3349 Views, it blows my mind how the greatest musician to ever walk Planet Earth is not studied and looked at more by us today, by the young of today. People like Hendrix ( and there will never be another like him ) dont make music they create and give what is the deepest of Human Intellect, able to break down all language barriers, not just Earthly one's but Universal one's. There are Guitarists and then there is Jimi Hendrix"!!!
I study him everyday my friend im 21 and starting playing at 14 and while he may not havr been the reason i started, lets just say when i started delving deep in his music and analyzing his playing it changed the way i played most definitely expanded everything and opened many doors for me especially this song
I was there, too, Crank and Cactus opened. Got backstage before the show because I had friends in the band Crank. Didn't meet Hendrix, but saw his pedals up close. The first half of the show was great, then idiots down front starting shouting for Foxy Lady, etc, and Jimi ended in a foul mood, or so it seemed to me.
Jimi seems in the ideal state for this exquisite performance. In 1967 the national media was making a federal case of an artist that set his guitar on fire. Watching all that was available led to my purchase of 'Are You Experienced' and the universe has never been the same.
What a truly astonishing performance. I think this rivals the Filmore East version. Jimi's playing was cosmic, super sonic..eerily seeming preemptive to the notion of his own death. I truly believed that Hendrix knew he may leave this world soon. Truly a genius amongst the likes of Mozart, Bach, etc..
+J.T Rivers I agree, but Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Boccherini, although when I first listened to those guys, they sent a shiver down my spine, when and every time I listen to Hendrix he is the only one to send a shiver down my spine all the time. None of em aint got nuthin on him who comes from the Earths Core"
His greatest performance of Machine Gun is ,in my opinion, at Berkeley. Not the second show but the first, they recorded the whole of the second show in it's entirety but, as far as I am aware, only parts of the first show. That version is by far the best I have heard. It used to be on TH-cam but they took it down. When I listen to that, I have to have a drink afterward. I think Berkeley is also the only ever time when he did a sound check??? which if so is just crazy for how many gigs he did.
Personally I like the version recorded in Norman Oklahoma. That's home turf, but like Jimi said of his music being recorded; " it's like trying to chop out the perfect wave." Having many great takes of the same song is a mark of a true artist
@@billblake1715 Jimi did a fair amount of sound checks but not always. A great book to check out for a wealth of Hendrix info is Shapiro's Electric Gypsy. Even has a gig list from 66 up to his death on Sept 18th 1970
wobbly one I listen to more types of other music since listening to Hendrix for the last 50 years almost daily getting Jimi over and over and more and more as awaken my sensibilities to values and other music however I always return to Jimi what I want to hear something really good one or something that really moves me want to hear something that music can really do when I want to hear music music I tune in Jimi Most sincerely PS__________est guitarist?????? I think one of the great musicians but the greatest is listening to the music!!
Jimi really showing his diversity especially at the beginning ....Like a rainbow showing it's many colors & while the world misses you Jimi, your spirit is Alive today!!! But at times it's almost ghostly....like you knew! your time here wasn't going to be cut shor........
from 05:15 to 05:50 I swear I was able to visualize an entire battle, where guns were blazing, people were crying, and all hell was breaking loose! what a genius!
Yes! That's what I've been doing since I listened to this song as a kid ('70s). It sounds like a battle going on, but it's also artistic while doing so.
Baltimore Civic Center, now the Baltimore Arena. I wish that I had been there. Jimi would leave this earth three months later. He said, "When I'm gone, just keep listening to the music."
This piece of music actually has literal machine gun sounds, and it ends in the middle of nowhere. Yet it is the most powerful anti-war song I've ever heard-- still beautiful, albeit painful, to listen to. I find it amazing how Hendrix could pack so much emotional content into electronic wizardry.
And the way he just drops the Vietnam in the intro is so much more powerful. A master of understatement with his words there was no such thing with a guitar in hand even if alone in a room with an account
Fantastic version of a great song. I wish we had a professionally recorded version of the entire concert! His sound and tone sounded so good in 1970, up to around July. Then for some reason August & September not so much. I don’t no why, Isle of Wight is an example of this. Maybe someone with more insight than myself can shed some light!
There is a not professionally recorded version of the whole concert here in youtube. I believe that while they were in England they have there own amps and cabinets but in the tours along USA they may have rent them, so they may be different depending on the local availability. There is a concert in California with a Fender Bandmaster head and JBL D130F cabinets which sound I dont like. Add to it that Jimi’s pedals were frequently stolen so they may not be always the same.
