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You can tell by listening to Billy exactly why Jimi liked him beyond his talent with a guitar. He’s humble just like Jimi was. Thanks for sharing! Loved watching this.
He was humble almost to a fault. By that I mean people, I think, tried to exploit his humble demeanor to the point where at the end he was being pulled in all directions & under so much pressure. He was an incredible talent but such a tragic figure.
One of the most amazing things that usually doesn't get mentioned about Jimi is how much time he actually played. He did not start playing seriously until his late teens, and he died when he was 27. The man became one of the world's greatest guitarists in a very short period of time, less than 10 years.
@@SaltyDraws Duane Allman was so much more than a slide player. His lead solo on Stormy Monday from the Fillmore album is iconic. Derek Trucks is ok but he lacks the fire and total originality that Duane had. Plus, I'm into the blues...Trucks just isn't a good true blues player. But neither was Dickie Betts. I lost interest in the Allmans after Duane died. It went a little too county twang & there was no fire or direction.Then with Trucks & Haynes it just sounded like a tribute band. Anyhoo......
And in it's later days, some of the worst. Jeez, they were so great, but then they went bad, just like Jefferson Airplane/Starship and the Chicago Transit Authority.
@@web5271 You bring up a very important point. Many of the bands that have produced some of the best music also produced some of the worst. Aerosmith is on that list for me.
What a humble man billy is ,, constantly reminding us, this interview ain’t about him ( as great ZZ Top are 🥰-back to future days -showing my age 🤣) Jimi looked at the greats, looked at the up coming, and played it all through his heart n soul .. top man Billy- keep rocking fella ! 🎸💪🏻✌🏻 And RIP Jimi 😎🎸✌🏻💪🏻
Fascinating interview! I love his reminiscing about when The Sidewalks came off stage after playing a couple of Jimi’s numbers & the great man himself goes “I like you... you’ve gotta lot of nerve!”
Oh my god I saw that picture of Jimi Hendrix but I Did not know that was Gibbons Of ZZTop so young wow two of my favorite Guitarist together I Love you tube
My one regret in life is I never got to see Jimi perform live - Before my time is up I hope I can pay my respects to Jimi and visit The Jimi Hendrix Memorial - 🎸 " Play on child "
Wow.. what a unique piece of content. Insight into Hendrix through the memory and personal archives of a second rock legend. Shedding new light on both of them for me. Thanks!!
I just LOVE these old music interview GEMS! Billy Gibbons I've ALWAYS loved what you do and of course Jimi Hendrix was musically sublime! He was the Blues with an edge and more. Thanks for posting this. YES!!! ❤
I remember me and my friends had to buy our Hendrix albums multiple times due to all the scratched surfaces. down at record revolution on Coventry and sometimes at the revolution downtown Cleveland. what a great story. thanks.
Jimi was very effusive with his compliments. He also said Rory Gallagher was the best, Terry Kath, Robert Fripp from King Crimson, Buddy Guy etc... 😂 a good musician has no EGO. That’s why Jimi was the MAN
What an honour to be labelled as the greatest guitar player in the world by Jimi Hendrix and thank god we still have Billy F Gibhons today. Huge influence to josh Homme of QOTSA. Best band in the world today 🇨🇮🎸🇺🇸
Hendrix, if he even did say that to Billy, was known to over-flatter a number of guitarists of that era...Gibbons was not yet a great player when he fronted for the Experience in 1968. Hendrix was just being nice to a young kid.
Campfire stories was in my musical arsenal when I was a young teenager, along with Jimi Hendrix Experience, never knew the connection back then. Doesn't surprise me, legendary musicians
Notice that Hendrix was listening to Jeff Beck & wondering how he got the sounds he did oot of a Strat; meanwhile, JB was doing the same. They crossed paths (at the Marquis Club, I believe, & after Billy admired (drooled over) JB's 100-watt Marshalls -- which hadn't made it to the US yet -- JB called Jim Marshall & BG became the proud owner of the first 110-volt Marshalls in the country. Any time you see JB & BG on stage together, remember that their friendship goes back to at least 1968. And they're both vintage car nuts.
Bill Gibbons did an interview on how he met with, sat down with and talked to Prince. That makes Bill sort of a bridge between the two. Could you imagine sitting in a private jam session with Bill, Prince and Jimi?
to be perfectly fair, Billy G has probably influenced nearly as many great players as Jimi and there is no question that he is an amazing guitar player himself.
