Expanding my guitar knowledge. Jimi Hendrix ANALYSIS of "Hey Joe"

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Reading through the lyrics and noting that this song is about domestic violence has me worried to dive into the deep end, but I loved the last Jimi Hendrix analysis so much - and trust this community to pick the best music for me, that we're going to dig in deep!
Join professional opera singer Elizabeth Zharoff, as she listens to Jimi Hendrix performing "Hey Joe" for the first time.
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@tulyar57 7 месяцев назад

I wouldn't get hung up on the message. It's a blues song about anger, shame and revenge through senseless violence. There's no guarantee Joe ever makes it to Mexico just as there is no evidence that his girlfriend was ever unfaithful. The song was even covered by artists such as Patti Smith. Ultimately, it is just an emotive vehicle for Jimi's extraordinary talents.

@davef6673 4 месяца назад

Right!

@MrElapid 2 месяца назад

It's a vignette of what could possibly happen in a man's life. A masterful song.

@greenchile-is8du 2 месяца назад

it sounded like Ms Manners was reviewing a David lynch film

@RandyWinn42 27 дней назад

@@greenchile-is8du discounting a woman's complaint about misogyny is not something a good man should do.

@barbtroje3441 23 дня назад

@@RandyWinn42 First I am a woman . Second it is not a discount

@rexrogers1859 7 месяцев назад

Jimi was first and foremost a guitar virtuoso who said he wanted to recreate every sound in the universe. He is missed dearly.

@Uphold-your-Rights 7 месяцев назад

Imagine a world where Jimi played another 40-50 years. He broke thru barriers in his short life.

@giuliogrifi7739 7 месяцев назад

@@Uphold-your-Rights He had just begun discovering classical music !

@jonhambach 7 месяцев назад

@@Uphold-your-Rights crazy to think about. Even crazier his career was only 4 years long 🤯

@bierdlll 7 месяцев назад

The beauty of Jimi's guitar work is in the sound textures and tones spontaneously created for every note, and between notes. It's alive, soulful and utterly beautiful.

@hulkhatepunybanner 7 месяцев назад

*To me, Jimi Hendrix is the greatest Rock guitarist that ever lived.* And a pretty good Blues guitarist.

@dancrowley488 5 месяцев назад

This is from the Monterey Pop Festival in June of ‘67. It was Jimi’s return to America. He walked on the stage a rumor. He walked off the stage a legend.

@saturnsabyss 4 месяца назад

Well said!!!

@daverobinson6110 4 месяца назад

Rumor>Legend, very profound and exactly what happened

@WendyDarling1974 4 месяца назад

Elizabeth, if you want to get a dose of the caliber of performers and voices of the same era, watch the entire Monterey Pop concert, it’s a movie.

@otherstar1 3 месяца назад

Jimi played right after the Greateful Dead (who played right after The Who) and he was followed by The Mamas and the Papas. Jimi was pulling out all the stops to make sure he was remembered....and it worked!!!!

@AlizeeDefan 28 дней назад

As did Janis

@shannonherb2048 5 месяцев назад

He plays a right handed guitar left handed, used the feedback, and was high. I just love y'all's reactions to high rock artists.

@jeffrey.a.hanson 3 месяца назад

90% of her guitar questions can be attributed to ‘was high’. Lol

@ks5553 3 месяца назад

She's shocked that he was chewing gum, imagine if she knew it had probably 6 hits of acid in it lmao

@shannonherb2048 3 месяца назад

Lol.

@moottori_paa 15 дней назад

but strings was like left handed. so thati is no big deal.

@plainflavour 7 месяцев назад

Jimi was a gentle character. I think here he was engaging with human tragedy not entirely different to how opera does, but more gritty.

@KeithMilner 7 месяцев назад

Yeah, I see it as a narrative, a story telling, maybe even a critique. Not an endorsement.

@jimmylavoie4152 7 месяцев назад

I see what you mean, he is my hero as a guitar player, but he was known for this kind of behavior as well.

@wade8240 7 месяцев назад

@@jimmylavoie4152 Careful there. Are you sure about that? His former girlfriend Kathy Etchingham, has written a book (Through Gypsy Eyes) and given many interviews which disproves those claims ☮

@JRoss-zxzx 6 месяцев назад

True. Jimi's roots are in the Blues, and this is the sort of thing they sang about.

@boyermatthews2177 6 месяцев назад

You realize that Billy Roberts wrote "Hey Joe?" And there are some who claim it was Dino Velenti. Dylan's performance made the song popular and Jimi took it to a place no one was capable of at the time.

@tbo72787 7 месяцев назад

With the amount of horrible things that happen in operas, I would think you of all people would understand that a person singing about a thing does not a ringing endorsement make. That said, love your videos 😊

@donnadavid1972 7 месяцев назад

Well Said. why the commentary on "Domestic Abuse" I have really enjoyed her reactions, somehow I feel like she should stick with Opera so she can point out all the Atrocities.😔

@michaelcunningham3933 7 месяцев назад

As Peter Benchley famously said, "Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of dying, he sings."

@Trisket 7 месяцев назад

It's the same people who complain about other violent fictional characters, say Tony Soprano. But love fictional characters who are monsters in franchises they like, such as Darth Vader, who blew up an entire planet of sentient life as an interrogation tactic on his daughter. There is no thought or reasoning behind it, pure emotion.

@MikeBarnett1776 7 месяцев назад

@@donnadavid1972 I, for one, enjoy pretty much everything Elizabeth has to say - even if I don't always agree. The fun here, for me, is seeing someone new to the genre fall in love with songs I first fell in love with almost half a century ago. We actually played Hey Joe in practices, but not in gigs, because we played a lot of high schools, and it was on the "no way are you playing that" list at pretty much all of them.

@spruce381 7 месяцев назад

Only Prnce, Ren and Bowie had/have this creative ability. Agree with the others about story and person - Carmen - all opera is tragedy.

@memphismick7010 4 месяца назад

Elizabeth, Hey Joe was a standard song to cover in the mid-60s. Tons of bands recorded it. Ps. yes, he used his teeth. He was an amazing front man, entertainer. I used to watch this concert on DVD to amp me up before a gig.

@boolsson4639 6 месяцев назад

Jimi was one of the composers that saw music in colors. He used to tell Mitch and Noel "I need this more green or red". They didn't undertand him at all. But Jimi always said that he was painting with his music. I've heard of other composers that also saw music in colors.

@ks5553 3 месяца назад

It's called synesthesia if you're interested. Sometimes it turns people into numbers too lol.

@calebleland8390 2 месяца назад

I mean, a few hits of acid will make you see music in colors 🤣🤣

@zehelsumi1845 2 месяца назад

@@calebleland8390😂😂

@vinanddex 7 месяцев назад

Little Wing is a great ballad with fantastic guitar (as usual). I've been listening to Jimi for 50 years and he never gets old. People have made careers trying to copy him.

@Bekka_Noyb 7 месяцев назад

ooh I 2nd Little Wing!

@pete_lind 7 месяцев назад

I think, Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary- TV Appearance , Stockholm 1967, Jimi, drummer and bass player on stage, nothing fancy.

@ritareesedass 7 месяцев назад

I was absolutely going to suggest Little Wing 🤘🤘

@stuw4055 7 месяцев назад

Little Wing is awesome, but not much lyrics for us to hear Jimmy’s bluesy tones.

@t.a.landry5727 4 месяца назад

@@stuw4055 That's ok... Jimi is known & appreciated for more than just his "bluesy tones" by so very many of his fans!💜

@BigTexan59 7 месяцев назад

Hey Elizabeth, for a ballad, check out "Wind Cry's Mary" As for the message of the song, it's really ANTI domestic violence. The lyrics point out Joe's hypocracy that his woman wasn't free enough to do what SHE wants, but no hangman is going to put a rope around HIM, cause he has to be free.

@saucylad 7 месяцев назад

That or Castles Made of Sand

@thamojster 7 месяцев назад

@@saucylad my favorite hendrix song

@rocky8758 7 месяцев назад

Don’t forget Little Wing.

