They called him a flag ripper. In fact, he was merely documenting what hed already observed: it was them, not he whom ripped it up. He just picked it up and accurately depicted what it's dying words would be. As any true artist, especially musicians, merely make commentary upon what they observe, not the other way around. May I suggest you good guys can observe the true ending of the peace & love Era drained of its life force like a slit throat right here on you tube: The Rolling Stones performance at Altamont. The other is the song, Gimme Shelter original recording with lyrics. I'll provide the links in the following commentary so I dont lose this commentary by going away from it. Again, great job👏👍
Saw Jimi first time in 1967. Still the best gig I've ever been to and I've seen a lot of great bands including Tool nine times. The word is overused but Hendrix was a genius.
The studio version of his work are songs in the traditional sense. When you see live performances, they're often long jam sessions and guitar solos, because that was just in his blood. I recommend listening to the studio versions as well, since these are all great actual songs, too.
I think the volume knobs thing must be a urban myth because as a left-handed guitar player who's first several guitars were right-handed guitars flipped over and re-strung those knobs get accidentally turned down by your arm and are totally in the way when you're playing the right hand guitar left handed. But yes he definitely did flip the strings. Also I think it was out of necessity because unless you were getting a custom guitar made left-handed instruments were virtually non-existent in those times and are still difficult to find today
Jimi Hendrix was the greatest guitarist of all time. Yes he played a right handed guitar left handed (had it stringed for left handed play), but that was one of the great secrets to his feedback. Considering how little effects he had at the time and the sounds and tracking he did live, he is untouchable. And guess what you guys - Adam of TOOL has mentioned Jimi quite a bit in the past, and also - what do TOOL and Jimi Hendrix have in common? Jimi wins it all.
I am from that time and played drums in a touring band in the late 70's. To use words from that time, it was a far out groovy time to be alive. We didn't "dance" we just smoked weed, took acid and moved to the music and the cool thing was there was no judgement! You guys would have really dug that time period. It's hard to compare Alex and Jimmy but Jimmy is king!!!
wow I never thought about that, I paused through most of the performance to see. Dude is right, pause Jimi's performance at anytime and it could be on a tee shirt, examples 5:54, 6:22.....this is great lol
Jimi was on another planet. Rumor has it when Eric Clapton saw Jimi play for the first time, Clapton was in such a state of shock and awe that he put down his guitar and walked off stage. Keep on rockin in the free world guys! Devildriver - The Mountain Unearth - Endless
Im 71 years old. I was there. This was one of his last gigs but first in his painting with sound project that never came to fruition. You cant listen to this concert without listening to Pali Gap which is epic. Get yourself a copy of rainbow bridge. Another great solo is his earlier live version of machine gun.. His band he formed in England was called Jimi hendrix experience for a reason. His dodgy management considered mitch mitchel and noel reading as just backup studio musicians which resulted in some nasty financials once jimi died. I was at a concert when the band stopped playing and announced his death, it caused chaos. I used to lie on the floor and put one stereo speaker against each ear and turn it up. Jimi was meant to be heard loud. He never used drugs on stage and off stage most of the stories are just that. Why modern music is crap is because it is made cheap. Music in those days had huge differences in dynamic volume and timing. its cheaper to make an auto tuned auto timed song which makes it sound like flat crap. A prime example of timing change experts was the beatles. Jimi was the all time best guitarist because as he said himself, he ignored the notes he played, he was about developing the harmonics between the notes. he also cannot be copied because as you said he played an right handed upside down and used his thumb for bar chords
You are correct about his guitar. He actually played a right hand guitar upside down and left-handed. This just makes Jimi Hendrix even more legendary because he was authentic and one in 1 million. There will never be anyone like him.
I may have missed when you announced this tournament, but you should check out Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was a badass guitar legend that is only starting to get recognition in the past decade or so, but she was ahead of her time. Check out her live version of "Didn't It Rain" to see what she was all about.
We are your grandparents ;). The incredible music we grew up with is still some of the best music ever. He was one of the very first to be creative with a guitar. His guitar made sounds that had never been heard before. Think about the lineup of Woodstock. This is a list of the bands that are still heard on the radio today. Richie Havens, Ravi Shankar, Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Country Joe McDonald, John B. Sebastian, Santana, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Leslie West & Mountain, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Country Joe & The Fish, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter, Blood Sweat And Tears, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Sha Na Na, Jimi Hendrix.
