ONE OF HIS BEST?!..| FIRST TIME HEARING The Jimi Hendrix Experiance - Purple Haze REACTION 

A must!!!!!!!

I'd also recommend Vodoo Chile and Foxy Lady as introductory Jimi songs.

My 2 Hendrix favorites!

My favorite songs by master jimi

In my humble opinion All Along the Watchtower contains the FINEST (that’s right I said the FINEST) guitar solo EVAH!!! There are faster solos, there’s more shredding some solos, there are longer solos. Hendrix has done them. However, The texture and the context and the thoughtfulness of guitar solos in Watchtower stand alone and considering HE DID IT FIRST. PURE FREAKING GENIUS,

Follow that with Voodoo Chile (Slight Return).

Yes This!

So many great covers and arrangements of that song, but Dylan credits Jimi for providing the best arrangement.

Jimi did an awesome Day Tripper from the BBC sessions 😀

Dylan said, "It's his now."

A friend on my School Bus had just bought 2 albums: Cheech & Chongs Big Bamboo, and Jimi Hendrix Are You Experienced? I was never the same after this album!!

Listen to "The Wind Cries Mary".

👍😎 That was written about Roger Daultry’s wife.

Paul McCartney of the Beatles heard Jimi and the Experience at a venue in England one evening and Paul was so impressed he got the other Beatles band mates (only John?) to come hear them the following Sunday. The Jimi Hendrix Experience did a live cover of the title track from Sgt. Pepper's Loney Hearts Club Band, just three days after the Beatles album had been released. Soon after, when the Beatles were contacted to see if they would play at Woodstock, the Beatles were booked and could not be there, but Paul recommended the Woodstock organizers get Hendrix, which they then did. He played his version of "The Star Spangled Banner", and the rest, as they say, is history.

You said it bro

Hendrix is amazing Purple Haze was a type of LSD back 60s and 70s. "Foxy Lady", "All Along the Watchtower", "The Wind Cries Mary" all great songs and a good start but the list is amazingly long and he died at 28. My favorite might be Redhouse from Monteray Pop Festival 67 I think. He was one of the best blues players.

His first hit in the UK was, "Hey Joe"... totally awesome

@@Civil_War_Now Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell

BB King & electric blues guitar.

I'll see you in Hell.

My boys told me I wanted to be white when I bought my copy😂😂😂😂😂

😂”and this album is going with me!”

You're not going to hell, You're going to ''Kiss the Sky'' like Jimi

We played the star spangled banner during morning formation in the army in germany one time!

@@bobvedder2451 best instrumental version of it ever done by far U guys need to play it U will love it

It was meant to be Antiastablishmet.

I was going to suggest this - the performance I know is at Woodstock

Most decidedly one of Jimi's signature covers...absolutely genius!

No it ain’t it’s a weed strain u don’t hallucination with weed

That’s why he says purple haze all in my eyes because weed makes your eyes really red and it’s easy for people to notice

@@Qyurty 😂🤣 the song, purple haze is actually about a girl he met and fell in love. It’s a love song listen to the lyrics again and think of him talking about the haze being all around him and the girl put a spell on him there’s your answer.

LSD..

@@lynne8755 Yep, but it’s unclear to me whether that “brand” was named after the song or vice versa.

Mitchell is great!

When I was younger Hendrix was one of my favorites. So was Boston. And I always remembered thinking, damn man, just imagine if Jimi Hendrix had the audio quality and tech that Boston had. That would have been AMAZING. Databyter

wasn't his manager the bass player from the ANIMALS?

@@jacklewis5452 Yeah - Chas Chandler

@@Databyter Exactly...and if he had had more years...he was so creative with his ideas. He was essentially a super solid blues player, but had really creative ideas...we missed out not seeing where he would have gone.

Thanks for the explanation to the uninformed ! Poor Jimi had to be concerned with jerks dosing his drinks backstage. They thought he would just love it. I read that he got some strong acid by surprise once and decided he was too high to play. Can’t remember if he even made it to the the stage or not. Those poor fans.... what a letdown.

