That solo is the most impressive freestyle guitar work I’ve ever heard to this day. It’s hard to describe how revolutionary he was in that era. There was no template for the things he was doing. He had the greatest rock musicians in absolute awe, and his career making major records was only about 4 years. Some incredible art he gave us.
All his live shows were free style besides drum & bass main parterns but the drums & bass always imrovised but inly from jimis instructions! hed look at the bass player eather Billy ir Niel & play a line once ir twice & they would lock onto it & hed go into another solo as he felt it at the time.Pure genius
The thing a lot of non-guitarists don't realise about Hendrix is just how masterfully he controls an electric guitar and amp at full tilt. Anyone who has had the chance to REALLY have a 100w Marshall going flat out knows how hard it is to keep it under control when necessary. Jimi rode on the edge of chaos and came out sounding like an army of angels. No matter how many times I listen to him he always takes my breath away.
Ditto! Those explosive sounds of war (cluck cluck cluck) had me ducking for cover in the backyard of my marital home in the early 80s while on a high on a sunny afternoon.
I love Jimi's later stuff too. The Experience is great, but he started to get way more bluesy and heavier. I would have loved to have seen where he would have gone.
Hendrix played a right handed stratocaster with the strings reversed for a left hand Ed, meaning that the e bass is the top string, he said in his own words he felt more comfortable playing left-handed as he could play right hand as well.
High times in the 60's. Very psychedelic days on the west coast. Tapestry's, Acid posters, Party it up. Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end, now were just old farts with great memories.. My brother in law player a right hand guitar left handed. blew me away when we use to jam. He's gone now but still have a couple jams on tape... 😁
I like the longer voodoo Chile solo the best from that studio jam that made the electric ladyland album because the jam was that amazing. That's my personal favorite. Plus Steve Winwood killing the keys.
Jimi was so unorthodox and had such a unique sense of rythym. So abstractly creative and a true genius of his intrument. you know when he serious when he stop playing notes, starts playing souNDs
The song is meant to sound like war. The guitar solo starts with a wail that sounds like a terrified scream, the drum patterns sound like machine gun fire, and the backing vocals sound like air raid sirens.
At that time, Jimi had stopped being a showman and truly showed how great of a guitarist he actually was. This song proved it. It shocked much of the audiences as they were expecting him to play behind his back and with his teeth. He grew tired of it, for he saw that the showmanship was hiding his true talent. He did play a right handed guitar upside with it either restrung or with the low "E" string at the bottom. He is the G.O.A.T.
Bill Graham said to Jimi "cut the shit and just play" and nearly stationary he did just that, playing a masterpiece. If you want to hear the very best most influential guitarist ever, get a copy of Band of Gypsys. Absolutely the top of the line, never duplicated. He had it all.
My Pops had just come home from his 2nd tour in Vietnam... He said most days all the Black soldiers listened to Jimi, smoked a lot of weed, drank and stayed ready in the jungle...
I've been listening to this track for a half a century, and I STILL get chills when I hear it. I knew a guy who was at this concert. He told me the audience was staring at Hendrix with their mouths hanging open. They were USED to Hendrix playing amazing music, and he still continually one-upped himself. He also said that when he was making the sounds of machine gun fire, the audience felt it hitting them as a physical reaction.
Going through UA-cam feed and found you there. Machine Gun happens to be my favorite Hendrix song. It’s the reason I stopped learning the drums and started to learn guitar. No one. And I mean no one was doing what Jimi was doing on guitar back then. He was so so much a head of his time. Every time I hear this song it just totally drains me. It’s so emotional for those times back then. You had the Vietnam war and protests to end it. Remember Kent State. This song captures that time and puts in a capsule to be examined by future generations. Listen to it again with those times in mind and see if it doesn’t drain you too! Jimi was a God of guitar and I for one really miss him!
How so? - metal came from hardrock and had many fathers; - i don’t get the link with hiphop at all; - he didn’t pave the wave for psychedelic music, he was part of the psychedelic scene in the sixties.
@@donaldvanvliet9039 Jimi indeed inve Ted the sound for heavy metal. That's a fact. As far as Hip Hop, if you listen to Hendrix play with, The Last Poets, that's undoubtedly Hip Hop's precursor. Plus look at all the Hip Hop artists who either sampled Hendrix or made songs that had Hendrix influences. He drix was the precursor to Hip Hop.
