Hey Tim… I was at that concert; San Diego, May 25(?), 1969… I was 15. It changed my life. I went in a nerd when I came out I was cool. I saw him 3 times and that show, THAT SONG, was the best of all of them. Other worldly good.
*Jimi Hendrix: A Brother’s Story by Leon Hendrix, copyright 2012* Chapter 11 ‘Still Dreaming’ Page 182 |P3 One afternoon, we lit up our first joint of the day and finally had a chance to talk about his playing. “How do you make all of those noises out of there?” I asked. “How do you get all that wild sound?” “The pedals-the wah-wah and the fuzz tone. The Marshall amps I’m using have a huge sound, and the Fender Strat is a great guitar,” Jimi told me, leaning back and spreading out on his chair. “You know, Leon, after all those years of being in those bands and people telling me what to play and having to play exact arrangements, those are second nature. My stuff exists outside of those lines. I’m free. As long as the bass player stays in the root, I can do what I want. If it starts feeding back, then fine. The strings and notes and tones are fighting against each other, but the guitar is still tuned to E, so it’s going to at least be in that area. I could be playing a lead way up high, but that low E string could still be feeding back. So there are two tones going on. It’s like you’re playing two guitars at the same time. *You have to let it go, but still control it.* The guitar is pretty open. You can’t really hit a bad note unless you don’t know how to bend it and shape it into all the other melodies and tones going on. *It’s all about recovery. It’s the most important part of soloing and improvising.* You know what I’m talking about?” I did. When Jimi explained things, they always made perfect sense. One of my favorite songs of Jimi’s at the time was “Bold as Love,” off his second album, Axis: Bold as Love. When I told him my feelings on the track, he went into detail about some of the thinking that went into the writing of the lyrics. *Jimi was interested in the relationship between emotions, colors, and musical notes. He mentioned a concept called Energy Sound Color Dynamics-which he playfully sometimes referred to as E=sc2 to borrow a little style from Einstein’s E=mc2 theory.* Jimi was fascinated by the connection of the seven notes in a musical scale to the seven colors of the rainbow. Not to mention the interesting fact that red, yellow, and blue-the first, third, and fifth colors of the rainbow-are primary colors, while root, third, and fifth-the first, third, and fifth notes of a major scale-make up a major chord. If there was such a thing as “hearing in color” or “playing in color,” that was exactly what my brother was intent on accomplishing (or it may even be said that he had already accomplished it by then). Regardless, he was interested in practicing it. Jimi felt that if he couldn’t physically hold on to the music, he could at least describe it in color and somehow make it three-dimensional. He took his fascination with radio frequencies back when we were little boys to the next level. Not only was there sound and color to mold and shape in his songwriting, but there was also the energy-the soul, spirit, and emotion. The three elements together were something as powerful as anything. Jimi attempted to link everything together in one form, which was his music. My brother was always educating me in different ways. I felt as if he knew the answers, and that knowledge was total freedom to me.
Weird, I had a similar epiphany some years back, about the connection between frequencies, vision, hearing, and perception. Hendrix being a true artist, put in words that simply express my complex ideas. It's somewhat a relief to have someone corroborate my notion.
@@nobody8450 NO BODY HERE. , BUT I THINK TO MYSELF, THAT JIMI HAS BEEN A AWESOME PERSONNALYTIE ,,ALSO AN ENORMOUS SPIRITUAL COMPLEXITY, SO STILL NOWADAYS, JUST A LITTLE KIND OF SOMEONE CAN'T DO NOT MISSUNDERSTANDING. .....🕇🕉🕇♞⚊♯♜⚊ BECAUSE. , IT IS USED TO BE LIKE THIS IN THAT REALLY ONE UP SIDE DOWN. ,AS EVEN IF ÉACH OTHERS SIDE PEOPLES, SKIN WAS WHITE OR BLACK ,..........?.. MIGHTY TURTLE HEAD COULD BE CRAWLING THE THE SEA AND. SAVE HER. NAILS.........🕇🕇😃👍♾♾♾♾♾
If you're talking about the New Year's Performance at the Fillmore East, then yes.. I am wholeheartedly with you on that. The ending line where he plays the line from Taps is sublime
I started studying Hendrix when I was 13 and with my ear and hard work he taught me how to play guitar -even though he passed before my time. For me he wasn't just a guitarist, he was an incredible artist. And my posthumous mentor. Cheers from Louisiana Tim! P[>
I did the same. Forty years later I can actually do much of his stuff Justice. But it’s been more of a hobby than a profession. Red House has been my latest focus. I can do the studio track Justice after a few months of focus and practice. I taught myself Castles … about 20 years ago. Now I can play it and sing at the same time. Hoping to work a little electric into a broad genre acoustic cover set.
and....he is like a friend, even if never met. Along time ago, I and a guitar friend were talking about Jimi, whom we both loved , and a non musician gal cut in " Oh, is he your hero?" in a cutting way. To which my friend replied, " No, he isnt our hero. Jimi's our friend." Which seems so true, still.
I love Albert King, he was a blues legend. That being said, calling Hendrix is not a blues guitarist is crazy if you ask me and many others. Here’s the thing with Hendrix, by the time he entered the UK he was doing things with his guitar that no one has seen or heard of ever before. Even though you can call that unorthodox, he had Blues in his roots and playing. If you ask Clapton, Page, or Beck? They would all agree he was the best. Not only was Hendrix a great player, his phrasing and rhythmic lines were incredible.
I've never heard anyone talk about this version of Red House but like Tim, I got this LP when I was a young teenager and there was something about that song on Hendrix in the West that just captured me! I've listened to it thousands of times and never tire of it. I knew and know I could NEVER play like that--I don't even think Jimi ever matched that version again. I was just a young white kid in Germany with a cheap Framus acoustic guitar listening to Top 40 but after I heard this I just became a Hendrix fanatic. I've heard a lot of versions of Red House but there are none that even come close to this one. And a lot of people may not like it because while it may start out very traditional, very in the pattern blues, he slowly builds the song into a hurricane of sound to the point that you don't really know it's a guitar making those sounds!! His guitar almost sounds orchestral. He's no longer playing NOTES but sounds and while he may have been influenced by Albert King---by the time this song ends you realize Jimi is in a flying saucer and Albert is in a Lincoln. By the way, this should be listened to in the dark, late at night with excellent headphones. The only other song by Jimi that matches this is the live version of Machine Gun from that original Filmore album....that is a religious experience and there are times in that performance where I think the gods are actually playing through Jimi!
Yes, his command of the instrument just came together on this tune... the tone, the phrasing... just mindblowing. The way he makes his guitar scream on Johnny B. Goode (the same album) is another standout.