@kalter_wind 7 месяцев назад

Guess Joe was a sovereign citizen, then.

@fd1 7 месяцев назад

On the money on all counts. Not really necessary to tell us that domestic violence is not OK. We All know that.

@cdecent 5 месяцев назад

There doesn't need to be a message. It's a story. He makes it compelling.

@jameson32 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, I'm literally angry at her offended attitude and I'm a progressive. It's an old folk song and a display of art.

@daveguitarnowski4402 5 месяцев назад

@@jameson32 Yeah, it basically comes from the old "murder ballad" tradition of folk music.

@cdecent 4 месяца назад

@@jameson32 Don't be angry.

@SlavJerry 2 месяца назад

one thing that I love about jimi hendrix is that he's not just a great guitarist, he's also a great showman

@100john4 7 месяцев назад

I think when you get into blues and look at the history of blues, it can be telling a story, not messaging. If you tell a story about something, it does not mean you condone it, and it is often a cautionary tale.

@JulioLeonFandinho 7 месяцев назад

these kind of stories are very common in many folk traditions, not only the blues, the jealous guy killing his wife/gf and all the variations imaginable

@solidground4157 7 месяцев назад

Very well put, sir. That's what it is. And Jimi played guitar as part of his singing, that guitar sounds is part of the storytelling, much harsher than all versions done before.

@100john4 7 месяцев назад

@@JulioLeonFandinho I have only dipped my toe into folk, but I think of The Kingston Trio and their version of the song Tom Dooley, which describes an actual murder in 1866 and the hanging as a result.

@100john4 7 месяцев назад

@@solidground4157 You could, rightfully, argue that Jimi sang as an excuse to tell stories with his guitar. I believe he was always a guitarist first, much like the one he influenced, SRV.

@TheNationOfTexas 6 месяцев назад

@@100john4 Solid analysis. Both of them sang because they realized they had to.

@robertjackson9326 7 месяцев назад

It's called The Blues; it's about reality, not some idealized world in which such things do not happen. Incidentally, Jimi came from R&B, where such things as playing behind your head (or with your teeth) were standard showmanship.

@HareDeLune 7 месяцев назад

I agree. Both Blues and Folk music do not shy away from presenting the ugly parts of life. Sometimes in all their gruesome detail. Such songs, far from glorifying these acts, present them with a stark neutrality to serve as cautionary tales to the listener.

@nightwishlover8913 7 месяцев назад

That is, of course, proper "Rhythm and blues" not the standardised rubbish that goes by the name of R&B these days.

@robertjackson9326 7 месяцев назад

@HareDeLune Yes. Where is the honest expression of yesterday?

@greezythumb 7 месяцев назад

@nightwishlover8913 AMEN TO THAT 🙏🏾

@TheNationOfTexas 6 месяцев назад

Absolutely. There’s no glorifying domestic violence here; it’s simply a story. Side note: you’re not from Texas, are you? @Rob Jackson

@danielproctor9939 6 месяцев назад

Little Wing (studio) is the ultimate Hendrix love song. To give a simile here, Jimi is like an abstract artist. Beyond impressionism, cubism, surrealism (etc.), Jimi took sound and bent it, blurred it, distorted it and turn it inside out. Abstract sound. Jimi was a gifted abstract artist. Don't get hung up on the "message" or, the showmanship (he was a master there too). The visceral shrieks, screaming and wailing of the guitar at the end contrast the somber first part, of the dialogue (and heavy use of the 5th and 6th strings) in the lyrics at the beginning of the song. Art is meant to provoke us and as Jimi said about his Star Spangled Banner, "I thought it was beautiful." Which is why he wrote the book on rock guitar.

@lifetimes2983 5 месяцев назад

Elizabeth is clearly a serious musician with a musical soul for exploration. At 70 yrs of age I am so fortunate to have lived through the music explosion of the 60's and throughout the 70'. Many great players and songwriter and but Oh Hendrix.....was and is the soul of it all. Unmatched to this day in his depth. Elizabeth has now heard the fierceness Hendrix could Deliver. Now it is hoped she will equally explore the masterful delicacy of Hendrix guitar work in songs like Angel,Wind Cries Mary and Little Wing which will prepare you to climb to the top of the mountain and listen to Machine Gun

@Cadinho93 7 месяцев назад

"If Jimi Hendrix isn't your favorite guitar player, he's your favorite guitar player's favorite guitar player." Singing, chewing gun, playing with his teeth, playing behind his neck all while being charismatic and incredible at everything he did. Jimi Hendrix was light years ahead of his time and he changed music forever. He came here from somewhere else, gave us his tremendous gifts and then went home.

@tomasnorden8332 7 месяцев назад

I just say Stevie Ray Vaughan. Sry i dont like Jimi

@specialsause949 7 месяцев назад

@@tomasnorden8332I've tried listening to SRV but I find it bland, boring, and generally soulless.

@tubehepa 7 месяцев назад

Yup, he seems to tell that to us in Third Stone from the Sun (with Mitch's wonderfull, partly jazzy drumming).

@rbffbvs 7 месяцев назад

And I still miss him.

@rbilleaud 7 месяцев назад

For anyone who doubts Hendrix's talent and abilities, he was playing in London just days after The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper" album was released. He knew the Beatles were going to be in the audience for his show, so he brought the album with him to the auditorium and played it backstage for his band just a few hours before show time and told them they were going to play Sgt. Pepper THAT NIGHT in front of the Beatles. And he did. Legendary. The Beatles were blown away that anyone would attempt that.

@superjoltman 7 месяцев назад

^^^yes! Amazing story and performance, please do this one as well too!!!

@greezythumb 7 месяцев назад

Paul said he shed a couple tears and that Jimi actually not only played it but he mastered it. I believe Paul said he asked them first if it would be ok. Jimi was a real respectful and humble guy. Mutual respect between both camps as it should be. The era of real musicians. It wasn't just art to those guys from that era. It was life to them.

@zkeletonz001 7 месяцев назад

Jimi was so great that Noel Redding (bass) and Mitch Mitchell (drums) are both far too often overlooked and underappreciated.

@walstib1989 7 месяцев назад

i think it was actually the same day Peppers was released. Artist of his caliber always get an early copy before mass release.

@markldavis1 7 месяцев назад

I never new that, thanks

@richardsoane6192 3 месяца назад

From a guitarists perspective he does this : you see Jimi focus on the fretboard and finger the starting position he wants so there is no uncertainty once he flips the guitar over. From there while it can be a bit difficult you keep the solo where possible within say 5 fretts or so to avoid loosing your position. Once he solo is done look for a point where there is a pause in the song so you have time to flip the guitar back and be in time to resume.

@baronbristow8764 5 месяцев назад

Castles made of sand - or - the wind cries Mary. Both beautiful

@nicholasbennett3169 7 месяцев назад

He was definitely not an advocate for domestic violence. He was a pioneer that came out of an era that did not allow adult topics in music. You would have to understand the timing of the piece and his musicianship that would have been a huge breath of fresh air at the time. He's telling a story a drama if you will that no one had done before. The vibe of the music tells that feeling a sad crime of passion and sorrow. If all you can produce are happy bubblegum stories about rainbows, that would leave alot of expression on the table that would go untold.

@ofsinope 7 месяцев назад

Jimi did not even write Hey Joe...

@keepkalm 7 месяцев назад

I think he is chewing on a tab of acid. I wasn't there or anything, but it's possible that it isn't bubble gum.

@michaelgallagher3640 7 месяцев назад

@@keepkalm...You've obviously never done acid, if he was chewing on that much he'd be trippin balls.

@scotmark 7 месяцев назад

@@michaelgallagher3640 ..and probably even playing his guitar the right way up at times. 😸

@Tensen01 7 месяцев назад

@@keepkalm Tabs of acid were little paper stamps soaked in acid that you let sit on your tongue to dissolve, you did not chew them.

