I hope that there is Hendrix concertz in heaven! I will be there right after I thank Jesus n God! And the dispensary better b free..... putzilla...219!!!
Excellent comment Edward ; but Hendrix still lives through all the Guitar players, around the world , young & old , that his music inspires even to this day ! The 1967 release " Are U Experienced " turns 50 years old this year (2017) Ed Callender , Jimi Hendrix fan since 1972
I wish for that too....but wow, nearly 50 years after his death he's still inspiring so many people and his music still filling the airwaves...or "e"waves. Either way after such a short time with us it's really remarkable. And yes, what could have been,,,,,,,what could have been.
I used to tape a transistor radio to my bike's handlebars, back in 1967, the radio was so good even lil kids listened all day...AM radio, they had stuff like "Dang Me", K"King of the Road", "Strangers in the Night," and one day I was riding along and the song began to play that caused me to stop my bike and just groove. It was Jimi playing "Fire". the drum break was ultra catchy, uo could imagine kids dancing to it right away. By the time I was 13, Jimi was astrally traveling and we were moving to California from Illinois. Strangely, man-years later, in 1990, my wife and I moved to our new home in Pacifica with our 2 kids. I set the clock radio, we were sleeping on a futon then, and they were playing a Stevie Ray song...I listened to the end and shut it off, saying, "I haven't heard him on the radio lately. That was great!" The next morning we learned he had also stepped through the door, as did Jimi, ad Bill Graham, too. When Jesus or your mom or your long-gone away friend beckons you to leave that silly helicopter and join them at Elysian Fields, well, u just go. Maybe u were pushed, but you were always ready to jump... I have written a novel which posits that most of our rock and blues legends did not fall, nor jump- they were pushed, a la House of Cards...The novel says Jimi among others was killed for his edgy and advanced political awareness, he was hella woke, back before that was even a thing. He could have easily been our first black president, if you just imagine him living through September 18, 1970, and maybe cleaning up from dangerous drugs, like alcohol... Who is more talented, more effective, more creative, more honest, more emotionally mature, (here imagine a 30 or 34 yer old Jimi who is there to help us to the next level, ,as Martin was trying to do). If Jimi got sober in 69 he could have worked on uniting our people, and beaten Nixon in '72, with John Lennon as his Defense Secretary, Yoko as Secretary of State,(you prefer maybe, Tillerson?) Janis heading HUD (she could relate better than Ben Carson, having grown up in Port ,Arthur Texas.) Jerry Garcia , seeing the fun they are having, switches to only weed and slimming milkshakes , and leads Jimi's guitar army as a 7-star general, a new rank created to honor the dead, the fallen, the heroes... now we wallow in history's morass, like Yertle the Turtle, king of the mud...and its turtles all the way down, as far as rock n' roll goes. If he was not assassinated, Jimi had it all, to be anything, or, as the Zen monk would have it, nothing, on Earth he desired. But like Eminem, he had his Stan. We all got our Stans, the more famous we get...We live in glass houses, mirrored on the inside,and if our spirit cannot be the fire-axe to freedom, we fail...and 40 thousand headmen bring up the rear, trailing behind them are the wretched camp-followers of history's dustbin... two, three, a thousand jealous white pimps with hollow eyes, white walkers seeking easy rich blood on the moors of mankind's England., wanting our minds, our hearts, our women, our guitar chops, and getting none of it they try and collect our heads, for trophies and to say they were the one who stopped it, the madness, the ending of white and male privilege...they repeal soul itself, they ban blues, they stop rap "just until they know what the hell is going on..", they cannot find a single musician to play for them so they hire a prostitute and its Toby Keith, who then plays for a crowd of males in saudi Arabia, while the POTUS rides around in Limos looking at huge portraits of himself, and imagining how his final solution will play, when he surprises us all and rewrites history one tweety bird morning .. Scary...Keep with the music, politics will drive u crazy, or get u shot, or both. Jimi is here with us, he is there with you. It is we who died on septeber 18th. he was far too strong to be defeated, in the long run. He left u a message and its not too late, white man. Get experienced. We are all Bold as Love. If 666 is 999 and Reagan and Bush have sucked out your mind, and the new millennia brings fascism home, there is only one dog and he's not alone. Existence, nothin but existence, aint no LIFE nowhere! Get out of your grave, everybody is dancing in the street. Do what you know, don't be slow, practice what you preach- its time for u and me- to face reality- forget about the past, things aint what they used to be. Find yourself first, and then your talent, its all in yer mind- u could come alive! u gotta prove to the man, u as strong as him...cos in the eyes of GOD... u both chillun to him! Keep on, Straight Ahead.
