I was lucky enough to see Hendrix twice, once at the Albert Hall in London and then at the famous Isle of Wight festival. The music of the 60's would not have been the same without Hendrix and neither would my life have been.
@Indeed we are. As a side note, 3-4 years ago I was browsing in an antique store and found a small poster advertising one of the shows. Tickets $3, 4, 5 and 6! The poster is framed in my music room.
You can listen to Jimi a million times and he always find highlights that you never "EXPERIENCED" before. By far, the single most influential musician of the 20th century.
@@mikeflynn248 I love as much now as I did then but I'm not sure we can say he was the most influential musician of the 20th century. He was one of them for sure but there are many others. Miles Davies comes to mind immediately.
@@rafthejaf8789 I'm not a big progressive jazz guy. I could never get into Miles. His horn was just not my cup of tea. Too soft and meandering for my taste. There are many gifted musicians that could be up for debate. My taste runs from classical, to blue grass with a dash of old country. But, I was really weaned on the classic rock era from the mid 60's to the early 70's. Bands like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Stones, Creedence, The Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, and many others. And..I love great blues guitarists from BB King to Stevie Ray Vaughn. Hendrix in my book had the most talent and creativity out of all of them. He always said, I play colors, and he did! I am not a musician, but I know what I like. Oh! I almost forgot Linda Ronstadt, Emy Lou Harris, and The Eagles.
@mikeflynn248 Hhmm, I think you are missing out if you don't like jazz because it is the greatest musical form of the modern age. I guess you don't like though, it's difficult to see that. You mentioned some female singers but how about Joni Mitchell? She is in my opinion the greatest of them all because she just a singer but also a poet. The truth is there was so much great music in that time it's even hard to remember it all.
@@rafthejaf8789 I like some jazz. I don't claim to be musically sophisticated. I won't listen to something just to act cool. I like Charlie Parker and some of the more traditional jazz a lot more than the modern stuff, which for the most part bores me.
Great Docu! Congratulations.... I didn´t know that he took King Crimson as one of his top 5 bands... makes me want to explore that band even more now! great contribution man, awesome narration and voice!
Y'know, Brian Jones was another friend of Jimi Hendrix and Brian actually thought about making a music supergroup with Jimi and John Lennon after he was kicked out of The Rolling Stones. He even introduced Jimi in one event in '67.
@@paulmartinson875 I had it on cassette. In the summer of '69, I'd play it over and over while reading Archie comic books that summer. Cheap thrills heading into 7th grade back in the day.
I don't need to look it up man. I will take your word for it. I worked with a sound engineer who worked at famous Jazz Club in DC. There was guy scheduled to perform who he never heard of and took the night off. About a month later, "Electric Ladyland" hit the record stores like a bomb going off. When he realized that the guitar player, he took the night off for was Jimi Hendrix, he just hung his head and cried.
@@Chessdaddy I know a lot about guitar players. Kath doesn't come close to being in the same league as Hendrix's other favorites. You'll find I'm not the only person who believes this.
Hendrix was veracious, his style was so savage and powerful at times it would devour other musician's styles then create something that's altogether new, electric and magical out of their remains. Hendrix is truly the 👑of🎸's
@@deanevangelista6359 Greg Lake was in KC in 1969-70, which is OK. That's the KC Hendrix saw. Hendrix didn't see Wetton-Bruford KC (1973) as in 2:32, and also Bruford-Belew KC (1981) as in 3:32.
There is no need to be picky. There are very few videos of bands from late 1960s and early 1970s and that’s why we see the same few snippets over and over again. I believe there is just one video of the first lineup of KC performing, it is black and white and quality is dreadful. Transmission from the Moon find at about the same time looks much better.
@@leesmith3346 Sounds like Keith. Brian Lane asked him to replace Wakeman in Yes, and Keith laughed, "Why would I do that?" He didn't want to be in a full band where he'd be lost in the mix. He wanted keys to rule the sound.
So he was "influenced" by King Crimson because he discovered them in '69 and he liked their show? Dude, that's not how art works and most importantly that's not how space-time works either. Hendrix didn't rewind the clock back to 1967 to create his most iconic stuff after seeing King Crimson two years later. Also, he liked what they were doing, which is far cry from "being influenced by" their music.
