I saw Jimi in '68 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. I was 14 years old and it was my first concert. Jimi has been my "Hero" from that day and I am now 70. He is hands down the greatest guitar player that ever walked the planet. This is a fantastic channel because it concentrates strictly on Jimi and the Experience. I have been studying this man since I saw him and with this I am still learning. Thanks to the creatures of "Belly Button Window" which is a great song by the way. In his words; "And I wonder if they want me around"? The line I have lived my life by from him is ; "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to"! That was my quote that I had put in my High School year book in 1971.
Wow, I was just a tad too young to have ever seen him perform live and I am extremely jealous! ;) But I did see Dark Side of the Moon performed there a few years later and that was amazing!
This channel is turning into the ULTIMATE chronical of the musical genius Hendrix was. Its actually pretty hard to believe how much he accomplished in such a short time.
I saw Jimi live twice, once in 68, and again in 70 just weeks before his untimely death. I've seen all the greats over the year's but nobody even came close to Jimi's level of talent, Jimi didn't just impress his audience, he completely OVERWHELMED THEM.
Those must be cherished memories. I saw a lot of great players like Eddie, Vai, Satriani, Angus. Lindsay Buckingham was one of the most enjoyable I saw. a few mates saw SRV and said he was the best they heard live. I can only imagine how good Jimi was. Great players usually sound way better live than on the albums.
Another amazing video. Let Jimi be an inspiration to us all. He believed in himself even when the world showed him the exact opposite. Of course it helped that he was an absolute musical genius.
Really enjoying this series. around 1976, My older brother went off to college and I was left with his LPs. Smash Hits, (well worn) was there and in no time I was grooving to Purple Haze, Fire, Red House etc. One afternoon I peddled my bike over to the Mall and started a conversation with these older college aged dudes at a records store. I innocently asked "Does Jimi Hendrix ever come around and play at all"? In a booming voice one of them shouted "HE'S DEAD"! With equal parts embarrassment and sadness I peddle home. (how and he be dead?) I wondered. his music-that summer-was so alive and so fresh to my young ears. Needless to say I became a musician with Jimi as a primary inspiration and for many years I was OBSESSED with learning more about his life and music. Thank you for reawakening my obsession. 🕊🕊
Sound can be gotten without picking if the amp is loud enough. Its called hammering on including but not limited to pulling off, ( Legato is it being done smoothly from one fret to another )
First wah I heard was on my grandfather’s Chet Atkins album “ Teensville”. Boo Boo Stick Beat had a jungle rhythm and upright bass groove. Chet played a simple chord structure using wah. This was 1960.
@@BELLY_BUTTON_WINDOW Chet used a Tone Bender (an early precursor) on some Everly Brothers sessions. Listen to the guitar on some of their hits from the 50s !!!!!
What's also good about Hendrix's sound in the latter 60's is how fully treble he got. Earlier on he had this dark, rumbly sound then around the Woodstock period his sounds were only for treble nerds. I don't think any other player ever explored the landscape of treble as much as he did.
I love these videos, they’re so great :) I’m a huge fan of your channel. I don’t always comment, but rest assured I’m listening and absorbing every detail of each video released. Hugely appreciated!
He actually did pick with his teeth. He purposely did it for each note, in some performances, and it’s clearly visible, as well as audibly different, from when he just was playing with his left hand with fewer times actually putting teeth on the string.
Thanks very much for going into this. In my opinion, it is frequently overlooked that the guitar was merely one means of getting the sounds that Jimi could hear in his head onto tape, albeit the main way. In my opinion, he was and remains the most innovative - yes, greatest - guitarist ever. However, he was so much more. The people who view Jimi only as a guitarist are missing half the story, at least. One need not only cite his lyrics, songwriting and production talents here, as is often done, but also his mastery of keyboard-based instruments. Witness his piano playing on "Crosstown Traffic" and "Freedom" or his harpsichord performance on "Burning of the Midnight Lamp". He additionally pushed the boundaries as regards composition and arrangement, as he did on "1983", for instance. It's no accident that Jimi wanted to work with an orchestra and a choir, something he had been talking about since 1968. He loved Strauss, Wagner and Mahler, amongst others. Much gratitude to you for delving into his creation of entirely new sounds through effects, tape manipulation and using the studio in ways that it hadn't been used before. One could argue that Jimi even created new genres - frequently by accident. Can "And the Gods made Love" be seen as the first industrial-ambient track, years before Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music", for example? Please keep up the excellent work, which is pleasure to behold on every occasion, and in every possible way.