9:31- anybody notice dude do the shovel dance? Or the horse at 8:10 Lol Seriously though, this was one of his greatest performances. And yeah they made left handed guitars, but were probably hard to get back then, as even now the selection is limited. Jimi flipped his over and restrung it to a lefty. Eric Clapton got a left handed stratocaster for him, and brought it to a club as a gift for him right before he died, but didn't get a chance to give it to him that night.
Think you guys missed Michael Schenker. Check out Rock Bottom or Lights Out in London from arguably the greatest live album Strangers in the Night. The whole album is fire.
If you're still look for more Hendrix-esque music; check out Funkadelic; their most famous album, Maggot Brain, has a legendary guitar solo, but lot of RnB, Rock, and Funk elements; one of my top 5 albums of all time
Jimmy hendrix is a master on the guitar 🎸 the songs 🎵 you riffs that he plays are the bomb in many positions on the guitar and mix it up with drums 🎶 and bass 🔊 now that is power 🔋 and magical ✨ the strength 💪 on that guitar is too much
So, Jimi learning to play guitar growing up could only find right-handed guitars, when he was left-handed. Part of his legacy was that he played a right-handed guitar upside down. Jimi was completely self-taught and just played like it was an extension of his soul 🎸
Jimi's best song is also the title of his first album is, 'Are You Experienced.' I have a live version played on the Isle of Wight that runs a little longer than the album version and in it is the very best Hendrix rift and in my opinion, a rift with zero rivals. Experienced included Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass. Jimi unlike his contemporaries understood that the romance of modernity had died. He had to go to Europe, where modernity had died in the 18th century to get noticed. I was 11 when I started listening to Jimi. When I got to college, everyone was into Jimi. That was in 1973. Jimi had been dead for 3 years already. I barely listened to anything else, because most of the music coming out of that era was birthed in modernity and modernity was dead. Compared to Jimi, everyone else was square. Cheers from Black ass New Zealand.
I know you guys already did Hey Joe, but you HAVE to SEE the LIVE version!!!! There's a reason that song was suggested as one of his best works. It's not just because of the music, it's the technique! He is a performer that you need to SEE do his craft! I don't want to spoil anything but it's something you MUST see!
If you were to pick another song by Jimi to continue this "battle royale" I would seriously recommend "If Six Was Nine" from the album Axis: Bold As Love. Here's a little thing to take note of the next time you watch a Stevie Ray Vaughn video. When Stevie plays his "number one" guitar with the "SRV" stickers on the pickguard, note where the 'whammy bar' is attached to SRV's guitar. It is attached to the bridgeplate of the guitar at the TOP of the bridge (closest to the low E string). Typically on a right handed guitar the whammy bar attaches at the bottom of the bridgeplate nearest to the high E string. However, if you take a standard right hand Stratocaster and flip it over the way that Jimi did, well now the whammy bar is at the TOP of the bridgeplate. There is no real advantage to having the whammy bar in either position - it is a purely personal preference thing. But the influence Jimi had SRV, and on Alex Lifeson, runs deeper than merely the placement of the whammy bar, much deeper indeed.
Jimi all the way, dude! Was so proud of Smokey for noticing the guitar! If you're going for live, Star Spangled Banner is a helluva trip! (Had the Woodstock CD once) Other than that, my picks are ***All Along The Watchtower, *If 6 was 9, *Red House, Purple Haze, Crosstown Traffic, & Are You Experienced. For more chill/mellow vibes: Wind Cries Mary & Castles Made of Sand. Little Wing was a top as well, but ya gotta also check out Stevie Ray Vaughn's version!!
"All along the watchtower" is his best blend of vocals and guitar work.
A true masterpiece
Y'all need to check out Jimi's version of "All Along The Watchtower" it's one of the greatest guitar songs ever
The greatest cover of all time IMO
People need to STOP comparing SRV’s version to Jimi’s version of this song. Jimi WROTE it, CREATED it, and FELT it in his SOUL. SRV COPIED it. It’s like when a comedian imitates an actors voice, it may sound a little like Christopher Walken or Robert Deniro, but it’s NOT them. When Jimi plays this song, that he thought up in his head, you can feel it from every fiber of his being. SRV practiced this song every day from childhood and yes, he mastered all the notes and chords, but it’s rehearsed and played exactly like the record. Jimi NEVER played this song the same way twice, nor did he care how perfect or clean it was. EVERY time he played it live, he played it differently. It was about Jimi FELT in the MOMENT on stage. SRV plays a nice imitation, that’s it. Jimi was THE improvisor and the ORIGINAL. NO disrespect to SRV, but C’MON, this song BELONGS to Jimi all the way!
