This isn’t a criticism from Richards ffs.Its actually a compliment.Hes saying Hendrix was amazing live and the magic couldn’t be fully replicated on record.
Come on, people-Jimi’s albums are mind blowing. Keith always has something negative to say about his R&R contemporaries. Jimi live was obviously a phenomenal experience, but he was just as creative and virtuosic in the studio.
Little Richard said Jimi was not a very good blues player. What he meant was Jimi was an original. A lot of guitarists are good at copying standard riffs and what you hear is a rehash of other players. Jimi created his own musical universe. He tred musically where no other musician was capable of going. A genius who was compelled to open new vistas for others to attempt to follow. Thank the Great Mystery that Jimi was not good at copying what came before.
Yeah, but he was also a phenomenal blues player when he wanted to play straight blues. His hero Albert King was cruel to him, but King's jealousy was all too evident (I say this as someone who loves Albert King). When I first heard Albert King I thought, ah, that's where Jimi got it. Well, that's to say, Jimi took Albert King's foundation and built a space ship and took it to the far side of the universe.
When I was growing up in the 70s, my older brother brought home a record named Are You Experienced by this guy called Hendrix and when I listened to it, I liked it, but as I grew older, the record and Hendrix just receded into the background. Then when I was an adult in the 80s, I had a much fuller picture of the rock music trends from the 50s up to the late 80s. I noticed that 1967 was a key year: the music before that year didn't have a hard edge to it, but then the music after that sounded much different, louder and more distorted. I kept looking for the turning point and one night for some reason I pulled out that same record that my brother had brought home more than a decade earlier, and even though I knew every track by heart, I started listening to it and as I stared at the sleeve, I couldn't believe that the songs I was hearing had come out 20 years earlier. I had found that turning point in rock music. Even to this day in my sixties, I can't think of many records that were so jarringly different from what was coming out around the same time. Maybe Richards wasn't very impressed with the studio versions of Hendrix's song, but I think AYE is probably the most innovative and influential record in rock history.
For me, Jimi's studio stuff was better than SOME live stuff there is film of. Of course he had his magical nights. He WAS Hendrix, after all, but on other live recordings it was a bit of a hash at times. He knew it, and sometimes the frustration showed. There were two Jimi's, and the live one was unpredictable while the studio one most assuredly was going places nobody else had been. I see them as two sides of the same coin as it were. Undeniably the same and yet noticeably different. Both awesome :)
Nail on the head. On a lot of the live recordings and videos Hendrix is out of tune. No guitar tuners to plug into in those days, just lots of drugs. In the studio Chas Chandler said that he just let Jimi loose and recorded everything and then spent hours in the cutting room making sense of it all.
Saw him twice. He was as good as you'd think. He had a ball on stage. Ran into him after the first time I saw him, talked to him a bit, he was humble, cool, a true hippy back when that meant something. Gonna love him as long as I live.
Jimi, Rory Gallagher, The Stones, Tull, Beck, Johnny Winter when he was healthy, all have great albums but you haven’t heard them until you you’ve heard them live. I saw them all except Jimi, I was a few years too young, thank goodness for DVDs and TH-cam.
Listening to an album and attending a concert are two completely different experiences, so it’s apples and oranges as far as I’m concerned. When Jimi sat down in the studio, he wasn’t trying to capture the feel of a live performance-he was creating some of the most perfect recordings of that era.
@ no question that the studio was another instrument that Jimi had hardly tapped the surface of but later bands came to rely on it, many couldn’t touch the studio recordings, the greats exceeded them because they had cut their teeth on performing before the the likes of George Martin opened another musical door. Electric Ladyland hinted at where Jimi might have gone in the studio but as interesting as tracks like Rainy Day, Dream Away are the Standout Tracks remain his impromptu cover of All Along The Watchtower that would easily transfer to live performances and the lightning in a bottle live jam Voodoo Chile with Stevie Winwood and Jack Casady joining Jimi and Mitch, I don’t think that involved much production. Of all the artists lost to the 27 Club, my feeling is he was the only just getting started, what could have been…
Look, the energy from his live performances may not have always been fully captured on vinyl or 8-track, but the musicianship and imaginativeness on Electric Ladyland and his other studio albums was otherworldly. All of us could see and feel it.
