Im an old man now, 5 kids 12 grand children. I saw Jimi at the UFO club in London in 1968 and its one of the most incredible and memorable experiences of my life. To see such genius was an absolute privilege. Like seeing Beethoven perform live
In my bedroom I have a portrait of Beethoven & Jimi Hendrix on the wall. I have never seen anyone who played the guitar like Hendrix. He was one with that guitar as if he was making love to it. Unbelievably great!!!!
Jimi stood alone. As incredibly gifted as he was, never forget, Jimi practiced, rehearsed, jammed, recorded, and performed constantly. Gifted + extremely hard working = magic
I agree, he use to wake up an immediately straped on his guitar walking around the kitchen where ever non stop unplugged picking. Jimmy knew inspiration is an in the moment thing, so if stummbed on to something his guitar was where he was. The scary thing about JH had not passed away he would be still playing inventing writing. He was a continus conduit of sonic sound.....
When Hendrix played at Woodstock and turned the Star Spangled Banner into the Vietnam war, he transcended rock music into a true art form. No guitarist before or since has reached that level of self expression - Incredible.
Jimi is my "Hero". I was 14 and saw him live at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland in 1968. My very first concert in my life. He blew me away. Changed my life forever.
Wow Jimi Hendrix was your first concert? That pretty much ruined the rest of your life as far as concerts were concerned. I’d love to interview you for exact details from what you remember. The second person after Jesus is Jimi that I’m interested about hearing details from people who saw him walk this Earth. My friend saw him three times in Houston. I was only 60 days old when he died.
Hendrix was humble. In an interview the interviewer said he was the best guitarist in the world, and his response was he was the best guitarist on that stage where no one else played! Loved the cat!
Jimi Hendrix was an absolute Corp de Force! A total one-off who did so much to steer rock music into the field we all know today. Bands and musicians at the time had nothing but praise for his talent; otherworldly, off this planet, whatever they said, they were right. Such is as he was, his soul lives on in all of the solos, screaming feedback, distortion, sweet cleans that guitarists produce today. He is still with us. Keep playing, never give up! Thank you Jimi.
Me and some high school friends went to a Jimi Hendrix experience concert in Chicago during February 1968 in Chicago on a Sunday night. That was the first time hearing loud music volume moving the air and vibrating your clothes. Concert tickets cost $16 dollars and 50 cents each. He actually made his guitar talk. There was 30 sunn speakers on stage. Jimi was on the left side and a drummer in the center and the bass player on the right side. I was 19 years old.
@@user-qb1sm3rk9rNobody will be Jimi he's right. Anyone can copy sht with endless practice that doesn't make you Jimi or have the soul. if it wasn't for him there'd be no heavy anything. You're not a musician you don't have the right to comment
Jimi's father gave him his right-handed guitar. Being left-handed, he simply flipped it to his left, and learned to play chords upside down!! GENIUS knows no boundaries!!!
@ballsballsballs3617 Yes. And no, he didn't "re-string" the guitar because there are pictures of him playing the right-handed guitar upside down, as well as interviews with musicians who knew him who attested to that fact!! Word is he initially started playing that way because they were too poor to afford a second guitar. In fact, legend has it that he even tried to create a "diddly bow" the way the legend Robert Johnson did by nailing a string to the side of a shack, and using a glass bottle tucked in between as the bridge.
The two things that keep coming up from pretty much EVERY musician are: He was so absolutely gracious and almost shy, UNTIL he hit the stage!; Once he hit the stage, it was obvious, without question, he was from some other planet, if not from some other universe! I grew up with his music through high school and as I started playing bass and he was not just a great guitarist, but an absolutely astounding MUSICIAN!
One time he was not so humble and I'm surprised that it wasn't meantioned....At a.festivable the various artists artists were fighting over you should go on last and close the show...( usually a coin toss ,decides it). But this time Hendrix picked up his guitar and played a crazy lick .and also behind his back and behind his neck....then put down his guitar and looked around at everyone silently looking at the floor ...as told by Grace Slick and others.who were there.
Jimi was and still is my favorite artist ever and that will never change. Been listening to him since I was 10 or so. Can’t imagine what he’d have made if he survived
First time I heard Jimi Hendrix was in 1969..I was 12 and I was living in Germany listening to Armed Forces Radio. It was his version of The Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock and I was poleaxed. Real shivers there.
Beloved Jimi Hendrix, blessed our lives. He just completely played his heart and soul. Like everyone I'm so grateful 🙏 for his time on this earth 🌎. Thank you Jimi.
I don't like Jimi because while learning how to play I was instantaneously demotivated seeing this guy play with such sophistication in which he did so simplistically.