You are spot on. exactly so. pay attention please when he sings wait the minute something s wrong and repeat perfectly in solo. and at the end of song if my babe loves me no more I know her sister will same thing. it s really beyond grasp. that was concert in San Diego. listen please Band of Gypsies and Cry of Love ...Straight Ahead and Freedom. studio versions. best regards cheers
@@goranerdelji4973 yup….the feedback too is perfectly choreographed by him (and he literally did that) for maximum effect (7.39…..10.55) An honourable mention goes to my favourite tiny bit he did at the end of star spangled banner from the Atlanta show 1970 just as the fireworks are going off….futuristic as hell…it’s like a sliding C shaped chord but with incredible Jimi soloing at the same time. Still blows me away. (I’m a former subscriber to the brilliant univibes jimi fanclub thing. Caeser G did so much to expand from the basic LPs pre internet)
50 years after his death, no one has surpassed Jimi. We knew he was great then, but now he is even greater given the test of time and relentless competition. I don't like the term "genius" very often. But Jimi truly was one. What could have been after 1970 is a tough pill to swallow.
What about the live version of Hear my Train a comin' at Berkeley? That one, along with Machine Gun and the extended Winterland version of Are You Experienced, is just completely mind-blowing to me.
there are a couple of minutes in Machine Gun , the band of gypsies live one , where Jimi is connected directly to the powers that be by the sound and look of him ! I adore it
Most definitely Hear my train, live in Berkeley is a solo masterpiece… Also Stone free live at the Royal Albert hall 1969, which was over 10 minutes long!
Hendrix in the West. Redhouse. The record that literally changed my life. Became a professional guitarist and teacher. Was a teenager back then, so many older friends that supported and carried me. I'm thankful to my last day. I got this record as a present after having heard it for the first time through a Marantz Quadraphonic System. Still I put It on. Till this day, it touches me so deep, puts tears in my eyes. I can't help it. Music is meant to touch your heart or make you dance. Body and Soul. Electric Church, now I see.
Red house and Woodo Chile slight return got me in to Hendrix as well. Red house was so intense and woodo chile gave me the impression of a guitar plugged into a high voltage powerplant.
Tim THANK YOU!!! In 1969 I got a phone call at my parents house in Dallas, TX during dinner from my best friend...he said several of our friends were going to a rock concert at the State Fair Music Hall at the Fair grounds in south east Dallas. Tickets were $7.50, so I went to my first rock concert...Jimmy Hendrix Experience. I saw him again 2 more times. Thank you so much for opening my minds memories. Jeff in Dallas...
I saw Hendrix in concert in I think 1968. He was fabulous. The first time I heard Red House, the album version, I literally fell to my knees when those first scraping sounds introduce what’s coming. I always thought he was scraping his pick across the strings but found out it was feedback. I have listened to that song thousands of times. I can hear it without the music being on. It’s a part of me. Your doing a great job here and I really admire your Strat. 🥰👍☮️🌞🎸🎵
I'm not sure if this is directed at my comment but, for the record (pun intended), I first heard it on a cassette tape, played on a half decent tape player on a fairly budget system. It blew my mind. It sounded best on vinyl, played through a Linn Karma, attached to a Fidelity Research FR64FX, attached to a Garrard 401, going through a homemade SRPP (valve) preamp attached to some homemade Williamson power amps and coming out of Lowther PM6As in Acousta cabinets. As close as you'll get to being there without you have the original masters. Having said that, the performances are more powerful than any equipment used to experience them and would sound awesome on even a mobile phone.
*Valves in the dark:* I have a long background in valve hifi and I believe what you have there is a photocell with a flashing LED that won't work with light getting in. Daylight in no way has any effect on thermionic tubes. The heater is tungsten, the wrap is carbon steel, the grids are wires and the anode is carbon coated steel plate, none of which is effected by the sun. In fact we still have valves because the military use them. Why? Their operation is not effected by the EMP from a nuclear bomb whereas all transistors unless thoroughly sheilded will die. I could rattle on for several pages so I won't but please lets scotch that rumour before people start wrapping blackwrap around their EL34s! :o)
Hendrix's three top live performances are "Machine Gun" from the Band of Gypsys album, "Hear My Train a Comin'" from Rainbow Bridge and "Red House" from In the West.
You are incredible. You have such an understanding of those mythic players you're talking about (the top 3 for me : Jimi, Eric and Stevie). Your sound is so creamy, intense, precise. Your both hands are magical. Thank you for this bluesy explanation... Each second of this video made me resonate. Love.
I took jazz lessons from Howard Morgen - Queens, NYC - and one lesson he gave me that's always stuck with me was to copy everyone who inspires you because in the end it's going to come out as you.
I had a bunch of people I wanted to emulate and then I didn't listen to some of them for years because I remembered the recordings so perfectly note for note. Then, when I listened again, it was different from what I "remembered". I had put my style onto the memory of my idols.
Howard Morgen - a genius arranger and a gentleman. He has thought so long and hard about what sounds good on the guitar and written unbelievably great books....
@@twangbarfly And a pioneer of sorts on the 7-string guitar. When I was taking lessons, Howard had a 7-string George Van Eps (the "original" 7-string jazz guitarist?) guitar and he was was in the process of writing his "Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar" book. He would regale me with fingerstyle excellence on the 7-string. Howard was a strong proponent of moving lines, both in the bass and within chord progressions. and his teaching reflected that. Howard had a bulletin board with photos of all his students and several times I would recognize - or be recognized by - another student at gigs, or a couple of times in the music stores along W 48th Street in Manhattan. It was a very collegial fraternity and way cool.
@@mikeaustin4138 Thanks for that Mike - it's good to know but it doesn't surprise me since I felt that's how he must have been. I've always been a fan ever since a friend of mine, a great guitarist and pianist who gave me advice about music in my younger years, raved about Howard Morgen's book "Fingerstyle Jazz and Popular Guitar". I bought it immediately and was knocked out by the quality of the arrangements, as i have by all of his books. (Today, my son was visiting and after talking about the ubquitous but very good IV to IVm move leading to I, I pulled out Howard's beautiful arrangement of Carly Simon's "Nobody Does it Better" - my son was very impressed with the cool arranging ideas...). I didn't know Howard, but shortly before he passed away, I sent him a heartfelt thank-you message on one of his RUclips vids. He could not have been more graceful or sincere in his appreciative reply. It seemed to me important that he be aware just how large and thankful a friendly musical fraternity he has created everywhere around the entire world!
