British guitarist analyses Jimi Hendrix taking on Chuck Berry live in 1970!
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- Опубликовано: 9 янв 2021
- Tonight we're taking a look at Jimi Hendrix with his own take on 'Johnny Be Goode'!
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TIME STAMPS -
0:50 Performance
2:40 Analysis Start
7:23 Guitar
9:51 Playing with Aggression
11:48 Thumb Position
13:15 Lead to Rhythm Changes
15:04 Performance Part 2
17:13 Analysis Resumption
18:11 Transition into Open Wah
20:37 Ending Lead
show off !! 😊 👏❤️🌟
Machine Gun off BOG Album you should please do sir.
Thanks for this.
16.45 Knocks the wah wah back on with his hand - cos he can - cos hes a fuckin genius
The last time stamp is worth the whole video.
I was in the front row, directly in front of Jimi at Hunter College in March 1968, and I am still recovering at the age of 70! He was my hero then and now!
One of the few times this 65-year-old wishes he was a little older. I was too young, and in the wrong hemisphere, to hear the man live.
It truly was the experience of a lifetime! I saw Jimi play live 3 times, and I met him one night at a club in Greenwich Village. I was only 16 and he was my hero!
Wow I wish I could have been there
@@jimjim7819 Speaking of recovering, tomorrow is my anniversary. I have been Clean and Sober for 18 years, and I haven't had a cigarette in over 30! It has taken that long to recover from the 1960s. It was an amazing decade, but it left a lot of devastation in it's wake.
@@katsujinkin60 wow I envy you! Amazing!
“Something that hasn’t happened before.” Encapsulates Jimi’s guitar playing in one phrase.
Jimi's greatest Live performance ever recorded. I like how when Chuck Berry was asked about it, he said that Jimi "played the hell out of it."
He COULD play a guitar just like ringing a bell!
But did he carry it in a gunny sack?
@@chipurBillWhite Hah! Any gig bag in a storm, I guess!
@@lynndow3185 Right you are 😉
@@lynndow3185 are You referring to Jimi or Fil? (Hee, hee)
@@drewpall2598 Haaa!!! ALL of 'em! Jimi, Fil, Chuck and Johnny B.!
To add another level of awesome, Jimi looks at the neck just once during the entire song.
A friend of mine played this to me in the summer of 1972 when I was 11 years old. It absolutely blew my mind. I was listening to the Monkees, The Partridge Family, Jesus Christ Superstar...and then this. Good Lord! I was off to the races and never looked back...
I was 11 in 72 also and listening to the Monkeys, and the Patridge Family but unfortunately never listened to Jimi until the late 80's.
Jimi's bend at 2:35 gives me a lump in my throat, a chill down my spine and a tear in my eye. It is the sound of my entire youth. I can't explain it better.
Fil, thank you for highlighting that moment and his mastery of feedback! Jimi doing what he did with the equipment available at that time is like Aristotle harnessing nuclear fusion with an oil lamp.
Phil is as good at explaining it as Jimmy was doing it
I think that could be the greatest guitar note in history. If it fell into my hands I wouldn't know what to do with it, but for Jimi, it was just another step on the path.
An excellent analogy. Truly one of the greatest, most creative single notes in all of rock guitar. The first time I heard it, I had to sit down and take a deep breath.
@@52split100% agree, and I have always been grateful that we have a video of it, so we can see how perfectly that note came out into the world, with the arm flying over his head and his mouth open, like the note was created with his whole being and not just the pluck of a guitar string.
The absolute master, nobody could do what he did!.
"The perfect blend of chaos and organization" - you nailed it!
Total, complete and utter mastery !! All that man wanted to do was play that guitar, it was his all.
52+ years later, we're still mesmerized by what this man was doing with & to a guitar.🤯
L E G E N D .
Saw Chuck Berry from like 15 ft away ...his tone was magical...we forget how many musicians he inspired ....rest well Chuck and Jimi 🌹
Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones), Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix.