I believe his Guitar is tuned down to the key of D . In Toronto Ontario Canada There was a Torch Light Parade after word he passed away . He was far more loved then he ever knew . In this Record he is using Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face , Uni Vibe , Vox Wha Wha , Marshall Amps, Fender Stratocaster 1968 .... all of which were modified by Roger Meyer . It can’t be copied.
@@mitchb2305 Because it was easier for him to sing with his guitar tuned down a half step. The combination of a Stratocasters 25.5" scale and tuning down a half step results in a tonal timbre that many consider the sweet spot of a Strat. SRV tuned his Strat down for the same reasons.
And there may not be as many as there should be but obviously those who do love him but the same seriousness and dedication into the learning as Jimi did to his craft. The man always wanted to out quality first no matter the results. It wasn’t always possible but he’s be chuffed to know that his dedication is so respected and appreciated.
sounds like someone talking. start at 9:00. always liked the end parts of machine gun. the 'rest in peace' expressed musically, prior to this part is the violent death section, which allways rips your face off listening to it, no matter which version, this arrangment was true expression. Artist don't create art like this much anymore
@@mitchb2305 I forgot to include the fact that the Baltimore Civic Center was only HALF full. And Mr. Hendrix was dead 3 months later. I am not religious but he was a god to me. beyond human.
Best version of Machine Gun I’be ever heard with war compilation video to die for has been deleted from TH-cam for soon reason... All other versions pale in comparison I have to say....
Copenhagen 1970 is up there too . It it hard to play favorites when have only heard this for the first time . This version has so much to say and I will hear new and crazy in it after giving it a few spins like the people who are into vinyl say . Peace bro .
Complete jaw drop! ETA: As often the case on Machine Gun, Mitch is weak. Sadly. Never once does he give a nice, solid RAT A TATA TAT that the song requires, and what Buddy does so well. The song is practically structured around that machine-gun blast of a beat. With Mitch it’s all so wishy-washy, although his use of quiet snare roles in certain parts was nice. Mitch was Jimi’s drummer. He was great. I’ve loved him since age 12. His jazzy flourishes were perfect for Jimi’s extended, improvised odysseys. But occasionally he should have hit the snare harder and more solidly. And sometimes he could have hit the One with a more solid and harder bass drum beat. Then again maybe Jimi was so unpredictable that it was hard for Mitch to commit. Forgive the whine. Nothing in the world is perfect.
Tor Strasburg forgiven to be stretched a jimmies music just makes you stretch out and wonder what more is out there... Or how it could be different or better.... But I prefer Mitch's playing cat mostly in the background because Jimmy is playing basically a solo thing and the pounding of the Rat rat-tat-tat-tat attack doesn't elicit real guns in my imagination...far to cartoonish characterization of a real guns.
Buddy Miles was loud, and lacked the complexity of Mitchell-- who's playing pushed Hendrix into different directions. Miles bored the crap out of me on most all tunes I heard him on with Jimi. Just my opinion here.
U said it best Tor: NUTHIN IZ PERFECT. Not n da known universe, anywayz. Dat would probably bore us. YUPPERZ!!! Mitchellz reluctance 2 copycat Buddy Milez, has earned my respect! Mainly... Bcause azz u stated, his own playing, elicited otha emotions. Unlike othaz, who so often comment on dislike of Buddy Milez, cummin up n da 80z, wit heavily processed drum beatz, n time drumming, & even drum machine patterned muzak, I found Buddy Milez heavily accessible, n comparison 2 Mitchell. It wuz bcause of an older buddy, who tho heavily prejudiced against Caucasion people, filled me n on da virtuez of Mitch Mitchell, & after registering dat; education ntact, I 2, bgan 2 appreciate Mitchell! BTW - Early Mitchell, wuz way mo FUNky & creative n terms of a pop song structure. Approaching da 70z, sumthin wuz changing, n his playing. His timing, seemed 2 b off, 2 a higher dgree, than it had been @ Monterrey Pop Festival, 4 nstance. Early on, Mitchell seemed tighter. Funkier. Later, wit Hendrix no longer simply toying wit Funk, BUTT making Funk muzak, Mitchellz early level of FUNk, seemed 2 disappear! I don't know whut wuz going on wit him, BUTT OBVIOUSLY, Hendrix still dug him, n comparison 2 Buddy Milez & datz all dat REALly mattered, I suppose!
Tor I was literally sitting here listening to this for the first time (this version I've heard machine gun a bunch obviously) and I was thinking exactly the same thing you just said. I love Mitch too but Buddy did this song much better. He made it his own.
