How Did He Play Like That?! | Jimi Hendrix | Hey Joe Reaction 

Jimi Hendrix was the Godfather of rock n roll guitar. His guitar playing style, sound, and technique were so innovative that he became the role model for rock guitarist to this day.

Jimi's story is pretty amazing. He grew up in a poverty stricken and broken home. His parents would get drunk and fight. He would hide in the closet to get away from their conflict. For a significant period of time when he was growing up he was bounced around from relative to relative. As a child in elementary school he used to carry a broomstick to school and pretend it was a guitar. He did that so often that the school counselor asked the school to buy him one for his own good but that request was turned down. Finally when he was 15 his father and he were working for someone moving some boxes and other things out of a space and he found a ukelele with one string. Jimi asked the woman who was paying them if he could keep it and she said yes. That was his first instrument ever. He didn't get his first electric guitar until he was 17 years old. And even though he played left handed, sometimes with a right handed guitar strung upside down, he could play guitar equally as well with either hand. And he actually drew inspiration from listening to classical music. A one of a kind musical genius.

I grew up with Jimi Hendrix's music in the Sixties and early Seventies. This reaction NEVER gets old!

2:24,the look on there faces when the great JIMI HENDRIX plays guitar with his teeth was just priceless.Love there reactions.

This Monterey Festival concert appearance shot Jimi into the stratosphere and made him a global star.

Jimi's first concert as an American main act. In the US he usually played in the background. Moved to the UK to become the main act.

Us kids back in the sixties and seventies had some epic guitar players. Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Pete Townsend and so many more.

"I'm going way down south". "Where I can be free".

From interviews and stuff like that he was such a shy person and when he is on stage so he had swag

Jimi's performance at Woodstock is the pinnacle of his career and artistic genius, especially "Voodoo Chile" and "The Star Spangled Banner."

For anyone curious, there was a whole culture of playing guitar with teeth and behind the back in certain circles of blues music, which is where Hendrix picked it up. He took it to the next level, but he credited artists like T-Bone walker and the like (there's a picture of T-Bone playing the guitar behind his back while doing the splits). And yes he was the goat. Other guitarists have pretty much just been imitating his sound for the last 70 years.

Jimi was the original, influenced so many including SRV. I read somewhere that SRV use to dream about Hendrix and in some of those dreams he was learning how to play Vodoo Child! Like Jimi was teaching him. Any way you slice it Jimi and SRV were 2 of the best!!!

The greatest guitar player of all time. One of my all time favorite musicians ever.

Jimi was definitely beyond his time as much as he accomplished in a matter of 3 1/2 years is incredible. He played with so many inspirational artist and never got any credit so he went out on his own and hit the big time but sadly he lost his life, very young imagine if Jimmy was still alive how much different music would be today G.O.A.T

I was lucky enough to see Jimi Hendrix twice (in 1968 and 1969). He just tore the stage down both times. And him playing using his teeth is absolutely real. At the ‘69 show, he ran onto the stage wearing a black silk bodysuit with silver sequins running down his sleeves and pant legs and a red headband. I forgot what he was wearing at the ‘68 show.

GOAT period!!! Notice he is a lefty who learned on a right-handed guitar, the guitar is flipped upside down and restrung and he still played it behind his head perfectly. Jimi learned on the old African-American entertainment circuit where you had to be fantastic but also flashy to get noticed...he learned his lessons well. Saw him LIVE twice and each time was just as stunning as this was for you. Hendrix, CCR, Cream and the Doors got many a Viet Nam grunt through the slog of their tour. Ask any great guitarist and he is always mentioned as a idol for them. Sadly joined the "27 Club" before his greatness was ever truly realized, often wonder how great he would of been if he lasted longer and had a chance to play with the more modern wireless instruments.

One of the greatest rock anthems of over half a century ago.