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I see Chuck Berry doing with a guitar what Louis Jordan did with a saxophone and Moon Mullican did with a piano. But of course, Guitar Slim and Sister Rosetta Tharp were in there, too.
This one man shocked the world, and changed the direction of Rock and Roll. Jimi was simply amazing.
This was taken from the first show May 30, 1970. I was fifteen years old and sitting in the 10th row with a high school friend. What a way to be introduced to live music, as this was my first "big boy" concert. (Hey...What's that smell" ?) While waiting for my parents to pick us up, we listened to part of the second show from the recording truck behind the theater. There was also a minor riot by people trying to get into that sold out second show. Such a great analysis, Fil (as usual !) Such a great memory. Thanks!
Great story! Thanks a lot for sharing it.
My Dad (still with us) was one of the fans able to get on stage with Jimi at Woodstock.. Spoke to him & shook his hand too. Memories for him..✌🎸🎵❤🔥
Wow great stories!!!
James Williams thumbs up
My dad brought me to see Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Fats Domino 6 years before this.
When I was in college, one of my friends brought in the album with Purple Haze on it. Everything changed after that.
@Led Zeppelin dawg you probably live a sad, unfulfilling, life
His opening playing of the song was just incredible
One of the greatest songs ever written, and the best guitar intro EVER, played by possibly the greatest guitarist....❤️❤️
The man who broke the mold of what guitar playing could be ... the greatest innovator of sound ... he opened the door for every other guitarist who followed.
He changed the paradigm.
Well said!
Correct.
A true trail blazer.
Hendrix's control of feedback was almost spooky at times: the way he could create that sound that almost sounds like ufos flying past or making his amp sound like it was possessed.
In one of his books he describes seeing a UFO while traveling to another gig
He just got lucky every time👍🫥😶🌫️🐦🕊️
His cover is a perfect definition of a rock-and-roll classic played by a ROCK musician. Hardly anything was already left from the 50s, it was all late 60s+ in all their richness that still amazes people of today
You made me smile, when you smiled! The very end solo. I knew we all seen the impossible!
That Berkeley show must have been something. Jimi was smoking here!
It was...
@@jimz68 You must have seen so many great ones back then, huh?
@@obbor4 Yes, I was very lucky to live where there were so many venues for music. Berkeley, Winterland, Fillmore West, etc. Some weekends we were going to one show on Friday and another on Saturday. And I am now, at 65 paying for it with hearing problems.
I love that everyone talks about that note around 2:33 - that bend where he throws is left arm over his head in unison with the bending of the note.
I first saw this video as a teenager and this one note touched me in a profound way, and it has stayed with me since then. And I love seeing here that so many people feel the same way.
Another great example of Jimi's mastery of feedback is the Rainbow Bridge version of Hear My Train A Comin. He on que he summons feedback to imitate a train whistle. It is amazing. The control he exhibits over his ax is insane. He was quite simply "Th GOAT." I challenge you to find anyone who could do that let alone with such ease.
This is the best rendition of this song by anyone ever. Different gravy
Wow...have you ever heard Chuck Berry?
no , its ok but Chuck was the best
Jimi shoved Johnny B Goode in a 1960s muscle car and floored it.
Exactly that's way he was the Goat!!
He does that to every song he covers.
Great analogy.
He sure could crank it out. He was in the zone alright, still gives me goose bumps to listen to his solos.
Mitch shaking his fist at the end, in appreciation 😬
I didn't see that before....He is reaching for the cymbals...but yeah...he is early there and seems to address to Jimi.....nice one....this very concert was one a the more magical moments between Mitch and Jimi...they went all over the place but sort of telepathy kept them together....very special if other people can feel that,understand it...it is very rare I find people "getting it"....tnx Bazda
WOW! I never noticed that before... Thanks!
@@andrehof7876 How do you feel about Mitch playing drum parts during the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock? I think Billy Cox tapped out after about 6 seconds in
@@the90schildmashups92 ooh, can't remember much drumming there, I think Mitch stopped a bit later than Billy though..
