Exactly: Jimi just change the prospective of playing on a guitar: nothing was the same after him: he change the approach besides any style on guitar playing...
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.
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
@@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.
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
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...
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.
@Hope Browning 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
@@OriginalKingRichTv Of course not. Its not the type of person he was. Jimi was shy and very humble. He also admired a lot of other guitar players as well as other musicians. He knew what people thought. His peers were in awe of him. He was asked about it a lot. He didn't want that kind of a tag put on him. He just wanted to make music. There is no true "best ever". It's subjective. Everyone has their own list. Jimi just happens to be at the top of most people's lists.. back then and still today.
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
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
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.
Jimmy was his own Man, lacking nothing at all. I Really hate when the "brother's" put him down. He belongs to people of all kinds, all Real Creators of the Musical Arts, "Love's HIm".❤ 😢Thank you Jimmy for all that you gave us! R.I.P 🙏✝️🙏
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
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
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.
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
@@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.
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 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
@@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.
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.
@@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.
"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.
Albert kings links are not hard to play. String bending and vibrato. But they are his. That's his sound. You go get your own sound and we will come on RU-vid and praise or critique you.
Hendrix re-set the bar when he came out with RedHouse. I'v been listening to RedHouse for 50 years now and it still makes my toes curl up in my boots...and Little Ritchards said this 50yrs ago !@@Allen-tm9xn
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
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.
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.
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
@@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 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
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.
I grew up listening to these guys. Albert actually is pretty hard to copy exactly. He was very influential. He played the same licks like a billion times. But Albert 100% couldn’t play to Hendrix technical or sophistication level.
Yeah he's a great, and I have no doubt he could've easily played Foxy Lady, but that's not all Jimi had, it was just his biggest hit. I don't want to doubt a man etched into blues canon, but I think he might have been talking shit here.
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
BULLSHIT!!! Hendrix could play the blues in a way Albert King, as much as I respect him, could never comprehend. Listen to Bleeding Heart Live at Royal Albert Hall and Red House Live at Woodstock or from Hendrix in the West. That level of blue Albert could never dream of playing. The recoding of Foxes Lady on the first album wasn’t meant to be a purest blues recording. It was progressive. Albert King is from the old school and is jealous of all the attention and respect Hendrix received.
He is saying the suffering and soul of the south is missing and Mr. King is accurate. No hate, just accurate. And Jimi wasn't no punk on the guitar either.
Pretty sure albert king recieved hella respect after Hendrix's death in the 70s (no disrespect im a Hendrix fan). Hendrix's versatile playing didnt compare with king since kings got more soul to his playing, that's not to say hendrix never played with soul but Hendrix wasn't that guy to play blues, he's more of a "free playing" type of guy, the blues thing was just something that just came in around the axis, electric lady land era.
If you when you say Hendrix in The West, you mean live at The San Diego Sports Arena, you are a man of culture! That's Jimi's best ever recording if you ask me. Anyone's who says Hendrix is overrated or not as good as those who came before or after him needs to listen to those twelve or so minutes.
@@ciaranw520thank you. Red House at San Diego is one of the best blues recordings of all time. Albert King didn’t even know the name of Foxy Lady which shows he wasn’t familiar with Jimi’s music. Albert was a purest and Jimi was reinventing how the electric guitar and how the blues were played and people like Albert either weren’t ready for it, didn’t want to admit that a young kid in his 20’s could play circles around them and do it effortlessly or he never listened to enough Hendrix, especially the live cuts, to understand just how great he was. Red House Live at Woodstock is a tutorial on phrasing pentatonic licks, even while playing with a broken string! If you watch his hand, he stays In one shape for almost the entire intro but phrases every run with such uniqueness. Flawless vibrato. Bends were absolutely perfect from slight to 2 1/12 steps on some tracks.
Albert King was phenomenal, but he also had a reputation for being an egomaniac who was difficult to work with. This is just jealous trash talking. Jimi played blues like nobody else.
@André Ferreira Right? I'm just thinking about all the praise and excitement Albert has when talking to SRV on that track. "Remember when Jimi and I did this? Ah man, why don't you try Jimi's part."
It wasn't quite an ego Maniac he was a perfectionist. could be quite cantankerous too One time old Al fired a drummer mid show he kept on screwing up the beat and screwing up the beat finally he stopped the show and said just take your goddamn sticks and get off my stage. Then he asked somebody in the audience anybody know how to play the drums 🤣🤣✌️
@@truckerkevthepaidtourist I knew a guitarist who played with Albert King back in maybe the late 70’s or early 80’s. Kind of a strange dude, and I’m not sure exactly what went down, but allegedly, King ended up firing him from the band and kicking him off the tour bus in the middle of nowhere. Pretty cold, but honestly, that guy got to play with a legend for a short time, and he walked away with a great story to tell for the rest of his life. I’d be honored to be fired by a guy like King! I’m sure perfectionism was a driving force for him, but I do think ego comes into play when making remarks like this about Hendrix. I’m not judging. Ego is a major driving force in many artists, and a guy like Albert King earned his right to ego trip a bit. Doesn’t mean we have to agree with him.
I listened to so many bands from the 60’s and 70’s but I had never cared to listen to slow blues artists. I had never listened to Hendrix until one day I watched his hour long Woodstock performance and I was mesmerized. I immediately started listening to all his albums but I skipped over Red House cuz it was blues and my dumbass thought blues was boring. I decided to give it a listen and it’s one of the greatest songs I’ve ever heard. I thought to myself why the fuck have I never listened to this shit? After that I started listening, to BB, Albert, Muddy, Freddie and everybody else. I’m addicted to the blues!