I had the good fortune to be sitting next to Jimi on a table at the Monterey Pop festival. He was alone and paid no attention to me. He was experimenting with sounds he could make with his guitar and some sort of tape loop or other guitar paraphernalia box. He just kept experimenting, trying new things, just to see what he could do, what kind of sounds he could make. He was total involved with his experiments. It wasn't really music but I'm sure it informed his music. I got bored after a bit and left. I went into a tent with a jam session going on with a bunch of the festivals musicians, but that's another story.
A bit of a misleading title I think. It'd be more accurate to say, Hendrix was even better live because of the limitations of the recording studio. That makes sense. I would probably have felt the same way if I had seen him live. I think this was a huge compliment from Keith Richards.
Interviewer after woodstock performance - “so Jimi, what does it feel like to be the greatest guitar player in the world?” Jimi - “ I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher” 😂
@@philknight6844 I’m a huge fan of both, I have looked for this, it’s been said that he said this on talk shows, in print interviews etc, I haven’t found it. I have heard Chas Chandler talk about Jimi wanting to meet Beck and Clapton if he moved to London, I have heard Beck say what all the others said when they first saw Jimi, that they had better find another job but when they did meet, Hendrix went on about how much Beck’s work influenced him and that he threw a Beck riff (Rice Pudding?) into something of his… Cream was was his inspiration to have a trio. I’ve heard members of Chicago provide first hand accounts of his admiration for Terry Kath, another great that Jimi is attributed to saying “go ask” but I have not heard anyone say he compared himself in any way, just one great humbly and genuinely appreciating another.
Jimi was effusive with praise if he liked someone’s playing. He said the same thing about King Crimson, and Terry Kath from Chicago!🤣 when you’re great, you don’t hate!🫡💯
Yea Linda Keith. Hendrix got get screwed up on drugs too and left her then Keith had her tracked down for Linda’s father who got her back to England and into rehab.
These guy’s passed around women like a bottle of Jack! And did what you do with an empty….toss it. Keef, whether you like him or not always has a grain of truth in his opinion.
The things he’s saying about the difference between Hendrix’s live and studio performances are the same for any great artist. Mediocre musicians can be made to sound great in the studio, but really what can the studio offer for someone who’s already mind blowing live. Audiophiles will argue about how the studio can capture subtle nuances that would be lost in ambient background noise of a live performance, and to a degree this is correct. But to me the studio has damn harder job of reproducing the energy a great performer pours out of their instrument and being when reacting to the symbiotic relationship of performer and audience when the stars align. Starting way back in the 1970s forward I’ve seen plenty of average to far from great live shows, sometimes by really good groups having an off night. But then again I’ve seen some that took on an out of body level of experience that would have been damn near impossible to strap to a sheet of vinyl. I’m sure Keith Richards disappointment was real, the difference between Hendrix live and the studio version would be like seeing a tiger in the wild and living to talk about it, then seeing one in the zoo.
I think you're right, James. I had that same kind of experience with a number of artists/bands over the years. Perhaps it's a result of the natural tendency to "let 'er rip" when playing in concert, while "playing it safe" in the recording studio?
@ Absolutely, as a musician myself, of no great consequence, the studio was about how your music would be preserved and listened to in a future context. Live was always about the moment, then and there.
@@jamessummerlin9516 You got it, James! I too am a musician (guitar), and of no great consequence-- although FUN has been a major and primary consequence of that lifelong pursuit of music; and if we don't derive fun and joy from it, why pursue it at all? Best example in recent memory would be doing a one-hour set at a retirement home, just yesterday! It clearly brightened some days. I guess a guy could do a lot worse (and believe me, I have)!!
@ My worst experiences on stage or just jamming have been when playing with people that forget to have a good time. I’ve been playing nearly 50 years and I’ve had people ask me why I continue if I didn’t become rich and famous. For one thing, I tell them that was never the reason I started so why should that be a possible reason to stop. Of course rich is nice, but a poor inspiration to compose by, and fame, well I never had that kind of “dig me” ego. It sounds like you have the right Idea, it’s always good to get to play out, but it’s great if someone else gets enjoyment from it.
Keith has spent his whole musical career going as deep as he can into the same traditions that Jimi spent much of his musical career transcending. With regard to R&B and the blues, they were going in opposite directions.
