Randy Hansen performing the Jimi Hendrix cover "Voodoo Chile" at the Jimi Hendrix Annual Memorial Concert & Art Show on September 18th, 2011 at Jimi Hendrix Park. All videography and video editing by jeaniederange.
John Mayer has a solid voodoo child tribute to Hendrix, but nobody does it better than Randy Hansen. SRV is a truly honorable mention, of course! But Randy went so far as to get a lefty strat and flip it righty; and then proceeds to crush it. And he has "the sound". Truly the best cover I've seen.
I booked Randy Hansen twice years ago when I ran a music venue in Northern California. The second time he played none other than Mitch Mitchell was playing drums. He is an amazing guitar player.
As a Hendrix devotee for 52 years I an amazed at how close Randy comes. Way better than anyone else I have heard. Love Randy and his devotion to the master but there is still only one Jimi!
I just recently heard this guy on utube. I'm 75 and first saw Jimi in 67 in Memphis. I have been a fan of his music ever since and even have 2 posters in my bedroom right now. Randy thank you for loving Jimi and playing his music. You sound good!!
Holy mother of doG, how have I not heard of this guy before! He's unbelievable! He actually gets the sound and feel right, but he also has the ability to inject his own genuine comping into it. Amazing. I'm a huge love of SRV, but this blows any version he did off the planet.
Hey bro, i also like SRV but this guy right here Mr Randy Hansen is incredible, as you already said, this is even better than the SRV covers, easy, its an amazing talent to be able to sound like the God of Sound himself. Randy should feel proud that even some of the best guitarist in the world can't do this display of skill
I live by Randy and have been a follower since the early 80s!! You really have to go to his show to really appreciate his incredible playing. He has alot of free concerts here and rocks them all. Ive seen him more an any band ever. Probably 20+ times Incredible every time!!!
@@steveleary6473 I saw Randy at the old Golden Bear club is the 70s The way He played Little Wing and Manic Depression absolutely blew my mind. I can remember thinking that HE MUST HAVE BEEN LIP-SYNCHING TO a recording
First saw Randy do a Hendrix tribute in Denver, Colorado-Sept. 1979. I still have my ticket stub. Lost track of him for years, now great to see he kept playing the tributes and got better at it!
Keep the music alive, Brother! I saw Jimi play 3 times in 1968, and met him the same year. This is as close as young folks will ever get to experiencing The Experience!
Having Randy living in the northwest was a real blessing for Hendrix fans here. He played at some really small, great venues pretty regularly, as well as college shows. For those of us that missed Jimi in person, Randy is absolutely the closest thing one could ever hope to see. Great human being, too! Rock on Randy.
Randy is dedicated musician that believes in keeping jimi's music alive for all of us!! There are no other like him...i thank him and love him as a fellow musician and brother. It's been a rare pleasure to no and grow up with him in my life. Peace
I,ve seen Randy perform several times and i got to say that he never disappoints.He plays and sings just like Jimi, that at times you almost forget that its Randy performing and not Jimi wailing out there.I,m a big Hendrix fan ,too young to have seen him in person,so this kind of lets me feel like i have, lol,,Great job Randy Hansen
Randy Hansen began paying Tribute to Hendrix in performance 37 years ago with 'Randy Hansen's Machine Gun.' and performed on bills with Heart, The Kinks, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and others. He won an Oscar for composing 17 minutes of the soundtrack for the 1979 movie 'Apocalypse Now' - (1980 Academy Award Winner for Best Sound). His own debut album was released in 1980. That group played two North American tours which included several coliseum shows with Bob Seger, Sammy Hagar, REO Speedwagon, Head East, Triumph, Poco and Blue Oyster Cult. In 1984, he impersonated Jimi in the music video for Devo's cover of "Are You Experienced?" Hansen's high energy guitar work has earned praise from fellow Dutch-American guitarist, Eddie Van Halen among others. He also was a good friend of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Wrote a song about him called "Texas Twister" from his Old Dogs New Tricks record. He has toured and played with hundreds of famous musicians and groups. In recent years he and Leon Hendrix have toured the World. Tina Hendrix holds a Memorial in September(s) for her Uncle Jimi and Randy performs, as seen here in the video. (I've also got video from these performances on my youtube channel.)
Michael Townsly I know Leon, and I know your characterization of him is no where near being accurate. He's not the performer his big brother was, but he's a great guy - liked by everyone who knows him.
