The RIGHT Way To Play "Who Knows" by Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2020
- Hendrix Forensics! Have you been playing the classic Jimi Hendrix riff from "Who Knows" WRONG this whole time?? Watch and find out!
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🔴 Check out this recording of the rehearsal (thanks Kevin!) ruclips.net/video/hyOOVMSNyow/видео.html
Actually, listening to this once, I was finally able to hear the correct riff! And now I can't un-hear it which I guess is a good thing.
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I was at both Friday night Band of Gypsies shows at the Fillmore East.
Amazing!
I panhandled the ticket for the second show. Tickets were $3.50, $4.50 and $5.50. I was fifteen years old at the time. Love your channel.
lucky dog!
@@richardross9296 I can't believe you saw machine gun, power of soul and all of the other songs live on those nights. Man that must of been an experience. Did you have a feeling that this was pretty special and did you know they were recording?
Was there a difference between shows? I'd kill to see the recorded version. I was 9, but Jimi is the reason I play guitar.
I love when people go this far into Jimis music
Well, my whole life is a lie.
🤣 Same.
Rhett Shull that makes three lives ruined.
...mine certainly is, I was meant to be a great guitar player ...hey ho
I can’t handle this!!!!!
Now proceed to watch the video
JImi had definite ideas about intros to songs and drum patterns he wanted played as in the famous drum intro to All Along the Watchtower. There was an album called Loose Ends that was just that, studio out takes and such and part of it was snippets of the rehearsals for the Fillmore New Years shows. They were just jamming on Blue Suede Shoes and Jimi had a high hat intro he wanted Buddy to play and Buddy just wasn't getting it. Jimi was singing the part he wanted and Buddy was trying to repeat it but Jimi kept saying, "no, no man. Like this!" and you can hear the frustration in his voice. And this was for a song they were just jamming and weren't going to play at the gig. That's why Jimi regretted not being able to read or write music, it was hard for him to get across what he was hearing in his head to others and he really wanted to do more structured pieces with lots of players doing parts he wrote, not just jamming along.
Hendrix forensics. Nicely done.
Hendrix Forensix! I might have to start a series
@@RJRonquillo Please do dude!!!
@@RJRonquillo Do it!!!
@@RJRonquillo "The EXP Files - the sounds are out there!"
@@RJRonquillo DO IT!!
Hendrix is 🎸 people still trying to figure it out. And this cool cat didn’t bother to play a million notes per second . Just a million feelings and emotions . Way to go man , new sub here 💪👊
50 years later I still feel lucky and privileged to have seen Jimi at Woodstock. I'll never play like him nor will anyone else.
I’m jealous
I agree, but Randy Hanson comes very close.
Didja ever see the Dead, man? (~)};)
Wrong, This dude has Hendrixs play style down like on other ive seen copy and paste his name here on RUclips look at a handful of his videos. *Julijan Eric*
Curious if you can recall how was his tone life compared to the engineering and recording?
Brings me chills to hear this. BOG was my first exposure to Hendrix. Definitely still sounds contemporary and never dated. Awsome!
I remember walking around the streets of Berkeley, Ca. on the weekends during my high school days jamming the shit outta this lp on my cassette tape recorder, and people lookin at me like I'm crazy. Especially, Black people, because they hadn't been exposed to Jimi. But, after seeing him and actually having the opportunity to come face to face with him @ Berkeley, I found myself in a different world, far as music was concerned. And, I was enjoying the hell out of it!
Mindless self-indulgence: having heard this riff (note the drum entry) correctly scored me the job as a fill-in bassist for the great Randy Hansen on his tour of Germany, who certainly never played it wrong.
Aaaah, typing while watching, of course you mention Randy. You're the best RJ, tell them!
Randy Hansen is criminally underrated. Not only an amazing guitar player, but one of the greatest showmen of all time. I’ve noticed though that a lot of people can’t see past the whole Hendrix act, sadly.
@@marionsmith8707 Thats because in the realm of Art authentic/original self expression is first and foremost. Randy is a great guitar player but the guy doesn't have his own vision. The lesson to learn from Hendrix is to do your own thing. Jimi couldn't stand to look or sound like anybody else.
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This video felt like a magic eye painting, and I had no idea what you were saying until all of a sudden I did.
great analogy!
I’ve always heard it on the G,and I wish Jimi could come back and play for us all. As with a bunch of other great musicians that we all miss.
find the new one, we have access to millions now, to me it's not about technically perfect insta players, it is one in million, something fresh and original, we won't know it till we hear it.. it's imagination..
100% correct. - according to Buddy Miles. I only talked to him a few times, but one of my friends who also happens to be a damn good Hendrix impersonator, was a very good friend of Buddy's. We've talked about this riff, and he told me Buddy confirmed it starts on the lower notes
And if you ever do start a Hendrix forensics series, I'd be happy to put you in contact with my friend. He's spent countless hours talking to Buddy about Jimi
The incomparable Buddy Miles.
I ALSO HEARD IT
FROM BUDDY MILES! After I ASKED HIM WHERE 1 Is, He confirmed it!
100% correct - according to Jimi Hendrix. I have only communicated with him a few times via an ouija board, but during one séance he talked about this riff and he told me it starts on the lower notes.