Hendrix changed my direction in my guitar playing in the late 1980s I was a big U2 fan and loved the Edge’s guitar style I had heard of Hendrix before but when I got U2 -Rattle and Hum double album there was this song being played before one of the songs live and it was the star spangled banner and I looked on the album and yeah there it was Jimi Hendrix recording probably from Woodstock anyway there at that moment I knew I had to delve into Hendrix’s music and bought everything I could get my hands on I started out with The Jimi Hendrix experience - smash hits and went from there and everything I heard just was amazing to me so I went into playing the electric blues and psychedelic rock and just loved it and I also got into other sixties psychedelic rock as well but so glad I found that and I appreciated what Jimi done in such a short span of time , he left a treasure behind for fans of awesome music !
Wow Tim, this has to be my favorite forum you've done. I've watched you for years and this is excellent. I like your slow and medium tempo playing the best. Your phrasing shines. Cheers
By 1:27 the hairs on the back of my neck were starting to rise...Goossbumps...you gave me the damn goosebumps....I can't even remember the last time I got The goosebumps...Amazing playing brother ..
@@timpierceguitar When I was 15, a friend loaned me an original Cry Baby and a copy of In The West. I knew where your licks were coming from, before you mentioned it. You inspire me and countless others. Thank you Tim.
You're spot on there Tim. I've always thought this was the greatest piece of live guitar work I've ever heard. Must have listened to it over a thousand times since I first heard over 40 years ago. His stamina, both mental and physical, on that night were incredible. Also makes me laugh when you talk about major, minor and mixolydian as Jimi probably had no clue what he was playing!
You're on to something. The band of gypsys album had POWER OF SOUL which has a wonderful middle solo that has so many notes and bends with mixed scales that you have to memorize each run. I know it's probably cut and pasted from three different shows. but it's my favorite live solo. Also ASTRO MAN knocks me out rhythm and lead. Hendrix also could throw in original riffs which cannot be taught but can only come from a true musical mind.
Very nice how you demonstrate Jimi‘s brilliance, while at the same time mentioning he was an exceptional part of a tradition and didn’t fall from the stars entirely.
I can only make this statement from the limited knowledge i have but,...it seems it would be a honor to have a friend such as yourself You display genuine quality's etc. .. If the entire world only had it would a great place to live, Thanks Tim, Peace Bro Bro!!
Tim hits the resolving note in a lick and just before it he looks up with a smile because he knows it’s going to be great. I hit it and I look up in shock because it sounded good 🤷🏻♂️
This video was a master class in and of itself! Not just the Hendrix influences but the phenomenally smooth riffs that Tim just throws in no matter where the bass line is. Amazing - as always👍🎸
When I first heard Redhouse from Smash Hits for the first time I was a young teenager in the late 70's. That was it, after that I did pretty much the same thing, I bought a heavy ash Strat(which I still have)and studied every live version of the song and other epic JH blues I could find. So glad I went that route.
You never fail to blow my mind in every single one of your videos, because you always play with such amazing soul and taste, and always with impeccable sweet tone as well
Great Post, Tim! I've listened to 'Red House' off of 'Hendrix in the West' (like you), for decades! IMO - IT IS Hendrix' best version of 'Red House'. I know there are many others, but to me, this is the definitive version. As we all know, Jimi never played ANY song - the same way, twice! Nice Job, Tim! You Rock, Brother!
Thank you. After being raised by a Dad adamant that Pop-music and electric guitar music weren't really music I heard Hendrix in 1972 when my new wife had his albums...changed my entire life completely. I never heard this Red House but WOW...
I first got Hendrix in the West in 1980 in a record store in San Diego, I'm from Jersey & I was visiting my grandmother, My favorite live album hard to get on cd
ya succeeded Tim. This video, as the original version you referred to, both can now teach nearly anyone with the feel for it "blues soloing". Well done Brother. This is a gold mine of a video for lots of us!
This brother here is great, in more ways than one! Makes.for a brighter day , in the midst of... Sound-wise & the explanation . My man, you rock. BIG-THANX!
What is amazing about you, Tim, is that everything I hear you play, whether adopted from another master, or that which you’ve created, sounds natural, and personal. I learn something new every time I watch your You Tube posts, or one of the Master Class sessions. Thank you.
Thanks for this Tim. Hendrix in the West is my favourite Hendrix album along with the BBC sessions. I can't play guitar at all but l really enjoy your playing and insights into other great guitarists.
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"In the West" was my first Jimi album, a the tender age of 13, just starting to learn the guitar. Red House is awesome. Check out two interesting points: at the beginning of one phrase you can hear him hit the bottom E string, then play a few licks, getting feedback on the bottom E and using it as a harmonizing backing to his lead playing! Also, you can tell from the tone that he is playing through a wah-wah with the pedal set far back, never touching it, just getting the tone, then for one(!) note in the middle of his lead playing he pushes the pedal forward and gets a clean, sharp note. Still a brilliant recording, never equalled by anyone IMHO.
Tim this is my favourite Hendrix track of all time. Like you I have listened to this song hundreds of times without getting tired of it.I discover something new every time I listen to it. You have come the closest to any guitarist I have heard to capturing its essence. We also need to give credit to the rhythm section in the recording which is rock solid. Have you ever considered doing a recording of your favourite Hendrix songs or even favourite guitar songs? I would be the first to buy it. Cheers! 👍👍
I love it! This got me stoned years before I smoked. It's the lack of time and his meandering that sucks you in and when he hits the pocket it snaps up right and ready for his next riff. Chaz I was ten. Oh where did the years go.
I had In the West on vinyl and ‘who knows’ where it ended up. A great album. If my memory serves me well, it had a cover of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on it. Oh, by the way, your playing was majestic on this video.
For four summers during college I worked a repetitive job in the sun 8 to 10 hours a day. My days passed quickly as I had listened to this version of Red House so many times as to have completely committed every note and phrase to memory and could continue to play it back in by memory in an eight hour loop every day. Still my favorite blues number of all time.
I had been a huge Clapton fan for a few years when I heard my first Albert King album. It was an eye opener for me because I was hearing all these Clapton licks that predated him. I concluded that Clapton borrowed King's licks wholesale, and used a pick (King used his thumb) and an overdriven amp, whereas King had a clean sound. The man was a remarkable influence who deserves much more recognition than he has received.
always been obsessed with his Redhouse live @ Winterland. (10/11/68 version). Not from this world. love how you make the point of playing out of the pocket and it seems that when Hendrix was playing live you can hear his drummer trying to time his bars.
That is a great version. Also from 10/12/68 is fabulous, New York Pop, Miami, RAH 2/24, Berkeley first show, Boston Garden too many to name all different
Oh man you’re killing me. I got out my good headphones and whatever equipment you have it’s absolutely primo! I love Albert King. I remember buying his album with Crosscut Saw on it. He’s so fabulous and should get way more respect. Keep on posting. 👍☮️🌞🎸🎵💖
Excellent episode. Out of time and thrown away and all the finer details. Great advice here. This is a treasure trove, several minutes packed with key advice!
