True bluesman with mileage, have century's of thier craft , some look forward, some don't. It's the blues' jimi said himself, he was always trying to get back to. But for sure, jimi had his own heavily feedback orchestrated dope music
I wouldn't say the old man is hating. He just has a professional opinion. Not liking something, not appreciating something, having a different opinion isn't hate. Hate is the result and expression of emotional pain caused by anger, with an undertone of rage ...
@@fk-hi6gs hate can also stem from ignorance. He didn't understand Jimi lighting his guitar on fire, or using distortion, he didn't give Jimi Hendrix the respect he deserved cuz he didn't understand. It was new to him. It's not a professional opinion, he said Jimi Hendrix didn't play the blues. That's not an opinion, that's false. Everything this man said was hate. It was bitterness, and that's fine. I love em both.
@@Kashmirknight thing is, both Stevie and Jimi were well known for not knowing music theory and how and why things worked. They just played the hell out of their instruments and their bandmates put the songs together for them.
he's one of the reason why Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton began playing guitar...he inspired many 1960s bands...they all owed him a "thank you"...they were inspired by blues songs from the 20s to the 50s...
@eivindgjengstjohansen9625 I do listen to some of his music, and I know many of the younger musicians looked up to him and other legends, I just have never liked such cockiness
This is what I always disliked about the old school blues players. Had to play a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, always seemingly stuck in tradition and the old ways and that's what made Hendrix so great, he broke out of those old molds and ways and did something new and exciting that these guys were too stubborn and afraid to do.
Nothing new here. Just some good ol' boy mentality. It's in every walk of life. Restaurant critics , art critics, the corporate world; all awash in reviews that say, "if only you were more like me".
Not jealously. All of Jimi's music was psychedelia. He was not a bluesman in the traditional sense of the word. Even Red House was not "the blues" the way Jimi played it.
@lisareitzel7501 are you joking? "Red House" is 100% a blues song, period. Hendrix was a better guitar player and more successful than King, and the jealousy is palpable.
@@lisareitzel7501what the hell you'r talking about jimi was a coat in bleus no one play better as jimi albert king was a hatter to jimi he wish that he could play jimi's bleus jams
Man, Albert was always known for his big ego. You may think he play the same licks you should listen with more attention to his playing, that is full of little nuances. Of course Albert is not better than Hendrix, however he's one of the best guitarists of all time, and inspired people to this day.
@@hopebrowning6300 Stop and take a look at what Jimi did in a span of only 4 years. You may not like his tone or his music but there was much much more to him than that. There's a reason he's widely regarded as the best guitar player that ever lived. Every top tier guitar player around at the time got nervous when he showed up on the scene. If he was nothing but a few notes, flash and gimmicks that wouldn't have been the case back in his day, and he wouldn't be at the top over 50 years later.
@@jmorrisey79 but even Jimi said he isn't the best. That's just like when Bruce lee said he's simply not the best. Even Jimi Hendrix had a Muhammad Ali he couldn't topple and his Ali was The Kings
Yeah, Albert didn't even know the name of the song. He only heard Red House once? Sounds like he didn't hear Hendrix enough to know much about him. They played one show together, with Hendrix displaying a lot of his stage antics, so apparently Albert didn't see the full side of him.
Sophisticated Lady is a jazz standard by Duke Ellington. Seems understandable that King could confuse the two titles. His hating on Jimi is disappointing, however.
@@6IXSTRING90 as if thats a hendrix hit, of course he wouldn't cuz that's a far different era of hendrix and not something albert wouldnt bother to try
True. My favourite song of all time btw... However, I would say that it actually redefined the twelve bar standard. This is probably what Albert means as it's not particularly traditional and I think that's why he's criticising it...
Jimi blended traditional blues, with R&B, rock, and folk; and Frankensteined his own style of playing music. It's easier to follow a structure, but it's another thing to write the blueprint for a totally new one.... and that's wat Hendrix did
Amen bro. I have Hendrix playing redhouse on that documentary, mind blowing. We can't let these, moabites destroy Hendrix 's legacy. Nothing is sacred in the world anymore, just a bunch of no talent programmers. Geez I have to calm down 😆 🤣
no, he changed the way electric guitar was played, that's all... Albert King had all the right to talk like that about Hendrix... specially because he was right, Hendrix wasn't a blues player, but a rythm and blues based player, and that's related but not the same
Jimi Hendrix was a phenom. He could play the blues, just not like anyone else could, and couldn’t do it the way Albert King expected his blues to sound. Jimi broke the mold of how the music is supposed to sound in the eyes of players in that era. He was ahead of his time and he was psychedelic too.
Albert King said on more than one occasion he was disappointed with never getting the notoriety he thought he deserved. I can't take away anything from the Albert, but Jimi has some of the best blues tracks. His blues album is amazing.
Jimi was used to being criticized for his unorthodox style. Whatever Albert said or thought, Jimi couldn't care less. He was too busy singlehandedly rewriting the vocabulary of rock guitar that's responsible for the great evolution that continues to this day in Vai, Satch, Guthrie Govan, etc.