Yeah! This man right here, big influencer for a lot of people. With myself being a musician, songwriter and vocalist he was one of my big influences too. Even as great as a guitar player as Eddie VanHalen was, two of his favorite guitar players were Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. This was the first time I saw your channel and the expressions on the two girls faces were great. Especially when Jimi said that about shooting his old lady. Their facial expressions were priceless. And the young girl looked even more shocked by it. Great job from all of you.

I was with Jimi and The Experience at gigs on multiple occasions. Jimi could play guitar with his teeth, behind his head, behind his back, and between his legs. He was, in my own opinion, the greatest guitarist that has ever lived. The things that man could do with electric guitar was beyond belief. The likes of SRV and Prince were just the disciples of Jimi, as Jimi was a disciple of Eric Clapton. Both Jimi and Eric were self taught on guitar. What to watch and listen to next? Johnny B Goode Berkeley is a totally breathtaking performance. The Wind Cries Mary Stockholm is a beautiful piece. The Lulu Show Cream Tribute, another exceptional performance. The Watchtower is a Bob Dylan song made legendary by Jimi. All these can be found on You Tube. There is additionally a full performance in Stockholm on You Tube where Jimi starts out, as he did at many of his gigs, with the Howlin' Wolf track Killing Floor. The death of Jimi at age 27 was the greatest loss to music of a generation. I wept at that loss.

Love seeing you guys getting to see a legend of guitar 🎸.

Jimi! Check out Foxey Lady live at the Miami Pop Festival 1968 and Voodoo Child live at Woodstock 1969 for more Jimi swagger on full display. ✌️

It appears to me that he was singing and playing guitar with his mouth, while CHEWING GUM!

I'd love to hear a reaction video for his song, "House Burning Down" which, in my opinion, was Jimi Hendrix at the top of his game as a musician and studio producer. Trust me, you've never heard anything like it. And it was recorded in 1967!

This is actually a cover, not a Hendrix original. Best track would have to be 'All Along The Watchtower' also a cover of a Bob Dylan composition. Also note he plays his guitar upside down as being left handed could not afford to buy a LH guitar so taught himself and stuck to it and hard to change back later.

Lemmy told a fabulous story about Jimi playing in front of Pete Townsend and Eric Clapton, at the Bag O Nails in late 1966. Pete and Eric were considered to be the best guitarists at the time. along with Jeff Beck. When Jimi went into his showmanship, Lemmy spotted Pete and Eric both holding hands. Eric looked like he had been crying..... There are great guitarists, and then there's Jimi. Nobody has come even close.

There will never be another like him!!😯👀😍👍😎😉🤔

Jimi Hendrix is THE guitar god. Nobody has ever been better

Hendrix is simply the best! ♥

More Jimi please thanks for the great reaction

Saw him in November 68 in Ole' St' Lou'. Much better to to watch in person 15 ft. away. Jim

Jimi played this using a right handed guitar upside down as he couldn’t find a left handed guitar and he refused to re-learn the guitar playing right handed.

To say...Jimi Hendrix was Awesome. ....Would be a Major Understatement. ...So...I'm going to say that ....Jimi Hendrix was..... 'The Best Rock Guitarist Ever'......And there were/are many great ones also.

I love Lulu's facial reaction!!

This was his first performance back in America, the country that spurned and ignored his music, after hitting it big in England. Shots of the audience had people starting with their mouths hanging opened and uncomfortable. He burned his guitar at the end of this set. There's no video for it but google "Are you Experienced live at Winterland" and look for the sound cloud version. About a minute of his otherworldly noise and then he launches off into the greatest live electric guitar song ever recorded.

💙💙💙💙💙... another great reaction!! I've been subscribed to your channel for a minute now... I really enjoy you both... and your daughter is a little gem!!! Keep up the great work!!

