Yeah, maybe he really was the "Starman" who was waiting in the sky wanting to come and meet us.....he come and blew our minds (in a good way), then he went away !
I saw him in Virginia Beach in spring of 1968. I was 16. I am now 71. Of all the musical acts I've seen throughout the decades, no one holds a candle to the concert I saw that night. It truly was the Jimi Hendrix EXPERIENCE. Not only did he play the guitar, but the guitar played him. From that very night I became a lifelong fan, a guitarist, and a connoisseur of great guitarists. But in all the years since that night in '68, Jimi has remained at the top of the heap.
The thing that makes Jimi Hendrix so iconic is not just his guitar playing, but also his presence, charisma, his style. Dude is the definition of cool.
Years ago my college roommate bought tickets to see him. I had never heard of him. Saw him in a 4000 seat music hall. My jaw never left my knees the entire show.
I completely love Jimi Hendrix. All of his biographies talk about how he would have his guitar from the moment he woke up to when he went to sleep. Always playing, practicing, exploring. Never be another one like him.
I saw Jimi at Woodstock ( my first concert)! Peace, Music and Love…It was fantastical set. Jimi is one of my all time favorites. Sad to lose him so young, along with my other favorite, Janis Joplin who I also saw at Woodstock. 5:49
Legendary event. You sure picked a monster concert for your first one. 1969 was a wild and crazy time in every way it seemed. It just happened to fit with my life like hand in glove. Kind of a magical year is the way I will always remember it. My last year in high school. Big changes around the corner.
Hendrix was , is and always will be amazing! He's my favorite guitarist of all time because he did so much in such the little time he was here making this music ! He was prolific!
My father was at Woodstock for all 3 days, he never got over the experience. He was so happy when the movie came out, because he had unknowingly been given LSD in a cup of Pepsi about an hour before Hendrix took the stage. He was tripping big time watching Jimi play, and it was so amazing that he wasn’t sure what he was seeing and hearing was accurate, so when he saw the movie he was happy that it was exactly as he remembered it. About 10 years ago Jimi’s entire show finally got released on DVD and Blu-ray simply titled “Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock”.
My father was there too, as a 17 year old about to be a senior. I was born 9 months later lol. He was most blown away by Jimi, Sly and the Family Stone, and Santana.
@@markrenton5791 I know it sounds suspicious, but he has always been open about the things he did. He had taken acid and smoked lots of pot and hash before Woodstock. He and the friends he went with went to one of the many stands at the festival where they were selling food and drinks, and even though it was early in the morning, he decided to have a cup of soda. He was given a styrofoam cup of it, and most likely the cashier that sold it to him spiked it or the cups themselves, because one of his friends bought a cup of 7-Up and ended up tripping too. There were warming’s at the festival that the brown acid that was going around was bad, and there were warnings about orange juice being laced with acid. Luckily my father and his friend had happy trips, because there were a lot of people there that had bad trips. I wouldn’t want to be in a crowd that size and flip out on a bad trip.
@@Mike-rk8px I was just joking because people tells things like that, when really want to tell the story but want to sound innocent 😂 But your father did it before and told, so it most be true. Cool story he so lucky to have been there 😀 Have you looked for him in the concert movie?
Excellent insights and commentary---Jimi was a monster; some of the biggest, greatest musical talents in history like Beetohven etc, might have to take a back seat to him.
From his 1968 album, "Electric Ladyland", this was Jimmy's only number 1, released posthumously 1 week after his death. Jimmy's wah wah petal earned him Guitar Worlds Number 1 spot in 2015. This live version is phenomenal with Jimmy's exceptional quitar work and oh how we all wished we were there. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Uncle Phil. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
The greatest rock guitarist of all time! Born just up the road for me in Seattle area. And Woodstock three days of music and peace… I’m hoping that we are engineering into 1000 years of peace. Would love to have Jimi back for an encore!
I saw Hendrix during his first tour of the US on Dec. 1, 1968 at the Coliseum ( since torn down ) on the south side of Chicago. We took LSD. The Soft Machine opened for him and they were great - very impressive - I remember saying that Hendrix was going to have to blow the roof off to top their performance - and of course, he did. It was truly a once in a lifetime experience - he and the band were beyond anything anyone of us had ever heard - definitively psychedelic and unforgettable.
I saw the great Jimi three times, two successive shows on the same day in Atlanta, Georgia in 1968 (I still have close up photos I took from the edge of the stage) and again at the Berkeley Community theater in California in 1970 a few months before he died.As a young guitarist, I was completely spellbound by Jimi and have been ever since. I first heard him in about 1967 when no one in America knew about him. I was coming back from trip to France with my mom and the Air France flight kept playing Hey Joe on its sound system every few minutes.
from space, for sure. Somtimes, i watch him and wonder if he's really that good or not, but then, I realize I'm mesmerized in a trance. Jimi really brought the imagination imagery thru his music and it was like fantasia with pixie dust with all the symbols of rainbows and dragonflies and stuff coming from the music, it was like literature. No one else was quite like him.
I got to see him live about 2 weeks before he died. He absolutely blew me away! He played a 45 minute set which was surreal and then just pulled out his plug from the guitar and walked off stage. I was so impressed by how he played - his hands hardly moved as he could play amazing stuff on just one area of the fret board with very little wasted motion. I could hardly believe that what I was hearing was coming out of that guitar. I was flabburgasted.
Harri, you said “imagine hearing this guy in 1969”. I did, in April. 1969, right before I turned 19. I saw a lot of the greats over the years, but seeing Jimi was the highlight. 🎸
I believe i read he was the final act at Woodstock. What a way to close out a show! So many people had left by the time he came on, id have kicked myself for life if i had left before he played.