@@dstu1699 no, that’s dumb. By that rationale, everyone who came before you and who you liked, is a precursor to your music. Hiphopartists have sampled from pretty much every genre by now, doesn’t mean all those genres were the precursors of hiphop. Hiphop started in the early seventies and introduced breakbeats and centered on that. It had nothing to do with jimi hendrix or guitarplaying or his style of music, which had nothing to do with breakbeats (on the contrary). No need to rewrite history. Hendrix laying the foundation of heavy metal is not a ‘fact’ either. He was one of many fathers…the who and the beatles and cream and the yardbirds and led zeppelin were all doing heavy feedback sounds and riffs before or at the same time as hendrix in the same pre metal music scene, and tommy lommi later made the first metal record with heavy riffs that had nothing to do anymore with blues or rock, inspired by all of them.
I witnessed this aural assault that evening. Most perfect live Hendrix live recording ever. You really need to relate this to the slow blues version of Voodoo Chile second or third track of Electric Ladyland to see where this was coming from. Both tuned down a whole step down to D and both riffs on Em...solely. Hendrix was a cross dimensional spirit of light!
Everybody loves and knows Voodoo Child (Slight Return), but for my money, it’s the long, grinding freight train of sound earlier on the album all the way. An absolute masterpiece
His guitars were living souls! They were the medium to the celestial realm. Watch the video, Jimi went into a trance. Playing a pentatonic scale that dates back to King David! You never here nothing like this again.
@@donnellrobinson7189 Do you know where you could find such a video? Perhaps a link? I’ve been trying to find the full performances from the Filmore East live album and I’ve come up short.
Albert King (one of the "3 kings") played a right handed guitar lefty without restringing it like Jimi did, total LEGEND of the Electric blues. Eric Gales is another brother who plays the guitar the same way, he's also a FANTASTIC artist in his own right. Jimi Hendrix was otherworldly though, it's ridiculous to think about the fact that he died at age 27. He was a ridiculously rounded musician. There will never be another one like him, Machine Gun is one of his all time greatest compositions in my opinion.
Absolutely agree he was irreplaceable, but on point of fact, Jimi did restring his guitar so it was conventionally set up, whereas Albert King was totally upside down in his stringing.
Yo, I gotta say. I'm impressed that you are able to react to this. A lot of reactors tried reacting to this and got blocked. Idk know what type of plug you got but don't burn ya bridge. Lol. Great reaction, brotha. You gotta see the video to this performance so you can see the band put in this work. This whole concert was 🔥🔥🔥! Jimi just standing there whaling away... Amazing shit...
I became experienced at the age of 14 I'm 65 and still rocking with Jimi he's essential to my well-being his music is timeless and will always be relevant. His riffs just flow into each other like a John Coltrane solo he loved the sounds of horns 🎷 especially the saxophone his birthday is coming up next month and I will be celebrating 🍾 and I'm gonna waive my freak flag high!!!
Lenny Kravitz once said that after he listened to Hendrix perform “Machine Gun” he had to lie down and take a nap. Basically, that it was a very exhaustive experience.
These 3 brothers: Hendrix, Cox, & Miles (Band of Gypsys) fused the heck out of blues-psychedelic-funk-rock. The whole album will have your head bopping. That's why the Digital Underground took a sample from "Who knows" for their cut "The way we swing". Thanks to Sister Rosetta Tharpe for the innovation of rock music.
Buddy Miles and Billy Cox absolutely killed the rhythm at this show. I will never get tired of listening to this album. Jealous of anyone old enough to have seen this live.
I thought Jimi was white when I first heard him on the radio.Back in the 80s. Some of his song would come out in movies. Then I saw a documentary on him. When he played Monterey Pop Festival. I had never seen anybody play like that. (black or white). Astonishing !!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!
I've virtually listened to this song a million times since buying the album in the early 70s. I'm glad you chose this artist and song for your belated interest in Rock. And glad you included the commentary at the end: No bullets, a message we could all do with even today. Welcome aboard. Oh, yeah, your mancave looks groovy.
Some of that insane tone that was first heard at Woodstock - his music was changing . Great mix of this legendary show . Im so glad some parts that were filmed are out now .
