I had the privilege of seeing Jimi Hendrex live in St. Paul about 5 months after Woodstock and 7 months before his death. I was 16 years old!!!! I wound up sitting 6 rows from him when he asked all of us in the crowd to come closer to the stage!!!
I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1967 he was opening for The Monkees ! I also have most of his albums which is seven and 21 CD's which are live concerts mostly ! We still listen to him daily ✌🤘
I was raised in Ayrshire Scotland 🏴. In '67 my cousin bought me a copy of the Are You Experienced? record for my Christmas 🎄☃️🎄 It was "Red House" that was "it" for me. That track made me want to play guitar. That same cousin talked my mum and dad into letting me tag along with them to the Isle of Wight in 1970. My parents had immigraned to the USA (via Canada) after the war and by 1970 had been able to purchase a home. Since I was changing School anyway, they decided to bring me to live full time in their new hometown of Seattle. I only mentioned that because at the Isle of Wight in 1970 Emerson, Lake & Palmer played their 1st or 2nd ever public performance. Oh yeah some guy from Seattle played guitar, too 😊. On my father's birthday, less than a fortnight after I was settled in to my new home in Seattle, we got the news that Jimi was gone. For myself, 18 September 1970 will forever be "the day the music died".
@@JimiBurleigh I saw The Monkees and Jimi Hendrix in Charlotte NC =) My mom and big sister made me go with them to see The Monkees I was 13 ! We didn't know anything about The Experience . I loved the sound but my mom didn't 🤣 I was lucky enough to see Emerson Lake & Palmer in 1973 at "The August Jam" Inside The Charlotte Speedway " It lasted from Friday night until Sunday with mostly southern rock bands like The Allman Brothers , Black Oak Arkanas , Foghat , The Eagles and about 10 others ! The highlight for me was ELP's piano player was playing while twirling in the air =)
I've been into Jimi since 1970, I missed Him by that much! Jimi music is as earthy as it gets and as Psycha-delic as it gets depending on which, song & which year we;re talking about !! I am NOW 66 and I STILL to this day listen to Jimi's music. I Met the Band of Gypsy's Back in 2001 and sat with Billy Cox for an hour & da half. talk about about a dram come true! Play on Electric Gypsy !!
Pure psychedelic rock. This was the one that got me I had that album. Best stoner song…. Until Pink Floyd’s Echoes. Makes me get a “contact high” just listening to it again! 😁✌️✌️. Only criticism is that I wish I were twice/ three as long. Just hang in that great head space with Jimi’s guitar for awhile.
Love this tune. Reminds me of head shops in the late '60s that had those funky purple lights and burning incense. Little Wing is also a brilliant song .
One of my favorite solos of all times! I love the thought of him tracking the solo over the backing tracks which are then backwards. It's awesome to try to imitate this on guitar, notes fade in yet end sharply. Dangerous volume levels required!
"Trumpets and violins I can a'hear in the distance. I think they're callin our name. Maybe now you can hear them, but you will if you just take hold of my hand." So glad you guys appreciated this!
The greatest musical innovator ever. He didn't just create new musical forms, he opened a portal to another dimension. Everything since is derivative. This was '67! He spread himself too thin at times but got it back together with Band of Gypsys and his tour de force "Machine Gun", the most intense antiwar song (and guitar solo!) ever performed. He was just getting warmed up and then he moved on. What might have been
I have always said the same thing. I never concern myself with who is the best guitarist. Musician or songwriter. Chuck Berry, Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Steve. Vai, Eddie Van Halen were all innovative and influential. The only best ever was a band, the Beatles.
Yes! You can only imagine the impact this song and album had, it changed how guitar was played. He was simply the best ever, there's no debating that, his influence dwarfs anyone else, Wiki him and go to the influence section, it will blow your mind. Do Manic Depression from the same album, another all time banger! Enjoy. 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎶🔥
One thing to remember is this came out during the early years of sterophonic albums, consumer stereo and stereo headphones. So many of these albums were recorded to listen on headphones to fully experience the audio effects.