@Never_heart 7 месяцев назад

I think the blues influence is what gives extra depth to this song. It's not glorification of domestic assualt, it's the casual relatable tragedy of it. The tradegy that is unspoken but is definitely present under the surface that we know is there, but again we don't say it we just feel it. The hypocrisy of Joe, the self servicing logic of killing her and getting away free, but she for something far less terrible had to die in Joe's eyes.

@MarcosElMalo2 7 месяцев назад

I agree. The “unfaithful lover” and “revenge on an unfaithful lover” are two big tropes in Blues music. “Ain’t nobodies business” is one of my favorite delta tunes. A more modern favorite is “I put a spell on you”. I particularly like the Nina Simone cover. I think that that would be a great subject for analysis.

@kinokind293 7 месяцев назад

I always assumed that the song was essentially a blues version of an Appalachian "murder ballad", and was just telling a story with a dark moral.

@phantomechelon3628 7 месяцев назад

Indeed. A lot of early blues songs were rooted in hard times and tragedy, usually for reasons beyond the person's control, but sometimes just because they were driven to do bad things. Hence why blues is the music of pain...although it can be uplifting too.

@johnlemon874 7 месяцев назад

Well there is a reason all these old rock guitar players could play the blues. That’s the roots

7 месяцев назад

That IS a Blues. It is not Blues "influenced".

@charlesmyers8150 5 месяцев назад

Imagine what a sensation Hendrix created in the 60's with his performances and albums. There was NOTHING like it. He took sounds from the guitar never heard before and stunned people as if by magic. He truly was the coolest person alive at the time, the #1 performer in the world. He was the rock stars rockstar. Still miles beyond the imitators of today in guitar playing.

@Justin-rm2dn 5 месяцев назад

"BOLD AS LOVE" is a must listen to song by Jimi Hendrix! One of my favorites!

@morganhale3434 7 месяцев назад

The messaging of Hey Joe is a sad story of the demise of a man. He was hung by the neck until dead for killing his woman. Also, Hendrix's vocals are on the back beat or down beat because the lead is the guitar, the engine is the rhythm section of the bass, drums, and rhythm guitar (Hendrix as well as the lead guitar which only Jimi can do,) and the vocals are an accompanying piece which tells the story. An awesome arrangement which presages Hard Rock by 5 years.

@trismegistus7638 6 месяцев назад

It's like a stripped-down Murder Ballad, similar to In The Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night?). It's a very common theme in blues.

@kevinsmith4429 5 месяцев назад

@@trismegistus7638I am a 70 yr. old bluesman from the Chi. I wrote tons of papers on this very subject. I moved to Chicago & went to De Paul just to be close to ground zero for that groove. All the greatest were still young - playing at a million dives . BB KING,ALBERT KING,HOWLIN WOLF. No better place to do research than drunk in a bar on Wells st at 3:30 in the morning with like 10 other people watching Buddy Guy. A lot of early blues songs dealt with the shoot your old ladies down but surprising amount of women shooting their men,Saw Big Mama Thornton do a song once about killing her old man AND his girl.

@trismegistus7638 5 месяцев назад

@@kevinsmith4429 Thank you for sharing. I am a 35 year old headbanger from Oregon. I love hearing stories of music scenes from my forerunners. I'm not religious in any traditional way, but these figures like those you listed are the closest I get to religious reverence. The jam sesh is my church and my eucharist is a Gibson SG.

@torpedience 5 месяцев назад

My American mother used to sing a version of "Poor Boy" from when I was 4 or 5. That was about a man getting hanged for shooting someone. I think Hey Joe is a blues about the desperation of African American life, that included violence and punishment. It's not pretty. I don't think it's either for or against violence, it's just a powerful piece of musical storytelling. I have no reason to believe Jimi supported violence against women, but he was no political campaigner against it either. I doubt if he'd choose this song now. I loved it and learnt the walking bassline from a book in 1980, but could never commit to performing it with those words. Jimi didn't think he could sing and sort of swallowed his voice. The guitar did most of the storytelling and I think here it's telling us about incredible pain and flight. The showmanship came from the blues tradition. Others were showing off with their guitar playing, but Jimi took it to 23:38 rock and to this day is one of a very small number of black rockers. You should see him set light to his guitar and detune it while playing. The distortion is warm and valvey. There's a deep tone, and his rhythm drives the whole song, bouncing off bass and those scattered drums. Most of his imitators went up the neck, squealing and trilling and just stayed there. I have no time for that whole genre. Too many notes that don't say anything. Sorry, van Halen but you did not move me. Talking of which, I think Jimi did do some string tapping, for the harmonics, so maybe in this clip he messed up or we just couldn't hear it. Just came from your Frampton video and there's a link there about the interplay between guitar and voice going back and forwards. In the Frampton video you show how he is silently singing along with his open mouth while soloing and eventually fuses mouth and guitar together. To me this creates a surreal, alien lifeform effect which takes the mere technique to a different level. David Byrne is also surreal a

@mightybean7840 5 месяцев назад

I have found that many blues songs have a common theme where a man has just found out the woman he loves has been cheating on him behind his back. At which point his heart is torn to shreds, and he loses his mind. This is not the first blues song where a man kills his old lady. But there has never been a murder case that has ever used the Jimi Hendrix defense of hearing this song, then went out and killed their cheating woman. It's just a great blues song being played by a very talented musician. So, chill out people. 😂

@williamhamilton6643 7 месяцев назад

Other people played the guitar, Jimi WAS the guitar. He was self taught, learned to play left-handed, in case you didn't notice, and was so far ahead of other musicians he did things like play with his chin/mouth, or behind his back just to keep it interesting and have a little fun. He was a guitar player who sang, not a singer who played guitar. He never liked the way his voice sounded but I've always thought it was perfect for the type of music he played. I had a GF in 1967 that loaned me her copy of the Jimi Hendrix Experience and I was never the same (musically) since. The electric guitar was invented for someone like him to come along and show the world how it was done. The music just poured out of him in a seemingly effortless manner. I cried when I heard he had passed, I was so angry that drugs had taken another musical genius from us, and continue to do so. I'm sure others on this board felt the same way. As an aside, this is an old blues song that predates Jimi covering it. And while it was never my favorite song of his, everything he recorded was special.

@sullisen 6 месяцев назад

Left handed but on a standard guitar tuned/strung(?) for right handed play even, unless I'm misremembering? So he had the high E string at the top then B G etc

@joefeld3697 6 месяцев назад

No. He played right handed guitars but they were tuned (low to high) just like a left handed would have been strung and tuned. Albert King is the main one who played an upside down right handed guitar. He played a standard strung right hander , left handed.@@sullisen

@kelvinmeneely3116 6 месяцев назад

@@joefeld3697 if you watch the video closely...(his right hand) .. the guitar is not restrung, he just played it upsidedown.

@andrzejdziadul6022 6 месяцев назад

@@kelvinmeneely3116I must be missing something. He definitely plays a restrung guitar left handed here, standard tuning half step down ie Eb etc. But the point is, he could play both left and right handed with equal virtuosity. People forget the size of his hands ( jazz guitarist Tal Farlow also had massive hands) , playing lead and rhythm at the same time, control of feedback, and pure musicianship of the guy. Sadly missed.

@WordAte 5 месяцев назад

That is exactly right. Jimi was indistinguishable from his guitar. He is it. It is him.

@RobertHollander 5 месяцев назад

Holy shit. I've heard this song more than a thousand times and even played it in my high school rock band and never once realized that it has to do with domestic violence. I'm not a lyricist. The words are just part of the rhythm track to me.

@johnloving9401 4 месяца назад

Good point about the vocals being "just part of the track." Never look at this, or any song as being the story line for an episode of the crappy "Law and Order SVU."

@WordAte 5 месяцев назад

I love that you are trying to understand a genius who is high out of his mind, exploring the edges of music, being the coolest cat who ever took a stage. Jimi was. Why. Jimi.

@florisdejong4661 7 месяцев назад

Many musicians are great craftsman, some are great artists, but very few are magicians. RIP Jimi.

