Personal as a white English Kid living the UK around 1973 I never understood why Americans of Africans decent never revived the genius of Jimi Hendrix I understand better now! Nice work Corey!
Now in my mid-60s, I began my Jimi Hendrix journey at the age of 12, months after his passing. Not a day goes by that I fail not to listen to at least one song by him. What people fail to realize that at the time of Jimi leaving us, he wanted to make music like a powerful exlir to heal the world. That was his direction. Most of us in the African-American community didn't understand Jimi back then. He was, and still is so far ahead of us. Listen to his music and message. They're need now, more than ever.
Big props and respect for the making and production of this video! I was also one of these American kids of African ancestry who was misled into believing that Jimi Hendrix was a psychedelic sell-out negro! I believe that part of this has to do with the European establishment that desperately attempted to take credit for Jimi Hendrix's genius, as they have done with the building of the pyramids and the Pharaohs. Another part of this has to do with Black people being ignorant and dismissive of the genius and great contributions of Jimi Hendrix's legacy. Black people today have also shamelessly neglected the blues and rock 'n roll as well! I'm a student, historian, and disciple of Jimi's work. I have a portrait of him tattooed on my right arm! There will NEVER be another artist like Jimi Hendrix! This was a musical genius that forever changed musical art, style, sound, and theory. Jimi was a musician who had a huge influence on Black music. He influenced music legends such as BUDDY MILES, FUNKADELIC, MILES DAVIS, ISLEY BROTHERS, DEATH, BOOTSY, PRINCE, BAD BRAINS, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, FISHBONE, LIVING COLOUR, RUN DMC, 24-7 SPYZ, DIGITAL UNDERGROUND, THE TIME, PUBLIC ENEMY, Eric Clapton, Eric Gales, and Christone "KINGFISH" Ingram, along with a long list of rockers, bluesman and jazz cats. Jimi Hendrix was a purveyor of blues, rock and roll, soul, R&B, jazz, and funky music! He was a performer from the chitlin circuit. People must never forget that! LONG LIVE THE GENIUS OF THE GREATEST GUITAR PLAYER WHO HAS EVER LIVED! JAMES MARSHALL HENDRIX!
I think the black community just wasn't into the hard rock style of music Jimmy was not only drawn to, chose and became iconic in that realm. Look at the crowds, they were white. Black people wasn't paying money to his concerts. He made is mark amongst those who supported him. The other cultures. He was/is the greatest of the great guitarist and musician. Music isn't a cultural thing as much as it is a vibrational and spiritual thing. One was either in alignment with his musical expression or they weren't. 'The Jimmy Hendrix Experience' wasn't a secret. His music was available world wide. I loved his guitar skills and music growing up. I had his poster on my wall as a young girl fascinated by bands and live music while growing up in New York in the 80s. My family and young friends were very familiar with him.
@@11REIGN11 Jimi knew his core audience was White, but he wasn’t satisfied with that. He made several attempts to widen his base, especially with the Band of Gypsys. He was making inroads, but his life was cut short. My extensive research has shown the complex nuances of JIMI’s music as it relates to the Black community and Black culture. I wish I had known about Jimi like you did in the 80’s. I lived in Marlboro projects near Bensonhurst/GRAVESEND BROOKLYN. NOBODY in my neighborhood or family spoke about Jimi. It was all about MJ, Prince, hip-hop, and other 80’s pop music of the day. I write about it in detail in my book, Jimi Hendrix Black Legacy- www.jimibl.com
What you are describing Mr. Washington is cultural imperialism. Sometimes it's benign and sometimes it's malignant. As Mike Bloomfield observed in David Henderson's VC of the Aquarian Age, Hendrix was the embodiment of all known forms of black music, including slave field hollers. From slave ship to space ship, Jimi was the original black futurist. John Coltrane is the Father of Roots Music, Billie Holiday is the Holy Mother Mary, Jimi is The Son of Music, and Bob Marley is the Holy Spirit, spreading the message to all corners of the world. You are doing the necessary work to Bring Jimi Black, as Juma Sultan termed it in an interview with me in 1995. Thank you.
@SOUL STRETCH Miles knocked on Jimis hotel door and his white friend would answer the door to miles and miles would just stand very ignorant and deep snarl toward s him ,what's up with him !? And Jimi would laugh and say "miles doesn't like white people"😁.Makes sense when u look at miles face during his show at the 1970 isle of white concert .