I know Mitch claimed that Woodstock was icy cold, they came on in early morning hours of Monday or so, after endless delays..
Mitch said he played to keep his hands warm most of that gig, being very busy...
@@andrehof7876 Mitch would stop, then came back in during the war sounds part Hendrix was playing, then stopped. Billy decided to not play bass for almost all of it if I heard him right. Interesting details though you shared
Amazing example of Hendrix' ability. My first Hendrix album was In The West, which had this and many other incredible live performances. Lover Man is my favorite. I played in a band and of course we played this version of Johnny B Goode.
Everyone did this song. (They still do it!) It was like a rite of passage. Jimi, Johnny Winter, SRV, et al... They all recognised Chuck as the man to master... Jimi's version is pure adrenaline... His comping of the bompa-bompa chords and the classic double stop riff (that Chuck borrowed from T-Bone Walker, and jump blues after all!) is rock solid, befitting of a back-line player, well schooled in all those chitlin circuit bands where you could be fined if you missed a beat or lagged a note, over which he paints astral dreams of sheer sonic bliss...
Don’t you wonder had jimi lived
My first concert, age 14... After 2 opening acts, The Experience came out at midnight and finished just before dawn! No other live performance came close... RIP Jimi.
Fil...your skill is amazing and Jimi's influence has everything to do with that!!...✌♥️🤘😊
Thanks Lori!
Dancing on the edge of feedback.....great description.....
What an awesome version of Johny Be Good. “Perfect blend of chaos”. Sums it up, Fil...thank you for this.
Great performance!! I know we’re all captivated by his showmanship and soloing, but man, Jimi was such a great rhythm player!!! ✌🏻🎸🎶
Nothing Jimi does "correlates" to anything anyone ever does on the fretboard. His hands are so unique, as big as Chuck's, which were something else...
This guy has taught me a lot about music.
That distorted note on the solo is the greatest note ever played. Haunting and otherworldly.
It's not fair that I can only give "1" thumbs up!!
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Special note to guitarists: Regarding that bend at 2:35: wide bends like that are particularly difficult on a Strat, because when you bend, the springs in the guitar stretch and all your strings go flat, so the tremolo is fighting you and you have to push the string even farther to get your note. In addition, the old Fenders have a fingerboard radius of 7.25 inches, so the action has to be a lot higher than on a Gibson with its flatter neck or your bends will fret out and die. As if that's not enough, Jimi's low tuning requires that you push the string farther to achieve the same change in pitch. (Luthier here, as well as guitarist, speaking.). That bend alone, under those conditions, is nothing short of phenomenal. Thanks again, Fil, and nice work on your white Strat!
Your analogy of Jimi's control of feedback is spot on!
It's so exciting ..what a trip. He'd always take you to places you never knew existed!!!
Hard to believe this was 50 years ago! Loved your analysis and your playing too!
Best version of Johnny B Goode ever! High-Octane energy! This specific performance is one of his greatest in playing and top notch showmanship. I wonder if Chuck Berry crapped his pants when he heard Jimi's version. 😂😂
Saw Jimi in 1968 in Nottingham on his first uK tour topping the bill with other artists including Pink Floyd, The Nice, Amen Corner and the Move. Was only 17 and didn’t appreciate/understand what I was seeing!
Now I know I was seeing the GOAT!!
Never saw Jimi but I saw Chuck berry once when I was twelve! He played a set on a flatbed truck between the first baseball game at the Metrodome in Minneapolis in 1982 ( exhibition Twins vs Phillies ) and a game played by the long gone Minnesota Kicks soccer team. He played for twenty five minutes with a pick up band of local standout musicians and just killed it...I was a really happy twelve year old. He drove up to the stage in a limo and left with that proverbial suitcase full of cash!
I don't care what anyone says ,if he isn't the best, there isn't a long line ahead of him
Agreed 💯% . Jimi had been playing the guitar for only 12 years by the time of his death so to me he is the greatest guitar player ever he's like the Michael Jordan of the guitar.