@@thomascanfield9165 Be careful of the rumors. Although back then, there was LOTS of crazy stuff goin' on. Drugs on a large scale were new to American youth and rock bands. High Schools were rampant with almost anything you wanted. If it wasn't there, you made a connection to where you could get it off campus. They were EVERYWHERE. Most rock artists survived, some didn't. Many videos on youTube with performers talking today about what it was like back then with other performers in clubs jammin', in Hotel rooms, on tour buses. Check out the film "Almost Famous".

@@thomascanfield9165 Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd was a victim of dosing by his groupie "friends". At one point they were dosing virtually everything he ate and drank, day in and day out.

@@jimmyfortrue3741 Thanks for sharing that - it makes sense. I always thought he probably just got carried away with the “ more is better “ approach. Another tragic example was what happened to Peter Green, although not a “dosing” per se - just a bad batch he tried once. They told the sad story in the video titled “Peter Green - The Munich LSD Party Incident”

@@thomascanfield9165 I'll look that up.. never knew about that one. Thanks.

Machine Gun is both songs in One !!!!😂

Hendrix in the West has the best version of Red House.

Little Wing for sensitive side. Downside: it’s way too short.

RED HOUSE and ANGEL

Red House is definitely worth a listen.

Give a listen to JOHNNY WINTER, Be Careful With A fool, Audio version See the many similarities in Jimi and Johnny, when it comes to blues, sound style. But Jimi is/was the master of, innovation in guitar sound.

I'll add my voice to the Red House recommendation.

That's my favourite.

Red House (Electric Church) on the Jimi Hendrix “Blues” album is a complete face melter.. it’s really.. REALLY HEAVY. Just saying..

Yup. Unique. A rock GOD

Yes! As does MAY THIS BE LOVE. LITTLE WING.

Yes, I agree my favorite, Hendrix song

Correct! I took Purple Haze acid in 1967 and this song takes me back Every time ! Headphones, Definitely!

First time I tripped the lights were making the sky purple and I remember keep thinking this is why Jimi kept saying purple haze. Plus the stain of acid lol.

The wall of sound was created by Larry Levine (sound engineer) along with Phil Spector before their was a Grateful Dead

Wasn't about drugs but from a sci fi book.

@@bobsebring3377 I've never heard that. Which sci fi book? I'm very curious, because the words always sounded so acidy to me, and there was a batch of acid named Purple Haze. Plus, everything I've ever read says its about an acid trip. Are you sure?

I don't think this has anything to do with heavy metal.

Pretty much the first thing everybody heard.

Prince was clearly a huge fan of Hendrix

Hendrix wrote little wing which was a big hit for Derek and the dominos so it was kind of a second hit.

Yeah, but when I saw him perform in Atlanta I was on Brown Owsley. (don't tell my grandchildren)

@@hudsonhollow Every time I heard about brown acid I was being warned not to take it :^)

I don't know about by *all* ... after all, he had to ask "are you Experienced?" LOL

My parents were at the Monterey Pop Festival in June, 1967 and they were on acid and smoking weed all 3 days. Owsley had made a huge quantity of his best LSD just for the 3 day festival and it was being passed out to everyone that wanted it. People were also smoking weed openly. There were police there, but they were cool and didn’t bother anyone unless they were being assholes. Jimi blew everyone’s minds when he played, no one had ever seen or heard anything like him before, and this was a show that had a lot of acts that were mind blowing. What also made Monterey great was this was the one of the first shows to have a really incredible sound system, it was very loud and crystal clear. My parents were tripping when Hendrix played and it wasn’t until they saw the movie “Monterey Pop” in 1968 that they knew what they had seen wasn’t just a hallucination. Of course, Jimi had taken 2 hits of Owsley acid before he went on stage, on top of all the weed he had been smoking, so it’s amazing he was able to play so flawlessly.