@friki-tiki 7 месяцев назад

one might call him a "musgician" ... maybe

@VictorHernandezVH1 7 месяцев назад

SRV picked up that baton from Hendrix. Two tragic losses.

@sledman6163 6 месяцев назад

Hendrix playing lead and rhythm together; at the same time, was and is incredible

@jameson32 5 месяцев назад

That's a very underemphasized thing. The rhythm guitar is incredible in this song, and the leads just sort of bubble up out of it.

@ThomasG.Standard-nu5tj 3 месяца назад

Word not that many people know that . He plays at the olimpic auditorium in England 1st song is Sargent peppers 2nd song. foxy lady 3rd song wild thing . the last song it shows how good he really is he tunes his guitar in the middle of the song he plays under his legs and behind his back and kinda mess up I had a tape of this before youtube was even around but when I found this on RU-vid and I watched it a few times I noticed these thing

@ThomasG.Standard-nu5tj 3 месяца назад

Oh the Beatles Eric Clapton the who were there

@beautifuldaymusic 5 месяцев назад

Watching you make new discoveries in music is a joy to behold!

@jameson32 5 месяцев назад

I dunno, to me it was the reaction of one determined and/or seeking to be offended by the lyrics. Hendrix is playing some amazing rhythm guitar and she can't help but display her complete ignorance of the american folk tradition and virtue signaling.

@MrDMF567 7 месяцев назад

Jimi’s talent is jaw-dropping every single time. Just mind blowing. Then. Now. Forever.

@metalmark1214 7 месяцев назад

Elizabeth watching Jimi playing guitar with his teeth and playing guitar behind his head. Oh, on top of that, he's chewing gum and singing. Elizabeth getting the Jimi Hendrix experience.

@thundernels 7 месяцев назад

Johnny Cash often chews gum whilst singing and I really wish he didn’t.

@carbonclaw7280 7 месяцев назад

Jimi Hendrix and Yngwie Malmsteen are the only guitarists I know of to play with their teeth. Malmsteen does it in his live performance of Black Star. It's a 10minute video can be found on youtube.

@smillstill 7 месяцев назад

@@carbonclaw7280Also, Jeff Healy.

@stevenmeyer9674 7 месяцев назад

Playing with your teeth or behind your back doesn't make you a good player. It is no more than being a showman.

@thundernels 7 месяцев назад

@@stevenmeyer9674 But, if one plays behind one’s head, it often is indicative of mastery of the instrument. I mean, he’s not up there just strumming chords. There is a showmanship element to a performance. I went to a classical guitar concert not long ago. Dude was top notch. Played everything perfect. Solid player. The audience was yawning at 30 minutes. I guess I’m saying there needs to be a balance of proficiency and showmanship or at least not devalue one over the other.

@jonassundell9366 2 месяца назад

Total peace, love and understanding, hippie vibe? Big hugs from Jonas, Gothenburg Sweden.❤.😊

@candyroq 6 месяцев назад

I get so excited when I see a song that’s going to surprise you. It’s like being surprised again myself.

@kaufybeans 7 месяцев назад

Old Blues guitarists were playing behind their backs in the 1920s. It took the Blues and Folk revival of the 60s to bring some of this showmanship back. Jimi was a pioneer for many reasons. He didn’t invent all these moves, but he modernized and popularized them. Legend.

@quiteloud 7 месяцев назад

I believe there's a quote from Jimi, when he related how he picked this up in bars in the South - "If you didn't do that stuff, you'd get shot."

@igmusicandflying 7 месяцев назад

Funny thing is playing with your teeth or behind your back isn't that much more difficult than just playing normally, but it sure looks showy! I could never play with my teeth, personally, though, not because I couldn't do it, but because the sensation squicked me out too much to do it much.

@rowanb4395 7 месяцев назад

@@igmusicandflying Yeah its evokes that same feeling as someone running their fingernails down a blackboard haha

@richardcampbell2261 7 месяцев назад

There is a story that Jimi met guitarist Drake Levin of Paul Revere & The Raiders before Jimi became famous. Jimi came up to Drake after he had finished the set and said he was wowed by Drake's playing the guitar behind his head.

@mikerea1561 7 месяцев назад

Whats being communicated is witnessing tragedy unfold as a bystander. There were no winners in this story.

@janetsampson1779 3 месяца назад

I'm a musician and my former manager played at the Monterey Pop Festival and it's all show what he's doing with his mouth,with the loud volume all you need is your fret hand pushing on the strings,Jimi Hendrix is my favorite guitar player and was super innovative,I love how melodic his playing is. Bob

@tree267 Месяц назад

Nah, he’s plucking strings with his teeth, not hammering on with his fretting hand, it sounds distinctly different.

@stevenmeyer9674 7 месяцев назад

There are also some "unusual" stories in Opera . May I suggest watching a RU-vid performance by this terrific opera singer named Elizabeth Zharoff, I believe. Subject matter was about her being kidnapped by a man and being imprisoned by him until she submitted to his wishes. Wonderful performance by the way

@tomland9293 7 месяцев назад

LOL

@czwirner 7 месяцев назад

LMAO!!!!! Thats awesome!!

@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 7 месяцев назад

Damn. I don’t condone that! 😏

@TheNationOfTexas 6 месяцев назад

Ha! Nice. Personally I was wondering why she kept bringing up the domestic violence aspect, but never once mentioned how terrible it is to cheat on your lover…

@bp6942 2 месяца назад

Honestly, she is probably just trying to cover herself and stay out of drama. Went a little far on it.

@thdryvr 7 месяцев назад

It's the blues. He is re-telling a story, witch is why sometimes it almost sounds like a conversation. I think Jimi loved that groove and that's what inspired his playing.

@mrgmusicclass 7 месяцев назад

It is a conversation. It was written that way. An unnamed person is asking questions and Joe is answering.

@danieleldon7195 7 месяцев назад

I totally agree. Also, the song is powerful because of the rolling rhythm structure with the poweful guitar playing on top of it. The song would still be amazing if it had no lyrics.

@everythinggamingnow 10 дней назад

One of the many things i love about jimmi, and i only just realised i end up doing a similar thing from watching and listening to him so much. He does so much with his guitar that is totally not needed, but looks cool. And in some cases, in a "techincal" sense its worse than just straight playing, but man, the vibes from just letting loose and making music in strange ways is just fantastic! Silly stuff like playing with the guitar behind your head, its pointless, its very in-efficient and not difficult at all....and yet....it feels fantastic. Many Jimi things have no meaning, its just a vibe to roll along to!

@kelvinmeneely3116 6 месяцев назад

"If 6 were 9" is a great song.

@uscanman 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for reviewing another Hendrix song. Regarding the theme of the song (murder), it's fundamentally the same theme as Taylor Swift's "No Body, No Crime" (and for that matter Norah Jones' "Miriam"). The songs are telling a story. They aren't advocating for, or approving of, what's occurring in the story. They convey emotion. Some, like Rod Stewart's "Scarred and Scared" convey remorse. Others, such as The Chick's "Goodbye Earl", are celebratory. Yet, I don't think the Chicks are actually advocating for poisoning abusive people and hiding the bodies. "Hey Joe" is no different. It's a blues song (played by a legendary blues artist), and blues songs can be pretty gritty and real (it's part of the genre).

@jefferywarburton2116 7 месяцев назад

It isn't far apart at all from cocaine blues Johnny Cash or Bring me my shotgun Lightning Hopkins.

@csmelen 7 месяцев назад

Well said my friend.

@TEDodd 7 месяцев назад

Would she react the same to "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia?"

@philrodriguez1948 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for this! The subject matter; it's the blues, stories that aren't drenched in positive stuff.

@sosapilot 4 месяца назад

Buddy guy did a lot of guitar playing tricks like playing behind his back, and I think he was an inspiration for Jimi in some ways. It's worth checking him out, he's a real living legend!