“Not necessarily stoned, but, beautiful!” You mention adding this to our playlist “if you had forgotten” this song!?!? I could NEVER forget this song. This was my first Hendrix album, and this song immediately became my favorite. But then I heard the 15-minute version of his Machine Gun, and now they run neck-and-neck as my two favorites. If you haven’t done Machine Gun, I highly suggest that, and be sure to find the long version of it. I forget exactly how long it is, but it’s somewhere around 12 to 15 minutes of pure guitar (and drum and bass) bliss.
So much was happening back then. way different than today - in Music terms anyway. try the guitar flash ' East West ' by Butterfield blues > released about the same time as Revolver which I will always consider the best LP of ' our' music. ' revolver' of course had backwards guitar , among other things.
This is the same guy that hit notes laid the guitar down on the stage on the whammy bar. As the sound kept reverbing he used lighter fluid and set his guitar on fire.
The Beatles did it first, I believe, with their 1966 song Rain ( backward loop) But yeah, this album was unabashedly psychedelic. No way to explain how this music hits when you’re stoned unless you’ve “experienced” it. 😉✌️
A band mate of mine got his hands on this album the day it dropped. He played it for me and it was so different from anything we had ever heard. We got tickets to see him not too long after that at the Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford Ct. Amazing show. It goes without saying that he was a true innovator. He used gimmicks early on like setting his guitar on fire, smashing gear, playing behind his back and with his teeth., He slowly got away from that and later felt comfortable just playing and that’s when he did his best stuff. Check out his live performance from Atlanta Georgia. On top of his game.
One of my favorite Jimi songs, although there are many, many great songs. Keep up with Jimi, 'All Along the Watchtower', 'Little Wing', 'Castles Made of Sand', 'Voodoo Child' etc.
Jimi recorded his backward guitar solo in his hotel room and then took it to the studio where the engineer inserted it into the piece. According to the engineer and others the parts Jimi recorded backwards were so precise that they laid right into the spaces perfectly. Jimi was a true genius. ❤🙏😊
Just a little note for anyone who never went to a Hendrix Concert +++ Everything on his recordings, He reproduced Live. If You didn't Catch Him Live You have no idea how incredible He was on stage.. Just Fucking Incredible is an understatement. When We left the auditorium after the show the feeling in the crowd was "Wow I just made 20,000 new friends"..
Watch any of the videos on the recording of The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows, which was recorded in April of 1966, released august 66 almost a year before are you experienced. The Beatles had all been given tape recorders and were encouraged to experiment with making sounds with them. Paul figured out if you disabled the erase head on the recorder you could tape over the same loop several times saturating the sounds recorded on that loop...and by playing those tapes backwards of slower or faster you could create new sounds.....on tomorrow never knows the "seagull" sound is actually a tape of paul laughing sped up. They made a bunch of loops of a melotron, a sitar, an orchestral chord, paul laughing and a guitar solo, and changed the speeds of them or played them in reverse, then they took those loops and played all of them continuously by playing the loop continuously on a multitrack machine, and used sliders to raise the volume to bring them sounds in and then cut it off totally and intermittently add the sounds at different times in the song, just by raising the volume sliders up for a few seconds at a time, before cutting them off again. Ringos drums were heavily compressed and they stuffed the base drum with clothing to mute it to get the special drum sound...and Johns vocals in part were played through a rotating leslie speaker cabinet to get his vocal effect. The Beatles were the originals when it came to experimenting and coming up with new sounds and sound effects.......
Just imagine the Jam session going on in heaven with Jimi ,Stevie, Eddie on guitars Neil Peart on drums Cliff Burton on bass take your pick on vocals keys and any other instruments .
Jimi played an incredible live version (with a completely wild feedback intro) at Winterland in '68. Also Eric Johnson plays a nice cover including the backward solo.
@@micv5149 That seems to be true on "Revolver", recorded earlier the same year as "Are You Experienced". I wonder who in the Beatles got the Idea, or maybe George Martin.
@@johnsilva9139 It was actually a mistake when the engineer at abbey roads (Geoff Emrick?) put the reel to reel tape used for I'm Only Sleeping's guitars backwards during playback.
It was entirely different from anything we had ever heard back in 1967 also. I only got to "experience" Jimi live once on July 4th, 1970 at Atlanta Pop. He played The Star Spangled Banner for us. That same guitar strap he used, brown with large tan Xs, is now worn by David Gilmour in most of his latest performances. Gilmour's wife bought it for him as a birthday present.