I've got to admit to a sizable amount of perplexity when I clicked on this particular video link. I thought I was going to listen to Keith thrashing somebody, and I was amazed that the object of his scrutiny here was Jimi Hendrix. However, the material being presented here brings something to light that I've known about most of the time that I've been a musician, dating back to 1994. Nothing is ever going to take the place of a live performance, even the most masterfully recorded and crafted record. Being born in 1980, I am instantly too young to have seen Jimi Hendrix perform live myself, so I have no way of experiencing the same thing that the members of The Rolling stones, the beatles, Cream, The Who,, the future members of The Police or any of the others experienced when getting to see either the Jimi Hendrix Experience or the Band of Gypsies on stage. Back when I was 18 in 1998, I had just purchased this economical six-string acoustic guitar. I was standing around in my family's living room one day, the Jackson Browne album *Running on Empty* was playing on the stereo system, and I was trying to play along with it. My father said something he wouldn't have said lightly and kind of caught me off guard, that what I was playing on my cheap guitar sounded better than what was on the record. That kind of bears out what was stated here regarding how the raw energy of Hendrix was lost somewhere between his hands and the tape machine.
Similarly, I always loved Joni Mitchell’s music, but I always preferred her live versions. The musical and lyrical improvisations and the raw energy. It was more organic…freer. Cat Stevens, also had a wild energy in his live performances.
So many brilliant musicians are sadly taken from us far too early, so theirfore so many wont enjoy what the older generation had, not to mention their own wellbeing/ lives
I have not seen him live so i can't tell. But i've heard some great live performances and some that is not that good on vinyl, TV and TH-cam. I really love some of his studio recordings, All along the watchtower, Little Wing, Bold as love, Hey baby( new rising Sun) and many more. I like his Calmer melancholy songs the most and the studio versions really catches it, and it sure takes me away for a moment. Hendrix was extraodinary.
I think that Jimi Hendrix's fame and guitar style was partly a product of the time Jimi Hendrix luckily caught the zegeist where every one was getting high on LSD. Hendrix's wall of noise was lifted through the counter culture of the late 60's hippy era. Hendrix is a legend no doubt but I think people in general would prefer Rolling Stones to Jimi Hendrix due to the fact to The Stones are more listenable and not everyone like 6 minute shredy swirling fuzzing blues licks.
He was not disappointed at all! He said that vinyle didn t gave Jimi's energy, listen. It was the same with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy or Hubet Sumlin or Chick Berry,. But who gave à sh*t to people that Jimi admired.
@@TheGravygunTo me Frank just called out the idiotic behaviour of mankind and had a great sense of humour. If you read/listen to former band members they are for the most part very positive about him. He was demanding but also clear on what was on offer. Few weeks ago watched a video on what he payed the band members (he had a payroll of over $8000 a week). In his official book he said that somewhere late 60's or early 70's he was $25.000 in depth to keep the band together. Frank can be interpreted the wrong way (often times intentionally). FZ is a legend in my book just as Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Keith Richard, Mick Taylor, John Lee Hooker (with Canned Heat!), B.B. King, Eric Clapton and Ry Cooder to name a few.
Richards came up w/ lots of great riffs and moments that are stuck in every music addict's head. If Richards said the Hendrix recordings lacked the same weight and intensity of his live performances, he may be right, but this could be said about every guitarist who's ever put out a record. A recording is not the real thing... similarly, a photograph is not the real thing. I'm in no way bashing Richards, but all of the Hendrix studio recordings deliver, a depth, tonality and weight that isn't on any Stones album.
I personally like the cold precision of Jazz-Rock-Fusion, Blues has too much sloppy "Feeling" and string bending. Hendrix was great for his time. . .but now at age 74, I've seen a lot of different style guitar work that is much more complicated.
Great for his time?!? Come on, man. He’s still most rockers’ choice for GOAT. He could have played any style or genre, including fusion, at the highest level. And nobody-including Stevie Ray Vaughan-has been able to duplicate what Jimi did.
That's what happens when you comment without watching the video, especially if the title is provocative and perhaps a little misleading. Keith praises Jimi to the skies. He's disappointed that the studio recordings didn't capture the energy and entire essence of Hendrix' live performances. The video is about the complexities and potential pitfalls of being an artist.