@deandrabin306 8 дней назад

Elizabeth, I really enjoy your in-depth analysis (and appreciation) of Jimi's tunes. What I really need, though, is for you to listen to and analyze "Still Raining, Still Dreaming," From "Electric Ladyland." In your "All Along the Watchtower" video, you briefly touched on Jimi's uncanny ability to make his guitar "talk." I think this particular song is the best example of that skill. Jimi used a wah-wah pedal in a way no other guitarist ever did...or could. Others played while merely keeping time on the pedal (Cream's "White Room being a good example), whereas Jimi completely freed it from that rhythmic restriction, allowing him to express through his guitar a far greater variety of human emotions---passion, anger...even humor. I would love to hear your take on that song.

@Scott-mg1zj 7 месяцев назад

Not only the guitar but the drummer Mitch Mitchell is incredible

@edwardmunoz7853 7 месяцев назад

The Experience 💯🔥

@hadoken95 7 месяцев назад

Yea it's kind of a shame that Hendrix's fame overshadows him. People don't talk about Mitch Mitchell enough, even in the drumming circles. Not saying Hendrix isn't deserving it's just...it's too bad we only seem to focus on one person in a group sometimes.

@angelocrocilla 7 месяцев назад

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@tubehepa 7 месяцев назад

When Stewart Copeland was asked who were the greatest drummers he's seen live, his answer was: Buddy Rich (I seem to recall), and Mitch Mitchell! -- Terveisiä Suomesta (greetings from Suomi/Finland), the Land of Käärijä (wrapper).

@rbffbvs 7 месяцев назад

Noel Redding on bass was amazing as well.

@arthur9924 7 месяцев назад

There are so many myths and legends about Hendrix that it's hard to catch the truth. The story goes that he became tired of the on stage theatrics and replaying hits such as "Hey Joe" all the time, but his management essentially forced him to continue. One of his heroes (and mine) was Buddy Guy, who was also playing behind his head etc from way back in the 50s. The funny thing is that Buddy and Jimi were both nervous about their singing and being on stage. Buddy started off turning his back to the audience because he was so shy! Regarding the lyrics, I'm not sure how familiar you are with blues music. This type of dark subject matter is quite commonplace, and isn't necessarily a justification of the behaviour.

@bguzewi0 7 месяцев назад

I never knew that about Buddy Guy, him originally turning his back to the audience. I know that Jim Morrison used to sing facing the band instead of the audience when The Doors were first starting out. Clearly Jim overcame his shyness eventually, probably because he was hammered most of the time.

@thomasmacdiarmid8251 7 месяцев назад

"This type of dark subject matter is quite commonplace, and isn't necessarily a justification of the behaviour." In the dialogue with "Joe," Jimi says "that ain't too cool." He made it clear that this was not good behavior, and really the song shows that Joe has to run for Mexico to evade punishment. In this regard you could compare it to Stave Miller Band's Take the Money and Run - it's telling the story, but it is showing what a crapstorm you raise when you do stupid.

@evilfantasy69 7 месяцев назад

I have thought many of the songs Jimi Hendrix and SRV had lyrics just because they had to have lyrics. I think they would have been perfectly fine just playing mostly instrumentals but radio stations don't really play instrumental songs and it also gives audiences something to respond to. The lyrics were kind of like a bridge between the guitar parts.

@jennielee3977 7 месяцев назад

@@thomasmacdiarmid8251, I believe that what was called "not cool" was messing around with another man, not killing your old lady. You've got it backward.

@rickbailey-ty8bq 7 месяцев назад

It really wasn't the management wanting him to play his old stuff, it was audiences. In live recordings, between songs, you'll hear people in the audience shouting for certain songs. And he really did hate having to play the old stuff. At the isle of wight, after people yelling for foxey lady, as he turns away from the mic, you can see him mouth the F word.

@magnumcipher4971 3 месяца назад

Props to Mitch Mitchell, the man responsible for drums on this track. He did more with the simplest of drum kits than most could do with all the kit in the world.

@lfdab34 3 месяца назад

He was a paratrooper in Vietnam in the airborne.He brought a guitar and a radio, when he was drafted.His middle name is Marshall,the same name of his amps.

@likelemmyidabasest3882 7 месяцев назад

'All Along the Watchtower' is a better profile of his vocal range with more sustain etc, obv some killer live versions. You have sent me down a Jimi rabbit-hole for the day, cheers!

@Nerple 7 месяцев назад

I’ll be in that rabbit hole with you now watching this as soon as I woke up!

@Cherr1 7 месяцев назад

The song subject is a pretty standard kind of blues story: "my woman done me wrong" kind of thing. There's a long tradition of folk songs that have the same kinds of subjects. None of them are endorsing violence, just acknowledging its existence. "Hey, Joe" was a standard at the time Jimi recorded it--every young band played it, including mine.

@EbonyPope 7 месяцев назад

Was thinking exactly that. Too many snowflakes are quickly offended. Would have thought with so much violence in Operas she would be used to it.

@MonkeyJedi99 7 месяцев назад

To paraphrase the comedian Bill Burr, there ARE situations where some domestic violence is justified. The example he gives is if you come home and find your wife has drowned two of your kids. Are you supposed to let her drown the third one? Or do you try and stop her? - (shrug) I'm just saying that absolute statements like "Never do X" or "Always do Y" are not always the right thing.

@Chris-sv8ty 7 месяцев назад

Also, the tune has really sad/tragic undertones... not really endorsing I would say more like just telling a story.

@sagittated 7 месяцев назад

"None of them are endorsing violence" may be a stretch. It was fairly common for people in many eras to treat "infidelity" as a legitimate reason to murder someone.

@johnstencel666 7 месяцев назад

@@sagittated some still do as one sick individual above did.

@TheRigThatsBig 4 месяца назад

The wind cries mary is incredible and shows a very different side of Jimi.

@ShovelMonkey 6 месяцев назад

The lyrics of this song are so very human in the soulful emotion. He's not pulling away from the mic when he stops singing. He is moving TO the mic because he is bringing out his heart into the story. Moving away is relaxing, and letting the listener digest those lines. Look at the song as pure emotion, put to voice *and,* the voice supports the emotion of guitar. You need to put yourself in Joe's shoes. The next closest songs with this much emotion are Led Zeppelin's _Gallows' Pole,_ and Iron Maiden's _Hallowed be thy Name._ Appreciate the tragedy of these songs, it is beautiful.

@davidzimmerli489 7 месяцев назад

He's playing with his teeth, plucking the strings. I saw Jimi twice in concert, and there was no one like him. More than a musician, Jimi was a magician, creating sounds that nobody else could. He died much too young....

@DavidB-2268 7 месяцев назад

He has the distortion, reverb, and delay turned up so high that he's actually playing with his fingers. It's why you can see him still doing the fingerwork.

@davidzimmerli489 7 месяцев назад

@@DavidB-2268 Of course he had to use his fingers to change notes, but he's plucking the strings with his TEETH. I've seen him do it in many videos. He's not the first guitarist to do this .....

@grrg1963 7 месяцев назад

T-Bone Walker played his guitar behind his head. A definite inspiration for Jimi. Jimi was just one those multitalented people who could sing lead, crank out soulful licks, and chew gum at the same time without missing a beat.

@1dkappe 6 месяцев назад

T-Bone played behind his head, with his teeth, did the duck walk and the splits, and invented the electric guitar solo. T-Bone was the man.

@richardabernethy9013 6 месяцев назад

I love T-Bone, but party tricks like this went back much further - to the days of the medicine shows for sure, but probably a lot further back than that.

@1dkappe 6 месяцев назад

@@richardabernethy9013 You’re most likely right, there’s just no written or photographic evidence of it. Such a shame.

@ThisissoStupid1234 5 месяцев назад

He came to sing lead, crank out soulful licks, and chew gum. . . . and he's all out of gum!

@summercoat 5 месяцев назад

@@ThisissoStupid1234 He lives.

@brucefelger4015 Месяц назад

It has been said that Jimi slept with his guitar, got up in the morning with his guitar on, and well that was his day. It's how you get this good...