The Beatles had done a lot of backwards guitars heck everything high hat symbols u name it a year earlier in 66 on revolver. So by the time Jimmy made this album it was all the rage.
Jimi Hendrix , Did Massive Of Amounts , Of LSD And Other Psychedelics, During This Time Span( Hiaght Ashbury/ Summer-Of Love! The Experience He Refers To Is How U, Are Forever,Changed Afterwards!! The "Experience" His Band, Was Loosely, Named For These Life- Altering Experiences(Also, The Sex,) Obviously , Also. 1966-1967 , Was A Total,Sea Change, Moment , In Time!😮
You know the've had reverse delay pedals since I was a boy back in the 60's. The early delay pedals were on tape & played backwards but it's been digital for 60yrs now. Kenny Rogers & the 1st Edition used reverse delay on the intro to "Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in" before Kenny went solo in vegas for the duration.
I can think of one earlier example of the use of backwards tape elements in a song. "Tomorrow Never Knows" from The Beatles' "Revolver" album contains some reverse-tape instrumentation in it, and it was written and released in 1966.
Great analysis of how this was in the context of the time and how it influenced what came after. Eric Johnson did a wonderful more modern, but true to the original in his Austin City Limits performance.
The backward guitar parts are not accidental. Jimi actually played what the backward part would sound like for his producer to show what he was going for. He would play the part forward and then backward.
It really felt a lot like scratching at times, like really heavy industrial scratching. That was great. Check out one of his hits that is so rambunctious, it's so fun and it's a really compact song, Crosstown Traffic. It's a massive banger.
Hendrix went home, wrote the bridge (the backwards loop) forwards, then came in and recorded it the next day, which, when they reversed it, the section recorded forward first perfectly into the bridge as it was played backwards. This according to Eddie Kramer, his recording engineer.
The "Hendrix in the West" lp contains a live version of this song that forgoes any backward loops and features just his single guitar, and the things he does with the feedback in that performance is just as mind blowing as the studio version.
Are you Experienced says it all about Jimi. Title song for his first album. My favourite song since I was 11 just before God took him in '70. Our 12 children knew most of Jimi's songs, especially this one. The solo is other worldly. There's a live version where Jimi repeats the first verse because he's off his face. However the solo is the most out of it guitar possible. Jimi rendered Modernity and its romance dead. Then he shocked a backwards Postmodern Europe. Postmodern and didn't know 😁
Hi guys, I am a guitar player here.... I've listened to that guitar solo on youtube, and someone reversed it. What happened was Hendrix originally did record it to be normal and not reversed. But, in the process of laying it down, he "jumped out of meter", meaning he messed the solo up and so, he just told his sound engineer eddie kramer to just put it in backward, and he did, and it was fine. it took alot of splicing and putting on another tape reel, reversed and making sure it was in sync with the rest of the song.... This was no easy task in 1967. This was long before the days of digital editing. Plus, he had to add additional guitar parts to make it sound fuller. Jimi was way ahead of his time, as was Eddie Kramer.
Yes, I am. Not necessarily stoned, but ah, beautiful. The Axis Bold as Love album will prepare you for the FULL JiMI experience of Electric Ladyland album. There is so much more to explore. He gave us so much in the short time we had him. I don’t play the ‘what if’ game. There is no answer and there is no point. Enjoy what is given.
I saw Jimi in Seattle at the Sick Stadium before the baseball team moved to Milwaukee. When the team left the Stadium became and still is a Lowe's Hardware store on Rainier Ave.
Fantastic reaction to a wild song! I used to look at the record spin on the turntable as I listened to this as a little kid, frozen, almost freaked out by the music, but more intrigued than anything! HOWEVER: backwards recording was in en vogue at this time due to The Beatles, specifically the Revolver album (1966), and specifically the songs "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Tomorrow Never Knows", which might be even more mind-blowing and psychedelic than THIS song, if you can believe such a thing! "Tomorrow Never Knows" sort of started the psychedelic space race!!! And Jimi definitely loved the Beatles and was influenced by them. (for one, he moved to England to get famous! :D )
If no one else has done so, let me throw out a few other titles to check out: "Little Wing" - probably his most covered song. Sting did an amazing version of it too. "The Wind Cries Mary", "Axis Bold As Love", "If Six was Nine", "Voodoo Child" - naturally there are many when you are talking about Hendrix. Thank you guys.