Watching your guys reaction to Jimi made me feel normal again, for all these years I thought it was just me, thank God for Jimi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JIMI THE GOAT

The song " Hey Joe " is actually an old folk song , but he dtix made it his own . Try other songs like : Purple Haze , Foxy Lady , Star Spangled Banner , Room Full Of Mirrors , Voodoo Child , Who Knows ( live at the filmore ) , Machine Gun ( live at the fillmore ) , Message Of Love ( live at the fillmore ) , Ezy Ryder , Lover Man ,

Great reaction and Jimi's GOAT. There's one more you should check and he's Tom Morello from Rage against the machine. You could check their "Bullet in the head" live performance from 1993. Thx for sharing.

Really animated facial expressions on your young lass. Love it. Great reaction. Keep up the good work guys.

All Along The Watchtower is my favorite by Hendrix. Best cover of a Bob Dylan song ever.

You have to review his performance of the National Anthem at Woodstock 1969!!! The man was pure genius with a guitar!!!

If interested, see Billy Cox musicians hall of fame interview on here. He was Jimi's best friend & bass player who later joined Hendrix's band, Band of Gypsys & re-formed Experience. He tells of the mostly unknown yrs Hendrix spent training in Nashville before being discovered. I grew up in Nashville & was the only kid I knew who was even aware he'd lived here after reading a brief paragraph in one of his biographies when I was a teen in the '80's. Little did I know he spent 5 yrs playing the club circuit with Billy! Maybe publicists thought Country Nashville not good for his image? I later got into music & around 2000 helped an old hippie with his traveling road-show he posted on Nashville Public Access TV station. One day at a station picnic in the park my friend said you have to meet Billy! He's a good dude. He took me to Billy's RV & left us alone. We talked music over beers, but I had no clue who I was talking to. Just thought he was a cool old black dude who did his own music show. After about 30 mins my friend came back. As we were leaving the park I asked my friend what Billy did for a living? When he said he was a musician I asked his last name & my jaw hit the ground! I couldn't believe it! I must've been the only musician in the last 30 yrs he'd talked to who didn't even mention the name Jimi Hendrix?!😅 A couple of wks later I was in a grocery store & heard my name called. I turned around & it was my new friend, BILLY FREAKIN' COX!!!🤣🤣🤣 It's been yrs since station shut down & he's in his '70's now, so I hardly see him, but he puts on free Blues Festivals in the park from time to time, where he always pays tribute to Jimi with a rendition of their old blues staple "Hey Joe", & I'll go down & take a friend or two & introduce them to Billy. Also if interested, the very first Hendrix tv performance is on here, Night Train '65. He's a backup player. It was a Nashville show that was the inspiration for later hit-show Soul Train! See ya! ✌🌎❤

One of the big reasons Hendrix's sound was so unique -- besides being Hendrix -- was because he was left-handed, but played a right-handed guitar -- upside down. In addition to his re-stringing, this changed how the pickups 'read' the strings. The rear pickup on the traditional Stratocaster is slanted to capture the higher strings near their base, where they have a more piercing tone. On Hendrix's guitar it catches the higher strings farther up, so instead of shrieking, they sing with a pure, resonant sound. It's much the same for the Telecaster, but his best work was on the Strat. Oh, and not only did he play with his teeth, but with his tongue, too. No wonder the ladies loved him... 😏

Lulu's face, omg. She has a good heart.

Check out Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child live at Woodstock. Also, Jimi Hendrix - Foxy Lady live at Miami Pop Festival.

Hendrix is simply THE HIGH PRIEST OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR!

The man played a right handed guitar stringed left handed look at the head .. amazing. My jimmy of all time is Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

His stint in England helped Jimi to immerse himself in the local rock and blues scene,and he was ,perhaps,consciously inspired by the Who' s Pete Townsend's use of feedback.

Great reaction! I must say I'm glad i didnt have my volume all the way up when y'all paused to EXCLAIM: "HE'S PLAYING THE GUITAR WITH HIS TEETH??" LOL, but the exclaiming was appropriate--this IS Jimi Hendrix, after all--the greatest rock guitarist, hands down. (Or even--especially--behind his head ;)

While other boys were in their rooms choking chickens, little Jimi was in his room eating out his guitar.

