Jimi was mind blowing don’t get me wrong but is anyone gonna talk about the absolute beast that is Mitch Mitchell on the drums?? my god what a beast of a drummer!!
Jimi, like all great artists and great music, will be with us forever. Beethoven, Mozart, and other musical geniuses haven't diminished with time, neither will Jimi and many other musicians.
Mr. Jimi, the only man to ever pick up a guitar and make it do things it's never done before and then, all the world's guitars agreed that Jimi is the true guitar master of the universe.
My sister Christine saw jimi at chislehurst caves (England) 1967, she chatted with him and he gave her a sable weskit, which i used to nick (younger brother) to try and look cool at parties. ( not realising that my natural good looks would carry me through.)
He's on there because he was a pioneer, not because he's the best ever. He didn't just open new doors for what guitar playing could be, he crashed through them. But he's not the best guitar player there ever was.
@@nunyafunyuns There is no such thing as the GOAT or the best there ever was, since taste in music is utterly subjective. Jimi definitely crashed through those doors and I agree that others took what he started and expanded on it. I like to say Jimi came up with the idea that the sounds that could be made on the guitar had no limits. Just listening to EXP for the first time I thought "He's getting all that from a guitar? I've always considered him my favorite (I never say GOAT) but someone finally took my top spot last year when I discovered Buckethead. Just listen to Under the Arctic and tell me this guy is not a musical genius. He's released over 600 solo recordings, and has done dozens of collaborations with others. Truly a musical savant.
@williamgreenfield9991 For sure, bro. You understand what I'm saying. Jimi deserves his throne, just not for being the best guitar player ever. You're absolutely right about it being subjective. Different styles, different techniques, different genres. There's no such thing as the best guitarist ever. And even if there was, he may not even be famous. Talent is everywhere. Fame is not.
PREACH!!! they murdered him cos he was way to good with his axe..and they weren't having it! Especially being black..and being the best guitarist in the world..MURDER WAS THE CASE
Let's not forget. Unique he was left on the guitar mostly But he was amberdextres could play left or right handed . His dominant hand was right for every day tasks Just saying . Fun fact .....
I'm thinking he might have gone in same direction as Coltrane. In search of deeper, more intense writing and playing. But Coltrane appealed to a very limited audience from Ascension album going forward, not sure if Hendrix would have gone that way. We'll never know.
This! There were guitarists back then who had "better" technique or who knew more theory (look at Wes Montgomery or Phil Keaggy), but no one has ever matched Jimi's creativity and ingenuity. His sound was his sound and no one will ever truly reproduce it. Not the fastest, not the most knowledgeable, but 100% the most original. I'd trade every show I've ever seen to see him on his worst night.
Jimi had the nicest band. Those 3 were awesome playing together. All music created by them was never written, it was all freestyle and memorized to created songs. Wow! They played off eachother. I love this song❤👍
Mitch was a very good drummer, Noel was average, he was a guitarist who was switched to play bass to be in the band. He resented Jimi for not being the lead guitarist, but who would have been a lead guitarist over Jimi, meaning, who would have that big of an Ego to think he should be the lead over Jimi...Noel.
His hands were ten inches! I'm 6ft 2 with hands of someone 6ft 9 and my hands are 91/8 inches. So just imagine. I have a 16 shoe and I never met anyone personally with bigger hands. His soul goes into that fender.
Yep, that's why he was getting frustrated near the end, feeling like everyone just saw him as a freakout guitar slinger, while he wanted to be taken seriously as an artist in general, as a singer and a songwriter. It's sad that success isn't always gratifying.
@@nunyafunyunsTrue that. I was fortunate to see Jimi and the Experience live in Sacramento when I was 17 (1968). I will never forget when he was introducing one of the big hits like Foxy Lady he said "This is where we were a million years ago but we know this is what you want to hear". I heard that before he died he expressed interest in doing something with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the brilliant horn player that sometimes played three reed instruments at once. Now THAT could have been amazing.