It Was Called " Backwards- Masking!" The Beatles/Pink Floyd, Experimented With DifferentcTechniiqes As Did Zepplin At Alistair Crowleys , Old Place... But, I, Digress.. 😁🖐😉
My favorite Hendrix track has always been "Voodoo Chile Blues". Great jam session with him on guitar, Mitch Mitchell on drums, Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane on bass and Steve Winwood of Traffic on organ. Man they were all in the groove that night. It's almost spooky. It's funny how it's slight return gets all the attention.
there's 2 live versions of this song on the Wnterland box set that really showcases his virtuosity where he takes this song to another level..to say the least.
I think the backwards guitar is also linked to the message of the song. He is talking about leaving behind the superficial experience of life on the level of ego, and transcending, or going inwards to the spiritual essence of the person, or the experience of pure consciousness. But "your measly little world won't let you go" etc. Going inside to the source of consciousness could be symbolized by the backwards guitar. You hear the end of the note first, and then travel towards the source of the sound, ending with the backwards sound of the pick striking the string.
i think its about doing LSD, so are you experienced with it. the lyrics, the reverse recording, and hendrix did take acid, it all, imo relates to tripping on LSD, which i have done.
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The solo in this song is a miracle. Nothing short of. It has everything: it's epic, dreamy and creepy at the same time. Totally unreplicable.
best line in rock EVER........"Not necessarily stoned.....but beautiful"......floors me every time I hear it.
So many beautiful people in the day
In 1967 our parish priest who was the choir director gave me this album as a Christmas gift. I still have it. That priest had an ear for music.
Yes yes i have been experienced highly reccomend
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I was experienced around the back of the bicycle sheds at high school 😅
that guitar solo gets me every time. Blows everything else out of the water. One of his greatest solo's ever, and such a statement
Jimi was from another world. He just stopped by this one to help us to move along and then he left. Job well done Jimi!
Meet you in the next world.......don't be late!
"Well I lived here before the days of ice".."I've come back to find the stars misplaced..and the smell of a world that is burned."
He was definitely not from planet Earth.. He was just stopping by for a very short time
That was certainly the impression he left.
This song is trippy as fuck, and one of my favorite Hendrix songs!
Are you Experienced? Well I am!
“Trippy as fuck”. Perfect description! 😁✌️. My favorite Hendrix song
I had the privilege of seeing Jimi Hendrex live in St. Paul about 5 months after Woodstock and 7 months before his death. I was 16 years old!!!! I wound up sitting 6 rows from him when he asked all of us in the crowd to come closer to the stage!!!
Back in the day, I would come home trippin' and play both sides of this album. Ah...Good times.
I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1967 he was opening for The Monkees ! I also have most of his albums which is seven and 21 CD's which are live concerts mostly ! We still listen to him daily ✌🤘
Forest Hills Stadium?
I was raised in Ayrshire Scotland 🏴. In '67 my cousin bought me a copy of the Are You Experienced? record for my Christmas 🎄☃️🎄 It was "Red House" that was "it" for me. That track made me want to play guitar. That same cousin talked my mum and dad into letting me tag along with them to the Isle of Wight in 1970. My parents had immigraned to the USA (via Canada) after the war and by 1970 had been able to purchase a home. Since I was changing School anyway, they decided to bring me to live full time in their new hometown of Seattle. I only mentioned that because at the Isle of Wight in 1970 Emerson, Lake & Palmer played their 1st or 2nd ever public performance. Oh yeah some guy from Seattle played guitar, too 😊. On my father's birthday, less than a fortnight after I was settled in to my new home in Seattle, we got the news that Jimi was gone. For myself, 18 September 1970 will forever be "the day the music died".
@@JimiBurleigh I saw The Monkees and Jimi Hendrix in Charlotte NC =) My mom and big sister made me go with them to see The Monkees I was 13 ! We didn't know anything about The Experience . I loved the sound but my mom didn't 🤣 I was lucky enough to see Emerson Lake & Palmer in 1973 at "The August Jam" Inside The Charlotte Speedway " It lasted from Friday night until Sunday with mostly southern rock bands like The Allman Brothers , Black Oak Arkanas , Foghat , The Eagles and about 10 others ! The highlight for me was ELP's piano player was playing while twirling in the air =)
If we're still around people will listen to this 1000 years from now and dig it.