@@prescriptionexercise3899 Dude I was talking about "All Along The Watchtower" which was written by Bob Dylan
@@Alex-bs4md ok. My apologies.
Well and perfectly said. It is like all the idiot metal heads who say Jimi was sloppy or that 'there are many bar bands out there with better lead guitarists.' What makes my favorite 'Holy Trinity' guitarists (Jimi the father, Jimmy Page the Son and Jerry Garcia the Holy Spirit) who pushed me into guitar music is their improvisational skills and sense of melody and texture. Most 'great guitarists' are very linear and overly focused on pure technique. This is great for hired musicians but far less so for truly creative artists whose music lives 'in the moment' @@prescriptionexercise3899
Machine Gun! Best thing Jimi ever played. Do the band of gypsys version.
Auld Lang Syne is fantastic too
copenhagen version!
I actually don’t think “Machine Gun” is played as well as this honestly. The first few bars of that solo are his best ever, but overall this is much tighter and the tune is much more concise; less meandering.
The beauty of soundboard mixes and good film. A living time capsule.
The fact that Jimmy Hendrix made the type of impact that he did at such an incredibly young age and in such a short amount of time speaks so much to his talent. He is known the world over as one of the greatest musicians that ever lived and died at 27 years old. I can’t even attempt to process that 🤯🤯🤯
The thing about his impact isn't just that he inspired probably the majority of people who picked up the guitar since he lived to do so, or that he changed how even his contemporaries approached their music, but that he changed how people thought about music in general. He showed us the purely emotive human language of empathy. Of course that is still lost on those hammering out soulless solos with no personality, but jimi showed us what is possible. It's a mind fuck because STILL no one can figure out how to take it further. His guitar sounds like his soul connected to the amp and you hear the primal expressions of love and pain as we all feel them. But can you ever really know what another person feels? By listening to Jimi's music, you will feel what he feels. As humans we are all disconnected from what others feel without expression, Jimi expressed himself in a way no one else ever has.
Not only did he pass at the age of 27, but he only recorded for 3 short years...
The thing about his impact isn't just that he inspired probably the majority of people who picked up the guitar since he lived to do so, or that he changed how even his contemporaries approached their music, but that he changed how people thought about music in general. He showed us the purely emotive human language of empathy. Of course that is still lost on those hammering out soulless solos with no personality, but jimi showed us what is possible. It's a mind fvck because STILL no one can figure out how to take it further. His guitar sounds like his soul connected to the amp and you hear the primal expressions of love and pain as we all feel them. But can you ever really know what another person feels? By listening to Jimi's music, you will feel what he feels. As humans we are all disconnected from what others feel without expression, Jimi expressed himself in a way no one else ever has.
Jimi was such a legend that his band mates often get overlooked. They were at the top of their game.
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In this case at the end he took the best from each of his earlier bands (the original Experience and the Band of Gypsies) with Billy Cox on bass and Mitch Mitchell on drums. IMHO Buddy Miles is almost as good but was more narrow in his drumming and a difficult fit personally while Noel Redding was simply out of his league and should NEVER have been Jimi's bass player. He was a mediocre guitarist and had to be shown note by note what to play. Imagine if Paul McCartney or John Entwhistle had been his earlier bassist. Maybe Jimi would not have had to record his own bass lines in the earlier studio LPs. Noel could play very simple basic lines well enough to fake live concerts.
Can't go wrong on Jimmy...ever....next: "the wind cries Mary".....
Yeeeeees
All Along The Watchtower is another one worth putting up
Best cover of a Rock song ever performed. Jimi took ownership of Dylan's song.
Jimi has to be on the Mt Rushmore of Guitarists. A God!!
Now, remember, this guy is playing a right-handed guitar upside down and backwards... Because he couldn't afford a left-handed guitar when he was young.
He reversed the strings man.
Doesn't make it more difficult just different than a majority of other players. Even if he didn't reverse the strings it still wouldn't be more difficult. To me Jimi is all about his creativity.
It’s pretty cool, but it doesn’t really matter since it’s the way he learned it
People always say crazy stuff like this. It's just a right hand guitar played lefty and restrung for a left handed player. Really nothing special about it except the knobs might be in a a strange position. This is not that uncommon for left hand players to play right hand guitars.
@@anthonyv6962 I'm a lefty and I play righty. I can tell you that it would have been easier to learn if I started playing left like Hendrix because picking mechanics are so much easier from the get go with your dominant hand. Much of the required movement you unknowingly practice your whole like when you write, color, erase, etc
I saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience twice in 1968, and I can tell you that there was nobody like Jimi as far as creativity, stage presence and performance, and virtuosity. You would swear that this cat came from another planet or world or dimension. He really was THE Voodoo Child .....