A 77 yo Brit is having VILLANOVA JUNCTION at his funeral, which won't be long. At least I got to see him. The goat, [along with Peter Green]. RIP BOTH OF YOU.
Villanova Junction is one Jimi's masterpieces. It can cause me to break down weeping. Great song to play at one's funeral. I also got to see him live in '68 when I was 17.
I saw Hendrix live just as he was starting his solo career in the US. I had been playing guitar for about three years and it had two effects on me at the same time. I wanted to quit and I was inspired to work harder. I’m still playing thankfully. The Beatles were a huge influence on me as well. Actually they are the reason I got my first guitar and I used Beatles song books to learn how to play. I get what he’s saying about the Monkees as they were a prefab band. I never blamed them though. They had an opportunity and they took it. They got to do what most musicians would love to do and that’s playing music for a living. I should say performing.
I'm sure his influences were deeper than what's mentioned here. BB King, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Sam Cooke, James Brown... All the artists he and his family actually listened to during his formative years. C'mon man, this is bogus!
He was already jamming with John McLaughlin by 1969 and hanging out with Miles Davis. Even after all these years it’s heartbreaking to ponder what might have been….
4:16 Speaking of the Beatles, whose influence "was so ubiquitous in the 1960s that it would have been impossible for Hendrix not to have been influenced by them in some way" - and showing a clip of them rehearsing / recording Don't Let Me Down, from the footage for Let It Be, recorded in 1969. This was roughly 3 years after he'd met them, and very shortly before he came to be immune to anyone's influence, even theirs. I just was struck by the irony of juxtaposing this clip with that statement.
Buddy Guy, Wes Montgomery - guitar players that influenced him. Terry Kath, Clarence White, Rory Gallagher, Billy Gibbons - guitar players he listen to and recognized their talent. Steve Winwood, Buddy Miles - musicians he played with. Not to mention all the artist Jimi was a backup musician for.
Well The Monkees themselves agreed with him. They were all musicians in their own right but weren't allowed to do anything but act and sing - sometimes not even that. Mike Nesmith said that More of the Monkees was "probably the worst album in the history of the world".
@@Mattchu44Mickey Dolenz heard him play and booked arranged to get him to open for them to get him more exposure, but, as you imagined, there wasn't really much crossover between Monkees fans and heavy electric blues fans, so Jimi left about halfway through the tour.
I"m not,they were manufactured.They didn't even play their own instruments, except for Mike Nesmith..Davy,Micky and Peter had good voices but were very limited instrumentally.The Wrecking Crew played mostly on all their hit songs and albums.Knowing this must have been very disturbing for Jimi who opened for them.
"ringing emotions from his instrument that seemed almost supernatural" - very good way of describing Jimi's playing. Exactly the same comment applies to Jeff Beck. Dare I say, even more so?
That's what it is all about! Who's best or GOAT? As many answers as the people you ask. But who is your favorite? There's just one answer and you nailed it. BTW- Jimi is one of my favorites. If I was told I could only listen to one guitarist for the rest of my life, I'd choose Leo Kottke _plays 6 and 12 string acoustic- a mega-virtuoso!
@PeterWhite-q1k Leo Kottke is amazing. He's a virtuoso who also writes really cool stuff, and shows really good taste with the tunes he chooses to cover, too. This is a rare thing. A lot of virtuosos have the talent to play as such, but their material is tiresome at best. Leo also has kept evolving. The last time I looked him up, a few years ago, he was playing stuff that to me was completely unclassifiable. It wasn't rock, or classical, or country / bluegrass, or new age; I guess you could place it under the umbrella of jazz, but I've never heard any jazz like what he was doing. It's just a better label than any other that I can think of. It was really uniquely his own. Outstanding.
I enjoyed the video, but one again, the producer of the video chose to deceive us with the title. The 5 were people/bands that had huge influence on Hendrix, not his five favoriate bands.
Nonsense video. Hendrix influenced King Crimson rather than Crimson influenced Hendrix. But, yes, Hendrix was always willing to praise others higher than himself. Hendrix's 1983 from 1968 and other melodies can be heard in King Crimson's 1969 debut album. Hendrix was the biggest thing 2 years before Crimson appeared on the scene.
