Eddie Kramer on the Potential Sound of Jimi Hendrix's Fourth Album
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2017
- Neil Shukla interviews legendary music producer and recording engineer Eddie Kramer at the Cosmo MusicFEST & EXPO. He discusses his experiences with Jimi Hendrix, and muses on what his potential fourth studio album would have been like.
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Neil Shukla interviews legendary music producer and recording engineer Eddie Kramer at the Cosmo MusicFEST & EXPO. In Part 2, he discusses how mistakes led to the iconic psychedelic section on Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love".
I was lucky enough to meet Hendrix in a London nightclub in 1968. He was on his way out the door and I just kind of followed him and blurted out ..."Excuse me Jimi..." and he turned around....I said..."I just wanted to ask you how you keep your guitar in tune when you are doing the stuff you do..." And he smiled and said "Oh man, you just gotta tune while you play man, just tune while you play" and laughed. I thanked him and said "Have a good night " went out the door of the club....
Thank you sir...
Could you imagine what he would've done with locking tuners? Locking nut?
@@jamesmorgan2064 binned them probably?
oceantracks very special story .he's often seen tuning during songs in live DVD's, and whatever you can see here on YT. I read that he sometimes needed repairs done, having separated necks from the body. he really manhandled his Strats.
The Stratocasters are notoriously known for being a guitar that is hard to keep in tune. Back in the 60´s the Strats was pretty basic. There were no Graph-Tech nuts or sadles, no locking tuners or expensive tremolos to remedy this. I guess Floyd Rose was born to remedy the tuning instability of Strats. So yeah, it is normal to tune the Strat often on stage. Today it is easier as you have stompbox tuners to tune between song, while Jimi tuned by ear.
They haven't even invented guitar stands yet? Besides the fact a backstage guitar tech? Talk about the pioneer days of rock and roll.
Eddie Kramer should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the greatest engineers in history.
This.
I totally agree
Absolutely agree !
It won't happen they are only concerned with crap
The Musicians Hall of Fame has credibility unlike the mentioned hall of shame.
A man who changed the course of history with just three albums.
Everybody needs to meet a genius to make their lives great.............
deacon: Those 3 albums were a big part of my guitar education.
I learned from these recordings that I should never have picked up a guitar in the first place.
Check out the stuff he did before he died.
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True, with those three ELP albums he rocorded.
When Mr. Kramer is asked about Hendrix, his brain must flood with a tidal wave of memories.
Are you too polite to say flashbacks?
As someone famous in the music biz once said about guitarists: "There's Jimi Hendrix and then everyone else." Jack Bruce said later, after Hendrix had played on stage with Cream after he'd arrived in London and asked if he could jam with them, "Eric was a guitar player. Jimi was some sort of force of nature." Clapton said to Chas Chandler backstage after Hendrix's performance of Killin' Floor jamming with Cream: "You never told me that he was THAT f#cking good!"
Eddie is always much better than any interviewer. He'll answer questions nobody even thought to ask but we all needed answered.
Jimi had already made so much and changed so much in just the three/four years that he was prominent in the music industry. I’m 24 and to think that he was changing music forever at the age I am now is insane to think about!! Band Of Gypsies would’ve blazed across the 70’s like a comet had Jimi lived longer. Thank you Jimi Hendrix and all those good folks that helped him create what he did. The world of guitar playing is beholden to you for eternity 🤟🤟🤟
You got to know the previous years and then understand his musical education was tough and real.
It makes me so happy when I go on UA-cam and see so many Hendrix fans! I used to feel like I was the only one. But it turns out that some people are even bigger fanatics than I am! I almost feel like he's appreciated more now than he was back in the day.
I love it too, young folks dicovering Hendrix just like I did when I was young. He changed the way I listen to music, he changed the way I played bass, that it's not just an instrument, but a tool to pour your soul out of.
Even back in the day unappreciated. 1969-saw him in Memphis, 10,000 attending; 1970 July (2 months prior to death)--saw him in Memphis, 2000 attending (9000 empty seats).
I named my first son after him 43 years ago, so I got that going for me. (and of course he plays.... Drums! lol. 1st borns, amIright? )(but he's a KILLER percussionist)
We can only speculate as to how Jimi's music would have evolved but I think almost everyone would agree he would have continued to expand the musical universe beyond anyone's wildest imagination. He was so much more than just a great guitar player. He was the complete package. Until we meet again Jimi.
Hendrix is the GOAT.
No one was making sounds like voodoo child or Machine Gun.
He could make the guitar laught sing cry, moan, scream.
The King of Feedback.
The God of Rock n Roll
He really was a gift from god straight from the cosmos. Wow now it
Makes me think of a simpler time in my life when i only smoked weed and listened to hendrix and thought the world was heaven. Oh my, how sad that makes me feel how much life has changed.
Remembering the times as a teen.
Im still young but feel so tired.
Music is the greatest gift a d therapy.
Hendrix will always be my favorite artists of all time.
Coolest guy to touch the earth
If i dont see you in this world
I'll see you in the next one dont be late.