This was the greatest performance, the greatest guitar work, the greatest body swaying gyrations, the greatest of the greatest! Powerful, sublime, The guy was a virtuoso. He soared above everybody, maybe got too close to the sun and came crashing down. I've been listening to him for 50 years now. And sometimes I still can't believe what I'm seeing and hearing.
Uncle Phil - This was a superb submission of the one-of-a-kind Jimi Hendrix blowing away the 1/2 million attendees at Woodstock. Harri, your review was "Best In Class" level.
My first concert, excluding local bands, was The Jimi Hendrix Experience at The Central Hall, Chatham in 1967. Amazing is the only word for a young lad..
I didn’t see Jimmy but I heard him along with Led Zeppelin not to far from where I lived in the Seattle area in 1970. 1969 it was such a transitional year for music from Hendrix to Zeppelin Deep Purple and all the psychedelic rock that was everywhere. It was and still is the best music that has ever been. 🍻 cheers my man.
Jimi is buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, if you’ve never been it’s worth visiting. In 1970 he was buried at that cemetery with a marble grave marker. In 2002 his coffin was exhumed and moved to another area of the cemetery where a family plot was set up, and there is a large 30 foot tall dome with 3 pillars and a memorial under it (there are no walls) that’s really beautiful.
SRV should never be compared to Hendrix. Hendrix is so far above him creatively. SRV is blues...Hendrix's music is everything the universe offers. A genius player, composer, writer and performer. Never to be surpassed.
It was "3 days of Peace Love and Music". Live at the Fillmore New Year's Eve 1969/70. Buddy Mile on Drums and Billy Cox on Bass. It was already starting to unravel. Count down to Sept 18th.
I never saw Jimi he was just a few years older than me but we were fellow Seattleites and went to rival High Schools. I have been to his grave many times taking visitors there and when I visit the grave of one of my school buddies who died in Viet Nam who is buried in the same cemetery. Quite an impressive site and always people there. You are rarely alone. If you were paying attention you could barely see him playing the guitar with his teeth.
I was fortunate enough to see Jimi on May 8, 1970 in Norman, Oklahoma at the OU Field House. He played 2 shows and I attended the last show which began around 10pm. He was and still is the greatest guitarist I have ever seen. It was just magical!!
Jimi had disbanded the Experience and was living in Ashokan a town near the town of Woodstock, jamming with some musicians. That is the group that played at Woodstock, hence the conga player and the second guitarist.
Jimi's Woodstock appearance came out on VHS, as did many of his live concerts long before they came out on DVD. It's a pity Jimi's hard-working isolated talent wasn't accepted by many African/American/Cherokee peoples back in the day due to its caucasian rock sound. Jimi's finally beginning to receive the respect he craved from the bigger attention.
Hendrix died in September of 1970. I saw Jimi for the launch of his last "Cry of Love" tour in April of 1970 at the Inglewood Forum. Dude was in the best mood I have EVER seen in any filmed performances. He was playing with Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell, following his good friend, Buddy Mile's Express band. By then, Hendrix had so evolved his headspace, he was hardly interested in playing old songs. He wanted people to really get the message he was now putting out, Power of Soul, Message of Love, Machine Gun (incredibly deep protest not just of Viet Nam, but ALL wars) , Easy Rider, Hey, Baby, Hear My Train a'Comin (he knew he was soon gone) Even in the studio, Jimi IMPROVISED his guitar solos. I never saw him play the solo of Voodoo Child (Slight Return) quite like the take they captured on Electric Ladyland. Eventually, his endless retakes for just the right improvised performance costs too much to keep paying out to studios... so they built Electric Lady. Too late
Nobody has, and will come close to Hendrix. I've heard all the Stevie Ray Vaughan comparisons, but none of it washes with me. Jimi was and is the G.O.A.T!!
I never thought Hendrix was over rated but he did play it up. I liked him back in the day and wish I was at Woodstock. My brother saw Hendrix live in Maui, Hawaii. He was even on an LP album cover. (In the crowd). Thanks HarriB. I also recall hearing 'Purple Haze' on the AM radio with all my family in the car. 😂
Love your reaction to Hendrix, Harri! Cause I absolutely LOVE Jimi! And like you, I wonder who Hendrix is, who he really is, where he came from, and where he is now. No one plays like Jimi, no one. Yes, there are other greats, and I've seen my share of them, but no one has ever touched the sheer originality, the dexterity, the imagination, the exquisite melodies he channeled, the astounding time and rhythmic changes he surprised our ears and souls with, or the musical intricacies he layered, one upon another, like the infinite regress of mirror images that stretch out and disappear beyond the beyond. I saw Jimi twice; once at Forest Hills Stadium, once at the Fillmore East. I went to the midnight show on New Year's Day, 1969. Now, I don't know how this will go over, but the truth is, this is the one time I must admit that the old cliché about the 60s describes my experience perfectly, ie, "If you lived through the sixties, you can't remember it! Usually it doesn't apply. In fact, I remember the first time seeing many of my fovorite artists - Sun Ra, Bob Marley, Mike Bloomfield & Elvin Bishop with Paul Butterfield; Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton (probably his first US show, on Bleeker Street, like in 1965). And of course, I remember the first time and the many, many times I saw The Incredible String Band. But the two time I saw Jimi I only remember that I was there. Honestly, I cannot for the life of me reconstruct the night, the experience, the songs, etc. And I cannot, for the life of me, re-live that moment in time, intellectually or emotionally. I think it's 'cause i respond first and foremost to lyrics, and Hendrix, while he wrote GREAT lyrics, he was mostly into astonishing music. I think he was beyond my ken, really, though I have grown. In fact, as the years pile up, I appreciate Jimi's unique genius more and more. I know it may be disappointing for you, but the truth is I was blown away seeing Hendrix and only remember that I loved being there. On the other hand, for some reason, perhaps what i said above, I remember vividly my emotional responses to each of the following songs of Jimi's, the first time I heard them (and all of them personal favorites): Little Wing, Pali Gap, Up From The Skies, Burning of the Midnight Oil, 1983, A Merman I Should Turn To Be, May This Be Love, Angel, Gypsy Boy, Belly Button Window, Castles Made of Sand, One Rainy Wish, and Are You Experienced.