He doesn't look like He's Looking up to him in this photo !!! And , By the way ,I found B.B. KING's playing Mono- Tonous and Boring ...Same kinda Shit , Song After song ! Jimi 's Playing was Preternatural ! Awesomely so ...Been Trying to play his stuff , since I first heard " Third Stone from the Sun " Wafting down out of the Barracks @ Form- Up before the Sunday Parade at C.M.A. circa 1967 . Haven't even gotten close , except for Manic Depression ...did a decent job of Copying That One
He played the same pentatonic wank licks for decades. Overrated. Most 16 year old kids who take guitar playing seriously are better than him nowadays. The bar has been raised several times over since his hey day
Didn't care that much for his style with the strings upside down. He could get the pitch by bending down. But your not going yo see him play any pretty chords
I guess Albert never listened to Red House on the same album as Foxy Lady. Cause that’s a straight 12 bar blues song that Jimi absolutely killed, and pays homage to Albert using his famous lick on the first solo.
@@danpolseno9728 Jimi had insane chords for his time that people hadnt heard on guitar. Wtf are you talking about? Plenty of awesome musicians who play right handed instruments left handed that sound incredibly unique. MonoNeon and Jimmy Haslip come to mind off the top of my head
@@jamiehalifax4954 Do you mean that it's impossible for anyone to dislike the 'Pride & Joy' of Dallas, Texas, or that there's good reason to hate everyone else in the world? 😂
Cuz srv ain't no hendrix despite playing his songs but hes the guy, im no fan of him but i guess albert picked him cuz he had what it took to play guitar
@@Alan-su5bg SRV always gave Jimi praise as an innovator, which he certainly was, as well as a fantastic showman. In my opinion, SRV was a more complete guitar player. But I'll listen to either one of them and wish I could play like that.
Jimi played blues but just stretched it farther. I think there’s probably some good analogy w science like saying string theory has nothing to do w Einstein or telescopes or something like that. And sometimes you have to leave the US and learn about other music, and then you suddenly realize how much the blues is a part of almost everything we hear. it’s not that easy to understand until you leave and then you come back and you realize songs you didn’t even think where the blues are most definitely 100% simply blues. We owe everything to jazz rap, everything African-Americans did that was so innovative from pain is guess. so I think maybe that’s what he was referring to. This was a man that lived a different life in his mind. I think he was very far from the kind of poverty and difficulties that Albert King knew of, I think that’s a little bit of what he’s referring to. Hendrix claimed he was born in a very diverse pocket of the country when he was in Seattle, he also was very much not interested in being boxed in.
You guys don’t have enough respect for Albert King and even Jimi Hendrix’ humble spirit. Albert King was one of Jimi’s heroes and King played the electric guitar way before any guitar hero. I’m sure Albert King had been asked this question a 1000 times and this time he must have been sick of it and gave this answer.. But there is no doubt that Jimi would agree he couldn’t hit the notes of Albert Kings which are a very personal style.. Remember… Alot of Hendrix solos wouldn’t be the same without those Albert King licks and bends.. And King went on to do a beautiful cover of Red House.. Albert is from a different time and had a very strict idea how the blues should sound. Respect for both!
Great that Duane Allman was mentioned as a distant 2nd and was was an incredible lmprove player. I bet they are getting along just fine in rock heaven.
@@heentlasaa9974 Albert King is an originator in the development of blues. Hendrix was already standing on the shoulder of giants. His version of Born under a bad sign is a great rendition but it don’t have the feel of Alberts
I have a recording of Hendrix playing at Berkeley and it was phenomenal he wasn't too drunk or too stoned he was in the zone and he could fill all the notes
There's a story that after an Albert King record was released around that time, Hendrix and Buddy Miles were in the studio and were singing every phrase on the album because they had listened to it so much and were such big fans of it
@@mastershan87 The man inspired generations of musicians, and gave birth to a new genre ... Heavy Metal. Why in the hell does anyone see music as a competition, anyway? It's all a matter of subjective taste. I understand that it's difficult to master Jazz, but Jazz is just not what I like to listen to.
@@LexanderMiller He was jealous, you can spin it however you want but it is plain jealousy. He knew everyone was saying this new guy Jimi Hendrix is the man and he didn't like it, very petty.
@@drumlover69 Jealousy doesn't permit you to be humble enough to teach somebody something you don't think they deserve to know. Albert King taught Hendrix freely and that was that. Even Quincy Jones went on record to say that Hendrix was too nervous to play alongside jazz musicians in his ranks and backed out. Certainly one of the most successful musicians and producers in the world had nothing to b jealous of by telling it like he saw it. Yes, he was a good guitarist, but timing is everything and he arrived at a time when this was new, certainly for an African American.t o be playing this kind of music.
