@@SIXX2772 J B. Good, oh Yeah! This All along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan) cover, came out (Circa) August 1968. It just blew you away because NOBODY played like that back then. BASS, Drums , rhythm and an out of this world Lead guitar send this way up in the Stratosphere.
THE GOAT!!!!!! One thing you gotta understand, being a great or the best guitarist don't necessarily have much to do with speed and being technical...but feel and vibe!
Stevie Ray said, in his day, that his goal was to represent Hendrix's music using modern technology. And to a great extent, that was fulfilled - instead of arguing who's better, SRV argued, "I have an obligation to learn his music and play it on MY modern tech" and in particular in Audio Reproduction. Clubs and stadiums in Hendrix's time had CRAP speakers, CRAP mixboards, even CRAP cabling. They had CRAP electrical systems and all improvements costs fortunes, and even this biggest stadiums could not afford them. Listen to The Beatles at Shea Stadium - that was one of the biggest venues, and they channels 100w amps thru a stadium's PA-Only bull-horn style speakers. TALK ABOUT CRAP SOUND! Two and three years' later, the biggest festivals were still using CRAP audio systems for deliver music to their acres of fans. I counsel against naming musicians as Better Than Another because audio and video are completely hampered by the 2-track (left channel, right channel only) audio systems. I applaud SRV's correct goals: he felt an obligation to worship Hendrix thru excellent performances using technology that had improved 10, 15 and 20 years furtner along.
Jimi realized he was one of many great guitarists around him and they all had to develop 'showmanship' aspects, realizing that slick studio recordings were one thig, but the CRAP live-music reproduction practically castrates their best work into string-and-dixie-cup listening quality. Since audiences might not distinquish over-amplified music, 'showmanship' became even more important.
One of the things that make Hendrix the GOAT is that most of the experimental techniques originated by him, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and another guitarist named Jeff Beck
Besides being a top 10 guitarist, he sadly a part of the *27 Club* Musicians / Singers who died at the age of 27. There are more than this list but these are the most famous. Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones - 1942 - 1969 Jimi Hendrix 1942 - 1970 Janis Joplin 1943 - 1970 Jim Morrison of The Doors 1943 - 1971 Ron McKernan of The Grateful Dead 1945 - 1973 Pete Hamm of Badfinger 1947 - 1975 Kurt Cobian of Nirvana 1967-1994 Amy Winehouse - 1983 - 2011
When Dylan heard Hendrix' cover of this song, he said ' It's yours now, man" - he loved it. You'll have to watch the Hey Joe video to actually see Jimi playing his guitar - I've seen some great guitarists over the years but don't think I've ever seen a better one. You'll also have to check out more of Dylan - a nobel prize winning writer, his songs tell the story of our lives. His courage in calling out the wrongs of society (check out Masters of War, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Only a Pawn in Their Game) to some of the sweetest love songs (Lay, Lady, Lay, and Sarah) - Enjoy! It's fun watching you discover the music we were brought up on - great to see your appreciation of it.
Every generation has its magician. Before Jimi there was Charlie Christian. After him was Shawn Lane. Today we have Matteo Mancuso. It's evolution in action.
Jimmy was not much older than you when he sang this song. Watch his performance at the historic Woodstock concert., where you can see him/play his guitar in person. Awesome. Live is best!!
Last spring, I spent a month in China. Among other places, we visited ZI'an, the city that was at the eastern end of the Silk Road. You may remember that from high school history as the main trade route between Western Europe and the East. Remember the story of Marco Polo? He traveled along the Silk Road. First we saw the Terra Cotta Warriors, life size statues of hundreds of soldiers from 2,500 years ago. It is an archeological dig site, more warriors being unearthed all the time. The city wall is still standing after a thousand years, the main gate and watchtowers every hundred yards or so. on the one side of the walls, there was the normal life and commerce of a Chinese city of the time. Looking out on the other side one would have seen the beginning of the thousands of miles of steppes and the desert, where the Mongol tribes ruled. The tribes, Kallmark, Jungar, Kerait. Kazhaks, Khirgiz, famously wanted more grazing land for their horses. and looked to the rich fertile wealthy lands of the Chinese. As I stood in the watchtower, i kept hearing this song echoing. In particular, the last two lines. "Outside in the distance, a wildcat did growl. Two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl" The joker and the thief were the only two who saw the incoming doom while everyone else kept pretending and carrying on with business as usual. This song is a lesson for our times just as relevant as it was in the '60s when we were being torn apart by the Vietnam War.
I'm a white 77 year old life long rock fan. LISTENING to Hendrix is fabulous.....WATCHING him perform is SUBLIME!!!!! I strongly suggest that you get some videos. A few of his moves...playing the guitar behind his head, behind his back and with his tongue!!!
I am of similar age and era and I saw Hendrix live twice. He changed my life and I have worked in and around music since, all my life. While davegroves is right, Jimi made quite a first impression, especially to non-musicians with his flash moves (which he borrowed but also took up a few notches) but also Bill Graham was even more right on when he told Jimi his flash moves were cool and all but he was hired to play to witness some real musicianship. Jimi then played the next night all pure instinct and soul resulting in The Band of Gypsys live album and possibly the most vibrant extended guitar soul-o of all time in "Machine Gun". It knocked out diverse musicians like Lenny Kravitz, Steven Tyler, Mick Jagger and Miles Davis to name just a few. Do NOT miss it in it's 12 minute plus entirety. His guitar becomes invisible. It becomes Jimi's voice singing from his deepest depths. It's the definition of Epic.
@@enorbet2 I agree wholeheartedly. This guy really exploded into stardom in the U.S. due his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Then, 3 years later he was dead. Unbelievable.