Larry Linn My alcoholic uncle is liked by everyone that knows him...he's still a deadbeat loser though. Catch my drift? Leon was barely related to Jimi and definitely doesn't remember anything about him because of the 20 year age difference, but talks about him as if they used to party together. What a loser. I saw him play last year and I honestly would have rather listened to my own bowel movements through a pa system after a really fucked up curry.
Leon was Lucille's second child by a different father as well as Joe that's makes them Jimi's half brother's. If your a half brother that's half blood and that's hell of a lot more then barley related. Also there wasn't 20 years difference in Jimi and Leon's age Jimi was born in 1942 and Leon was born in 1948, 6 years later. Your just blurting out more bullshit like the uneducated "bowel movement" that you are!
He is having soul of Jimi in him, just like SRV did ! He have much inspiration in him at some places Randy is throwing in very nice creative licks, like he is addin some spices to a song.
I've seen a lot of Voodoo covers and they were terrible and even humiliating.. But Randy really has the Hendrix vibe and does it really good. Hendrix would have been proud!
It also has something to do with the sound of the pickups being backwards to the strings. That's one of the only ways to truly authenticate Hendrix's guitar tone.
Listen to the real recording of Machine Gun by Hendrix, Then listen to this version by Randy. Like Holy Schite, I closed my eyes and totally amazing rendition. I was blown away. Those were my acid days... Hahaha. Thanks Jimi for your excellence and to you Randy for your hard work in bringing Jimi Back ! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fNLTGgPL6V4.html
Después de escuchar miles de covers de Voodoo Child, Randy es el único que capta la esencia de Hendrix, martillazos a las cuerdas, volumen y distorsión al 10 e improvisación a raudales.
I'm a guitar player of 30 years... I have seen a lot of people try to imitate Jimi but you are so close if i close my eyes i can't tell the difference. Cleaner version of Hendrix... simply amazing!! Well done
It's weird, because his persona is like Jimi as well.....if you watch videos of Jimi getting interviewed, Randy behaves like him, his shyness, smile and humbleness.....he sort of a reincarnation of the legend....or at least he keeps Jimi's personality alive, along with his music......Jimi's music will live on forever!
Yeah very true. His mannerisms and facial expressions, his singing and speech even seems to emulate Hendrix. It’s really kinda spooky in a way. Really like he’s channeling Jimi’s spirit.
I caught Randy at a club in Madison, WI back in the late 70s. The poster promoting the concert said: "Jimi Hendrix???" The guy was all over the place and I was amazed he still had air to sing. Besides doing justice to Jimi's music, Randy is a talent in his own right and highly respected among other guitarists world wide.
+DAVID WATSON dude you really are stupid if you don't think Randy sounds like Hendrix. obviously u haven't spent a 1000 hours listening to Hendrix like true Hendrix fans have dummy
YOU WOULD THINK YOUR REBUTTLE WOULD V BEEN STRONGER I GREW UP WITH HENDRIX SINCE I WAS 13 YEARS OLD I HAVE JUST ABOUT EVERY ALBUM HES EVER RECORDED IT PLEASES ME ME THAT YOU CARED ENOUGH TO REBUKE ME THAT MEANS YOUR A STOUT HENDRIX FAN NOW ABOUT RANDY WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR EAR TRAINED TO HENDRIX AND THEN YOU LISTEN TO RANDY HE SCREWS UP EVERY GOOD LICK BY SWITCHING TO BASIC RIPS THATS WHAT I MEAN BY [HE DOESENT SOUND LIKE HENDRIX \BE COOL BRO THE TRUTH IS MOST OF YOU GUYS WERE SUCKING ON A FUDGE SICKLE AND WATCHING DONALD DUCK IF YOU WERE EVEN AROUND
I live by Randy and have been a follower since the early 80s!! You really have to go to his show to really appreciate his incredible playing. He has alot of free concerts here and rocks them all. Ive seen him more an any band ever. Probably 20+ times Incredible every time!!! Seen him even play with Buddy Miles at the Paramount!!! What a show to remember!!!!!!
...do you know I once went to a Stevie Ray Vaughan concert and he played 'Voodoo Chile' so well I closed my eyes and pretended I was at a Jimi concert....it was that good...I have to say though that for sheer authentic entertainment this is better.....I'm going to watch it again.....!!
portlandstone3mw I guess when you were at the SRV gig it must havew sounded good cuz it was loud and live. But really, while SRV played the songs well enough to be entertained, he actually did poor covers of JIMI. It was a;ways way too Texas sounding to ever have that Jimi feel.. SRV just never had that feel. Whereas this guy, he has that loose feel down pat. Also, when Randy sings, he sings Jimi well. The same Seattle accent too which helps.. SRV, he mutilated the feel of the tracks lyrically, completely just did not get them at all... and makes them very hard to listen to for me.. Randy gets it, gets the timing of the syllables and gets the feeling of each phrase.. For the overall package as a Jimi show, Randy wins hands down. I do very much like SRV also, I just do not think he ever got the intricacies of what jimi was trying to express. I prefer SRV, when he did his own Texas blues stuff.