I was at a Winterland concert in 69 or 70. Jimmy and Albert were on the same ticket. At the end of Albert's set, he started criticizing Jimmy saying he didn't play the blues. Jimmy came on right afterward and he just said "well, uh, Albert doesn't think I can play the blues, well dig this". Jimmy just broke into paying "Red House" The crowd went wild and hopefully Albert caught the dog out of town.
so true, i played with hendrix back in 69 at the Miami snowshoe festival. he asked me to help him learn chords real quick. i tried but he couldnt figure it out
The thing about Hendrix, me being a black American I can say this, he was never fully embraced by the black audience. He was recognized but not to the degree that you think he would’ve been. And that’s sentiment “here”
As someone of mixed heritage myself, I think black people in mainly black communities, as they were in the 60s/70s, are drawn mostly to music that has its' roots in black traditions. Whether soul, blues back in the day, funk, hip hop etc. Hendrix was raised in a mainly white environment in Seattle and had a wider eclectic mix of influences including his own partly native American Indian heritage. He came to England in 1966 and absorbed the sounds, technology and experimentation that was at the forefront of music at the time. It's no surprise that despite being mostly black racially his music never penetrated black musical sensibilities on a wide scale.
If you go to other countries you will suddenly realize how American music is so steeped in the blues that what you didn’t even think was the blues definitely is. I learned that traveling (and dating a producer). Bc I would say well what about x song? He’d laugh, said “12 bar” break it down, oh yeah, huh.
There wasn't any jealousy. This is why you cannot believe youtube videos. Albert did not hate Jimi, he didn't consider Jimi a blues purist. Just to prove Albert didnt hate Jimi. Albert named his last album "red house" in tribute to Jimi
"That 'Red House', that'll make you grab your mother and choke her! Man, that's really hard, that tears you apart. He could get down, he could mash it, yeah, Lord! He had so many blues" John Lee Hooker
Red House is the test piece, the Grail itself, in a Life of amazing ass-kickers, just like Texas Flood is SRV's personal Monument. Althou, I am partial to Look at Little Sister. ❤❤❤ much love all around.
From a technical standpoint i understand what he is saying. Every new generation learns a cheat code to get around certain basic rules to the art . like using gps but can't read a paper map
And he did destroy 1-4-5 blues on the reg. People are citing Red House, and sure I love that track but listen to his dynamics and absolute mastery and fluidity on Radio One’s Hear My Train A Comin’ (also on BBC Sessions as an Alternate take I think) where he actually says on the track “We’re gonna throw a little bit of blues on ya” and then proceeds to lay down …. well I mean you just can’t describe what he proceeds to lay down. It’s just breathtaking and still gives me chills 30 years and 3000 listens after the first time I’ve heard it. It’s like he’s figured out how to paint beautifully with lightening.
Reminds me how the OG's hated on Robert Johnson when he returned from his learning hiatus and blew their minds, their response was "he sold his soul to play like that" 😅
He was a rhythm & blues player at heart. He could certainly play the blues but wasn't a blues player like T-Bone or BB were, so it doesn't surprise me that a purist wouldn't consider him as such. In the end, who cares? These two guys are and always will be in my playlist, they both were monster players on their own right.
“I could’ve VERY easily played his songs…he can’t play mine” Even as a Albert King fan, NO WAY IN HELL could he play Third Stone from the sun or 1983. Dude would break a finger, at least
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Why is this edited like a true crime murder confession lmao
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LOL. True.
Fr lol. The music is so intense
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Best comment yet on this video!! 😂😂😂 personally I love both of them, though I definitely lean more towards Albert, but I’m a Gibson man! 😊
To be fair, Jimi played music that was peculiar to his personality. He wasn't rock, he wasn't blues, he was uniquely himself.
Nobody could say it better my friend!!
Exactly
Yes but he did strait up blues like red house and hear my train a coming
Bingo!
@@kosmokramer5420 the studio version of HMTC, the one on the Rainbow Bridge soundtrack, is the epitome of Jimi’s blues.
Albert is a titan, but he’s talking bullshit here.
-I Hate when I see an OG looking down on somebody younger, who looked up to them.
Chuck Berry was that kind of asshole, turned up to eleven.
BB spoke highly of Jimi. Albert, sorry brah, you’re lack of confidence in yourself tells the story….Jimi’s music speaks for itself.
True bluesman with mileage, have century's of thier craft , some look forward, some don't. It's the blues' jimi said himself, he was always trying to get back to. But for sure, jimi had his own heavily feedback orchestrated dope music
Me too
To be fair, Albert loved SRV since he was a rookie and thought he was worthy of passing the blues torch to
Sounds like an old head hating on something he didn't understand quite fully yet
kinda
Hendrix is the most overated guitarist ever you chump
Still a better musician n a legend than you'll ever be boi
I wouldn't say the old man is hating. He just has a professional opinion. Not liking something, not appreciating something, having a different opinion isn't hate. Hate is the result and expression of emotional pain caused by anger, with an undertone of rage ...
@@fk-hi6gs hate can also stem from ignorance. He didn't understand Jimi lighting his guitar on fire, or using distortion, he didn't give Jimi Hendrix the respect he deserved cuz he didn't understand. It was new to him. It's not a professional opinion, he said Jimi Hendrix didn't play the blues. That's not an opinion, that's false. Everything this man said was hate. It was bitterness, and that's fine. I love em both.