I went to all his concerts man!!!
I've always said that Jimi was from another planet (Jupiter specifically comes to mind)... perhaps even from another universe!!!
@@persephone1062 I agree. His talents were unearthly.
Man, "The wind Cried Mary" is amazing and so is "Red House"!
Jimi will always be the number one. His music and creativity transcend things like technique and playing fast.
Jimi is from another planet
Jimi Hendrix "Red House" is the best guitar work I think that no one ever talks about
that 12m one! blows my mind every time
The Octavia fuzz pedal was the first octave pedal and one of the first distortion pedals made by Roger Mayer which Jimi made famous right here in Seattle. before that he was punching holes in his speakers to get them to rattle/ distort. Great video guys!
Nonsense.
First off Roger Mayer is English, he did not invent the first pedal, and jimi didn't poke holes or cut his speakers.
The first pedal ever was a fuzz pedal, but designed by Glenn snoddy in 1962, and sold to gibson, who named it the maestro fuzz tone.
Roger Mayer began making fuzz pedals around 65, for Jeff beck, Jimmy page, big Jim Sullivan and others, on the side while working for the ministry of defence.
At the same time in the uk, sola sound was formed and copied/modified the maestro and sold it as the tone bender. They also put the circuit in the vox tone bender, the marshall Supa fuzz, and and rotosound fuzz. Virtually all early British fuzz pedals were tone benders. They made a 2 transistor version as well (only a few were made), which was copied as the fuzz face.
Prior to Hendrix going to England he was photographed using a maestro fuzz tone with Curtis knight, by November of 66, Hendrix was photographed using a fuzz face.
Jimi and Roger met at the bag o nails in early January 67, Roger had been working on the octavia, and thought Hendrix was the guy to use it.
Jimi invited Roger to come to the next recording session, and used the octavia on the first solo of purple haze (the second solo is a sped up clean guitar) and the solos for fire. The rhythm tracks on both songs was done on a fuzz face. The octavia was used quite sparingly. Hendrix rarely used it in a studio and almost never took them to a gig, (the only live recording of the circuit is at the fillmore east on December 31 69/January 1 1970). he instead used customized fuzz face circuits in the studio, and regular fuzz faces on the road.
Poking holes or cutting speakers doesn't result in distortion, it results in the sound of the cone paper slapping together, and it sounds awful. The volume drops, and the speaker ends up tearing itself apart. I'd bet any story of intentionally cutting or poking holes in a speaker are apocryphal.
Amplifiers, from the very beginning have always been able to make distortion, all one had to do was turn up the volume, most people didn't turn them up.
@@rebeccabailey527 I agree with basically everything you said except poking holes in his speakers to get distortion you’ll notice when a speaker cracks you get a level of ‘distortion’ from the bass frequencies who’s to say he didn’t try it.. I hear he did turn up his amps to blaring volumes and tho you get distortion from decreasing headroom the distortion channel on a Boogie Mesa 2 channel is a lot different then turning up an old fender single channel. Were you there? No
I've never seen this live performance before. What a great find guys! I feel bad for Alex Lifeson.
Was released as a CD/DVD/BLU RAY Box last Year for the first time...
What does Alex Lifeson have to do with this? Wtf?🤣 I’m so confused
More jimi Hendrix guys I love your reactions
There's a documentary that was released a few years ago about this concert in Maui and it's incredible. What's mind blowing is how high quality the footage is from this, like it looks just as good as most of what you'd see today.
Let the next song by Jimi Hendrix be Red House! 🔥🔥
You guys need to hear Machine Gun by Jimmy and the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock.
Jimi is the Jackson Pollock of guitarist.
As much as I love Alex Lifeson, Jimi changed the way the guitar was played up until probably Eddie Van Halen changed it again.
Wtf, this is the second post about about Alex Lifeson…what does he even have to do with this?🤣 I’m very confused
The 60’s and 70’s music concerts were amazing and seeing Jimi Hendrix live for $4 was wow! Seen Jimi live twice
Excellent choice! This concert was filmed professionally as it was going to be made into a film. But, you know how it is...that darn Maui Wowie got in the way and the project was put aside...probably while someone went to get some more skins or something. Some of the songs from the performance got onto an album though, 'Rainbow Bridge', including the well-worth-a-listen 'Dolly Dagger'. Oh, and yes, Jimi's guitar was upside down! He played guitar left handed; right hand frets, left hand strums. His signature guitar was a right handed Stratocaster that was strung and set up for a left handed player so it was upside down when he played it. THE man, THE legend.