It's also a reflection of the violent gun culture society we live in. Much of which stems from poverty, misogyny, domestic violence, racism and other ills of our society. Jimi grew up the product of that domestic violence. He dealt with poverty and racism. This is a song about gun violence. It's called Machine Gun for a reason. Two sides pitted against each other. The violence tearing families apart. Everywhere in the US. No one is safe from it. Because nowhere in the US are we free from guns and people willing to use them against other people. It can happen in a suburb, in a ghetto and in a rural area. All it does is cause pain and heartache. And yet we do nothing. Praying won't make it go away. There is no second amendment solution to anything. The solution starts with repealing the second amendment. But that is just a start. Because this country is saturated with guns and the desire to use them to kill and injure. Out of fear, ignorance, willfulness, hate, greed and envy. Guns are power. Man over nature. Man over other men. For the price of a new bike or refrigerator. And the more of them you have the more power you have, right. But this is the thought of weak men. Infantile men. Impotent men.
@@wpl8275 I agree with you 100%. I never had any use for guns. In fact, I had a natural aversion to them. But you do explain very well why too many individuals are attracted to them. Insecurity. Instant power. Men (and even some women) filled with prejudice and utter hatred towards others, especially those who are different from themselves. Small minded people, narrow minded people, people who are losers in life who seek some way to become winners quickly and without much effort. Pathetic human beings ...... It's a shame there are so many of them, especially in America ....
I recently Purchased the Full Live at Filmore East Concert DVD(Video), Monterey Pop Festival full concert 1967 and a Jimi Hendrix T-Shirt so I can call myself a Jimi Hendrix Fan I think. By the way this song is so freaking amazing that I get goosebumps as soon as the solo starts until the end of the song. And he performed this live. I guess it happens once in the history of the world.
Rolling Stone Mag has a great article about this set. I won’t spoil it but essentially Jimi played this as a “fuck you, I’m Jimi Hendrix.” His whole soul is put into this song. Buddy Miles is on drums, too which is incredible.
This is the stuff dreams are made of…Jimi, eh:). Stood very still during this performance. No theatrics, and defined America at the time. Been a fan since 67 and damn, sounds as good as it ever did. Incomparable. Bravo Hendrix.
I can't think of a better live performance than that. By anyone. And surely that is the greatest guitar solo ever recorded. There's a reason Jimi was the best ever. Daylight second.
That was the last word on rock guitar every musician in the world was blown away by this. Jimi Hendrix was in another dimension of sound. He gave it all and died very young. RIP beautiful soul.
Absolute favorite Hendrix piece , so powerful and soulful, just incredible and no one has come close to what Hendrix has done. BTW Filmore East is now Apple Bank :( BTW 2nd fav live performances - Spanish Castle Magic, Live At Winterland. 3rd - Tax Free, Live At Winterland. peace
In so many testimonials from fans who attended these 4 shows, the majority said the audience was sitting in awe of what they were hearing, with an intensity unheard of. Easy to believe it, huh !
Randy hansen does a reasonable attempt m.ua-cam.com/video/fNLTGgPL6V4/v-deo.html He also does a version of power of soul that I can no longer find jimis version of this arrangement.. m.ua-cam.com/video/RkCsD7IIDMc/v-deo.html
Even at the official Experience Hendrix tour they only play the main riff as a teaser. Haha nobody usually goes there because it's so unique and personal i guess but I wished they would have. But I guess it's like the holy grail
The best solo I've ever heard in my life and I'm 55 years old and have learned a lot of Hendrix but not this kind of emotion which I think only comes from being a total Talent like Hendrix
saw him in Memphis Ellis auditorium April '69, total 10,000 people. Saw him again in June '70 (2 months prior to his death) at Mid-South coliseum, capacity 12,000; only 2000 showed up but I WAS THERE BOTH TIMES. He has a talent given him by The LORD and he shared it with the world. Cannot even be duplicated on computer even today52 years later. One word: GENIUS, was not just on another planet but was in another galaxy.
Nice to see somebody reacting to this tune instead of Hey Joe.
BEST GUITAR SOLO BY ANYONE EVER PERIOD !!!!
Also he should listen to Red House, 1983 A Merman I should turn to be and Who Knows.
i agree the Filmore show was the very best of Hendrix
Love the way Buddy Miles (RIP) chirps in, he really did have soulful voice.