"Pali Gap" on the old vinyl "Rainbow Bridge" LP is a lost classic and sounds great with headphones. Thank you Eddie for that gem and the others you gave us after Jimi left us.
I bought a Rainbow Bridge album when I was 14 years old in 74 and discovered that little gem but On Hear My Train a coming he was testing the limits of what his strat could do and I realized he was a bigger genius than I could ihave imagined
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I was about that age when I bought RB in vinyl also. Pali Gap and hear my train both knocked me out. I loved the album overall.
But I have to be honest. Thr remastered releases have not knocked me out. They could have been done better. Actually I should say, I am not that crazy about them.
Great record... terrible movie. Mike Jeffrey fancied himself as a film producer... probably 'cause he was taking too much acid. He hired a bunch of drop-kick hippies and when it all went pear-shaped he got Jimi in to do a cameo and a gig on a ridgetop which saved the day. Lucky for Mike... and for us as we get the record and the concert footage as well!
One of my top tracks
Villanova junction as well
A major part of America died with Jimi.He was that powerful and gifted beyond belief.Just hearing stories about this magical guitar player was really too much for most Americans and then the realization that the stories of this superhuman musician were true and beyond anything anyone could have imagined.The nightly news came on the last day of Woodstock and that sound in the background of the broadcast was so mesmerizing it was truly scary in 69.The next day the entire east coast was talking about what had happened.A vast majority of young people were extremely proud to say this is the guy that speaks for us with his music.It was that heavy.This was not just a guitar player but perhaps one of the greatest musicians the world had ever witnessed bar none.
AMEN...
Most definitely.
Wow you really like a hyperbole don't ya!
The great, great Eddie Kramer.
As much as I Love Jimi, as a Great Guitar Player...which cannot be measured! My heart weeps for him,and his tragic life! Even more so He was taken advantage of.his innocence,and trust of others were his down fall....shame shame shame on All of those blood suckers...thats what killed this gentle giant!
What an amazing guy. Very gracious of Mr. Kramer to share these stories and insights with everyone.
Awesome. I love hearing Eddie's stories- greatest producer ever. I don't understand how anyone can give something like this a thumbs down.
I could listen to Eddie talk about Jimi all day. Thanks for posting!
Rob Fiore yeah he's the most positive and enduring person from mr. Hendrix's career, and of course Billy Cox.
Yes!!! His own ego does not get in the way of Jimmy's story. A very humble authentic man. I hope Jimmy enjoyed working with him
I understand why Jimi like Eddie and of course Eddie like Jimi.
They had the taste of music. Eddie could sence what Jimi wanted, he knew the sound what Jimi liked.
Eddie is golden.
I was blessed to grow up in the 60s and 70s and I think it was and still is the greatist period of devopement and progression of music. The amount of talent in that era at one time would be almost an impossibility to happen again. But we can only hope.
The 90s were the closest we’ve ever been
What nobody seems to grasp......Hendrix was born in 1942 but one month short of 1943. He started to play guitar at 15, so that would have been in 1958. 3 years later he enlisted in the army and spent a year in.....and thus discharged in 1962 where he eventually moved to Tennessee which could have been going in to 1963 depending on the date timeline. So starting out playing in the professional sense at around 20 years old......with at best 4 years of beginner practice and improvement mastering playing the instrument.....to have enough confidence to step out to attempt to play professionally to try to make a living as an entry level player in the sea of competition. By late 1966, essentially after 3 years experience playing as a professional and cutting his teeth beyond being an entry level player......he moved to England and became "discovered". Got recorded quickly and 6 to 7 months later is back in the USA to play the Monterey Pop Festival in the summer of 1967...…...and dead by September of 1970 at 27 years old. So at 24 years old, 9 years after starting to play guitar......he is an ICON of history. He rode a wave for 3 years on his own after 3 years professional entry level playing skill......based on 4 years of beginner practice to learn to play. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>when I see pictures and video of Hendrix.....I see the image of a guy that looks 30 to 40 years old with considerable experience...…..when the reality is that he is really a mid 20's kid who some by age alone would have him green behind the ears.
funny thing is......Kramer is about 6 months older than Hendrix
I am so glad that Eddie shares his memories in such a down to earth, very coherent way, with a lot of attentention to the ambiance. When he talks about Jimi, I feel an aura of brotherly love for Jimi.
Nice to see Eddie Kramer agreeing to an interview a few minutes after assembling his desk.
Whoever was able to help facilitate Jimi in the recording of All along the Watchtower deserves maximum praise.
One part of Jimi that is often overlooked or forgotten: Jimi was a geek in a sense, he was obsessive with the tech side of music, he dabbled and tinkered with effects pedals, amps etc and in the studio he was always trying to elicit new sounds or sounds he heard in his head - he was a scifi fan and tried to recreate some of the sound effects he'd heard in scifi movies or imagined he'd hear in a scifi setting, different techniques - he had a backward track on one of his songs - and using the studio as an instrument. He changed the way the guitar was played, but he also influenced the way music was recorded in the studio.