Doing my advanced classical guitar exams many moons ago now I can attest to the need for stamina, simply for the practice time required - 8 hours a day minimum leading up to exams and memorisation, technical exercises and crafting your own 'acceptable' spin on the repertoire. Stretching, regular rests and never playing with too much force. Good posture, drawing tendons through the wrist and fingers without too much tension. Essential advice Sir 👌🏼
Gotta say thanks Tim. More often than not I come away from your videos with at least one gem of guitar wisdom that that unlocks a sonic door for me, or at least shows me where to step up from the current guitar plateau that I may be on.
Great to see someone showing such capable and educated appreciation of Jimi's body of work, ~ I was amazed at that extended solo from Jimi on red house,..my favourite part was when he went onto the wah and was vibing on that, it was seriously refreshing and astonishingly musical, ..but a truly epic solo with so many twists and turns.
I guite agree that "in the west" was one of the better post/Hendrix, Hendrix albums... My second favorite being "War Hero's". Thanks for the videos Tim!
13:40 I am marking this timestamp for my own reference on the Fender MTG Tube Tremolo! I have been searching for your video where you talked about this pedal and finally was watching this Hendrix lesson again and there it is! Thank you for all this free wisdom Tim. Been a bedroom guitarist for about 20 years.
Hendrix was the Master of Space And Time! The Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven of guitar... he could play around the beat, and come so far out of the pocket, either backwards or forwards - he'd come all the way around and lap himself into the next measure - LOL. I'm sure your fans would love it if you'd do a similar review of Midnight Lightning (my personal fav. of the posthumous albums). Your commentary and instructions on this one are as excellent as your playing - even more so than usual - I can't stop listening to it, and playing along! Thanks Tim!! Also, your posture comments are right on - I got that from Jamie Andreas' Guitar Principles - made a huge improvement in my playing - I started practicing standing up - the same way I played live. Walter Trout was signing one of my heavier LPs one night - and told me about the neck strap that saved him from having to stop playing - I got one, and it saved me, too. Finally, pardon me for talking out of turn - but I mentioned you to Cad. Zack; re: If you'd play for Monday Blues at the Maui Sugar Mill - JIC he reaches out. I don't live in LA anymore, so I'd probably miss it - but I'd come back for it, if I knew.
HitW was the first live Hendrix LP I bought back in the '70s. The amazement to hear him play all the incredible stuff LIVE! And the majestic Red House version then... blew my mind, still does. And when someone says he does not regard Jimi as a blues player, I've had the pleasure of playing RH from HitW for them :) Tim, I absolutely love your deep insights of the song. Thank you so much, I could not even begin to figure out those details myself! A worthy treatise of a great song and musician indeed !
Yep! I got that album the day it came out and was completely blown away! Absolutely the best version of Red House in his entire career! I too have listened to this hundreds of times!
Beautiful sounding Tim , one can play all day with that kind of stuff and just never get bored, the Red House version on "Jimi Hendrix Concerts" is some of his best live playing ever....on that whole album really...
On most channels I hate live streams because they’re filled with thoughtless rambling and even dead air. I didn’t even realize this was a recorded live stream until you started responding to the chat. Great job!
Wow, Mr. Pierce I just came across this site!! I myself don't play, but listening to you was a treat , I'm 60 loved your solo of red house!!! ✌️ Joe mozingo. NC
Man I love your playing and teaching style! Your energy, rhythm, dynamics, note choices, timing (timming?), knowledge sharing, it is so elite..Thank you!
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Hey Tim… I was at that concert; San Diego, May 25(?), 1969… I was 15. It changed my life. I went in a nerd when I came out I was cool. I saw him 3 times and that show, THAT SONG, was the best of all of them. Other worldly good.
*Jimi Hendrix: A Brother’s Story by Leon Hendrix, copyright 2012*
Chapter 11 ‘Still Dreaming’
Page 182 |P3
One afternoon, we lit up our first joint of the day and finally had a chance to talk about his playing.
“How do you make all of those noises out of there?” I asked. “How do you get all that wild sound?”
“The pedals-the wah-wah and the fuzz tone. The Marshall amps I’m using have a huge sound, and the Fender Strat is a great guitar,” Jimi told me, leaning back and spreading out on his chair. “You know, Leon, after all those years of being in those bands and people telling me what to play and having to play exact arrangements, those are second nature. My stuff exists outside of those lines. I’m free. As long as the bass player stays in the root, I can do what I want. If it starts feeding back, then fine. The strings and notes and tones are fighting against each other, but the guitar is still tuned to E, so it’s going to at least be in that area. I could be playing a lead way up high, but that low E string could still be feeding back. So there are two tones going on. It’s like you’re playing two guitars at the same time. *You have to let it go, but still control it.* The guitar is pretty open. You can’t really hit a bad note unless you don’t know how to bend it and shape it into all the other melodies and tones going on. *It’s all about recovery. It’s the most important part of soloing and improvising.* You know what I’m talking about?”
I did. When Jimi explained things, they always made perfect sense.
One of my favorite songs of Jimi’s at the time was “Bold as Love,” off his second album, Axis: Bold as Love. When I told him my feelings on the track, he went into detail about some of the thinking that went into the writing of the lyrics. *Jimi was interested in the relationship between emotions, colors, and musical notes. He mentioned a concept called Energy Sound Color Dynamics-which he playfully sometimes referred to as E=sc2 to borrow a little style from Einstein’s E=mc2 theory.*
Jimi was fascinated by the connection of the seven notes in a musical scale to the seven colors of the rainbow. Not to mention the interesting fact that red, yellow, and blue-the first, third, and fifth colors of the rainbow-are primary colors, while root, third, and fifth-the first, third, and fifth notes of a major scale-make up a major chord. If there was such a thing as “hearing in color” or “playing in color,” that was exactly what my brother was intent on accomplishing (or it may even be said that he had already accomplished it by then). Regardless, he was interested in practicing it. Jimi felt that if he couldn’t physically hold on to the music, he could at least describe it in color and somehow make it three-dimensional. He took his fascination with radio frequencies back when we were little boys to the next level. Not only was there sound and color to mold and shape in his songwriting, but there was also the energy-the soul, spirit, and emotion. The three elements together were something as powerful as anything. Jimi attempted to link everything together in one form, which was his music. My brother was always educating me in different ways. I felt as if he knew the answers, and that knowledge was total freedom to me.
Man..........That was great. Very interesting perspective.