Yeah, though I didn't feel he felt it. I think he'll revisit it and get it later.
Has to be the greatest guitar solo ever, the two opening notes alone are enough to kill any other guitarist
Not really, but ok, it’s jimmi
@@danielvalero8748 lol, let us know a better player son 😎
@@tip00former1 Jimmy Page's No Quarter unedited live solo in MSG is on par with this solo.
Nobody comes close to this performance.
My God yes! Every guitar player was at this concert! Jimi went into the freakin ether 🔥🔥🔥🎸
That solo is the most impressive freestyle guitar work I’ve ever heard to this day. It’s hard to describe how revolutionary he was in that era. There was no template for the things he was doing. He had the greatest rock musicians in absolute awe, and his career making major records was only about 4 years. Some incredible art he gave us.
its the greatest solo in the history of rock and roll. with the war behind it, and the emotion jimi pours into it. it's unparalleled.
@@zappafan3473 I can’t disagree. I’m sold. It has certainly impacted me enough to be my top solo. Unbelievable stuff.
All his live shows were free style besides drum & bass main parterns but the drums & bass always imrovised but inly from jimis instructions! hed look at the bass player eather Billy ir Niel & play a line once ir twice & they would lock onto it & hed go into another solo as he felt it at the time.Pure genius
Not just rock musicians were in awe, Miles Davis was in the audience and they both had plans to work together but Jimi died.
@regina. He said he never wanted to play the same song the same way in concert.
The best version of machine gun imo. Jimi hendrix legend.
Agreed!!
No way the 13 minute version is the one.
It’s the one no one will post on UA-cam.
Isle of Wight '70 is the best. Just a couple of weeks before he died.
nah the one in NY was galactic
The thing a lot of non-guitarists don't realise about Hendrix is just how masterfully he controls an electric guitar and amp at full tilt. Anyone who has had the chance to REALLY have a 100w Marshall going flat out knows how hard it is to keep it under control when necessary. Jimi rode on the edge of chaos and came out sounding like an army of angels. No matter how many times I listen to him he always takes my breath away.
He was an unlikely combination of a cock rocker and a consummate musician. Unique, awe-inspiring and gone far too soon.
Hendrix was the first true “Electric” Guitar musician because he “used” the effects of electricity as part of his music. Creative genius
And Mr.Cox was a low level electrician, probably very helpful in the early years,& first aid technician while practicing.
Thomas Edison visited him when he was just a child and prepared him for this performance.
Band of Gypsys is my favorite live album. I just don't ever get tired of it.
mine too!!! and I don`t ever get tired of either.
Agree
Same here..when this came out I actually wore it out...and caught hell from my brother!
Ditto! Those explosive sounds of war (cluck cluck cluck) had me ducking for cover in the backyard of my marital home in the early 80s while on a high on a sunny afternoon.
I love Jimi's later stuff too. The Experience is great, but he started to get way more bluesy and heavier. I would have loved to have seen where he would have gone.
I still get goosebumps each and everytime I hear his solo in this song.
Hendrix played a right handed stratocaster with the strings reversed for a left hand Ed, meaning that the e bass is the top string, he said in his own words he felt more comfortable playing left-handed as he could play right hand as well.
High times in the 60's. Very psychedelic days on the west coast. Tapestry's, Acid posters, Party it up.
Those were the days my friend we thought they'd never end, now were just old farts with great memories..
My brother in law player a right hand guitar left handed. blew me away when we use to jam. He's gone now but still have a couple jams on tape... 😁
Just the best guitar solo of all time, just out of this world, his taste his lack of fear his genius
I like the longer voodoo Chile solo the best from that studio jam that made the electric ladyland album because the jam was that amazing. That's my personal favorite. Plus Steve Winwood killing the keys.
This song shows why even 50 years later Jimi is the God of Guitar 🎸 period!
Jimi didn't die, God just wanted guitar lessons
His guitar isn't crying, it SCREAMS!!!
Jimi was so unorthodox and had such a unique sense of rythym. So abstractly creative and a true genius of his intrument. you know when he serious when he stop playing notes, starts playing souNDs
Live At Fillmore East is one of the best recordings ever and underrated af
" Underrated " ? come on man this is the most highly rated guitar solo on the planet .
Solo is unbeaten
Greatest transmission of human creativity, talent and spirit through an instrument ever recorded.