Keith is a curmudgeon. If he weren’t, he’d have expressed that same sentiment differently, like, “I love Jimi’s work and I thought his guitar playing was unmatched, but my favorite thing about Jimi was his live performances.”
Ehhhh Hendrix on record allowed him to sculpt sounds and create a paralelle universe. Live he was a force of nature. To say that Electric Ladyland sounds 'thin', especially after hearing Stones records is to me a joke. I love Keith, but this doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I find this video disappointing. I expected to actually hear Keith Richards own opinions from the man himself, not recounted 2nd,3rd, 4th hand from some faceless music journalist. Any Hendrix fan could've put this lame effort together.
Suggest hooking up a 300 watt amplifier and a wall of speakers . . . crank it up so you look like the guy in that Maxell tape ad. Otherwise, sure . . . you lose something in the recording.
The last scene in this video is of Jimi Hendrix and Mick Taylor. Hendrix inspired Taylor. It doesn't seem that Hendrix at all inspired Keith Richards to try to be a better player in any capacity. Hendrix had a beautiful vibrato, as did (does) Mick Taylor. And Richards? Ugh, you cringe to hear his vibrato.
Richards is nowhere , nowhere at all, not even in the same universe as Jimi Hendrix . Does Richards really hate as many great bands as You Tube Klick Bait videos say he does ? Who really cares what Keith Richards likes and dosn't like . Keith has Devolved into a primate at this point . Richards died in 1972 his body was eaten by cockroaches . A monkey named Bo bo has been filling in for him since that time . Bo Bo also has a bit of a habit , you might say he's got a Keith Richards on his back .
Haha... Keith Richards is one of the luckiest guys alive to be doing what he does. An unbelievably overrated musician and an extremely average rhythm guitarist... Hendrix was light years ahead in every respect. Thank god we got to hear him...
Oh, don’t start with that nonsense. Keith was a pioneer. Ask any professional rock guitarist if they think he’s overrated, and then prepare for a stern lecture on why he isn’t.
Richards knows quite well that Hendrix was a once in a lifetime musician who changed music forever ...
This isn’t a criticism from Richards ffs.Its actually a compliment.Hes saying Hendrix was amazing live and the magic couldn’t be fully replicated on record.
That's how I took it.
Come on, people-Jimi’s albums are mind blowing. Keith always has something negative to say about his R&R contemporaries. Jimi live was obviously a phenomenal experience, but he was just as creative and virtuosic in the studio.
Little Richard said Jimi was not a very good blues player. What he meant was Jimi was an original. A lot of guitarists are good at copying standard riffs and what you hear is a rehash of other players. Jimi created his own musical universe. He tred musically where no other musician was capable of going. A genius who was compelled to open new vistas for others to attempt to follow. Thank the Great Mystery that Jimi was not good at copying what came before.
Yeah, but he was also a phenomenal blues player when he wanted to play straight blues. His hero Albert King was cruel to him, but King's jealousy was all too evident (I say this as someone who loves Albert King). When I first heard Albert King I thought, ah, that's where Jimi got it. Well, that's to say, Jimi took Albert King's foundation and built a space ship and took it to the far side of the universe.
When I was growing up in the 70s, my older brother brought home a record named Are You Experienced by this guy called Hendrix and when I listened to it, I liked it, but as I grew older, the record and Hendrix just receded into the background. Then when I was an adult in the 80s, I had a much fuller picture of the rock music trends from the 50s up to the late 80s. I noticed that 1967 was a key year: the music before that year didn't have a hard edge to it, but then the music after that sounded much different, louder and more distorted. I kept looking for the turning point and one night for some reason I pulled out that same record that my brother had brought home more than a decade earlier, and even though I knew every track by heart, I started listening to it and as I stared at the sleeve, I couldn't believe that the songs I was hearing had come out 20 years earlier. I had found that turning point in rock music. Even to this day in my sixties, I can't think of many records that were so jarringly different from what was coming out around the same time. Maybe Richards wasn't very impressed with the studio versions of Hendrix's song, but I think AYE is probably the most innovative and influential record in rock history.