Schade das Jimi in der Band den Bass immer viel zu leise hatte. Es war halt immer nur seine Egoshow. Wenn Jimi gelernt hätte seinem Bassisten mehr zu integrieren hätte es besser werden können. Jimi hin Jimi her. Ein viel zu Gitarrenlastiger Sound. Der arme Noil
3349 Views, it blows my mind how the greatest musician to ever walk Planet Earth is not studied and looked at more by us today, by the young of today. People like Hendrix ( and there will never be another like him ) dont make music they create and give what is the deepest of Human Intellect, able to break down all language barriers, not just Earthly one's but Universal one's. There are Guitarists and then there is Jimi Hendrix"!!!
my daughter is 15 and she has no idea who Jimi Hendrix was,- nor does she care.
Miles Davis really liked Hendrix guitar playing and his favorite was machine gun .
Fabiano William that’s your fault. My son heard Jimi in the womb
I study him everyday my friend im 21 and starting playing at 14 and while he may not havr been the reason i started, lets just say when i started delving deep in his music and analyzing his playing it changed the way i played most definitely expanded everything and opened many doors for me especially this song
Bill Blake He was far too Intellectual for 99 % of the meek minded people who listen to Rap Crap Shit and Ga Ga shit
I was there….Trippin' out of my mind!!!!!!
You have won at life my friend
PiperGator If you were there you probably don’t remember it - so sad ... and photos ? Send them
PiperGator hope you came down🤓
I was there, too, Crank and Cactus opened. Got backstage before the show because I had friends in the band Crank. Didn't meet Hendrix, but saw his pedals up close. The first half of the show was great, then idiots down front starting shouting for Foxy Lady, etc, and Jimi ended in a foul mood, or so it seemed to me.
Gives us a picture man
He is sadly fading from collective memory, he is truely a innovator of the instrument and needs to be more widely studied and respected.
But joe bonamassa though!!! 🙄
@@ryanodonnell4184 yeah I can't stand bonnamassa
You know I have never thought that classic rock stations play enough Jimi and they rarely, rarely venture las The Experience.
1:46 1:47 1:48 .
Def not fading away. I was born 20 years after he died and I still listen to this and have a poster of him
That intro is one of my favorite segments of sound my ears have ever heard
Jimi seems in the ideal state for this exquisite performance. In 1967 the national media was making a federal case of an artist that set his guitar on fire. Watching all that was available led to my purchase of 'Are You Experienced' and the universe has never been the same.
Some of the passages have a violin-like quality, remarkable.
What a truly astonishing performance. I think this rivals the Filmore East version. Jimi's playing was cosmic, super sonic..eerily seeming preemptive to the notion of his own death. I truly believed that Hendrix knew he may leave this world soon. Truly a genius amongst the likes of Mozart, Bach, etc..
+J.T Rivers I agree, but Mozart, Bach, Chopin, Boccherini, although when I first listened to those guys, they sent a shiver down my spine, when and every time I listen to Hendrix he is the only one to send a shiver down my spine all the time. None of em aint got nuthin on him who comes from the Earths Core"
His greatest performance of Machine Gun is ,in my opinion, at Berkeley. Not the second show but the first, they recorded the whole of the second show in it's entirety but, as far as I am aware, only parts of the first show. That version is by far the best I have heard. It used to be on TH-cam but they took it down.
When I listen to that, I have to have a drink afterward. I think Berkeley is also the only ever time when he did a sound check??? which if so is just crazy for how many gigs he did.
apps of fucking lutely
Personally I like the version recorded in Norman Oklahoma. That's home turf, but like Jimi said of his music being recorded; " it's like trying to chop out the perfect wave." Having many great takes of the same song is a mark of a true artist
@@billblake1715 Jimi did a fair amount of sound checks but not always. A great book to check out for a wealth of Hendrix info is Shapiro's Electric Gypsy. Even has a gig list from 66 up to his death on Sept 18th 1970
OMG, I used to like all sorts of music. Not any more. How can you listen to anything else after this....!!!!
wobbly one
I listen to more types of other music since listening to Hendrix for the last 50 years almost daily getting Jimi over and over and more and more as awaken my sensibilities to values and other music however I always return to Jimi what I want to hear something really good one or something that really moves me want to hear something that music can really do when I want to hear music music I tune in Jimi
Most sincerely
PS__________est guitarist??????
I think one of the great musicians but the greatest is listening to the music!!
Shawn Lane 🎸
th-cam.com/channels/HCc7gzLhuRqjzTsm_myqgw.html
The ending is a gem but then again everything by Jimi is a gem!!!