The Beatles used tape loops and backwards guitars on Revolver, a year before this. But it did blow our minds at the time.
The cool thing is he could play it live and make it sound exactly the same as the backwards guitar loop.
Yes, the beatles invented music.
Creative indeed! Loved your reaction Sam & Phil. Great song choice, too, Mark. 👍 ❤
Still my all time favourite Jimi song
I've been into Jimi since 1970, I missed Him by that much! Jimi music is as earthy as it gets and as Psycha-delic as it gets depending on which, song & which year we;re talking about !! I am NOW 66 and I STILL to this day listen to Jimi's music. I Met the Band of Gypsy's Back in 2001 and sat with Billy Cox for an hour & da half. talk about about a dram come true! Play on Electric Gypsy !!
Pure psychedelic rock. This was the one that got me I had that album. Best stoner song…. Until Pink Floyd’s Echoes. Makes me get a “contact high” just listening to it again! 😁✌️✌️.
Only criticism is that I wish I were twice/ three as long. Just hang in that great head space with Jimi’s guitar for awhile.
Love this tune. Reminds me of head shops in the late '60s that had those funky purple lights and burning incense. Little Wing is also a brilliant song .
weren't those head shops great? the dispensaries now are so......sterile. Can't they bring back some of the vibe too?
One of my favorite solos of all times! I love the thought of him tracking the solo over the backing tracks which are then backwards. It's awesome to try to imitate this on guitar, notes fade in yet end sharply. Dangerous volume levels required!
"Trumpets and violins I can a'hear in the distance. I think they're callin our name. Maybe now you can hear them, but you will if you just take hold of my hand." So glad you guys appreciated this!
" im the one that's going to have to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life , the way I want to" the hendrix tune 'if 6 was 9'
"Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful."
The greatest musical innovator ever. He didn't just create new musical forms, he opened a portal to another dimension. Everything since is derivative. This was '67! He spread himself too thin at times but got it back together with Band of Gypsys and his tour de force "Machine Gun", the most intense antiwar song (and guitar solo!) ever performed. He was just getting warmed up and then he moved on. What might have been
THE GOAT....
Innovation is what sets Hendrix apart from most other guitarist. He created sounds never thought of. That and playing from his soul.
I have always said the same thing. I never concern myself with who is the best guitarist. Musician or songwriter. Chuck Berry, Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Steve. Vai, Eddie Van Halen were all innovative and influential. The only best ever was a band, the Beatles.
THE WIND CRIES MARY is an awesome song. The lyrics paint a very surrealist picture.
"The wind whispers Mary." Subtle , yet one of the greatest lines ever written, pushing true literature genius. Nobel.
Jimi Hendrix is a rabbit hole with lots of unexpected turns.
Yes! You can only imagine the impact this song and album had, it changed how guitar was played. He was simply the best ever, there's no debating that, his influence dwarfs anyone else, Wiki him and go to the influence section, it will blow your mind. Do Manic Depression from the same album, another all time banger! Enjoy. 🔥🎵🎸🎤🎶🔥
Manic says so much about life. Jimi was always trying to show us what he saw, that we apparently didn't. Why we loved him so. He was a giver.
Beatles were the first but Hendrix took it to a whole new level.
This caught y'all off guard. Such a badass tune by a cool badass man.
One thing to remember is this came out during the early years of sterophonic albums, consumer stereo and stereo headphones. So many of these albums were recorded to listen on headphones to fully experience the audio effects.
The Beatles took rock music to the moon, Hendrix took it to the next galaxy.
Word & then some! Bingo! Nailed it !! Play on electric Gypsy !! Wow!!
“Not necessarily stoned, but, beautiful!”
You mention adding this to our playlist “if you had forgotten” this song!?!? I could NEVER forget this song. This was my first Hendrix album, and this song immediately became my favorite. But then I heard the 15-minute version of his Machine Gun, and now they run neck-and-neck as my two favorites.