The title track from the first Jimi Hendrix Experience LP, "Are You Experienced?" is essential...it's like being under the influence of amazing and delightful drugs with none of the downside ---grab some of that...
At 20 yrs old, you've already lost precious time. I began at barely 14. Blew my tiny little mind what he was doing with a guitar. Flipping over a Strat, restringing it for his left-handedness. Those long slender fingers were made to master the guitar. This tall cool drink of iced coffee changed the face of music forever. Hendrix broke through the confines of his generation and showed that limits are set only in one's mind. He had a brilliant one, genius I believe. A poet, composer, philosopher and free thinker. Jimi was so far ahead of his time, even in the 60's! A real innovator. And he wrote and composed the greatest song ever-- "Voodoo Child". Also, the beautiful "Little Wing". You owe it to yourself and your generation to delve deeply into this rabbit hole, there is much to discover. IMHO, the 1st GOAT.
The same thing happened to Trent Reznor from NIN when Johnny Cash covered his song "Hurt" - he said when he first heard it - it was like watching someone kiss your GF but later acknowledged it was an honor and was JC's song now. I must agree = Johnny's version is emotional.
Hendrix live; 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. most people and other artists never saw him play. The look on other artist’s faces is priceless! Total shock! (before Woodstock 69’)
Original version is from 1967, this cover is from 1968. You could think of this as a warning about a gathering storm, such as the anti - war protests and civil unrest during that time period. There are also biblical references you may have missed without seeing the lyrics.
I really appreciate how much effort you put into understanding each song and digging deeply into the meaning and lyrics. This one is tough, especially if you weren't there at the time when society was in so much turmoil.
free form guitar is totally cool from the Chicago Transit Authority album I have it, it's a masterpiece,Jimi Hendrix had great tastes so love all his work 😀
OMG - one of Jimi's best that showcases Jimi's style, guitar playing and just the overall HENDRIX EXPERIENCE. He said, "drink my wine, something about his HERB" (weed probably).
When he would do the occasional talk show you could tell he was a gentle person with an old soul. Check out "Little Wing" and "Are You Experienced" among all the others.
For more Hendrix, you should check out "Purple Haze", "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", "Bold As Love", "If 6 Was 9", "Are You Experienced?', and for good measure, "Machine Gun" from the Fillmore East in 1970. "The Star Spangled Banner" from Woodstock is essential too.
When I was 12 or 13, 1976/76, I read an article about Jimi and found out about his death. He passed on 9-18-1970 but his songs were played on the radio all the time so I did not know until then. Of course I was devastated after the fact. His music still lives on, he was a great artist. RIP Jimi
im glad you can appreciate the music. i struggled to like Jimi at first because i was a disciple of eddie van halen, so when i heard jimi i thought he wasnt as fast so i tuned him out. i had to grow up to moderate my view and suddenly i appreciated jimi when id hear him out in the world.
Too many awesome guitarists - there should never be a "best". i loved Eddy V halen also and I guess I was busy being a young Mom that i missed Stevie Ray Vaughn till he was gone!!! omG - i WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FRONT ROW FOR HIM, LOL!!! And I am a devotee of Carlos Santana. See all awesome but not fair to say one is better than another. Its like 31 flavors - variety is the spice of Life.
It is said one of the reasons Jimi Hendrix can get sounds out of a guitar like nobody else is the fact that he was left handed & played a right hand guitar upside down
2:48 "dig my earth" So these are Dylan's words. Think of Jimi as delivering this Dylan magic using all the guitar virtuoso tricks he learned on the road from working with the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, etc. Jimi worked with many and has that greater than 10,000 hours of being a pilot with a guitar. Plus he was Vietnam vets embraced Jimi as one of their own -- 101st paratrooper. Left handed upside-down guitar. He could play with his teeth, behind his back, and personally invented many tricks and styles. The British guitarists contemporary with him were blown away.
There is a link here with Your earlier reaction to The Animals. The link is that the Animals’ bass player, Chas Chandler, became young Jimi’s Manager and took him over to England to progress his career.
Nearly 40 years ago, I saw Dylan on stage performing the song and his support was Carlos Santana! That was epic and reminds me, that I'm old badger now. But I got a 3 LP multicolored bootleg of the concert and I can go back, when ever I want. Grace of the early birth...
@@billythedog-309 Santana? This could perhaps be because he first started playing the violin at the age of 4 and only started playing the guitar at the age of 8. But in any case, at 22 he was good enough to perform at Woodstock, where he met Hendix, his idol. I don't know about you, but I think he's a good enough musician to play the solo guitarist role alongside Bob Dylan. Anyway, that was the case 40 years ago and I don't think anything has changed. The man is already 77...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Hendrix. lt annoys me when people say this guitarist or that guitarist is the best of all time when that is just their opinion of somebody's ability on electric guitar. l think such a person is objectively non existent, but if there were such a bloke he would be a virtuoso on both electric and acoustic guitar - l could suggest a few, but certainly most of the individuals cited as the GOAT are really only mediocre or just quite good acoustic guitarists.
@@billythedog-309 Okay... There are people who are naturally very talented at certain things. Let's take my best friend, with whom I started school. This man has two absolutely outstanding talents. He stands at a pinball machine and only needs 2 bucks to play all evening. And his second talent is that no matter what musical instrument it is, he can produce the first suitable tones and tone sequences within half an hour. He also learned to juggle within one night. With Hendrix, things were not dissimilar. No matter who played something for him, he was able to play it straight away. His perfect pitch helped him. You always had the impression that he was merging with his instrument. The guitar became a part of him. And it is precisely for these reasons that you are unfortunately wrong in your assessment...