👍 May 7,1969. I still have the “tour book” they sold that night. And Yes Harri it always be the greatest concert I’ve ever seen. I don’t know if it would get blocked but recently “Official” Jimi Hendrix music is on UA-cam. Including the 15 minute version of Voodoo Child from “Electric Ladyland”. With Steve Winwood on organ.
Jimi was from the Seattle area, as am I. I used to go dancing at a place called Parker’s in North Seattle back in 1964…..had fake ID to get in. One Saturday night, there was this guy named Hendrix playing. Turned out he wasn’t that great to dance to…….we all just stopped and listened. It was pretty wild and heavy stuff for that time. I don’t think he was hired back,…….I mean, it was a dance hall after all. 😉. Imagine my surprise when his first album dropped in 1967…….and how magnificent it was! ✌️✌️
Hendrix was otherworldly for sure! I'm thinking that the guy on congas may have been heavily tripping and was overwhelmed by looking out at the crowd when he didn't have the congas to focus on. It would have freaked me out even sober! I believe that artists are conduits for music and other arts that are floating around in the ether. I can't even count how many times artists have said something like "it came to me in a dream" or "I don't know where it came from, it just popped into my head out of nowhere". Happens over and over
Jimi was the complete package -- brilliant musicianship, ground-breaking songwriting, planet-shattering live performances complete with mind-blowing stage presence ... well, you get the idea. I am so grateful that I heard him live in 1968.
I saw The JHE several times in 1967. First time was in February at York University. IIRC (maybe) the band turned up on time but their equipment didn't. I went to try and find the organiser of the gig to find out what was happening. Eventually found him and the band in a classroom where Jimi was using the whiteboard. He invited me to draw something (I forget what) and he would draw on the same subject. My mind is very much serial and I can't draw, so I ended up with a stilted picture of a man whereas his was full of swirls. I remember thinking mine was more to the subject. Then the equipment arrived and they were on stage. He played a request for one of the students who had been with the band ensconced in the classroom. I can't remember what the song was but I doubt it was in the set list. The band gave the impression they could extemporise on whatever. Later that year I saw them at the Saville in London. The whole stage seemed to be covered with Marshall speakers. Then at Olympia, London at the end of the year. It was bloody cold in that huge barn of a venue. I think Jimi played "Sgt. Pepper" and/or "Wild Thing" (I got engaged over that Christmas so I was pre-occupied). Jimi was a superb showman and a ground breaking guitarist. His synergy with Mitch Mitchell was amazing. I think if he had lived and stayed with Mitch they could have ended up playing more jazz tinged music, hopefully with Steve Winwood. (Aside: Of all the great guitarists I saw over that period, at the end of 1967 Peter Green was may favourite)
So glad I saw Jimi at the Isle of Wight festival 1970, seeing him live was unbelievable, gives me chills just to remember that moment, seen many great live acts in my time but Jimi was something special ❤. Try and watch Jimi at the Royal Albert Hall February 1969, it is an official film with great quality sound!
I rode a 1967 Triumph Bonneville from Pittsburgh to Woodstock. I actually got lost on the way. Remember, we only had paper maps and those aren't conducive to being read on a motorcycle. Finally made it. My claim to fame is I'm in the movie for about 8 seconds... long hair, fringed jacket, spinning my rear tire in the mud. About 3 months later, I got drafted. But I'm somehow here to talk about it 😵💫
Love your channel Harry Well after hearing all the things that came out in the 60's this was amazing but ,'par for the course '. That is not to diminish just that so much amazing music came out then
In case you didn't know, Jimi taught himself to play at 9 years old. I almost forgot to mention a small little detail. As a kid growing up in Seattle, his daddy got him a cheap little guitar, but it was a righty (most people are right-handed) but Jimi was left-handed. No worries, young Jimi just flipped the guitar upside-down and taught himself to play all of the chords and music upside -down and backwards. If you watch any of Jimi's video footage, you'll see he's got his Fender Stratocaster upside-down! It's absolutely amazing that not only does he play it upside-down, he is not just proficient, but considered to be the greatest ever by most people and fellow Rock guitarists over the decades. He to Rock guitar, what Bruce Lee was to Martial Arts. The greatest ever. Being from Seattle Washington myself, I kind of favor Jimi.
Hendrix at his live apex, his performance at Maui is also worth looking at. You should watch his entire Woodstock set sometime, it's amazing. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎶
So many variations on hendrix tunes, lp called loose ends my favorite lot of live stuff, hoochie coochie man, stars that play with laughing sams dice a cosmic wild ride! Get a copy of that lp and listen, hendrix at his unfettered best ☮️
Our country was in such a state as we are now. In the USA, you barely feel safe walking down the block. Racial tensions are high, war seems pending, and the country has no leadership. Woodstock healed a generation even with the drugs and alcohol. It is time for another event.
