This Purple Haze solo from Berkeley truly transcends mere guitar playing. It is a genuine masterpiece of performance art. Hendrix was like a Shaman, mesmerising and hypnotising the audience with his movements and he seemed to almost be in a trance, totally at one with the music and his guitar.
He expressed his internal energy and imagination through the instrument which is what a true artist in any genre does that's why he can never be compared to the technicians and musicians who followed because they either express their egos or their craft through the instrument which is a different expression altogether. The egotist puts technique before creation and the craftsman structure before art, the true artist is only interested in their inner vision. That's what gives the Mozarts, Picassos, Louis Armstrongs and Hendrixes that indefinable timeless depth halfwits caught in time, change and technical progress will never comprehend.
I don't totally agree with this. Sure, Jimi transcended certain structures, but he didn't discard them altogether. His blues still hews to the blues structure, he still uses the pentatonic scale, Bold as Love is a four chord song, etc. etc. Now obviously he didn't *just* do those things and to the extent he did do them, he did them in a new and creative way that makes him worthy to be called the best electric guitar player of all time. But I think it's wrong to say he didn't "put technique before creation" or "structure before art" if that is meant to imply that he somehow eschewed those things. There's lots of structure and technique in his playing; he was just really good at those things and bent them at the edges.
@@nsc217 rainbow bridge he was in excellent form and ecstatic...that's my favourite performance...isle of wight was good...the whole berkeley concert yeah good...woodstock good but not superb...newport good...someone probably has the full miami concert which was superb...the whole blackpool england concert someone probably has too which would rank as superb...monterey just good...iconic...fillmore ranks as good....the concert in sweden was sh!t...he was pissed off at noel and in a depressive mood which shows in his performance..lack lustre playing with no feeling behind it..royal albert hall 1969 is superb....that foxey lady performance best ever for the out of this world solo...all other songs great in that concert too
Technically Janie isn't Jimis sister. Technically she isn't even a Hendrix but she is ALL POWERFUL as far as having control oontrol of Jimis music. ( She has no Hendrix blood, her mom married Jimis dad. ) Leon is Jimis brother and didn't get shit
James Michael Agreed, she needs to get a REAL job .If she really cared SHE would get Jimi's REPUTATION corrected, like he didn't OD!! but he "Drowned" to Death on Red Wine while sleeping with that"Nutcase" Monica Danneman!!! also that so called Mural Of Jimi at Guitar Center L.A. looks Nothing like Jimi,. SHE is a Miserable Human Being!!!
@@jamesmichael7991 Can't stand the way Janie runs Jimi's estate - she's a money grubber! I think she met Jimi like 3x in her whole life? Yeah, not blood like Leon and Leon didn't get jack. Of course Leon has substance issues so maybe wasn't such a bad thing that he didn't get a giant pile of money...
Oh dear. It's a big audience, none of them are dancing, all are mesmerized. Take from that what you will. Berkeley. Meanwhile Jimi puts on a special performance, super charged, aiming the guitar like an M16. A truly magical find.
I've NEVER seen any one perform that well and move like that on stage,its as if his body,his soul,his spirit and the music were one...there is SPIRITUAL quality to Jimi's music that I've rarely seen anyone else touch in any genre' of music. it is said by his road managers that Jimi's guitars would be set up,turned on,tuned up and yet because of the settings(On HIGH as they'd go!) the blessed things would be scretching ,hollering and howling,from the feedback loop and they couldnt get it to stop 'er anything close,Jimi would come out and pick up the guitar and the darn 'extra noise' would cease. The Man has some 'extra-sum-sum'um. He WAS electric sky church music!!
Keith McCaslyn I remember one of the main elements to his sound was how he stringed his guitars... that in itself puts him in a way different league then those who try imitate this guitar god🔥
One of the 4 most powerful stage performers I've ever seen in popular music idiom. Elvis Presley, James Brown, Michael Jackson, the other 3. All spectacular showmen, with fantastic exlposive, stylish, movements.
The biggest difference between Jimi and most artists is that he gave it his absolute ALL, down to the last drop of blood sweat and tears. He lived in the moment. He still blows me away even after 50 years of listening to him. Sheer raw power and expression🗿🧬🗝️🧨🎆⚡🌬️🌀🌪️🌠🛸🌅
Intrinsically motivated by a perpetual love for music, Hendrix was put on this earth to do one thing and one thing only play guitar. Simply the best to ever do it innovative beyond comprehension achieved a level of skill that has never been reached before the one and only Jimi Hendrix.
I got Jimi Plays Berkeley on VHS in the ‘80s and have watched this hundreds of times but it never fails to amaze me! When Jimi was in his Zone, he could do amazing things and make it look so *easy!* This is a great example of Jimi in the Zone.
"Hear My Train a Comin'" from this concert is THE greatest blues song/performance ever. You can hear it on the Rainbow Bridge album, last song on the second side.