Dave, still alive and active with his UA-cam channel, was one of the first floater/students. He was getting into session-work with dozens of top musicians. And his first solo album - ALONE TOGETHER - is rightfully considered a seminal collection of Rock Guitar Methodologies. "Learn that album, and that's the result from his 5-year study of Lead Guitar." England, and specifically London, was a fairly closed-off sequestered music 'venue' on its own. It had been receiving American and Euro music for so long and distilled all of that into young musicians who rebelled and said, "Enough of THEIR influencers - I'm doin' my own thing" and the relatively small distances for travel allowed those musicians work hear and play together.
@@Cbcw76 Look ar You,Look at Me is still a fave after all these years I saw him live at Vanderbuilt U.here in Nashville in the mid 1970's with Kenny loggins as the openener.My best bud has worked on his tour bus the last few years(He works for a Custom Coach Company here).He said Dave is a good guy ,Autographed a CD for him.
@@bobcorbin3294 He's pretty chatty on his channel but I think he's nearing end-of-life years lately. Slowing down. I know he's worked with Clapton on a DEREK & DOM anthology. He was the original 2nd Guitarist during the first rehearsal sessions, then there was a break and Duane Allman was hanging out while Dave took off for longer treks.
@@bobcorbin3294 This is one of my favorite rock-guitar albums. There are a handful - like Loggins & Messina's SITTING in... DEREK & DOMs, of course...Carole King's TAPESTRY... the whole Beatles and Joni Mitchell catalogs - I really can't pick out one or three of those - that deserted island has to have space for those two artists entirely. ha ha
@@Cbcw76 No, not with Derek & the Dominos. He sat in with Delany & Bonnie Bramlett and 'Friends' -i.e. Eric Clapton & George Harrison. This was prior to Derek & the Dominos first album. Delany is the one who encouraged EC to take the lead & sing more. "Eric wasn't confident as lead singer". -Bonnie Bramlett
Jimi is #1 with me and I have a long list of favorite guitarists. btw, do yourself a favor and listen to another song on this album, "Voodoo Chile", song #4 on the album "Electric Ladyland:, the long version which is simply amazing. Not Voodoo Child Slight Return, which is great also.
Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan. The groundbreaking guitarist singing lyrics of America’s poet laureate. You seem to like lyrics. Check out Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone.
Lynnwood 😈 Brian- I grew up Renton Washington and watched his funeral coming up the hill to the greenwood cemetery. Went out and purchased his album fell in love. He is buried maybe 5yds from my parents & grandparents.
The last two lines are the key... "Two riders they were approaching, the wind began to howwwlll!!" I think it relates to a theme that Dylan returns to often in his writing; the winds of change, or a major shift is about to happen, his lyrics for 'The Changing of the Guard" seem to delve into this theme as well. Bob Dylan is VERY wild in terms of using words that have impact on a subconscious level rather than a straight narrative, and is widely regarded as the greatest contemporary lyricist of our time. Personally I think Joni Mitchell holds that title! LOL other musician/poets who are at the top of the game with the power of the 'Word' are Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, and Jim Morrison. And oh yeah, Jimi Hendrix IS still unrivaled as the greatest electric guitarist that has ever lived, full stop.
When you listen to Hendrix you have to understand how totally different he was. This song came out in 1968. To really understand what Hendrix did for electric guitar you'd have to sample what other guitarist were doing back then. He wasn't just ahead of his time, he created the times. Like Eddie Van Halen would do years later, Hendrix changed the way other guitarists approached the instrument. That's what made him great.
Eric Clapton had purchased a true left handed Stratocaster for Jimi (He played a RT handed guitar strung upside down) but Jimi passed before Slow Hand could gift it to him. BTW Check out Stevie Ray Vaughn (SRV) doing a few Jimi songs - his music and style were both heavily influenced by Jimi and he's a guitar god himself. #VoodooChild #LittleWing and then watch my all-time favorite guitar performance SRV at El Macambo doing Texas Flood - that's the performance I put up against the devil himself at the crossroads.
Bob Dylan was a poet, a prophet, an activist. He won the Nobel prize in literature for his ability to use music to TEACH PEACE ☮️ Jimi Hendrix took Bob's song to a new level. Bob GAVE the song & credit to Jimi ❤❤❤ # RESPECT where its due✌🏼
@@olly8 you might wish to change activice to activist then as well. I’ve been noticing that the spell-check function has been acting totally squirrelly lately. Really have to proofread. I mean, activice isn’t even a word. It should have automatically corrected your typo but it didn’t.
You have got to see Stevie Ray Vaughan, top 5 GOAT guitarist was inspired by Jimi Hendrix and even used Jimi's guitar pedals after Jimi passed. Texas Flood live at the El Mocambo has to be seen to be believed. Try it and blow your channel up.
Fun Fact Jimi Hendrix could not read or write sheet music 😅😅😅 yet he’s renowned as one of the best guitarists of all time. He also learned to play the electric guitar by ear and being as he was left handed he played the guitar “upside down”
So far as I'm aware it's debated what the first few lyrics meant... the part about the joker and the thief (although I take their reference to the businessman and plowmen to refer to _"treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth"_ below - but I suppose you'll need go ask Bob Dylan to know for sure). However, the concluding lyrics are definitely a biblical reference. It's a vision given to Isaiah in Isaiah 21 - an ominous, amazing description - of the announcement fall of Babylon (later repeated in Revelation), which symbolically is the defeat of sin, of God's triumph over the evil of this world. These are truly cosmic, _epic_ lyrics, worthy of the epic music Hendrix put them to. Isaiah 21:1-9 (KJV) The burden of the desert of the sea. As *whirlwinds* in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; *the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.* Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it. 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me. 5 Prepare the table, *watch in the watchtower,* eat, drink: arise, ye *princes,* and anoint the shield. 6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a *watchman,* let him declare what he seeth. 7 And he saw a chariot with *a couple of horsemen,* a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: 8 And he cried, *A lion:* My lord, I stand continually upon the *watchtower* in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: 9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with *a couple of horsemen.* And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
This song is a little confusing because the inteoductiry verse is actually the last verse. The two riders aporoaching are the joker and the thief, and theres an ominous aense that they arent approaching with peaceful intentions.
