What made Jimi Hendrix also so incredible is that he didn't read music. He learned how to play guitar by ear. One of the greats that came out from the 60's.✌✌
90 percent of rock musicians cannot read music. Beatles could not. I have seen over 500 concerts here in LA. The only rock musicians I have ever seen on stage with charts is Steely Dan.
@@827dusty he played a right handed guitar. But strung it with the high E string on the bottom. That is not upside down. That would be the same as if he had a left handed guitar would be. Left handed stratcasters were very rare at the time. Super hard to find. So he took a righty and strung it as if it were a left handed guitar. Now Albert King played upsidedown. High E was on the top. Ck you tube. You will see.
SIT THERE HARRI AND IMAGINE THAT JIMI IS STILLLLLL THE STANDARD IN GREATNESS ON THE GUITAR 😊, EVENNNNN 52 YEARS AFTER THE FACT! 😮THAT IS COMPLETELYYYY CUCKOO TO ME BUT IT JUST SHOWED HOW INCRDEDIBLY AWESOME HE WAS 💯😊
It's Jimi Hendrix and there's everyone else , there are a lot great guitarists in the past and today but there's only one Jimi Hendrix that was a great guitarist and showman , he inspired me ever since I picked up a guitar even today ! Theyre no words to express how awesome he was but his music lives on .
SRV did this as Hendrix was his idol, but Jimi started it way back in 1967. The first, and the Best. He changed Rock music in one night in a London Pub.
My son (Joe) came home from school one day in the 9th grade and asked me if a knew what his teacher meant when he asked himk "Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand" ! It was hilarious! He had never heard this, but he sure has now. What a cool teacher he had that year!
Every single thing about Jimi was amazing. I love his fashion as well as his playing and singing and songwriting. He had charisma. He is also the sexiest musician of all time in my opinion. The man had a zillion groupies.
Jimi, I just discovered, is my tenth cousin, once removed...so we have a shared grandfather in the past, whom I remember also spawned some other interesting folks. Jimi was what I might call extraracial, in that he was a new model for humankind. People loved him and didn't seem to think of him as white or black or native American or Asian, but as an advanced admixture. Hippies were and are along those universal lines. Time for a re-engroovenation.
"Hey Joe" became Jimi's song much like his cover of "All Along the Watchtower" passed through Dylan's hands smack dab into Jimi's. Billy Roberts wrote this as a modern folk murder ballad in 1962. It was, for many years, attributed to Dino Valenti, who was most famous for being the lead vocalist of Quicksilver Messenger Service, for some unknown reason. Jimi's version was probably the 5th or 6th cover of this song. Truly a classic moment in the history of rock music. Thanks Uncle Phil and Harri.
It was Jimi's manager Chas Chandler who wanted Jimi to play Hey Joe and release it as a single. I like the way here Jimi did the solo just like the record but played it with his teeth.
He was so ahead of the times, effortlessly masterfully innovatively the best guitar player ever and he sang pretty darn good too. Pioneer. Entertaining as they come.
he was left-handed, so he played a right-handed guitar upside down. robert plant and one of his later bands (maybe "strange sensations"?) covered this, referencing jimi as the GOAT. plant's version is my second fav version. i always have a very visceral reaction to hearing/seeing jimi. thank- you for this from a really old canadian boomer.
I went to Seattle and went to the music museum . There I saw Muddy Waters , SRV , Hendrix white guitar from Woodstock . And hand written lyrics by him.
When I moved to the Seattle area , one of the first things I needed to do was to visit is grave...Years later, I became acquainted with someone who knew him well in high school. Pretty cool.
Harri you are brilliant! I love Jimi too - always have , always will. Im 66 years old , pensioner now but man, stuff like this keeps me feeling young. ..Please listen to a Jimi track ..... 'If Six was Nine'........ fabulous stuff ...one of hundred's of brilliant Jimi Hendrix tracks ...Love your reactions Harri - Peace and love ✌🙏🏼❤
Uncle Phil - Outstanding submission, the one and only Jimi Hendrix. He is considered by many as the greatest electric guitarist of all time. Jimi burst onto the scene in 1966 playing his electric guitar upside down and left-handed, could not read music, and was incredibly innovative. His performances were unmatched and revered by such guitar greats as Eric Clapton to be the G.O.A.T. Tragically he died from a drug overdose very early in his career. Thanks Phil and Harri.