He expressly told Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner in a March 1968 interview who his original favourites and influences were. This is just click bait for U.S. audiences born after a certain date, and the creator's own opinions pushing his own favorite bands.
Hendrix passed away two years prior I was born...yet I think he was one of the most influtuential guitarists/musicians of the 20th century. As influential as Igor Stravinsky and Frank Zappa.
So is Ringo Starr. But his grandmother forced him to be right-handed when he was little. Even though there wasn't much things that are left-handed, Ringo played on a right-handed drum kit.
Just because he played sargent peppers do not mean he was inspired It is just a song he enjoyed is all .He was not living off other bands glory what so ever he did not need any ones help .
His astonishing skill was frightening. But inho his tunes weren’t that good. Too many notes, not enough melody or rhythm. But one man’s meat is another man’s poison.
Quit friendly I’m speechless. The Beatles weren’t even there in till 1973 while Led Zeppelin started in 1964 during the English Expansion on The Tim Sullivan show and Dinah Shore.
I can relate to that. King Crimson, Beatles, Dylan, Cream, Muddy Waters and Hendrix himself .... and you do not NY of all the other rubbish anymore. 😂😂
he even said himself of chicago transit authority's playing on stage...that terry kath was a better player than himself...to bad terry shot himself by accident, who knows where they could have gone instead of sounding so badly after his death.i stopped listening after the last album with kath. only the old ones from their beginnings,... cta, then chicago.
No wonder Hendrix was so good. His influencers were totally solid and outstanding!
I was lucky enough to see Hendrix twice, once at the Albert Hall in London and then at the famous Isle of Wight festival. The music of the 60's would not have been the same without Hendrix and neither would my life have been.
@@rafthejaf8789 great memories for you. What a great time for music
Saw him twice too, in a 3000 seat auditorium, third row first time, 5th row the second.
@howlinwind Amazing, we are truly the lucky ones!
@Indeed we are. As a side note, 3-4 years ago I was browsing in an antique store and found a small poster advertising one of the shows. Tickets $3, 4, 5 and 6! The poster is framed in my music room.
You can listen to Jimi a million times and he always find highlights that you never "EXPERIENCED" before. By far, the single most influential musician of the 20th century.
@@mikeflynn248 I love as much now as I did then but I'm not sure we can say he was the most influential musician of the 20th century. He was one of them for sure but there are many others. Miles Davies comes to mind immediately.
@@rafthejaf8789 I'm not a big progressive jazz guy. I could never get into Miles. His horn was just not my cup of tea. Too soft and meandering for my taste. There are many gifted musicians that could be up for debate. My taste runs from classical, to blue grass with a dash of old country. But, I was really weaned on the classic rock era from the mid 60's to the early 70's. Bands like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Stones, Creedence, The Allman Brothers, Pink Floyd, and many others. And..I love great blues guitarists from BB King to Stevie Ray Vaughn. Hendrix in my book had the most talent and creativity out of all of them. He always said, I play colors, and he did! I am not a musician, but I know what I like. Oh! I almost forgot Linda Ronstadt, Emy Lou Harris, and The Eagles.
@mikeflynn248 Hhmm, I think you are missing out if you don't like jazz because it is the greatest musical form of the modern age. I guess you don't like though, it's difficult to see that. You mentioned some female singers but how about Joni Mitchell? She is in my opinion the greatest of them all because she just a singer but also a poet. The truth is there was so much great music in that time it's even hard to remember it all.
@@rafthejaf8789 I like some jazz. I don't claim to be musically sophisticated. I won't listen to something just to act cool. I like Charlie Parker and some of the more traditional jazz a lot more than the modern stuff, which for the most part bores me.
@mikeflynn248 How about the album Kind of Blue, have ever listened to it? And Joni Mitchell?
Great Docu! Congratulations.... I didn´t know that he took King Crimson as one of his top 5 bands... makes me want to explore that band even more now! great contribution man, awesome narration and voice!
He was not only a great musician , but he was an intellectually brilliant guy as well . What a loss
the biggest loss to the music world and absolute tragedy of the highest order.
He may have hated the concept of The Monkees, but it didn't keep him from making a very good friend of Peter Tork.