@Huck Finn The thing about Billy Gibbons that blows me away is that technically what he’s doing is supposedly simple, but no one can come close to replicating it!
And really, it doesn't even matter. What matters is the songs. Jimi wrote more great songs than all of those cats put together. Of course, his otherworldly rhythm guitar was a key ingredient to that.
@@terrydavis130 ... well, maybe now he is worthy because he's got a reputation, but when you are only 18 that's a hell of a pat on the back and might inflate your ego just a little. I'd certainly be a changed man if that happened to me 50 years ago.
So cool. Just when I think I've seen every picture of Jimi here's a new one. And I did read that once upon a time in Jimi's modesty after being told he's, "the best" he said. No, it's Billy Gibbons." Another time he said it was Terry Katz? from the band Chicago. Seeing him get off of the plane and the other shot with Billy's old band. So cool.
JIMI WAS SO INVENTIVE OF SO MANY UNIMAGINABLE CREATIVITIES OF THE GUITAR THAT THE GUITAR WOULD NEVER DREAM OF EVER DOING THE THINGS THAT JIMI MADE IT TO DO. JIMI WAS THE ULTIMATE GENIUS AND A GREAT INTELLIGENT PERSON. JIMI STILL LIVES IN SO MANY WAYS AS HE STILL INSPIRED THE WORLD EVEN UP TO TODAY'S GENERATION. JIMI WILL STILL LIVE ON IN FUTURE GENERATIONS TO COME.
This is great !! Great to hear from The Rev. Happy Birthday !!! I recall a Guitar World story from the mid '80s where Billy was given a shell pink Strat from Jimi then saying "Pink isn't conducive to burning" It had faded to more of a peach color with the Rev pointing a manicured right index finger at it. RR Gear Head,,,i didn't see it. hope i missed it.
That hear my train a comin fromJimi plays Berkeley man...like that is enough to make you understand how mind blowing our existence is...voodoo child indeed
yep...nice to hear somebody gets that specific recording....I personally believe it's the best, most "ferocious" live Blues guitar ever on record....it absolutely tears my heart out listening to that...Fantastic...
Yes ! Agreed! If you havent heard that performance youre not fully “experienced” yet! I remember a comment in guitar player mag many yrs ago where the guy said , that performance made EVH sound like he was ready for a rest home! Lol
a alot of those kids from the 194OS and older fellows joined the music scene in the 196OS that is what changed the music 🎶 😊 it just about friends then how the music 🎶 🎉 was made and how good music was and how jellied it wasn't just a another band it was a team wouldn't U want winners and great team members on your side I would 😊😊 OMG 8 8 2O24
Billy is right - we are blessed to have to many recordings, interviews, videos of Jimi. Particularly considering the man was only with us for such a brief time, similar to Jim Morrison. Examples of the shadow casting longer than the actual life.
I remember the show the Top and the Animals. Joe Freeman Colesium. First concert I ever went to. I got the poster from the ticket office on my out and kept it for 40 years until it got damaged in a flood. What a night.
"You got to tell the children the truth they don't need a whole lot of lies. Because one of these days, baby, they'll be running things. So when you give them love you better give it right" Jimi Hendrix Those who love spread truth. Those who hate spread lies. Those who hate and created a world swimming in a sea of lies murdered the body but they can’t kill the spirit of Jimi’s message and love that lives on within many forever. The haters who murder rock stars are the same haters who murder kings and presidents. It's an unnatural thing to be a Rock star and one of many illusions presented to the duped masses as “success”. Rock stars don't make themselves famous they are made famous quickly and unnaturally. And in return for being made famous they are under obligation, knowingly or unknowingly, to cooperate with those who made them famous. And those who made them famous believe that they have the right to make them even more famous by murdering them if they don't cooperate. True success is to see what they don’t want you to see and to learn what they don’t want you to know before you pass. The most truthful and forbidden documentary ever published has been taken down from theirtube countless times since its 2017 release: "Europa The Last Battle". Watch and share the full 10-part series at archive-dot-org while you still can!