@juno4494 3 месяца назад

Though he might have been doing a Jimi'esque flair move (around 4:00) with that arm swipe motion, he was probably wiping off sweat on the neck (because that wetness inhibits being able to slide up and down the neck). By the way, he used a left-handed guitar strung backwards because each post on a pickup is wound to "pick up" the vibration span of certain stings. For example, low E has a wider vibration span than does high E, so the posts are wound differently (to focus on the prime sound band within the span). Jimi liked stringing it backwards to turn the winding theory around and to feed into what was his own unique sound. I don't think I explained that very well, but there it is....

@johnhoslett6732 7 месяцев назад

Like many blues songs, it’s not a message. It’s just a story, a murder ballad, like a novel. It’s not pro anything or anti anything. It was a top 40 hit in the 60s when I was in high school before Jimi did it. Jimi’s version is the definitive one because, well because Jimi is uniquely Jimi.

@Pph6404 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for reviewing this. To rock fans Jimi Hendrix is sacred ground. I would note that not every song must have a message. Sometimes songs are meant to tell stories, whether happy or tragic and we figure out what our own message is,

@rickbailey-ty8bq 7 месяцев назад

But one thing isn't unique, the tempo. Everyone played this song much faster, except for Tim rose. Jimi liked that version, and played it that way.

@jvoodoochild2755 7 месяцев назад

I don’t believe there is no redeeming hidden message, even for a Blues song. Like many things, society accepted many things 55 years ago that are considered abhorrent today

@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 7 месяцев назад

@@jvoodoochild2755Hopefully you’re against any movie or book or tv show you watch that has murder in it as well. It’s a story🤦‍♂️

@jvoodoochild2755 7 месяцев назад

@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 there are stories that contain murder and stories that "celebrate" murder by having the PROtagonist perform it. I view both. I am not against them, nor this song. I don't view every reaction on this channel, only the songs that I know and love. My reply was sharing my opinion that there is no hidden condemnation of domestic violence present, just that it was written, performed, and sold during a time where society had different views on issues Thanks for the reply

@dsgp7835 7 месяцев назад

The little notes underneath the melody Jimi is playing is absolutely incredible. It takes a sharp ear and intentional listening to hear it, but the experience is what makes the man the best to ever strap on a guitar.

@dancarter482 7 месяцев назад

Hammer-ons and pull-offs using his little finger mostly. People take for granted that he's laying down perfect rhythm, dropping in perfect lead breaks _AND_ punctuating the whole thing with trills and fills all in harmony!

@user-wl1wy5lw1i 20 дней назад

Ballads; someone already mentioned “The Wind Cries Mary “ and there’s several but “Fly Away Angel” is exceptional and it’s kinda more akin to something you’d listen to even without the public responses.

@user-wl1wy5lw1i 20 дней назад

And I’m not sure how but he was chosen as vocalist of the year, I “think “ maybe 1969.

@shaungillingham4689 4 месяца назад

I was a young teenager when this music came out, it was thrilling because we'd never seen or heard anything like this before, it was raw & intense, something really special, that has since been copied to death, but back in the late 60s it was astounding! Your a bit precious transposing your point of view on something from more than 50 years ago. Maybe she deserved it, it's just a sad song anyway, but we're all there for jimis guitar work

@johnellis4129 6 месяцев назад

This song on reel to reel is so awesome. The reverb is unbelievable.

@ritareesedass 7 месяцев назад

I can only imagine how hard of a time Jimi would have had listening to someone breakdown his vocals bc he was very shy about his singing. But I've always thought his vocals suited his playing perfectly. As for a ballad, Little Wing is one of my favs and always gives me the feels. Just a beautiful song 🤘💕

@SonicImmersion_ 7 месяцев назад

"Little Wing" - Thumbs up to that. Beautiful song.

@scapito 7 месяцев назад

Yes! They touch on this in the book Electric Gypsy. He did not like his singing voice, but he made it work with his music.

@edhagebeuk7096 7 месяцев назад

Or Angel. A great ballad. For me. Little Wing is great, just as Red House but more a bluestrack.

@dougmarmion8872 7 месяцев назад

Agreed, beautiful pieces of music! Some other ballads of his would be “The wind cries Mary” and “May this be love”

@pinkstarphoenix6182 7 месяцев назад

Jimi wrote and performed ballads so beautifully. It seems to surprise and even shock those who fixate on his rock antics like playing with his teeth or behind his head. Little Wing is my favorite of his ballads, but The Wind Cries Mary is very touching, also

@glenngalloway6191 7 месяцев назад

Two things: 1) Jimi said that the inspiration for his playing was the sound of the air rushing past him when he did his jumps as an airborne soldier. 2) When we walk about 'messaging' it is important to note the difference between telling a story and advocating something. The song is a parable about how powerful emotions (in this case betrayal) can push people into dark places, and the acknowledgement that while retaliation/revenge is not a moral impulse, it is a very human one.

@joshgauthier6201 28 дней назад

He is the greatest guitarist to ever live. He’s like I’ll just play the solo with my teeth and behind my back no problem. He had such a short career think he passed before the age of 40. Imagine if he had another 10 years.

@Deetroiter 8 дней назад

Let’s give a shoutout to drummer Mitch Mitchell. One of the baddest drummers that was out of that era and never gets the recognition he deserves. Incredible musician!

@jcool6466 7 месяцев назад

Jimi was way ahead of his time, he could not read or write music. He played what he felt from his soul. which is why his music is still loved and cherished today.

@Dreyno 7 месяцев назад

The majority of guitarists don’t read or write music. Traditional written notation isn’t actually that suited to guitar unless you’re working with something like an orchestra. The same note in the same octave appears in multiple places on the neck and regular notation doesn’t account for that. It also doesn’t have ways to indicate many of the techniques used by guitarists. Some people learn it for working in musicals etc. or just on a point of principle.

@Kansika 6 месяцев назад

@@Dreyno That's a pretty big assumption. True, many guitarists don't but that's not much of an advantage to them. Obviously Hendrix had a natural ear and feel for the stuff he did, complex rhythmics and modal harmonies. Imagining you're the next Hendrix won't take you far, though. I have never seen a musician who didn't benefit from learning to understand and apply basic theory and to read notes to even some extent. The locations of octaves or any other intervals isn't really the thing. Notation is as useful of a tool for a brass player, percussionist as for a guitarist. None of them are really suited for the "piano notation" where there's just up or down. A guitarist often has to learn many different fingerings and positions on the fretboard and ultimately create his own for a certain part where as a pianist or trombonist often have just one. Bowed string instruments are just the same except many of them don't even have frets, i.e. exact pitched tones.

@Dreyno 6 месяцев назад

@@Kansika It’s not an “assumption”. There’s been polls and studies to show that a sizeable majority don’t read traditional musical notation. Also, reading notation to learn theory is not the same as reading music to play from it. Theory exists without notation but even if you use it to explain theory, that doesn’t mean you will be able to play actual music from it. It’s theory, after all. Your point about fingerings is the thing. The way guitar playing has developed is extremely loose without as many formally “correct” techniques that other instruments have. Classical guitar has those structured, proper techniques. Most other forms do not. As such, it is up to the player to either transcribe it as he chooses or learn by watching. Musical notation is not normally used or even available. Your silly comment about imagining you’re the next Hendrix I will treat with the contempt it deserves.

@Kansika 6 месяцев назад

@@Dreyno First of all I was wasn't referring to you personally at all though I can understand it might have sounded that way. Generally over-estimating oneself is a hindrance to development in any endeavour in life. I don't see musical notation and theory being any different from any language with grammar, syntax, alphabet and vocabulary. Sure you can learn to talk without it but only in a hood are people proud of being illiterate. Though I've played for +30 years, took some classical lessons to begin with at 13-14 (because I only had a nylon string), I really had to learn theory and notation when I worked as a music substitute teacher some 15 years ago. There were talented kids playing various instruments and I had to be able to communicate musical ideas with them without relying on my guitar or any other audible information, eg. write down parts for trumpets and other brass. Best thing ever and it took my own playing to an other level. A friend of mine can race thru Pantera tabs quite fluently but he doesn't know how an A major relates to a C# minor chord. Could we say there are guitar players and then there are musicians who play guitar?