Imagine seeing him LIVE ... well I did TWICE! ...... in the Winter/Spring of 1968 ..... 1st in Rochester, New York, and 2 days later in Buffalo, New York ..... it was one of the highlights of my youth. There was nobody like him (and there never will be ..... ).
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's first commitment to wax back in '66, a song covered many times, not least by the effervescent band Love. A laid back version, whose uncharacteristic restraint gives it its rambling beauty, and allows Jimi's first solo to take it to another level. The master had arrived, and 57 years later is still the greatest we've ever known! ✌️
My father was at all 3 days of the Monterey Pop Festival (June 16, 17, 18) in 1967. He was a 19 year old college student at Berkeley, so he was already a stoner. About an hour before Jimi went onstage, my father and his girlfriend took two hits each of the famous “Monterey Purple” acid that was getting passed around all during the festival. Over 100,000 tabs of Monterey Purple were made just for the festival, and the audience and some of the performers were tripping hard. Hendrix was seen two hits of it before he played, on top of all weed and hash he’d been smoking all day. How he was able to perform at all is a miracle. My father was in the 16th row center stage, so he could REALLY hear Jimi well. It was so incredible that he wasn’t sure if what he was seeing and hearing was accurate or if it was because he was tripping. When the movie “Monterey Pop” came out in early 1968 he realized that he had seen and heard it correctly. One of the things that doesn’t get mentioned much is the sound system they had at Monterey, which was the first time a sound system was powerful and clear enough to really blow everyone’s minds.
From the 1967 album,"Are You Experienced" this song shows Jimi at his best, introducing modern versions of old black blues lyrics and themes with his own brand of electric guitar. 🎸🎸🎸 This was the last song of his set and the last song played at Woodstock. It's a cover song about a man, heading to Mexico after killing his unfaithful wife. Jimi released this song in England and that was where he gained his fame first. So brilliant. Great reaction Harri.Thanks Harri and Uncle Phil. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
The first album was called 'Are You Experienced'. The band was 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience'. The album was first released in the UK without Hey Joe, which was released as his first single. The US release included additional tracks Hey Joe and Purple Haze and had a different cover to the original UK release.
Jimi, the one and only! ❤ 🌍☀🌕 Regarding lyrics, of course Jimi didn't write this one, it's a song covered by many bands at that time. The Experience wrote most of their own stuff, but not this, and notably, not All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan). Of course you know this Harri, I just mention for anyone else reading. Thanks as usual for the great react!
his stage presence was masterful and electric ! He was excited to be home, making his big debut which would catapult his career to unbelievable Heights
I was only about 13-14 when I listened to this song on an LP belonging to my older sisters. I don’t think they were ever cool enough, or into Jimi enough, for it to make the impression on them that it did on me. I visited the Experience Music Project in Seattle in 2004 - among many other things they had a psychedelic outfit Jimi wore during that era. I was stunned that he was so physically small. A whole lot of something packed in to a young very 0:05 trim man. Thank god he ever lived at all. So sorry he died during my senior year of high school. Thanks, Harri!
Hari -you might like “The Return of Jimi Hendrix” by the Waterboys-a tribute to Jimi -imagining Hendrix coming back for just one day… what he would do, how he would play. Great musical tribute.
When it come to burnin’ a cool blue flame Jimi Hendrix is the epitome of cool, humble, and awesomeness from a galaxy far, far, away. RIP. Thanks for visiting us on earth 🌎.
Jimi live at Monterey “the killing floor”..First track hit the crowd with and it hit hard..The Who were playing the same festival and were on the same record label,Tracker records..Legend has it that the manger of Tracker records flipped a coin to see what band went on first..So Pete Townsend of the Who and Jimi called for heads or tails..Pete won the flip and the Who went on First at Monterey..But Jimi crazed jumped on a table and vowed that went he,Mitch and Noel followed the Who they were gonna blow the audience away..Well people know about Jimi’s Experience at Monterey even today..When it comes to guitar playing there are so many who could play and most of them had Jimi as their idol..So there really is just one and Jimi is that one.!