thank you so much, you are so damn right ! when I started to watch some musicvideos of Jimi and all the 60s 70s stuff I read some reactions from SRV fans and Rory fans etc. I could not believe how many childish comments without respect on Jimi here on youtube, I thought that's the same shit as soccer fans do, but they never kicked a ball.... I answered some comments but a friend who is a guitar teacher told me, you can't change these haters or know.it-all guys, relax and enjoy your music. I love Jimi's records and spiirit from the beginning, now I'm 65y. and nothing changed but I also love all the other great musicians....peace, Jogi from Germany, Berlin
I was at the 1968 Hendrix/Moving Sidewalks show in Dallas Texas. I was 16. Took the bus to the theater. This is apparently when Jimi gave Billy Gibbons a beat up pink Stratocaster backstage. It is also always reported that Jimi set his guitar on fire at only 3 shows: the Astoria in London, Miami, and Monterey. But I distinctly remember him kneeling down on that stage in Dallas and squirting lighter fluid on his Strat and putting matches to it several times, with a small flame lapping up. That's 4 shows that Jimi lit his guitar on fire.
What's interesting is.. Jimi Hendrix covered Sgt. Peppers in front of The Beatles and now Pre- ZZ-Top covers Foxey Lady and Purple Haze in front of Jimi Hendrix, it's amazing how the Universe works and that's what I call Good Karma☺🌎
“The Universe” is not responsible for these events. In this case people acted in ways that enabled them to meet their personal needs. No mysterious power.
Billy and Dusty - VERY nice guys I got to know them in Houston, and played one night with them at the Gallant Knight - a club no longer around. - THANKS GUYS
My uncle told the story for years that he was picked up by Jimi Hendrix hitchhiking when he was in California with him and his friend! He said it was a big Cadillac!
Austin Teutsch. fun janis joplin fact; from TEXAS she is. but take a wild swing as to who jj`s classmate was at Thomas, Jefferson H.S. in PORT, ARTHUR TEXAS?
Gotta love the comment about Hendrix in motel room listening and wondering how Jeff Beck is getting what he gets out of a guitar on on his recording. It's a quick reminder that as BIG AS MEMORIES and LEGENDS become posthumously ......they were only human and once mere mortals. I have little doubt that Billy is correct when he says, "Jimi you're asking me how Jeff Beck is doing it but I guarantee Jeff wants to know how you'd do it" but that was then and today is 50 years later. Memories are hard to compete with especially when a legend only grows with time. I'm not surprised to hear that Jimi was listening to Jeff beck with an eye toward learning something new. Jeff Beck is without any doubt in my mind the most amazing player of the biggest names out there. He was really good on "truth" and with the Yardbirds before that but he was not yet nearly the player he'd become over time. Gotta wonder what Jimi might have
@Dogboy1960: you do know that Beck was one of the few guitarists who weren't too chickenshit to jam with Hendrix. They played @ at a NYC club for 5-6 nights, and then drove to a benefit gig on Staten Island in Jimi's 427 Stingray. Look up both of these claims & you can verify for yourself.
As Jeff Beck was arriving at his first Jimi Hendrix show, he bumped into Eric Clapton who was leaving early. He asked Clapton "He's that bad you're leaving early?" to which Clapton replied: "No, he's that good."
Gibbons looks uncomfortable when Dan states that Jimi Hendrix called Billy the world's best guitarist. It's because Hendrix didn't say that. In an interview, when asked who he thought who, besides himself, was a really good guitar player, Hendrix said, "there's a guy from Texas named Billy Gibbons whose really good." I think Gibbons didn't want to embarass Dan by correcting him so he just sort of wiggled around it as best he could.
You are a classy human being, and smart human being. I'm giving you a virtual hand shake and a hug. I'm so glad someone has some musical knowledge on here.
@@scottndawn you get a big cyber hug And a Hand shake. I remember seeing ZZ Top when they were third bill on a show in Winterland. Waaaaaay back in the 70's. They were still nobody really....then pow! Be safe, rock on.
Moving Sidewalks was mostly into psychedelic music but go listen to Billy with them sing and play Joe Blues. He was 19 years old. It's pure, raw Texas blues.
There is a story, it was in an interview with Jimi Hendrix! And Jimi said there was a band out of Texas that was really good! He was talking about ZZ Tops!
And that band was not ZZ Top, it was The Moving Sidewalks! And I was fortunate enough to have seen The Moving Sidewalks many, many times. And yes, that makes me an old person with stories to tell 😂
Jimi was above greatness... Jimi was in a whole different stratosphere then even what's considered great today... Not many people rise to that level... With the mention of Jeff Beck I'd also have to say he was probably on that same level as Jimi... Both were very improvisational players and take things in directions you wouldn't expect...