Great album, lost it in a break up lol but Dolly Dagger rocks!
"Rainbow Bridge" the film was released and is available on DVD. It is about 1/2 this concert and the rest space-talkin' with Jimi.
The Rainbow Bridge Meditation and Occult Research Center (if I recall) just booked Jimi for a private show. In Hawaii. Sigh.
I just visited The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame a few weeks ago and they have sketches he did when he was 12 years old and they are just plain amazing for someone that age!
Never saw this video...that was great!!! Thanks!!
Please do Stevie Ray Vaughn cover of this.
Stevie shreds on this song.
If Jimi and Albert King did not exist, there would be no SRV, stop trying to put SRV on Jimi's level.
I used to live right up the hill from that magical location, and I’ll be at that very spot this weekend for the annual Makawao Rodeo!
Great reaction. Thanks.
Love Hendrix! I was a teen in the 70s! Best time of my life!!
Seen Jimi live twice. Nothing compares to Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughn does an incredible cover. Live is a must!
Stevie's version of Little Wing is also out of this world!
Did SRV write, and perform Vodoo Child? Who did? What's his name?
@@carlwalker9635 Voodoo Child was Jimi Hendrix. Which is why I said "cover".
@@gennled His cover sucks compared to the writer of the song, and the master Jimi Hendrix. Fu*k SRV, he was basic, there was nothing experimental with his sound, and he was not an innovator at all. If there was no Jimi Hendrix, or Albert King, there would be no SRV. What sound did he innovate, ZERO? I can think of ten songs Jimi wrote, and played which will be remembered another 50 years from now. How many songs did SRV write and perform which people will remember another 50 years from now. To hell with his cover. It's disgusting how much people like you try to elevate an imitator over the innovator.
People need to STOP comparing SRV’s version to Jimi’s version of this song. Jimi WROTE it, CREATED it, and FELT it in his SOUL. SRV COPIED it. It’s like when a comedian imitates an actors voice, it may sound a little like Christopher Walken or Robert Deniro, but it’s NOT them. When Jimi plays this song, that he thought up in his head, you can feel it from every fiber of his being. SRV practiced this song every day from childhood and yes, he mastered all the notes and chords, but it’s rehearsed and played exactly like the record. Jimi NEVER played this song the same way twice, nor did he care how perfect or clean it was. EVERY time he played it live, he played it differently. It was about Jimi FELT in the MOMENT on stage. SRV plays a nice imitation, that’s it. Jimi was THE improvisor and the ORIGINAL. NO disrespect to SRV, but C’MON, this song BELONGS to Jimi all the way!
as others have mentioned, he did play a right handed guitar that was strung upside down. the result of this is the pickups that would normally be aligned with the high pitch strings were aligned with the low pitch strings and vice-verse. subsequently his tone was unlike any other guitar player. he also mastered effects pedals and took the sonic capabilities of the electric guitar to a place no one before him had.
That's actually false. A fender pickup is a bobbin, 6 magnets, one for each string, and then the whole thing is wrapped with a single strand of wire around 8000 times. The orientation of the pickup doesn't change how it sounds. They always make it seem like the pickup is two parts, it's not.
This line of thinking started in the 90s from unscrupulous guitar magazine writers, and just became accepted.
Now the bridge pickup of a strat is at an angle, but it makes a negligible difference, especially after the guitar signal is shaped by cables (cables do have capacitance which rolls off high end) pedals, the amp, the speakers and so on.
@@rebeccabailey527 Sorry Rebecca, but you're simply not correct. It is entirely the angle of the bridge pickup that changed everything for Hendrix. Saying the placement of the pickup is negligible is like saying where you strike the pick is negligible. On his bridge pickup, Hendrix could play beyond the tenth fret on the high e-string with less shreik, and more body, than anyone else. No other guitarist at the time could play at the volume that Hendrix played at and get the same tone he could get on the high e-string. This is a fact. Billy Gibbons will tell you the same story.
I was 12 when this was played still digging it to this day
Hahaha, I LOVE Jimi!! And so did SRV! I can't decide myself who I personally like better. This is going to be so AWESOME to see you guy's wonder that yourselves! ;)
That's how hallucinogens make you dance lol
Fun ATL radio trivia...there was a ban on Hendricks "Star Spangled Banner" on Atlanta FM/AM radio until around 1992 or so...used to request it on 96 Rock until one of the d's told me that he liked his job too much...the reason behind it was at his last concert in Atlanta it was broadcast live over both the radio and PBS and the only request was to *not* play the SSB, since at that time Atlanta was at an interesting point of time...heck in the city of Stone Mountain there used to be a sign advising the African American community to leave before sundown...especially on Confederate Memorial Day because the Klan would burn a ginormous cross at the top of the mountain...