Teeth, behind the back and he played the guitar upside down and left-handed as well. Finally, there is footage out there of him playing. A blues player who had such imaginative lyrics. A fascinating character because he turned out so much great material in such a very short time and, just like that, he was gone. They say the day he died, both Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai decided separately to play guitar every day for the rest of their lives. I liked his fashion and style. Sometimes, with the coats, he looked kind of like Beethoven or a composer with the wild hair and jackets.
My son is self taught and plays a right handed guitar 🎸---left handed. I bought him his first guitar at 9..he did all the rest. God knows my best musical talent is as a listener. " whole lotta love "Led Zeppelin is probably what you're ears are telling you. You should get the live album of the Monterrey pop festival or the DVD if there is one. It was a fun album, especially for Jimi and a firey set from Otis Redding.. chef's kiss or "Tenderness"
@andymccracken4046 yes I should. Saw the documentary when it came out. Also the vinyl. On my hunting list is the Conert for Bangladesh, with George Harrison, Billy Preston (who came close to stealing the show), Ringo and Eric Clapton and Leon Russell..who did steal the show ! "Jumping Jack Flash/Youngblood-'terrific!
HarriBest, you want to know where Jimi went when he died? Well then, treat your/our ears to the Righteous Brother's tune Rock and Roll Heaven where they mention Jimi and other diseased stars. It's a beautiful tribute. Assuming you haven't already reacted to that.
Was jimi first and but it was a cover of a 50s song, he mad it huge. Led zeppelin slide into the chord and open and close to create stabs where Jimi strums through it and keeps it open. Love the vids man ❤️
Hey Joe, also done by the garage group, the Leaves in 1966-Jimi's performance is from 1967 and I think you were referencing Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love which was from 1968/1969.
Hi Harri. In the '60s, a few west coast bands had previously recorded & been performing Hey Joe as a faster arrangement. There was apparently a royalty pounce, when one musician published a version, claiming he had written the song. But then east coast musician, Tim Rose, said that it was actually an Appalacian folk song, called Blue Steel 44, that he had first heard as a child. The Hendrix version of Hey Joe is based on Tim Rose's slower version. Some video reaction postings question why Hendrix was singing a song of this subject matter. Music followers need to understand that this video'd concert performance was from a period of social evolution 57 years ago, and that at that time, a number of folk murder ballads had been regularly sung for decades throughout the country, including Frankie and Johnny, Little Sadie, and Tom Dooley!
HarriB, now you can double-check me on this, but I am PRETTY SURE that "teeth playing the guitar" thing is an old black Rhythm & Blues guitarist trick that Jimi picked up playing with the Isley Brothers & Little Richard before he went to England and made it as a psychedelic rock band front man. The thing is you turn the amp up REAL HIGH VOLUME-WISE and play the notes w/ your fingers on the fret board, pretending to be doing it with your teeth.
LOVE JIMI. I'm 72 yrs.i saw JI.I TWICE IN HOUSTON..when Jimi was alive he had almost Zero black fans. I think they were into Gladys knight Pips.etc. I was there and No black fans. Truth.
Jimi Hendrix is just a master, I knew that he was capable of this, playing with his teeth, there is also a video where he burns his guitar, pouring gasoline on it, a fire scene, in fact, such people lived in their own image that they demonstrated on stage, which is why they left so early from life.
I've been saying, nobody has ever gotten as good a tone as Hendrix with his *teeth*!! Unbelievable. He has more swagger than anybody, ever, and the talent to back it up.
Bassist Chas Chandler was pointed in Jimi's direction at some Greenwich Village café by Keith Richards' then-girlfriend Linda Keith, who knew he was leaving (or had left) the Animals for management and production, and believed he'd also see and hear something extraordinary in Jimi. Chas was familiar with the song, 'Hey Joe,' and wanted to have his next discovery cover it. Jimi surprised him by performing it of his own volition so it was only natural that after transplanting him to England and assembling the Experience, they'd issue the song as the band's first British single. Killer song (sorry notsorry 😅), wicked awesome performance. If you can, get hold of Jimi's complete set from Monterey. You can begin to grasp just how earthshaking, groundbreaking and mind blowing his set was, and why he was thereafter the top drawing and paid act of the latter 60s. Cheers, Harri and Uncle Phil, thanks a brazillion. ✌🏼😊😘🤙🏼🎸🎶❤✨️🕊
Even a short, sweet song like Little Wing, which is my favorite, shows he doesn't need all those gimmicks. Actually, at this festival, he had a competition going with The Who for who could steal the show.