Jimi Hendrix was is to rock music as Vincent Van Gogh was to impressionism. You could walk into a room with each man's art just flaming in your face in a good way, way outdoing their contemporaries
Saw Moving Sidewalks opening for 13th Floor Elevators...Love Street,. San Antonio Tx. circs 1967 Cops came and took Roky Erickson off the stage in hand cuffs.
Funny cause Jimi did the same thing a few days after Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band came out and played a few songs and Paul McCartney was in the he crowd..it's on youtube
I will never tire of Jimi Hendrix stories.
Me neither. He was my hero
Check out Chris Squire's Hendrix story on youtube.
I'm getting pretty sick of them myself. There are tons of more brilliant guitarists who dont get their due.they retired his character in 1970.
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@@aquamarine99911 saw it, great, great interview!
I could listen to Billy Gibbon talk all day long... RIP Dusty Hill.
You can tell by listening to Billy exactly why Jimi liked him beyond his talent with a guitar. He’s humble just like Jimi was. Thanks for sharing! Loved watching this.
What? Nothing humble about his self-serving BS.
Well-said. It seems like that always. The "really" Great Ones are more humble.
No one guitarist has ever accomplished so much in such a short period of time than Jimi..
Part of Jimmy’s greatness was his humility.
@NEGUS MBARKA Yeah jimi ain't on that bs you on 😂
NEGUS MBARKA
Blah blah blah.
He was humble almost to a fault. By that I mean people, I think, tried to exploit his humble demeanor to the point where at the end he was being pulled in all directions & under so much pressure. He was an incredible talent but such a tragic figure.
INDEED! thanks for the comment.
The pathway to greatness is through a doorway marked "Humility".
A real true blue Texas guitar legend, one of many and a gentleman to boot. Thankyou Billy ☮️
One of the most amazing things that usually doesn't get mentioned about Jimi is how much time he actually played. He did not start playing seriously until his late teens, and he died when he was 27. The man became one of the world's greatest guitarists in a very short period of time, less than 10 years.
That's crazy!
He is the world's greatest guitar player
Everything else he did before that contributed to his playing.
More amazing is Duane Allman. Much better than Hendricks at and died at 24!
@@SaltyDraws Duane Allman was so much more than a slide player. His lead solo on Stormy Monday from the Fillmore album is iconic. Derek Trucks is ok but he lacks the fire and total originality that Duane had. Plus, I'm into the blues...Trucks just isn't a good true blues player. But neither was Dickie Betts. I lost interest in the Allmans after Duane died. It went a little too county twang & there was no fire or direction.Then with Trucks & Haynes it just sounded like a tribute band. Anyhoo......
Humble and warm hearted guy Billy Gibbons...
ZZ Top has made some of the greatest rock albums ever.
And in it's later days, some of the worst. Jeez, they were so great, but then they went bad, just like Jefferson Airplane/Starship and the Chicago Transit Authority.
@@web5271 You bring up a very important point. Many of the bands that have produced some of the best music also produced some of the worst. Aerosmith is on that list for me.
Amen
We know
@@web5271 True & Fact.
Billy is a legend himself, fantastic musician, great Jimi story!
How many people at 18 other then Billy Gibbons could play Purple Haze by ear and in front of an audience with Jimi listening at the stage side ????
He knew Jimi the film footage and the pictures proved it.
Dude has major balls and skills
Easier for an 18 year old than a 28 year old. It's part of what being young is about. Hahahahahahahahaha
How about Jimi covering Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band *the day it came out*? Live! In England!
@@creamwobbly I can just about remember. it is getting further and further away though. Hahahahahahahaha
What a humble man billy is ,, constantly reminding us, this interview ain’t about him ( as great ZZ Top are 🥰-back to future days -showing my age 🤣)
Jimi looked at the greats, looked at the up coming, and played it all through his heart n soul .. top man Billy- keep rocking fella ! 🎸💪🏻✌🏻
And RIP Jimi 😎🎸✌🏻💪🏻
One thing that Billy had that Jimi liked was the ability to play with much feeling, it's not only the notes but the overall vibe.
Fascinating interview! I love his reminiscing about when The Sidewalks came off stage after playing a couple of Jimi’s numbers & the great man himself goes “I like you... you’ve gotta lot of nerve!”
Wow! Billy Gibbons just rose to yet another stratosphere of cool! Awesome piece of music history re two guitar legends!
ZZ is a great band, love em! Jimi occupies my top spot. rip.
funny when Gibbons said he did covers of 'purple haze' and 'foxy lady' and Jimi was in the back with his arms crossed grinning
I bet that gave Hendrix an ego boost he never acted on
What is the tribute album he's talking about at the end plz?