3rd stone from the sun, the gods made love, machine gun, killing floor, bleeding heart, Paul Kossoff and Robin Trower great guitarist who don't get credit they deserve, and cheers to your for your work
Comparing Hendrix to Keith Richards is a joke. The Stones always had a lead player, Hendrix was lead, rhythm and vocals rolled into one. I don't know if your old enough to of lived thru Jimmies career but that comparison would of never been then. It's revisionist history, Hendrix was an enigma all by himself, a true freak of nature like nothing before. These other players were playing pop music for the masses, ask any of them, Hendrix changed everything. The gimmicks were just the cherry on top.
And here I am..... supposedly 11 minutes after posting. YTube has been really good about sending them right to me. I think I've somehow tricked the algorithm to work for me. Heh Heh!!! Nice work!
Unlikely Jimi and Jeff jammed on Superstition in 1968, it wasn't written until 1972, interestingly when Stevie Wonder and Jeff Beck were jamming. More likely it was Ain't Superstitious by Howlin Wolf which the Jeff Beck Group played. I'd also say Jeff Beck was probably the guitarist most famous for his tones before the arrival of Jimi on the scene, Pete Townsend was more famous for his song writing than his guitar tone.
@@BELLY_BUTTON_WINDOW Do you know which Hendrix songs he used the Mosrite Fuzz pedal? Because GUILD fuzz pedal came out after the first hendrix album which the GUILD fuzz is based a modified Mosrite fuzz to get that foxy lady fuzz tone because GUILD said that what was recorded on Foxy Lady was a Mosrite fuzz NOT a fuzzface
@@BELLY_BUTTON_WINDOW Roger Mayer octavia prototype was very weak in gain so he told Hendrix to use a Mosrite Fuzz BEFORE the octavia pedal for the songs Foxy Lady and Fire. I think the Fuzzface pedal he didn't get until AFTER he recorded foxy lady and fire. Check in on the Dates of the recordings and when hendrix got the fuzzface pedal.
Corrections: guitarists bend strings by pushing them upwards- just like Jimi, so that statement is incorrect that it was only Jimi who did it! Jimi did- play with his teeth, it wasn't an "impression" as stated here. Many musicians sing and play at the same time. And Jimi did stop singing to play a riff briefly. He could sing along with a lead part at times. Wrong- he did not tune up after almost every song. His guitar stayed in tune quite well even with using the tremolo arm.
There is no such thing as a “Vox Cry Baby Wah.” The “Cry Baby” tag is for Dunlop wah pedals. The photo you show is a Dunlop Cry Baby wah pedal. Jimi Hendrix may have have used a Cry Baby at some point, but the Vox Wah was the very first wah pedal, and the pedal Hendrix started out with. Clapton used the Vox wah in Cream, which is where Hendrix heard it, as you said.
Two other little know techniques was how versatile over the pickups he was during songs, he'd play some notes chords etc way up the neck and others way closer to the bridge making his tone extremely difficult to emulate. As well as partially muted note his or a semi pinch harmonic for example the intro to castles made of sand the first lick the bass notes sound very strange as he's hitting the neck of the guitar with his pick first then hitting the string with his thumbs very very far up on the pick to get a half muted half harmonic sound both these techniques took me years of listening to realise who knows what else he was doing
It's a beautiful fuzz if your lift one of the splitter diodes that come off the audio transformer..it takes the octave out and leaves you with a massive fuzz...that's what the band of gypsy's fuzz really is..Dunlop don't put the audio transformer on their BOG fuzz,it's based of mayers second revision of the octavia which ditched the audio transformer and used a transistor stage in its place to take care of the splitting...you need the transformer to really get the BOG fuzz sound down tho
Jimi Hendrix didn´t give the illusion of playing the guitar with his teeth. There is nothing miraculous about plucking strings with one´s teeth, which he did. It´s something that just needs a little bit of practising, and you can hear it when he does it.
I saw Jimi in '68 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. I was 14 years old and it was my first concert. Jimi has been my "Hero" from that day and I am now 70. He is hands down the greatest guitar player that ever walked the planet. This is a fantastic channel because it concentrates strictly on Jimi and the Experience. I have been studying this man since I saw him and with this I am still learning. Thanks to the creatures of "Belly Button Window" which is a great song by the way. In his words;
"And I wonder if they want me around"? The line I have lived my life by from him is ; "I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to"! That was my quote that I had put in my High School year book in 1971.
Awesome, thankyou for sharing this!