This is probably my favourite song of Jimi's together with "The Wind Cries Mary." It was probably written by Billy Roberts but Tim Rose, who was notorious for this trick, recorded his version in 1966, claimed that it was his arrangement and tried to charge everyone else who played it for use of his copyright.
The riff you mention was later “borrowed” by Jimmy page. Also the chord progression he uses in the main verse preceded the EDCDG was “borrowed sorta” by Paul McCartney to transition from the ah - ah - ahah ahhhh ah ah ah -ah ah EDCDG back to “I read the news…4000 holes”. That as close to rap sampling rock in a later era
He's considered #1 for darned good reasons. Please let me me suggest Hey Joe as played by Roy Buchanan. He's a player people ought to know about, too, imho. All respect to Jimi.
MONTEREY was the show that he lit his guitar 🎸 on 🔥, great show, ICONIC, HISTORICAL. I came up in the 80's, I had been listening to his music since grade school in the 70's, my brother was in high school in the 70's
Jimmy was definitely an original and extremely gifted talent! On a side note - I wonder if his dentist gave him any crap about using his teeth that way? Lol
You got it Harri. Its not the fact that he's using his teeth. Its what he's playing. Love and Geese man. ✌️✌️✌️
What made Jimi Hendrix also so incredible is that he didn't read music. He learned how to play guitar by ear. One of the greats that came out from the 60's.✌✌
He also played his guitar upside down.
90 percent of rock musicians cannot read music. Beatles could not. I have seen over 500 concerts here in LA. The only rock musicians I have ever seen on stage with charts is Steely Dan.
@@827dusty he played a right handed guitar. But strung it with the high E string on the bottom. That is not upside down. That would be the same as if he had a left handed guitar would be. Left handed stratcasters were very rare at the time. Super hard to find. So he took a righty and strung it as if it were a left handed guitar. Now Albert King played upsidedown. High E was on the top. Ck you tube. You will see.
And Einstein dropped out of high school!
@@tomatoseed1443 Yes he did, but finished high school in Switzerland because he wanted to attend college.
Jimi Hendrix is the best he wasn't around long enough a lot more to come we missed out
SIT THERE HARRI AND IMAGINE THAT JIMI IS STILLLLLL THE STANDARD IN GREATNESS ON THE GUITAR 😊, EVENNNNN 52 YEARS AFTER THE FACT! 😮THAT IS COMPLETELYYYY CUCKOO TO ME BUT IT JUST SHOWED HOW INCRDEDIBLY AWESOME HE WAS 💯😊
It's Jimi Hendrix and there's everyone else , there are a lot great guitarists in the past and today but there's only one Jimi Hendrix that was a great guitarist and showman , he inspired me ever since I picked up a guitar even today ! Theyre no words to express how awesome he was but his music lives on .
We'll never see his like again!
He was casually the best guitar player of all time. Nobody will ever be as cool as Hendrix
SRV did this as Hendrix was his idol, but Jimi started it way back in 1967. The first, and the Best. He changed Rock music in one night in a London Pub.
My son (Joe) came home from school one day in the 9th grade and asked me if a knew what his teacher meant when he asked himk "Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand" ! It was hilarious! He had never heard this, but he sure has now. What a cool teacher he had that year!
jimis intro to america....monterey pop...he pulled out all his tricks....greatest ever...everything that followed came in some manner through him!!
Every single thing about Jimi was amazing. I love his fashion as well as his playing and singing and songwriting. He had charisma. He is also the sexiest musician of all time in my opinion. The man had a zillion groupies.
Harri, one reason you are the best reactor is that your enthusiasm is contagious and it's a pleasure to watch.😊
No one will ever compare to Jimi....ever!!
Jimi's version of "Like a Rolling Stone" from the same concert is outstanding too.
Also "Wild Thing."