Oh my god I saw that picture of Jimi Hendrix but I Did not know that was Gibbons Of ZZTop so young wow two of my favorite Guitarist together I Love you tube
I have been a fan of Jimi for a long time and I still learn something new all the time👌💜💜💜🎸🎸🎸
Imagine seeing a gig with Billy , Jimi and the mighty evergreen Jeff Beck on…
Never knew that Jimi and Billy were friends. Great interview. Both are my favorites. I was learning Billy's songs first.
My one regret in life is I never got to see Jimi perform live - Before my time is up I hope I can pay my respects to Jimi and visit The Jimi Hendrix Memorial - 🎸 " Play on child "
Wow.. what a unique piece of content. Insight into Hendrix through the memory and personal archives of a second rock legend. Shedding new light on both of them for me. Thanks!!
I just LOVE these old music interview GEMS! Billy Gibbons I've ALWAYS loved what you do and of course Jimi Hendrix was musically sublime! He was the Blues with an edge and more. Thanks for posting this. YES!!! ❤
I remember me and my friends had to buy our Hendrix albums multiple times due to all the scratched surfaces. down at record revolution on Coventry and sometimes at the revolution downtown Cleveland. what a great story. thanks.
Will always regret how soon we lost Hendrix ( amongst others) , but forever grateful that we've had Billy & Co all these years. Rock on Rev.
Saw this on TV. Love Rathers episodes. Love Jimi. Love Billy.
Jimi was very effusive with his compliments. He also said Rory Gallagher was the best, Terry Kath, Robert Fripp from King Crimson, Buddy Guy etc... 😂 a good musician has no EGO. That’s why Jimi was the MAN
Amen.
Jimi had good taste as well.
@@daveberswick5372 indeed🤘🏾
Right. Just saw your post after typing my own about this. Yours is better.
@@charold3 it’s all good. We like Jimi that’s what matters 🤘🏾✊🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Jimi Hendrix is my favorite artist and I will love him for ever and ever! Amen to you! Jimi! Can't wait to see you soon!
What an honour to be labelled as the greatest guitar player in the world by Jimi Hendrix and thank god we still have Billy F Gibhons today. Huge influence to josh Homme of QOTSA. Best band in the world today 🇨🇮🎸🇺🇸
Hendrix, if he even did say that to Billy, was known to over-flatter a number of guitarists of that era...Gibbons was not yet a great player when he fronted for the Experience in 1968. Hendrix was just being nice to a young kid.
I can without a dought picture Billy Gibbons & Jimmy Hendricks being great friends, both class acts.
doubt, Jimi, Hendrix.
Campfire stories was in my musical arsenal when I was a young teenager, along with Jimi Hendrix Experience, never knew the connection back then. Doesn't surprise me, legendary musicians
Notice that Hendrix was listening to Jeff Beck & wondering how he got the sounds he did oot of a Strat; meanwhile, JB was doing the same. They crossed paths (at the Marquis Club, I believe, & after Billy admired (drooled over) JB's 100-watt Marshalls -- which hadn't made it to the US yet -- JB called Jim Marshall & BG became the proud owner of the first 110-volt Marshalls in the country.
Any time you see JB & BG on stage together, remember that their friendship goes back to at least 1968. And they're both vintage car nuts.
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing !
Billy is a national treasure and a musical historian. Help if you was standing there when it happened tho lol. Great person.
Bill Gibbons did an interview on how he met with, sat down with and talked to Prince. That makes Bill sort of a bridge between the two.
Could you imagine sitting in a private jam session with Bill, Prince and Jimi?
If there was anything Jimi was as good at as guitar it was telling guitar players not as good as him that they were the best ever.
And there are a lot of them. Rory Gallagher. As a group, King Crimson. Who he wanted to meet in England was Jeff Beck. At least he chose good people.
to be perfectly fair, Billy G has probably influenced nearly as many great players as Jimi and there is no question that he is an amazing guitar player himself.
@Huck Finn The thing about Billy Gibbons that blows me away is that technically what he’s doing is supposedly simple, but no one can come close to replicating it!
And really, it doesn't even matter. What matters is the songs. Jimi wrote more great songs than all of those cats put together. Of course, his otherworldly rhythm guitar was a key ingredient to that.
@@aquamarine99911 Amen, that's it, you've said it all case closed.
