Buddy was cold blooded with this one! people don't realize how heavy this kind of music was,...... this is way out there!.... You just get it,..... or you don't.... Buddy Miles was only 19 or 20 years old when he was doing this,.... just think about it, how amazing for a 19/ 20-year-old kid to be driving his band like a seasoned pro!....... Buddy Miles an amazing underrated genius RIP buddy.
What I never understood is how so many people are convinced that Buddy was an awful drummer, and that's why his career with Hendrix was cut short. Definitely not the case. Just listen to how rock solid his timing is while singing and how he throws those pretty speedy rolls and fills without missing a beat. While I like Mitch and what he did with the Experience, I thought Buddy was the better drummer overall.
Jimi loved Buddy or he would not have worked with him on so many recordings. Mitch was part of the MACHINE that brought Hendrix to the forefront of Rock music and Jimi gave his voice the freedom to grow within his music. Mitch before Jimi didn't play with that wild abandonment on recordings but he had his JAZZ influences that the music of Hendrix released. AND if Mitch sang like Buddy, HE would have played like a cement mixer 😂😂
@@dmoore0079 awfull is a little bit exagerated and unfair ....he had the power but not the techniques to follow Jimi when he went to the sky .....I think Jackde jonnette had both sides for a more jazzy/funky experimental hendrix
An Offhand remark overheard, "Too much Buddy and Not enough the rest of the Band" (that was aimed at Buddy Rich, another drummer) This Buddy miles deserves recognition for His Singing,(Shout) inCredable energy and drumming. Buddy, was the "Guy,
The bassist is the great (and living) Billy Rich, brother of horn player Herbie Rich who was an original member of The American Flag with Buddy Miles. There were rumors that Billy was supposed to record with Hendrix's Band of Gypsies, but was unavailable. Hendrix wound up working with bassist Billy Cox, with whom he had a musical relationship dating back to their days in the Armed Forces.
Wish there was a version with good sound quality because Buddy is on fire here. If you haven't properly listened to "expressway to your should" get on it - Hendrix was sitting in the producers chair for it and it was recorded just before Electric Lady land.
if you listen super close at about the 3:20 mark you can barely hear jim mccarty tearin' it up but for some reason the sound guys have it so low you can barely hear it...unless it's just this recording which only came out of my left speaker...
Wow. There was no one beating the hell out of drums like that at that time. Not even Kieth Moon, in my opinion. He didn't play nasty giant beats like this.
For me Buddy was the first Drummer performer because of his singing while playing and as for some of the opinions expressed about him at least he made history with what he did lot more than can be said about others.
Deen Castronovo does it still. Prosoundstudio… what kind of opinions? I remember the first time I heard this song. The moment he opened his mouth I just smiled, and said a profanity. Lol
Groovy baby! Dancing was so much more expressive and active back then. Nowadays go watch a bar band, there will be line dancers doing robotic “easy” movements.
@@derneillwashington3091Hayes & Porter were the primary song writers at STAX; like Holland/Dozier/ Holland were at MOTOWN. Of course u knew that. Bands like ZZ TOP doing I THank You & the Fab T-Birds years later were just rock versions of the original SOULS recordings
Well we all have our opinions. Personally, iI think Band of Gypsies was the worst album Jimi Hendrix made. That was probably the reason the line up only lasted for one album. Machine Gun by Buddy Miles has my vote as the worst song ever recorded by Jimi Hendrix.
@@Onraitravels Jimi wrote Machine Gun, just fyi. It was a transitional album, he owed Capitol Records one for a bad contract he'd signed before being discovered. Lotta folks love BOG and Jimi wanted to get other musicians involved, esp diff singers. His manager sabotaged the project and others Jimi wanted to do. Personally, I like all Hendrix.
@@victorlay7722 It seems I am in the minority about Machine Gun. I didn’t get that it was a protest song and was considered by many one of Jimi’s finest songs. To be honest, I still don’t like it and have never been a fan distortion and his more experimental work. For me Jimi was sublime on songs like “Little Wing, All Along the Watchtower and other songs where his genius shone.
@@betagemslostmedia607 it’s the part when Devin Miles’ dad mailed him tapes of drummers he knew and the ones he didn’t know. Buddy Miles is one of those tapes
The Allman Brothers had two drummers. James Brown had two drummers. (With Clyde Stubblefield, no less. It was about groove.) It’s common in jazz, too. Not unusual.