@@marymargaretmoore9034 Also "Rock Me Baby" from this gig is worth seeing.
Jimi was otherworldly, RIP Legend 🙏
Hendrix was the man...A true legend.
Jimi, I just discovered, is my tenth cousin, once removed...so we have a shared grandfather in the past, whom I remember also spawned some other interesting folks. Jimi was what I might call extraracial, in that he was a new model for humankind. People loved him and didn't seem to think of him as white or black or native American or Asian, but as an advanced admixture. Hippies were and are along those universal lines. Time for a re-engroovenation.
Legend!! IMHO brought the Blues to mainstream Rock.
NOBODY can play and dress like Mr. Jimi Hendrix. NOBODY!!! I miss the 70's. Damn.
^60's too. Damn.
"Hey Joe" became Jimi's song much like his cover of "All Along the Watchtower" passed through Dylan's hands smack dab into Jimi's. Billy Roberts wrote this as a modern folk murder ballad in 1962. It was, for many years, attributed to Dino Valenti, who was most famous for being the lead vocalist of Quicksilver Messenger Service, for some unknown reason. Jimi's version was probably the 5th or 6th cover of this song. Truly a classic moment in the history of rock music. Thanks Uncle Phil and Harri.
yea, for decades I thought Quicksilver Messenger Service wrote this song -- SORRY, Billy Roberts ...... forgive me for not knowing it was yours
Unquestionably Jimi gave the BEST rendition of this song...anyway I'd like Willy Deville "mexican" version to be known better...give it a listen !
It was Jimi's manager Chas Chandler who wanted Jimi to play Hey Joe and release it as a single. I like the way here Jimi did the solo just like the record but played it with his teeth.
You should hear the version by the group called the Leaves.
Boomer here. I remember saying at the time that he could probably play guitar with his toes! A true legend 🤩. Thanks Harri and Phil 😘.
The Zep riff you’re thinking of Harri is Whole Lotta Love, Jimi’s Hey Joe was about two years earlier.
"Hey Joe" was released in '66, so there was a three year gap!
Jimi was one of a kind for sure and an amazing guitar player/musician. They broke the mould after him. Thanks Uncle Phil and Harri.
Jimi Hendrix - My favorite of all-time.
He was so ahead of the times, effortlessly masterfully innovatively the best guitar player ever and he sang pretty darn good too. Pioneer. Entertaining as they come.
Jimi placed everyone into the Old Testament. The penultimate Postmodern expressionist. The man forever.
he was left-handed, so he played a right-handed guitar upside down. robert plant and one of his later bands (maybe "strange sensations"?) covered this, referencing jimi as the GOAT. plant's version is my second fav version. i always have a very visceral reaction to hearing/seeing jimi. thank- you for this from a really old canadian boomer.
I went to Seattle and went to the music museum . There I saw Muddy Waters , SRV , Hendrix white guitar from Woodstock . And hand written lyrics by him.
Great performance! Jimi is my #1.
So young, and so much talent ...
Awesome! In one word!
I'm glad I grew up with this fantastic music. I was 11 years old, when he played this number. 🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸❤️❤️
Yes I was 12 and here we are still enjoying it !!
Epic performance from the first rock festival. Even better is his cover of Dylan's Like a Rolling Stone.!!
When I moved to the Seattle area , one of the first things I needed to do was to visit is grave...Years later, I became acquainted with someone who knew him well in high school. Pretty cool.
Harri you are brilliant! I love Jimi too - always have , always will. Im 66 years old , pensioner now but man, stuff like this keeps me feeling young. ..Please listen to a Jimi track ..... 'If Six was Nine'........ fabulous stuff ...one of hundred's of brilliant Jimi Hendrix tracks ...Love your reactions Harri - Peace and love ✌🙏🏼❤
Uncle Phil - Outstanding submission, the one and only Jimi Hendrix. He is considered by many as the greatest electric guitarist of all time. Jimi burst onto the scene in 1966 playing his electric guitar upside down and left-handed, could not read music, and was incredibly innovative. His performances were unmatched and revered by such guitar greats as Eric Clapton to be the G.O.A.T. Tragically he died from a drug overdose very early in his career. Thanks Phil and Harri.
