I was 10 when I started listening to Jimi. The 7th of 12 brother's who all grew up on Jimi. Our big brother was in Vietnam at the time. He's 75 and I'm 64. Being born closer to Postmodernity than he was, Jimi became my life's inspiration as opposed to being my favourite musician, which he is still. I'm Maori indigenous peoples of New Zealand. RIP Pastor Jimi. 🙏👍👏🇳🇿😍💪😎
Learned to play the guitar upside down at age 9. He was simply from another planet. A native of Seattle Washington, Jimi was just on another level, yet the most humble man you'd ever meet. Jimi died at age 27.
He dragged that thing around with him everywhere -- even into the military. He spent most of his time there in his bunk with it, and was eventually released as 'unfit for military service.' Though he still died young, at least he got to share his gift with us, instead of dying in the muck of some far-away rice paddy...
If you hear the beginning Intro of the guitar ,it's like the guitar is the narrator. It's telling, what the story is all about? Every melody collaborates with the other in the story. Even though Jimi is singing the lyrics, His guitar backs him up. So when Jimi said, the wind began to howl .That's when the guitar started rising the tied notes up the scale. There are characters of melodies in the music.
I like the 12-string guitar at the beginning and in the background, which runs a bit over a chorus. Jimmy's guitar runs over a wah-wah and a slight reverb, but not always. I think they added the chorus and reverb in the mixing to give Jimmy's guitar more "airiness and space" and to give the 12-string guitar a psychedelic tone through the chorus. That's what makes it special. Good sound engineers :)
Jimi also playing bass guitar and acoustic guitar ( along with Dave Mason on another acoustic). Listen to Machine Gun live at the Fillmore East off the album Band of Gypsys to really get Jimi
There are both 6-12 string guitars. Jimi plays one, and Dave Mason, of Traffic, plays the other. Jimi also plays Bass, on this song. It took Dave Mason 25-26 takes to get it right. He got it right, on the last take.
Probably the best footage of him playing is the Woodstock performance. If you can get the Filmore East performance of "Machine Gun" it's pretty frickin awesome. At least to me it's absolutely mind blowing, but I appreciate that if you're into classical music then you may have a different perspective. Machine gun really pushes the electric guitar to the limit. But it's so deeply soulful that I still think it's well worth a listen. There's a French Canadian RU-vidr named Karl Philippe Fournier who is also a classical guitarist who is big into Hendrix.
Thanks for the reaction. I highly recommend Vodoo Chile (track 4) off this album. If you want to hear what Jimi can do with other titans in music check it out.
It is amazing how he took such a simple song, and created something completely new out of it, and it's superior to the original. But Dylan cleverly hid the true meaning, put the verses in reverse order. It's a song about a biblical apocalypse.
Into Flury First Verse (Read as Second Verse) Clean Solo Second Verse (Read as Third Verse) Dirty Solo Slide Solo Bridge Wahwah Solo Acoustic Solo Dave Mason Third Verse (Read as First Verse) Closing Flury
You're good at what you study. Classical guitarists are good at classical music and blues/rock guitarists are good at blues and rock. Believe me. this classical guitarist can't play rock the way a good rock player plays rock and a roc player can't play classical the way a classical guitarist can unless he's studied it too. For one genre of guitarist to critique another or to compare the two is useless. There's no guitarist that's the best at all types of music. There's no such thing, There's too broad of genres, styles and beats. What matters is, at the end of the day does anyone want to pay to hear you.
Lol well you can’t see him live, he’s dead. He’s one of the greatest rock legends of all time. There is just no argument here. Sorry 😂 people would watch him with their mouth open because he was that insanely talented. You have no idea.
The solos are good . Hello. This is the best guitarist ever. You've no idea. Stick to classical. It's what you know. Terrible reaction to one of the best songs ever.