Absolutely
Good call 👏
I mean, yeah and no. John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Lee Scratch Perry come to mind.
@@77Creation For sure those guys are all great, different styles, not rock. This is just the best rock ever recorded.
Blows your soul and it’ always overcomes me with emotion ! He had a gift from another cosmos ! The greatest for ever
In my personal
opinion the greatest guitar solo ever
Could´ve given my left arm to have been at that concert! In my opinion the greatest monent in rock history. Period!
I’m a 68 year veteran of the Viet Nam Conflict for less other reasons
Buddy Miles and Billy Cox. Need I say more!!!!🥁✌🏾BLACK ROCK 🪨 RULES
And at 68 playing full time with a Blistering Rock 🪨 Band currently I’m gonna keep the tradition alive
I'll second that!
The song is meant to sound like war. The guitar solo starts with a wail that sounds like a terrified scream, the drum patterns sound like machine gun fire, and the backing vocals sound like air raid sirens.
Incredible performance by Jimi and the Band of Gypsys!
Jimi, Buddy Miles on drums and Billy Cox on bass! What a band!!
@@bexleymike True they were just introduced to the blue hall of fame.
It's Jimi doing Jimi. As a Jimi fan I gotta say...thanks Jimi!
At that time, Jimi had stopped being a showman and truly showed how great of a guitarist he actually was. This song proved it. It shocked much of the audiences as they were expecting him to play behind his back and with his teeth. He grew tired of it, for he saw that the showmanship was hiding his true talent. He did play a right handed guitar upside with it either restrung or with the low "E" string at the bottom. He is the G.O.A.T.
thats because bill graham gave him a lecture before he went on
SRV.
Bill Graham said to Jimi "cut the shit and just play" and nearly stationary he did just that, playing a masterpiece. If you want to hear the very best most influential guitarist ever, get a copy of Band of Gypsys. Absolutely the top of the line, never duplicated. He had it all.
All strings were restrung for left handed, but the guitar was right handed.
@@man_down511🤣🤣
the greatest song ever recorded
My Pops had just come home from his 2nd tour in Vietnam... He said most days all the Black soldiers listened to Jimi, smoked a lot of weed, drank and stayed ready in the jungle...
it's crazy how jimi makes me feel like I'm in the Vietnam War hearing this! truly the greatest guitar player that ever lived!
I've been listening to this track for a half a century, and I STILL get chills when I hear it.
I knew a guy who was at this concert. He told me the audience was staring at Hendrix with their mouths hanging open. They were USED to Hendrix playing amazing music, and he still continually one-upped himself. He also said that when he was making the sounds of machine gun fire, the audience felt it hitting them as a physical reaction.
Jimi pouring is heart out the sounds of war just incredible 🔥🔥🔥
One of the most astounding musicians of all time.
Going through UA-cam feed and found you there. Machine Gun happens to be my favorite Hendrix song. It’s the reason I stopped learning the drums and started to learn guitar. No one. And I mean no one was doing what Jimi was doing on guitar back then. He was so so much a head of his time. Every time I hear this song it just totally drains me. It’s so emotional for those times back then. You had the Vietnam war and protests to end it. Remember Kent State. This song captures that time and puts in a capsule to be examined by future generations. Listen to it again with those times in mind and see if it doesn’t drain you too! Jimi was a God of guitar and I for one really miss him!
Not bad!!! My 1st time warching you. you helped me appreciate machine gun.
Hendrix pretty much paved the way for metal, hip hop and psychedelic music
True that
How so?
- metal came from hardrock and had many fathers;
- i don’t get the link with hiphop at all;
- he didn’t pave the wave for psychedelic music, he was part of the psychedelic scene in the sixties.
Don't you blame Jimi for metal and hip hop
@@donaldvanvliet9039 Jimi indeed inve Ted the sound for heavy metal. That's a fact. As far as Hip Hop, if you listen to Hendrix play with, The Last Poets, that's undoubtedly Hip Hop's precursor. Plus look at all the Hip Hop artists who either sampled Hendrix or made songs that had Hendrix influences. He drix was the precursor to Hip Hop.