IT DIDNT HAPPEN...JIMI COULD NOT NOT RELATE TO MILES DAVIS.....MILES IS THE MAN, ...A PIMP.......JIMI WAS RAISED BY NOT HIS MOM .... " DEE ,,,KULTURE,... " , ABONDONS , EASILY,.. ....CHEAP OFSPRING... TO GO GET HIGH.....SI, ...OR NO ..? OR ... ? MAYBE ...JIMI WAS TROUBLED......THE FIRST MOMENT, HE DECIDED TO BECOME ALIVE ...ONLY, TWISTED MOTHERS , .... USE , THEIR " FREEDOM , ........TO ABABON, BABIES LIKE HIM ..."FREEDOM" ... A SONG WRITTEN BY JIMI HENDRIX...........ILSE OF WIGHT ..LOOK IT UPP NIGERIANS...YOO LIKE WHAT I SAY ?
I grew up in NYC and we definitely spoke of him. But not my black friends. Only the white ones. My parents had all his stuff so I definitely knew his genius. But once I started playing guitar, my appreciation increased exponentially. My family were musicians, so I knew Eddie Hazel and Ernie Isley were influential.
Thats how l see it ,when l was buying jimi hendrix records around 1970 any black friends or black people l knew were only buying reggae or tamla motown ,james brown ,, can't remember any of them buyjng or even talkjng about jimi hendrix ?
Good Job Corey, I'm so proud to be part of this well put together ❤ 👏 🙌 documentary about my very dear friend 😊 James Marshall Jimi Hendrix.. So 👏 🥲 proud of you and this documentary, and once again, being a part of it. Thank You!!
Grew up in Memphis and knew of Larry Lee who played with Jimi at Woodstock. Finally met hin in Chi doing playing behind Al Green. Larry was famous in Memphis because he was a super player who played with Hendrix Him.and Billy Cox are Tenn great pickers from Tenn along with the new Jimi....Eric Gales. Tenn breds these Gitar Players !
Hey my man thanks for this video I'm a huge Jimi Hendrix fan I never knew he had a younger brother but I've been into Jimi Hendrix all my life. I'm black but I grew up in a multi-racialy Family. I had 3 White Godsister who listen to rock n roll amd one was a Hippie that went to Woodstock and loved Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix so i was exposed to him at an early age! My father was mixed so he also listen to all kind of music including the pop am stations back in the day and all along the watchtower was one of my favorite Jimi Hendrix songs .My aunt who by the way is from New York took me to see the Beatles when they were at Shea Stadium so yeah and i like them too and of course i like Soul music being black. But i am well rounded when it comes to music especially being a musician. Now im going to explain to you about Jimi and black people. Jimmy was black but he was a rock and roll guitarist through and through. I have black friends and I have white friends growing up. When I was with my black friends all they want to listen to was soul and r&b. I can remember being in a car with them and changing the radio dial and will hear like Jimi Hendrix playing and would stop to listen and one of my black friends would say man turn that shit off lol. The point that I am trying to make is that back in the day black people thought that Jimi Hendrix loud guitar playing was noise. He played with The Isley Brothers and Little Richard and he was too much for little Richard and he had to kick Jimmi out the band. So yeah Jimmy had to go to where he was accepted which was England and get with a couple of white guys because they were digging and playing his kind of music which was Rock and Roll he basically followed in the steps of chuck berry the father of rock and roll and Jimmy use to play Johnny B Goode one of Chuck Berry songs.
They lived right around the corner from me in Amityville NY! I used to watch them practice and swim in their pool! I was in like 3rd grade. I used to talk to Omar Mesa a lot, and then the following year my brother was playing the Are you Experienced album and the Band of Gypsies album! It was a rap after that! I love Jimi to this day!
At 2:26 you see a pic of Jimi, like an angel at the Harlem Street Fair Block Party after Woodstock. Never saw this pic. Though another pic from that performance is on the back cover of one of the greatest Jimi collections Voodoo Soup. Jimi went through the crap of being a black male; even after his great success he would not get out of the bus down South. But while fully embracing his blackness he was a universal citizen. And he believed and contributed to MLK and liked the way he was going for peace and equality rather than the Black Panthers. If he would've lived, I believe he would've become somewhat reclusive, but he would've had experiences w/media presentations instead of endless concert drudgery. And he definitely would've connected and made a great effort to connect with the Black community as it evolved and went through their changes.
I was so glad to come across this video as I have explained for decades how the black community saw Jimi as an outsider. Growing up in the late 60's/early 70's it always made me laugh that kids had no time for Hendrix, but loved Parliament/Funkadelic a band that would still be doing Temptation ripoffs if it hadn't been for Hendrix and Sly Stone. Sly had credibility in the black community because they had pop hits you could dance to. I remember Hendrix being referred to as "Acid Rock" which was not meant in a good way. It gets touched upon in "White Men Can't Jump, but this video explains it much better. Thanks.