There is nothing like the great Jimi Hendrix, I mean nothing, he's the key
Extremely disappointed that Kramer had to spend several minutes simply explaining to the interviewer that Band of Gypsies was only to be a live album. Also, First Rays was fairly complete, so it makes me wonder how much of a fan that guy really is. Kramer graciously answered the question we all wished was asked: "what was the next thing he would record that wasn't First Rays?". Thank you Eddie!
Good post but let's face it.... What can you say about Hendrix that hasn't already been said? People will listen to his music 100 years from now.... He was a singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer. He changed rock guitar...
I used to think that Jimi's music and impact would last forever also, but that legacy is fading from Jimi's estate hording the rights to his work. I recently asked a guitarist in his 20s if he liked Hendrix, and the guy said he'd never heard any of Jimi's music. (Though he had heard the name) ...another guitarist in his 30s told me he thought Jimi was vastly overrated and that he'd be no one today. Some of the youngsters don't care about Jimi, (which I blame on not being able to eadily stream all of Jimi's material) ...and once the old fans die off, (unless Jimi is "rediscovered") so will Jimi's music.
@@Ninjametal GREAT MUSIC NEVER DIES! JIMI HENDRIX MADE SOME OF THE GREATEST MIND BLOWING MUSIC OF ALL TIME. R.I.P. JAMES MARSHALL HENDRIX. 1love
@@Ninjametal I'm not sure about that. I'm positively surprised every now and then about youngsters appreciating music from those days by Hendrix, Santsna, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd etc. I heard too that some guitarist stated that Hendrix supposify would be nowhere today. But what you hear today is based on what he explored. Next to that is that their only point of reference is his technique in a cold hearted way, not what he composed and not the emotion that the whole of his music expressed. And who knows what he would have developed if he had not passed away so early..
One part of Jimi that is often overlooked or forgotten: Jimi was a geek in a sense, he was obsessive with the tech side of music, he dabbled and tinkered with effects pedals, amps etc and in the studio he was always trying to elicit new sounds or sounds he heard in his head - he was a scifi fan and tried to recreate some of the sound effects he'd heard in scifi movies or imagined he'd hear in a scifi setting, different techniques - he had a backward track on one of his songs - and using the studio as an instrument. He changed the way the guitar was played, but he also influenced the way music was recorded in the studio.
Thank you Mr. Kramer!
eddie kramer made a dream with jimi ...
Linda Kieth discovered Jimi. Then she called Chas and said get down to the club. Chas then decided to manage Jimi.
has she been interviewed? like to see about an hour
It's a great story, but it's kinda like saying Columbus discovered America, when there were already indigenous people living here and the vikings had probably already settled and left. Jimi played with the Isley Brothers and others in the US before he went to England. He had a history, wasn't taken seriously enough here, and went to England to assert himself there. Thank goodness he found recognition there. He discovered Linda and Chas. They didn't invent him, but they certainly helped him along his way to a great degree. Not trying to pick a fight here - it's all semantic - but being in the right club at the right time and knowing a guy to call, I don't know if I'd call it discovery. The whole world was about to discover Jimi Hendrix, no matter who we give the credit, he was going to become known regardless of who made a phone call to whom. :) But thanks to Linda and Chas for their timing, right? Chas Chandler's story as I have heard it was that hearing Jimi the first time shook him to the core and changed his life.
U R right on about that one..
@@xray7908 semantics indeed.
Nobody discovers anyone except their midwife and mother! Yeah it's about the fact that they are *there*, but you kinda know that getting them to be in the public eye more than as a backing musician counts. Little Richard didn't, The Isleys didn't, Arthur Lee didn't.... but they knew he was fantastic.
Johnny Shines didn't discover Robert Johnson but one *could* say the guys who recorded him and cut 78s really did...otherwise nobody now would know about him.
There are astoundingly brilliant musicians now who have not been 'discovered'. They need a Linda Keith to tell a Chas Chandler to "check out this player!"
Seattle Rock N' Roll DJ and concert promoter, Pat O'Day discovered Jimi at The Spanish Castle Dancehall, the inspiration for Jimi's song Spanish Castle Magic. Pat then promoted Jimi's concerts with Concerts West. ua-cam.com/video/Bk7RoHTiiqE/v-deo.html
i love this guy.he brought so much joy in my life.
People Always say, well there's someone out there better than someone else. Well someone has to be the Best, so others can be compared. Jimi Is still the Best and he's been gone for years. No denying that....
Generally that statement is true that there is always someone else better. But, not with Jimi Hendrix. He was light years beyond other guitarists. Dead 47 years and no one has come close to beating Hendrix on guitar, songwriting, or arrangements. He was THAT talented, which is unreal to say the least.