I was born 18 days after Jimi passed away...and he was a fellow alumni from the "Ft Benning School for Wayward Boys and the University of Vertical Insertion" (aka Infantry and Airborne Schools)...
From Seattle Washington by the way guess you could say he started grunge also played on the chittlen circuit with Little Richard
Check out his Monterey pop concert
Best version ever of that song
Rory Gallagher, Robin Trower, Joe Walsh...actually I could go on for quite a while talking about great 70's guitarists.
Lemmy/Motörhead was once Jimi's Guitar Technician !
Just because I didn't hit like, (because my vote is for Alex), don't think for one second that I don't like this video.
THE TRASH TALKERS RAPPERS REACT's are all super fun to watch!!!!!!!!
This vid is such drivel. The guitar solo that Hollywood was freaking out over is simply sloppy playing while stomping on effects pedals that aren’t even worth a shit because they were just being developed and nobody even knew how to use them. Alex uses pedals and knows how to. Huge difference.
@@TheRobsam Exactly, You get it, You understand! Alex can play anything!
Great analysis and insight. Categorically, I'd say anytime one is feeling that kind of power literally, you are there. And if only figuratively is fine enough. Anytime we want to be there, we are. As for the time period, seems enuff like a great time(and as you said, 'at least for that scene), we can see differences now and much similarities as well. The literal end of the peace and love era(technically ended at its culmination, only to seemed to be defeated by darker forces, just like the darkness only prevails with the absence of light. But it's the inner light w/in each person and the collective mantra of many as a contiuum which must be maintained in order to defeat such negative forces. They ebb and flow continually. War, hatred, racism and greed are always at the door. Recognizing it and who is wielding the "ring" is subject to its allure for the larger purpose. it's always at our door. One word for the proof of concept: Ukraine). Here we are, once again with the same old story but without the net(hint: there's never been a net but collective humanity). The Vietnam debacle was, by 1970 was wearing upon the following masses, and only bc good press was showing the carnage in real time to the Lawrence Welk and Leave it to Beaver living rooms,beffectively showing up it's lies that all was going great. The carnage went on another 5yrs. Musically, Jimi was perhaps the most instrumental in demonstrating these aspects - before - the press, and he was greatly criticized as dangerously anti American bc of his Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock, his Machine Gun song to name a couple. They called him a flag ripper. In fact, he was merely documenting what hed already observed: it was them, not he whom ripped it up. He just picked it up and accurately depicted what it's dying words would be. As any true artist, especially musicians, merely make commentary upon what they observe, not the other way around.
May I suggest you good guys can observe the true ending of the peace & love Era drained of its life force like a slit throat right here on you tube: The Rolling Stones performance at Altamont. The other is the song, Gimme Shelter original recording with lyrics. I'll provide the links in the following commentary so I dont lose this commentary by going away from it. Again, great job👏👍
Jimi is the GOAT, first man to make the guitar scream. He took a right handed guitar turned it upside down strung as a lefty.
This was actually a private concert for the cast and crew and some friends for the movie Rainbow Bridge, sadly it was his last concert in the US.
Saw Jimi first time in 1967. Still the best gig I've ever been to and I've seen a lot of great bands including Tool nine times. The word is overused but Hendrix was a genius.
I'm betting most of the people there were on acid and trippin' their ass off haha! Jimi is a legend. RIP 🙏 ❤
lol
Jimi and the band included. lol
For me, nobody compares to JIMI. My favorite poet, and just an incredible composer and perfectionist. I can type forever 🤩 he’s just THE MAN👊🏿
we are there.
I saw him put some blotter under his head band at the show in '70 . He did it for fun
Jimi was killin that whammy bar good lord 💯💯
The studio version of his work are songs in the traditional sense. When you see live performances, they're often long jam sessions and guitar solos, because that was just in his blood. I recommend listening to the studio versions as well, since these are all great actual songs, too.
He played it upside down because he was able to get to the volume toggle knobs quicker plus he restrung it the right way
I think the volume knobs thing must be a urban myth because as a left-handed guitar player who's first several guitars were right-handed guitars flipped over and re-strung those knobs get accidentally turned down by your arm and are totally in the way when you're playing the right hand guitar left handed. But yes he definitely did flip the strings. Also I think it was out of necessity because unless you were getting a custom guitar made left-handed instruments were virtually non-existent in those times and are still difficult to find today
That was shot in film and transferred to video.