Hendrix redefined guitar playing! There was guitar playing before and after Jimi. All the great guitarists after him refer to him! The same with the Bassist Jaco Pastorious in the 70s, he re-invented bass playing and freed it from the accompanying role to a solo instrument... even Thundercat is speaking highly of him as of today.
I stopped trying to analyze Dylan songs decades ago, just go with it. Has anyone suggested “Subterranean Homesick Blush” yet? It is a doozie tongue twister bunch of lyrics. Video with Bob holding cue cards.
Dylan's version is completely different. Very good...but different. And then there is Richie Havens' version that is incredible and should be listened to. But clearly, Jimi's version is definitive. Let's face it: Hendrix was from another universe!!
People have been speculating on the meaning of this song since it came out. The joker the thief and jesus part never made sense to me. My belief is it's up for self interpretation. No specific meaning. Peace ✌️
Hendrix's version of this song is better than Dylan's. Hendrix also did an excellent cover of Dylan's 'Like A Rolling Stone'. Might want to give it a listen.
Jesus was crucified between a Joker and a thief so the lyrics should make sense now. lyrics There must be some kind of way outta here Said the joker to the thief There's too much confusion I can't get no relief Business men, they drink my wine Plowmen dig my earth None will level on the line Nobody offered his word Hey, hey No reason to get excited The thief, he kindly spoke There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that And this is not our fate So let us stop talkin' falsely now The hour's getting late, hey Hey All along the watchtower Princes kept the view While all the women came and went Barefoot servants, too Well, uh, outside in the cold distance A wildcat did growl Two riders were approaching And the wind began to howl, hey All along the watchtower All along the watchtower
Also, recommend checking out who many of the best musicians credit as at least one of the top 3 or so of all time (and passed away last year), Jeff Beck. You may want to listen to the original "A Day in the Life" from The Beatles, but him recreating it instrumentally on guitar is absolutely astonishing - ua-cam.com/video/5FPxn-yvxGI/v-deo.html
It's all good... keep taking your trip though the time portal. I was born in 1955 and didn't get into Jimi till I was about 15... good times!@@MDreeezy
JIMI HENDRIX BRINGS THAT ENERGY🔥🔥
Yes he does.....You should check out his cover of Johnny B Good...Its a Chuck Berry iconic song and Jimi just RULES IT!!!
You should react to the original Chuck Berry version first
@@SIXX2772Peter Tosh, did also a nice version...
@@SIXX2772 J B. Good, oh Yeah! This All along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan) cover, came out (Circa) August 1968. It just blew you away because NOBODY played like that back then. BASS, Drums , rhythm and an out of this world Lead guitar send this way up in the Stratosphere.
THE GOAT!!!!!! One thing you gotta understand, being a great or the best guitarist don't necessarily have much to do with speed and being technical...but feel and vibe!
Definitely!!
Stevie Ray said, in his day, that his goal was to represent Hendrix's music using modern technology. And to a great extent, that was fulfilled - instead of arguing who's better, SRV argued, "I have an obligation to learn his music and play it on MY modern tech" and in particular in Audio Reproduction. Clubs and stadiums in Hendrix's time had CRAP speakers, CRAP mixboards, even CRAP cabling. They had CRAP electrical systems and all improvements costs fortunes, and even this biggest stadiums could not afford them. Listen to The Beatles at Shea Stadium - that was one of the biggest venues, and they channels 100w amps thru a stadium's PA-Only bull-horn style speakers. TALK ABOUT CRAP SOUND! Two and three years' later, the biggest festivals were still using CRAP audio systems for deliver music to their acres of fans.
I counsel against naming musicians as Better Than Another because audio and video are completely hampered by the 2-track (left channel, right channel only) audio systems. I applaud SRV's correct goals: he felt an obligation to worship Hendrix thru excellent performances using technology that had improved 10, 15 and 20 years furtner along.
Jimi realized he was one of many great guitarists around him and they all had to develop 'showmanship' aspects, realizing that slick studio recordings were one thig, but the CRAP live-music reproduction practically castrates their best work into string-and-dixie-cup listening quality. Since audiences might not distinquish over-amplified music, 'showmanship' became even more important.
Ok...Well said both times.@@Cbcw76
But Jimi didnt need all that....all he needed was a STRAT which has not changed since his days.@@Cbcw76
One of the things that make Hendrix the GOAT is that most of the experimental techniques originated by him, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, and another guitarist named Jeff Beck
This really outshined the original, and Dylan knew it after hearing it and said it was now Jimi’s song.
And ever since then, Bob has covered the Hendrix version.
Besides being a top 10 guitarist, he sadly a part of the *27 Club* Musicians / Singers who died at the age of 27. There are more than this list but these are the most famous.
Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones - 1942 - 1969
Jimi Hendrix 1942 - 1970
Janis Joplin 1943 - 1970
Jim Morrison of The Doors 1943 - 1971
Ron McKernan of The Grateful Dead 1945 - 1973
Pete Hamm of Badfinger 1947 - 1975
Kurt Cobian of Nirvana 1967-1994
Amy Winehouse - 1983 - 2011
And Robert Johnson.