For me, Jimi's studio stuff was better than SOME live stuff there is film of. Of course he had his magical nights. He WAS Hendrix, after all, but on other live recordings it was a bit of a hash at times. He knew it, and sometimes the frustration showed.
There were two Jimi's, and the live one was unpredictable while the studio one most assuredly was going places nobody else had been. I see them as two sides of the same coin as it were. Undeniably the same and yet noticeably different. Both awesome :)
Nail on the head. On a lot of the live recordings and videos Hendrix is out of tune.
No guitar tuners to plug into in those days, just lots of drugs.
In the studio Chas Chandler said that he just let Jimi loose and recorded everything and then spent hours in the cutting room making sense of it all.
I’d say this album and the Beano album.
Jimi would be the first person I'd want to see live that I never saw live.
Saw him twice. He was as good as you'd think. He had a ball on stage. Ran into him after the first time I saw him, talked to him a bit, he was humble, cool, a true hippy back when that meant something. Gonna love him as long as I live.
@@thatlovejones Yea sure you did .
Mine is Moon
Jimi, Rory Gallagher, The Stones, Tull, Beck, Johnny Winter when he was healthy, all have great albums but you haven’t heard them until you you’ve heard them live. I saw them all except Jimi, I was a few years too young, thank goodness for DVDs and TH-cam.
Well said!❤
Unfortunately for me, the only one I saw in person was Rory. He was fantastic and you could tell that he loved playing for us.
Listening to an album and attending a concert are two completely different experiences, so it’s apples and oranges as far as I’m concerned. When Jimi sat down in the studio, he wasn’t trying to capture the feel of a live performance-he was creating some of the most perfect recordings of that era.
@johnbaxter3676 you're absolutely right, when Jimi played live, he took it to the next level!
@ no question that the studio was another instrument that Jimi had hardly tapped the surface of but later bands came to rely on it, many couldn’t touch the studio recordings, the greats exceeded them because they had cut their teeth on performing before the the likes of George Martin opened another musical door. Electric Ladyland hinted at where Jimi might have gone in the studio but as interesting as tracks like Rainy Day, Dream Away are the Standout Tracks remain his impromptu cover of All Along The Watchtower that would easily transfer to live performances and the lightning in a bottle live jam Voodoo Chile with Stevie Winwood and Jack Casady joining Jimi and Mitch, I don’t think that involved much production. Of all the artists lost to the 27 Club, my feeling is he was the only just getting started, what could have been…
Look, the energy from his live performances may not have always been fully captured on vinyl or 8-track, but the musicianship and imaginativeness on Electric Ladyland and his other studio albums was otherworldly. All of us could see and feel it.
I had the good fortune to be sitting next to Jimi on a table at the Monterey Pop festival. He was alone and paid no attention to me. He was experimenting with sounds he could make with his guitar and some sort of tape loop or other guitar paraphernalia box. He just kept experimenting, trying new things, just to see what he could do, what kind of sounds he could make. He was total involved with his experiments. It wasn't really music but I'm sure it informed his music. I got bored after a bit and left. I went into a tent with a jam session going on with a bunch of the festivals musicians, but that's another story.
A bit of a misleading title I think. It'd be more accurate to say, Hendrix was even better live because of the limitations of the recording studio. That makes sense. I would probably have felt the same way if I had seen him live. I think this was a huge compliment from Keith Richards.
TH-cam always perverts the titles into clickbait, it's a bit sick to gain people attention with negativity but there ya go.
❤ We need all of them! Jimmy and keith, John, Al, Frank, django and and and. . . 🎉🎉🎉
Interviewer after woodstock performance - “so Jimi, what does it feel like to be the greatest guitar player in the world?”
Jimi - “ I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher” 😂
Zzz. The internet is full of such 'quotes' falsely attributed to Jimi.
@ yeah. True. But that one is on film.
@@philknight6844 I’m a huge fan of both, I have looked for this, it’s been said that he said this on talk shows, in print interviews etc, I haven’t found it. I have heard Chas Chandler talk about Jimi wanting to meet Beck and Clapton if he moved to London, I have heard Beck say what all the others said when they first saw Jimi, that they had better find another job but when they did meet, Hendrix went on about how much Beck’s work influenced him and that he threw a Beck riff (Rice Pudding?) into something of his… Cream was was his inspiration to have a trio. I’ve heard members of Chicago provide first hand accounts of his admiration for Terry Kath, another great that Jimi is attributed to saying “go ask” but I have not heard anyone say he compared himself in any way, just one great humbly and genuinely appreciating another.