Jimi has gone down in history many times he has a plaque on the wall of Congress in DC. he was inducted in to the Hall Of fame just 2 years ago AGAIN, ppl bring him up daily rockers after Jimi were highly influenced by Jimi's methods of playing Electric Guitar, he has gone down in history as the most influencial rock guitarist whom ever lived, and to date no one has beaten his record, BAR NONE... Jimi Hendrix was a God, and it's really ashamed that he was taken advantage in so many ways that bought him his untimely demise, it's a very long story, but i know the story all too well.. He was the best human being, i had EVER known, for the short time that i did...Amen.. His life was tragic, and i cry every time i think about what would have been, had he been aloud to live, he already had NEW destination in place, he was going in a very different direction musically and personally, he was expanding his horizons as far as putting together a bigger band, and keeping the three piece band, using them both for different tours, i could go on and on about this great man... RIP Jimi..
I agree 100%..
....Rory Gallagher...
This guy is really interesting. Hendrix was one in a million or maybe a billion. I have heard a lot of guitar players in the last 50 years and nobody has even come close, maybe Jimmy Page in some respects like his fretwork. Maybe it's because he played left-handed and played the strings backwards. Maybe that had something to do with the way he was able to stretch notes and such. IDK. I do know if you get a little high and lay down on your couch with the lights off and candles burning and put on Electric Ladyland, you will get an experience that can't be beat. The music just swirls around you in waves. Jimi is living on somewhere else but I hope I run into him again. That would be some trip. Oh, and it's even better if you have headphones on and be sure to turn it up!
He didn't play the strings backward-- he would re-string right-handed guitars to left-handed-- low E on top.
Jimi is untouchable, period. A few have reached near his level. SRV and John Frusciante are probably up there in terms of being able to take what he did and adapt it, but nobody will be Jimi again.
He did play the bass with strings backwards because he never owned one. Hear it best on all along the watchtower. It's all Jimi.
Jimi was a visionary artist who transcended the guitar. Don't get me wrong, he was the greatest RnB guitar player that ever lived, and nobody could swing a power trio like him except maybe SRV. But his relationship to sound and tone color is where the answer lays. As he said himself "technically I am not even a guitar player, I play colors and emotions"
Justine Castreau looks like thick strings toward floor to me. Plus I’ve read this. Regarding Bass only of course. images.app.goo.gl/Za6MVDMULpRV2yW66
Hendrix released his first album in 1967 and died almost 4 years later. Let that sink in. He became popular in 67’ and after 3 years and some change, he died, eventually taking the title of the greatest guitarist of all time.
Class act. Eddie Kramer literally captured the sound of the musical rock titans!
The man is a legend but he also knows how to transport knowledge in a small interview thats valuable to any musician. check out all his interviews if you want to learn stuff about mixing. Eddie "THE MAN" Kramer.
I always have found it odd that the radio stations rarely play the best parts of Jimi's music.
That's because most of his best stuff wasn't top 40s
Always thought Prince ‘s musical style was a progression of Jimi’s style with a 1980s flavour. Both were brilliant.
Solid analysis of a master musician. Historical record worthy.
Nobody knows what Hendrix would have played because he would have invented new genres and would have had such an influence on other musicians that the whole music realm would be different. We just don't have the words to name what he would do.
If there's any guy that knows, or can take a guess, it's Eddie. He and Jimi were the ones to stay up in the studio overnight while the others went home to their wives and girlfriends. These two were hardworking and is why they are remembered more than the others.
He went as far as he was going to go with the Glands of Pipsies, Oh i mean gypsies! He was a Black, trying to be White! I heard everything from jim and he was nothin but smoke n mirrors!
+Greg Demeter Sure, I understand that a musician or actors image would be blown out of proportion after they have died, in order to make them sound like saints. I totally get you, but with Hendrix, his music speaks for itself, it was definitely innovative and revolutionary at that time. I think Hendrix as a musician definitely lives up to the legends, but maybe Hendrix as a person, wouldn't have been the most exciting thing. But it's okay, we're all weird, shy or crazy.
I can't beat that response.
Invented new genres! What the fuck are you talking about? What genres did Hendrix invent? And, if you know anything about music and rock guitar, then
you should be aware of the cliches Jimi often played? Clearly, Baw bag Baw bag had the best response to your comment. When it comes to Jimi, he was a rock guitarists who was very influenced by what was going on around him. For example, while performing live on some tv show, he gets bored with his stuff and busts into "Sunshine of Your Love." Another time, Sgt Pepper had just been released, so Jimi busts into Pepper. Kramer might be right that Jimi would have continued with his funky stuff. Jimi was one funky mofo and when Jimi died, Sly was already the shit. And, with Jimi always getting shit for playing too much for whitey, I could have seen him doing stuff like Superstition (Stevie Wonder), which came out 2 years after Jimi died. Jeez, half of a Stevie Ray Vaughan concert was always Hendrix material and Stevie did Superstition. It follows that Jimi would have been right there with the funk and perhaps even disco. Incidentally, that's what Jimi's sister always said in that he was heading toward an Earth Wind and Fire type of sound......BUT...............
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Always love hearing admiration for Billy Cox and Buddy Miles
First time I heard Voodoo Child. Oh my God!
Me too!
The rattle sound in the song powerful.
I've heard it so many times I think it's a really boring song, same as Watchtower and Zeppelin' s Rock and Roll.
Voodoo Chile is the much better and less appreciated brother of Voodoo Child. It's nearly 15 minutes long, but never feels like it overstays it's welcome.