He strolled off at the end like all that awesomeness didn't even happen

His greatest song, the instrumental Peace in Mississippi

At the end , you dont hear the audience much because they were in shock of what they just saw. This concert you saw was : Hendrix Live At The Monterey Pop Festival. Whatch the whole show🤙🎸

"Purple Haze" -- "All Along the Watchtower" -- "The Wind Cries Mary" -- "Manic Depression" -- These are a good start. Cheers.

Jimi Hendrix Wild Thing

I lOVE his voice, swagger and talent. All the while chewing gum LOL LOVE JIMMY MR. COOL..

I dig the "Wind Cry's Mary"..perhaps "Room full of Mirrors".

You have to go learn about when Jimi showed up in London. He asked to jam with Cream. He blew them away, so much so that Eric walked off the stage, he couldn't hang with Jimi - He wasn't good enough yet. Paul McCartney went to a Sunday night show to see Jimi. The Beatles had just released Sgt Pepper's, 2 days prior. Jimi opened with Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club. There is video of that on here.

The younger lady looked so shocked when she heard that Joe was saying he was going to shoot his 'old lady' down. As Jimi says at the end of the verse, that's not cool, whoever that is. I am not sure that she understood that'my old lady' was slang for a guy's female partner (could be wife, or a live-in girlfriend, or for an even more possessive guy like Joe, could be any woman he decided was 'his'). It was fun seeing her shock first at the lyrics and then at the guitar solos. It should be very clear that neither Jimi nor the songwriter approved of what Joe did, and with the way the story ends, the song makes clear that Joe now has to live life on the run. In that regard, it is very much like Take the Money and Run, by The Steve Miller Band, about 10 years later.

Every guitarist during his career and since took inspiration from him. He is THE GOAT and no one even comes close. He did all that as a lefty playing a right-handed guitar.

Hey Joe was an old song , not so successful when it was first recorded. But Jimi 's version is the one and only.

One of the reasons Jimi liked playing a right handed guitar was that the guitars control knobs were on the top which he had come to like plus it let him use a Stratocasters Whammy Bar in a then very unique way .

His choppers have chops LOL!

He is the best guitar player to use feedback while playing. No one is like Jimi may he rest in peace Please check out his (Star Spangled Banner) it is epic.. Guys love you a bunch

Your in for a treat - Go Jimmy !

An underrated guitarist inspired by him is Robin Trower. His performances from 73-77 are especially incredible.

Central tavern the oldest bar in Seattle Washington aka the grunge bar where grunge bands started at was Jimi Hendrix's favorite bar in the Seattle area. The central tavern is haunted!! Even Hendrix was seen there in spirit.

Jimi Hendrix honey dipped that guitar

A music Legend he is! I suggest "Foxy Lady Live!" The same concert this is at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967... Great Song! Need to see more of this version done... Awesome 👍💯

Did you not notice, his start castor was upside down as he was left handed

Wonderful, you guys are just delightful and remarkable here in your reaction. P.s. Just 4 months ago Ace reacted to this again with some guy and yet in that reaction he seems to indicate that he's watching it for the first time. ?

You should hear the story about how he managed to jam with Eric Clapton not long after he had arrived in London and simply wiped him off the stage. Clapton was seen by Jimi's manager at the time in the green room of the venue they were playing in after he had simply walked off the stage (Jimi's manager had gone in to smooth things over) and Clapton was leaning against a table, trying (and failing) to light a cigarette with shaking hands. And he was saying to himself over and over "Is he that good? Is he really that f**king good?" It can be confidently said that, after that, Eric Clapton was one of Jimi's biggest fans, and also a good friend.

On why Jimi played his guitars upside down. - He was used to playing them like that - It put the volume knob by his thumb, so he could control the level of distortion in his sound, if you pay close attention, you can see him constantly working that knob. There's footage of him playing a genuine left-handed guitar, and you can see him reach for the volume knob but not finding it where he expected it to be.