Jimi was effusive with praise if he liked someone’s playing. He said the same thing about King Crimson, and Terry Kath from Chicago!🤣 when you’re great, you don’t hate!🫡💯
Great video! Thanks!
keep in mind, Jimi, in effect, stole Keith's girlfriend. Take anything he says towards Hendrix with a grain of salt. just saying.
Yea Linda Keith. Hendrix got get screwed up on drugs too and left her then Keith had her tracked down for Linda’s father who got her back to England and into rehab.
These guy’s passed around women like a bottle of Jack! And did what you do with an empty….toss it. Keef, whether you like him or not always has a grain of truth in his opinion.
Easy to malign the fifty years dead and gone.
Jimi didn't die, Earth was just part of his tour
The things he’s saying about the difference between Hendrix’s live and studio performances are the same for any great artist. Mediocre musicians can be made to sound great in the studio, but really what can the studio offer for someone who’s already mind blowing live. Audiophiles will argue about how the studio can capture subtle nuances that would be lost in ambient background noise of a live performance, and to a degree this is correct. But to me the studio has damn harder job of reproducing the energy a great performer pours out of their instrument and being when reacting to the symbiotic relationship of performer and audience when the stars align. Starting way back in the 1970s forward I’ve seen plenty of average to far from great live shows, sometimes by really good groups having an off night. But then again I’ve seen some that took on an out of body level of experience that would have been damn near impossible to strap to a sheet of vinyl. I’m sure Keith Richards disappointment was real, the difference between Hendrix live and the studio version would be like seeing a tiger in the wild and living to talk about it, then seeing one in the zoo.
I think you're right, James. I had that same kind of experience with a number of artists/bands over the years. Perhaps it's a result of the natural tendency to "let 'er rip" when playing in concert, while "playing it safe" in the recording studio?
@ Absolutely, as a musician myself, of no great consequence, the studio was about how your music would be preserved and listened to in a future context. Live was always about the moment, then and there.
@@jamessummerlin9516 You got it, James! I too am a musician (guitar), and of no great consequence-- although FUN has been a major and primary consequence of that lifelong pursuit of music; and if we don't derive fun and joy from it, why pursue it at all? Best example in recent memory would be doing a one-hour set at a retirement home, just yesterday! It clearly brightened some days. I guess a guy could do a lot worse (and believe me, I have)!!
@ My worst experiences on stage or just jamming have been when playing with people that forget to have a good time. I’ve been playing nearly 50 years and I’ve had people ask me why I continue if I didn’t become rich and famous. For one thing, I tell them that was never the reason I started so why should that be a possible reason to stop. Of course rich is nice, but a poor inspiration to compose by, and fame, well I never had that kind of “dig me” ego. It sounds like you have the right Idea, it’s always good to get to play out, but it’s great if someone else gets enjoyment from it.
@@jamessummerlin9516 You got it, man! Have a great weekend!
Keith has spent his whole musical career going as deep as he can into the same traditions that Jimi spent much of his musical career transcending.
With regard to R&B and the blues, they were going in opposite directions.
I've got to admit to a sizable amount of perplexity when I clicked on this particular video link. I thought I was going to listen to Keith thrashing somebody, and I was amazed that the object of his scrutiny here was Jimi Hendrix. However, the material being presented here brings something to light that I've known about most of the time that I've been a musician, dating back to 1994. Nothing is ever going to take the place of a live performance, even the most masterfully recorded and crafted record. Being born in 1980, I am instantly too young to have seen Jimi Hendrix perform live myself, so I have no way of experiencing the same thing that the members of The Rolling stones, the beatles, Cream, The Who,, the future members of The Police or any of the others experienced when getting to see either the Jimi Hendrix Experience or the Band of Gypsies on stage.
Back when I was 18 in 1998, I had just purchased this economical six-string acoustic guitar. I was standing around in my family's living room one day, the Jackson Browne album *Running on Empty* was playing on the stereo system, and I was trying to play along with it. My father said something he wouldn't have said lightly and kind of caught me off guard, that what I was playing on my cheap guitar sounded better than what was on the record. That kind of bears out what was stated here regarding how the raw energy of Hendrix was lost somewhere between his hands and the tape machine.