Y'know, Brian Jones was another friend of Jimi Hendrix and Brian actually thought about making a music supergroup with Jimi and John Lennon after he was kicked out of The Rolling Stones. He even introduced Jimi in one event in '67.
Sure.
@@lisettegarcia7013 Brian Jones was a drug addled screw up by 1967, if not before.
Jimi's songwriting was very good on 'Bold as Love.' Castles Made of Sand is but one example.
Bold As Love is another amazing song, as is Little Wing and Spanish Castle Magic.
First album I bought
@@paulmartinson875 I had it on cassette. In the summer of '69, I'd play it over and over while reading Archie comic books that summer. Cheap thrills heading into 7th grade back in the day.
@libertarianrevolution7026 I love them all.
@@PageMarker1 Cassette tapes existed in 1968? Or do you mean 8 track tapes?
Jimi very much admired 'Chicago's' Terry Kath. Look it up.
I don't need to look it up man. I will take your word for it. I worked with a sound engineer who worked at famous Jazz Club in DC. There was guy scheduled to perform who he never heard of and took the night off. About a month later, "Electric Ladyland" hit the record stores like a bomb going off. When he realized that the guitar player, he took the night off for was Jimi Hendrix, he just hung his head and cried.
Sorry. But Kath is a mere shadow of the influencers covered in this video.
@@mysticone1798 Tell me you don't know much about guitar players without saying it out loud.
@@Chessdaddy I know a lot about guitar players. Kath doesn't come close to being in the same league as Hendrix's other favorites. You'll find I'm not the only person who believes this.
Jimi said Terry was a better guitarist.
Hendrix was veracious, his style was so savage and powerful at times it would devour other musician's styles then create something that's altogether new, electric and magical out of their remains. Hendrix is truly the 👑of🎸's
You're showing Crimson with Belew and Bruford. Hendrix was long dead before that particular line-up existed.
He showed them with Greg Lake as well.
@@deanevangelista6359 Lake was with them in 69.
@@deanevangelista6359 Greg Lake was in KC in 1969-70, which is OK. That's the KC Hendrix saw. Hendrix didn't see Wetton-Bruford KC (1973) as in 2:32, and also Bruford-Belew KC (1981) as in 3:32.
There is no need to be picky. There are very few videos of bands from late 1960s and early 1970s and that’s why we see the same few snippets over and over again. I believe there is just one video of the first lineup of KC performing, it is black and white and quality is dreadful. Transmission from the Moon find at about the same time looks much better.
This guy's voices sounds like he should have nothing to do with the Jimi Hendrix story
The guy has no idea what he is talking about, Just a click bait money seeking video.
Hendrix got his first big nut in Britain everybody knows that
Man, I LOVE seeing those old films of Greg Lake singing! Rumor has it that Hendrix might have joined up with Emerson and Lake. Who knows?
Apparently Keith was against it - now there’s a surprise!
@@leesmith3346 Sounds like Keith. Brian Lane asked him to replace Wakeman in Yes, and Keith laughed, "Why would I do that?" He didn't want to be in a full band where he'd be lost in the mix. He wanted keys to rule the sound.
So he was "influenced" by King Crimson because he discovered them in '69 and he liked their show? Dude, that's not how art works and most importantly that's not how space-time works either. Hendrix didn't rewind the clock back to 1967 to create his most iconic stuff after seeing King Crimson two years later. Also, he liked what they were doing, which is far cry from "being influenced by" their music.
King Crimson? Very cool!
A 77 yo Brit is having VILLANOVA JUNCTION at his funeral, which won't be long. At least I got to see him. The goat, [along with Peter Green]. RIP BOTH OF YOU.
Villanova Junction is one Jimi's masterpieces. It can cause me to break down weeping. Great song to play at one's funeral. I also got to see him live in '68 when I was 17.
king crimson,beatles,bob dylan,cream
I saw Hendrix live just as he was starting his solo career in the US. I had been playing guitar for about three years and it had two effects on me at the same time. I wanted to quit and I was inspired to work harder. I’m still playing thankfully. The Beatles were a huge influence on me as well. Actually they are the reason I got my first guitar and I used Beatles song books to learn how to play. I get what he’s saying about the Monkees as they were a prefab band. I never blamed them though. They had an opportunity and they took it. They got to do what most musicians would love to do and that’s playing music for a living. I should say performing.