The guy has produced and photographed every rock star under the sun and he has an empty picture frame on his desk.
Thats some deep shit
Devin Doyle Actor he couldnt decide which photo to put in it
Devin Doyle Actor It's actually Jimi Hendrix without flash
Paul Price "I'm a million miles away,but I'm right here in your picture frame"
that's not his office, people.
For me, Jimi was much more than a guitarist. His best music was based on a vision or image. I think Cry of Love is musically excellent in terms of guitar but the songs lack those compelling "visionary themes" that Jimi needed for peak performance. The 1960s peace & love ended abruptly (probably contributing to Jimi's unhappiness in his final days). I think if Jimi lived, he needed to find new inspiration (because the era that produced his best later songs, such as Gypsy Boy or Straight Ahead, had ended). The song "Drifting" is brilliant but sounds unfinished and had lots more potential. I sense jazz, fusion, etc, was not Jimi's direction because Jimi needed very emotional & pictorial themes. While I don't know all music, I think two albums that would have inspired Jimi are John McLaughlin's "Apocalypse" and Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" (although I think Jimi surpassed Dark Side of the Moon with most of Electric Ladyland; if some of the shorter less cohesive songs are deleted). Since I personally cannot relate to Miles Davis and since Gil Evans versions of Jimi's songs are terrible; I struggle to picture how those collaborations would have worked. I recently bought "In A Silent Way" by Miles and said: "Why did I waste my money?". For most artists, there is a peak of creativity and I think Jimi's "creativity" (but not guitar ability) was in decline. Since most of Electric Ladyland has not been surpassed by another artist; this was surely Jimi's peak of creativity that no one has bettered. Yet I think being a mere guitar technician would not have been the Jimi we know. For me, this is why Jimi is the greatest. I have heard no other guitarist that can perfectly capture lyrics with their guitar playing. Jimi was not a mere guitar technician, like Clapton, Page or Van Halen. Jimi had visions (such as Purple Haze, Little Wing, 1983, House Burning Down, Machine Gun and most of his songs) and manifested those visions via guitar. Even though I did not know him personally, I wish I could meet him today and wish he was still alive to thank & hug him with awe. Jimi was amazing. So from his heart.
BarbarraBay If you want to get into Miles, start out with these albums from the mid-60s: ESP, Nefertiti, Files de Kilimanjaro.In that order. Then get Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage. Historically for Miles, In a Silent Way was the next, then Bitches Brew. But for my money the best are those first 3. Also listen to Coltrane: Live at Birdland.
For me, listening in the 60s and 70s, that Coltrane was the first jazz album I ever bought, at exactly the same time as Electric Ladyland (also contemporaneous: Aretha's Respect and Lady Soul; Beatles Sgt Pepper's; Traffic's first album; one year later: the Doors, the Airplane Surrealistic Pillow; one year later still, Country Joe Electric Music, the Youngbloods, Spirit (the one with Fresh Garbage), Love Forever Changes, Stones Let it Bleed...) those jazz albums I just mentioned are incredible; if you can find an LP and listen on good speakers in a large room, late at night with the lights off, you will be transported to other worlds. Headphones are the next best bet.
For current guitarists, I just discovered Eric Gales a few weeks ago, and he's amazing is his own right and a worthy heir. But Jimi was also such a songwriter. As Kramer describes it, he listened to everything and turned it over in his head and out came his own new music.
@@lopezb Thanks a lot
I love listening to whatever Eddie Kramer has to say, and especially love listening to Eddie sharing anything about Jimi Hendrix! Not only did Eddie work closely with him during Hendrix's finest period, Eddie really seems to have shared a sympatico relationship with Jimi's creative side. Eddie also has a credibility and insightfulness to him, that keeps you rapt, as he articulates!
Eddie was exactly the right engineer for Jimi , really liked the way he engineered and mixed in a very musical way letting
things breathe !
I am not crazy about the remasters though. I don't find them nearly as remarkable as say, the Beatles remasters or remixes. Can you imagine what Giles Martin might be able to do with Jimi's recordings.
Man!!
@@cmkilcullen8176 Eddie Kramer was an excellent engineer but not necessarily a good producer. He had a good rapport with Hendrix and helped stimulate and realise ideas, but if Jimi thought that Kramer had what it took to produce his music (that is to run the sessions and have the final say) he would have asked him to. I think that Teo Macero (Miles Davis's producer) would have been ideal for Jimi.
That said, I really like some of what Kramer has done, other stuff not so much. And it is valid if you are going to remaster the catalogue and release material from the vaults to use the guy that collaborated with Jimi the most.
However my deeper question is how radically do you have to remaster the catalogue and how much production do you add to material from the vaults? Why not leave it as much as possible as is, take the attitude that this is what Hendrix left us, we're not going to second guess how he would have wanted it to sound. Keep any alterations to an absolute minimum, the lightest touch possible. Don't sterilize the sound trying to 'improve' it.
I think you make some very good points.
I agree about the Teo Macero comments.