Thank you so much for your work on this; Jimi is undoubtedly one of the most profound and influential musical geniuses in recent history. He doesn’t receive nearly enough credit for what a pioneer he was as a Black artist, and how steeped he was in Black music. The narrative that he was just a “live fast and die young” hippie rock guitarist needs to be corrected in popular culture, since he was so much more than that. Thanks for putting this material into the world 🙏
@@brandonterzicI got to see Janie and Billy here in Austin TX for Jimi’s 80th Bday concert. Had great seats! Saw Billy a couple of years ago here too with the Experience Hendrix tour
@@brandonterzic I believe Juma has seen this documentary. He was gracious enough to be interviewed for my book www.jimibl.com I have also spoken to him on several occasions. Great man. Everybody loves Juma!!!
Thank you loving jimmy so much wouldn't be complet with iut knowing this thanks again i was born in 71 and i love him so much long live jimmy and thanks to his little bro also
There will never be another Jimi Hendrix and I love the fact that his guitar style cannot be duplicated to this very day I really believed him when he said he's a voodoo child especially in that song where he says he took me past the outskirts of Infinity and when he brought me back he gave me Venus witch's Ring that's some deep lyrical skills
What I find interesting is that it took more than half a century for our people to finally catch up to Jimi. Back in the day, alot of black folks wanted nothing to do with him. His music was seen as too abstract and wild. My how times have changed!
This is really cool I don't have time to watch the whole thing but I will... I grew up in the early nineties as a working class white boy but my father was really in the r&b and blues so I grew up listening to Jimi... That was not typical of someone from my area and or social class though.. it's because my father was right out of the 60s I got exposed to all that good music and I'm really thankful for it now...**last night at work I was listening to a documentary about BB King and he said :"in about 1968 following the explosion of all the British blues-based groups such as the Cream and the Stones, my audience flipped from being 95% black to 95% white" now mind you he was not upset about this because this is when he started making a little bit of money too... Just thinking about that will blow your mind
Took awhile for most to wake up. Even when P-FUNK was in FULL SWING, many didn't make the obvious connection to JIMI. Many didn't even make the obvious connection with Sly Stone. Sly Stone and P-Funk were VERY popular with BLACK people. I go into more detail in my book - Jimi Hendrix Black Legacy.
Hendrix was interested in Unifying. The system is interested in Division. This is why the black community is badly informed about Hendrix, but the world in general too.
Im a white guy from NYC, I went to all black JHS and HS in Queens NY in the 80's. Ive been a fan (now historian IMHO) since 1985. In music class in HS we had a black teacher who was cool as hell. Mr Collins. He once tried to have a class about black rock musicians and started playing Foxy Lady and the class started booing and calling it white music...they didnt know Jimi was black. Mr Collins then showed a picture of Jimi and everyone shut right up. Of course I loved this since Ive known about Jimi for 3 years by then...but in reality its sad that people classify music by skin color
How is it sad that Jimi is classified as Black? 😮 He was born Black, African American... some of u wyt folks really hate that he happens to Be Black. Jimi knew who he was.
@@richardwright1639 you are missing the point. Being all the black kids in the class didnt want to listen to it because they thought it was white music with a white guy playing because they didnt care or want to know. I never said it was sad that Jimi was black. Take a minute reread my comment.
@sm1tty031 I read your post, most of those Blk kids in that class u were mentioning probably wasn't into rock music anyways. When I was a young Blk preteen, I heard 'Are You Experienced' album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and had never saw him nor heard of him before that. But once I listened to that music I started reaching for more of it... I've been a diehard researcher & follower of Hendrix since the 1970's. And btw, I am a musician since that time.
@@richardwright1639 Thanks for the response. I consider myself a Hendrix historian and realize who he is and where he came from...Im also a guitar player since 17...more than 35 years playing...anyway. Thanks again for the followup!
Dope content bruh . Jimi always been ahead . But the people during his time were simple . As a black community we’d rather promote gangsters and hoes. Than promote a black god in the flesh. Thanks for this video . Subscribed .
This is what is not understood Jimi is the goat of rock n roll instrumentation that won't tell you this they co-opted him into white society typical of how white society rips off black music but Jimi was a veteran of the chitterlin circuit and went to London the Meca of 60's rock n roll but all of his contemporaries were stans of the legends of black blues music muddy waters, howlin wolf, bb king, he was the epitome of what they were striving to recreate he was an ambassador of black music to the masses of white people world wide
Electric purgatory. The Hendrix Estate hasn't helped matters, just a dude on a tshirt to a lot of young people, belies the great music. The songs were better with the experience but the grooves, feelings and sentiments were out of this world with Band Of Gypsies. Good job
Jimi was good with the experience and big With the experience he was more out there With buddy and Billy he was funkier I rather hear buddy in machine gun than Mitch which I heard and sorry Mitch is a good drummer he can't funk with buddy on machine gun Cox was a heavier bassist than niel Redding
Too bad that we cannot hear much of what Leon was talking about. He was close to Jimi, but after Jimi went into the Army, they lost track, and Leon did some jail time, not having Jimi's good influence around any longer.