Imagine seeing him LIVE ... well I did TWICE! ...... in the Winter/Spring of 1968 ..... 1st in Rochester, New York, and 2 days later in Buffalo, New York ..... it was one of the highlights of my youth. There was nobody like him (and there never will be ..... ).
Wild Thing from the Monterey Pop Festival is my favorite live performance of his. He’s the most organic 🎸 player. It’s part of his dna.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience's first commitment to wax back in '66, a song covered many times, not least by the effervescent band Love. A laid back version, whose uncharacteristic restraint gives it its rambling beauty, and allows Jimi's first solo to take it to another level. The master had arrived, and 57 years later is still the greatest we've ever known! ✌️
It's amazing watching Hendrix chewing gum while singing and playing guitar with his teeth. Jimmy was first...Always imitated, but never replicated.
My father was at all 3 days of the Monterey Pop Festival (June 16, 17, 18) in 1967. He was a 19 year old college student at Berkeley, so he was already a stoner. About an hour before Jimi went onstage, my father and his girlfriend took two hits each of the famous “Monterey Purple” acid that was getting passed around all during the festival. Over 100,000 tabs of Monterey Purple were made just for the festival, and the audience and some of the performers were tripping hard. Hendrix was seen two hits of it before he played, on top of all weed and hash he’d been smoking all day. How he was able to perform at all is a miracle. My father was in the 16th row center stage, so he could REALLY hear Jimi well. It was so incredible that he wasn’t sure if what he was seeing and hearing was accurate or if it was because he was tripping. When the movie “Monterey Pop” came out in early 1968 he realized that he had seen and heard it correctly.
One of the things that doesn’t get mentioned much is the sound system they had at Monterey, which was the first time a sound system was powerful and clear enough to really blow everyone’s minds.
That's an awesome story. Thank you
Cool !!
From the 1967 album,"Are You Experienced" this song shows Jimi at his best, introducing modern versions of old black blues lyrics and themes with his own brand of electric guitar. 🎸🎸🎸
This was the last song of his set and the last song played at Woodstock. It's a cover song about a man, heading to Mexico after killing his unfaithful wife. Jimi released this song in England and that was where he gained his fame first. So brilliant. Great reaction Harri.Thanks Harri and Uncle Phil. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦
The first album was called 'Are You Experienced'. The band was 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience'. The album was first released in the UK without Hey Joe, which was released as his first single.
The US release included additional tracks Hey Joe and Purple Haze and had a different cover to the original UK release.
1967
@@BarbarraBay Typo, Thanks. Merry Christmas. 🎅🎄⛄️🎶🇨🇦
I do remember this song 🥰 Like / liked it 😇🤩 Thank you UnclePhil and Harri
I had the poster of him on his knees in that outfit with his guitar in FLAMES on stage in front of him
The best!!!!!
Epitome of effin coolness
An absolute guitar God
Eternamente amado Jimi Hendrix.........
Jimi, the one and only! ❤ 🌍☀🌕 Regarding lyrics, of course Jimi didn't write this one, it's a song covered by many bands at that time. The Experience wrote most of their own stuff, but not this, and notably, not All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan). Of course you know this Harri, I just mention for anyone else reading. Thanks as usual for the great react!
Jimi showing off - love him! Love this channel so much too, so warm, open and insightful... Led Zep song you're thinking of might be Whole lotta love
Jimi was a force of nature. Rest in peace, brother.
his stage presence was masterful and electric ! He was excited to be home, making his big debut which would catapult his career to unbelievable Heights
Hes the coolest of the cool
My favorite song of all time. Not kidding.❤❤❤❤
I was only about 13-14 when I listened to this song on an LP belonging to my older sisters. I don’t think they were ever cool enough, or into Jimi enough, for it to make the impression on them that it did on me. I visited the Experience Music Project in Seattle in 2004 - among many other things they had a psychedelic outfit Jimi wore during that era. I was stunned that he was so physically small. A whole lot of something packed in to a young very 0:05 trim man. Thank god he ever lived at all. So sorry he died during my senior year of high school. Thanks, Harri!
What can I say? Jimi Hendrix transformed how the guitar was played and how it sounded. This was when rock-'n'-roll turned into Rock music!