Jimi is the guitarist's guitarist. Nobody before or after him could play the way jimi has. The true GOAT of guitar. 🐐
Guys check out a version here on YT. Live in Stockholm...It's older but still pretty great...
Jimi Hendrix was the greatest guitarist of all time. Yes he played a right handed guitar left handed (had it stringed for left handed play), but that was one of the great secrets to his feedback. Considering how little effects he had at the time and the sounds and tracking he did live, he is untouchable. And guess what you guys - Adam of TOOL has mentioned Jimi quite a bit in the past, and also - what do TOOL and Jimi Hendrix have in common? Jimi wins it all.
I am from that time and played drums in a touring band in the late 70's. To use words from that time, it was a far out groovy time to be alive. We didn't "dance" we just smoked weed, took acid and moved to the music and the cool thing was there was no judgement! You guys would have really dug that time period. It's hard to compare Alex and Jimmy but Jimmy is king!!!
Left handed magician. A true pioneer
Jimi is amazing as always, but dayum, that bass is solid
Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival where he lights his guitar on fire and still plays it.......greatest thing you'll ever see
He didn't play it after setting it on fire, he lit it, picked it up by the neck,, then began smashing it.
Rumor has it that Jimi used to soak his bandana in LSD. Not sure how true that is, but pretty wild if true.
wow I never thought about that, I paused through most of the performance to see. Dude is right, pause Jimi's performance at anytime and it could be on a tee shirt, examples 5:54, 6:22.....this is great lol
Jimi was on another planet. Rumor has it when Eric Clapton saw Jimi play for the first time, Clapton was in such a state of shock and awe that he put down his guitar and walked off stage. Keep on rockin in the free world guys!
Devildriver - The Mountain
Unearth - Endless
All of those beautiful young hippies are senior citizens in their 60's & 70's now.
Have you not seen SRV’s version/tribute?!?! 😲
Check out Jimi's Band of Gypsies for a great trio project.
Jimi was a paratrooper and served in the 82nd Airborne. RIP brother... best ever
It was shot on actual film for a movie..."Rainbow Bridge".
What about the track
1983 (A merman I should turn to be)
from the Electric Ladyland record?
Album version of 1983 is my absolute favorite, that melancholy guitar makes my heart ache
Jimi Hendrix could send you on an acid trip without having to do acid.
Damn that rhythm section 🔥
Jimi has so much effortless swag.✌
Im 71 years old. I was there. This was one of his last gigs but first in his painting with sound project that never came to fruition. You cant listen to this concert without listening to Pali Gap which is epic. Get yourself a copy of rainbow bridge. Another great solo is his earlier live version of machine gun.. His band he formed in England was called Jimi hendrix experience for a reason. His dodgy management considered mitch mitchel and noel reading as just backup studio musicians which resulted in some nasty financials once jimi died. I was at a concert when the band stopped playing and announced his death, it caused chaos. I used to lie on the floor and put one stereo speaker against each ear and turn it up. Jimi was meant to be heard loud. He never used drugs on stage and off stage most of the stories are just that. Why modern music is crap is because it is made cheap. Music in those days had huge differences in dynamic volume and timing. its cheaper to make an auto tuned auto timed song which makes it sound like flat crap. A prime example of timing change experts was the beatles. Jimi was the all time best guitarist because as he said himself, he ignored the notes he played, he was about developing the harmonics between the notes. he also cannot be copied because as you said he played an right handed upside down and used his thumb for bar chords
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You are correct about his guitar. He actually played a right hand guitar upside down and left-handed. This just makes Jimi Hendrix even more legendary because he was authentic and one in 1 million. There will never be anyone like him.
Most lefties used upside down guitars back then, left handed guitars were simply impossible to find. It's not anything special
Red house is a good song too!!
I may have missed when you announced this tournament, but you should check out Sister Rosetta Tharpe. She was a badass guitar legend that is only starting to get recognition in the past decade or so, but she was ahead of her time. Check out her live version of "Didn't It Rain" to see what she was all about.
Ha- That same riff was used on a 2 LIVE CREW album too!
The Master! Rock on.
That clip was from the Jimi Hendrix movie called RAINBOW BRIDGE. Watch it if you get the chance.
I'd like you guys to listen to Are you Experienced? !