Cool
Weird, I had a similar epiphany some years back, about the connection between frequencies, vision, hearing, and perception. Hendrix being a true artist, put in words that simply express my complex ideas.
It's somewhat a relief to have someone corroborate my notion.
LOT OF PEACE AND RESPECT TO MAN ✌✌✌
@@nobody8450 NO BODY HERE. , BUT I THINK TO MYSELF, THAT JIMI HAS BEEN A AWESOME PERSONNALYTIE ,,ALSO AN ENORMOUS SPIRITUAL COMPLEXITY, SO STILL NOWADAYS, JUST A LITTLE KIND OF SOMEONE CAN'T DO NOT MISSUNDERSTANDING. .....🕇🕉🕇♞⚊♯♜⚊ BECAUSE. , IT IS USED TO BE LIKE THIS IN THAT REALLY ONE UP SIDE DOWN. ,AS EVEN IF ÉACH OTHERS SIDE PEOPLES, SKIN WAS WHITE OR BLACK ,..........?.. MIGHTY TURTLE HEAD COULD BE CRAWLING THE THE SEA AND. SAVE HER. NAILS.........🕇🕇😃👍♾♾♾♾♾
Tim Pierce, the guitar whisperer!
Machine Gun on nEw Years was the GREATEST PERFORMANCE WITH AN INSTRUMENT ANYONE HAS DONE LIVE.. PERIOD.. That solo waS INSANE!
Yeah it was. He was in top form that night for sure.
I don't necessarily disagree, but Prince's solo on while my guitar gently weeps is definitely a top contender if not slightly better.
💯 agree with this statement and will forever.✌🏼
@@jcout25not even near to the nail of hendrix
If you're talking about the New Year's Performance at the Fillmore East, then yes.. I am wholeheartedly with you on that. The ending line where he plays the line from Taps is sublime
I started studying Hendrix when I was 13 and with my ear and hard work he taught me how to play guitar -even though he passed before my time. For me he wasn't just a guitarist, he was an incredible artist. And my posthumous mentor. Cheers from Louisiana Tim! P[>
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I did the same. Forty years later I can actually do much of his stuff Justice. But it’s been more of a hobby than a profession. Red House has been my latest focus. I can do the studio track Justice after a few months of focus and practice. I taught myself Castles … about 20 years ago. Now I can play it and sing at the same time. Hoping to work a little electric into a broad genre acoustic cover set.
and....he is like a friend, even if never met. Along time ago, I and a guitar friend were talking about Jimi, whom we both loved , and a non musician gal cut in " Oh, is he your hero?" in a cutting way. To which my friend replied, " No, he isnt our hero. Jimi's our friend." Which seems so true, still.
@@hermannmaier0 nice! He was way cool, like Jesus. ✊
Jimi died the year I first picked up the guitar - we used to call him God ...
I love Albert King, he was a blues legend. That being said, calling Hendrix is not a blues guitarist is crazy if you ask me and many others. Here’s the thing with Hendrix, by the time he entered the UK he was doing things with his guitar that no one has seen or heard of ever before. Even though you can call that unorthodox, he had Blues in his roots and playing. If you ask Clapton, Page, or Beck? They would all agree he was the best. Not only was Hendrix a great player, his phrasing and rhythmic lines were incredible.
I've never heard anyone talk about this version of Red House but like Tim, I got this LP when I was a young teenager and there was something about that song on Hendrix in the West that just captured me! I've listened to it thousands of times and never tire of it. I knew and know I could NEVER play like that--I don't even think Jimi ever matched that version again. I was just a young white kid in Germany with a cheap Framus acoustic guitar listening to Top 40 but after I heard this I just became a Hendrix fanatic. I've heard a lot of versions of Red House but there are none that even come close to this one. And a lot of people may not like it because while it may start out very traditional, very in the pattern blues, he slowly builds the song into a hurricane of sound to the point that you don't really know it's a guitar making those sounds!! His guitar almost sounds orchestral. He's no longer playing NOTES but sounds and while he may have been influenced by Albert King---by the time this song ends you realize Jimi is in a flying saucer and Albert is in a Lincoln. By the way, this should be listened to in the dark, late at night with excellent headphones. The only other song by Jimi that matches this is the live version of Machine Gun from that original Filmore album....that is a religious experience and there are times in that performance where I think the gods are actually playing through Jimi!
Could not agree more mate. I heard that as a teenager and it was life changing. You’re left gasping for air. Agree about machine gun.
Yes, his command of the instrument just came together on this tune... the tone, the phrasing... just mindblowing.
The way he makes his guitar scream on Johnny B. Goode (the same album) is another standout.
You are spot on.
exactly so.
pay attention please when he sings
wait the minute something s wrong and repeat perfectly in solo.
and at the end of song
if my babe loves me no more I know her sister will
same thing.
it s really beyond grasp.
that was concert in San Diego.
listen please Band of Gypsies and Cry of Love ...Straight Ahead and Freedom.
studio versions.
best regards
cheers
@@goranerdelji4973 yup….the feedback too is perfectly choreographed by him (and he literally did that) for maximum effect (7.39…..10.55)
An honourable mention goes to my favourite tiny bit he did at the end of star spangled banner from the Atlanta show 1970 just as the fireworks are going off….futuristic as hell…it’s like a sliding C shaped chord but with incredible Jimi soloing at the same time. Still blows me away. (I’m a former subscriber to the brilliant univibes jimi fanclub thing. Caeser G did so much to expand from the basic LPs pre internet)
Totally agree, almost same experience since 1979 when I discovered him. Alsof in my top 3 solo's purple haze at Woodstock.
50 years after his death, no one has surpassed Jimi. We knew he was great then, but now he is even greater given the test of time and relentless competition.
I don't like the term "genius" very often. But Jimi truly was one. What could have been after 1970 is a tough pill to swallow.
What about the live version of Hear my Train a comin' at Berkeley? That one, along with Machine Gun and the extended Winterland version of Are You Experienced, is just completely mind-blowing to me.
Well put!
I think that live at Berkeley version of Hear My Train… is the best extended blues-rock solo in E, period.
Eb that is.lolol but so True! He goes all the way in!
there are a couple of minutes in Machine Gun , the band of gypsies live one , where Jimi is connected directly to the powers that be by the sound and look of him ! I adore it
Most definitely Hear my train, live in Berkeley is a solo masterpiece…
Also Stone free live at the Royal Albert hall 1969, which was over 10 minutes long!
Hendrix in the West. Redhouse. The record that literally changed my life. Became a professional guitarist and teacher. Was a teenager back then, so many older friends that supported and carried me. I'm thankful to my last day. I got this record as a present after having heard it for the first time through a Marantz Quadraphonic System. Still I put It on. Till this day, it touches me so deep, puts tears in my eyes. I can't help it. Music is meant to touch your heart or make you dance. Body and Soul. Electric Church, now I see.