Jimi was not from earth he landed here from a short time changed the world and then he split back to his planet.. I must say I did get to that planet for a minute. What a great minute in my life.. Sometimes I go back there...Sometimes....
@@wellhidden6931 Wow really? I didn't know that... I flipped the picture on purpose because the thumbnail looks better that way. I'm sure Jimi would be ok with that. I'm not gonna fix it for you
Absolutely right know one sounds Like him. One of the biggest influences on me. Mich was a Big influences to on me.too Songs like. 3d Stone of the sun. Manic depression. 51 St anniversary. Voodoo Chile. 1983 merman I should Be. Beautiful riff. The flute on it. Very spiritual. Track. And the list Gos on. SING ON BROTHER Play on drummer.
Hendix was one of a kind, full stop ! No more words needed. Whatever you needed to hear, is all in his music. Grab some time, put on your headphones, shut the door & travel. What a great homage to Jimi.
Musicians discussing Hendrix is so academic; just like hearing a lecture on the many moods of John Keats when he wrote his celebrated odes . The outpouring homages to the god of the guitar from the world's most celebrated guitarists is just pure amazing and breathtaking.
To me, his death was the worst loss in Rock History. What could he have created in the seventies? So many incredible records we won't ever be able to enjoy.
Jimmy Page should have said something in that 1971 interview ...(Robert plant was only the lead singer in Led Zeppelin...he was not a musician) they should've included a separate interview with Jimmy Page talking about jimi hendrix in this.
I remember I got off a bus in Beverly Hills & was transferring to another bus in Hollywood. I was a white teenage girl & a much older black man walked up to me in the street & hugged me & said, "Jimi died". I was incredibly shocked. I had seen him play live many times & absolutely could not believe it.
Joe Satriani almost did the impossible and explained some of Hendrix's magic and John Frusciante explained what feelings many of us were feeling when listening to him.
The best,no one plays like Jimi,lot of people on utube who watch him are amazed by the theatrics, don't think they realize how good of an guitar player he was,it's why I leave comments of his best guitar work!
I was 11 yrs old folding chronicles at 5 am when I first heard Jimi Hendrix on a transistor radio and was stunned. I may have continued working for a newspaper company but instead I’m 70 now and still playing guitar. Thanks Mr. Hendrix and thanks for this post , illuminating and memorable to say the least . A being never to be forgotten who’s spirit remains.
it's just extraordinary,that TV programme in 1990 said that "twenty years ago,Jimi Hendrix died.he was 27.he is still seen as the most influential rock guitarist of the last thirty years."that is just absolutely extraordinary.eddie van halen alone is an institution.prince is a musical icon and phenomenon.all the world's heavy rock and heavy metal guitarist,classical guitar players.steve vai.rhandy Rhoades.tony iomi.all those millions of other guitarists!it's just extraordinary!
Hendrix, wah wah pedal, Electric Ladyland . I had never experienced anyone talk with their guitar until that rainy day dreamed away. Voo Doo Child blew this 11 year old mind. I still vividly remember where I was. Jimi seemed like he was from another solar system. It always made me wonder about his song Angel and how he was soon gone
I grew up listening to Hendrix. My friends and I knew that he was incredible but we did not know that other guitar players were blown away by him. He was not a bad composer either.
Right handed guitar, playing left handed, upside down!? Holy crap, I knew he was left handed, but I’ve never heard of THAT! Amazing. I was fortunate enough to visit him at his final resting place in Seattle 2 years ago. R.I.P. Jimi 🙏✨
@@castlemagic4746still strings stretched to different lengths. Theres a scientific done article in popular Machanics on why his guitar sounded different besides his playing.
@@anothercanadian1266 Clapton was obsessed with Robert Johnson in the 60's and he have black musicians in his band. I find it more odd to hear him saying something racist.
I was born in 71 and my God his my number guy I love his music and listen to everything jimmy to those who saw him talk to him played with him that just a wonderful God gift am happy to hear his story's thank you guys thank you all
Jimi - in retrospect. In the early 60's, I was invited to a dance put on by my friend's mom's church at the Audubon ballroom in Harlem. It had kids running around, a shake dancer and a blues band with a young guitarist, whose name I never got, but who I thought was great. He looked about 17 yrs old, but he was killing those blues. He was even playing, "Night Train" behind the shake dancer. lol He was doing all those tricks: playing with his teeth, playing behind his head, etc. There wasn't that much distortion, just a typical blues sound. I thought he sounded great, especially for a band at a church dance. It was years later, when I realized that it was Jimi Hendrix. He had blossomed into a monster player... At least I saw him, even if I had no idea who he would be...