@@dstu1699 no, that’s dumb. By that rationale, everyone who came before you and who you liked, is a precursor to your music. Hiphopartists have sampled from pretty much every genre by now, doesn’t mean all those genres were the precursors of hiphop. Hiphop started in the early seventies and introduced breakbeats and centered on that. It had nothing to do with jimi hendrix or guitarplaying or his style of music, which had nothing to do with breakbeats (on the contrary). No need to rewrite history. Hendrix laying the foundation of heavy metal is not a ‘fact’ either. He was one of many fathers…the who and the beatles and cream and the yardbirds and led zeppelin were all doing heavy feedback sounds and riffs before or at the same time as hendrix in the same pre metal music scene, and tommy lommi later made the first metal record with heavy riffs that had nothing to do anymore with blues or rock, inspired by all of them.
I witnessed this aural assault that evening. Most perfect live Hendrix live recording ever. You really need to relate this to the slow blues version of Voodoo Chile second or third track of Electric Ladyland to see where this was coming from. Both tuned down a whole step down to D and both riffs on Em...solely. Hendrix was a cross dimensional spirit of light!
Everybody loves and knows Voodoo Child (Slight Return), but for my money, it’s the long, grinding freight train of sound earlier on the album all the way. An absolute masterpiece
That is one of my fave live performances of any musician...
A master piece of art or Music rip Jimi
Most powerful piece of music ever played on this planet. Love Jimi.
Jimi has the most human guitar tone. You feel it in your soul.
His guitars were living souls! They were the medium to the celestial realm. Watch the video, Jimi went into a trance. Playing a pentatonic scale that dates back to King David! You never here nothing like this again.
@@donnellrobinson7189 Do you know where you could find such a video? Perhaps a link? I’ve been trying to find the full performances from the Filmore East live album and I’ve come up short.
@@markandreas657 yes Amazon has it! $13.98
He made it sing. SRV made it scream.
@@man_down511 SRV will tell you Jimi is the 👑
Albert King (one of the "3 kings") played a right handed guitar lefty without restringing it like Jimi did, total LEGEND of the Electric blues. Eric Gales is another brother who plays the guitar the same way, he's also a FANTASTIC artist in his own right.
Jimi Hendrix was otherworldly though, it's ridiculous to think about the fact that he died at age 27. He was a ridiculously rounded musician. There will never be another one like him, Machine Gun is one of his all time greatest compositions in my opinion.
Absolutely agree he was irreplaceable, but on point of fact, Jimi did restring his guitar so it was conventionally set up, whereas Albert King was totally upside down in his stringing.
If the question is what's the greatest live guitar piece ever recorded the answer is this IMO Jimi GOAT
I also love the way he phrases his singing so soulful and so fearless
Yo, I gotta say. I'm impressed that you are able to react to this. A lot of reactors tried reacting to this and got blocked. Idk know what type of plug you got but don't burn ya bridge. Lol. Great reaction, brotha. You gotta see the video to this performance so you can see the band put in this work. This whole concert was 🔥🔥🔥! Jimi just standing there whaling away... Amazing shit...
Jimi belongs to the ages. Like Bach, Beethoven, Basie, Ellington etc.
@@bluetopguitar1104 that's a whole fact.
I became experienced at the age of 14 I'm 65 and still rocking with Jimi he's essential to my well-being his music is timeless and will always be relevant. His riffs just flow into each other like a John Coltrane solo he loved the sounds of horns 🎷 especially the saxophone his birthday is coming up next month and I will be celebrating 🍾 and I'm gonna waive my freak flag high!!!
Thank you for not stopping every two minutes to talk about it .
Lenny Kravitz once said that after he listened to Hendrix perform “Machine Gun” he had to lie down and take a nap. Basically, that it was a very exhaustive experience.
This solo is like being on the battlefield 😱
That was the whole idea of the performance.
The drums intentionally sound like machine guns
These 3 brothers: Hendrix, Cox, & Miles (Band of Gypsys) fused the heck out of blues-psychedelic-funk-rock. The whole album will have your head bopping. That's why the Digital Underground took a sample from "Who knows" for their cut "The way we swing". Thanks to Sister Rosetta Tharpe for the innovation of rock music.
Thank you for that, I've been trying for so long to teach people that She was the Queen of all this! ✌🏽❤🤘🏼
Rosetta Tharpe! Yes
This blew my mind back in 1973 and it blows my mind today.
Thank you for Reloading this version, it is the most of Jimi's. Fighting back the tears.