The ending still gives me goosebumps!!
Sick. Typically another "sick", phenomenal performance from The Phenom. Jimi was a genuine human comet, blazing across our skies brightly and briefly and disappearing, and these videos and records are the bits of his cosmic dust trail; through which we can still see him and hear him. Thanks for these insights. There can never be too many.
I saw him at The Singer Bowl , NYC , Avery Fisher Hall , NYC and The Fillmore East , New Year's Eve show . And I still miss him .
I saw him live that year. My eyes and ears were opened that night and my view of music has never been the same.
Thats insane playing.No wonder Clapton had second thoughts.No one has revolutionised the electric guitar as Hendrix did.The most influential guitarist of our time.
Take a close look: at 16:44 he was just pushing the WAH pedal with her left hand, while he's making that pull-off licks with his right hand. hahah what a showman he was.
Jimi just covered this song, "Johnny Be Goode" in concert TWO TIMES in his life, just two fkin times. And he is really IMPROVIZING, as always. He mades things easy hahah
On this video, and on his last concerts (take some 70 stuff shows like Baltimore 70, or European tour 70,...) he was a fkin BEAST, really: focuzed, groundbreaking and tasty licks, he literally rewrites the same song musically between one concert to another (for example Hear my Train a Comin', or Red House), understanding that he's always singuin' while playin'!!! I don't ever imagine what he have reached if he'd spend 10 or more years with us. What a loss.
Jimmy's insane lead always touches the primal in me
His god touches yours. We only exist in the mind of god. Music like this reminds us !!
Why would anyone dislike this video? It's an excellent breakdown of this underestimated masterpiece of live guitar
'cos I am jealous
What a pleasure your videos are. I've seen and heard Jimi's version of Johnny B Goode so many times but -- after this -- I appreciate it even more. I've been playing guitar for 50 years now, and I'm still learning from Jimi, and you!
16:43 - Notice how Jimi reaches over and turns-on the wah-wah by smacking it with his left hand.
From that point onward, the wah-wah is on.
02:35 - The way he ‘pulls’ that feedback/note out of the guitar.
My head practically exploded when I saw that when I was a kid……so many years ago.
Great observation!
It’s beautiful to see a true genius pay tribute to their inspiration.
Sorry to flood the chat but this is an amazing channeling of Jimi's spirit! I'm blown away by your technical demo but also your appreciation for his balls to the wall approach to performing! It's like nothing was planned. Jimi was forced to play the hits but by 1969 he was improvising everything from the songs to the setlists and of course the instrumentals! Finally, let's hear it for Billy Cox on bass guitar!
This makes me smile it's so good.
One of the early shows Jimi did when he returned from the UK was a stadium on the west coast where he and the Experience were the warm up band for the Monkeys. Can you imagine the shock given to all those teenage girls who came to see the Monkeys?
Thank you Mr. Hendrix for pioneering the greatest era of electric guitar EVER! He was so exciting to watch live, sorry I never got to see him in person. Nice analysis as always Fil!
When I first heard Jimi Hendrix, this must have been in the mid-1970s, around then, the effect was like being hit by a bus while completely disorientated and enjoying the thrill of still being alive. I can remember the B side: The Wind Cries Mary, the A side memory has gone. The sound Jimi made playing his guitar made every piece of popular music guitar playing passe`. Like, nothing else mattered - probably still doesn't. Hendrix blew away everything that came before him and even now, challenges all that has come after him. Because of the tonal variations played on the record, All Along The Watch Tower, will always rate tops on my own list of songs that provided the background to the loss of my personal innocence. Wha wha, sweeping slide, muted fast strumming everything else got stood on its head so that "pop" music would never be the same ever again. I bought Are You Experienced, Jimi's first album accompanied by two white guy side men a situation that Billy Cox, session drummer sounded a disapproval of. Jimi did more than just touched those of us who happily followed the faith and mourned him deeply when at just 27, Jimi was gone. Suddenly, no build up, no warning as dark clouds covered the Sun only a desperate sense of loss. We had been gifted someone, some special and unique, never to replaced and only for a few months. The Great ones always seem to leave us, long before their time and our time too it would seem. But, there they are still, their body of recordings, concert and television appearances - gone, and forever young.