Lou Reed nailed the industry dark side of what Jimi was dealing with. And it was even darker than that. Do you really think he drank that much wine with sleeping pills? Jeffery was tied with the mob. They drowned him with wine, old mob trick. Now people he's not even related to by blood own his entire financial legacy. But ONLY the financial legacy. The music will live on for eternity. It will be forever preserved. And bless Eddie Kramer for releasing the tracks he still had in his own way. He knew how Jimi would've wanted it to sound, at least with what he had to work with. People Hell and Angels is such an appropriate name for that album, all things considered about Jimi's life and the end of his life.
yes he did, it is well known that he was into uppers and downers in 1970 on a daily basis... look at the autospy , there was NO ALCOHOL IN HIS BLOOD pls stop spreading those liese
Even Lou Reed is respectful of Jimi, which is a unique thing. My favorite band is the Beatles for their songs and Jimi as the best musician. These two made Zeppelin possible. Perfect no filler LPs played by musicians inspired by Jimi's perfect musicianship. Funny how George Clinton reminds me so much of Jerry Garcia. A hippie grandad of fun and togetherness!
@@titangoodson1064because lou reed always says stuff to be a contrarian or controversial. His interviews normally consist of him saying something and contradicting himself 5mins later or just being disrespectful to the interviewer. It’s funny to watch
The love and affection Eric Clapton shows for Jimi Hendrix is straight from his heart. He recalls the left handed Stratocaster he was going to give to Jimi as a gift from him. And Eric is choking and almost breaks down into tears. That just shows how much love Eric Clapton had for Jimi. Only a great guitarist like Eric Clapton can truly appreciate a master guitarist like Jimi.
Great stuff, I was a kid back then, with a Motorola hi-fi , my albums were dear to me! What a great time to be alive then , the flood of rock and soul was comfort!!!❤❤❤😊
You unforgivably missed out Stephen Stills, who produced the only rock album in history with Hendrix and Clapton together (plus Sebastian, Crosby, Nash, Coolidge, „Mama“ Cass and even Ringo Starr on it).
@@os75 They did not perform together. Stills' album is the only album to which both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix supplied guitar work. Stills brought in Eric Clapton on “Go Back Home” and Jimi Hendrix on “Old Times Good Times” along with other big-name friends. It was his first album.
@@hannesstuber222Hendrix and Stills played together at Electric Ladyland and Hendrix offered to play bass on Stills solo album in 1970 before he died ..he was under contact to Chazz , but appeared as James (Marshall)..his middle name on the album.
I saw Jimi Hendrix play, summer 1969. The place was an acoustic barn. It was not like anything, as great as it was, I ever heard recorded, or a video of him. The sound had separation, clear and covered the range. At one point during Voodoo Child, he put up a wall of sound, it felt like the bass was rolling up from the floor. Not only was it the oddest combination, of 6 or 7 sounds, but you would think, he was flipping switches to produce it. To compare him to these great guitar players, is really not the question. There was nothing to compare him to.
Hendrix and Neil Young were late to appear at Woodstock...so together they hit wired a pickup truck to get there on time ..Neil played with the Buffalo Springfield..reunion.with Stills
The combo of Jimi and Mitch Mitchel on traps, sealed the deal for me as a young drummer. Jimi's picture hangs next to my Katana collection. They compliment each other as they are eerily similar in nature. Beautiful, dangerous and command respect. They also can snap if used with the wrong force, i.e., the leeches of the music business. R.I.P., I'm still a little mad at you for leaving so soon. What could have been if he'd gone full "prog' as he was ready to do? Ooof!
There is a story behind the band of gypsies at the Fillmore performance. There were two shows that night. In the early show Jimmy went out on stage and did his usual show with all the tricks and a lot of showmanship. When he came off stage Bill Graham asked Hendrix if he couldn’t just play without any of the tricks or over the top showmanship Graham that him he couldn’t do it. Jimmy just gave him a look. As you see in the film Jimmy stands almost stock still for the whole performance but plays fortunately for us one of the most fantastic musical performances ever recorded. It’s reported that Jimmy walked off stage and stuck his tongue out at Bill Graham. For an encore he went back on stage and proceeded to give an amazing showmanship performance and every trick in his book.🎸
John Frusciante's rant on hendrix was more greater than anything I'd would've thought of. So we'll spoken...I think it was even better than Claptons emotional story. John is Such a perfect soul and perfect guitar player. That's why he's my favorite.