Wow, I was just a tad too young to have ever seen him perform live and I am extremely jealous! ;) But I did see Dark Side of the Moon performed there a few years later and that was amazing!
This channel is turning into the ULTIMATE chronical of the musical genius Hendrix was. Its actually pretty hard to believe how much he accomplished in such a short time.
Thankyou very much!
I saw Jimi live twice, once in 68, and again in 70 just weeks before his untimely death. I've seen all the greats over the year's but nobody even came close to Jimi's level of talent, Jimi didn't just impress his audience, he completely OVERWHELMED THEM.
Those must be cherished memories. I saw a lot of great players like Eddie, Vai, Satriani, Angus. Lindsay Buckingham was one of the most enjoyable I saw. a few mates saw SRV and said he was the best they heard live. I can only imagine how good Jimi was. Great players usually sound way better live than on the albums.
Awesome!
Another amazing video.
Let Jimi be an inspiration to us all.
He believed in himself even when the world showed him the exact opposite.
Of course it helped that he was an absolute musical genius.
Thankyou!
Fascinating stuff. A star that burns so brightly is often very brief, but also unforgettable.😊😊😊😊😊😊
So true!
Really enjoying this series. around 1976, My older brother went off to college and I was left with his LPs. Smash Hits, (well worn) was there and in no time I was grooving to Purple Haze, Fire, Red House etc. One afternoon I peddled my bike over to the Mall and started a conversation with these older college aged dudes at a records store. I innocently asked "Does Jimi Hendrix ever come around and play at all"? In a booming voice one of them shouted "HE'S DEAD"! With equal parts embarrassment and sadness I peddle home. (how and he be dead?) I wondered. his music-that summer-was so alive and so fresh to my young ears. Needless to say I became a musician with Jimi as a primary inspiration and for many years I was OBSESSED with learning more about his life and music. Thank you for reawakening my obsession. 🕊🕊
Thanks for sharing that! Cheers
The narrator said that Jimi "gave the illusion of playing the guitar with his teeth". Jimi DID use his teeth... his two front teeth. Jeez.
It's called the Legato technique..Jimi mastered it..
@@precbsfender No, it's called playing with your teeth. When he did it you could hear the note attack change.
That was ABSOLUTELY real. In some videos you can CLEARLY see his teeth plucking the strings. No question about it...absolutely real.
Sound can be gotten without picking if the amp is loud enough. Its called hammering on including but not limited to pulling off, ( Legato is it being done smoothly from one fret to another )
@@flyinghorse13
Yes, he did that too.
Thanks.. Comprehensive list of Jimi Hendrix's guitar effects, techniques and studio tricks..! ❤🎸
Thankyou very much! Cheers
First wah I heard was on my grandfather’s Chet Atkins album “ Teensville”. Boo Boo Stick Beat had a jungle rhythm and upright bass groove. Chet played a simple chord structure using wah. This was 1960.
Apparently there was a "hand wah", the origins of which I'm unfamiliar., Cheers
@@BELLY_BUTTON_WINDOW Chet used a Tone Bender (an early precursor) on some Everly Brothers sessions. Listen to the guitar on some of their hits from the 50s !!!!!
What's also good about Hendrix's sound in the latter 60's is how fully treble he got. Earlier on he had this dark, rumbly sound then around the Woodstock period his sounds were only for treble nerds. I don't think any other player ever explored the landscape of treble as much as he did.
True, and he was super, super loud!
The best channel on TH-cam
Thankyou!
very interesting, you always learn some new nuances in a story you think you already know
Very true!
Thank you for these videos. Being a Hendrix devotee for over 55 years I think your videos are well done and I much appreciate them.
You're very welcome!
I love these videos, they’re so great :) I’m a huge fan of your channel. I don’t always comment, but rest assured I’m listening and absorbing every detail of each video released. Hugely appreciated!
Thankyou very much! There's more on the way!
That Michael Bloomfield comment was hilarious. I didn't even want to take out my guitar for the following year after seeing Jimi play.
Cool!
Great video, thanks.
Cheers!
He actually did pick with his teeth. He purposely did it for each note, in some performances, and it’s clearly visible, as well as audibly different, from when he just was playing with his left hand with fewer times actually putting teeth on the string.
You're correct!
Some great rare photos in these vids! I love it! Thx
Glad you enjoyed it
Amazing info, all the inside sruff, love it, thanks😂
Thank you so much! Stay tuned as there's much more to tell! Cheers.