People who are or were like Teo were good for artists. Miles enabled others musically (in healthy way) and Teo enabled Miles; so did Gil Evans.
Chas Chandler served his purpose for Jimi but then there were other dimensions and growth that came to pass. And Eddie Kramer certainly played his role, and there was certainly give and take there for sure.
I wish more people saw Jimi's growth and joined him. I imagine that is quite a balance, because he also needed to have someone there for him to advocate for his business and musical interests.
Jimi I floated on your sounds since 1978
Loved hearing him describe the initial period where Hendrix embraced what Eddie was doing in terms of interpreting his sound and winning him over.
Axis Bold As Love is a master piece. Jimi show's such a wide range of sound's and texture's.A truly innovative album in every sense of the word.A brilliant illustration of Jimi abilities of pop song craft, also showing a very gentle side. Everything didn't have to turned up to 11. One Rainy Wish ..... case in point Peace Out
What a great interview I really enjoyed that....very cool.
Very good interview, very insightful, respectful, true interest.
Great interview.
I wish that I could tell Mr. Kramer how much of a fan I am of him. My father saw Zeppelin, Hendrix and others at least once, some more than once. Naturally I have been hearing the music that he helped create since I was en-utero. In my opinion he has done as much as anyone else to influence and create Rock-n- Roll as anyone. I also think that Band of Gypsys is amazing and was a transitional time for Jimi. It would have been wonderful to watch him grow as a musician as the years passed and he matured.
What about the story that if he had returned to NYC he was suppose to do an album with Miles Davis and Gil Evans producer?
Such a legendary genius
Amazing interview... Congratulations... Rock Mythology
I love to hear E Kramrr speak .. Hendrix, Zep, Kiss. Etc
Fantastic interview
You can define Jimi Hendrix by the reaction of those who met him. Not one person interviewed isn't energized in the telling of their story about Hendrix. Hendrix effected people so profoundly that they show throughout that they will keep Hendrix as a pivitol highlight of their lives till their dying day. Hendrix was to artist and fellow musicians as The illumination of the very first light bulbs was to those present to see it happen. He is held in such a high regard that the fact he was a black man is not even mentioned nor an issue whatsoever. Hendrix transcended the notion of race. For once, whites saw a young black man with clear eyes unbiased, and because of it, they fully took in what Hendrix had to offer, and the result was a glimmer of everlasting joy in their lives.
xevious2501 Interesting perspective. Rumor has it that around the time of Woodstock, Jimi was getting pressure from different directions. One particular source of pressure was the black community. Specifically the more outspoken "militant" types...(some say they were Black Panthers) were pressuring Jimi to be a musical representative of their efforts and to stop playing for the white man. Apparently, this was a situation that bothered him greatly. He had already begun focusing more on his heritage around that time, but wasn't keen on associating himself with groups that had outwardly Ill intentions.
@@grimblesqueem2291 I think they wanted to share in his receipts. The Black Panther Party obviously wanted a higher visibility. Blackness did come in to play because Jimi is Black. He would say that he is part Cherokee, and yet the fact remains.
Grimble Squeem I remember a video of Al Hendrix in which Al was said that - “ Jimi didn’t like hubbub “. Personally, I suppose to become involved in politics it would detract from His music and categorize Him. Don’t think He wanted or needed to be labeled more in any way
Imagine being able to work with somebody that could make you sound better and you're already great
I always loved the studio album Electric Lady Land. I thought it was a master piece. My ears perked up when I heard Eddie Kramer say that he thought Jimi, had he lived, would've gotten into orchestral stuff with his music. I have always said that there are a number of Jimi's songs that just cry out for symphonic or orchestral back up or arrangement. Two of these would be Third Stone From the Sun and 1983 A Merman To Be.
I wish the interviewer would've asked Eddie about Third Stone From The Sun and how he got all those "subliminal," voices onto that track. I know how it was done. But I would've loved to hear it from Eddie himself, because I'm sure there's a story or stories behind it all.
David Gargiulo how was it done?
@@juanvaldez5422 A lot of it is literally hendrix breathing into mics to create swirling wind effects
@@juanvaldez5422 It was done with a script taht called for an orbitting alien craft asking for landing instructions by radio to a mother ship. Various segments of this conversation were recorded at different speeds. One can't do that now as conveniently as it was done back then. On could hear the conversation by slowing down the speeds of the turntable. It was recorded at various speeds, so when played at a normal 33 1/3 RPM the spoken parts on the record just sounded like background noise or soundeffects. Eddie Kramer explained the effect when he gave evidence in a court of law. He was testifying on behalf of the defense in a trial where the record company was accused ot recording subliminal messages on a Judas Priest album. Some teen ager had killed himself and a crazy preacher was trying to prove it was because of satanistic subliminal messages on their album. Eddie put it all to rest. It was great of him to testify on behalf of these two hapless kids who had been accused of killing their friend. I don't remember all the details. But Eddie made sure that the court knew it would've been prohibitively expensive to this now as well as then.