Don’t get me wrong Albert’s guitar playing was smooth, but there ain’t no fucking way he could play Jimi’s shit.
Straight up truth.
Albert showing insecurity right there.
Fr
The fact of the matter is….there’s not many today who could play jimi’s shit.
Yeah have definitely never heard any Albert King record like Third Stone from the Sun. 😂
well Jimi is the goat, no one can touch him.
The difference is that there are many great blues guitar players. There is only ONE Jimi.
Albert was great, but he clearly was feeling threatened. Jimi was on a different level from Albert. Sorry Al.
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Yeah a much lower level.
“I could very easily have played HIS songs” 🙄
BB King said Jimi Hendrix played the blues that's all I need
Even more so. Stevie Ray Vaughan admired him. He could play circles around almost any blues player.
Stevie Ray Vaughn also appreciated the history and culture of the Blues. He was a beast but still a humble student.
Exactly 😊
@@Kashmirknight thing is, both Stevie and Jimi were well known for not knowing music theory and how and why things worked. They just played the hell out of their instruments and their bandmates put the songs together for them.
@@bigchiefsmackaho387 say you know nothing about music theory without saying you don’t know it.
“He didn’t stroke my ego the way Stevie Ray Vaughan did” there…I fixed it 😂
EXACTLY 🤣
SRV was 90% blues tho,Jimi liked to experiment!.
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Exactly! Not to mention, Jimi could play the blues like nobody’s business! Albert was being a bit of a hater 😒
Lol
All I'm hearing is "how come I'm not as popular as Jimi?"
he's one of the reason why Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton began playing guitar...he inspired many 1960s bands...they all owed him a "thank you"...they were inspired by blues songs from the 20s to the 50s...
@eivindgjengstjohansen9625 I do listen to some of his music, and I know many of the younger musicians looked up to him and other legends, I just have never liked such cockiness
@@slowriderfastbike King is a legend though like Chuck Berry or Muddy Waters.
Could have something to do with the fact that he never latched onto the hippie movement and put out pop drivel like Purple Haze and Foxy Lady...
This is what I always disliked about the old school blues players. Had to play a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, always seemingly stuck in tradition and the old ways and that's what made Hendrix so great, he broke out of those old molds and ways and did something new and exciting that these guys were too stubborn and afraid to do.
Amen
Nothing new here. Just some good ol' boy mentality. It's in every walk of life. Restaurant critics , art critics, the corporate world; all awash in reviews that say, "if only you were more like me".
@@aldonapolitano5979 You know, I swear I could've heard that somewhere before 🤔
@@kurtcobain6075 Ya know, it was such a good reply, I decided share it with the world as a post.
@@aldonapolitano5979 😱😱😱
Jealousy is a bitch…
F'N RIGHT!!! ENVY IS EVIL!!!
Not jealously. All of Jimi's music was psychedelia. He was not a bluesman in the traditional sense of the word. Even Red House was not "the blues" the way Jimi played it.
@@lisareitzel7501listen to the blues album jimi played blues better than most....once I had a wonan.... amazing blues
@lisareitzel7501 are you joking? "Red House" is 100% a blues song, period. Hendrix was a better guitar player and more successful than King, and the jealousy is palpable.
@@lisareitzel7501what the hell you'r talking about jimi was a coat in bleus no one play better as jimi albert king was a hatter to jimi he wish that he could play jimi's bleus jams
“Did you ever hear Hendrix recording of Red House?” The finest counter argument I’ve ever heard. 🤘😎
Nah lmao
And wouldn’t ya know he’s hoid it once doc
Yassssss! Thank you!!!
...and the only one you need.
Red House here th-cam.com/video/_whI9m0SFys/w-d-xo.html
Before today I had very much respect for Albert king
Jimi Hendrix was amazing, whatever he was playing.
Hendrix was amazing, no doubt. He got sounds out of his guitar no one had heard before; fantastic sounds. But it was not always music.
Ahh my favorite Jimi Hendrix song 🎶
"Sophisticated lady"😂
Lmao
You gotta hear little wing. If you haven't oh my😁😁
@@ernestvalentino689 he was pointing out the humor in mr king’s misconception, considering sophisticated lady is a jazz standard
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"We have Jimi Hendrix at home"
“I could play his stuff but he couldn’t play mine" -The man that plays the same lick for every song
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Man, Albert was always known for his big ego. You may think he play the same licks you should listen with more attention to his playing, that is full of little nuances. Of course Albert is not better than Hendrix, however he's one of the best guitarists of all time, and inspired people to this day.
King had soul and played from the heart . touched people .jimi style was to impress and show off a few notes and all full nasty so called tone
@@hopebrowning6300 Stop and take a look at what Jimi did in a span of only 4 years. You may not like his tone or his music but there was much much more to him than that. There's a reason he's widely regarded as the best guitar player that ever lived. Every top tier guitar player around at the time got nervous when he showed up on the scene. If he was nothing but a few notes, flash and gimmicks that wouldn't have been the case back in his day, and he wouldn't be at the top over 50 years later.