Thank you.
What a great story. Thanks you mr Gibbons. JMH
It said his idol but jimmi called him his idol mannn thatz love
Yup 100% true
jimi was probably joking with a big smile on his face
Anyone that believes Billy Gibbons isn't
Worthy of praise from Jimi is a fool. Billy Gibbons one of the greats Mho
Find the Dick Cavet interview with Jimi he said Billy was one of his favorite guitarist!!
@@terrydavis130 ... well, maybe now he is worthy because he's got a reputation, but when you are only 18 that's a hell of a pat on the back and might inflate your ego just a little. I'd certainly be a changed man if that happened to me 50 years ago.
Amazing … the memories are just unreal!
So cool. Just when I think I've seen every picture of Jimi here's a new one. And I did read that once upon a time in Jimi's modesty after being told he's, "the best" he said. No, it's Billy Gibbons." Another time he said it was Terry Katz? from the band Chicago. Seeing him get off of the plane and the other shot with Billy's old band. So cool.
Billy, Jimmi & Gilmour are my fave Guitarists 🤘🤘🤘
What a story! Hendricks and Billy together!!! WOW
🔥🔥🔥🔥 two great groups!! Billy Gibbons a Texas legend in his own right!
Awesome footage , very nice stuff !
And so has Billy Gibbons Inspired many many great guitarist
JIMI WAS SO INVENTIVE OF SO MANY UNIMAGINABLE CREATIVITIES OF THE GUITAR THAT THE GUITAR WOULD NEVER DREAM OF EVER DOING THE THINGS THAT JIMI MADE IT TO DO. JIMI WAS THE ULTIMATE GENIUS AND A GREAT INTELLIGENT PERSON. JIMI STILL LIVES IN SO MANY WAYS AS HE STILL INSPIRED THE WORLD EVEN UP TO TODAY'S GENERATION. JIMI WILL STILL LIVE ON IN FUTURE GENERATIONS TO COME.
What a great story about BILLY & Jimmy
So amazing to watch.
So awesome!!Billy is the man!!!
This was cool as hell. Thanks for the upload
One of my favorite bands and you know with jimmy too. Damn didn’t know that
This is great !! Great to hear from The Rev. Happy Birthday !!!
I recall a Guitar World story from the mid '80s where Billy was given a shell pink Strat from Jimi then saying "Pink isn't conducive to burning"
It had faded to more of a peach color with the Rev pointing a manicured right index finger at it.
RR Gear Head,,,i didn't see it. hope i missed it.
Used to go see them at the team Cantteen on the North side of San Antonio Texas! For 50 cents Back in the early sixties
Billy was Hendrix favorite guitarist.
Where did you get that from, drinking?
No, to being as gullible as Qidiots and MAGAts, who require no proof before they buy the most outlandish bullshit.
Grateful
That hear my train a comin fromJimi plays Berkeley man...like that is enough to make you understand how mind blowing our existence is...voodoo child indeed
yep...nice to hear somebody gets that specific recording....I personally believe it's the best, most "ferocious" live Blues guitar ever on record....it absolutely tears my heart out listening to that...Fantastic...
Yes ! Agreed! If you havent heard that performance youre not fully “experienced” yet! I remember a comment in guitar player mag many yrs ago where the guy said , that performance made EVH sound like he was ready for a rest home! Lol
a alot of those kids from the 194OS and older fellows joined the music scene in the 196OS that is what changed the music 🎶 😊 it just about friends then how the music 🎶 🎉 was made and how good music was and how jellied it wasn't just a another band it was a team wouldn't U want winners and great team members on your side I would 😊😊 OMG 8 8 2O24
Awesome Experience
I met him and ZZ Top in Memphis. Drinking Jack and beers at the Peabody Hotel in the lobby bar.
Billy is right - we are blessed to have to many recordings, interviews, videos of Jimi. Particularly considering the man was only with us for such a brief time, similar to Jim Morrison. Examples of the shadow casting longer than the actual life.
I remember the show the Top and the Animals. Joe Freeman Colesium. First concert I ever went to. I got the poster from the ticket office on my out and kept it for 40 years until it got damaged in a flood. What a night.
damaged in a flood?....sounds like a texas story
Humble people
Amazing.