Какая игра, какая отдача энергии, разве был в то время второй такой гитарист, не думаю. Д.ХЕНДРИКС, был и остается единственным супер гитаристом опередивший игрою свою эпоху. ВЕЧНАЯ ПАМЯТЬ.
A genius showman with great technical ability and soundzzzzzz. I remember seeing this film in the 70s after seeing him at the Isle of white. The whole film fits the time and people today wouldn't realise the impact he had on the music at that time.
I tried to explain to my buddy why Jimi was the greatest guitarist to ever do It. (Even though Jimi himself was so modest, he would deny that title).. he was an innovator… sure you had guys like Eric Clapton and Jeff beck playing insanely good blues guitar… but Jimi was on a different plain. He was tapping into something psychedelic, bluesy, new, unheard of and as cliche as It sounds, spiritual. The guy was so talented, so ahead of what music was currently doing yet so humble… every time he’d finish a song of his own he’d say something like “now here’s something REALLY good” and go into a Beatles or cream cover. ….He was a force of nature.
That prince was a refined version of Hendrix.prince was able to relax and enjoy his art.jimi was banging and grinding from the get and was more hungrier but Prince had more control of his profession.both we're like lone black men who weren't afraid to step out of conventional black r& b circles.i don't know if Prince could read music, but Jimi certainly couldn't.but prince only in his later years with maturer musicians create instrumental manifestos, where with Jimi, that was his element,his forte.
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Ahh the Berkeley Community Center. Super small venue 13 miles from where I live. My mom worked across the street. But alas, I was too young. Otherwise I woulda been there to see him.
This lead break break makes Jimi the greatest of all time!! Purple Haze at Berkeley, is in my top five concert performances!! Hear My Train A Comin Berkeley is also in my top five concert performances!! Red House Isle of Wight is at the top
My first deep-dive into Jimi Hendrix was his Fillmore East - Band of Gypsys recording and the solos were so ground-breaking that I've never been able to appreciate his other more-signature soloing. The BOG solos are so inventive compositionally and timbre-wise that it's like hearing Stravinsky first and then trying to get into Mozart (both genius but one being so experimentally ahead of the other).
Hendrix was so revived in 1970.. he was going places... too bad he didn't survive the year! His music was changing it just hadn't fully changed yet. RIP!
Oh Yeah Bruh... The Master of The Stratocaster.. Jimi was on Fire at Those Berkeley Community Theater Performances.. Thanx a Million for The Upload ☺☺😎👊💯
Scorcher! I'd venture to say that was a whole-hearted effort. Doubt we'll be seeing the likes of anything close again...flaming comets like Hendrix are exceedingly rare.
@@estucamp92 Listen to Jimi's Third Stone From The Sun. One of his best. He's an alien, comes to visit earth. Likes its mountains and oceans and stuff - but "Its people I do not understand". So he blows up the planet - "and you will never hear surf music again". I dont think he liked surf music.
Haha, that's a really funny description for this video. Sure, Hendrix did solos that were "untasty" at times. I think that he was always trying to be mind blowing with his solos, and this he usually achieved. I've heard so many Hendrix copiers out there, but nobody ever captures that grounded-but-manic quality of his music. It's truly alien all by itself, even though Hendrix himself never traveled (at least physically) to Venus.
Hendrix was murdered by his manager. His lungs were drowned with huge amount of red wine while barbiturics abuse reduced cough reflexes. In Hendrix hair there was like 0.5 liters of red wine, and a lot on his body, there was also a lot of vomit, so sad. What a huge loss, Hendrix was a Super Genius and a good soul
All the conspiracy theories about Jimi's death are disrespectful bullshit. Jimi was loved by everybody, wasn't a political threat, and he made money for a lot of people by being alive. Nobody wanted him dead. He mistook the sleeping pills he took, thinking they were one brand when they were actually a much stronger. He took an extremely high dosage without knowing it. His dopey girlfriend lost time by calling Eric Burdon, instead of for an ambulance, because she didn't want an ambulance attracting the attention of the press. Jimi was happy and he loved life, despite his career pressures. It wasn't suicide.
Rest in Peace??? That ain't Jimi's style man. Wherever Jimi is, I can assure you he ain't resting. More likely Jimi is jamming with Jim Morrison and John Bonham, gettin' high, and keeping a harem of heavenly babes satisfied.
RU-vid has halted all of Jimi Hendrix doucumentarys and videos thanks to the woman who claimed all his rights through being the daughter of al Hendrix jimi s father . She only met him twice and so young I know she can’t reflect on all that’s she’s claiming about talking to jimi . I still think jimi couldn’t of said whole lot to a girl that looked like she was 4 years old standing with jimi
I love this !! The only thing I hate about it is that it's chopped. It's a shame that there are full length versions of songs where the sound is shitty. Guess I'll go buy the DVD if I want it in it's entireity -