@Dreyno 6 месяцев назад

@@Kansika Which is why I said it’s useful for working with an orchestra etc. It’s the common language. But you don’t need to read it to understand theory. The relationship between notes, scales, chords, modes etc. exists whether we write them down or not. The “grammar” of music isn’t dependent on notation. I never said it’s not useful. I didn’t say people shouldn’t learn it. But the fact is, for most guitarists purposes, it’s not necessary for them to be able to play to a very high standard. It has specific uses that most guitarists won’t need. You could never be an orchestra violinist without knowing how to read musical notation. It has nothing to do with frets or lack thereof. That is how the instrument is taught, that is how music is disseminated and that is what a performance is played from. For most guitarists, that is simply not the case.

@robertlear2712 7 месяцев назад

What really impresses me about this performance is he is as relaxed and stress free playing in front of thousands of people as you and I would would be having a cup of coffee at a cafe.

@calebclunie4001 5 месяцев назад

"Angel", is a ballad, that shows, more of his singing, and heart.

@aretelivingarts 2 месяца назад

When Jimi debuted his new band in a club in England it terrified other musicians. Pete Townsend and Eric Clapton walked home together afterwards and both were really frightened. (according to Townsend) The singer for the Herman's Hermits went to band rehearsal the next day and said, "Guys, I think we need to break up the band." It sent shockwaves through the music world. Jimi's background was as a sideman for many R&B artists, including Little Richard.

@jcoldal6033 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for your reaction to this epic music artist who showed the world that you can play the guitar in a different way. I was at Jimmy Hendrix's first concert in Copenhagen in 1967, and was literally blown away by his and the band's performance and musical ability.

@bert0522 7 месяцев назад

JIMI. Jim

@andymeek 7 месяцев назад

Hopefully not literally 😂

@RaginCajun77346 7 месяцев назад

He was playing with his teeth. He was an incredible talent. Also note the tuning pods are on the bottom of the headstock. They did not make left handed guitars so he played the guitar upside down and reversed the strings. The cutaway at the junction of the neck and body was on the wrong side and he still made it work.

@gregfromguam 7 месяцев назад

Picking with your teeth is an old blues trick from the barrelhouse days. SRV playing his guitar from behind is another one. These guys were true bluesmen at the core.

@kkjhn41 7 месяцев назад

@@gregfromguam T Bone Walker was known for playing behind his head.

@jeakir4943 7 месяцев назад

left handed guitars existed but were custom orders, mostly from gibson or rickenbacker... he even had a lefty flying v, I think the flipped strats were from his early days when they walked in between gigs in the UK country side.

@olivermcbride6652 7 месяцев назад

You could get left handed guitars but the first guitar Jimi got was right handed and after that he just preferred to play them because he could control the volume and tone easier, plus, and the big plus is, the guitar is easier to tune upside down while you are playing.

@richardharding8438 6 месяцев назад

Not only were left handed guitars a thing but Eric Clapton had bought Jimi one, unfortunately he never got the opportunity to give it to him 😢

@johnn58 5 месяцев назад

I love this song. I had a band in high school with a chick who could ROCK on guitar - this song was so much fun to play. I have so much respect for our hostess. I learn about music from each video.

@tullfan2560 Месяц назад

Why is this the staple version of Hey Joe? Because it's Jimi Hendrix doing it with his amazing laid-back combination of singing and playing the guitar.

@biglawngnome 7 месяцев назад

My favourite Hendrix track HAS to be Bold As Love. He did things with amps and feedback and distortion on that track that i swear has never been topped or even closely copied. That end solo with the space and lazer sounding outtro is chefs kiss and i swesr there is nothing like it that has ever been made since. The man is Legend🎉

@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 7 месяцев назад

Those two leads at the end of Bold As Love is at the top of things everyone should hear.

@SeanEnginetechnology 6 месяцев назад

For real-- Orange is young and full of daring, but very unsteady the first go round.. Totally got me as a young kid learning to play guitar.. *and orange has been my favorite color since I can remember.. *I use to go to church with juma sultan who played congas with Jimi at the Woodstock concert.. Super great guy, and very honored to call him a friend and brother..

@tj3423 7 месяцев назад

Not every song is trying to push some specific message on to the listener.. Sometimes lyrics are just a haunting story that sets an atmosphere. I always say the guitar playing as the main event and the lyrics secondary in this song. But blues music usual comes from a place of sadness or struggle, it's about channelling those emotions into music, not about sending a message.

@johnloving9401 4 месяца назад

Well said. With so many things that art has to contend with, a 21st century "woke" prism adds nothing. I mean hate is bad, duh, racism is bad, duh, domestic violence is bad, duh...

@user-fe5pm2zd1w День назад

Castles made of sand makes me tear up every time

@kf8346 6 дней назад

i dont know what you mean by ballad. . . but my favorite jimi song is called "may this be love" and if you reacted to it then you would be probably the first person to ever do so. it is a beautiful song about how there is nothing wrong with daydreaming about waterfalls. that song more than any other comforted me through my highschool years. jimi had such a soft/shy/loving personality, and many of his songs express that. but the flashy tricks like playing with his teeth got all the attention cuz he was putting on a show. "may this be love" is my heartfelt recommendation.

@mikebozik 7 месяцев назад

I have always reguarded this song as...in the tradition/spirit of the early American blues. It is a simple retelling of a story, as history is passed down orally. Yes, it contains violence but also moral ambiguity. (As do many popular movies and books.) In the context of the times and Jimi's personality, I'm sure that this is not endorseing anything bad. It does leave room for the listener to make up their own judgement. It's not a lyric that makes you necessarily laugh or cry, but it does make you think.😊 Keep up the great work, really love the technical factoids!😊😊😊😊

@esalehtismaki 7 месяцев назад

Yes, playing with his teeth was one of Jimi's stage tricks. Jimi was a guitarist, who also did the singing, probably for practical reasons, but I think his singing style suits his music well. This song just describes the situation very simply. It's just two people passing by and talking for a second. It's up to you how you feel, what meaning you see. That is how song lyrics often work. They don't give you a message, they give you a mood. Jimi expresses the mood with his guitar much more than with his singing. This is probably closest to ballad of what he did. His ow song too. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZUrPZmWBbPQ.html

@tubehepa 7 месяцев назад

Moi, osaatko sanoa mistä johtuu että tuubi joskus poistaa linkkejä sisältävät viestit välittömästi?? Saapa nähdä käykö nyt niin kun laitan linkin Like a Rolling Stone'iin, jossa tulee hyvin esille Jimin "hihakikka": (the sleeve "gimmick" at about 40 seconds): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VAsSN8Qi82M.htmlsi=v7VMOaq6JNbWDyBI

@timcotton1782 6 месяцев назад

You really need to do more Chicago. For three months before his death in 1970, Chicago was opening for Hendrix at the Whisky a Go Go in LA. When he first heard them play, Hendrix said to James Pankow (trombonist), that their horns sounded like they were blowing through one set of lungs, and their lead guitar (Terry Kath) was far better than himself. Touring together was under discussion when Hendrix OD'd. Please consider Old Days, Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Beginnings, Colour My World, Wishin' You Were Here.

@simchaben-david2958 5 дней назад

He may not be your favourite guitarist, but I guarantee he's your favourite guitarists, favourite guitarist

@bawbagindustries 7 месяцев назад

Back in 1995, I had the honour of my life to play and sing this particular song with Noel Redding himself on bass and Mick Avory on drums in a small pub in Gothenburg, Sweden. In all my long musical career as a guitarist, I will never be able to top that moment.

@juanbisceglia8322 7 месяцев назад

Any chance you upload it??

@tropicsalt. 7 месяцев назад

That would be surreal.