Billy Cox is a bass player, not a drummer and never disapproved of Mitch or Noel. As a matter of fact Jimi and Mitch were very tight as friends and musicians. Third Stone From The Sun is all Jimi and Mitch. That is what makes that song. From what I can tell you just don't know what you are talking about.
You're absolutely right here, and the drive and energy of this song starts with the guitar intro..
Jimi was still 26 yrs old. Amazing 💕
Who TF thumbs down this? Ffs. Excellent job Fil, absolutely love your jimi videos. Thanks for doing him justice :) rock on brotha
jimi was an absolute beast playing this song
Still wading through your back catalogue Fil......nice playing and explaining of Jimi's techniques....what a damn genius he was ! I'm going to play some his tracks now and soak in his guitar 😎
Since there is no longer any talent in music nowadays not many can appreciate this. Hendrix will always be the greatest.
The talent is in Bluegrass.
Oh, talent is definitely out there... it just takes more effort to find it because the major labels nowadays prefer to focus more on image and trendiness which they can market easily. Visit small live music venues and you will be surprised by the huge number of highly talented and unique musicians performing there.
@@rookmaster7502 Anybody out there as good as Hendrix or EVH?
@@ericcollette5577 Well, different. With their own unique and original style, just like Hendrix and EVH were. What I've seen, some are definitely as good as EVH, if not better. You really need to go out to these venues and judge for yourself.
@@rookmaster7502 I listen to LA Loyde on the weekly top 40 and havent heard anything remotely as good as Hendrix and EVH guitar wise. Can you name some please?
Was he just the coolest guy EVER ?? Yes, yes he was.
Great analysis. Jimi was awesome. A fearless musician.
I saw Jimi at the Monterey/Newport Pop Festival in June 1969 at Devonshire Downs (Northridge, CA) I didn’t realize I lived near the center of the entertainment world
Fil, awesome...almost a spiritual journey comes across his face and he appears to be connecting to a higher power.
This woke me up Fil: double trouble, Jimi playing Chuck. What a performance. Don’t mind slightly flat with aggressive overdrive, sounds raw and cool. 😎
Shout out to Mitch and Noel. Everything that jimi threw at them, they were able to keep up with him.
It's Mitch Mitchell on drums, but it's not Noel Redding playing bass. It's Bill Cox.
@@joe22589 Oops, my bad. Either way, Jimi always found top talent to be in his band.
@@FFVison Noel couldn't keep up with this... Billy is a huge upgrade. It's a shame it didn't last.
@@jiminut Agreed. Billy Cox was much more solid and had some solid grooves.
@@jiminut I beg to disagree, it's the other way around, I don't think Billy could keep up with Noel, check out Noel's solo on if six was nine. Billy could never play that! Noel was technically advised Billy wasn't
Wow!!!!!Jimi Hendrix!!!! The king.👌👌👌👌👌exellent analisys🎸🎸👏👏👏great video👍👍👍👍 no more words!!👊🤘
Look at any video of Roy Buchanan and you'll see he has his Fender combo facing backwards from the stage, and miked-up so that he doesn't feed into microphones.
A monster player.
Oh yeah was wondering if Fil would analyze Roy Buchanan, who was considered the guitarists' guitarist.
This is my favourite Hendrix performance
Hendrix (“In The West Album”) played Johnny B. Goode live at Berkeley Community Theatre on (May 30th 1970) and the rest is legendary history. Like Jimi told Pete Townsend at Monterey,” If I have to follow you I’m pulling out all the stops” ☮️ R.I.P. James Marshall Hendrix 🎸
Just so impressed with the way he jumped from the lead to the boogie and back again at lightning speed. That REALLY takes some doing! Amazing!!