...and Alan Wilson of Canned Heat 1943 - 1970
When Dylan heard Hendrix' cover of this song, he said ' It's yours now, man" - he loved it. You'll have to watch the Hey Joe video to actually see Jimi playing his guitar - I've seen some great guitarists over the years but don't think I've ever seen a better one. You'll also have to check out more of Dylan - a nobel prize winning writer, his songs tell the story of our lives. His courage in calling out the wrongs of society (check out Masters of War, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, Only a Pawn in Their Game) to some of the sweetest love songs (Lay, Lady, Lay, and Sarah) - Enjoy! It's fun watching you discover the music we were brought up on - great to see your appreciation of it.
I love Dylan's "Isis" and "Tangled Up in Blue". Just read the lyrics of "Tangled Up and Blue". Pure art.
Every generation has its magician. Before Jimi there was Charlie Christian. After him was Shawn Lane. Today we have Matteo Mancuso. It's evolution in action.
Haven’t heard this in soo many years!!
Uggh
Very cool
Good good good stuff!!✌🏼
Jimmy was not much older than you when he sang this song. Watch his performance at the historic Woodstock concert., where you can see him/play his guitar in person. Awesome. Live is best!!
Last spring, I spent a month in China. Among other places, we visited ZI'an, the city that was at the eastern end of the Silk Road. You may remember that from high school history as the main trade route between Western Europe and the East. Remember the story of Marco Polo? He traveled along the Silk Road. First we saw the Terra Cotta Warriors, life size statues of hundreds of soldiers from 2,500 years ago. It is an archeological dig site, more warriors being unearthed all the time.
The city wall is still standing after a thousand years, the main gate and watchtowers every hundred yards or so. on the one side of the walls, there was the normal life and commerce of a Chinese city of the time. Looking out on the other side one would have seen the beginning of the thousands of miles of steppes and the desert, where the Mongol tribes ruled. The tribes, Kallmark, Jungar, Kerait. Kazhaks, Khirgiz, famously wanted more grazing land for their horses. and looked to the rich fertile wealthy lands of the Chinese.
As I stood in the watchtower, i kept hearing this song echoing. In particular, the last two lines. "Outside in the distance, a wildcat did growl. Two riders were approaching and the wind began to howl" The joker and the thief were the only two who saw the incoming doom while everyone else kept pretending and carrying on with business as usual. This song is a lesson for our times just as relevant as it was in the '60s when we were being torn apart by the Vietnam War.
Astute comment. I’ve always looked at this song as a warning.
I'm a white 77 year old life long rock fan. LISTENING to Hendrix is fabulous.....WATCHING him perform is SUBLIME!!!!! I strongly suggest that you get some videos. A few of his moves...playing the guitar behind his head, behind his back and with his tongue!!!
I am of similar age and era and I saw Hendrix live twice. He changed my life and I have worked in and around music since, all my life. While davegroves is right, Jimi made quite a first impression, especially to non-musicians with his flash moves (which he borrowed but also took up a few notches) but also Bill Graham was even more right on when he told Jimi his flash moves were cool and all but he was hired to play to witness some real musicianship. Jimi then played the next night all pure instinct and soul resulting in The Band of Gypsys live album and possibly the most vibrant extended guitar soul-o of all time in "Machine Gun". It knocked out diverse musicians like Lenny Kravitz, Steven Tyler, Mick Jagger and Miles Davis to name just a few. Do NOT miss it in it's 12 minute plus entirety. His guitar becomes invisible. It becomes Jimi's voice singing from his deepest depths. It's the definition of Epic.
@@enorbet2 I agree wholeheartedly. This guy really exploded into stardom in the U.S. due his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Then, 3 years later he was dead. Unbelievable.
The title track from the first Jimi Hendrix Experience LP, "Are You Experienced?" is essential...it's like being under the influence of amazing and delightful drugs with none of the downside ---grab some of that...
Back in the day, the song was even better on drugs. :-)
At 20 yrs old, you've already lost precious time. I began at barely 14. Blew my tiny little mind what he was doing with a guitar. Flipping over a Strat, restringing it for his left-handedness. Those long slender fingers were made to master the guitar. This tall cool drink of iced coffee changed the face of music forever. Hendrix broke through the confines of his generation and showed that limits are set only in one's mind. He had a brilliant one, genius I believe. A poet, composer, philosopher and free thinker. Jimi was so far ahead of his time, even in the 60's! A real innovator. And he wrote and composed the greatest song ever-- "Voodoo Child". Also, the beautiful "Little Wing". You owe it to yourself and your generation to delve deeply into this rabbit hole, there is much to discover. IMHO, the 1st GOAT.
Jimi played at Woodstock back in 1969. He was Amazing then and is still Awesome today 😎☮️
Also he was left handed 😮
Ouuu
How about the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival?👍
Played with his mouth, lit guitar on fire….. All of it!
It’s a great video. People are in total shock!
Yup a Lefty like me😊❤
Always a blessing to watch Jimi Hendrix live performance of this. 🕊☮
"It's Jimi's song, I just wrote it" - Bob Dylan
Humble Respect on Bob's part. ✌🏼
The same thing happened to Trent Reznor from NIN when Johnny Cash covered his song "Hurt" - he said when he first heard it - it was like watching someone kiss your GF but later acknowledged it was an honor and was JC's song now. I must agree = Johnny's version is emotional.
@@Prone2Thrill Agree whole heartedly!! One is end of bad habit, the 2nd version is about regret & atonement at end of life. Hits you were you FEEL!
Hendrix live;
1967 Monterey Pop Festival.
most people and other artists never saw him play.
The look on other artist’s faces is priceless! Total shock!