Like everyone else, I was hooked from the instant I heard Hendrix. I had never heard anything like "Purple Haze" before. But let's be realistic and technically accurate in our analysis instead of mysteriously "worshipful". Any number of guitarists were cleaner, faster and better "technicians" than Hendrix. What made Hendrix absolutely unique, and started a whole industry of guitar accessories designed to help mere mortals make the sounds Hendrix was making, was his unique ability to develop a catalogue of weird sounds, screeches, crunches, whistles, dive bombing, rubbing his guitar neck against the mic stand, picking the strings with his teeth, etc, etc, and turn those weird sounds into ABSOLUTELY unique and spellbinding music with all those unique sounds. The guys I would name off the top of my head as being better technicians than Jimi would, to a man, say Hendrix was a better guitarist than they were. But when it comes to playing "normal" music, IMO, people like Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai all had better technique than Jimi. They had better form, and played faster, cleaner and more in tune than Hendrix. Good guitar teachers pay attention to stuff like that. They would rather have their students hold their picks like Johnson, Satriani and Vai, et al, who are all experts in what is commonly called "economy picking" -- (as contrasted with strict "alternate picking" and/or "sweep picking") -- than try to do the "impossible" gymnastic stuff Hendrix did. Hendrix had abnormally long fingers which he could wrap around the guitar neck what seemed like twice around. Most people cannot physically do that. Eddie Van Halen is also another guitar player of great note for inventing a whole new hammer-on-pull-off style which captivated the guitar world. He would also say that Hendrix was much better than he. I suspect "different" is a more grammatically accurate word than "better" when it comes to rating guitar players. All I know for sure is that there are/were tens of thousands of them WAY better than I ever was (I am 80) or could be. I was lucky enough to see Segovia, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker while they were still living. Hendrix wasn't "better" than them, just "different". Taste in music IS subjective, some like "classical", some like "jazz", some like "folk", some like "bluegrass", and still others like "rock 'n roll".
Jimi played guitar for many popular bands in the 50s...the Isley Brothers bused him to stay with them, when he was broke and bought him his 64 Stratocaster ..Little Richard said ..he was a star when I got him... Hendrix said. .he quit because Richard never payed him .He quit the monkeys tour in 67 because he was booed by monkey teeny booper fans . .even Stills was rejected as one of the monkeys by the producers.and he recommended Peter Tork who was a good musician , who also bought Crosby's sailboat for him ... Jimi finally found his audience and only lasted 5 short years ..but he accomplished a lot..musically.in that time
You know a person is great -- when people that knew them still talk about them. JIMI was a shooting star for real .We are so grateful that enough footage and tracks were recorded that we know that such a person really existed.His music was so unreal.
Excellent ! So glad you got Billy Gibbons on there to tell how Jimi couldn't figure out Jeff Becks licks . My 2 favorite guitarists, Jimi + Jeff can violently attack a guitar to get the sounds they want , or gently caress it to get the sounds they need !! Again , EXCELLENT video!!
Enjoyed Joe Satriani's comments...similar experience, I'd been playing a while, into Chicago blues, Bloomfield, Muddy...etc. "Are You Experienced" was so new and out there yet I could clearly hear the blues, the intro to Hey Joe... yeah! I recognize that. Amazing times when "the real" was highly valued. Now it's plastic/processed. Kudos to the singer songwriters keeping music alive.
Check out the jam of ( Pali Gap).... Hendrix very bluesy ,genius instrumental. .it has a hint of Jazz in it ...this would have been the direction he was going in before he died .
Nobody could have written Jimmy's music down on paper, he made most of it up as he went along, he just felt it, he pulled it out of the ether, what he played was in his head, that's what made it brilliant, it sent you to other world's ! I wish he was around today I miss him.
Zappa while a great talent and musician was a stuffy arrogant bitter resentful man who believed he and his music was superior to the entire rock music culture. He was bitter he never achieved the fame he felt he deserved. Be hard to find him saying anything nice about any of his musical peers because he didn’t believe he had any
These accounts are truly fascinating especially Joe Walsh's account of Jimi being that I saw with the James Gang at the Syracuse War Memorial & many years later I met at Guitar Center on all days being my birthday & until now never knew that he knew Jimi & I've to say this is why I'm still playing now. The things that you learn in life & 1 more thing I got to meet the late Noel Redding in NYC as well. Much love & thanks for this.
He Could Have been with him at Woodstock ...if he didn't make excuses, like dozens of other bands that were told it wasn't going to be a very big deal and that they probably wouldn't get payed ..but .they would have been immortalize in the Woodstock film..
It's amazing both Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Lee created their on style. Both was born on the west coast of America on November 27. Bruce Lee November 27, 1940. Jimi Hendrix November 27, 1942.
I like Zappa's 'take' on Hendrix. Basically, Zappa didn't rate Hendrix as a musician due to not being able to write music down. This applies to most rock players including Eddie Van Halen. Zappa is full of Crappa. In fact, Zappa had his head up his own arse.
Yeah. Zappa is my favourite player because of his mental, visceral lead but his attitude in this is so off putting. Zappa also despised British Punk (as it was labelled) in completely missing the point. 👌🏾