Thanks very much for going into this. In my opinion, it is frequently overlooked that the guitar was merely one means of getting the sounds that Jimi could hear in his head onto tape, albeit the main way. In my opinion, he was and remains the most innovative - yes, greatest - guitarist ever. However, he was so much more. The people who view Jimi only as a guitarist are missing half the story, at least. One need not only cite his lyrics, songwriting and production talents here, as is often done, but also his mastery of keyboard-based instruments. Witness his piano playing on "Crosstown Traffic" and "Freedom" or his harpsichord performance on "Burning of the Midnight Lamp". He additionally pushed the boundaries as regards composition and arrangement, as he did on "1983", for instance. It's no accident that Jimi wanted to work with an orchestra and a choir, something he had been talking about since 1968. He loved Strauss, Wagner and Mahler, amongst others. Much gratitude to you for delving into his creation of entirely new sounds through effects, tape manipulation and using the studio in ways that it hadn't been used before. One could argue that Jimi even created new genres - frequently by accident. Can "And the Gods made Love" be seen as the first industrial-ambient track, years before Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music", for example? Please keep up the excellent work, which is pleasure to behold on every occasion, and in every possible way.
Totally agree with you my friend, thanks for your wonderful contribution! Cheers
@@BELLY_BUTTON_WINDOW My contribution pales into insignificance in comparison to your brilliant videos. As such, thank _you_.
Rodger Meyer worked with Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Isley Brothers among others in the 70's.
Thanks for sharing that!
I’m fairly confident Jimi could play whatever he heard in his head. Reading music has not to do with that. Digging the series.
Thanks!
Excellent as always!
Thanks again!
Hey this channel is incredible! Cheers from Sweden.
What a pleasure to hear from you, stay tune to the next episode where we will be focusing on the Swedish Tour of September 1967. Best wishes!
Loving this channel, please keep it coming! Cheers
Thanks, will do!
Excellent video , as always !!
Thanks!
You have some great photos of Jimi. If you could make posters I would buy some.
Cool!
Love these video's - I can tell you've read "Electric Gypsy" - which imho the best book about Jimi Hendrix ever written.
Thanks! yes, Electric Gypsy is very good. Cheers!
Jimi does the bullet slide technique more musically and theatrically than any guitarist
Yep. Cheers!
great!
Thanks!
3rd stone from the sun, the gods made love, machine gun, killing floor, bleeding heart, Paul Kossoff and Robin Trower great guitarist who don't get credit they deserve, and cheers to your for your work
Paul Kossoff one of the best. Nobody comes close to Jimi - he was "a force of nature" on the guitar.
My friend, I love Trower and Uli Roth, in particular, plan to make an episode regarding them soon. We share a similar love. Cheers!
Cheers of love to you my friend, love your style of story telling it is extra ordinary
Great f'ing show, you knocked it out of the park. thank you (Also Hendrix only played in 3 piece bands and never used a sound man).
Thanks, the next episode is on its way! Cheers
The liner notes for "Jimi Plays Woodstock" says that his performance at Woodstock was the world premier of the UniVibe
I'd put that down to excessive marketing zeal!
Comparing Hendrix to Keith Richards is a joke. The Stones always had a lead player, Hendrix was lead, rhythm and vocals rolled into one. I don't know if your old enough to of lived thru Jimmies career but that comparison would of never been then. It's revisionist history, Hendrix was an enigma all by himself, a true freak of nature like nothing before. These other players were playing pop music for the masses, ask any of them, Hendrix changed everything. The gimmicks were just the cherry on top.
Totally agree!
Narrator said Hendrix gave the illusion of playing with his teeth! Wrong! Cause he actually played with his teeth.
We all do!
You're totally, right.
And here I am..... supposedly 11 minutes after posting. YTube has been really good about sending them right to me. I think I've somehow tricked the algorithm to work for me. Heh Heh!!! Nice work!
Cheers!
Jimi used the univibe prototype called the jax vibra chorus he used that on electric ladyland then he got the uni vibe the next yea
Spot on!
Jimi was coming from so many directions with his guitar techniques thats why we continue to analyze and talk about him today and will continue
Absolutely!
The Beatles used backwards taping on the album Revolver, last song Tommorow Never Knows.
True!
Also "I'm Only Sleeping" and a bit of vocal at the end of "Rain".
👍👍
Cheers!
Unlikely Jimi and Jeff jammed on Superstition in 1968, it wasn't written until 1972, interestingly when Stevie Wonder and Jeff Beck were jamming. More likely it was Ain't Superstitious by Howlin Wolf which the Jeff Beck Group played. I'd also say Jeff Beck was probably the guitarist most famous for his tones before the arrival of Jimi on the scene, Pete Townsend was more famous for his song writing than his guitar tone.