Jimi really showing his diversity especially at the beginning ....Like a rainbow showing it's many colors & while the world misses you Jimi, your spirit is Alive today!!! But at times it's almost ghostly....like you knew! your time here wasn't going to be cut shor........
TR Brown Beautifully articulated TR.
Well said my friend.. Peace.
There’s soul music, and then there’s Soul Music…
Great version, loved the intro❤
Nice intro, haven't heard it before
.....the bass line too!!!!!
from 05:15 to 05:50 I swear I was able to visualize an entire battle, where guns were blazing, people were crying, and all hell was breaking loose!
what a genius!
check out the last performance of the 4 Fillmore East ones.. you could think it's the audio of a war documentary lol
Gawd, I used to hide in the backyard of my marital home from descending bombs while flyin' high in the early 80s listening to BoG.
Yes! That's what I've been doing since I listened to this song as a kid ('70s). It sounds like a battle going on, but it's also artistic while doing so.
The lead in to this classic is beautiful.
Baltimore Civic Center, now the Baltimore Arena. I wish that I had been there. Jimi would leave this earth three months later. He said, "When I'm gone, just keep listening to the music."
This piece of music actually has literal machine gun sounds, and it ends in the middle of nowhere. Yet it is the most powerful anti-war song I've ever heard-- still beautiful, albeit painful, to listen to. I find it amazing how Hendrix could pack so much emotional content into electronic wizardry.
He was a magic boy!
opensourcecurrency That is because Jimi knew when to let off the trigger.
And the way he just drops the Vietnam in the intro is so much more powerful. A master of understatement with his words there was no such thing with a guitar in hand even if alone in a room with an account
so much emotion.... truly amazing.......
Still ahead of his time
ahead of this time
Indeed.
Jimi++++++Among the immortals, the greats. The guy was dripping talent.....long live Jimi.......>>>>>>>>
no matter how many versions I listen to, always something new brought to the song sonically
Listen to different versions of Red House from 1970. You can thank me later!
Jimi ist der absolute Musik Gott. Stone Free
Fantastic version of a great song. I wish we had a professionally recorded version of the entire concert! His sound and tone sounded so good in 1970, up to around July. Then for some reason August & September not so much. I don’t no why, Isle of Wight is an example of this. Maybe someone with more insight than myself can shed some light!
There is a not professionally recorded version of the whole concert here in youtube. I believe that while they were in England they have there own amps and cabinets but in the tours along USA they may have rent them, so they may be different depending on the local availability. There is a concert in California with a Fender Bandmaster head and JBL D130F cabinets which sound I dont like. Add to it that Jimi’s pedals were frequently stolen so they may not be always the same.
Jimi was as fearless as an idiot..that is what made him so freaking awsome..
Just imagine if we all bcame mo idiotic, like dat!
2 busy bein 2 smart 4 our own good = DUH GREAT HARLOTZ O BABBLE-ON
Awesome!!!!!!!Jimi always!!!!!!!
Damn, this is an acid trip without acid, Never heard before Neptune textures and landscapes coming through radio Moscow.
Cool 💯😎
I used to have a very tinny version of this show . This sounds much better . Thanks for sharing it .
The Zen Master !!!!!
I believe his Guitar is tuned down to the key of D . In Toronto Ontario Canada There was a Torch Light Parade after word he passed away . He was far more loved then he ever knew . In this Record he is using Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face , Uni Vibe , Vox Wha Wha , Marshall Amps, Fender Stratocaster 1968 .... all of which were modified by Roger Meyer . It can’t be copied.
He tuned to E flat in this one
@@ryanelison4539 -- Yup, he'd tune down to E flat most of the time, for whatever reason.
@@mitchb2305 Because it was easier for him to sing with his guitar tuned down a half step. The combination of a Stratocasters 25.5" scale and tuning down a half step results in a tonal timbre that many consider the sweet spot of a Strat. SRV tuned his Strat down for the same reasons.
True, the strat is resonating much more deeper, there is too much twang with strandard E tuning, the stratocaster is the best instrument ever made
And there may not be as many as there should be but obviously those who do love him but the same seriousness and dedication into the learning as Jimi did to his craft. The man always wanted to out quality first no matter the results. It wasn’t always possible but he’s be chuffed to know that his dedication is so respected and appreciated.
Machine gone bang on
sounds like someone talking. start at 9:00. always liked the end parts of machine gun. the 'rest in peace' expressed musically, prior to this part is the violent death section, which allways rips your face off listening to it, no matter which version, this arrangment was true expression. Artist don't create art like this much anymore
No word for this performance except genius
James Marshall Stop 🛑 Using His Picture You Dick Head Looser
fascinante este solo
The Band Of Gypsys performance is amazing obviously, but I think this is even better
Holy crap! True magic!