SO TRUE, I WAS A Hendrix FAN FRON MY 13 YEARS OILD AND THE BLACK PEOPLE CVAL;LED HIM WHITER PEOPLE MUSIC , ANFD ALL MY FAMILY ONLY LISTYEN TO R N B SOUL BUT NEVER LISTEN TO Hendrix , JIMI WAS WAY AHAED,
Maybe when she first started her career, but she shed that image in the 80’s and became more ROCK ORIENTED. Sharon Jones was doing the kind of dances Tina used to do when she was with Ike. I made the comparison with Sharon Jones also because she’s from Augusta like JB.
Like in England in the late 70s early 80s (a bit maybe ) racists was too much brookie a drum n bass dj Said he went for 1 factory job and the boss in the interview was talking to him like shit Brookie said ,I think he was giving him the job but that was not the point ,after that he didnt go to another job interview in london again but made it as a successful dj .
They may seem similar on the surface but there’s definitely huge differences. Jimi was the trailblazer while Prince built his foundation on the shoulders that Jimi built.
Electric::: les paul created it and other electronics - multi recording ect.. le paul played electric like crazy also up and down the neck les paul hes number 2 electric guitar and music.. leo fender had a whole staff working on the electric but les paul was on his own in a tiny room inventing::
Honestly, your spot on. Thing is though Jimi himself recognized something other worldly was empowering him. Fayne Pridgeon attested to it. He became just another tool used to affect idol worship other than the 1 true God. In a nutshell.
Jimi was IT. The baddest, sexiest most genius brutha that ever walked the earth.
As a guitarist myself I can't say enough about Jimi Hendrix but I must say the way he used to dress probably influenced the pimps here in the states!
The most creative source of information and musical sound comes from the Black Mind.
Great commentary! Thank you for your work❤
Personal as a white English Kid living the UK around 1973 I never understood why Americans of Africans decent never revived the genius of Jimi Hendrix I understand better now! Nice work Corey!
You gotta check out the Isley Brothers featuring one of their younger brothers on guitar Ernie Isley!
Now in my mid-60s, I began my Jimi Hendrix journey at the age of 12, months after his passing. Not a day goes by that I fail not to listen to at least one song by him.
What people fail to realize that at the time of Jimi leaving us, he wanted to make music like a powerful exlir to heal the world. That was his direction.
Most of us in the African-American community didn't understand Jimi back then. He was, and still is so far ahead of us. Listen to his music and message. They're need now, more than ever.
Big props and respect for the making and production of this video! I was also one of these American kids of African ancestry who was misled into believing that Jimi Hendrix was a psychedelic sell-out negro!
I believe that part of this has to do with the European establishment that desperately attempted to take credit for Jimi Hendrix's genius, as they have done with the building of the pyramids and the Pharaohs.
Another part of this has to do with Black people being ignorant and dismissive of the genius and great contributions of Jimi Hendrix's legacy. Black people today have also shamelessly neglected the blues and rock 'n roll as well!
I'm a student, historian, and disciple of Jimi's work. I have a portrait of him tattooed on my right arm!
There will NEVER be another artist like Jimi Hendrix! This was a musical genius that forever changed musical art, style, sound, and theory. Jimi was a musician who had a huge influence on Black music.
He influenced music legends such as BUDDY MILES, FUNKADELIC, MILES DAVIS, ISLEY BROTHERS, DEATH, BOOTSY, PRINCE, BAD BRAINS, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, FISHBONE, LIVING COLOUR, RUN DMC, 24-7 SPYZ, DIGITAL UNDERGROUND, THE TIME, PUBLIC ENEMY, Eric Clapton, Eric Gales, and Christone "KINGFISH" Ingram, along with a long list of rockers, bluesman and jazz cats.
Jimi Hendrix was a purveyor of blues, rock and roll, soul, R&B, jazz, and funky music! He was a performer from the chitlin circuit. People must never forget that!
LONG LIVE THE GENIUS OF THE GREATEST GUITAR PLAYER WHO HAS EVER LIVED! JAMES MARSHALL HENDRIX!
Jimis the whole package ❤
Thank You Corey for this Important Documentary. THIS is the History & Details We as Black Fans don't hear often & Need to know about.👍🏾 Blessings!🙏🏾
Awesome, Awesome Documentary Corey Mr. Jimi Hendrix. Amazing research my brother. Can't wait for Part 2.