As you just discovered, you haven't EXPERIENCED Jimi Hendrix until you've SEEN Jimi Hendrix! Although he was American, he got started in England. This was his first U.S. show. After a backstage argument with Pete Townshend of the Who (neither one wanted to follow the other on stage) Hendrix said "if I'm following you, I'm pulling out all of the stops". The performance ended with him setting his guitar on fire while it was still plugged in.

Jimi Hendrix was born and raised in Seattle Washington, now resting South of Seattle cemetery, RIP

The studio version is stunning also; just grabs your heart. Jimi is simply the GOAT, nothing today compares.

never in a million years would I think you guys would to my recommendation but yes thats Jimi the man . This performance alone made me drop everything i was doing a buy a strat . Love the reaction you guys have a beautiful and blessed day.

Jimi Hendrix He was the best guitarist in history. So big that the great J. Page admired him. Excited to see him play!!!

The little Zomer is shocked by the lyrics. Show her SVR!

Machine Gun baby...sirens, screams,rockets, bombs and perhaps his most kick ass solos ever!!!

I am so glad that the youngest person here was the one that dug it the most. She could hear how real those lyrics are compared to 'baaybee' 'ooooh girl' etc etc. She just got it. There is hope for the future. They're coming round to see now how we got down back in the day, before we had autotune or bieber snake or nariah jonas, or whatever they've called. This music will never die. I even still remember the day my then 17 year old daughter said dad, can you put your stereo on... why sweetheart what is it you want to hear (expecting something ive never heard to leave me scratching my head) and she said will you put jimi hendrix on. My job at that moment was complete.

Saw The Jimi Hendrix Experience twice in concert in 1968…!!!!

Only Jimmy Hendrix & Doctor Who can getaway with wearing a ruffle shirt

Playing a restrung right handed strat upside down. He has a large memorial in Renton Wa.

You guys are a beautiful family. So open. Awesome.

Almost rock guitarist of the world wordship him, He is gods.

Many consider Jimi as rocks most influential guitarist followed by Edward Van Halen . Check out ' Ain't talkin bout love-Van Halen 1 (studio version ) and listen to the sound and fire that changed music back in the late 70s. Michael Jacksons camp was so impressed they asked Eddie if he would do the guitar solo on Michael's song ' Beat it ' and...Eddie did it. R.I.P. Goat Edward Van Halen🎸🎸👑👑

If you folks liked Jimi Hendrix's performance here, you really should check out the three studio albums that Jimi and his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, made; "Are You Experienced?", "Axis Bold As Love", & '"Electric Ladyland". They are excellent!

That daughter is your mini me to the max. Cute! 60’s had the best music.

The GOAT

I find it hard to believe that older lady said she never herd of jimi.

You notice how he's chewing gum and playing 🎸 as if it was so easy .

I met Jimi Hendrix in a recording studio before he set out on his great journey. We talked about sci fi. I had no idea he was a guitar player. Mitch Mitchell was a nice guy.

At the time of this gig (Monterey Pop Festival 1967), Hendrix was practically unknown in the U.S. except on the "chitlin circuit" and by some older R&B and R&R artists such as the Isleys and Little Richard. He jammed with them before moving to England. The Jimi Hendrix Experience were already popular in the U.K. and the drummer Mitch Mitchell and the bass player Noel Redding were English.

Did you know that Jimi played a right-hand guitar, and he played it upside down with his left hand. Check it out.

Jimmy was ahead of his time!

He was ultra talented...try Voodoo Child by him! Also SRV was excellent as well!

That the GOAT 🐐 of electric guitar 🎸

Being left handed helped,Jimi, the controls are flipped when the guitar is upside down. There is another version of Hey Joe u might like. Roy Buchanan from the pbs special. Only a handful can cover a Jimi song, Clapton, SRV, and Roy come to mind.