@@jmorrisey79 but even Jimi said he isn't the best. That's just like when Bruce lee said he's simply not the best. Even Jimi Hendrix had a Muhammad Ali he couldn't topple and his Ali was The Kings
Jiminy was his own genre. And Albert sounds a little envious.
“You got to be all mine all mine
Ooh *sophisticated* lady yeah!”
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‘sophisticated lady’ is a popular lyric in a bunch of songs, it isn’t that preposterous
Yeah, Albert didn't even know the name of the song. He only heard Red House once? Sounds like he didn't hear Hendrix enough to know much about him. They played one show together, with Hendrix displaying a lot of his stage antics, so apparently Albert didn't see the full side of him.
Sophisticated Lady is a jazz standard by Duke Ellington. Seems understandable that King could confuse the two titles.
His hating on Jimi is disappointing, however.
“Sophisticated Lady” LMAO
The Meters
@@jonathanpark7245 Ellington wrote Sophisticated lady.
@@warrendoris9669 you right. Im thinking of sophisticated sissy
He knew the name damn well. Man's a lair.
I think he's making fun of the song cuz it's corny.
Hendrix guitar playing is Legendary
Albert is just overwhelmed with Jealousy
When the student outshines the master
EVERYBODY plays the blues.
NOBODY plays Jimi, but jimi.
Jimi pushed a button and got smoke.
I got my pipe, like a real man.
Fax
Not everybody plays the blues, only a few people play really good blues.
And Randy Hansen plays Jimi like Jimi. Just listen to Randy Performing machine gun. You will see what I’m talking about
old heads been hating on new music since the birth of rock LOL
Yeah, Jimi was a new cat the " counter culture". Albert King was a " old timer" that shit was played out around that time.
The reporter should have told him: "You might not be ready, but your kids gonna love it!"
Voodoo chile, hey joe, if 6 was 9 not blues? Jimi had a phenomenal grasp of a blues feel. Albert just bent and bent like a maniac
Jimi: ‘and I took that personally’
he's right, he didn't just play the blues. He played electrified Jimi hendrix blues
His own thing and Jimmy did it only one Jimmie
Red House is blues.
@@dennisgrubbs1929
Jimi.
Right Awnnn ...!!
“I could very easy play his songs….” yeah the heck right, Albert. 💀
Albert could''ve definitely played his songs but yeah to say Jimi couldn't play the blues is a bit outrageous
@@todorkerev1707Albert can't play machine gum or star spangle banner
@@6IXSTRING90 as if thats a hendrix hit, of course he wouldn't cuz that's a far different era of hendrix and not something albert wouldnt bother to try
Completely agree!
Yeah I love Albert but c'mon man
What made ppl like Jimi special was his ability to connect.
Jimmy handed the blues to a whole new generation
Damn King, Hendrix really lived in yer head rent free
Red house was absolutely a "form" of the blues.
Haha ya this is like Jerry Garcia saying that rap isn't music. Just closed minded old man talk.
True. My favourite song of all time btw... However, I would say that it actually redefined the twelve bar standard. This is probably what Albert means as it's not particularly traditional and I think that's why he's criticising it...
Precisely and brilliant, one of my favourites!
Jimi blended traditional blues, with R&B, rock, and folk; and Frankensteined his own style of playing music. It's easier to follow a structure, but it's another thing to write the blueprint for a totally new one.... and that's wat Hendrix did
Facts!!
Why tear down anyone. Jimi was awesome to what played. A. King was awesome at what he played. Let's leave those legends alone.
He hasn’t heard red house. That’s all I needed to know
Amen bro. I have Hendrix playing redhouse on that documentary, mind blowing. We can't let these, moabites destroy Hendrix 's legacy. Nothing is sacred in the world anymore, just a bunch of no talent programmers. Geez I have to calm down 😆 🤣
AK was indeed talented but too full of his ego. He sounds so jealous and sore over the Hendrix hype. He's so obviously lying about hearing red house.
@@mihalispsychedelicrealeyes1284 you do realize this quote is most likely from 40-50 years ago? And that Albert King has been dead for 30 years?
Also, Voodoo Child, the 15 minute one.
(Not the Slight Return one, just to make it painfully clear).
The background music though XD TENSE
Both legends, obviously, but this is a "Old man yells at cloud" moment. Jimi was playing that Blues 2.0
Both overrated.
@@bf859lol , you clearly Bebe touched a guitar 🎸 before
Yeah, your albums are so much more popular, acclaimed.....btw....wh TF Ru????! Lol shhhhhhh@@bf859
The old always rejects the new. 'back in my day' has its limits 😂
Bruh, he knew dang well it was called Foxy Lady.
Albert King revolutionized the Blues.
Jimi Hendrix revolutionized the music.
Well said
Great way to put it
What? Makes no sense
@@southie3177 no well said. Blues is the music. Should have said jimi revolutionized the guitar. He was not a bluesman
no, he changed the way electric guitar was played, that's all...