I think the black community just wasn't into the hard rock style of music Jimmy was not only drawn to, chose and became iconic in that realm. Look at the crowds, they were white. Black people wasn't paying money to his concerts. He made is mark amongst those who supported him. The other cultures. He was/is the greatest of the great guitarist and musician. Music isn't a cultural thing as much as it is a vibrational and spiritual thing. One was either in alignment with his musical expression or they weren't. 'The Jimmy Hendrix Experience' wasn't a secret. His music was available world wide. I loved his guitar skills and music growing up. I had his poster on my wall as a young girl fascinated by bands and live music while growing up in New York in the 80s. My family and young friends were very familiar with him.
@@11REIGN11 Jimi knew his core audience was White, but he wasn’t satisfied with that. He made several attempts to widen his base, especially with the Band of Gypsys. He was making inroads, but his life was cut short. My extensive research has shown the complex nuances of JIMI’s music as it relates to the Black community and Black culture. I wish I had known about Jimi like you did in the 80’s. I lived in Marlboro projects near Bensonhurst/GRAVESEND BROOKLYN. NOBODY in my neighborhood or family spoke about Jimi. It was all about MJ, Prince, hip-hop, and other 80’s pop music of the day. I write about it in detail in my book, Jimi Hendrix Black Legacy- www.jimibl.com
What you are describing Mr. Washington is cultural imperialism. Sometimes it's benign and sometimes it's malignant. As Mike Bloomfield observed in David Henderson's VC of the Aquarian Age, Hendrix was the embodiment of all known forms of black music, including slave field hollers. From slave ship to space ship, Jimi was the original black futurist. John Coltrane is the Father of Roots Music, Billie Holiday is the Holy Mother Mary, Jimi is The Son of Music, and Bob Marley is the Holy Spirit, spreading the message to all corners of the world. You are doing the necessary work to Bring Jimi Black, as Juma Sultan termed it in an interview with me in 1995. Thank you.
Thanks for this documentary! I wish Jimi and Miles Davis could have recorded an album together.
@SOUL STRETCH Miles knocked on Jimis hotel door and his white friend would answer the door to miles and miles would just stand very ignorant and deep snarl toward s him ,what's up with him !? And Jimi would laugh and say "miles doesn't like white people"😁.Makes sense when u look at miles face during his show at the 1970 isle of white concert .
@@waynesilverman3048 LOL... Yep, that sounds like Miles. He tells many more stories like this in his autobiography.
IT DIDNT HAPPEN...JIMI COULD NOT NOT RELATE TO MILES DAVIS.....MILES IS THE MAN, ...A PIMP.......JIMI WAS RAISED BY NOT HIS MOM .... " DEE ,,,KULTURE,... " , ABONDONS , EASILY,.. ....CHEAP OFSPRING... TO GO GET HIGH.....SI, ...OR NO ..? OR ... ? MAYBE ...JIMI WAS TROUBLED......THE FIRST MOMENT, HE DECIDED TO BECOME ALIVE ...ONLY, TWISTED MOTHERS , .... USE , THEIR " FREEDOM , ........TO ABABON, BABIES LIKE HIM ..."FREEDOM" ... A SONG WRITTEN BY JIMI HENDRIX...........ILSE OF WIGHT ..LOOK IT UPP NIGERIANS...YOO LIKE WHAT I SAY ?
@@waynesilverman3048 That's not exactly true as Robben Ford played guitar with Miles Davis
Rest in powerful peace
Jimi Hendrix 🙏
27 November 1942 ~
18 September 1970⚘
I grew up in NYC and we definitely spoke of him. But not my black friends. Only the white ones. My parents had all his stuff so I definitely knew his genius. But once I started playing guitar, my appreciation increased exponentially. My family were musicians, so I knew Eddie Hazel and Ernie Isley were influential.
Thats how l see it ,when l was buying jimi hendrix records around 1970 any black friends or black people l knew were only buying reggae or tamla motown ,james brown ,, can't remember any of them buyjng or even talkjng about jimi hendrix ?
Great work!! Truth be told to hold in the future.
I didn't know that his mother's side was from Mississippi.
Thought it was Arkansas
Good Job Corey, I'm so proud to be part of this well put together ❤ 👏 🙌 documentary about my very dear friend 😊 James Marshall Jimi Hendrix.. So 👏 🥲 proud of you and this documentary, and once again, being a part of it. Thank You!!