If you haven’t done Machine Gun, I highly suggest that, and be sure to find the long version of it. I forget exactly how long it is, but it’s somewhere around 12 to 15 minutes of pure guitar (and drum and bass) bliss.
So much was happening back then. way different than today - in Music terms anyway. try the guitar flash ' East West ' by Butterfield blues > released about the same time as Revolver which I will always consider the best LP of ' our' music. ' revolver' of course had backwards guitar , among other things.
Blown away at 8 years old when this came out…still 🔥
This is the same guy that hit notes laid the guitar down on the stage on the whammy bar. As the sound kept reverbing he used lighter fluid and set his guitar on fire.
Great song off my fave album! dbl ♥
The Beatles did it first, I believe, with their 1966 song Rain ( backward loop) But yeah, this album was unabashedly psychedelic. No way to explain how this music hits when you’re stoned unless you’ve “experienced” it. 😉✌️
ARE YOU??? 🐐🎸🔥😁😍😢😢😢RIP JIMI!!
May Jimi's Legacy grow... to break all Historical records
A band mate of mine got his hands on this album the day it dropped. He played it for me and it was so different from anything we had ever heard. We got tickets to see him not too long after that at the Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford Ct. Amazing show. It goes without saying that he was a true innovator. He used gimmicks early on like setting his guitar on fire, smashing gear, playing behind his back and with his teeth., He slowly got away from that and later felt comfortable just playing and that’s when he did his best stuff. Check out his live performance from Atlanta Georgia. On top of his game.
Hendrix Live At The Filmore 🎸
One of my favorite Jimi songs, although there are many, many great songs. Keep up with Jimi, 'All Along the Watchtower', 'Little Wing', 'Castles Made of Sand', 'Voodoo Child' etc.
Jimi recorded his backward guitar solo in his hotel room and then took it to the studio where the engineer inserted it into the piece. According to the engineer and others the parts Jimi recorded backwards were so precise that they laid right into the spaces perfectly. Jimi was a true genius. ❤🙏😊
Just a little note for anyone who never went to a Hendrix Concert +++ Everything on his recordings, He reproduced Live. If You didn't Catch Him Live You have no idea how incredible He was on stage.. Just Fucking Incredible is an understatement. When We left the auditorium after the show the feeling in the crowd was "Wow I just made 20,000 new friends"..
Watch any of the videos on the recording of The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows, which was recorded in April of 1966, released august 66 almost a year before are you experienced. The Beatles had all been given tape recorders and were encouraged to experiment with making sounds with them. Paul figured out if you disabled the erase head on the recorder you could tape over the same loop several times saturating the sounds recorded on that loop...and by playing those tapes backwards of slower or faster you could create new sounds.....on tomorrow never knows the "seagull" sound is actually a tape of paul laughing sped up. They made a bunch of loops of a melotron, a sitar, an orchestral chord, paul laughing and a guitar solo, and changed the speeds of them or played them in reverse, then they took those loops and played all of them continuously by playing the loop continuously on a multitrack machine, and used sliders to raise the volume to bring them sounds in and then cut it off totally and intermittently add the sounds at different times in the song, just by raising the volume sliders up for a few seconds at a time, before cutting them off again. Ringos drums were heavily compressed and they stuffed the base drum with clothing to mute it to get the special drum sound...and Johns vocals in part were played through a rotating leslie speaker cabinet to get his vocal effect. The Beatles were the originals when it came to experimenting and coming up with new sounds and sound effects.......
They sure put a lot of work and imagination into that song and created not only a masterpiece, but a song that everyone loved.
THE GREATEST!
Just imagine the Jam session going on in heaven with Jimi ,Stevie, Eddie on guitars Neil Peart on drums Cliff Burton on bass take your pick on vocals keys and any other instruments .
Jimi played an incredible live version (with a completely wild feedback intro) at Winterland in '68. Also Eric Johnson plays a nice cover including the backward solo.
The Beatles used reverse guitar loops in '66 "Tomorrow Never Knows". The original psychadelic song.
'Eight Miles High' came out 5 months earlier. 'You're Gonna Miss Me' by The 13th Floor Elevators came out 7 months earlier.
Yes there were some Psychedelic songs earlier, but to be clear, the Beatles were first ones to use backwards guitar.