Yes - I agree with every word you write - I was a great fan of Jimi back in the day and was mortified when we all lost his great talent and beautiful soul all those years ago...he was only 27 but gave us so much exciting music in his relatively short life....Randy comes so close to replicating that excitement..so close that I am sure even Jimi himself would have been impressed... Not many people can now relate to how astounding Jimi was at the time - no-one had ever given us music like it - people had not imagined that the guitar could create such sounds until he came along...he was thrilling like no other... Yes the SRV concert was enjoyable for the reasons you mentioned and I agree with your observations about style and vocal delivery - I had not heard 'Voodoo Chile' live before and because I had not managed to see Jimi himself - it was overwhelming to hear SRV's rendition at that time....
I believe this is the performer I saw warm up for Heart in Hawaii in 1977, he was amazing. I could be mixing him up with Randy California( but this video certainly reminds me of the guy I saw) Wow he is outstanding love the attack he has on that guitar!!
+Frank Cabibi That sounds right. I used to see Randy in the 70's and he is friends with the Heart folks. I believe he plays with some of their former personnel in another project currently. i can't recall the name of it right now.
+Frank Cabibi Also, Randy Hansen is still playing all over , inchding in Europe, if you are a Hednrix fan and havent seen him before, you gotta check him out!!
why the fuck don't they ask him to play on experience hendrix tour?he whould blow all the others of the stage including zakk..who semis to only wanna play a few licks fom hendrix then go into his a mindless shred fest sorry but that's the truth
That's probably exactly why he isn't asked. Randy would upstage everyone. Even the best guitarists in the business know they can't touch Randy as far as the Hendrix tunes go. Only other dude that could come close is Frank Marino.
If you watched any of the hours of woodstock footage of Hendrix, he did the same mindless shredding too. He INVENTED it. It's the experience Hendrix tour, and you're going to experience it.
John Michael you must not know what mindless shredding is... I've never seen hendrix mindlessly shred. It's always soulful. I've witnessed Zakk mindlessly shred on the experience tour and it's such a turn off. He just plays as fast as he possibly can. Honestly Zakk sucks. Fast doesn't mean good
dboutte36 Zakk probably plays better than your jackass. Music isn't supposed to be a competition. And yes, Hendrix played lots of mindless notes on his guitar at Woodstock. You have zero clue....
Randy has been around for a long time,I bought a cassette of his when I was a teen,it was pretty good,I was into everyone Hendrix at the time and the best at the time was Randy Hansen and Frank Marino
AWESOME! HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE MAN REPRISING JIMI N FULL EFFECT...TRUE HOMAGE TO HENDRIX...DIG! DID ANYBODY CATCH THIS GUY N THE 80s DOING HIS TRIBUTE? ALWAYS BEEN SO GOOD...THANK U
Okay man, this is the real deal. We have an individual who has studied/played Hendrix from age 14. He knew his calling and has fulfilled his destiny. You may love Hendrix, you may despise Hendrix but one thing for sure, Randy has captured the authenticity and emotion of a rock legend in a way that has brought Hendrix fans to a place where they are actually experiencing the Experience! Randy, thank you for your devotion and thanks for your partner muscians for a memorable Eperience!
Holy crap is this guy good at nailing the Hendrix sound. Kids today should pay him some attention so all is not lost eventually. Tribute acts are mostly cheesy but not Randy, he's as close as anyone could get to the real thing and how jimi sounded 50 yrs ago. I'm also a big skynyrd fan and no tribute act has or ever will capture the original RVZ sound.
Very awesome Hendrix tribute master. He has serious chops. Other than Stevie Ray Vaughn back in the day, and maybe including him, Hansen is the best at playing Jimi.
We all have a lifetime to try and duplicate the sounds and tone of Jimi Hendrix, but he did all that and died by the time he was 27 - with no one to copy. Now if someone writes the next song that Hendrix would have written - then I am impressed. But that all said, this guy has just the right amount of goofiness to pull off the hendrix spirit - probably took the same drugs too.
Randy has had a great carreer. He wrote half the music for apocolipse now when he was like 21. He did the Randy Hanson's Rainbow tours and Stevie Ray Vauhn loved his act .