Albert King had all the right to talk like that about Hendrix... specially because he was right, Hendrix wasn't a blues player, but a rythm and blues based player, and that's related but not the same
“Guess this guy wasn’t ready for that yet, but the kids are going love it” 😂
Underrated comment😂😂
Back to that future !!
“That”
Sums up this video perfectly!
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Jimi Hendrix was a phenom. He could play the blues, just not like anyone else could, and couldn’t do it the way Albert King expected his blues to sound. Jimi broke the mold of how the music is supposed to sound in the eyes of players in that era. He was ahead of his time and he was psychedelic too.
Albert King said on more than one occasion he was disappointed with never getting the notoriety he thought he deserved. I can't take away anything from the Albert, but Jimi has some of the best blues tracks. His blues album is amazing.
Hendrix was born with a talent. You can attend music schools and rehearse for years, but you will never reach his level. It was a gift
The sad thing is Jimi looked up to Albert king
Jimi was used to being criticized for his unorthodox style. Whatever Albert said or thought, Jimi couldn't care less. He was too busy singlehandedly rewriting the vocabulary of rock guitar that's responsible for the great evolution that continues to this day in Vai, Satch, Guthrie Govan, etc.
You took the words out of my mouth!!!
Long live your idols, may they never be your rivals.
He doesn't look like He's Looking up to him in this photo !!! And , By the way ,I found B.B. KING's playing Mono- Tonous and Boring ...Same kinda Shit , Song After song ! Jimi 's Playing was Preternatural ! Awesomely so ...Been Trying to play his stuff , since I first heard " Third Stone from the Sun " Wafting down out of the Barracks @ Form- Up before the Sunday Parade at C.M.A. circa 1967 . Haven't even gotten close , except for Manic Depression ...did a decent job of Copying That One
@jollyjoker888 that's an edited photo...
Jimi gave this man his props, which should have been reciprocated.
I’ve legit NEVER heard Hendrix put down another musician or heard anybody else say that they heard him do that. IJS
Because is the coolest.@@tonyjones1560
None of them knew how to bend strings like that until they heard Albert King!!! Facts
Classic old head anger
Hendrix didn't play his blues. Just a grumpy old man. Sad.
“Big tall amplifiers stacked on top of one another…Take his guitar and set it on fire even rammed it through his amplifier…”
STRAIGHT BARS! 🔥
Alberto could not understand what Jimi was doing
Albert King was a phenomenal musician, but this is just old man-itis.
He played the same pentatonic wank licks for decades. Overrated. Most 16 year old kids who take guitar playing seriously are better than him nowadays. The bar has been raised several times over since his hey day
@@theshapeexists Of course the bar has been raised since his time...that's how the world works. But he was an innovator in his time.
Didn't care that much for his style with the strings upside down. He could get the pitch by bending down. But your not going yo see him play any pretty chords
I guess Albert never listened to Red House on the same album as Foxy Lady. Cause that’s a straight 12 bar blues song that Jimi absolutely killed, and pays homage to Albert using his famous lick on the first solo.
@@danpolseno9728 Jimi had insane chords for his time that people hadnt heard on guitar. Wtf are you talking about? Plenty of awesome musicians who play right handed instruments left handed that sound incredibly unique. MonoNeon and Jimmy Haslip come to mind off the top of my head
Albert King hated everyone but Stevie Ray Vaughn
And for good reason..
@@jamiehalifax4954 Do you mean that it's impossible for anyone to dislike the 'Pride & Joy' of Dallas, Texas, or that there's good reason to hate everyone else in the world? 😂
Cuz srv ain't no hendrix despite playing his songs but hes the guy, im no fan of him but i guess albert picked him cuz he had what it took to play guitar
@@Alan-su5bg Matter of opinion
@@Alan-su5bg SRV always gave Jimi praise as an innovator, which he certainly was, as well as a fantastic showman. In my opinion, SRV was a more complete guitar player. But I'll listen to either one of them and wish I could play like that.
That's true Jimi Hendrix didn't play exactly the Blues, but something similar and innovative. As a genius, he created a new way of playing.
Love Albert to death . With that said Hendrix was a more complete player even if he wasn’t a dyed in the wool blues player
Albert King is the man, but jealousy is ugly.
I hear jealousy
Indeed...
💯
not really
That’s what I picked up too.
Nope
Jimi played blues but just stretched it farther. I think there’s probably some good analogy w science like saying string theory has nothing to do w Einstein or telescopes or something like that. And sometimes you have to leave the US and learn about other music, and then you suddenly realize how much the blues is a part of almost everything we hear. it’s not that easy to understand until you leave and then you come back and you realize songs you didn’t even think where the blues are most definitely 100% simply blues. We owe everything to jazz rap, everything African-Americans did that was so innovative from pain is guess. so I think maybe that’s what he was referring to. This was a man that lived a different life in his mind. I think he was very far from the kind of poverty and difficulties that Albert King knew of, I think that’s a little bit of what he’s referring to. Hendrix claimed he was born in a very diverse pocket of the country when he was in Seattle, he also was very much not interested in being boxed in.
Jimi would’ve been really upset by this, Albert king was one of his idols
The roots of Jimi Hendrix was blues. Come on Albert!