Hari -you might like “The Return of Jimi Hendrix” by the Waterboys-a tribute to Jimi -imagining Hendrix coming back for just one day… what he would do, how he would play. Great musical tribute.
When it come to burnin’ a cool blue flame Jimi Hendrix is the epitome of cool, humble, and awesomeness from a galaxy far, far, away. RIP. Thanks for visiting us on earth 🌎.
That shit gave me the chills
Jimi didn’t really play guitar, the guitar was just part of his soul that he allowed us to share.
Jimi live at Monterey “the killing floor”..First track hit the crowd with and it hit hard..The Who were playing the same festival and were on the same record label,Tracker records..Legend has it that the manger of Tracker records flipped a coin to see what band went on first..So Pete Townsend of the Who and Jimi called for heads or tails..Pete won the flip and the Who went on First at Monterey..But Jimi crazed jumped on a table and vowed that went he,Mitch and Noel followed the Who they were gonna blow the audience away..Well people know about Jimi’s Experience at Monterey even today..When it comes to guitar playing there are so many who could play and most of them had Jimi as their idol..So there really is just one and Jimi is that one.!
Teeth, behind the back and he played the guitar upside down and left-handed as well. Finally, there is footage out there of him playing. A blues player who had such imaginative lyrics. A fascinating character because he turned out so much great material in such a very short time and, just like that, he was gone. They say the day he died, both Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai decided separately to play guitar every day for the rest of their lives. I liked his fashion and style. Sometimes, with the coats, he looked kind of like Beethoven or a composer with the wild hair and jackets.
My son is self taught and plays a right handed guitar 🎸---left handed. I bought him his first guitar at 9..he did all the rest. God knows my best musical talent is as a listener. " whole lotta love "Led Zeppelin is probably what you're ears are telling you. You should get the live album of the Monterrey pop festival or the DVD if there is one. It was a fun album, especially for Jimi and a firey set from Otis Redding.. chef's kiss or "Tenderness"
Yes there is a DVD - I have it and you should get it too !!
@andymccracken4046 yes I should. Saw the documentary when it came out. Also the vinyl. On my hunting list is the Conert for Bangladesh, with George Harrison, Billy Preston (who came close to stealing the show), Ringo and Eric Clapton and Leon Russell..who did steal the show ! "Jumping Jack Flash/Youngblood-'terrific!
His cover of Like A Rolling Stone from the same concert is mid blowing as well. How he could play as fantastic as he did while high on LSD is amazing.
American mate, with his English supporting cast (Mitch being one of the best drummers to support Jimi)
HarriBest, you want to know where Jimi went when he died? Well then, treat your/our ears to the Righteous Brother's tune Rock and Roll Heaven where they mention Jimi and other diseased stars. It's a beautiful tribute. Assuming you haven't already reacted to that.
I'm not sure that I want to hear a song about diseased stars. 🤢
Jimi, is still ling of innovation and blues.
Was jimi first and but it was a cover of a 50s song, he mad it huge. Led zeppelin slide into the chord and open and close to create stabs where Jimi strums through it and keeps it open. Love the vids man ❤️
You do excellent comments on music and love the moves. To you and your, be well.
Hey Joe, also done by the garage group, the Leaves in 1966-Jimi's performance is from 1967 and I think you were referencing Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love which was from 1968/1969.
Hi Harri. In the '60s, a few west coast bands had previously recorded & been performing Hey Joe as a faster arrangement. There was apparently a royalty pounce, when one musician published a version, claiming he had written the song. But then east coast musician, Tim Rose, said that it was actually an Appalacian folk song, called Blue Steel 44, that he had first heard as a child. The Hendrix version of Hey Joe is based on Tim Rose's slower version. Some video reaction postings question why Hendrix was singing a song of this subject matter. Music followers need to understand that this video'd concert performance was from a period of social evolution 57 years ago, and that at that time, a number of folk murder ballads had been regularly sung for decades throughout the country, including Frankie and Johnny, Little Sadie, and Tom Dooley!
And doing all that with timing!
The greatest!!!
