Great reaction! Oh that incredible guitar tone. This song is so beautifully executed. Mitch Mitchell’s drumming is the perfect compliment to Jimmy’s incredible guitar work.
This is one of my favorite Jimi studio tunes. Of all the great tracks on that first album, Red House was the one I dropped the needle on the most. Check out the live version from "In the West", Jimi at the Fillmore West; just awesome.
Maybe someone said it before, but this is the first time I've ever heard anyone describe his guitar notes as the strokes of an artists paint brush. That was a beautiful way to compare them Biz! I think if you are that excited about Hendrix, you should definitely start from the beginning. You won't hear any complaints from me! Peace!
"Red House" is one of the first songs written by Jimi Hendrix back in 1966, and I think it's the first he recorded. 57 years ago, Biz. Can you imagine what we felt like hearing this stuff for the first time? It was crazy cool.
1967 changed my understanding of music. Jimi was the first to remove the veil, now you get to discover him. I’m low key envious but looking forward to reliving the journey vicariously.✌🏻
I saw him live in concert twice. Rochester, New York - March 21, 1968 and 2 days later in Buffalo, New York - March 23, 1968. Mind blowing! I still think back to those 2 concerts more than a half century later ....
Thanks Biz for doing one of my favorite Jimi Hendrix song. Jimi wrote this song and recorded it around 1966 or so. This song has become a Blues standard. There have been many covers of this song. Others who did covers of Red House were, Gary Moore, Prince, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Slash & Boz Scaggs. The Slash/Boz Scaggs is a live Video recorded 9/2/1995 check this video out!!!! Keep on keeping on Biz Great Job!!!
As far as what to react to? The first 3 albums (his major releases) I knew of no one who was a bigger Hendrix fan than I was. Saw him at Newport 69' 5 weeks or so b4 Woodstock. I'm 70 now. Are you experienced/ Axis: Bold as love/ Electric Ladyland. All you need. 😃
The Hendrix treatment for classic blues, it is an extended epic live, there are plenty of great live versions on You Tube. Still the best 56 years later. Try the entire album, it helped change music forever. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎶
agree, there are many, this one is the best, it builds to one of the greatest riffs ever...then you actually get a 2nd riff...he was at his best there!!!
the live version of " hear my train comin" from Berkley community center is a perfect example of what sets him apart just amazing along with machine gun from the filmore east
Hey Biz, this is my absolute favorite song ever! Jimi tells this story with the inflections of his guitar. You don't even need to hear the words. When the song starts and it sounds like everything is cool, the guitar is smooth. When he says "I have a bad bad feelin', My baby don't live here no more" his guitar wails like he is worried and in pain. When Jimi sings "I guess I'll go back over yonder across the hills, his guitar has this wlaking over the hills sound. Just terrific song.
Hendrix has never stopped being cool. I discovered his music when I was around 14 years old in the early 80's. Jimi died when I was a toddler, so I was late to the game. What's really cool though is that it's never too late to discover timeless music. That's what your channel exemplifies, Biz! Thanks for inviting us to join in on YOUR discovery. ☮
You can't even begin to conceive of the impact this album had when it came out. It was a revolution in sound. A transformation of what a guitar could do. Us young musicians listened to this over and over and over.
"'Cause if my baby don't love me no more \ I know her sister will!" -- Heh. As testimony to the strength of the song, blues greats Albert King, Buddy Guy, and John Lee Hooker all recorded versions of the song and Prince reworked it as "Purple House" on a tribute to Hendrix album. A Hendrix album by album review is manageable because he only dropped three studio albums before his passing. And they're all great too! Plus Electric Ladyland is a double record, so twice the fun. Plus the posthumous The Cry of Love. And there are several outstanding live recordings too, including Band of Gypsys. The Radio One BBC sessions from 1967 are great too.
Watching someone checking out Jimi Hendrix is like getting high with them! You feel the vibe together, what a trip! That's what is unusual about his music.
His drummer almost steals the show on the album as a whole. Well that's an exaggeration but he puts the drums on the front of the mix a lot and Mitchell is freaking good. Really intense. The drums are what give a lot of the songs that acid trip-like intensity.
Love me sum Hendrix! Check out my faves " The Wind Cries Mary" or the hauntingly beautiful "Castles Made Of Sand". I see that you have already done "Machine Gun" but havent't watched it yet. I love the way that Hendrix sometimes anounces his guitar solos as he does here by saying "I've still got my guitar", or on "Fire" when he says, "Move over Rover and let Jimi take over, you know what I'm talking about" and then after the solo "that's what I'm talking about" and then follows with "now dig this" before continuing the song. And yes, I am "experienced". Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful. But then again, I may have been stoned 😉
Great bluesy song... hey Biz check out Jimmy Thackery on this song cover... also he does a cover of SRV's song "Rude Mood"... a must see and hear.... thanks.