Grew up in Memphis and knew of Larry Lee who played with Jimi at Woodstock. Finally met hin in Chi doing playing behind Al Green. Larry was famous in Memphis because he was a super player who played with Hendrix
Him.and Billy Cox are Tenn great pickers from Tenn along with the new Jimi....Eric Gales. Tenn breds these Gitar Players !
Jimi's music played
a major role in funk,blues
etc.
I was a teen in the 70’s so P-Funk lead me to Jimi. And of course some serious weed. Jimi is at the top if not for him no Rock no Rap no Funk! Peace
Thanks Cory; warm & beautiful. Also; seeing Leon and Tina brought a smile to both of my hearts💖💖
TaharQa
Hey my man thanks for this video I'm a huge Jimi Hendrix fan I never knew he had a younger brother but I've been into Jimi Hendrix all my life. I'm black but I grew up in a multi-racialy Family. I had 3 White Godsister who listen to rock n roll amd one was a Hippie that went to Woodstock and loved Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix so i was exposed to him at an early age! My father was mixed so he also listen to all kind of music including the pop am stations back in the day and all along the watchtower was one of my favorite Jimi Hendrix songs .My aunt who by the way is from New York took me to see the Beatles when they were at Shea Stadium so yeah and i like them too and of course i like Soul music being black. But i am well rounded when it comes to music especially being a musician. Now im going to explain to you about Jimi and black people. Jimmy was black but he was a rock and roll guitarist through and through. I have black friends and I have white friends growing up. When I was with my black friends all they want to listen to was soul and r&b. I can remember being in a car with them and changing the radio dial and will hear like Jimi Hendrix playing and would stop to listen and one of my black friends would say man turn that shit off lol. The point that I am trying to make is that back in the day black people thought that Jimi Hendrix loud guitar playing was noise. He played with The Isley Brothers and Little Richard and he was too much for little Richard and he had to kick Jimmi out the band. So yeah Jimmy had to go to where he was accepted which was England and get with a couple of white guys because they were digging and playing his kind of music which was Rock and Roll he basically followed in the steps of chuck berry the father of rock and roll and Jimmy use to play Johnny B Goode one of Chuck Berry songs.
Janie attempts to present Jimi as a non-black man. She attempts to present herself as a black woman. This must stop!!
Oh she transracial lol
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She's unreal lol.
She continues to do so.
She needs to realize that
it's not about her at all.
I am glad you mentioned
The group Mandrill!
They lived right around the corner from me in Amityville NY! I used to watch them practice and swim in their pool! I was in like 3rd grade. I used to talk to Omar Mesa a lot, and then the following year my brother was playing the Are you Experienced album and the Band of Gypsies album! It was a rap after that! I love Jimi to this day!
I like what I see, so far. Looking forward to watching part 2.
THIS IS AWESOME, KEEP-UP THE GOOD WORK MR.WASHINGTON, I BEEN INTO JIMI HENDRIX FOR OVER 50 YEARS - RIPOWER.
Very nice documentary, thank you!
At 2:26 you see a pic of Jimi, like an angel at the Harlem Street Fair Block Party after Woodstock. Never saw this pic. Though another pic from that performance is on the back cover of one of the greatest Jimi collections Voodoo Soup. Jimi went through the crap of being a black male; even after his great success he would not get out of the bus down South. But while fully embracing his blackness he was a universal citizen. And he believed and contributed to MLK and liked the way he was going for peace and equality rather than the Black Panthers. If he would've lived, I believe he would've become somewhat reclusive, but he would've had experiences w/media presentations instead of endless concert drudgery. And he definitely would've connected and made a great effort to connect with the Black community as it evolved and went through their changes.
Jimi also supported the Black Panthers.
I was so glad to come across this video as I have explained for decades how the black community saw Jimi as an outsider. Growing up in the late 60's/early 70's it always made me laugh that kids had no time for Hendrix, but loved Parliament/Funkadelic a band that would still be doing Temptation ripoffs if it hadn't been for Hendrix and Sly Stone. Sly had credibility in the black community because they had pop hits you could dance to. I remember Hendrix being referred to as "Acid Rock" which was not meant in a good way. It gets touched upon in "White Men Can't Jump, but this video explains it much better. Thanks.
Phenomenal🔥
Thank you so much for your work on this; Jimi is undoubtedly one of the most profound and influential musical geniuses in recent history. He doesn’t receive nearly enough credit for what a pioneer he was as a Black artist, and how steeped he was in Black music. The narrative that he was just a “live fast and die young” hippie rock guitarist needs to be corrected in popular culture, since he was so much more than that. Thanks for putting this material into the world 🙏
Great job! Thanks Cory.
Jimi hendrix was a master he said the guitar play him. What a goat ✌ Nala.
When I was a young boy
coming up, It was Chuck,
Bo, Fats and Little Richard.