We all know he loved Dylan
I recall reading that Hendrix was asked "What's the band in the world?" and he replied "The Jam band"
I'm sure his influences were deeper than what's mentioned here. BB King, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Sam Cooke, James Brown... All the artists he and his family actually listened to during his formative years. C'mon man, this is bogus!
dumbest video ever
Elmore James aswell, he has hella influences
The Monkees in time earned authenticity
It's sad to think of all of the collaborations that might have happened if he hadn't died. 💔😔
He was already jamming with John McLaughlin by 1969 and hanging out with Miles Davis. Even after all these years it’s heartbreaking to ponder what might have been….
@@jiminycrintJan Hammer has mentioned he was already talking "bandnames"' with Jimi...
@ oh man….
@jasfan8247 One possibility discussed was”The Hammer-Ons.”
@@diogenes2550 😂 "The Hamdrix Band"!
A big influence for me.
well he must have love the swedish band hansson and carlsson since he did record their song taxfree and jammed with them also
4:16 Speaking of the Beatles, whose influence "was so ubiquitous in the 1960s that it would have been impossible for Hendrix not to have been influenced by them in some way" - and showing a clip of them rehearsing / recording Don't Let Me Down, from the footage for Let It Be, recorded in 1969.
This was roughly 3 years after he'd met them, and very shortly before he came to be immune to anyone's influence, even theirs. I just was struck by the irony of juxtaposing this clip with that statement.
Nice vid , thank you.
Good choice of influences. I would add Albert King, Buddy Guy and maybe Hubert Sumlin to this list.
also Freddy King, BB King, Elmore James and Earl King. Hendrix absorbed them all.
Bob Dylan knows how to spin a yarn and roll a coin.
Buddy Guy, Wes Montgomery - guitar players that influenced him. Terry Kath, Clarence White, Rory Gallagher, Billy Gibbons - guitar players he listen to and recognized their talent. Steve Winwood, Buddy Miles - musicians he played with. Not to mention all the artist Jimi was a backup musician for.
8:20 Hendrix got banned from the BBC commemorating Cream. What a legend, he didn't care. Rocked out till they kicked him off air!!!!!
He was a big fan of Leslie West too
Hendrix opened for the Monkees for one of their tours. Funny to hear him put them down like that.
Well The Monkees themselves agreed with him. They were all musicians in their own right but weren't allowed to do anything but act and sing - sometimes not even that. Mike Nesmith said that More of the Monkees was "probably the worst album in the history of the world".
Imagine being a 14yr old girl going to see the monkees, and Hendrix comes out first and melts your face off. Idk why but that’s so funny to me 😂
@@Mattchu44Mickey Dolenz heard him play and booked arranged to get him to open for them to get him more exposure, but, as you imagined, there wasn't really much crossover between Monkees fans and heavy electric blues fans, so Jimi left about halfway through the tour.
The Monkees were a toy boy band created to wow teenie boppers and make money for its record company executives.
I"m not,they were manufactured.They didn't even play their own instruments, except for Mike Nesmith..Davy,Micky and Peter had good voices but were very limited instrumentally.The Wrecking Crew played mostly on all their hit songs and albums.Knowing this must have been very disturbing for Jimi who opened for them.
"ringing emotions from his instrument that seemed almost supernatural" - very good way of describing Jimi's playing.
Exactly the same comment applies to Jeff Beck. Dare I say, even more so?
No, you may not!
@@TheDavidfallon So limiting.
Don't know if he's the best guitar player of all time or not--who cares? But he's my favorite.
That's what it is all about! Who's best or GOAT? As many answers as the people you ask. But who is your favorite? There's just one answer and you nailed it. BTW- Jimi is one of my favorites. If I was told I could only listen to one guitarist for the rest of my life, I'd choose Leo Kottke _plays 6 and 12 string acoustic- a mega-virtuoso!
@PeterWhite-q1k Leo Kottke is amazing. He's a virtuoso who also writes really cool stuff, and shows really good taste with the tunes he chooses to cover, too. This is a rare thing. A lot of virtuosos have the talent to play as such, but their material is tiresome at best.