This is such a heavily cut version of the song. Find the Woodstock DVD and watch it. His performance is several minutes longer than this. He goes directly into the American national anthem after this. He basically plays nonstop from Voodoo Child to the Star Spangled Banner, Purple Haze, an incredible improvisation, another song I can't think of. It's several minutes of nonstop performance. Then he comes back and gives an encore of Hey Joe before the set finishes. You've got to get the Woodstock DVD. You're right, he was like a savant. There won't be another musician on his level for centuries.
Even the DVD version is edited, the raw recording is about 15 minutes, Larry Lee got a couple solos. Experience hendrix mixed out and edited out Jerry Velez, juma sultan and Larry Lee as much as they possibly could. In red house jimi breaks a string, exp hendrix would have you believe he just kept playing. Nope. Larry took a LONG solo while Eric Barrett (one of jimi's roadies) changed the string.
So hard to come up with something no one has done before,Hendrix laid the blueprint for modern electric guitar,not a guitarist today who is not influenced by his genius wether they know it or not.Legendary is used too often but is fully deserved for Jimi.....
Hey Harri. Greetings from Staten Island, New York. I think that you should do the whole set at Woodstock, maybe reviewing each song individually, or check out the Winterland Studios, Jimi Hendrix' studio recordings from his own studio in NYC before his death. DVD box set, 4 cd's. Mind blowing guitar work, all in all. Cheers!, or Slainte!
Jimi was the greatest. Love this performance of Voodoo Child Slight Return. Here's the link to Voodoo Chile, the long studio version also on Jimi's Electric Ladyland album: ua-cam.com/video/DLGl8Oc484Q/v-deo.html You should definitely give it a listen.
I've read that Jimi, essentially was the closing act at Woodstock, the last (4th? morning) and there were only about 40,000 people (only) left there, including the clean-up crew, out of the nearly 500,000 that attended -- DAMN, hope the rest were enjoying that traffic jam on the way out -- back to school, work, or whatever
Hi there. One of the things that could have been was Jimmy and Miles Davis were talking about doing something together because they admired each other work.
I saw Jimi Hendrix live in Houston Tx about 6 months before he died (I'm 71 in a few days). I was on the main floor of the venue about 6 rows from the stage. It was the most amazing concert experience of my life, and to this day I feel so blessed to have seen him. I went with a girl who I swear would probably have had sex with him right on stage, He was indeed a very sensual performer. That guitar was his lover, and he had a deep beautiful voice as well!
There is much more to this performance than what you just saw. Big cut in the middle there. If you google "Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child Facebook" they have the full song on there. Why Facebook allows it and UA-cam doesn't? I'm not sure, considering most Hendrix footage has disappeared from this platform due to copyright. Anyway, solid reaction ma bro. I feel the exact same way as you. I don't get used to it. I find something new that blows me away every time I watch it. And back in the day I watched this entire set on DVD over and over.
In England it is voodoo Chile, but hendrix titled it Voodoo Child (slight return), and that's how it appears on the US version, that's how it should have been everywhere, but track records didn't care.
If you haven't already, make sure you do some Jimi studio versions. His live stuff is amazing to watch, but a lot of his vocals are lost & it's often more of an extended jam. Purple Haze, Hey Joe, LIttle Feather, All Along the Watchtower, Castles Made of Sand & so many more are incredible songs with great vocals on the studio versions.
His playing……especially if you were stoned listening to it, was transcendent…….it just took you out of yourself. It did me, anyway. Nothing else had that effect on me until Meddle came along by Pink Floyd
Muddy Waters once said "Jimi played delta blues for sure, but his delta was on Mars"
It's like Jimi hendrix dropped in from space and then he was gone . Even by today's standards he was a phenomenon.
Yeah, maybe he really was the "Starman" who was waiting in the sky wanting to come and meet us.....he come and blew our minds (in a good way), then he went away !
Check out the lyrics of 3rd Stone From the Sun (play the record double speed to hear them) and his song Up From The Skies.
I saw him in Virginia Beach in spring of 1968. I was 16. I am now 71. Of all the musical acts I've seen throughout the decades, no one holds a candle to the concert I saw that night. It truly was the Jimi Hendrix EXPERIENCE. Not only did he play the guitar, but the guitar played him. From that very night I became a lifelong fan, a guitarist, and a connoisseur of great guitarists. But in all the years since that night in '68, Jimi has remained at the top of the heap.
You are so lucky, I envy you. 🇬🇧
The thing that makes Jimi Hendrix so iconic is not just his guitar playing, but also his presence, charisma, his style. Dude is the definition of cool.
Years ago my college roommate bought tickets to see him. I had never heard of him. Saw him in a 4000 seat music hall. My jaw never left my knees the entire show.
I saw him in concert in 1969. I was 15 and begged my Mother to let me go. Glad I did. Awesome.
I think Eric Clapton was so shook when he first saw Hendrix on stage that he thought it’s over, how do we compete with that.
Played a right handed guitar upside down, the greatest.
I completely love Jimi Hendrix. All of his biographies talk about how he would have his guitar from the moment he woke up to when he went to sleep. Always playing, practicing, exploring. Never be another one like him.
Making his guitar sing better than he could. Incredible artist
I saw Jimi at Woodstock ( my first concert)! Peace, Music and Love…It was fantastical set. Jimi is one of my all time favorites. Sad to lose him so young, along with my other favorite, Janis Joplin who I also saw at Woodstock. 5:49
You are a legend, a survivor!
I saw Jimi and the Experience in November 1968, a band he produced Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys opened. I was about 15 feet for Jimi. Jim
I wonder how many in the crowd kept pics of them rockin' in the mud to show their gran'kids? "Yep Joey, that's Pop-Pop!" LOL
Legendary event. You sure picked a monster concert for your first one. 1969 was a wild and crazy time in every way it seemed. It just happened to fit with my life like hand in glove. Kind of a magical year is the way I will always remember it. My last year in high school. Big changes around the corner.