(before Woodstock 69’)
Finally one of you young guys get it.and now you know why he old heads and rockers think the music these days is not music
Jimmi the legend
Original version is from 1967, this cover is from 1968. You could think of this as a warning about a gathering storm, such as the anti - war protests and civil unrest during that time period. There are also biblical references you may have missed without seeing the lyrics.
Most of the lyric is biblical allegory.
I really appreciate how much effort you put into understanding each song and digging deeply into the meaning and lyrics. This one is tough, especially if you weren't there at the time when society was in so much turmoil.
Jimi Hendrix had a favorite guitarist as well, his name was Terry Kath, of Chicago, checkout Chicago 25 or 6 to 4 @ Tanglewood ❤
free form guitar is totally cool from the Chicago Transit Authority album I have it, it's a masterpiece,Jimi Hendrix had great tastes so love all his work 😀
OMG - one of Jimi's best that showcases Jimi's style, guitar playing and just the overall HENDRIX EXPERIENCE. He said, "drink my wine, something about his HERB" (weed probably).
The greatest!!!! Do more Jimi!!!!! You do look like Jimi!
When he would do the occasional talk show you could tell he was a gentle person with an old soul. Check out "Little Wing" and "Are You Experienced" among all the others.
This is an apocolyptic allegory. The two riders were 2of the 4 four horseman of the apocolypse.
For more Hendrix, you should check out "Purple Haze", "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", "Bold As Love", "If 6 Was 9", "Are You Experienced?', and for good measure, "Machine Gun" from the Fillmore East in 1970.
"The Star Spangled Banner" from Woodstock is essential too.
When I was 12 or 13, 1976/76, I read an article about Jimi and found out about his death. He passed on 9-18-1970 but his songs were played on the radio all the time so I did not know until then. Of course I was devastated after the fact. His music still lives on, he was a great artist. RIP Jimi
It is more than amazing what he accomplished in his very short life. ❤️✌️
im glad you can appreciate the music. i struggled to like Jimi at first because i was a disciple of eddie van halen, so when i heard jimi i thought he wasnt as fast so i tuned him out. i had to grow up to moderate my view and suddenly i appreciated jimi when id hear him out in the world.
Too many awesome guitarists - there should never be a "best". i loved Eddy V halen also and I guess I was busy being a young Mom that i missed Stevie Ray Vaughn till he was gone!!! omG - i WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE FRONT ROW FOR HIM, LOL!!! And I am a devotee of Carlos Santana. See all awesome but not fair to say one is better than another. Its like 31 flavors - variety is the spice of Life.
Jimmy. listened to him all the time as a teen in the late 70s early 80s and he was before my time even back then
It is said one of the reasons Jimi Hendrix can get sounds out of a guitar like nobody else is the fact that he was left handed & played a right hand guitar upside down
2:48 "dig my earth" So these are Dylan's words. Think of Jimi as delivering this Dylan magic using all the guitar virtuoso tricks he learned on the road from working with the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, etc. Jimi worked with many and has that greater than 10,000 hours of being a pilot with a guitar. Plus he was Vietnam vets embraced Jimi as one of their own -- 101st paratrooper. Left handed upside-down guitar. He could play with his teeth, behind his back, and personally invented many tricks and styles. The British guitarists contemporary with him were blown away.
Love this !!
There is a link here with Your earlier reaction to The Animals. The link is that the Animals’ bass player, Chas Chandler, became young Jimi’s Manager and took him over to England to progress his career.
Ya gotta do him Video Live to understand His Magnitude!
Voodoo Child and Purple Haze
Fabulous song from the guitar GOAT.
Such a great song! Perfectly produced. Dave Mason is on the acoustic guitar.
Love Dave's cover also!
Jimi is the best!! Song written by bob dylan. Check out "Like a Rolling Stone" by Dylan. Studio version probaly best
Nearly 40 years ago, I saw Dylan on stage performing the song and his support was Carlos Santana! That was epic and reminds me, that I'm old badger now. But I got a 3 LP multicolored bootleg of the concert and I can go back, when ever I want. Grace of the early birth...
Not a great acoustic guitarist.
@@billythedog-309 Santana? This could perhaps be because he first started playing the violin at the age of 4 and only started playing the guitar at the age of 8. But in any case, at 22 he was good enough to perform at Woodstock, where he met Hendix, his idol. I don't know about you, but I think he's a good enough musician to play the solo guitarist role alongside Bob Dylan. Anyway, that was the case 40 years ago and I don't think anything has changed. The man is already 77...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Hendrix. lt annoys me when people say this guitarist or that guitarist is the best of all time when that is just their opinion of somebody's ability on electric guitar. l think such a person is objectively non existent, but if there were such a bloke he would be a virtuoso on both electric and acoustic guitar - l could suggest a few, but certainly most of the individuals cited as the GOAT are really only mediocre or just quite good acoustic guitarists.
@@billythedog-309 Okay... There are people who are naturally very talented at certain things. Let's take my best friend, with whom I started school. This man has two absolutely outstanding talents. He stands at a pinball machine and only needs 2 bucks to play all evening. And his second talent is that no matter what musical instrument it is, he can produce the first suitable tones and tone sequences within half an hour. He also learned to juggle within one night. With Hendrix, things were not dissimilar. No matter who played something for him, he was able to play it straight away. His perfect pitch helped him. You always had the impression that he was merging with his instrument. The guitar became a part of him. And it is precisely for these reasons that you are unfortunately wrong in your assessment...
Dave Mason (legend in his own rite) on acoustic guitar
Dave, still alive and active with his UA-cam channel, was one of the first floater/students. He was getting into session-work with dozens of top musicians. And his first solo album - ALONE TOGETHER - is rightfully considered a seminal collection of Rock Guitar Methodologies. "Learn that album, and that's the result from his 5-year study of Lead Guitar." England, and specifically London, was a fairly closed-off sequestered music 'venue' on its own. It had been receiving American and Euro music for so long and distilled all of that into young musicians who rebelled and said, "Enough of THEIR influencers - I'm doin' my own thing" and the relatively small distances for travel allowed those musicians work hear and play together.