Red house and Woodo Chile slight return got me in to Hendrix as well. Red house was so intense and woodo chile gave me the impression of a guitar plugged into a high voltage powerplant.
Music instruction (and performance) just doesn't get any better than this. What an INCREDIBLE half hour this was!
Tim THANK YOU!!!
In 1969 I got a phone call at my parents house in Dallas, TX during dinner from my best friend...he said several of our friends were going to a rock concert at the State Fair Music Hall at the Fair grounds in south east Dallas. Tickets were $7.50, so I went to my first rock concert...Jimmy Hendrix Experience. I saw him again 2 more times. Thank you so much for opening my minds memories. Jeff in Dallas...
I saw Hendrix in concert in I think 1968. He was fabulous. The first time I heard Red House, the album version, I literally fell to my knees when those first scraping sounds introduce what’s coming. I always thought he was scraping his pick across the strings but found out it was feedback. I have listened to that song thousands of times. I can hear it without the music being on. It’s a part of me. Your doing a great job here and I really admire your Strat. 🥰👍☮️🌞🎸🎵
I believe you because you can’t remember the year exactly. 😂
@@silverjaw138 I know I was in high school!
OH MY GOD!!!! Finally someone agrees with me! This is the best performance on guitar ever recorded, I say this for more than 40 years.
Either this or Machine Gun.... Tough call.....
My first Hendrix album was "The Concerts" Still my favourite, for its energy. It has a scorching Red House.
I'm not sure if this is directed at my comment but, for the record (pun intended), I first heard it on a cassette tape, played on a half decent tape player on a fairly budget system. It blew my mind. It sounded best on vinyl, played through a Linn Karma, attached to a Fidelity Research FR64FX, attached to a Garrard 401, going through a homemade SRPP (valve) preamp attached to some homemade Williamson power amps and coming out of Lowther PM6As in Acousta cabinets. As close as you'll get to being there without you have the original masters. Having said that, the performances are more powerful than any equipment used to experience them and would sound awesome on even a mobile phone.
Damn Tim! When you shut your eyes and just let your fingers "fly so freely" the music flow it's just mind blowing! Thank you for sharing your music!
*Valves in the dark:* I have a long background in valve hifi and I believe what you have there is a photocell with a flashing LED that won't work with light getting in. Daylight in no way has any effect on thermionic tubes. The heater is tungsten, the wrap is carbon steel, the grids are wires and the anode is carbon coated steel plate, none of which is effected by the sun. In fact we still have valves because the military use them. Why? Their operation is not effected by the EMP from a nuclear bomb whereas all transistors unless thoroughly sheilded will die. I could rattle on for several pages so I won't but please lets scotch that rumour before people start wrapping blackwrap around their EL34s! :o)
First Hendrix tune I learned and 30 years later am still learning. Love this! Thanks man!
If you close your eyes..... Its sounds like Jimi..... You're bloody amazing... Tim is god!!!
Mr. Pierce, you are a badass Sir!
This is my favorite lesson that you’ve done!
Hendrix's three top live performances are "Machine Gun" from the Band of Gypsys album, "Hear My Train a Comin'" from Rainbow Bridge and "Red House" from In the West.
For Albert King to diss Jimi was ridiculous. Jimi could out play him anytime.
Gone,Jimi's Tim ! Mr. Pierce is priceless...
I never had a problem by sounding "too much like Hendrix"....loved this beautiful learning session.
You are incredible. You have such an understanding of those mythic players you're talking about (the top 3 for me : Jimi, Eric and Stevie). Your sound is so creamy, intense, precise. Your both hands are magical. Thank you for this bluesy explanation... Each second of this video made me resonate. Love.
I took jazz lessons from Howard Morgen - Queens, NYC - and one lesson he gave me that's always stuck with me was to copy everyone who inspires you because in the end it's going to come out as you.
I had a bunch of people I wanted to emulate and then I didn't listen to some of them for years because I remembered the recordings so perfectly note for note. Then, when I listened again, it was different from what I "remembered". I had put my style onto the memory of my idols.
Howard Morgen - a genius arranger and a gentleman. He has thought so long and hard about what sounds good on the guitar and written unbelievably great books....
That was good advice!
@@twangbarfly And a pioneer of sorts on the 7-string guitar. When I was taking lessons, Howard had a 7-string George Van Eps (the "original" 7-string jazz guitarist?) guitar and he was was in the process of writing his "Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar" book. He would regale me with fingerstyle excellence on the 7-string. Howard was a strong proponent of moving lines, both in the bass and within chord progressions. and his teaching reflected that.
Howard had a bulletin board with photos of all his students and several times I would recognize - or be recognized by - another student at gigs, or a couple of times in the music stores along W 48th Street in Manhattan. It was a very collegial fraternity and way cool.
@@mikeaustin4138 Thanks for that Mike - it's good to know but it doesn't surprise me since I felt that's how he must have been. I've always been a fan ever since a friend of mine, a great guitarist and pianist who gave me advice about music in my younger years, raved about Howard Morgen's book "Fingerstyle Jazz and Popular Guitar". I bought it immediately and was knocked out by the quality of the arrangements, as i have by all of his books. (Today, my son was visiting and after talking about the ubquitous but very good IV to IVm move leading to I, I pulled out Howard's beautiful arrangement of Carly Simon's "Nobody Does it Better" - my son was very impressed with the cool arranging ideas...).
I didn't know Howard, but shortly before he passed away, I sent him a heartfelt thank-you message on one of his RUclips vids. He could not have been more graceful or sincere in his appreciative reply. It seemed to me important that he be aware just how large and thankful a friendly musical fraternity he has created everywhere around the entire world!
Hendrix changed my direction in my guitar playing in the late 1980s I was a big U2 fan and loved the Edge’s guitar style I had heard of Hendrix before but when I got U2 -Rattle and Hum double album there was this song being played before one of the songs live and it was the star spangled banner and I looked on the album and yeah there it was Jimi Hendrix recording probably from Woodstock anyway there at that moment I knew I had to delve into Hendrix’s music and bought everything I could get my hands on I started out with The Jimi Hendrix experience - smash hits and went from there and everything I heard just was amazing to me so I went into playing the electric blues and psychedelic rock and just loved it and I also got into other sixties psychedelic rock as well but so glad I found that and I appreciated what Jimi done in such a short span of time , he left a treasure behind for fans of awesome music !
"Take the best of what he does"... for me, that's everything.
Wow Tim, this has to be my favorite forum you've done. I've watched you for years and this is excellent. I like your slow and medium tempo playing the best. Your phrasing shines. Cheers
Wow, thanks!