I am SO envious!
He was human, that made him so very special. A true Soulman❤ Merci JMH
Saw Jimi Hendrix at Temple Stadium in Philly on May of 1970. It was definitely an experience.
I saw Jimi in 1968 and 1970. One of a kind for sure.
jimi never died earth was just part of his tour.
Hendrix was , is and always will be amazing! He's my favorite guitarist of all time because he did so much in such the little time he was here making this music ! He was prolific!
My father was at Woodstock for all 3 days, he never got over the experience. He was so happy when the movie came out, because he had unknowingly been given LSD in a cup of Pepsi about an hour before Hendrix took the stage. He was tripping big time watching Jimi play, and it was so amazing that he wasn’t sure what he was seeing and hearing was accurate, so when he saw the movie he was happy that it was exactly as he remembered it. About 10 years ago Jimi’s entire show finally got released on DVD and Blu-ray simply titled “Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock”.
My father was there too, as a 17 year old about to be a senior. I was born 9 months later lol. He was most blown away by Jimi, Sly and the Family Stone, and Santana.
unknowingly been given LSD in a cup of Pepsi 😂 Thats what he told you😉
@@markrenton5791 I know it sounds suspicious, but he has always been open about the things he did. He had taken acid and smoked lots of pot and hash before Woodstock. He and the friends he went with went to one of the many stands at the festival where they were selling food and drinks, and even though it was early in the morning, he decided to have a cup of soda. He was given a styrofoam cup of it, and most likely the cashier that sold it to him spiked it or the cups themselves, because one of his friends bought a cup of 7-Up and ended up tripping too. There were warming’s at the festival that the brown acid that was going around was bad, and there were warnings about orange juice being laced with acid. Luckily my father and his friend had happy trips, because there were a lot of people there that had bad trips. I wouldn’t want to be in a crowd that size and flip out on a bad trip.
@@Mike-rk8px I was just joking because people tells things like that, when really want to tell the story but want to sound innocent 😂 But your father did it before and told, so it most be true. Cool story he so lucky to have been there 😀 Have you looked for him in the concert movie?
@@mr.goodenough3796 Born 9 months later? Maybe you WERE at Woodstock. Just a mere Embryo.
What a great quote: "Every time I see this guy, it's like it's the first time." Me too, going on to 50 years now.
Jimi was the goat.
I'm a lifelong Grateful Dead fan. Deadhead if you will. Hendrix was pure magic. Speechless
Excellent insights and commentary---Jimi was a monster; some of the biggest, greatest musical talents in history like Beetohven etc, might have to take a back seat to him.
Yes there’s Jimmy handling a right hand guitar with his left hand. He’s a legend.
From his 1968 album, "Electric Ladyland", this was Jimmy's only number 1, released posthumously 1 week after his death. Jimmy's wah wah petal earned him Guitar Worlds Number 1 spot in 2015.
This live version is phenomenal with Jimmy's exceptional quitar work and oh how we all wished we were there. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Uncle Phil. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
I got to see him twice in Miami in 1968 and a couple months before he died in 1970. Never disappointed.
I saw him in 1970… amazing.
The greatest rock guitarist of all time! Born just up the road for me in Seattle area. And Woodstock three days of music and peace… I’m hoping that we are engineering into 1000 years of peace. Would love to have Jimi back for an encore!
I saw Hendrix during his first tour of the US on Dec. 1, 1968 at the Coliseum ( since torn down ) on the south side of Chicago. We took LSD. The Soft Machine opened for him and they were great - very impressive - I remember saying that Hendrix was going to have to blow the roof off to top their performance - and of course, he did. It was truly a once in a lifetime experience - he and the band were beyond anything anyone of us had ever heard - definitively psychedelic and unforgettable.
Been listening to Jimi my whole life. Always sounds new.
1967 first time I heard him and fell in love with his music
I saw the great Jimi three times, two successive shows on the same day in Atlanta, Georgia in 1968 (I still have close up photos I took from the edge of the stage) and again at the Berkeley Community theater in California in 1970 a few months before he died.As a young guitarist, I was completely spellbound by Jimi and have been ever since. I first heard him in about 1967 when no one in America knew about him. I was coming back from trip to France with my mom and the Air France flight kept playing Hey Joe on its sound system every few minutes.
from space, for sure. Somtimes, i watch him and wonder if he's really that good or not, but then, I realize I'm mesmerized in a trance. Jimi really brought the imagination imagery thru his music and it was like fantasia with pixie dust with all the symbols of rainbows and dragonflies and stuff coming from the music, it was like literature. No one else was quite like him.
I got to see him live about 2 weeks before he died. He absolutely blew me away! He played a 45 minute set which was surreal and then just pulled out his plug from the guitar and walked off stage. I was so impressed by how he played - his hands hardly moved as he could play amazing stuff on just one area of the fret board with very little wasted motion. I could hardly believe that what I was hearing was coming out of that guitar. I was flabburgasted.
Harri, you said “imagine hearing this guy in 1969”.
I did, in April. 1969, right before I turned 19.
I saw a lot of the greats over the years, but seeing Jimi was the highlight. 🎸
Welcome aboard the Jimi train. From a fan listening since the 60s.
I believe i read he was the final act at Woodstock. What a way to close out a show! So many people had left by the time he came on, id have kicked myself for life if i had left before he played.
This was the greatest performance, the greatest guitar work, the greatest body swaying gyrations, the greatest of the greatest! Powerful, sublime, The guy was a virtuoso. He soared above everybody, maybe got too close to the sun and came crashing down. I've been listening to him for 50 years now. And sometimes I still can't believe what I'm seeing and hearing.