@@Cbcw76 Look ar You,Look at Me is still a fave after all these years I saw him live at Vanderbuilt U.here in Nashville in the mid 1970's with Kenny loggins as the openener.My best bud has worked on his tour bus the last few years(He works for a Custom Coach Company here).He said Dave is a good guy ,Autographed a CD for him.
@@bobcorbin3294 He's pretty chatty on his channel but I think he's nearing end-of-life years lately. Slowing down. I know he's worked with Clapton on a DEREK & DOM anthology. He was the original 2nd Guitarist during the first rehearsal sessions, then there was a break and Duane Allman was hanging out while Dave took off for longer treks.
@@bobcorbin3294 This is one of my favorite rock-guitar albums. There are a handful - like Loggins & Messina's SITTING in... DEREK & DOMs, of course...Carole King's TAPESTRY... the whole Beatles and Joni Mitchell catalogs - I really can't pick out one or three of those - that deserted island has to have space for those two artists entirely. ha ha
@@Cbcw76 No, not with Derek & the Dominos. He sat in with Delany & Bonnie Bramlett and 'Friends' -i.e. Eric Clapton & George Harrison. This was prior to Derek & the Dominos first album. Delany is the one who encouraged EC to take the lead & sing more. "Eric wasn't confident as lead singer". -Bonnie Bramlett
thx forthe music! Good stuff here!
CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC... go find that and crank up the volume.
YES JIMI🔥🔥🔥🔥 RIP 🙏🏻
🖤🖤
Love!
Monterey, Woodstock, Atlanta festivals. In The West, Band of Gypsies albums are not Shea 'and now batting' PA's🎸
When are we going to hear traffic’s low spark of high heeled boys. What musicianship
I THINK DAVE MASON IS STRUMMING A 12 STRING ACOUSTIC GUITAR __JIMI---DAVE---AND THE DRUMMER ___GREAT TIMES MAN
He’s a god man your young bro one and only . Gotta get it lol 💙
Jimi is #1 with me and I have a long list of favorite guitarists. btw, do yourself a favor and listen to another song on this album, "Voodoo Chile", song #4 on the album "Electric Ladyland:, the long version which is simply amazing. Not Voodoo Child Slight Return, which is great also.
A search of which Dylan songs Hendrix covered also reveals “Drifter's Escape” from 'South Saturn Delta'. I don't know this. Time to investigate.
Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan. The groundbreaking guitarist singing lyrics of America’s poet laureate. You seem to like lyrics. Check out Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone.
Great video. A favorite song forever. Check out River Deep, Mountain High by Eric Burdon & The Animals.
Love it when young cats hear Jimi for the first time!
Jimi hendrix unorthodox style made him unique.
Jimi served as a (reluctant) Paratrooper.
Lynnwood 😈 Brian- I grew up Renton Washington and watched his funeral coming up the hill to the greenwood cemetery. Went out and purchased his album fell in love. He is buried maybe 5yds from my parents & grandparents.
The last two lines are the key...
"Two riders they were approaching, the wind began to howwwlll!!"
I think it relates to a theme that Dylan returns to often in his writing; the winds of change, or a major shift is about to happen, his lyrics for 'The Changing of the Guard" seem to delve into this theme as well. Bob Dylan is VERY wild in terms of using words that have impact on a subconscious level rather than a straight narrative, and is widely regarded as the greatest contemporary lyricist of our time. Personally I think Joni Mitchell holds that title! LOL other musician/poets who are at the top of the game with the power of the 'Word' are Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, and Jim Morrison.
And oh yeah, Jimi Hendrix IS still unrivaled as the greatest electric guitarist that has ever lived, full stop.
Try stevie ray vaughan, texas flood, live at the el mocambo
Posted yesterday!
He say's :Come and dig my herb."
GOAT
Bob Dylan started playing this like Jimi after he saw his cover.
Soul .
You need to watch the video of Jimi playing the guitar behind his head and playing with his teeth.
Jimi player with Just a drummer (Mitch) and a bass player (Noel).
look at his Star Spangle Banner - he was the best
When you listen to Hendrix you have to understand how totally different he was. This song came out in 1968. To really understand what Hendrix did for electric guitar you'd have to sample what other guitarist were doing back then. He wasn't just ahead of his time, he created the times. Like Eddie Van Halen would do years later, Hendrix changed the way other guitarists approached the instrument. That's what made him great.
While youre listening to Bob Dyan, listen to his song Tangled Up In Blue.
This didn't come out in the 90's. It came out in 1969! Jimi was WAY ahead of the 90's.
my dad saw him in a small club
Try Jimmy Hendrix hey Joe live at Woodstock 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Eric Clapton had purchased a true left handed Stratocaster for Jimi (He played a RT handed guitar strung upside down) but Jimi passed before Slow Hand could gift it to him. BTW Check out Stevie Ray Vaughn (SRV) doing a few Jimi songs - his music and style were both heavily influenced by Jimi and he's a guitar god himself. #VoodooChild #LittleWing and then watch my all-time favorite guitar performance SRV at El Macambo doing Texas Flood - that's the performance I put up against the devil himself at the crossroads.