HarriB, now you can double-check me on this, but I am PRETTY SURE that "teeth playing the guitar" thing is an old black Rhythm & Blues guitarist trick that Jimi picked up playing with the Isley Brothers & Little Richard before he went to England and made it as a psychedelic rock band front man. The thing is you turn the amp up REAL HIGH VOLUME-WISE and play the notes w/ your fingers on the fret board, pretending to be doing it with your teeth.
The Zeppelin song was Whole Lotta Love from their 1969 album Zeppelin II.
This guy from Seattle, USA, died much, much too young. He was unique in his guitar technique and also even in early age an icon !!!
He was such a quick thinker.
Jimmi was fearless.
LOVE JIMI. I'm 72 yrs.i saw JI.I TWICE IN HOUSTON..when Jimi was alive he had almost Zero black fans. I think they were into Gladys knight Pips.etc. I was there and No black fans. Truth.
Jimi Hendrix is just a master, I knew that he was capable of this, playing with his teeth, there is also a video where he burns his guitar, pouring gasoline on it, a fire scene, in fact, such people lived in their own image that they demonstrated on stage, which is why they left so early from life.
Just love listening to great toons togehter, Harri
NEVER BE ANOTHER, one of a kind EPITOME OF G.O.A.T!!!
A legend! Great song! 🧡🙏
I've been saying, nobody has ever gotten as good a tone as Hendrix with his *teeth*!! Unbelievable. He has more swagger than anybody, ever, and the talent to back it up.
Hey Joe was a cover that Hendrix did. I think this was a song by Tim Rose, but might be mistaken.
The drumming of Mitch is fantastic!
Bassist Chas Chandler was pointed in Jimi's direction at some Greenwich Village café by Keith Richards' then-girlfriend Linda Keith, who knew he was leaving (or had left) the Animals for management and production, and believed he'd also see and hear something extraordinary in Jimi. Chas was familiar with the song, 'Hey Joe,' and wanted to have his next discovery cover it. Jimi surprised him by performing it of his own volition so it was only natural that after transplanting him to England and assembling the Experience, they'd issue the song as the band's first British single. Killer song (sorry notsorry 😅), wicked awesome performance. If you can, get hold of Jimi's complete set from Monterey. You can begin to grasp just how earthshaking, groundbreaking and mind blowing his set was, and why he was thereafter the top drawing and paid act of the latter 60s. Cheers, Harri and Uncle Phil, thanks a brazillion. ✌🏼😊😘🤙🏼🎸🎶❤✨️🕊
I love this version great job Harri
Even a short, sweet song like Little Wing, which is my favorite, shows he doesn't need all those gimmicks. Actually, at this festival, he had a competition going with The Who for who could steal the show.
Pretty sure I read somewhere ages ago that Jimi said he didn't play with his teeth but with his tongue.
Probably my favorite Jimi song!!!
This is probably my favourite song of Jimi's together with "The Wind Cries Mary."
It was probably written by Billy Roberts but Tim Rose, who was notorious for this trick, recorded his version in 1966, claimed that it was his arrangement and tried to charge everyone else who played it for use of his copyright.
Jimi Hendrix as a wizard.
The riff you mention was later “borrowed” by Jimmy page. Also the chord progression he uses in the main verse preceded the EDCDG was “borrowed sorta” by Paul McCartney to transition from the ah - ah - ahah ahhhh ah ah ah -ah ah EDCDG back to “I read the news…4000 holes”. That as close to rap sampling rock in a later era
Jimi Hendrix is one bad ass guitar player. The greatest rock guitarist ever! Freeman Morgan is Hendrix Jimi. Think mirror. You’ll find out
One of the greatest songs ever conjured on a guitar
Jimi was before all the others with everythibg
He was so organic, at one with what he was doing...❤❤❤
He's considered #1 for darned good reasons.
Please let me me suggest Hey Joe as played by Roy Buchanan. He's a player people ought to know about, too, imho. All respect to Jimi.
You're the best, Harri !
MONTEREY was the show that he lit his guitar 🎸 on 🔥, great show, ICONIC, HISTORICAL. I came up in the 80's, I had been listening to his music since grade school in the 70's, my brother was in high school in the 70's
Jimmy was definitely an original and extremely gifted talent!
On a side note - I wonder if his dentist gave him any crap about using his teeth that way? Lol
P.S. my wife is a dental assistant. 😂