Robin Trower Live At Winterland Concert 1975 . Amazing ✨🎸✨ . Watch Hear My Train a Comin May 1970 Live Berkeley .... DVD only Jimi Hendrix
Uncle Phil - This was a superb submission of the one-of-a-kind Jimi Hendrix blowing away the 1/2 million attendees at Woodstock. Harri, your review was "Best In Class" level.
Jimmy was the ORIGINAL guitar rock shredder 🤩💖‼️
My first concert, excluding local bands, was The Jimi Hendrix Experience at The Central Hall, Chatham in 1967. Amazing is the only word for a young lad..
I didn’t see Jimmy but I heard him along with Led Zeppelin not to far from where I lived in the Seattle area in 1970. 1969 it was such a transitional year for music from Hendrix to Zeppelin Deep Purple and all the psychedelic rock that was everywhere. It was and still is the best music that has ever been. 🍻 cheers my man.
Jimi is buried at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton, if you’ve never been it’s worth visiting. In 1970 he was buried at that cemetery with a marble grave marker. In 2002 his coffin was exhumed and moved to another area of the cemetery where a family plot was set up, and there is a large 30 foot tall dome with 3 pillars and a memorial under it (there are no walls) that’s really beautiful.
The thing is that Jimi could play rythm and solis at the same time..he is an outstandig rythm guitarist..
Thanks for doing Hendrix! Stevie Ray Vaughan is great, but nothing is better than the original.
Right on!
SRV should never be compared to Hendrix. Hendrix is so far above him creatively. SRV is blues...Hendrix's music is everything the universe offers. A genius player, composer, writer and performer. Never to be surpassed.
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It was "3 days of Peace Love and Music". Live at the Fillmore New Year's Eve 1969/70. Buddy Mile on Drums and Billy Cox on Bass. It was already starting to unravel. Count down to Sept 18th.
I never saw Jimi he was just a few years older than me but we were fellow Seattleites and went to rival High Schools. I have been to his grave many times taking visitors there and when I visit the grave of one of my school buddies who died in Viet Nam who is buried in the same cemetery. Quite an impressive site and always people there. You are rarely alone. If you were paying attention you could barely see him playing the guitar with his teeth.
Can you imagine what Jimi and Miles might have created together? The mind boggles.
I just missed Hendrix at Woodstock. I was four and my parents decided to drop me off at my grandparents house at the last minute.🖖🏼
I was fortunate enough to see Jimi on May 8, 1970 in Norman, Oklahoma at the OU Field House. He played 2 shows and I attended the last show which began around 10pm. He was and still is the greatest guitarist I have ever seen. It was just magical!!
There will never be another. He was so great for that era. He also personified Cool.
Thanks Harri. I love Stevie Ray Vaughan, but Jimi Hendrix is the greatest human being to ever lay fingers on a guitar.
I Loved his creativity!
Jimi had disbanded the Experience and was living in Ashokan a town near the town of Woodstock, jamming with some musicians. That is the group that played at Woodstock, hence the conga player and the second guitarist.
Jimi's Woodstock appearance came out on VHS, as did many of his live concerts long before they came out on DVD. It's a pity Jimi's hard-working isolated talent wasn't accepted by many African/American/Cherokee peoples back in the day due to its caucasian rock sound. Jimi's finally beginning to receive the respect he craved from the bigger attention.
Hendrix died in September of 1970.
I saw Jimi for the launch of his last "Cry of Love" tour in April of 1970 at the Inglewood Forum. Dude was in the best mood I have EVER seen in any filmed performances. He was playing with Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell, following his good friend, Buddy Mile's Express band. By then, Hendrix had so evolved his headspace, he was hardly interested in playing old songs. He wanted people to really get the message he was now putting out, Power of Soul, Message of Love, Machine Gun (incredibly deep protest not just of Viet Nam, but ALL wars) , Easy Rider, Hey, Baby, Hear My Train a'Comin (he knew he was soon gone) Even in the studio, Jimi IMPROVISED his guitar solos. I never saw him play the solo of Voodoo Child (Slight Return) quite like the take they captured on Electric Ladyland. Eventually, his endless retakes for just the right improvised performance costs too much to keep paying out to studios... so they built Electric Lady. Too late
You are the most well sopken and considered reactor I have seen
By the time he played there were only about 30000 people still there.
Nobody has, and will come close to Hendrix. I've heard all the Stevie Ray Vaughan comparisons, but none of it washes with me. Jimi was and is the G.O.A.T!!
I never thought Hendrix was over rated but he did play it up.
I liked him back in the day and wish I was at Woodstock.