Pay attention to the drummer also, Mitch Mitchells
Bob Dylan was a poet, a prophet, an activist. He won the Nobel prize in literature for his ability to use music to TEACH PEACE ☮️ Jimi Hendrix took Bob's song to a new level. Bob GAVE the song & credit to Jimi ❤❤❤ # RESPECT where its due✌🏼
He was a PROPHET, not a “profit”
@@helenespaulding7562 THANKS for catching my obvious error!!! I stand corrected.😳✏️
@@olly8 you might wish to change activice to activist then as well. I’ve been noticing that the spell-check function has been acting totally squirrelly lately. Really have to proofread. I mean, activice isn’t even a word. It should have automatically corrected your typo but it didn’t.
@@helenespaulding7562 THANKS again. I shouldn't rely on spell-check. Thought it didn't look right. No Nobel prize for me 🧐
@@olly8 yeah, spell-Check used to be pretty reliable. Now it seems to be a mess
You have got to see Stevie Ray Vaughan, top 5 GOAT guitarist was inspired by Jimi Hendrix and even used Jimi's guitar pedals after Jimi passed. Texas Flood live at the El Mocambo has to be seen to be believed. Try it and blow your channel up.
My bad...I see you already reacted to it. Checking it out.
Try listenening to If
6 was 9 by Jimi.😅
Fun Fact Jimi Hendrix could not read or write sheet music 😅😅😅 yet he’s renowned as one of the best guitarists of all time.
He also learned to play the electric guitar by ear and being as he was left handed he played the guitar “upside down”
Not quite. The guitar was upside down, but Jimi restrung the guitar to accommodate his left-handedness.
@@davescurry69 hence the “ “
@@TheOGHoopByTheBook Of course. Sorry for not picking that up, lol.
@@davescurry69 all g
So far as I'm aware it's debated what the first few lyrics meant... the part about the joker and the thief (although I take their reference to the businessman and plowmen to refer to _"treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth"_ below - but I suppose you'll need go ask Bob Dylan to know for sure). However, the concluding lyrics are definitely a biblical reference. It's a vision given to Isaiah in Isaiah 21 - an ominous, amazing description - of the announcement fall of Babylon (later repeated in Revelation), which symbolically is the defeat of sin, of God's triumph over the evil of this world. These are truly cosmic, _epic_ lyrics, worthy of the epic music Hendrix put them to.
Isaiah 21:1-9 (KJV)
The burden of the desert of the sea. As *whirlwinds* in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.
2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; *the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth.* Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
5 Prepare the table, *watch in the watchtower,* eat, drink: arise, ye *princes,* and anoint the shield.
6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a *watchman,* let him declare what he seeth.
7 And he saw a chariot with *a couple of horsemen,* a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
8 And he cried, *A lion:* My lord, I stand continually upon the *watchtower* in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:
9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with *a couple of horsemen.* And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
A song is whatever it means to you.
Jimi. With us for too short a time! The Demon “white powder” and Alcohol!
Jimi left us too early...watch him live he is sooooo Good .Pull up the lyrics so you can dig the poetry. peace to you
This song is a little confusing because the inteoductiry verse is actually the last verse. The two riders aporoaching are the joker and the thief, and theres an ominous aense that they arent approaching with peaceful intentions.
Music from the 60s
Hendrix redefined guitar playing! There was guitar playing before and after Jimi. All the great guitarists after him refer to him! The same with the Bassist Jaco Pastorious in the 70s, he re-invented bass playing and freed it from the accompanying role to a solo instrument... even Thundercat is speaking highly of him as of today.
If you want another great cover of a Bob Dylan song check out Highway 61 Revisited from Johnny Winter Captured Live
Oh man you HAVE to do Dylan.
Watch Hay Joe
I stopped trying to analyze Dylan songs decades ago, just go with it. Has anyone suggested “Subterranean Homesick Blush” yet? It is a doozie tongue twister bunch of lyrics. Video with Bob holding cue cards.
Dylan's version is completely different. Very good...but different. And then there is Richie Havens' version that is incredible and should be listened to. But clearly, Jimi's version is definitive. Let's face it: Hendrix was from another universe!!
Best cover of all time?
The original is NOT an ear-grabber... this one IS.
People have been speculating on the meaning of this song since it came out. The joker the thief and jesus part never made sense to me. My belief is it's up for self interpretation. No specific meaning. Peace ✌️
Like most Dylan songs. He never, ever explains them and leaves it up to us to interpret it as we see it.
Dylan wrote it but Jimi owned it.
Hendrix's version of this song is better than Dylan's. Hendrix also did an excellent cover of Dylan's 'Like A Rolling Stone'. Might want to give it a listen.
Jesus was crucified between a Joker and a thief so the lyrics should make sense now.
lyrics
There must be some kind of way outta here
Said the joker to the thief
There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief
Business men, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None will level on the line
Nobody offered his word
Hey, hey
No reason to get excited
The thief, he kindly spoke
There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us stop talkin' falsely now
The hour's getting late, hey
Hey
All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too
Well, uh, outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl, hey
All along the watchtower
All along the watchtower
From the 90s??!!!
Also, recommend checking out who many of the best musicians credit as at least one of the top 3 or so of all time (and passed away last year), Jeff Beck. You may want to listen to the original "A Day in the Life" from The Beatles, but him recreating it instrumentally on guitar is absolutely astonishing - ua-cam.com/video/5FPxn-yvxGI/v-deo.html
Music of the 90’s???!!! Oh, man, you’ve got a lot of learning to do dude. This is music from the 60’s!! ✌️😅
Bob Dylan wrote this song.
Music from the 90s lol.
Lol idk why i said that lol wasn’t thinking. meant to say 1900s
It's all good... keep taking your trip though the time portal. I was born in 1955 and didn't get into Jimi till I was about 15... good times!@@MDreeezy
Plain and simple this song is about the apocalypse
brought on by peoples foolishness.
Jimi was left handed so he played a conventional guitar upside down!