Minnesota blues?
Happy to see the overwhelming majority here call out Albert's bullshit.
You guys don’t have enough respect for Albert King and even Jimi Hendrix’ humble spirit. Albert King was one of Jimi’s heroes and King played the electric guitar way before any guitar hero. I’m sure Albert King had been asked this question a 1000 times and this time he must have been sick of it and gave this answer.. But there is no doubt that Jimi would agree he couldn’t hit the notes of Albert Kings which are a very personal style.. Remember… Alot of Hendrix solos wouldn’t be the same without those Albert King licks and bends.. And King went on to do a beautiful cover of Red House.. Albert is from a different time and had a very strict idea how the blues should sound. Respect for both!
@@jonahn4151 you don't need to copy and paste the same essay over and over man
@@leothecuisinart I have to
Great that Duane Allman was mentioned as a distant 2nd and was was an incredible lmprove player. I bet they are getting along just fine in rock heaven.
Albert on his best day couldn't hold Jimi's jock.
the balls to insult the greatest guitarrist of all time
I think I wanna hear sophisticated lady now 😂
Jimi Hendrix could run circles around Albert King playing behind his back or with his teeth
that dont mean nun, hendrix dont got close to the feel albert had.
Yea he definitely could but he couldn’t play the blues like Albert King.
@@heentlasaa9974 Albert King is an originator in the development of blues. Hendrix was already standing on the shoulder of giants. His version of Born under a bad sign is a great rendition but it don’t have the feel of Alberts
I have a recording of Hendrix playing at Berkeley and it was phenomenal he wasn't too drunk or too stoned he was in the zone and he could fill all the notes
Yet Albert didn't need to resort to corny showbiz tricks and stage antics to get his music across...
More young people started listening & playing blues because of Jimi, rather than Albert.
There's a story that after an Albert King record was released around that time, Hendrix and Buddy Miles were in the studio and were singing every phrase on the album because they had listened to it so much and were such big fans of it
The ego sure makes people look ugly don't it
People bandwagon praising Hendrix makes them look ugly too... Hendrix was mediocre at best.
@@mastershan87 you are a fool
@@mastershan87 The man inspired generations of musicians, and gave birth to a new genre ... Heavy Metal. Why in the hell does anyone see music as a competition, anyway? It's all a matter of subjective taste. I understand that it's difficult to master Jazz, but Jazz is just not what I like to listen to.
@@mastershan87 No point in being here if you're saying the exact same thing in every reply section
@@mastershan87 🤡
Jealousy is a bitch
Lol imagine thinking Albert King was jealous of anyone.
@André Ferreira lol get over what? You ok my guy? What’s your goal here?
@@LexanderMiller He was jealous, you can spin it however you want but it is plain jealousy. He knew everyone was saying this new guy Jimi Hendrix is the man and he didn't like it, very petty.
@@drumlover69 lol ok big guy
@@drumlover69 Jealousy doesn't permit you to be humble enough to teach somebody something you don't think they deserve to know. Albert King taught Hendrix freely and that was that. Even Quincy Jones went on record to say that Hendrix was too nervous to play alongside jazz musicians in his ranks and backed out. Certainly one of the most successful musicians and producers in the world had nothing to b jealous of by telling it like he saw it. Yes, he was a good guitarist, but timing is everything and he arrived at a time when this was new, certainly for an African American.t o be playing this kind of music.
Albert tried to play one Hendrix note and failed.
Albert hates Hendrix for life.
"Sophisticated lady" 😂😂 bruh
I was at a Winterland concert in 69 or 70. Jimmy and Albert were on the same ticket. At the end of Albert's set, he started criticizing Jimmy saying he didn't play the blues. Jimmy came on right afterward and he just said "well, uh, Albert doesn't think I can play the blues, well dig this". Jimmy just broke into paying "Red House" The crowd went wild and hopefully Albert caught the dog out of town.
I’m so jealous Man. That must’ve been amazing. His winterland sets are killer
Jimmy yes could play anything but sry Albert was right
The crowd went wild means nothing same crowd will adore fake player Jimmy Page
@@robertkelly6282 how just like how
Hi David, did you catch his ‘Killing floor’ rendition or was that the Later Winterland concert dates? Cheers
‘I could very easily play his songs’ 😂😂😂😂
Not even the easiest
"Ain't no six year old boy understand the TRUE meaning of the blues."
Saying jimi isn’t blues is like saying Dylan isn’t a poet
This comes from a place of jealousy obviously
Yes!!
Rock n roll is a parody of blues my friend, it began with guys trying to play blues but couldn't
@@-.369.- yes that's true, but rock n roll stood the test of time more than blues
Jealousy.. is a bad emotion..
so true, i played with hendrix back in 69 at the Miami snowshoe festival. he asked me to help him learn chords real quick. i tried but he couldnt figure it out
The thing about Hendrix, me being a black American I can say this, he was never fully embraced by the black audience. He was recognized but not to the degree that you think he would’ve been. And that’s sentiment “here”
As someone of mixed heritage myself, I think black people in mainly black communities, as they were in the 60s/70s, are drawn mostly to music that has its' roots in black traditions. Whether soul, blues back in the day, funk, hip hop etc. Hendrix was raised in a mainly white environment in Seattle and had a wider eclectic mix of influences including his own partly native American Indian heritage. He came to England in 1966 and absorbed the sounds, technology and experimentation that was at the forefront of music at the time. It's no surprise that despite being mostly black racially his music never penetrated black musical sensibilities on a wide scale.