Very comprehensive
Juma...is that really YOU?
@@brandonterzic My thoughts completely...imagine that
@@sm1tty031 not many in Jimi’s circle left. I was lucky to befriend Paul Carusp years ago… it was bery informative
@@brandonterzicI got to see Janie and Billy here in Austin TX for Jimi’s 80th Bday concert. Had great seats! Saw Billy a couple of years ago here too with the Experience Hendrix tour
@@brandonterzic I believe Juma has seen this documentary. He was gracious enough to be interviewed for my book www.jimibl.com
I have also spoken to him on several occasions. Great man. Everybody loves Juma!!!
Thanks Corey.... Monumental
Thank you loving jimmy so much wouldn't be complet with iut knowing this thanks again i was born in 71 and i love him so much long live jimmy and thanks to his little bro also
There will never be another Jimi Hendrix and I love the fact that his guitar style cannot be duplicated to this very day I really believed him when he said he's a voodoo child especially in that song where he says he took me past the outskirts of Infinity and when he brought me back he gave me Venus witch's Ring that's some deep lyrical skills
What I find interesting is that it took more than half a century for our people to finally catch up to Jimi.
Back in the day, alot of black folks wanted nothing to do with him. His music was seen as too abstract and wild. My how times have changed!
As I said before Black radio stations didn't want
to acknowledge Jimi's
music.
Nice work Sir !!! Jimi wasn't promoted to the Black Community , Dolly Dagger ,Izabella , and Other Tunes Could have been Hits on the R n B Charts .
There's something bizarre about Jimi's immediate family. The ones that are always at the forefront, I mean.
Rest in powerful peace 🙏
James Joseph Brown
Godfather of Soul
3 May 1933 ~
25 December 2006⚘
Thanks for showing those
pics of Jimi.
The pictures of Jimi Hendrix
they don't want you to see.
Thank you sir for your
perspective on James Marshall Hendrix.
Spectacular video
This is really cool I don't have time to watch the whole thing but I will... I grew up in the early nineties as a working class white boy but my father was really in the r&b and blues so I grew up listening to Jimi... That was not typical of someone from my area and or social class though.. it's because my father was right out of the 60s I got exposed to all that good music and I'm really thankful for it now...**last night at work I was listening to a documentary about BB King and he said :"in about 1968 following the explosion of all the British blues-based groups such as the Cream and the Stones, my audience flipped from being 95% black to 95% white" now mind you he was not upset about this because this is when he started making a little bit of money too... Just thinking about that will blow your mind
Back in the Eighties I
getting into some of the music of Jimi Hendrix.
Well done Corey!!!!!!!!
In the 60's, many black people considered Jimi's music to be part of the psychedelic scene, not exactly black music.
Took awhile for most to wake up. Even when P-FUNK was in FULL SWING, many didn't make the obvious connection to JIMI. Many didn't even make the obvious connection with Sly Stone. Sly Stone and P-Funk were VERY popular with BLACK people. I go into more detail in my book - Jimi Hendrix Black Legacy.
Iike watching the video of
Leon Hendrix.
Hendrix was interested in Unifying. The system is interested in Division. This is why the black community is badly informed about Hendrix, but the world in general too.
Telling it like it is .
Thanks :-) Nice background infos to my biggest idol and influence.
A yo Cory are they using your voice for the Al narrator one hears online?
@@kennyblackbird5674 not that I know of. LoL 😂😆
Jimi Hendrix is number one for eternity
Im a white guy from NYC, I went to all black JHS and HS in Queens NY in the 80's. Ive been a fan (now historian IMHO) since 1985. In music class in HS we had a black teacher who was cool as hell. Mr Collins. He once tried to have a class about black rock musicians and started playing Foxy Lady and the class started booing and calling it white music...they didnt know Jimi was black. Mr Collins then showed a picture of Jimi and everyone shut right up. Of course I loved this since Ive known about Jimi for 3 years by then...but in reality its sad that people classify music by skin color
How is it sad that Jimi is classified as Black? 😮 He was born Black, African American... some of u wyt folks really hate that he happens to Be Black. Jimi knew who he was.
@@richardwright1639 you are missing the point. Being all the black kids in the class didnt want to listen to it because they thought it was white music with a white guy playing because they didnt care or want to know. I never said it was sad that Jimi was black. Take a minute reread my comment.
@sm1tty031 I read your post, most of those Blk kids in that class u were mentioning probably wasn't into rock music anyways. When I was a young Blk preteen, I heard 'Are You Experienced' album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and had never saw him nor heard of him before that. But once I listened to that music I started reaching for more of it... I've been a diehard researcher & follower of Hendrix since the 1970's. And btw, I am a musician since that time.