@williamgreenfield9991 Absolutely. Jimi had a lot to offer, but I think he was feeling constrained at the end. I'm so jealous you got to see him. I wasn't born until a year after you saw him in 68, sadly. But I did grow up mining all that music from the 50's through the 70's as I was discovering my own generations music in the 80's and 90's and beyond So much good music in such a short period. And now it feels like it's all grinded to a halt. I feel bad for kids today in that they don't have heavy hitters of their own generation. But they can always do what I did when I was a kid, and mine the older stuff.
@@davidbeaver589 across the the universe?! That's the beatles another mixed up sacrilegeous Earthling attempting too mould Jimi into an unearned shape. Obviously you also have very little understand of Jimi Hendrix it goes too show you can never know, how typically unforgivable
Jimi never played the same song the same way...he "felt" the music as it moved him. True artists are like that...especially if they are regularly "enhanced"...
I talked to my grandmother about music when I was a teen. I'm 47 now. She said that she didn't like the music of the time because we listened to the same song over and over. All she used to see were live performances and every time an artist sang a song, they sang it different.
I saw him four times. First, Woburn Abbey July 1968, second and third, RAH early 1969, fourth IOW 1970. Unforgettable. There is are videos of one of the RAH concerts in which you can see me in the audience 🙂 Was also at the great Mitch Mitchell's last concert in Portland, OR. He came on just for a few minutes and died a few days later.
Jimi, Mitch Mitchell and Buddy Miles [?] Memory is beginning to fail me but I lived through this. What an awesome genereation of change. Jimi, Janis and the Doors. Would not have wanted to miss out and I didn't! Rock cried when Jimi died and it was never the same.
Axis Bold As Love for me was the ultimate getting high listening to on headphones album. One of about 300 albums from the late 60s and 70s my brothers and sister left behind for me after they went off to college. Hardly any groups with more than one album in the group. What an amazing time for music that will never be repeated.
I got to see him live in concert when I was a high school sophomore, he had just released Axis Bold as Love. It made an incredible impression on a Midwestern teenager
❤ Dietmar 67 danke für deine Musik, die hat mir viel gegeben . Früher sind wir ausgerastet heute laufen Tränen übers Gesicht 😢.Das war eine geile Zeit Wir leben heute in einer scheiss Zeit , aber man hat ja noch die Erinnerung ❤❤
Jimi Hendrix is a different type of experience he was unique and authentic, and unapologetically real. He gave you his thoughts and his true feelings in his music 🎉🎉. He is a trail blazer and guitar icon most definitely. 🎉🎉RIP,Jimi you music will definitely be your legacy 🎉🎉
HERMOZO RECUERDO..CONTAVA CON 15 AÑOS ..Y CUANDO LO ESCUCHAVA ME INPRESIONAVA..Y A LOS 70...LO SIGO ESCUCHANDO..Y NO ME CANSA...MIL GELICITACIONES..SE LO AGRADESCO.
Hi I’m in heaven now. I’m 65. I’ve heard a lot of Jimi.. this is extraordinary. Thank you so much. Wow, bass and drum solos and Jimmy just step under him to before. 😮haaa. What would we have been blessed with if not for this tragedy
I was about 7 or 8, saw him in a video shown on American Bandstand. I believe it was at a pop festival where he set his guitar on fire. Still blown away after all these years.
So true. What many forget is how utterly new and unique this was when it came out. No one had EVER heard anything like it before. Now there are a million "freak" guitar players. His influence is everywhere and whole genres and sub-genres were spawned, Heavy Metal being just one. The birth of Heavy Metal can be heard in the Beatles/Stones/Who/Hendrix sound.
I think sometimes Hendrix only lived for a short while because some people put out so much in such a short time, they don’t need to live long lives. They do in a short time what other people would need a lifetime to do. This performance is an example of how this trio could blow an audience away.
Meanwhile, somewhere behind the amps, a pre-fame Lemmy Kilmister is reading some obscure history book while sipping Jack Daniels and chain-smoking. My mom saw Hendrix around this time period and I am definitely a bit jealous, this live version is amazing!
I believe, rock music would have been completely different today had Jimi lived. He was taking music into an other stratosphere. Unfortunately, we can only guess where.
