Sam Simmonds Reveals INSANE Jimi Hendrix Rig! 

I think the guy looks great but if you take inspiration from hendrix get the playing up to scratch brother

Taking inspiration is one thing, copying is another.

@@CloverTheBunnyABDLwell he’s not black is he

@@CloverTheBunnyABDL If you're inspired you may want to learn. And if you want to learn you may need a blueprint. And if you have a blueprint you may want to follow or copy it, until you can build your own. From this video, this guy seems to mix a lot of the old with the new. Good for him.

@maximusindicusoblivious180 My style is built my on living the Blues. I don't copy anyone. My style is different, that I have to use my ear when I play and no rely on someone else style.

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everyone starts with the guitar(s)

It's beyond being a "tribute" to Jimi... this guy is full-on trying be the second coming of Hendrix...he dresses like a Prince/Steven Tyler love child and plays a flipped lefty strat...

​@@datass666but he plays well, who cares 😂

I think that it's beyond what this guy is doing. It appears that people in the U.K. still appreciate art and see it as beauty. Many in the U.K. embraced Jimi at the time and saw him as beautiful. Not so much in America. It may be a so-called Ugly American thing, I don't know what's in people's heart. This is coming from a Beautiful American.

They hate him because they ain't him

You are very welcome mate. That’s awesome, fantastic guys indeed 🎸

Yeah, haters! People love Hendrix, whether they know it or not. Did you see all the onlookers through the window as he was jamming? Seriously.

oh you can

It's a good idea to leave the top cabinet unplugged.for hearing damage.

Stay tuned 🔥🚀❤️

He’s so awesome mate, and so are you!! 🚀🎸

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That’s super cool 🎸

Whenever Im in London and in Covent Garden I stop by there@@PedalPawn

Really Hendrix sound is just a strat, Eb tuning is important a wah and a uni vibe, i dont even think the distortion matters all that much, more the fingers and the tuning. I have a white 87' strat plus Eb tuned and i can get a Jimi sound pretty easy.

I’m a lefty and for so many years, finding and affording a LH Strat was out of reach (thankfully not anymore). But, the Strat is really the one guitar that lends itself to playing upside down. It’s as comfortable as a LH. I’ve actually just ordered a Monterey Strat and it IMHO, should be played upside down. It’s funny when I see righty players playing it right side up. So, I’ll play it in the position (unfortunately not as well) That Jimi played. Seems proper.. LOL.

Thanks a lot for the question! Sam has used our Fuzz in the past on a bass clip, that video idea sounds great ha ha 😝🚀❤️

He sure is! I did, but not on this exact set up because it was too loud for my brain to handle 🤣

Thank you very much mate! 😍 you are right about the hit and miss nature indeed 🚀🟥⬜️

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Let's discuss you moving on to newer ventures in your life. Possibly a real job...not trying to scam people. 😂

Thanks so much for watching mate 🚀🎸

Ha ha, totally!

Surprised to see this mentioned anywhere on the internet besides the forums still alive, helping with common knowledge. He used whatever was available at the time it was bought. The pictures will show when he acquired new rigs over the years. The g12H 25 watt speaker was first used in the pinstripe stacks seen in the early videos. He transitioned into the basket weave cabs in late 1968, that probably started him using the newly invented g12H (30w) version for power handling. The pre-rola sticker doesn’t matter to anything having to do with the tone, only the specific models that had different (wattage) power handling. Also, there was a different white voice coil used in all of the speakers before the end of 1967. It’s the least of worries in all of the tone. More detailed and delicate coil that would burn up or melt each speaker soaking in power on stage for hours. They changed to higher wattages in their model lines and the voice coil was “upgraded” to avoid melting, though slightly changed the tone consequently. This is how it all made sense for me in tone chasing when finding out the reasons behind why the way the tone was. The material the cone is made of is the secret to the speaker, since it’s now illegal to use the same chemicals in the formula, that were supposedly lost after a random 1973 factory burn down. Re-issues don’t have it to spec and it’s just been marketing. Just as the vacuum tubes, transformers and pickups windings. Everything sounds muddy nowadays, you may notice. The speaker contributes the most along with the characteristics of the amp paired with them. Honestly, he just has a full on common reissue type of rig going on. I just couldn’t even when I got tired of all those speakers within a year, from sadly trying to buy and resell out of high school. Forex took care of that no college dilemma. People talk and don’t listen with their ears enough or we’re crazy for hearing the difference still

He has the whole package 🎸🚀❤️

He looks like Otto the bus driver from The Simpsons.