@@micv5149 I'm Only Sleeping - The Beatles was the very first time that backwards guitar was used on a rock song
@@micv5149 That seems to be true on "Revolver", recorded earlier the same year as "Are You Experienced". I wonder who in the Beatles got the Idea, or maybe George Martin.
@@johnsilva9139 It was actually a mistake when the engineer at abbey roads (Geoff Emrick?) put the reel to reel tape used for I'm Only Sleeping's guitars backwards during playback.
Not necessarily stoned,...but beautiful! My favorite song from the first album.
The Beatles were there first to use backwards guitars
This song scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.. I thought Jimi was some kind of wild witch doctor🤣
He was!
It was entirely different from anything we had ever heard back in 1967 also. I only got to "experience" Jimi live once on July 4th, 1970 at Atlanta Pop. He played The Star Spangled Banner for us. That same guitar strap he used, brown with large tan Xs, is now worn by David Gilmour in most of his latest performances. Gilmour's wife bought it for him as a birthday present.
The Beatles had done a lot of backwards guitars heck everything high hat symbols u name it a year earlier in 66 on revolver. So by the time Jimmy made this album it was all the rage.
Jimi took it all the way home, that’s for sure.
I'm pretty experienced in these terms, but even though I've heard this song many times, each time I hear it, I'm even more experienced.
Jimi Hendrix , Did Massive Of Amounts , Of LSD And Other Psychedelics, During This Time Span( Hiaght Ashbury/ Summer-Of Love! The Experience He Refers To Is How U, Are Forever,Changed Afterwards!! The "Experience" His Band, Was Loosely, Named For These Life- Altering Experiences(Also, The Sex,) Obviously , Also. 1966-1967 , Was A Total,Sea Change, Moment , In Time!😮
Yep. A member of the 27 club. Too many who died too soon
You know the've had reverse delay pedals since I was a boy back in the 60's. The early delay pedals were on tape & played backwards but it's been digital for 60yrs now. Kenny Rogers & the 1st Edition used reverse delay on the intro to "Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in" before Kenny went solo in vegas for the duration.
I can think of one earlier example of the use of backwards tape elements in a song. "Tomorrow Never Knows" from The Beatles' "Revolver" album contains some reverse-tape instrumentation in it, and it was written and released in 1966.
Great analysis of how this was in the context of the time and how it influenced what came after. Eric Johnson did a wonderful more modern, but true to the original in his Austin City Limits performance.
The backward guitar parts are not accidental. Jimi actually played what the backward part would sound like for his producer to show what he was going for. He would play the part forward and then backward.
jimi it's a génuis👍👍😊
Psychedelic 🍄
Not necessarily stoned, but.......... beautiful.
yes I am
I am sometimes surprised that we survived the music from this era. But what didn't kill us, made us stranger.
LOL
It really felt a lot like scratching at times, like really heavy industrial scratching. That was great. Check out one of his hits that is so rambunctious, it's so fun and it's a really compact song, Crosstown Traffic. It's a massive banger.
I think both of you have just been experienced. 😆
I always feel like I'm coming down after the song ends...
Are you experienced was a line for have you taken LSD and resonated with the Haight-Ashbury crowd and beyond.
We on the EAST coast got Experienced as well.
Hendrix went home, wrote the bridge (the backwards loop) forwards, then came in and recorded it the next day, which, when they reversed it, the section recorded forward first perfectly into the bridge as it was played backwards. This according to Eddie Kramer, his recording engineer.
The "Hendrix in the West" lp contains a live version of this song that forgoes any backward loops and features just his single guitar, and the things he does with the feedback in that performance is just as mind blowing as the studio version.
Are you Experienced says it all about Jimi. Title song for his first album. My favourite song since I was 11 just before God took him in '70. Our 12 children knew most of Jimi's songs, especially this one. The solo is other worldly. There's a live version where Jimi repeats the first verse because he's off his face. However the solo is the most out of it guitar possible. Jimi rendered Modernity and its romance dead. Then he shocked a backwards Postmodern Europe. Postmodern and didn't know 😁
Hendrix was an alien. 👽 It’s the only logical explanation, frankly. Please try “ Voodoo Child”!!!