First concert I ever attended was The Experience at the Oakland Coliseum in April of '69. Cat Mother and Chicago Transit Authority opened. Jack Cassidy from The Airplane came out and played VooDoo Child with them as the final number. Tickets were $6.00. I was in the 8th grade at the time and high on what I realize now is truly the best drug. Youth. Bless Your Hearts And Ears.
Mason Langner It was absolutely great. I'll tell you, to this day I am amazed that our parents allowed us to go. Thank you again Mom and Dad! Mason, I hope that your holidays are very happy ones!
John Mongani Actually I had tickets for that but was not able to attend because of health issues (it's sort of a long story). I was extremely disappointed, but I got over it. I'm just grateful that I got the opportunity to see the original Experience... An Early Merry Christmas To You!
its the notes in between the notes the unusual bends & the choice effects that gave hendrix his sound.but an exra ordinary ability to originate with pure emotion was his groove.rip jimi thankyou for touching so many people,s hearts & raising the importance of true music culture to another level.peace
Cubensis Records Hendrix had played with Miles Davis and got some of his phrasing from him. He was also a big Coltrane fan. Some of that influence can be heard throughout Electric lay land.
Jimi was sounding this great before great monitor systems , locking trems. soundmen who worked just for you . Imagine Jimi with Peter Grant as manager, Dan Healy as sound manager, & a strat with a Floyd Rose. Space Travel could have gone even deeper than Jimi took it with what he had to work with.
He really stretches out into new territory on the Sunshine of Your Love solos too. Jimi was able to go wherever the mood took him- beautiful melodies flowing freely. Nobody else could do that. He had technique but so much more.
JIMI HENDRIX...incroyable musicien instrumentiste virtuose capable de jouer rythmiques/solistes et chanter en même temps @à l heure actuelle les musiciens et musiciennes instrumentistes ne sont pas nombreux à pouvoir le faire @en à peine 4années HENDRIX à complètement révolutionné la musique tous styles confondus@n oublions pas non plus LE BATTEUR MITCH MITCHELL/et le BASSISTE BILLY COX@
This is what makes Jimi one of the best guitarists, comping is working as good as soloing, they are in a way together with riffing and effects, it's a great combination.
Quoi qu on en dise Hendrix était un extraterrestre @le premier et un des rares musiciens à avoir sidéré le clan très fermé de la musique classique et symphonique @je pense sincèrement qu Hendrix restera dans l histoire encore 2 ou 3 siecle@
yes jean! we often are mesmerized by the out of this world guitar that we forget that sincerity in Jimi's voice was powerful in it's own way. sort of a balance between the wild and the familiar, like yin yang
Really good audio here - great job! Jimi's estate hasn't taken all of Jimi's sound from us yet. Seeing a real LIVE Hendrix performance changes peoples' lives -his concerts changed mine. Keep posting, it's very clean...
A guy told me he saw Jimi somewhere, and Jimi had a lionel train hooked up to a foot pedal...the train had a mic on top, and by advancing or retreating the train in relationship to the speakers, he controlled a theremin feedback loop. Anyone else ever hear that one.or see him with this device? I don't know why someone would make that up, but no one else ever heard that story to my knowledge.
Its because they didn't start with roots, but way out on the branches...classical music and musique concrete don't add up too greatness. Those unfamiliar with Curtis Mayfield are doomed to be Yngwie Malmsteen, and so forth...Nazis who want to screw kids heads invent Dimmu Borgir...the damage is enormous. because Buddy Holly was touring with a Mexican american kid, and he married a chicana. The Big Bopper probably had a black girlfriend. Its all very convenient. get cynical enough and u will get the true dark history of the world, and rock as well. Hurricane Harvey hit rock and roll, years and years ago, way back in the day...like a Texas Flood. All the telephone lines are down. Thats why they call it "the blues."