My brother saw Hendrix live in Maui, Hawaii. He was even on an LP album cover. (In the crowd). Thanks HarriB. I also recall hearing 'Purple Haze' on the AM radio with all my family in the car. 😂
Love your reaction to Hendrix, Harri! Cause I absolutely LOVE Jimi! And like you, I wonder who Hendrix is, who he really is, where he came from, and where he is now. No one plays like Jimi, no one. Yes, there are other greats, and I've seen my share of them, but no one has ever touched the sheer originality, the dexterity, the imagination, the exquisite melodies he channeled, the astounding time and rhythmic changes he surprised our ears and souls with, or the musical intricacies he layered, one upon another, like the infinite regress of mirror images that stretch out and disappear beyond the beyond. I saw Jimi twice; once at Forest Hills Stadium, once at the Fillmore East. I went to the midnight show on New Year's Day, 1969. Now, I don't know how this will go over, but the truth is, this is the one time I must admit that the old cliché about the 60s describes my experience perfectly, ie, "If you lived through the sixties, you can't remember it! Usually it doesn't apply. In fact, I remember the first time seeing many of my fovorite artists - Sun Ra, Bob Marley, Mike Bloomfield & Elvin Bishop with Paul Butterfield; Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton (probably his first US show, on Bleeker Street, like in 1965). And of course, I remember the first time and the many, many times I saw The Incredible String Band. But the two time I saw Jimi I only remember that I was there. Honestly, I cannot for the life of me reconstruct the night, the experience, the songs, etc. And I cannot, for the life of me, re-live that moment in time, intellectually or emotionally. I think it's 'cause i respond first and foremost to lyrics, and Hendrix, while he wrote GREAT lyrics, he was mostly into astonishing music. I think he was beyond my ken, really, though I have grown. In fact, as the years pile up, I appreciate Jimi's unique genius more and more. I know it may be disappointing for you, but the truth is I was blown away seeing Hendrix and only remember that I loved being there. On the other hand, for some reason, perhaps what i said above, I remember vividly my emotional responses to each of the following songs of Jimi's, the first time I heard them (and all of them personal favorites): Little Wing, Pali Gap, Up From The Skies, Burning of the Midnight Oil, 1983, A Merman I Should Turn To Be, May This Be Love, Angel, Gypsy Boy, Belly Button Window, Castles Made of Sand, One Rainy Wish, and Are You Experienced.
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May 7,1969. I still have the “tour book” they sold that night.
And Yes Harri it always be the greatest concert I’ve ever seen.
I don’t know if it would get blocked but recently “Official” Jimi Hendrix music is on UA-cam. Including the 15 minute version of Voodoo Child from “Electric Ladyland”. With Steve Winwood on organ.
machine gun, live at the filmore east, is chilling.
Jimi was from the Seattle area, as am I. I used to go dancing at a place called Parker’s in North Seattle back in 1964…..had fake ID to get in. One Saturday night, there was this guy named Hendrix playing. Turned out he wasn’t that great to dance to…….we all just stopped and listened. It was pretty wild and heavy stuff for that time. I don’t think he was hired back,…….I mean, it was a dance hall after all. 😉. Imagine my surprise when his first album dropped in 1967…….and how magnificent it was! ✌️✌️
Hendrix was otherworldly for sure! I'm thinking that the guy on congas may have been heavily tripping and was overwhelmed by looking out at the crowd when he didn't have the congas to focus on. It would have freaked me out even sober! I believe that artists are conduits for music and other arts that are floating around in the ether. I can't even count how many times artists have said something like "it came to me in a dream" or "I don't know where it came from, it just popped into my head out of nowhere". Happens over and over
Jimi was the complete package -- brilliant musicianship, ground-breaking songwriting, planet-shattering live performances complete with mind-blowing stage presence ... well, you get the idea. I am so grateful that I heard him live in 1968.
Happy Mother's Day!
I saw The JHE several times in 1967. First time was in February at York University. IIRC (maybe) the band turned up on time but their equipment didn't. I went to try and find the organiser of the gig to find out what was happening. Eventually found him and the band in a classroom where Jimi was using the whiteboard. He invited me to draw something (I forget what) and he would draw on the same subject. My mind is very much serial and I can't draw, so I ended up with a stilted picture of a man whereas his was full of swirls. I remember thinking mine was more to the subject.
Then the equipment arrived and they were on stage. He played a request for one of the students who had been with the band ensconced in the classroom. I can't remember what the song was but I doubt it was in the set list. The band gave the impression they could extemporise on whatever.
Later that year I saw them at the Saville in London. The whole stage seemed to be covered with Marshall speakers. Then at Olympia, London at the end of the year. It was bloody cold in that huge barn of a venue. I think Jimi played "Sgt. Pepper" and/or "Wild Thing" (I got engaged over that Christmas so I was pre-occupied).
Jimi was a superb showman and a ground breaking guitarist. His synergy with Mitch Mitchell was amazing. I think if he had lived and stayed with Mitch they could have ended up playing more jazz tinged music, hopefully with Steve Winwood.
(Aside: Of all the great guitarists I saw over that period, at the end of 1967 Peter Green was may favourite)
Beautiful. I love Hendrix and this performance at Woodstock always moves me. ✌🏻
Yeah, I remember this,
Harri... Thanks for posting it!!!
Love Jimmy I have one of his vinyl. The Greatest original sessions 2 vinyl set
So glad I saw Jimi at the Isle of Wight festival 1970, seeing him live was unbelievable, gives me chills just to remember that moment, seen many great live acts in my time but Jimi was something special ❤. Try and watch Jimi at the Royal Albert Hall February 1969, it is an official film with great quality sound!
GOAT . . .
I rode a 1967 Triumph Bonneville from Pittsburgh to Woodstock. I actually got lost on the way. Remember, we only had paper maps and those aren't conducive to being read on a motorcycle. Finally made it. My claim to fame is I'm in the movie for about 8 seconds... long hair, fringed jacket, spinning my rear tire in the mud.
About 3 months later, I got drafted. But I'm somehow here to talk about it 😵💫
Next level
This is my favourite video of Jimi. What a performance. If you dig this one, check out Voodoo Chile live in Maui.
It seems Jimi's soul was hardwired to his Strat. Very few wired that way.
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Well after hearing all the things that came out in the 60's this was amazing but ,'par for the course '.