Hi Bizmatik! I think it's great that you're shooting to react to all the tracks from Jimi's U.S. "Are You Experienced?" album. Go for it, using any order that works out best for you. The tracks are all great! A killer track that's a favorite of mine, and on the "Are You Experienced?" CD release (but wasn't on the vinyl album) is "Stone Free" (Jimi's 1st composition, & Side B of Jimi's 1st UK single, "Hey Joe"). It really rocks, & has a wild guitar solo!
Glad you liked this, Jimi has done most of the soundtrack to my life, he came to London in 1966, and all the cool people were really into blues, so Jimi wrote this blues to go on his first album. I heard lots of people think he's covering some classic from the old days. Check Wikipedia for "discography" because he recorded a lot more than the 3 albums some are suggesting. He had a new double album about ready to go with a new single "Dolly Dagger" - which came out in 1971 on the "Rainbow Bridge" album and the "Cry of Love" album (1971) also has loads of other studio tracks that he was out playing live at his gigs in 1970. Also released while he was alive was the "Smash Hits" album which has all his singles such as "Manic Depression" and there is also the album "Band of Gypsies" which was live. Plus there have been many other releases since then - most of which are well worth hearing/seeing.
Just the thre of 'em Perfekt 🚀 All of his Albums are straight ❤️🔥 And there is Rock and Roll before and after Mr. Hendrix A gamechanger Let the good Times roll ☮️🤟❤️🔥
Yes one of my Faves! You want to do a few more " yooohooos" while you listen. A must see and listen is jimi does "Johnny be goode" Live!! Thanks always.😊
I remember when Jimi came out in the 60's. I had to change my guitar playing Like when Van Halen hit Had to change all over again. Thanks. A great song
I put my older sister’s headphones on with this album when I was in 5th grade……changed my life! (Note…I was born in the burbs, white in a white world) My Mother introduced me to Billie Holiday and I couldn’t help but notice what I was hearing….Blues in all it’s glory! 😻
Jimmy could play the blues as good as anyone He is the one that combined Rock and Blues This was a bad man If you want to see him at his best check him out at the Royal Hall
Yes! The Are You Experienced album released in the States did not have Red House on it. You can get the reissue CD that has all the tracks from the British release and the US version. The Greatest Of All Time.
was 15 & it rolled out like this...The Beatles (my 1st concert @ 13) @Jacksonville 1964....lots a other stuff and THIS guy. At 17, I drove down to West Palm in May 1968 to see him at a little music festival with some people I didn't know very well (gas $). Landed in a chopper behind the stage and proceeded to do this...for an hour. Went to college in Gainesville, took a Greyhound bus to Jacksonville to see him at the Coliseum 6 months later... Led Zep in 1969...and on and on. Peak Stones in 1975. Bowie's Station to Station tour in 76.etc, etc. So much and so cheap...We thought it would ALWAYS be like this...I wanna go back.
Jimi did only 3 studio albums. Are you Experienced is the first. The third, Electric Ladyland is a double album. All three studio albums are fire except, IMO, the handfull of songs written by the bass player, Noel Redding
Hey Biz please do Jimi's Band of Gypsies album. Buddy Miles is on drums and vocals and Billy Cox is on bass. It's live from New Years Eve 1969, has great sound quality and is some of Jimis best work. Prepare to have your mind blown.
Quite possibly the best blues song of all time ! It’s dirty and has so much attitude. Hendrix just has a way with his voice, it’s like he’s telling a story . He was very, very unique .
If you want to do a whole album you should definitely choose the Hendrix blues album. If not at least check out "I hear that train a coming" which is just him sitting on a stool with a 12 string acoustic guitar all alone. His voice really shines in that song.
I think, not sure though, that Red House and Stone Free were supposed to be originally released on the Electric Ladyland Album, but never made it because of size on the discs. So they released it on a 45. Somebody confirm please. Anyway, I have been singing Red House with my Bands for over 15 years now. It is perfect for my range as I am more of a Blues Singer than a melody guy. Excellent Reaction!! If you really want to dig deep into the genius and creativity of Hendrix, get the Axis Bold as Love Album and also The Electric Ladyland Album is a must with a must listen to the LONG NOT SHORT Version of Voodoo Child where he does an impromptu Jam with Jack Casady and Stevie Winwood. Also on the Ladyland Album, Rainy Day, Dream Away and 1983 A Merman I Should Turn To Be
That's incorrect. Both songs were recorded over a year before the ELECTRIC LADYLAND album was made. "Stone Free" was the b-side to "Hey Joe" and "Red House" was on Jimi's debut album, ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?