"Dancing on the edge of feedback" Fil. once again, you nailed it! I love what you do!
Thanks!
One year later and Jimi's music is back on RUclips! Can we try for a Pali gap or machine gun breakdown? I love these vids so much. Well done sir. Best tip for anyone starting from scratch learning to play?
Always a treat to see a critique on one of my favorite guitarists, Jimi Hendrix, from my favorite RUclips critic. Great job Fil on all your critiques, but this one in particular. I believe for me it was the addition of your very detailed highly skilled hands on guitar explanation that made the difference. Your respect for the original artists in all your videos is obvious and is only amplified by your courteous and humble delivery. So many others on RUclips start out ok with a critique but quickly shift the focus and dialogue toward their own skill set often limited in comparison to the subject of their critique. Hope you'll do more reviews/critiques like this in the future. Well done sir!
Spot on Fil! And your refrencing Jimi's sound was excellent!😊
Wow, yeah. Jimi is Jonny....Beautiful. Thank you!
Never has the universal libido flowed so effortlessly as it did through Jimi.
There is nothing to break down here.
There is no other electric guitarist other than him.
Everybody else is playing AT it ...and as flashy and as virtuosic as they may be----they can't touch him.
His energy is incinerating...He was like prometheus stealing fire from the Gods and gifting it to the world.
We lost him way too early. Who knows what magic he would’ve brought us in the 70s.
I’ve always loved the Woodstock rhythm instrumental jam towards the end. Really shows his great sense of rhythm. What a guy
Back in the day, maybe sometime in '67, I went over night from The Shadows to Jimi Hendrix. Quite a leap, yet one that was natural for a guitar music fan to take. The three effects Jimi used to paint the sound colors in All Along The Watch Tower. Jimi changed everything from the music we listened to and to how we lived our lives. The girls we dated though were still stuck in the top 10 British invasion musiç groove and songs by the various "Bobby's" from the US. Hey Joe and The Wind Cries Mary changed everything even in a world that was constantly changing anyway.
When Jimi Hendrix was playing to the best of his ability nobody could touch him, great example here, Star Spangled Banner and Machine gun two other examples that for me are the greatest pieces of guitar playing the world will every hear.
He was God in drag.
Hear my train a comin too was massive in emotion and I feel like it’s him claiming his throne in the guitar world especially the filmore and Atlanta pop version
One trick pony
@@StevieZero Hendrix? One trick pony? Whhatttttt
Even he realised he was a one trick pony.What people forget or don't realise he was being Booed by audiences his last performances& he himself hated his restrictions on guitar.He was about to start learning proper theory before he died and was jealous of guys like Ritchie Blackmore& other progressive players who were starting to emerge.Go and learn about the guy properly and stop being a fanboy.....There's nothing difficult about running blues riffs and power chords through a Wah pedal...
Excellent analysis. Ive seen that Berkeley performance so many times. Such a classic. Been grooving on the recently released Live in Maui cd/dvd set. Another great performance. One of his best captured on film despite the technical challenges of being on a volcano with intense wind.
JIMI LIVES ! Thanks for the video Fil from Eve Green San Raphael Ca.
Jimi was an alien, nobody will ever go to the places that he went on a guitar. He left everyone else way behind, even the technology at the time could not go to the places he could hear in his head. Thanks Fil.
Yes when you play thru your HEART and SPIRIT and really really let it happen,let it go...then thats when its a different world...it isnt just knowning the notes,and the tones,its the freedom of spirit within you and beyound you that can really make it happen.
Its gets deep in these waters...nice review. ....Play on Jimi...they'll never be another like you.