I ❤ Keith
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RIP ANGELS 😇
The master is alive ❤
Isn't Richards critical of the recording, and not the actual Hendrix?
Absolutely.He’s actually complimenting Hendrix
But there’s nothing to be critical about. His albums were genius, his live playing was genius, and that’s that.
@@johnbaxter3676that part!💯🫡
Similarly, I always loved Joni Mitchell’s music, but I always preferred her live versions. The musical and lyrical improvisations and the raw energy. It was more organic…freer. Cat Stevens, also had a wild energy in his live performances.
I was sure this was gonna be about how Keef figured out that Chuck Berry was a jerk.
The writing for this video is really good. Very expressive without being purple prose.
So many brilliant musicians are sadly taken from us far too early, so theirfore so many wont enjoy what the older generation had, not to mention their own wellbeing/ lives
I have not seen him live so i can't tell. But i've heard some great live performances and some that is not that good on vinyl, TV and TH-cam. I really love some of his studio recordings, All along the watchtower, Little Wing, Bold as love, Hey baby( new rising Sun) and many more. I like his Calmer melancholy songs the most and the studio versions really catches it, and it sure takes me away for a moment. Hendrix was extraodinary.
I think that Jimi Hendrix's fame and guitar style was partly a product of the time Jimi Hendrix luckily caught the zegeist where every one was getting high on LSD. Hendrix's wall of noise was lifted through the counter culture of the late 60's hippy era. Hendrix is a legend no doubt but I think people in general would prefer Rolling Stones to Jimi Hendrix due to the fact to The Stones are more listenable and not everyone like 6 minute shredy swirling fuzzing blues licks.
I initially read it this way:
The Legendary Guitarist That Disappointed...Keith Richards🤣😂
❤ EVERYBODY HAS THEIR OWN WAY OF
FOLLOWING
BEAT OF THE DRUM., EXSPRESSING THEIR SELF.❤😂
He was not disappointed at all! He said that vinyle didn t gave Jimi's energy, listen. It was the same with Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy or Hubet Sumlin or Chick Berry,. But who gave à sh*t to people that Jimi admired.
Jimmy was not of this Earth.
No kidding...😮.
Jimi didn't die, Earth was just part of his tour
I'm not entirely sure but I think his name was Jimi
It’s a valid criticism.
Hendrix wasn’t captured well on record.
HENDRIX also often felt that way.
What about the genius drummer Mitch Mitchel and also Noel Redding who did such a pro funk job on bass?
This clickbait title was a critique of the studio production process, not of the guitarist, the legend, the force that is James Marshall Hendrix.
What a confusing mishmash of overblown rhetoric! Very little of it even vaguely true.
Frank Zappa was positive about Jimi Hendrix, he saw the talent.
Frank had contempt for his fans. He laughed at them.
@@TheGravygunTo me Frank just called out the idiotic behaviour of mankind and had a great sense of humour. If you read/listen to former band members they are for the most part very positive about him. He was demanding but also clear on what was on offer.
Few weeks ago watched a video on what he payed the band members (he had a payroll of over $8000 a week). In his official book he said that somewhere late 60's or early 70's he was $25.000 in depth to keep the band together.
Frank can be interpreted the wrong way (often times intentionally).
FZ is a legend in my book just as Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Keith Richard, Mick Taylor, John Lee Hooker (with Canned Heat!), B.B. King, Eric Clapton and Ry Cooder to name a few.
A misleading clickbait TH-cam thumbnail-there’s a shock….
Richards came up w/ lots of great riffs and moments that are stuck in every music addict's head. If Richards said the Hendrix recordings lacked the same weight and intensity of his live performances, he may be right, but this could be said about every guitarist who's ever put out a record. A recording is not the real thing... similarly, a photograph is not the real thing. I'm in no way bashing Richards, but all of the Hendrix studio recordings deliver, a depth, tonality and weight that isn't on any Stones album.
Recording is not "real"? Tell that to Jimmy Page and Pink Floyd.