Buddy Miles and Billy Cox absolutely killed the rhythm at this show. I will never get tired of listening to this album. Jealous of anyone old enough to have seen this live.
I was blown away when first heard him at 16 now im 62 and im still blown away
I thought Jimi was white when I first heard him on the radio.Back in the 80s.
Some of his song would come out in movies.
Then I saw a documentary on him. When he played Monterey Pop Festival.
I had never seen anybody play like that. (black or white).
Astonishing !!!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!
Man I wore out the grooves on this record. Every track is awesome.
And Buddy had his back the whole time. I LOVE IT!
This album was amazing I wish I could see them live.
You’re a little late 😂
I've virtually listened to this song a million times since buying the album in the early 70s. I'm glad you chose this artist and song for your belated interest in Rock. And glad you included the commentary at the end: No bullets, a message we could all do with even today. Welcome aboard. Oh, yeah, your mancave looks groovy.
Greatest ever.
Every lick SRV knew was in this recording. Master Hendrix..
This is a very anti-war song, just read the lyrics. His national anthem performance at Woodstock was also anti-war. Thank you Jimi!
I'm definitely down with that. I think the record labels discourage any real anti-war lyrics these days. We need a free speech explosion✊✌️⚖️🕊️💥🎸🎤📣
This sends shivers down my spine. Perfection. Enough said.
Some of that insane tone that was first heard at Woodstock - his music was changing . Great mix of this legendary show . Im so glad some parts that were filmed are out now .
Best statement of protest against the Viet Nam War, and war in general, ever made .................
Hard to argue 🙂
It's also a reflection of the violent gun culture society we live in. Much of which stems from poverty, misogyny, domestic violence, racism and other ills of our society. Jimi grew up the product of that domestic violence. He dealt with poverty and racism. This is a song about gun violence. It's called Machine Gun for a reason. Two sides pitted against each other. The violence tearing families apart. Everywhere in the US. No one is safe from it. Because nowhere in the US are we free from guns and people willing to use them against other people. It can happen in a suburb, in a ghetto and in a rural area. All it does is cause pain and heartache. And yet we do nothing. Praying won't make it go away. There is no second amendment solution to anything. The solution starts with repealing the second amendment. But that is just a start. Because this country is saturated with guns and the desire to use them to kill and injure. Out of fear, ignorance, willfulness, hate, greed and envy. Guns are power. Man over nature. Man over other men. For the price of a new bike or refrigerator. And the more of them you have the more power you have, right. But this is the thought of weak men. Infantile men. Impotent men.
@@wpl8275 I agree with you 100%. I never had any use for guns. In fact, I had a natural aversion to them. But you do explain very well why too many individuals are attracted to them. Insecurity. Instant power. Men (and even some women) filled with prejudice and utter hatred towards others, especially those who are different from themselves. Small minded people, narrow minded people, people who are losers in life who seek some way to become winners quickly and without much effort. Pathetic human beings ...... It's a shame there are so many of them, especially in America ....
I regret that I only got to see Jimi twice and this concert was one of them. The other was 1968 Lewiston Maine.
Man I wish I was so fucking lucky. Born in '66 on the wrong side of the planet haha.
What a unique privilege…👍
I envy you
This stuff still gives me goosebumps!
The whole thing is a riff on Em...one chord! Killer genius!
True man 👍
All 4 performances of this from the Fillmore are otherworldly.
im really hoping youre hearing and feeling that bassline brother!
One of my all time favorite recordings. So so good.
6:15 an absolute fukn explosion. Jimi goes to war. Fkn love that. 1 note screams!
Can you imagine when the soldiers in Vietnam first heard this?
Yeah, they surrounded the North, and was about to own them, when they were politically told to ceasefire!
Welcome to the greatest guitar solo ever recorded. He could've done it with just that first note.
Those 2 bent notes leading off the solo...Holy F**k !!!!!
So much much is said even in just the beginning. His playing is sad, dark, full of feeling, pain. True communication.
I recently Purchased the Full Live at Filmore East Concert DVD(Video), Monterey Pop Festival full concert 1967 and a Jimi Hendrix T-Shirt so I can call myself a Jimi Hendrix Fan I think. By the way this song is so freaking amazing that I get goosebumps as soon as the solo starts until the end of the song. And he performed this live. I guess it happens once in the history of the world.