We are your grandparents ;). The incredible music we grew up with is still some of the best music ever. He was one of the very first to be creative with a guitar. His guitar made sounds that had never been heard before.
Think about the lineup of Woodstock. This is a list of the bands that are still heard on the radio today.
Richie Havens, Ravi Shankar, Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Country Joe McDonald, John B. Sebastian, Santana, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Leslie West & Mountain, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Country Joe & The Fish, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter, Blood Sweat And Tears, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Sha Na Na, Jimi Hendrix.
9:31- anybody notice dude do the shovel dance? Or the horse at 8:10 Lol
Seriously though, this was one of his greatest performances. And yeah they made left handed guitars, but were probably hard to get back then, as even now the selection is limited. Jimi flipped his over and restrung it to a lefty. Eric Clapton got a left handed stratocaster for him, and brought it to a club as a gift for him right before he died, but didn't get a chance to give it to him that night.
Jimi Hendrix died that year at the age of 27.
RIP to an ABSOLUTE LEGEND! 🎸🤘🏼🔥
Think you guys missed Michael Schenker. Check out Rock Bottom or Lights Out in London from arguably the greatest live album Strangers in the Night. The whole album is fire.
T-SHIRT!
If you're still look for more Hendrix-esque music; check out Funkadelic; their most famous album, Maggot Brain, has a legendary guitar solo, but lot of RnB, Rock, and Funk elements; one of my top 5 albums of all time
yes he played an upside down guitar since he was left handed and left handed guitars were pretty rare back then
I understand I wish I was in the 60s and 70s also !!!!
You are the only one on reaction vids that noticed he plays his ax upside down!
Jimmy hendrix is a master on the guitar 🎸 the songs 🎵 you riffs that he plays are the bomb in many positions on the guitar and mix it up with drums 🎶 and bass 🔊 now that is power 🔋 and magical ✨ the strength 💪 on that guitar is too much
So, Jimi learning to play guitar growing up could only find right-handed guitars, when he was left-handed. Part of his legacy was that he played a right-handed guitar upside down.
Jimi was completely self-taught and just played like it was an extension of his soul 🎸
Jimi's best song is also the title of his first album is, 'Are You Experienced.' I have a live version played on the Isle of Wight that runs a little longer than the album version and in it is the very best Hendrix rift and in my opinion, a rift with zero rivals. Experienced included Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass. Jimi unlike his contemporaries understood that the romance of modernity had died. He had to go to Europe, where modernity had died in the 18th century to get noticed. I was 11 when I started listening to Jimi. When I got to college, everyone was into Jimi. That was in 1973. Jimi had been dead for 3 years already. I barely listened to anything else, because most of the music coming out of that era was birthed in modernity and modernity was dead. Compared to Jimi, everyone else was square. Cheers from Black ass New Zealand.
You guys definitely need to groove to "Machine Gun" live from the Isle of Wight Festival and "If 6 Was 9" no matter what happens!
I know you guys already did Hey Joe, but you HAVE to SEE the LIVE version!!!! There's a reason that song was suggested as one of his best works. It's not just because of the music, it's the technique! He is a performer that you need to SEE do his craft! I don't want to spoil anything but it's something you MUST see!
If you were to pick another song by Jimi to continue this "battle royale" I would seriously recommend "If Six Was Nine" from the album Axis: Bold As Love.
Here's a little thing to take note of the next time you watch a Stevie Ray Vaughn video. When Stevie plays his "number one" guitar with the "SRV" stickers on the pickguard, note where the 'whammy bar' is attached to SRV's guitar. It is attached to the bridgeplate of the guitar at the TOP of the bridge (closest to the low E string). Typically on a right handed guitar the whammy bar attaches at the bottom of the bridgeplate nearest to the high E string. However, if you take a standard right hand Stratocaster and flip it over the way that Jimi did, well now the whammy bar is at the TOP of the bridgeplate. There is no real advantage to having the whammy bar in either position - it is a purely personal preference thing. But the influence Jimi had SRV, and on Alex Lifeson, runs deeper than merely the placement of the whammy bar, much deeper indeed.
If Six was Nine is SO great ❤
Jimi all the way, dude! Was so proud of Smokey for noticing the guitar! If you're going for live, Star Spangled Banner is a helluva trip! (Had the Woodstock CD once) Other than that, my picks are ***All Along The Watchtower, *If 6 was 9, *Red House, Purple Haze, Crosstown Traffic, & Are You Experienced. For more chill/mellow vibes: Wind Cries Mary & Castles Made of Sand. Little Wing was a top as well, but ya gotta also check out Stevie Ray Vaughn's version!!