That is not to diminish just that so much amazing music came out then
In case you didn't know, Jimi taught himself to play at 9 years old. I almost forgot to mention a small little detail. As a kid growing up in Seattle, his daddy got him a cheap little guitar, but it was a righty (most people are right-handed) but Jimi was left-handed. No worries, young Jimi just flipped the guitar upside-down and taught himself to play all of the chords and music upside -down and backwards. If you watch any of Jimi's video footage, you'll see he's got his Fender Stratocaster upside-down! It's absolutely amazing that not only does he play it upside-down, he is not just proficient, but considered to be the greatest ever by most people and fellow Rock guitarists over the decades. He to Rock guitar, what Bruce Lee was to Martial Arts. The greatest ever.
Being from Seattle Washington myself, I kind of favor Jimi.
Hendrix at his live apex, his performance at Maui is also worth looking at. You should watch his entire Woodstock set sometime, it's amazing. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎶
Can't stop the video in the middle of a guitar solo
i still can’t believe he played it upside down
So many variations on hendrix tunes, lp called loose ends my favorite lot of live stuff, hoochie coochie man, stars that play with laughing sams dice a cosmic wild ride! Get a copy of that lp and listen, hendrix at his unfettered best ☮️
Burning Desire too! 🔥 One of two records I ever bought more than once.
@@damonhines8187 yet critics slated lp as Mike jefferies produced it, oh and acoustic electric ladyland, superb!!
@Patrick Doake not acoustic, but solo guitar! Yes, exquisite 👌
@@damonhines8187 ah thinking of another hendrix track different lp hear my train coming, soundtrack from film hendrix
Our country was in such a state as we are now. In the USA, you barely feel safe walking down the block. Racial tensions are high, war seems pending, and the country has no leadership. Woodstock healed a generation even with the drugs and alcohol. It is time for another event.
This is such a heavily cut version of the song. Find the Woodstock DVD and watch it. His performance is several minutes longer than this. He goes directly into the American national anthem after this. He basically plays nonstop from Voodoo Child to the Star Spangled Banner, Purple Haze, an incredible improvisation, another song I can't think of. It's several minutes of nonstop performance. Then he comes back and gives an encore of Hey Joe before the set finishes. You've got to get the Woodstock DVD. You're right, he was like a savant. There won't be another musician on his level for centuries.
Even the DVD version is edited, the raw recording is about 15 minutes, Larry Lee got a couple solos. Experience hendrix mixed out and edited out Jerry Velez, juma sultan and Larry Lee as much as they possibly could. In red house jimi breaks a string, exp hendrix would have you believe he just kept playing. Nope. Larry took a LONG solo while Eric Barrett (one of jimi's roadies) changed the string.
So hard to come up with something no one has done before,Hendrix laid the blueprint for modern electric guitar,not a guitarist today who is not influenced by his genius wether they know it or not.Legendary is used too often but is fully deserved for Jimi.....
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Hey Harri. Greetings from Staten Island, New York. I think that you should do the whole set at Woodstock, maybe reviewing each song individually, or check out the Winterland Studios, Jimi Hendrix' studio recordings from his own studio in NYC before his death. DVD box set, 4 cd's. Mind blowing guitar work, all in all. Cheers!, or Slainte!
Jimi was the greatest. Love this performance of Voodoo Child Slight Return. Here's the link to Voodoo Chile, the long studio version also on Jimi's Electric Ladyland album: ua-cam.com/video/DLGl8Oc484Q/v-deo.html You should definitely give it a listen.
Stair spangled banner was good to ❤
Neil Young said that Hendrix plays guitar like (it’s) a woman.
To all the Guitar Gods that were before and after Jimi this is how it is done. To soon gone.
I've read that Jimi, essentially was the closing act at Woodstock, the last (4th? morning) and there were only about 40,000 people (only) left there, including the clean-up crew, out of the nearly 500,000 that attended -- DAMN, hope the rest were enjoying that traffic jam on the way out -- back to school, work, or whatever
He used 3 pedals here. Vox Wah - Univibe & Fuzzface 🎸
Hi there. One of the things that could have been was Jimmy and Miles Davis were talking about doing something together because they admired each other work.
I saw Jimi Hendrix live in Houston Tx about 6 months before he died (I'm 71 in a few days). I was on the main floor of the venue about 6 rows from the stage. It was the most amazing concert experience of my life, and to this day I feel so blessed to have seen him. I went with a girl who I swear would probably have had sex with him right on stage, He was indeed a very sensual performer. That guitar was his lover, and he had a deep beautiful voice as well!
He departed this realm in 1970!
This song was edited and spliced together at the end, Jimi gave everyone a signal to stop playing as he was about to start the star spangled banner
There is much more to this performance than what you just saw. Big cut in the middle there. If you google "Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child Facebook" they have the full song on there. Why Facebook allows it and UA-cam doesn't? I'm not sure, considering most Hendrix footage has disappeared from this platform due to copyright. Anyway, solid reaction ma bro. I feel the exact same way as you. I don't get used to it. I find something new that blows me away every time I watch it. And back in the day I watched this entire set on DVD over and over.
It's titled Voodoo Chile - I bought the original single because it had an impressive cover - must be worth a few shillings now, wherever it is...
In England it is voodoo Chile, but hendrix titled it Voodoo Child (slight return), and that's how it appears on the US version, that's how it should have been everywhere, but track records didn't care.
If you haven't already, make sure you do some Jimi studio versions. His live stuff is amazing to watch, but a lot of his vocals are lost & it's often more of an extended jam. Purple Haze, Hey Joe, LIttle Feather, All Along the Watchtower, Castles Made of Sand & so many more are incredible songs with great vocals on the studio versions.
His playing……especially if you were stoned listening to it, was transcendent…….it just took you out of yourself. It did me, anyway. Nothing else had that effect on me until Meddle came along by Pink Floyd
My friend used to sell weed to Jimi's niece and nephew back around 2000-2001