Pure genius
I was there. only 14 and dropped off by my parents who went to the Playboy club to wait out the show.
wow.
@@mitchb2305 I forgot to include the fact that the Baltimore Civic Center was only HALF full. And Mr. Hendrix was dead 3 months later. I am not religious but he was a god to me. beyond human.
my man
my man)
Best version of Machine Gun I’be ever heard with war compilation video to die for has been deleted from TH-cam for soon reason... All other versions pale in comparison I have to say....
Copenhagen 1970 is up there too . It it hard to play favorites when have only heard this for the first time . This version has so much to say and I will hear new and crazy in it after giving it a few spins like the people who are into vinyl say . Peace bro .
Did this man ever stop playing
Makes me think of WW2
Wow
Massive Uni-vibe tone..
7:30 - 9:20 ....
❤️
Complete jaw drop!
ETA: As often the case on Machine Gun, Mitch is weak. Sadly. Never once does he give a nice, solid RAT A TATA TAT that the song requires, and what Buddy does so well. The song is practically structured around that machine-gun blast of a beat. With Mitch it’s all so wishy-washy, although his use of quiet snare roles in certain parts was nice.
Mitch was Jimi’s drummer. He was great. I’ve loved him since age 12. His jazzy flourishes were perfect for Jimi’s extended, improvised odysseys. But occasionally he should have hit the snare harder and more solidly. And sometimes he could have hit the One with a more solid and harder bass drum beat. Then again maybe Jimi was so unpredictable that it was hard for Mitch to commit.
Forgive the whine. Nothing in the world is perfect.
Tor Strasburg forgiven to be stretched a jimmies music just makes you stretch out and wonder what more is out there... Or how it could be different or better....
But I prefer Mitch's playing cat mostly in the background because Jimmy is playing basically a solo thing and the pounding of the Rat rat-tat-tat-tat attack doesn't elicit real guns in my imagination...far to cartoonish characterization of a real guns.
Buddy Miles was loud, and lacked the complexity of Mitchell-- who's playing pushed Hendrix into different directions. Miles bored the crap out of me on most all tunes I heard him on with Jimi. Just my opinion here.
@@flipczech
Thank Gawd, itz just yo opinion & not DUH word, of DUH Lord!
U said it best Tor: NUTHIN IZ PERFECT. Not n da known universe, anywayz. Dat would probably bore us.
YUPPERZ!!!
Mitchellz reluctance 2 copycat Buddy Milez, has earned my respect! Mainly...
Bcause azz u stated, his own playing, elicited otha emotions.
Unlike othaz, who so often comment on dislike of Buddy Milez, cummin up n da 80z, wit heavily processed drum beatz, n time drumming, & even drum machine patterned muzak, I found Buddy Milez heavily accessible, n comparison 2 Mitchell. It wuz bcause of an older buddy, who tho heavily prejudiced against Caucasion people, filled me n on da virtuez of Mitch Mitchell, & after registering dat; education ntact, I 2, bgan 2 appreciate Mitchell!
BTW - Early Mitchell, wuz way mo FUNky & creative n terms of a pop song structure. Approaching da 70z, sumthin wuz changing, n his playing. His timing, seemed 2 b off, 2 a higher dgree, than it had been @ Monterrey Pop Festival, 4 nstance. Early on, Mitchell seemed tighter. Funkier. Later, wit Hendrix no longer simply toying wit Funk, BUTT making Funk muzak, Mitchellz early level of FUNk, seemed 2 disappear! I don't know whut wuz going on wit him, BUTT OBVIOUSLY, Hendrix still dug him, n comparison 2 Buddy Milez & datz all dat REALly mattered, I suppose!
Tor I was literally sitting here listening to this for the first time (this version I've heard machine gun a bunch obviously) and I was thinking exactly the same thing you just said. I love Mitch too but Buddy did this song much better. He made it his own.
janie let him go give us the good stuff its time its what he would have wanted trust me....
if you like this check out the version @ norman oklahoma
Digg!
Nothing against Mitch Mitchell but I preferred Buddy on this song.
Schade das Jimi in der Band den Bass immer viel zu leise hatte.
Es war halt immer nur seine Egoshow.
Wenn Jimi gelernt hätte seinem Bassisten mehr zu integrieren hätte es besser werden können.
Jimi hin Jimi her. Ein viel zu Gitarrenlastiger Sound. Der arme Noil
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Who's playing the freaking tambourine in the beginning?
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