Leo also has kept evolving. The last time I looked him up, a few years ago, he was playing stuff that to me was completely unclassifiable. It wasn't rock, or classical, or country / bluegrass, or new age; I guess you could place it under the umbrella of jazz, but I've never heard any jazz like what he was doing. It's just a better label than any other that I can think of. It was really uniquely his own. Outstanding.
Eric was no leader of Cream. All for one and one for all.
I thought his favorite was Tiny Tim!
It was! It was!
Why would one not expect Hendrix to admire King Crimson? They were THE musician's band back in 1969.
I enjoyed the video, but one again, the producer of the video chose to deceive us with the title. The 5 were people/bands that had huge influence on Hendrix, not his five favoriate bands.
Back when effect pedals were affordable. Try buying a vintage uni-vibe pedal today.
They weren't cheap then; and I remember when a Boss pedal cost about $40 back in the early '80s. That's about $180 today!
Terry Kath
Nonsense video. Hendrix influenced King Crimson rather than Crimson influenced Hendrix. But, yes, Hendrix was always willing to praise others higher than himself. Hendrix's 1983 from 1968 and other melodies can be heard in King Crimson's 1969 debut album. Hendrix was the biggest thing 2 years before Crimson appeared on the scene.
👁El ojo
Funny that my 'like' was n°335, a guitar Hendrix probably never choose to use ! And yes, I'm a 'Strat' guy, double irony !
He expressly told Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner in a March 1968 interview who his original favourites and influences were. This is just click bait for U.S. audiences born after a certain date, and the creator's own opinions pushing his own favorite bands.
Hendrix passed away two years prior I was born...yet I think he was one of the most influtuential guitarists/musicians of the 20th century.
As influential as Igor Stravinsky and Frank Zappa.
Said Rory Gallagher was the best living guitarist. I agree
Jimi was in awe of The Grassroots. Just sayin
I didn't know Hendrix was a lefty
😂
Now you do. With an upside-down right handed guitar.
@@michelvoortman4725Yes but it was tuned as a left hand guitar.
I let you in on another, Paul McCartney was too. ❤
So is Ringo Starr. But his grandmother forced him to be right-handed when he was little. Even though there wasn't much things that are left-handed, Ringo played on a right-handed drum kit.
A band Hendrix didn't respect was Led Zeppelin.
ROBERT JOHNSON WAS IN HIS BONES
KING CRIMSON....FAB 4...BOB D...THE CREME...MUDDY WATERS=5
Eric Clapton was never the leader of Cream - it was Ginger Baker, if anyone, but they were three equals in talent and creativity.
Jack Beuce
It was Gingers idea, Gingers band!!
Just because he played sargent peppers do not mean he was inspired It is just a song he enjoyed is all .He was not living off other bands glory what so ever he did not need any ones help .
His astonishing skill was frightening. But inho his tunes weren’t that good. Too many notes, not enough melody or rhythm. But one man’s meat is another man’s poison.
👍😔
Great video, thank you. But....re: Dylan..."economy with words"? Dylan??? Each song just recites a page from a rhyming dictionary.
Hendrix was famously just an average blues player. He never had the chops to play blues
have you heard 'Red House'?
Quit friendly I’m speechless. The Beatles weren’t even there in till 1973 while Led Zeppelin started in 1964 during the English Expansion on The Tim Sullivan show and Dinah Shore.
Eh?
WTF?
Come, off,it What utter shite you are talking.
The Beatles were ‘62 till ‘70.
Not that I have a clue what you’re trying to say.
Quite frankly quit friendly and pot that put away!
"All Along The Watchtower"
sucks
A complete minor-chord ridden turd that is supposed to be good. Show me anyone who wants to hear this POS as part of their 200 best songs.
I can relate to that. King Crimson, Beatles, Dylan, Cream, Muddy Waters and Hendrix himself .... and you do not NY of all the other rubbish anymore. 😂😂
Interesting, but mostly horse shit. You could hear Delta and Chicago blues players
In the 60's guitar players. When you heard Hendrix, it was Hendrix.
Elvis was actually Jimi's biggest hero by far.
he even said himself of chicago transit authority's playing on stage...that terry kath was a better player than himself...to bad terry shot himself by accident, who knows where they could have gone instead of sounding so badly after his death.i stopped listening after the last album with kath. only the old ones from their beginnings,... cta, then chicago.