Hi guys, I am a guitar player here.... I've listened to that guitar solo on youtube, and someone reversed it. What happened was Hendrix originally did record it to be normal and not reversed. But, in the process of laying it down, he "jumped out of meter", meaning he messed the solo up and so, he just told his sound engineer eddie kramer to just put it in backward, and he did, and it was fine. it took alot of splicing and putting on another tape reel, reversed and making sure it was in sync with the rest of the song.... This was no easy task in 1967. This was long before the days of digital editing. Plus, he had to add additional guitar parts to make it sound fuller. Jimi was way ahead of his time, as was Eddie Kramer.
Yes, I am. Not necessarily stoned, but ah, beautiful. The Axis Bold as Love album will prepare you for the FULL JiMI experience of Electric Ladyland album. There is so much more to explore. He gave us so much in the short time we had him. I don’t play the ‘what if’ game. There is no answer and there is no point. Enjoy what is given.
I saw Jimi in Seattle at the Sick Stadium before the baseball team moved to Milwaukee. When the team left the Stadium became and still is a Lowe's Hardware store on Rainier Ave.
Fantastic reaction to a wild song! I used to look at the record spin on the turntable as I listened to this as a little kid, frozen, almost freaked out by the music, but more intrigued than anything! HOWEVER: backwards recording was in en vogue at this time due to The Beatles, specifically the Revolver album (1966), and specifically the songs "I'm Only Sleeping" and "Tomorrow Never Knows", which might be even more mind-blowing and psychedelic than THIS song, if you can believe such a thing! "Tomorrow Never Knows" sort of started the psychedelic space race!!! And Jimi definitely loved the Beatles and was influenced by them. (for one, he moved to England to get famous! :D )
PS: Totally agree about the record scratching!!!! Always thought that, since scratching began!
If no one else has done so, let me throw out a few other titles to check out: "Little Wing" - probably his most covered song. Sting did an amazing version of it too. "The Wind Cries Mary", "Axis Bold As Love", "If Six was Nine", "Voodoo Child" - naturally there are many when you are talking about Hendrix. Thank you guys.
please check Jimi Hendrix - Machine gun - Live from Fillmore East with Gypsys
Best guitar solo ever, the whole song
she IS beautiful!! . . .
It Was Called " Backwards- Masking!" The Beatles/Pink Floyd, Experimented With DifferentcTechniiqes As Did Zepplin At Alistair Crowleys , Old Place... But, I, Digress.. 😁🖐😉
Red House next please...
Psychedelic soul y'all.
My favorite Hendrix track has always been "Voodoo Chile Blues". Great jam session with him on guitar, Mitch Mitchell on drums, Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane on bass and Steve Winwood of Traffic on organ. Man they were all in the groove that night. It's almost spooky. It's funny how it's slight return gets all the attention.
STAR BANGLED BANNER from woodstock....THE VERY BEST HE EVER DID
Otherworldly then and still today.
Now you are experienced
My favorite Hendrix song 🔥 there’s actually a live version of this song if you can believe it
Jimi used to put drops of LSD in his headband before some of his most memorable performances.
We had the Gods - Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, BB King etc; and then we had Jimi - Lights years ahead !
there's 2 live versions of this song on the Wnterland box set that really showcases his virtuosity where he takes this song to another level..to say the least.
Jimi could play the guitar and make it SOUND like it was being reversed....he was a master! (And yes, Sam is beautiful...)
My first LP. K-Mart 1967.
Samantha is a natural 🕊️
Are You Experienced is the name of the album & this title track. The Jimi Hendrix Experience is the name of the group!❤
Be sure to check out each song from this album.
I think the backwards guitar is also linked to the message of the song. He is talking about leaving behind the superficial experience of life on the level of ego, and transcending, or going inwards to the spiritual essence of the person, or the experience of pure consciousness. But "your measly little world won't let you go" etc. Going inside to the source of consciousness could be symbolized by the backwards guitar. You hear the end of the note first, and then travel towards the source of the sound, ending with the backwards sound of the pick striking the string.
i think its about doing LSD, so are you experienced with it. the lyrics, the reverse recording, and hendrix did take acid, it all, imo relates to tripping on LSD, which i have done.
Not necessarily stoned but.... beautiful.