@@richardwright1639 Thanks for the response. I consider myself a Hendrix historian and realize who he is and where he came from...Im also a guitar player since 17...more than 35 years playing...anyway. Thanks again for the followup!
Dope content bruh . Jimi always been ahead . But the people during his time were simple . As a black community we’d rather promote gangsters and hoes. Than promote a black god in the flesh. Thanks for this video . Subscribed .
People always want to talk about BLACK EXCELLENCE, well JIMI is BLACK EXCELLENCE PERSONIFIED!!!
Good job, Corey!
Thanks! I'll send your father the link.
This is what is not understood Jimi is the goat of rock n roll instrumentation that won't tell you this they co-opted him into white society typical of how white society rips off black music but Jimi was a veteran of the chitterlin circuit and went to London the Meca of 60's rock n roll but all of his contemporaries were stans of the legends of black blues music muddy waters, howlin wolf, bb king, he was the epitome of what they were striving to recreate he was an ambassador of black music to the masses of white people world wide
True
JIMI WAS A WAY MAKER. SOUL FAMILY IS HE ! ❤️🔥🤌🙌👁️💚😍
FLY ON MY SWEET ANGEL SO BEAUTIFUL SUCH BEAUTY OH MY SOUL OH MY SWEET SOL
Getting down to the nitty gritty.
Like I said I feel your pain
Corey.
She shouldn't be saying anything negative about
Jimi.
Lyrics to the song "Little Wing".
This brother is so right
I think he is Quetzalcoatl!!!!
Electric purgatory. The Hendrix Estate hasn't helped matters, just a dude on a tshirt to a lot of young people, belies the great music. The songs were better with the experience but the grooves, feelings and sentiments were out of this world with Band Of Gypsies. Good job
Jimi was good with the experience and big
With the experience he was more out there
With buddy and Billy he was funkier I rather hear buddy in machine gun than Mitch which I heard and sorry Mitch is a good drummer he can't funk with buddy on machine gun
Cox was a heavier bassist than niel Redding
@@chrisedwards3214 redding was a frustrated guitar player
Too bad that we cannot hear much of what Leon was talking about. He was close to Jimi, but after Jimi went into the Army, they lost track, and Leon did some jail time, not having Jimi's good influence around any longer.
SO TRUE, I WAS A Hendrix FAN FRON MY 13 YEARS OILD AND THE BLACK PEOPLE CVAL;LED HIM WHITER PEOPLE MUSIC , ANFD ALL MY FAMILY ONLY LISTYEN TO R N B SOUL BUT NEVER LISTEN TO Hendrix , JIMI WAS WAY AHAED,
When I was a young boy,
I wasn't into Jimi's music.
It's about the life of
James Marshall Hendrix
not her.
So disrespectful to Jimi.
Rip Sharon Jones
I always considered Tina Turner, the fem James Brown counterpart.... from NutBush, TN... a real place no less!
Maybe when she first started her career, but she shed that image in the 80’s and became more ROCK ORIENTED. Sharon Jones was doing the kind of dances Tina used to do when she was with Ike. I made the comparison with Sharon Jones also because she’s from Augusta like JB.
Like in England in the late 70s early 80s (a bit maybe ) racists was too much brookie a drum n bass dj Said he went for 1 factory job and the boss in the interview was talking to him like shit Brookie said ,I think he was giving him the job but that was not the point ,after that he didnt go to another job interview in london again but made it as a successful dj .
Tell the truth.
Black media treated Hendrix as if he wasn't there.
Still his music is never
Appreciated.
Prince was no different than Jimi Hendrix.
They may seem similar on the surface but there’s definitely huge differences. Jimi was the trailblazer while Prince built his foundation on the shoulders that Jimi built.
Electric::: les paul created it and other electronics - multi recording ect.. le paul played electric like crazy also up and down the neck les paul hes number 2 electric guitar and music.. leo fender had a whole staff working on the electric but les paul was on his own in a tiny room inventing::
And your point is?
@@salimokwaye3831 Hi there
@@salimokwaye3831 i play partial chords with my elbow
This us about Jimi Hendrix not Les Paul.
@@morriypoulsen1238Johnny Allen Paul'' Get it ...lolz
Back in the day it was nothing but Michael Jackson , Prince, Madonna.and many other
artists of the era.
Honestly, your spot on. Thing is though Jimi himself recognized something other worldly was empowering him. Fayne Pridgeon attested to it. He became just another tool used to affect idol worship other than the 1 true God. In a nutshell.
The best ever we will never see anyone like this again
Jimi Hendrix was drowned in wine
Mike Jeffrey set it up
Lyrics to the song "Angel".