@MarvinCZ 7 месяцев назад

@@juanbisceglia8322 Small pub in '95? I doubt there is any recording.

@fumademikenke3343 7 месяцев назад

Wow bro amazing honour

@robfriesen2341 7 месяцев назад

In my opinion the point of the song is to simply state what did (and still does) happen. Now it is up to the listener to take the next step. That next step is to start the social conversation on what needs to change. Documenting an event does not necessarily mean advocating for the event. Knowing how gentle his reputation was, I cannot imagine Hendrix advocating for zero change. But i do think the point was to leave the story in our laps to do something with it.

@dorn0531 5 месяцев назад

I agree. Songs should tell a story not pass judgement. The audience can take what they want from it.

@johnloving9401 4 месяца назад

I pray that my take away from any song worth listening to will never be anything more than to desire to hear it again.

@jonwhitehead5426 3 месяца назад

It's a blues song. It's a murder ballad. It's funky and grimy. It's a story, not a message. So, I agree.

@sodapop1850 5 месяцев назад

There's also a live black and white version recorded in England where he plays part of the solo with his tongue!

@sydneydasilva4698 5 месяцев назад

Great reaction Elizabeth!!! Thank you for all the amazing insight you give us! I think a really good reaction to do in the future is Red Hot Chili Peppers: Anthony Kiedis has such an intriguing voice and doesn't know how to read music as far as I know, so he's very intuitive about the way he performs. Plus, if you like the guitar on this track, the Chili Peppers' most famous guitarist, John Frusciante, is very influenced by Hendrix and so many other guitar gods. Thanks again, big fan of this channel! Much love from Canada

@raoulduke8382 7 месяцев назад

Regarding the chewing gum, Jimi chewed gum often while playing live to combat “cotton mouth” from smoking weed. You hardly ever see beverages on stage back then. Fun fact: This (Monterey Pop Festival) is one of the very few times that Hendrix played a concert while tripping on LSD. (Which makes what happens at the ending of his set even more dramatic and epic).

@jimmydean1689 6 месяцев назад

Yes, Jimi had "cotton mouth" and also would have had "blown" pupils but not from smoking weed. He's high on speed!

@raoulduke8382 6 месяцев назад

@@neaonnebt8035 Yes but not at Monterey. I would refer you to the Isle of Wight performance, when Jimi took the stage extremely jet lagged and is clearly grinding the holy hell out of his jaw.

@sm1tty031 6 месяцев назад

he was into the methydrine. documented@@jimmydean1689

@user-bh5jv8hi3b 5 месяцев назад

RE: "Cotton Mouth" . You would get it also from the LSD of the era . (personal experience)

@jokermtb 7 месяцев назад

It’s a story song, in the style and tradition of a sad tale with no happy ending. Lots of blues songs are like that, and it’s designed to illicit uncomfortable feelings that never resolve - that’s the blues. The subject matter could be anything too

@jasonwaters6607 2 месяца назад

This is one of my favorite type of songs, covers that are so incredible that they completely eclipsed the original recording.

@wavdav57 5 месяцев назад

To me the song is a metaphor for the power of passion and the depth it can drive people to.

@gr0tbagz 7 месяцев назад

You really need to see his live performance of the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock in 69, no singing but will give you a deeper undeunderstanding of why he is regarded as such an progressive and innovative guitar player, turning a national anthem into an anti-war protest by using his guitar to replicate the sound of dive bombers and machine gun fire, truly amazing

@Alicatt1 7 месяцев назад

I concur, was just about to post that too, Jimi: Axis Bold as Love

@johnmcdowall3888 7 месяцев назад

My intro to Jimi was Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" (when I was in middle school) & I've been hooked since. "Wind Cries Mary" is also amazing. Worst part is only 3 albums, w/ a few loose songs added... he died way to early.

@KevinHallSurfing Месяц назад

Now the frame of reference spans nearly 60 years ... imagine it's 1967 and this happens? You've been listening to the Beatles and maybe a bit of Chuck Berry snippets on early TV and you see this for the first time? Life changing while these days it's just another oddity in the annals of history. Sucks in some ways I'm in my 70's but happy to not only still be alive but to have "experienced" Hendrix. 🤔🤩

@trupatriott4318 5 месяцев назад

After playing background for the Isley Brothers, Hendrix got notoriety in the UK. 1967 he played for the first time in the USA @ the Monterey Pop festival. At the end of "The Hendrix Experience' set Jimi lit his Stratocaster on fire. Smashing the guitar, continuing to douse it with lighter fluid. He lade the guitar on the stage as flames rose up from it's body! The Fender began feeding back through the amp mimicking screams of pain as Hendrix left the stage! The crowd went silent with awe! He was amazing!

@budsurtees4224 7 месяцев назад

This isn't really about "domestic violence". It's a bluesy song, and as you know, the blues are happy songs about sad things. The blues are about all kinds of heartaches and sorrows, and thank heaven they are - we can't all be singing madrigals or hosannas. Jimi was a paradigm shift in the art of playing the electric guitar. Nobody before or after him has quite played the guitar like him. It was his playing and his sound that made other musicians possible later on. He didn't play incredibly fast and clean guitar riffs, he didn't shred - he just made the guitar cry and sing and create new sounds. At 9:50 you can hear the guitar howl - it's even more prominent on the original studio version. He was entirely self taught, so he learned to play by ear and basically that was about creating or replicating a certain "sound".

@seanj3667 7 месяцев назад

I would argue that SRV can channel Jimi like no one else every could. That said, Jimi did it first and without Jimi, there would have been no SRV.

@joel2421 7 месяцев назад

Bruh, it’s 100% about domestic violence. Trying to rationalize it away with a patronizing take on what the blues is or is trying to do isn’t a great look. If you spend even a millisecond thinking about the cultural context when this song appeared it’s pretty obvious. Sometimes people make “good” songs about doing bad things, it happens.

@EricT3769 7 месяцев назад

More like murder than domestic violence.

@seanj3667 7 месяцев назад

@@joel2421 Exactly. the Violent Femmes' "Country Death Song." Good tune, but it's not about a good person doing good things.

@jss27560 7 месяцев назад

@@joel2421 What’s interesting is there’s a version of the song by Cher so I’m not sure she was in favor of domestic abuse.

@cactustactics 7 месяцев назад

I feel like there's a bit of a disconnect here, because the song itself is a kinda typical blues song about bad stuff going down, but Jimi's version is really melodic and playful (and has a light, major tonality to it in my mind). The recorded version also has him shouting "I shot her!" in a pretty raw and emotional way before the solo, whereas here he's more having fun and enjoying the performance and the music. So it loses some of the gravity and darkness of the story in that sense - I can totally see someone who's never heard the song before being turned off by the vibe, I probably would be if I heard a new song with that kind of subject matter that didn't feel like it was making some kind of point

@marcelqueiroz8613 7 месяцев назад

Yeah Man!!

@1dkappe 6 месяцев назад

It’s a cover.

@1dkappe 6 месяцев назад

It’s a cover.

@morrisalanisette9067 4 дня назад

yea even tho shes going overboard there is somethnig weird about this song. but that's all, just weird. but keep in mind that this song was jimi's first hit, he prob never cared about the lyrics, he never liked performing it, and basically it was just an excuse for him to take a popular song and cover it to get notoriety. that's the nuance of this song, he's known for it but it's really just him at his lowest level showing what he can do with guitar before he became more established. if anything there the message to this song may be a slight hippie apathy, connected to the war and all that at the time. Where the hippies are basically having all this fun despite all the violence and suffering in the world. Him performing this like a maniac does have a tinge of nihilism to it, and does reflect the time. so i think there is maybe some deep meaning there. but in general its just a song for jimi to showcase his talent using a tune that people already know

@erniejohnson4364 2 месяца назад

The song originally was a Folk/Blues rather up-tempo tune. It entered popular music as a fast tune, covered by The Leaves who hit the Top 40 about a year before Hendrix' version. The Hendrix bombastic guitar style is what pushed this into first place.