This is envy talking
Yep
Albert King is one of the most influential guitar players of all time.
@@andrewnicon and?
@@cessna187 what does that have to do with what I said?
@@davidwood9718 sorry, replied to the wrong comment.
This is Albert King a legend among legends. But even he is affected by father time. Sometimes ya just hate what you dont understand.
Bah he'a just fulla shit. Lots of guys talk like that. Doesn't matter in the end, both were great.
wrong
This is an example of why we shouldnt always conflate the artist with the art.
If you go to other countries you will suddenly realize how American music is so steeped in the blues that what you didn’t even think was the blues definitely is. I learned that traveling (and dating a producer). Bc I would say well what about x song? He’d laugh, said “12 bar” break it down, oh yeah, huh.
The jealousy is palpable.
There wasn't any jealousy. This is why you cannot believe youtube videos. Albert did not hate Jimi, he didn't consider Jimi a blues purist. Just to prove Albert didnt hate Jimi. Albert named his last album "red house" in tribute to Jimi
jealousy?have you heard of albert king at all?
That what happens when you're... Born under a bad sign
All guitarists are a bit jealous. Clapton and McCartney admitted they were extremely jealous of Jimi.
"That 'Red House', that'll make you grab your mother and choke her! Man, that's really hard, that tears you apart. He could get down, he could mash it, yeah, Lord! He had so many blues"
John Lee Hooker
Whoa, great quote!
Red House is the test piece, the Grail itself, in a Life of amazing ass-kickers, just like Texas Flood is SRV's personal Monument.
Althou, I am partial to Look at Little Sister.
❤❤❤ much love all around.
That's what's up
Albert Collins, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy……all these blues men met and played with Hendrix. They loved him.
Anyone who calls out Ji Hendrix is walking on a slippery slope
From a technical standpoint i understand what he is saying. Every new generation learns a cheat code to get around certain basic rules to the art . like using gps but can't read a paper map
Albert played guitar with the strings upside down.Jimi played a guitar upside down but with the strings strung the right way.
Hendrix was an experimental artist, not a straight blues player.
But make no mistake about it, he could DESTROY 1-4-5 blues all day if he wanted to
And he did destroy 1-4-5 blues on the reg. People are citing Red House, and sure I love that track but listen to his dynamics and absolute mastery and fluidity on Radio One’s Hear My Train A Comin’ (also on BBC Sessions as an Alternate take I think) where he actually says on the track “We’re gonna throw a little bit of blues on ya” and then proceeds to lay down …. well I mean you just can’t describe what he proceeds to lay down. It’s just breathtaking and still gives me chills 30 years and 3000 listens after the first time I’ve heard it. It’s like he’s figured out how to paint beautifully with lightening.
The fact Albert King taught Jimi a lesson speaks more about Jimi's humility than it does Albert's skill. That is, if it actually happened.
He may have gotten this lesson..because Jimi showed him respect, as the MASTER he was.☝️🙏💪🔥
I think Jimi had met Albert back in 1963, if I'm not mistaken.
After Jimi played with Albert King, he began to play more like him.
"sophiscated lady"😂
Albert King has sauce but he also sounds pretty salty too
Albert Queen was sure drinking a lot of Hateraide
Boy ,Boy you Nailed it . 💯 Hateraide
Reminds me how the OG's hated on Robert Johnson when he returned from his learning hiatus and blew their minds, their response was "he sold his soul to play like that" 😅
Little wing is my All time favorite instrumental piece. I don’t even care about the lyrics, just the melody is perfection. Nothing like it
Jimi wasn't blues. He was something else.
He was a rhythm & blues player at heart. He could certainly play the blues but wasn't a blues player like T-Bone or BB were, so it doesn't surprise me that a purist wouldn't consider him as such. In the end, who cares? These two guys are and always will be in my playlist, they both were monster players on their own right.
@@pedroramirez5846 then, don't watch this video
“I could’ve VERY easily played his songs…he can’t play mine”
Even as a Albert King fan, NO WAY IN HELL could he play Third Stone from the sun or 1983. Dude would break a finger, at least
...and valleys of Neptune or easy rider.
@@jairushughes2884 ESPECIALLY THOSE TWO
He clealry never heard Hendrix do born under a bad sign. Cover of his way better then the original. No need for lyrics to make the song good haha.
No way. Albert king was elementary compared to Hendrix
Really ! I must have somehow missed your version of Little Wing . Still trying to find All along the watchtower . Missed you at Woodstock.
Sorry Albert, james passed you like you was standing still.
Sophisticated lady 😂💀