@@terrycunningham8118 My girlfriend ended up in the OD tent, after we had sex under a tree, of course. ;) A police car rolled by and a guy was sitting on the trunk selling five dollar lids out of a huge feed sack full of weed. Grand Funk's Learjet made a low pass over the crowd as Jimi played Star Spangled Banner and fire works were being shot off behind the stage as well as everyone in the audience seemed to have some kind of fireworks going. Amazing! I heard Grand funk's pilot lost his license for that little stunt. Those were the days!!!! (and nights)

With Noel Redding holding down the Bass Guitar.

I agree, I would love a complete album reaction!

The Drumming on Voodoo Chile , Not Voodoo Child, is just freaking insane

What I loved about Hendrix is he didn't care about shade of skin or nationality. I read about him I watched his documentary he played music for everybody not just for a few but everyone. Peace to the peaceful. ✌️

Enough said.

It almost makes me mad. Young black people should know about Hendrix. His story is interesting to anyone who loves music. Many believe he is the greatest guitar player of all time.Bums me out that there is a generation raised on "Rap", and do know how much black people contributed to so many genres and musical culture.I don't care for most 'Rap", but I love the Blues and Motown and some Jazz even the "Philadelphia Sound" of the 70s, and I appreciate the contribution to music black people have made, particularly Jimmy Hendrix

I do reaction videos while high asf on my RU-vid channel… should i quit RU-vid or is my contribution to society enough?

Native American sadly get little respect

It shattered all the norms with a white rhythm section and a black lead guitar. It was such a magical combination that literally never missed!

@@Donkor640 I can agree there. I have seen The Experience live on more than one occasion, and I was there at Regents Polytechnic in London when Jimi plugged into Jack Bruce's bass amp and played in the UK for the first time. I can assure everybody that what you have heard about Hendrix being the greatest guitarist is true. I have witnessed that multiple times, and other guitarists too, and I can confirm it. He was literally ten blocks up the road musically from every other artist. Nobody could touch him musically. Jimi was phenomenal. Off stage a very shy and retiring individual with exceptional manners, but on stage with a guitar in hand a real monster. Mitch was often referred to as 'Jimi's man'. Jimi and Mitch were just made for each other, despite Mitch having a jazz style of drum playing. However, Noel should not be forgotten. You will note that in the songs from Are You Experienced that it is Noel's solid bass back beat that keeps many of the songs together. When The Experience broke up, despite Jimi having some decidedly good bass players in support, the sound he achieved with The Experience was never really achieved again. And that is not to knock other players. It was just that the musical chemistry was different. At gigs Jimi would usually warm up the crowd with his rendition of Howlin' Wolfs song Killing Floor. This is the song he performed at Regents Polytechnic where he literally wiped the floor with Cream. The look on Clapton's face was something to behold as Jimi went through his stage performance. I do not think that Eric had ever thought that there was a guitarist who was this good. Ginger Baker too was bemused at Jimi appearing to 'hump' his guitar on stage. And yes, Jimi could play guitar over his head, between his legs, behind his back, and with his teeth. Jimi and his guitar were one. He was so proficient at playing guitar that that aspect was removed really from his performance. What you got was Jimi's expression of feeling transmitted over the guitar almost as though the guitar was not even there. Goodness how I miss Jimi. When I heard of his death I wept. Truly the greatest loss musically of an entire generation. RIP too to Mitch and Noel. Indeed without these two superlative artists The Experience would never have been what it became.

To be nitpicky, Little Wing wasn't an instrumental - even though Stevie Ray Vaughan's much later cover version was. It was, however, gorgeous and you are right to recommend it. I stand to be corrected, but I think it was the first Hendrix recording where the guitar was fed through a Leslie amp/speaker - more usually employed to add vibrato to Hammond organ output. The sound is so lush.

@@martynlester9869 You will note that in the later stages of Jimi's recording of Little Wing that his voice somehow becomes garbled. This is because Jimi was using a Pull Tech filter to achieve the long guitar sound. It was good for the guitar sound, but could not be applied if singing was involved.