"You got to tell the children the truth they don't need a whole lot of lies. Because one of these days, baby, they'll be running things. So when you give them love you better give it right" Jimi Hendrix
Those who love spread truth. Those who hate spread lies. Those who hate and created a world swimming in a sea of lies murdered the body but they can’t kill the spirit of Jimi’s message and love that lives on within many forever. The haters who murder rock stars are the same haters who murder kings and presidents. It's an unnatural thing to be a Rock star and one of many illusions presented to the duped masses as “success”. Rock stars don't make themselves famous they are made famous quickly and unnaturally. And in return for being made famous they are under obligation, knowingly or unknowingly, to cooperate with those who made them famous. And those who made them famous believe that they have the right to make them even more famous by murdering them if they don't cooperate.
True success is to see what they don’t want you to see and to learn what they don’t want you to know before you pass. The most truthful and forbidden documentary ever published has been taken down from theirtube countless times since its 2017 release: "Europa The Last Battle". Watch and share the full 10-part series at archive-dot-org while you still can!
thank you so much, you are so damn right ! when I started to watch some musicvideos of Jimi and all the 60s 70s stuff I read some reactions from SRV fans and Rory fans etc. I could not believe how many childish comments without respect on Jimi here on youtube, I thought that's the same shit as soccer fans do, but they never kicked a ball....
I answered some comments but a friend who is a guitar teacher told me, you can't change these haters or know.it-all guys, relax and enjoy your music.
I love Jimi's records and spiirit from the beginning, now I'm 65y. and nothing changed but I also love all the other great musicians....peace, Jogi from Germany, Berlin
@@jogischulz2576 Peace to you too, Jogi
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." Jim Morrison
@@jogischulz2576by nu bu
Time for your meds.
This is amazing! Thank you!
I didn t meet Jimi Hendrix but I met Billy Gibbons himself in the Colosseum Foyer. A very sympathic man
He said to me: oh...a nice beard....:-)))))))
Is that you? You got a ZZ Top beard thing going on too lol
I was at the 1968 Hendrix/Moving Sidewalks show in Dallas Texas. I was 16. Took the bus to the theater. This is apparently when Jimi gave Billy Gibbons a beat up pink Stratocaster backstage. It is also always reported that Jimi set his guitar on fire at only 3 shows: the Astoria in London, Miami, and Monterey. But I distinctly remember him kneeling down on that stage in Dallas and squirting lighter fluid on his Strat and putting matches to it several times, with a small flame lapping up. That's 4 shows that Jimi lit his guitar on fire.
The bell tone of his strat just went straight through you.
@@autryscott6973 A sensation I will never tire of~
Awesome
interview!🎸🍊🎸
Everyone says Jimi was shy which makes think he was an introvert. Its so weird because on stage he looks like the opposite of an introvert
What's interesting is.. Jimi Hendrix covered Sgt. Peppers in front of The Beatles and now Pre- ZZ-Top covers Foxey Lady and Purple Haze in front of Jimi Hendrix, it's amazing how the Universe works and that's what I call Good Karma☺🌎
“The Universe” is not responsible for these events. In this case people acted in ways that enabled them to meet their personal needs. No mysterious power.
Wind Cries Mary ... most moving electric guitar I've every heard
I prefer the intensity of the solo in Burning Of The Midnight Lamp. An exhibition of how to get the best out of a Wah wah Pedal!
Love the story of jimi meeting terry kath
ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My number 2 talking about my number 1 fav s
FANTASTIC BILLY 16 21 YEARS OLD K.C.
I love all these Dan Rather interviews. The Rev, Sammy Hagar, Steve Miler. I need to watch all of them all All heroes of mind
Two Texans son
Billy and Dusty - VERY nice guys I got to know them in Houston, and played one night with them
at the Gallant Knight - a club no longer around. - THANKS GUYS
The one guy in ZZTop w/o a beard is named Beard!
Not everybody picks up on that. I don't think I EVER saw Frank beard with a beard, maybe it was in his contract.
Billy was Hendrix's favorite guitarist.
Yeah, well taking acid will do that kind-of stuff.
nope. He liked BG, but others at least as much: whose album was he listening to in BG's story?
My uncle told the story for years that he was picked up by Jimi Hendrix hitchhiking when he was in California with him and his friend!
He said it was a big Cadillac!
Jeff Beck has Jimi dniving them to a gig on Staten Island, through downtown Manhattan, in a Stingray. That sounds more like Hendrix.
JImi the Goat
I love ZZ Top. Saw them in 75.' Nashville. Hendrix was very humble. If asked who was best he'd mention someone else. Terry Kath got the nod once.