Even most impressive, is at 12:52 when you start hearing Hendrix emulating and sounding like a "Dan Bau", a traditional Vietnamese instrument ...
Omg never noticed that, now you pointed it out, so obvious😊
“Third Stone from The Sun” from Jimi Hendrix is a great song and in the song,Jimi unleashes the beast on his guitar.
Genius doing his thing!
The whole song is amazing.........front to back. True Hendrix on every note.
One of the World's Best Album & Band....Band of Gypsys...
Rolling Stone Mag has a great article about this set. I won’t spoil it but essentially Jimi played this as a “fuck you, I’m Jimi Hendrix.” His whole soul is put into this song. Buddy Miles is on drums, too which is incredible.
I'm Tripping without any substance ☮️ 🎸
First heard this in the 80’s on cassette .Blew me away then and still does now.Hairs up on the arms ,neck ,chills awesome.
Same.
Listened on my Walkman. Blew me away
Jimi was playing high pitched blues and a faster tempo. He considered himself a bluesman, at heart.
Greatest guitar solo ever!!!!!!!!
lf you like that, should check out 'Hear my train' from his berkeley performance, some crazy playing on that too
This is the stuff dreams are made of…Jimi, eh:). Stood very still during this performance. No theatrics, and defined America at the time. Been a fan since 67 and damn, sounds as good as it ever did. Incomparable. Bravo Hendrix.
I can't think of a better live performance than that. By anyone. And surely that is the greatest guitar solo ever recorded. There's a reason Jimi was the best ever. Daylight second.
really this song is his finest work
One of my favorite! cool
Amazing song
That was the last word on rock guitar every musician in the world was blown away by this. Jimi Hendrix was in another dimension of sound. He gave it all and died very young. RIP beautiful soul.
If you loved this listen to the whole concert album. Its absolutely amazing and this is my favorite number from it along with Message to Love.
Filmore East 1970 Jimi Hendrix and The Gypsies
Buddy miles is one my favorite drummers
Absolute favorite Hendrix piece , so powerful and soulful, just incredible and no one has come close to what Hendrix has done. BTW Filmore East is now Apple Bank :( BTW 2nd fav live performances - Spanish Castle Magic, Live At Winterland. 3rd - Tax Free, Live At Winterland. peace
Thanks for that.....never heard it before this...!👍
In so many testimonials from fans who attended these 4 shows, the majority said the audience was sitting in awe of what they were hearing, with an intensity unheard of. Easy to believe it, huh !
C’mon, who covers this tune and does it justice? NO ONE. Jimi is the GOAT.
Randy hansen does a reasonable attempt
m.ua-cam.com/video/fNLTGgPL6V4/v-deo.html
He also does a version of power of soul that I can no longer find jimis version of this arrangement..
m.ua-cam.com/video/RkCsD7IIDMc/v-deo.html
@@Richard25000 I agree, and I thought it impossible. He's amazing. But only Jimi really does it.
Even at the official Experience Hendrix tour they only play the main riff as a teaser. Haha nobody usually goes there because it's so unique and personal i guess but I wished they would have. But I guess it's like the holy grail
@@Richard25000 Randy does a masterful "attempt"!! Come on!
The best solo I've ever heard in my life and I'm 55 years old and have learned a lot of Hendrix but not this kind of emotion which I think only comes from being a total Talent like Hendrix
saw him in Memphis Ellis auditorium April '69, total 10,000 people. Saw him again in June '70 (2 months prior to his death) at Mid-South coliseum, capacity 12,000; only 2000 showed up but I WAS THERE BOTH TIMES. He has a talent given him by The LORD and he shared it with the world. Cannot even be duplicated on computer even today52 years later. One word: GENIUS, was not just on another planet but was in another galaxy.
Good to hear from you. Good new year coming.
I'm soooo jealous lol.
@@Chilinoploppy happy new year.
And did you know that you can actually watch him perform that song on the Band of gypsy's DVD
I have that. I love how reserved he was on stage at that point, like he didn't feel the need to show off and just let the music speak.
Goosebumps
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Your country and Iove Jimi Hendrix.
Jimi was the best PERIOD
Miles Davis was there. He kept saying over and over when they were leaving, That fu@@@@ Machine Gun! MACHINE GUN!! MACHINE GYN!!