Exactly!
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BELLY BUTTON WINDOW, Hendrix used Two Mosrite Fuzztone pedals turned on at the same time BEFORE using a Fuzz face?
Yeah, I want to keep it simple. Thanks for pointing that out. Cheers!
@@BELLY_BUTTON_WINDOW Do you know which Hendrix songs he used the Mosrite Fuzz pedal? Because GUILD fuzz pedal came out after the first hendrix album which the GUILD fuzz is based a modified Mosrite fuzz to get that foxy lady fuzz tone because GUILD said that what was recorded on Foxy Lady was a Mosrite fuzz NOT a fuzzface
@@BELLY_BUTTON_WINDOW Roger Mayer octavia prototype was very weak in gain so he told Hendrix to use a Mosrite Fuzz BEFORE the octavia pedal for the songs Foxy Lady and Fire. I think the Fuzzface pedal he didn't get until AFTER he recorded foxy lady and fire. Check in on the Dates of the recordings and when hendrix got the fuzzface pedal.
Corrections: guitarists bend strings by pushing them upwards- just like Jimi, so that statement is incorrect that it was only Jimi who did it!
Jimi did- play with his teeth, it wasn't an "impression" as stated here.
Many musicians sing and play at the same time. And Jimi did stop singing to play a riff briefly. He could sing along with a lead part at times.
Wrong- he did not tune up after almost every song. His guitar stayed in tune quite well even with using the tremolo arm.
Thanks for that!
There is no such thing as a “Vox Cry Baby Wah.” The “Cry Baby” tag is for Dunlop wah pedals. The photo you show is a Dunlop Cry Baby wah pedal. Jimi Hendrix may have have used a Cry Baby at some point, but the Vox Wah was the very first wah pedal, and the pedal Hendrix started out with. Clapton used the Vox wah in Cream, which is where Hendrix heard it, as you said.
Cool!
My cry baby wah is from the hammond organ co.
Two other little know techniques was how versatile over the pickups he was during songs, he'd play some notes chords etc way up the neck and others way closer to the bridge making his tone extremely difficult to emulate. As well as partially muted note his or a semi pinch harmonic for example the intro to castles made of sand the first lick the bass notes sound very strange as he's hitting the neck of the guitar with his pick first then hitting the string with his thumbs very very far up on the pick to get a half muted half harmonic sound both these techniques took me years of listening to realise who knows what else he was doing
Spot on! Cheers
The Fuzz Face is a shape of a microphone stand,
right?
LOL....no.
It's a guitar pedal on the floor you turn on and off with your foot. It added overdrive, distortion and "fuzz" to the sound of the guitar.
@@jeffrowlette it's round looking .
@toneyisaiah3556 well, ok. But it has NOTHING to do with a microphone stand
Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face
You know I what meant.
The shape of a microphone stands "base" is what I think he meant.🙂@@jeffrowlette
Jimi used the wah before electric ladyland he started using it on axis bold as love
Absolutely!
Nothing human about an Octavia
Cheers!
It's a beautiful fuzz if your lift one of the splitter diodes that come off the audio transformer..it takes the octave out and leaves you with a massive fuzz...that's what the band of gypsy's fuzz really is..Dunlop don't put the audio transformer on their BOG fuzz,it's based of mayers second revision of the octavia which ditched the audio transformer and used a transistor stage in its place to take care of the splitting...you need the transformer to really get the BOG fuzz sound down tho
Jimi Hendrix didn´t give the illusion of playing the guitar with his teeth. There is nothing miraculous about plucking strings with one´s teeth, which he did. It´s something that just needs a little bit of practising, and you can hear it when he does it.
By the way, thanks a lot for this great channel - lots of background information and chronological details you won´t find anywhere else!
True, he did play with teeth.
Hendrix never had a pedal board
Cheers!
6:34 6:36 6:37
No illusion
Cheers!
Did you know Hendrix played left handed but wrote right handed?
Yeah, it would appear he was ambidextrous! Thanks for that contribution. Cheers
@@BELLY_BUTTON_WINDOW I live about a half mile from the Monterey Fairgrounds where the 1967 Monterey Pop was held.
I don’t think he had a board
Perhaps?
Hey belly button Window I'm the first 🎛️🎛️😩🎸🎛️🎛️ wow I turned 1 years-old when they released band of gypsys March 25th 1970..
Aewsome!