I personally like the cold precision of Jazz-Rock-Fusion, Blues has too much sloppy "Feeling" and string bending. Hendrix was great for his time. . .but now at age 74, I've seen a lot of different style guitar work that is much more complicated.
……but they didn’t write Bold As Love.
Great for his time?!? Come on, man. He’s still most rockers’ choice for GOAT. He could have played any style or genre, including fusion, at the highest level. And nobody-including Stevie Ray Vaughan-has been able to duplicate what Jimi did.
@@johnbaxter3676 Born Under A Bad Sign recording in 69 will plow that back field.
The only thing I have to get music is that it takes ego
wonder if keef would say no musician sounds as good on record as live
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Are you sure the Guitarist That Disappointed Keith Richards wasn't actually Keith?
That's what happens when you comment without watching the video, especially if the title is provocative and perhaps a little misleading. Keith praises Jimi to the skies. He's disappointed that the studio recordings didn't capture the energy and entire essence of Hendrix' live performances. The video is about the complexities and potential pitfalls of being an artist.
Keith is a curmudgeon. If he weren’t, he’d have expressed that same sentiment differently, like, “I love Jimi’s work and I thought his guitar playing was unmatched, but my favorite thing about Jimi was his live performances.”
Ehhhh Hendrix on record allowed him to sculpt sounds and create a paralelle universe. Live he was a force of nature. To say that Electric Ladyland sounds 'thin', especially after hearing Stones records is to me a joke. I love Keith, but this doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
I find this video disappointing. I expected to actually hear Keith Richards own opinions from the man himself, not recounted 2nd,3rd, 4th hand from some faceless music journalist. Any Hendrix fan could've put this lame effort together.
Mick Taylor.
Okay live vs record is a given. Some artists were not as good live. I still like the records as well as the live. All this hubub is a moot point.
Suggest hooking up a 300 watt amplifier and a wall of speakers . . . crank it up so you look like the guy in that Maxell tape ad. Otherwise, sure . . . you lose something in the recording.
The last scene in this video is of Jimi Hendrix and Mick Taylor. Hendrix inspired Taylor. It doesn't seem that Hendrix at all inspired Keith Richards to try to be a better player in any capacity. Hendrix had a beautiful vibrato, as did (does) Mick Taylor. And Richards? Ugh, you cringe to hear his vibrato.
Compared to Hendrix, Keith is a very limited guitarplayer, just saying...and he was jealous, because of Linda Keith...never forget that!
How do you know he was jealous? Wasn't he with Anita Pallenburg by that time?
Did you actually watch the video? Richards is actually praising him not dissing him.
'Just saying' seems to be the 'cliche du jour', replacing 'end of'. Not sure which is worst.
Funny, I consider both Hendrix and Richards to be better in the studio.
Controlled environments emphasize new developments.
Consider the definition of 'run'. Lots of places to go, lots of nuances, concepts.
Great last line
Many guitarists hate Keith because he is a pretender.
Richards is nowhere , nowhere at all, not even in the same universe as Jimi Hendrix . Does Richards really hate as many great bands as You Tube Klick Bait videos say he does ? Who really cares what Keith Richards likes and dosn't like . Keith has Devolved into a primate at this point . Richards died in 1972 his body was eaten by cockroaches . A monkey named Bo bo has been filling in for him since that time . Bo Bo also has a bit of a habit , you might say he's got a Keith Richards on his back .
Funny listening to an AI voice talk about 'spirit'
simply envy
Just what I was thinking
Haha... Keith Richards is one of the luckiest guys alive to be doing what he does. An unbelievably overrated musician and an extremely average rhythm guitarist... Hendrix was light years ahead in every respect. Thank god we got to hear him...
Distortion
Richards has no right too criticize... He is perhaps one of rocks most overrated guitarists.
Blah blah blah
Keith couldn't carry Jimi Hendrix guitar pick
Richards lacks the sophistication to understand Jimi`s studio material
Keith isn’t on my list of greats. Lotta people do what he does, amateurly.
It's almost laughable to have such a miserable guitarist as Richards comment on Hendrix
Richard’s is not a good guitar player.
Oh, don’t start with that nonsense. Keith was a pioneer. Ask any professional rock guitarist if they think he’s overrated, and then prepare for a stern lecture on why he isn’t.
Jimi was just Jimi.