James Pankow of Chicago said that Jimi and Terry Kath, Chicago’s guitarist and Jimi’s favorite guitarist talked about making an album together. Would have been amazing, Jimi on guitar, Mitch Mitchell on drums, all of Chicago and their drummer Danny Seraphine too, that would have changed music forever
@@juanvaldez5422 They recorded different tracks at different speeds. Such as Third Stone From the Sun. By recording tracks at different speeds one hears subliminal or background noise until one would've adjusted the turn table to play back at the speed the tracks were recorded on. One would need an old fashioned stereo player that played at different speeds.
Amazing
I saw a video where Jimi was talking to Chicago in the late 60’s about recording a album with Chicago but that never happened because Jimi died
If only Jimi would have lived...I would have loved to hear his evolution. Imagine Hendrix joining Clapton in making love songs? Lol would have been great!
Also he would have loved Prince...just like Miles Davis did.
Hey Eric, hope you doin well,
dunno about Clapton but Prince? YES, and if you check out the 4song EP "Dorella Du Fontaine" (with Lightnin' Rod & Buddy Miles)
Jimi probably woulda hit somethin with Tupac & maybe Everlast
WITH the London Philharmonic&NappyRoots on the backingTrax
While Tupac raps, Prince trades off guitar licks, Stevie Ray makes a guest appearance with Andre3000 and ALL the girls go cra-cra
While Jimi controls feedback and controls the feed-back, and drops a wailing flyingVgibson next to a MarshallStack for sonic overtones, picks up a 12string acoustic, plays two chords as he slurRaps an introduction about some folks, who just happen to be in neighborhood, Parliament/Funkadellic who are gonna help him play his new love song,
"dew drops kissing violets (because roses haven't bloomed yet)" -shortened to *DewDrops* for radio air play
Billy Cox did an interview on "Musicians Hall of Fame" (MHOF) which underscores their super-tight friendship. They spent a decade jamming in bands and apartments, and then later in Band of Gypsies. Some of their old band newspaper ads-playing the various clubs in (Knoxsville?) TN-are even shown. I forget the details, but an excellent history none the less.
Thank you Cosmos #eddiekramer 😎
His production was incredible the bass drums and everything sound like they could have been recorded today
No they don't.
That's the beauty of digital remastering, but jimi and eddies production was insane.. 1983 a merman i should turn to be blows me away everytime i listen to it
@@nathanadnitt the engineer on most of Electric Ladyland was not Eddie Kramer...it was Gary Kellgren, one of the owners of the record Plant in NYC. Kramer never mentions him but if you look on the credits you'll see it.
The funk that was coming out of the sessions that were on Cry of Love and the tunes on Rainbow Bridge were hinting at some awesome music coming up....
Great story.
PLEASE Eddie, remix the first four albums. We all need this.
james cleveland .....my opinion-don’t mess with masterpieces
Or release the multi track so I can play with the mix myself....What a rabbit hole that would be.
I wait for the day
What t f?
@@zeusapollo8688 Years ago in Seattle at the museum formerly known as EMP, they had a pair of headphones with a mixing interface for one of Jimi's songs. I don't recall which one, but I tied up that exhibit for longer than I probably should have. Twas truly awesome !
@@stephenfiore9960 Well, by your logic Jimi's original albums should only be on vinyl. I disagree.
i think jimmy was gonna do a country and western rekkid ...i may be wrong .
Hendrix would have been today a great great heavy bluesman !
I love Jimi…
We love him too!
The Music Man
The Jimi Hendrix Experience was a band. Bring up Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell
Producer Allen Douglas had approached Hendrix & jazz arranger Gil Evans about a possible collaboration - Hendrix's guitar against Evans' jazz orchestra. Both were enthusiastic about the project, and had arranged to meet to set things in motion. Hendrix died about a week before that was to happen. Evans went on to record an album of Hendrix tunes, with studio fusion guitarists standing in for Jimi - notably John Abercrombie & Ryo Kawasaki - and frequently included at least one Hendrix composition on his future albums If only, if only......
Some of us may not have gotten up close and personal with the Man but we have followed his career closely, bought as much albums as was available-irrespective of who produced it, bought the biographies, tablature books, saved media clippings and now watch and listen to as many posts as possible here on YT. So, I've read from numerous sources how funny, how humble, shy, quiet he was, how much drugs he took and now how he constructed his music. Krammer doesn't have a humble bone in his body and I'll never want to see him naked.
This would be a better clip if the interviewer didn't toady and genuflect whole time, and instead followed the line of what Eddie was saying and expanded on the answers some more. It's all cut a bit short.
*People don't listen and communicate well when they are worried about the importance of the person they're talking to.*
Never meet your heroes..."
very astute observation my good man
I would have asked about some said would have happened if he had lived, is an album with Miles and Gil Evans.
I always thought it would have been interesting to see how synths would have influenced Jimi, as they were just coming out in the seventies..
At 3:00 massive Roadie. Lemmy? Lemmy Klimister was a Jimi Roadie.
ALberto Martinez Lemmy was over 6 foot. It’s possible and It’s a lovely thought.
Great interview. I like the Experience but in my opinion the Band Of Gypsys with Cox and Miles featured two musicians that were playing on his level.