My belief is: If Jimi had lived until today he would not be a revered as he is now. Let me explain, Jimi was not a juke box, which is what the music industry wanted him to be. He was not content in playing Purple Haze, The National Anthem and Hey Joe for the rest of his career. He was a moving growing force that no one understood. He would have disappointed the fans because he did not want to sacrifice his guitar like he did at the Monterey Pop Festival, though it was a thing of magnificence, it was also spontaneous, just like Jimi. He wanted and expected so much more of himself, so much more from the music he was creating. Rock music is completely different today because of Jimi, but it would have been so much more if he had lived. I believe he left this world because we couldn't have handled anything more than what Jimi gave us. He left at a time when very few appreciated or understood him. He gave us everything that would take a lifetime for us to understand. I don't think he was taken from this world too soon; he was taken because that was all this world could handle at that time. To this day his music and his amazing gift still leaves us is awe. I hope someday we can fully appreciate what the gods gave us in Jimi Hendrix. I know he is resting in Peace because that is what he gave the world....Peace through the gift of the universal language that is called music. Thank you, Jimi.
@@paulengle9245 The Jimi Hendrix experience could, would have transformed into something far - out In to other dimensions of sound reaching new stratospheric spiritual proportion. Thank you, for your point of view.I liked that. Stay coo,l stay safe. Peace out.
Rest in peace Benoit Maltais I remember when we listened to this song when we all hung out in your basement smoking, drinking and fking around you will forever remain in my memories the world lost a good man 🕊🕊❤
Actually I don't see much difference between them. They both played it differently. Of course they did, they were different persons. But to my ears it's the perfect same level of mastery. Like "the charismatic voice" said about SRV: "he seems to be in a completely different world when playing, but gives us windows to have a glimpse inside." Same applies to Jimi. I feel like SRV had more raw power in his style while Jimi was more delicate and fragile.
If you don’t see difference, you’re not really listening. it’s all good. Love the music you love. As long as you’re listening to this great stuff. Watch the Woodstock version. Actually, Hendrix and Stevie Ray are totally different. Sure SRV was totally captivated like just about every player. He had a hellacious vibrato. And I hear some Johnny Winter and him too and his blues.
Stevie ain't close, and I like him. Blues is American and its Black. No British invasion or Elvis, Jerry Lewis or Eminem. Respect Black American culture...its global. Jazz, Blues, Hip Hop, and Rock n Roll.
@@robertbell6230 it’s more than just black or white or liking and rating someone because of their color etc. A lot of unbiased black players like bb king said Stevie was phenomenal. I personally believe Stevie was a better player than Hendrix, it’s just Hendrix will always be number 1 because he was the original. We gotta respect ALL cultures 👍
When I graduated high school in 1972 I took a road trip with my brother.out to LA.we drove through a small town in southern Colorado. On the towns water tower someone painted Jimi Hendrix is god! Pretty much said it. His music came from a different space time .
Dont no why anyone compares other great guitarists to Jimmy Hendrix, yeah Jimmy was really talented in his guitar strings, and was the best, but taking away from other greats, and theirs was many, Eric Claptan, Stevie Rayvorn, Santana, the guy in who play in Jim Morrisons band, the doors, theirs just many, they were all great.😊
Yo bro, as we all are., Just passing threw.! I grew up just around the corner of the infamous " Fillmore East ", by Billy Graham, which he had " Fillmore West " In Cal. Regardless, I was a kid , I grew up in that perfect timing in life. Saw Jimmy , Janis, Allman Brothers, Frank Zappa., Alice Cooper, Big Brothers Brother Holding Co., the Doors, ( else where ) That was a LOWES THEATER., PROR TO GRAHAM AQUIRED IT!!. IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL!😮😮😮😮😮😮 JAKE'58
I Have Been Studying and Collecting Master Hendrix's Work Since 1970 ! And I Have Never Heard that Version or Seen that Video! That Had to be Just Before Nole Redding Quit the Band , It is Very Different in Concept from Band of Gypsies!
He was ignored in the US. Coming back from England, he absorbed the current vibes there which Shingdig( a TV music show then doing Pop) didn't show. Then it was James Bond & gogo girls(Pop music): LIMITED!