@@harveydean7952 Otto was pretty cool though. I guess he did play guitar.

He definitely puts thought into his wardrobe. And it works for him. I'd feel like a poser if I dressed that like, haha.

@@joeblankenship377 lol oh god man I’d look like the biggest idiot dressed like that haha. He rocks it perfectly on me that’s a bad Halloween costume haha

I think he's tapped into something that this generation is thirsty for. If you follow good vibes, quite often good vibes will follow you. Jimi and Carlos understood this, it's a universal brother thang, a lot of people will just not get it.

@@maximusindicusoblivious180 Still his look is hilarious.

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Something interesting about that is that Hendrix, along with lots of other dudes from that era used an odd (by modern standards) set of string gauges, .38 low E and some other differences from a regular set of 10s, as well as being nickel wound. They sound slinkier and funkier, and according to Roger Mayer they have a more balanced output if you do the math on the relative output of each string. They were Fender Rocknroll brand back in the day, nowadays Pyramid makes a great set replicating them, been using them for years

It might be wise not to plug in the top cabinet. You can inadvertently damage your hearing in a practice room.

@@markr.devereux3385 I don’t stack my cabs. That too much work just put them side-by-side. I’m not playing no sold out stadiums no time soon anyway. lol

@nimitz1739 I hear you. I like to play on 30w practice amps with a selection of pedals. A Marshall stack can be heard a mile away. I wonder what it feels like to be in jimis shoes playing a 3000w system in an arena bending and twisting the notes like he often did. Or the WOODSTOCK rendition of the star spangled banner. Why feedback tricks were suddenly popularized by the electrified musicians is fascinating. It grew out of the psychedelic scene thev AGE OF AQUARIUS the vibrations that most of us thrived on and the ones thevestsblishment hated and renounced. That was a gap I never tried to bridge f the older generation. They were poison.

@@markr.devereux3385 that’s whats cool about the Jubilee. It’s a 100 W head, but it has that 3rd switched beside the standby where you can put it down to a 50 W for more of a practice amp. The only Marshall head that offers that.

@nimitz1739 people forget the role of tbe Celestion 12 " speakers. Even other brands of use the 4×12 Celestion in their cabinets.

I believe it’s the Octavia style circuit that Sabbadius makes 🟦❤️

@@PedalPawn hé thanks :)

Randy Hanson is pretty good, too.

​@zenlandzipline I wish Randy had a better band playing behind him. He does Hendrix so good, but the drummer is no Mitchell.

"Vintage coil" a austrailian brand

My God! Are you serious 😮😮, kind of speechless….

They can earn good money vamping their heroes Sound perfect way to hone your chops

@@cobowe No one respects a clone, the appreciation for the playing is there, but not the respect. That is just my view. Jimi and Stevie didn't lay the blueprint to be completely copied.

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It' is cringe but that kid you're talking about is 15. Zeppelin, stones, Beatles all straight ripped from their idols in the beginning. This guy in the video sounds pretentious 😂

your a loser bro

Looks sick asf

Works for Joe Perry

Each to their own buddy. Inspiration, no matter what it looks like to others, is a very personal thing.

Not sad just uncommon

Ï wonder what you got going on in life Travis considering you’re trying to criticize ä well established musician based on ä singular one of his guitar rigs🤣

Where on earth is this dude established? Presumably his shop? Instagram? Is he from a an actual touring pro band? I get strong privileged posh kid vibes personally spending his parents money? I dunno, only videos I see from him are these ones mainly, not much professional level live stuff

Sounds like you’re jealous 🥴

@@MaxwellAlexxis of his parents 5 bedroom house in the Cotswolds perhaps 😂

​@@tanneralmondmusicCalling someone out for being a cheap copy-cat is not envy or jealousy...this guy is trying wayy too hard...Also, a rightie playing a flipped lefty is extremely fucking lame😅😬🙄

name checks out

Jimitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

What is wrong with that? It takes lots of practice and dedication to achieve those skills

Agreed my man