He was heading into more strings & horns. When meeting Terry Kath (Chicago) he said he would like to trade places & play w/horns; Kath saying he wanted to play more w/out horns which would have shown more the guitar talents of Kath. We will never know.
Jimi would have continued to explore whatever possibilities that presented themselves. For sure he would have released the songs he was working on at Electric Lady, most of those songs are available in some form to hear today, and then who knows really. But i bet it would have been interesting.
Using the studio as an instrument..
Hearing kramer talk about band o gypsies era is giving me chills
I wonder what Eddies take was on Hendrix's Rainbow Bridge stuff (Pali Gap, Hey Baby, Room Full of Mirrors, etc) ( I loved it all)
Jimi was about the sound and pushing the depth of sound. I personally believe he would have become a DJ and made trippy music.....
well said david
JIMI and Miles, imagine the possibilities! That was obviously next, my God it would've been off the chart 🎸🎷🎼
Ya, there's a whole other album after Band of Gypsys. Check it out, it is all awesome stuff. You have probably heard some of it.
Hendrix, made classic albums, right off the bat like, Are You Experienced & Electric Ladyland, while it took The Beatles four to five years in the game to come up with Revolver & St Pepper & The Stones, 6 to 9 years in the game to come up with, Let it Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street, yet his albums stand toe to toe with those albums & any other classic rock albums.
Fucking good comment.
The real tragedy, I don't think he did. He was just getting started on those first two albums. They introduced him as a "guitar god" in a still relatively traditional blues rock setting. He never got the chance to branche out as a composer, writer, maybe singer, develop his full musical vision. Most artists need 4 or 5 albums to get to their masterpiece. Jimi Hendrix would have been no different.
modifiedcontent I disagree on that analysis. Electric Ladyland stands toe to toe with any of the great Rock albums of all time like , The Stones, "Exile On Main Street", The Who, " Who's Next", Pink Floyd, " Dark Side Of The Moon", Led Zeppelin, " Led Zeppelin IV". Electric Ladyland spawned Miles Davis electric period, Fusion Jazz ( you can hear it on songs like Voodoo Child, Rainy Day ) & also Weather Report & also foreshadowed Prog Rock sounds like Soft Machine & King Crimson, ( you can hear it on songs like Rainy Day, 1983 ) Motown Psychedelia like the late 60s Temptations sound & Isaac Hayes. The wah wah guitar funky riff from the Shaft song, was spun off from the wah wah guitar riff from Voodoo Child. Electric Ladyland also influenced greatly, George Clinton 70s Funkedelia & off course, Hard Blues Rock that mutated into Heavy Metal, 80s Glam Metal & 80s Prince sound, like the " Purple Rain" album.
+modifiedcontent You are correct. He would have made albums much better than Electric Ladyland, for sure. I mean, it's Jimi we're talking about. Just extremely sad and annoying that he left us. Heaven must sound really good man.
What the fuck! Hendrix was influenced by the Beatles (and Stones). Shit, before he recorded his first single (a cover of Hey Joe) Revolver was already out. And when Sgt Pepper came out, Hendrix opened his next show with Pepper Prior to that, he was doing covers of Chicago Blues and playing his cover of Hey Joe over and over. Eah...., you're silly ....
Eddie Kramer and Martin Burch both changed the face of rock 💪💪
In Miles Davis' biography it says, upon Jimi's return to NY, he was to collaborate for an album/session directed by Gil Evans.
Damn. Now I'm sad knowing we will never hear that. That would've been beyond insane.
We can't even imagine what that collaboration would have been like.
LOL...it's coming...but no to pence...
maybe albums like Agharta and Pangaea would've turned out differently
Anything that Miles Davis said has to be taken with a grain of salt. I believe Hendrix was supposed to,play with John McGlaughlin but after his passing they switched it to Carlos Santana on the "Love Devotion Surrender" Album. McGlauphlin was always jamming with Hendrix in his new studio. Hendrix couldn't read music which would have made working with Davis challenging. Miles Davis chose the best up and coming musicians because he needed their ideas and talents (Wayne Shorter, HERbie Hancock, Tony Williams, etc).
Can you imagine a newer rendition of "Nine To The Universe"?!
I mean it's gold already but I KNOW Hendrix would have loved to critique the song to be even more amazing 😭🤘🏽, even expand the album too
Jimi Hendrix Loose Ends or The Baggy's Session.
The solo Jimi played on I Don't Live Today. Listen to how the tone changes, almost like phasing. That was Eddie Kramer twiddling the board EQ. Hendrix didn't use effect pedals until after Are You Experienced. EK was the right guy for Jimi for sure.
Nice chat, but you never specifically asked him the title of the video, which is what would that 4th album have sounded like? I would like to know what his opinion is on the songs selected for his first posthumous albums.
Actually at Woodstock Jimi said “Gypsy Sun and Rainbows”
An interesting insight from Mr. Kramer. Jimi was about to get together with Miles.....IMAGINE!!!
Yea, but he wanted Jimi to be his guitarist. I am not so sure that would happen...