I wish this concert could have been recorded with today's technology as well as other concerts back then. Too bad, we can only imagine unless we could have been there.
Had I had opportunity/:\blessing to see JMH Live in concert at show like this, or, any i'd have been dancing & not standing in a trance! Maybe I was, and released back later on. Were there folks dancing that night. I'd have been groovin and shimmyin'
Amazing guitar really cool wah wah effects trippy feel phaser maybe .. love chorus guitar not sure if he’s using an octave for that high sound which gives it that upper hippy feel.. the guitar riffs are technology advanced tricky and unique he definitely was a master of guitar effects!
I wrote a song about that, no one has heard, maybe its time to record it...heres the first few lines... "Goin to Seattle gonna battle to show the hood that Im so good at playing Hendrix... As the crying blue rain beats the windowpane its a shame , aint no blue flame like Jimi Hendrix. You can try all ya like but you'll never as good as Hendrix..." refrain: Someone had to be the best, so all the rest, could rest! Even Jeff Beck knows, Just ask the Eskimos, he wore the coolest clothes! " "Jimi Hendrix" by Robin Blue Morris, c. 1997, all rights reserved.
This Hendrix European tour shouldn't have never happened, yes, Hendrix is one of my all time fav music artist but those greedy, thieves his management, had him to do that European tour back in 1970, after already finishing an American tour. You can tell that Jimi was not well.. kind of sad... he needed rest & a break.
There are better pure guitarists playing today, with more clarity, speed and tricks, especially with all the gizmos at their feet and attached to the soundboards. Jimi was first, foremost and groundbreaking No one had ever played like this before. No one.
Im not sure they own the live audience recordings unless and until they buy them from their archivists. So they trade on what they own which is considerable. The rest, we are so fortunate to find, is all being posted at YT. If u are a video editing student this is a great moment to make some video for these wonderful recordings...think of Scorsese, inspired by Dylan and the Band...and let Jimi help you put your mise-en-scene together....
Dominic Brinkley . There's a 50year moratorium on an artist's work after death. For Jimi fans that ends next year on 19 September. So all copy rights come off. The skies the limit after that. YAY!!!!!
So I guess there will be a plethora of recycled Jimi stuff coming from Warner and Experience Hendrix like the recent 50 year anniversary release of Electric Landland with a $265 price tag!
Spanish Castle Magic is interesting: his voice breaks in the first line, and he gives up singing until the second verse - Jimi hated his voice, sadly, and was very self-conscious about it...he seems to channel his frustration into the fearsome solo - which at one point quotes Fleetwood Mac's 'Oh Well'. Shame about the recording quality.
+Tom George, You stated Hendrix quoted Fleetwood Mac's 'Oh Well'....How about he simply did a little twist of his own, 'In From the Storm', though I can hear the resemblance. Knowing Hendrix though, the merge of 'Oh Well' would have been appropriately to say, "Things happen"...[regarding how his voice cracked]...now that's thinking on your feet. Hendrix could jam with two popped guitar strings...lol
clemenza24, I agree with you there. He was literally such a bashful person regarding his singing ability...and his voice along with his playing, simply made history. No one has his tone and places emphasis on certain wording. The joking around, laughter, side chatter is all classic Hendrix. There is only one person in my book that can emulate Hendrix's style or even his voice...and that would be Randy Hansen. Not pure Hendrix, but darn near close.
blukper Funny as I am too young to have seen Jimi but I have seen Randy Hansen twice at the Tower Theater in Philly and he put on a great tribute show to Jimi
Not so much: what "could've been", had BigFella lived into his 70s or 80s, and, still alive, playing music today= it's moreso what *SHOULD HAVE BEEN ( ALLOWED)*
Vocals are weak on straight ahead. I wonder how different Jimi would have been if he had delegated vocals to someone else at times and focused on the guitar.
Management always wanted him to sing. It wasn't really his choice. But it is known Jimi would have preferred writing compositions for a larger style band (5-9) with a designated vocalist.
Jimi was an incredible singer. While his voice was not great, his communication skills, emotion and articulation were incredible. Rarely, if ever, a cover of a Hendrix song sounds better than Hendrix.