Nice!
Hendrix also loved playing with Terry Kath of Chicago.
Jimi was just like Janis, they both defined rock and roll going into the late 60's. I was there.
Austin Teutsch. fun janis joplin fact; from TEXAS she is. but take a wild swing as to who jj`s classmate was at Thomas, Jefferson H.S. in PORT, ARTHUR TEXAS?
Gotta love the comment about Hendrix in motel room listening and wondering how Jeff Beck is getting what he gets out of a guitar on on his recording. It's a quick reminder that as BIG AS MEMORIES and LEGENDS become posthumously ......they were only human and once mere mortals. I have little doubt that Billy is correct when he says, "Jimi you're asking me how Jeff Beck is doing it but I guarantee Jeff wants to know how you'd do it" but that was then and today is 50 years later. Memories are hard to compete with especially when a legend only grows with time. I'm not surprised to hear that Jimi was listening to Jeff beck with an eye toward learning something new. Jeff Beck is without any doubt in my mind the most amazing player of the biggest names out there. He was really good on "truth" and with the Yardbirds before that but he was not yet nearly the player he'd become over time. Gotta wonder what Jimi might have
@Dogboy1960: you do know that Beck was one of the few guitarists who weren't too chickenshit to jam with Hendrix. They played @ at a NYC club for 5-6 nights, and then drove to a benefit gig on Staten Island in Jimi's 427 Stingray. Look up both of these claims & you can verify for yourself.
Nice LUVLI Memories
As Jeff Beck was arriving at his first Jimi Hendrix show, he bumped into Eric Clapton who was leaving early. He asked Clapton "He's that bad you're leaving early?" to which Clapton replied:
"No, he's that good."
But it didn't intimidate JB, who jamme w/Jimi in a NY club & a benefit gig on Staten Island.
I really admire how he passes the accolade like a hot potato... I guess those who are great dont need to be told reminded or convinced.
Gibbons looks uncomfortable when Dan states that Jimi Hendrix called Billy the world's best guitarist. It's because Hendrix didn't say that. In an interview, when asked who he thought who, besides himself, was a really good guitar player, Hendrix said, "there's a guy from Texas named Billy Gibbons whose really good."
I think Gibbons didn't want to embarass Dan by correcting him so he just sort of wiggled around it as best he could.
You are a classy human being, and smart human being. I'm giving you a virtual hand shake and a hug.
I'm so glad someone has some musical knowledge on here.
@@rodgerrodger1839 I would like a cyber hug, please. thanks
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you get a big cyber hug And a Hand shake. I remember seeing ZZ Top when they were third bill on a show in Winterland. Waaaaaay back in the 70's. They were still nobody really....then pow!
Be safe, rock on.
Jimi bestowed 'worlds greatest guitarist' on several players....but it doesn't mean any less I think....
"legendry newsman". That's adorable.
Triggered?
Moving Sidewalks was mostly into psychedelic music but go listen to Billy with them sing and play Joe Blues. He was 19 years old. It's pure, raw Texas blues.
There is a story, it was in an interview with Jimi Hendrix! And Jimi said there was a band out of Texas that was really good! He was talking about ZZ Tops!
Um, ZZ Top's First Album was released in 1971. Hendrix died on September 18, 1970. So it seems unlikely Hendrix heard ZZ-
And that band was not ZZ Top, it was The Moving Sidewalks! And I was fortunate enough to have seen The Moving Sidewalks many, many times. And yes, that makes me an old person with stories to tell 😂
Someone said: There was Jimi ....there was Edward and then everyone else! I can't help but agree!
Edward? You mean Edward Scissorhands?
Jimi was above greatness... Jimi was in a whole different stratosphere then even what's considered great today... Not many people rise to that level... With the mention of Jeff Beck I'd also have to say he was probably on that same level as Jimi... Both were very improvisational players and take things in directions you wouldn't expect...
Jimi Hendrix was is to rock music as Vincent Van Gogh was to impressionism. You could walk into a room with each man's art just flaming in your face in a good way, way outdoing their contemporaries
Saw Moving Sidewalks opening for 13th Floor Elevators...Love Street,. San Antonio Tx. circs 1967 Cops came and took Roky Erickson off the stage in hand cuffs.
are you sure you don’t mean 1968?
@@adamkhan1480 : Maybe
Funny cause Jimi did the same thing a few days after Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band came out and played a few songs and Paul McCartney was in the he crowd..it's on youtube