@@MrMoggymangreat comment. I agree. I saw The Experience twice and I think Noel and Mitch were essential to their extraordinary sound. Hendrix wouldn’t have hit as hard without them, most definitely.

Great song

Yes. That was originally a Bob Dylan album cut. Jimi gave it a total makeover, and Dylan changed his own version that he played in concerts so that it was more like Jimi's version. No higher tribute than that.

Did you have a bong? Lol

@@byronmcgee6777 Yup! But I didn't care...pipe, joint, whatever...

@@byronmcgee6777 Not really...used both joints and "pipes" made out of used paper towel rolls with an aluminum foil bowl with about 8 to 10 holes made with the end of a paper clip. that was my favorite. You would place the end over your mouth and at the far/bowl end hold a small frame over it and control the amount of air mixed with the smoke by holding your other hand's palm over the end of the tube and letting more or less air to mix in by moving it off and on to control the mixture. Two or three hits off of it with Jimi wailing in the dark woods and you were very gone.

Probably one of the most important: A declaration that the counter-culture has a claim on patriotism too -- that right wing types aren't the only ones who love their country, and that sometimes pointing out your country's missteps and looking for new solutions, and not merely repeating the errors, is the best way to show that love.

How can you leave out Voodoo Child (Slight Return)?

Oh yes Jimi Hendrix was psychedelic. He was a hippie 100%. Look the way he dressed. ✌️ He was such a free spirit.

💜💙💜💙

LS and D was a favorite of his

It isn't about drugs. Hendrix was a big reader of Sci Fi and he got his inspiration to the songs lyrics from José Farmer's "Night of Light", a story about an interstellar sun rolling up once a generation to start warping and distorting reality. Farmer also mentions the "purplish haze" of sunspots glowing around a distant planet"

@@megamaniac7402 About tripping, not "about drugs". But polysemy is inescapable.

Cream played a 2-part gig with Jimi showcased in the interval. Eric stood in the wings watching and basically shit his pants!

I was there. He was phenomenal.

You haven't heard much if that's your idea of "most iconic".

@@jnagarya519 Iconic implies most remembered or referenced. That would be his rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner”.

@@silverhippie3910 "Icon" is equivalent of "statue". Statutes are inanimate.

@@jnagarya519 you are on the wrong page. This family is all about Love. ✌️

@@silverhippie3910 You know them personally?

the guitar was restrung left handed

Albert King played that way but not Jimi.

I heard that he used to room with keith Richards of the rolling stones. Keith said he would sit on his bed and play an amazing riff and then flip the guitar over and play the exact same riff right handed.

@@craigreid7178 I think that was Ronnie Wood that said that because they shared a house

@@robertphelps1574 I stand corrected, thanks, Robert.

I saw that concert also.

I saw that tour too.

That is such an odd combination; it's still blows my mind.

Hendrix and the Monkees??? On the same bill? Wow that is the craziest pairing I've ever heard of lol. That must have been a bizarre experience would have loved to see that.

@@thomascanfield9165 I was 12 and we saw them in North Carolina. It was an "Experience" for sure =)

GFR LIVE is that way, that made every song a hit for GFR and what it was like to go to a GFR live SHOW!

Dude, you couldn’t be more correct! That has to be my favorite Hendrix album.

Correct!

I love Are You Experienced as a better album front to back, but “Bold As Love” is my all-time favorite Jimi song!

Purple Haze & Windowpane acid drugs. Not that I'd have any personal experience 🙈🙉🙊

@@pastorXal 🤭🤭🙄🤫🤫

My favourite Jimi Hendrix song, especially the live version from the Isle Of Wight

people thought that??? I'm german & I always thaught thats one of the coolest lines ever (the correct one)!

Well, it was the hippie era, no big difference if you kissed this guy or the sky…

"the sky"....reference to being high. Purple Haze is the smoke. I don't even smoke and figured that out as a kid. lol.