1:51 magic fingers style
2:08 nice feel there...rams it back down at the end of that phrase unsuspecting style.
By 1:27 the hairs on the back of my neck were starting to rise...Goossbumps...you gave me the damn goosebumps....I can't even remember the last time I got The goosebumps...Amazing playing brother ..
This is best!
That opening is the best I’ve heard from you, Tim. Hell of a thing to say to a wizard like you!
Wow! thank you so much:)
@@timpierceguitar When I was 15, a friend loaned me an original Cry Baby and a copy of In The West. I knew where your licks were coming from, before you mentioned it. You inspire me and countless others. Thank you Tim.
One of my favorite blues guys that no one knows they're playing is Freddy King. Saw him at the Capitol in Portchester, NY. Sweet.
Love that Texas Oil collection!
Amen. Freddy is one of the three kings (Albert, BB, Freddy).
Hendrix's Band of Gypsies album (and other recordings) taught me a lot about the right notes, but only life can teach you the blues... 😎
You're spot on there Tim. I've always thought this was the greatest piece of live guitar work I've ever heard. Must have listened to it over a thousand times since I first heard over 40 years ago. His stamina, both mental and physical, on that night were incredible. Also makes me laugh when you talk about major, minor and mixolydian as Jimi probably had no clue what he was playing!
You're on to something. The band of gypsys album had POWER OF SOUL which has a wonderful middle solo that has so many notes and bends with mixed scales that you have to memorize each run. I know it's probably cut and pasted from three different shows. but it's my favorite live solo. Also ASTRO MAN knocks me out rhythm and lead. Hendrix also could throw in original riffs which cannot be taught but can only come from a true musical mind.
Very nice how you demonstrate Jimi‘s brilliance, while at the same time mentioning he was an exceptional part of a tradition and didn’t fall from the stars entirely.
Anyone looking for the version of this song. On Apple Music there it is called “Hendrix in the West(Live)”
Thanks Tim for that exquisite intro!!!
I can only make this statement from the limited knowledge i have but,...it seems it would be a honor to have a friend such as yourself You display genuine quality's etc. .. If the entire world only had it would a great place to live, Thanks Tim, Peace Bro Bro!!
When I was a kid I had the same album. "Hendrix in the West" has the best version of Little Wing too. And an awesome version of Johnny B Goode.
Even the cover of Blue Suede Shoes on that album has some great guitar playing on it!
Another great vid, Tim. I wore out "In the West" and, yeah that version of Little Wing was killer.
Voodoo Chile off that one is my fave also!
I remember that! I was just thinking of you the other day. hope all is well with you.
And what about the blistering cover of Sgt. Pepper?
Still amazed over Hendrix all the years since his passing. Says a lot about his talent and present
There are no words to describe the way he played that would do it any justice
Thanks for your generosity sharing this. ! Fret and a half means a step and a half.
Tim hits the resolving note in a lick and just before it he looks up with a smile because he knows it’s going to be great.
I hit it and I look up in shock because it sounded good 🤷🏻♂️
I love watching Tim play, he is truly a gifted musician.
Crazy AMAZING!
This video was a master class in and of itself! Not just the Hendrix influences but the phenomenally smooth riffs that Tim just throws in no matter where the bass line is. Amazing - as always👍🎸
When I first heard Redhouse from Smash Hits for the first time I was a young teenager in the late 70's. That was it, after that I did pretty much the same thing, I bought a heavy ash Strat(which I still have)and studied every live version of the song and other epic JH blues I could find. So glad I went that route.
Love your videos, Tim! Your passion, enthusiasm, and playing are 🔥🔥🔥.
Keep up the good vibes 🎸🎸🤙🤙
That's the recording that got me to .
That loose slinky feeling ...you let go ...wait for it .... and embrace it .
I love Hendrix and I learned the blues from Red House!! Gary Moore’s version at the Fender Anniversary concert is very very special!!!
You never fail to blow my mind in every single one of your videos, because you always play with such amazing soul and taste, and always with impeccable sweet tone as well
Great Post, Tim! I've listened to 'Red House' off of 'Hendrix in the West' (like you), for decades! IMO - IT IS Hendrix' best version of 'Red House'. I know there are many others, but to me, this is the definitive version. As we all know, Jimi never played ANY song - the same way, twice! Nice Job, Tim! You Rock, Brother!
55 and still learning everytime I play. Love to play redhouse.
So informative breaking down each little lick and quick explanations, love it!
Thank you. After being raised by a Dad adamant that Pop-music and electric guitar music weren't really music I heard Hendrix in 1972 when my new wife had his albums...changed my entire life completely. I never heard this Red House but WOW...
I first got Hendrix in the West in 1980 in a record store in San Diego, I'm from Jersey & I was visiting my grandmother, My favorite live album hard to get on cd
ya succeeded Tim. This video, as the original version you referred to, both can now teach nearly anyone with the feel for it "blues soloing". Well done Brother. This is a gold mine of a video for lots of us!
This brother here is great, in more ways than one! Makes.for a brighter day , in the midst of... Sound-wise & the explanation . My man, you rock. BIG-THANX!
RUclips suggested your channel and I'm so glad it did. I will be going back and checking out most if not all of your vids.
What is amazing about you, Tim, is that everything I hear you play, whether adopted from another master, or that which you’ve created, sounds natural, and personal. I learn something new every time I watch your You Tube posts, or one of the Master Class sessions. Thank you.
Masterful playing, Tim. It was Band of Gypsys for me. Thanks!
Awesome sharing Tim all your years of knowledge from hard yards and loving music through guitar is gold..thanks for giving it out to the world.
Thanks for this Tim. Hendrix in the West is my favourite Hendrix album along with the BBC sessions. I can't play guitar at all but l really enjoy your playing and insights into other great guitarists.
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To hear the best Red House solo.. Thanks from a Jimi Hendrix fan
"In the West" was my first Jimi album, a the tender age of 13, just starting to learn the guitar. Red House is awesome. Check out two interesting points: at the beginning of one phrase you can hear him hit the bottom E string, then play a few licks, getting feedback on the bottom E and using it as a harmonizing backing to his lead playing! Also, you can tell from the tone that he is playing through a wah-wah with the pedal set far back, never touching it, just getting the tone, then for one(!) note in the middle of his lead playing he pushes the pedal forward and gets a clean, sharp note. Still a brilliant recording, never equalled by anyone IMHO.