Fil, I truly have to thank you for this incredible music analysis videos that you provided of Jimi Hendrix-you opened my ears and mind further regarding his overall musicianship. I had to listen to the video separately as you suggested and the listening experience was amazing! Jimi was indeed an incredible musician who demonstrated that blend of-I believe you put it(albeit partially I think)as this-chaos and control and overall technique. After listening to Jimi, now I’m a bit ashamed to say that for years I wasn’t exactly “fannish” about Jimi because of his smashing guitars on stage-I believe that musical instruments are meant for playing, not destroying. So as of now, I’ve put that part aside. Since listening to your music analyses, I’m more open minded and if this is a word, more “open-eared” to all music genres. Yes I know I’ve said this before: From one musician to another musician, I sincerely thank you for all you do, Fil! 🎸
Jimi played through a Fuzz-Face fuzz box, one of the first types of fuzz-box ever made.
Unlike many units which use a pair of diodes to clip the signal, the Fuzz-Face is just a pair of transistors configured to give insane amounts of gain to that the waveform got clipped off by the transistors themslves running out of voltage.
A well set up FF is a wonderful thing. You leave the Fuzz control on full and control everything with your guitar's volume. If the FF is correctly set up (internally) then turning the guitar volume down decreases the distortion level all the way down to "clean" and also brightens up the guitar. More volume equals more distortion and thicker tone, back off to clean up and brighten up.
In other live footage Jimi can be seen frequently adjusting his guitar volume and Tone controls and along with the sheer volume, that is what lets him dance on the edge of feedback and bring it in when he wants.
In other performances he not only uses the wah as a treble-boost as he does here, he uses it as a band-pass filter (which is what a wah is, a sweepable band-pass filter) so instead of waggling it with his foot which would produce the wah-wah effect, he just moves his foot very slightly as he moves around the guitar so that he keeps the band-pass boost centred on where he is playing at that time.
He was a master of his craft and got the absolute most out of the very primitive stomp-boxes available at the time. He could have anything he wanted (after this performance LOL) - but that's all there was, the rest wasn't invented until after he was dead. Roger Mayer,a boffin and inventor, tuned up his gadgets for him and supplied him with a fuzz-box he had invented which produced a tone an octave above the input tone but it was spitty and had to be used with care - I have one and know the severe limitations that come with it. For his final year he had the Univibe too, a sort of phaser/chorus/vibrato which he loved and which features heavily on Machine Gun, Pali Gap and other tracks. - I have a copy of one of those too and absolutely love it.
I cannot even imagine what we might have heard had Jimi lived another five years or so. There was an explosion of guitar effects by the time I switched to electric guitar in 76 and I am quite certain that if he'd had them Jimi would have wrung every last drop of goodness out of each and every one of them.
As he did here, with just a loud Marshall, a Fuzz-Face and a Wah. :-)
Wizardry.
When I was 12, I used to play Chuck Berry "Rock Roll Music" on the jukebox at the Little Tavern. As college student I almost got crushed at the DC Hilton when they opened the doors for Jimi's performance there. The Soft Machine, lol, opened for it. Hendrix at the time, only threw his guitar over the amp. Missed him, and everyone else at Woodstock, only saw Joe Cocker then. Feedback, I once had a Gibson 330, which went nuts playing an A 440; I was actually a drummer, who tried to emulate Mitch Mitchell and Ginger Baker, but still a rank amateur guitarist with my Kramer and Musicman 210 amp, and Sigma acoustic, lol. My fingers can't handle strings anymore. (Sold my 1964 Premiere drums, too)
There is a story that when Jimi was in England, the Stones, Beatles, everyone came to see him and could not figure out how he was getting those sounds out of his guitar.
The first time I saw controlled feedback as part of a song was when I saw Hendrix super-fan Joe Satriani on the Flying In a Blue Dream tour (late 1989 I think - maybe 1990). That opening C note, and he held it while staying at one spot on stage (“the sweet spot”), and he would just change the angle he was holding the guitar to switch the feedback to different notes. It was awesome, and technique Joe learned from studying Hendrix. Until then I knew how to make feedback, but had no idea you could actually control the pitch. Great analysis!
Amazing analysis and video. I used to own this VHS Tape. I believe it was Live in Monterey. This is an amazing performance.
So nice to see the genius of the great Jimi Hendrix appreciated in this way by a modern guitarist. - Brilliant!