Tim this is my
favourite Hendrix track of all time. Like you I have listened to this song hundreds of times without getting tired of it.I discover something new every time I listen to it. You have come the closest to any guitarist I have heard to capturing its essence. We also need to give credit to the rhythm section in the recording which is rock solid. Have you ever considered doing a recording of your favourite Hendrix songs or even favourite guitar songs? I would be the first to buy it. Cheers! 👍👍
I love it! This got me stoned years before I smoked. It's the lack of time and his meandering that sucks you in and when he hits the pocket it snaps up right and ready for his next riff. Chaz I was ten. Oh where did the years go.
I had In the West on vinyl and ‘who knows’ where it ended up. A great album. If my memory serves me well, it had a cover of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on it. Oh, by the way, your playing was majestic on this video.
For four summers during college I worked a repetitive job in the sun 8 to 10 hours a day. My days passed quickly as I had listened to this version of Red House so many times as to have completely committed every note and phrase to memory and could continue to play it back in by memory in an eight hour loop every day. Still my favorite blues number of all time.
I like Tim’s enthusiasm so much
Tim, your tone in this song is exquisite!!!! Holy Grail tone!!!
Check out the performance of "Bleeding Heart" Hendrix did at the royal albert hall. I think its some of the best blues ever played.
And the Stone Free solo, most epic solo I have ever heard.
Whar I hear here is more "Bleeding Heart" than "Red House"!
I had been a huge Clapton fan for a few years when I heard my first Albert King album. It was an eye opener for me because I was hearing all these Clapton licks that predated him. I concluded that Clapton borrowed King's licks wholesale, and used a pick (King used his thumb) and an overdriven amp, whereas King had a clean sound. The man was a remarkable influence who deserves much more recognition than he has received.
always been obsessed with his Redhouse live @ Winterland. (10/11/68 version). Not from this world. love how you make the point of playing out of the pocket and it seems that when Hendrix was playing live you can hear his drummer trying to time his bars.
That is a great version. Also from 10/12/68 is fabulous, New York Pop, Miami, RAH 2/24, Berkeley first show, Boston Garden too many to name all different
Tim, your blues playing is superb, love listening g to you & the education!
Oh man you’re killing me. I got out my good headphones and whatever equipment you have it’s absolutely primo! I love Albert King. I remember buying his album with Crosscut Saw on it. He’s so fabulous and should get way more respect. Keep on posting. 👍☮️🌞🎸🎵💖
Excellent episode. Out of time and thrown away and all the finer details. Great advice here. This is a treasure trove, several minutes packed with key advice!
Doing my advanced classical guitar exams many moons ago now I can attest to the need for stamina, simply for the practice time required - 8 hours a day minimum leading up to exams and memorisation, technical exercises and crafting your own 'acceptable' spin on the repertoire.
Stretching, regular rests and never playing with too much force. Good posture, drawing tendons through the wrist and fingers without too much tension. Essential advice Sir 👌🏼
Gotta say thanks Tim. More often than not I come away from your videos with at least one gem of guitar wisdom that that unlocks a sonic door for me, or at least shows me where to step up from the current guitar plateau that I may be on.
Great to see someone showing such capable and educated appreciation of Jimi's body of work, ~ I was amazed at that extended solo from Jimi on red house,..my favourite part was when he went onto the wah and was vibing on that, it was seriously refreshing and astonishingly musical, ..but a truly epic solo with so many twists and turns.
Thank you! I heard the album in the West and a year later I bought a guitar and I still play every day almost 40 years later 😁
My favourite song. It’s why I play. You just knocked it out of the park Tim.
I guite agree that "in the west" was one of the better post/Hendrix, Hendrix albums... My second favorite being "War Hero's". Thanks for the videos Tim!
13:40 I am marking this timestamp for my own reference on the Fender MTG Tube Tremolo! I have been searching for your video where you talked about this pedal and finally was watching this Hendrix lesson again and there it is! Thank you for all this free wisdom Tim. Been a bedroom guitarist for about 20 years.
Hendrix was the Master of Space And Time! The Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven of guitar... he could play around the beat, and come so far out of the pocket, either backwards or forwards - he'd come all the way around and lap himself into the next measure - LOL. I'm sure your fans would love it if you'd do a similar review of Midnight Lightning (my personal fav. of the posthumous albums). Your commentary and instructions on this one are as excellent as your playing - even more so than usual - I can't stop listening to it, and playing along! Thanks Tim!! Also, your posture comments are right on - I got that from Jamie Andreas' Guitar Principles - made a huge improvement in my playing - I started practicing standing up - the same way I played live. Walter Trout was signing one of my heavier LPs one night - and told me about the neck strap that saved him from having to stop playing - I got one, and it saved me, too. Finally, pardon me for talking out of turn - but I mentioned you to Cad. Zack; re: If you'd play for Monday Blues at the Maui Sugar Mill - JIC he reaches out. I don't live in LA anymore, so I'd probably miss it - but I'd come back for it, if I knew.
Thank you Tim!
I’m a blues musician and this was so helpful, informative and just plain fun to watch and learn. The break down, very well done.
every time I come by to watch your videos .. you blow me away ! great teaching and wisdom sharing thanks
LOVE the guitar tone coming out of that rig! Fantastic video!
Love it Tim. What a great video. It’s still amazing to me listening to Jimi how much he owns the electric guitar more than anyone that came after.
This was the track that got me into blues, although at the time I didn't realise it was 'blues'. To me it was just Hendrix!
So excited to hear you talk about the album and that version of Red House, as that has always been the most magic moments in music history for me!
Live at Winter land is very good. You always do good work Tim. Thanks.
HitW was the first live Hendrix LP I bought back in the '70s. The amazement to hear him play all the incredible stuff LIVE! And the majestic Red House version then... blew my mind, still does. And when someone says he does not regard Jimi as a blues player, I've had the pleasure of playing RH from HitW for them :) Tim, I absolutely love your deep insights of the song. Thank you so much, I could not even begin to figure out those details myself! A worthy treatise of a great song and musician indeed !
Yep! I got that album the day it came out and was completely blown away! Absolutely the best version of Red House in his entire career! I too have listened to this hundreds of times!
YES! His best solo ever. Thank you ...
Beautiful sounding Tim , one can play all day with that kind of stuff and just never get bored, the Red House version on "Jimi Hendrix Concerts" is some of his best live playing ever....on that whole album really...
On most channels I hate live streams because they’re filled with thoughtless rambling and even dead air. I didn’t even realize this was a recorded live stream until you started responding to the chat. Great job!
Wow, Mr. Pierce I just came across this site!! I myself don't play, but listening to you was a treat , I'm 60 loved your solo of red house!!! ✌️ Joe mozingo. NC
Man I love your playing and teaching style! Your energy, rhythm, dynamics, note choices, timing (timming?), knowledge sharing, it is so elite..Thank you!