@@shivasirons8971 thats so cool..
I remember the day that album came out we listened to it over and over and over again ... happened to be on acid at the time...I vowed I would NEVER defile this music by learning it......week later I knew every song by heart...😎🎼🎸
I must be a genius because I've always heard the riff starting from the G : )
Tell me your secrets
@@RJRonquillo I think I just heard it from the wrong bar and everything clicked, hahhaha.
BTW, big fan here, cheers all the way from Rio de Janeiro!
Same. Either I misinterpret smthn because I don't think its that hard to hear either since I've been only playing for 9 months lol
@@RJRonquillo he's literally the OG :D
@@ashwinvishwakarma2531 been playing decades but only just recently heard this say 3 times? we should compare notes lol, also i think certain exercises, if a person does them could help too? you know, even if they had heard it a million times as starting in wrong place, i like devising exercises that sort of trip me up ya know?
Really interesting area. When a song starts, it can have a certain beat/feel, and your brain seems to fill in the rest - but then it switches and your brain goes "WTF" and then you sync to the new beat etc. What a great way into a song. :)
TRUTH RJ!!!! Top notch work dude. And so entertaining too, loving the pace and slickness of your format atm!
I love Hendrix over 30 years. He talk with his guitar and made every note Alive. He was a speaking person who knows talking to the people in there soul 😊
YES YES YEE RJ!!! I’m yelling in my car I’m so happy you did this video! I knew EXACTLY what you were going to say before I even watched it. THANK YOU!! I have never ever seen anybody play this correctly with the G on the 1. And your video on Hendrix string gauge with the slinkier G string was a revelation! You are ace man!
The hippest thing about this tune is how it oscillates between a swing feel and a straight 4/4 and also his phrasing on the solo breaks has an eerie hue to it and has all these strange black panther/Vietnamese/Indian qualities. Miles Davis said "Jimi was playing all these funny Indian melodies"
Also worth noting that the performance of this song and machine gun from the 2nd night of the Fillmore shows came after Bill Graham critiqued Jimi on the first night, telling him that he shucked and jived but didn't really play. Jimi asked him if he'd would be around for the second show, and the following night he opened with those tunes back to back. After he got off stage he walked up to Bill and said "satisfied, mutherfucka'?"
Bill said, and I paraphrase here: " What followed, with respect to Carlos, Duane and Clapton and all the other greats, was the single greatest performance I have ever heard. He just stood there stock still and played and played. It was emotionally devastating and I don't ever expect to hear it equaled."
Good work RJ. You are digging into the subtleties of Jimi's playing.
True story and after blowing Graham away and seeing his reaction he went out for the encore feeling super validated and did.nothing but the tricks. guitar behind head.with tongue teeth hump ing the strat.....
Buddy Miles: Hey man, where's the one?
Billy Cox: *Shrugs* Who Knows?!?
reminds me of Kid Anderson "things people play wrong", very cool! a new way of hearing the song after 50 years. Now i have to go back and listen to it.
There's another crazy thought....this is 50 years old and we're still figuring out what Jimi actually did. "Before his time" is an understatement.
Thank You. Brought me straight back to the magic of hearing Jimi for the first time and then slowly it becoming it my favourite Hendrix guitar piece.
Actually I saw 'Band of Gypsys' live in Albuquerque, N.M. where he did a double concert, back-to-back in one night. The only time I got to see him.
Excellent forensics work on the riff. All I can say is thank you for the lesson, love the riff
Great stuff. This has always been my favorite Hendrix. Billy Cox's simple bass lines are so full of life, and funky as hell. Buddy Miles voice is like butter. BTW, that solo you did with Tim was killer.
Excellent work here! One of my favorite albums. Just bought the guitar book for band of gypsies. Such a fantastic live performance by Hendrix.
This is a surgical analysis of the facts... being a Jimi fan I can say that this video honors, in a very memorable way, two people... Jimi and R.J. for your excellent analysis. Cheers!!!
That new compilation of all the New Years performances are very much godsend to all of us fans it’s so great to hear everything, warts and all
Trivia...just a bit of this song was played in one of the Sopranos episodes at the Ba-Da-Bing.
Very enlightening and I’ve listened to this for 25yrs! Makes sense once you mentioned where the singing starts.
Finally! Someone got it right! I met Buddy Miles in LA and I ask him where 1 is, and he confirmed it’s where people think 3 is!
It makes sense RJ!!! Thanks for the video ;)
Thanks brother. Band Of Gypsies were fantastic. I absolutely love Buddy's playing. Jimi,Billy and Buddy were insanely awesome together.
Omg, This blew my mind.... 😩 My brain keeps changing the one when I listened to it just now.
Nice video! And nice arguments haha
Yeah.your one hundred percent right,when they start the lines singing it all falls into place,thank you R.J.
All your points are correct, and I’m SO GLAD somebody is finally with me on this one!
Great Video RJ, Long Live Jimi!!!
Ah, very interesting! I agree with you... I've been starting it on the D, and NEVER thought it was actually on the G note. I wonder what even had you doubting it in the first place. You're like the Indiana Jones of music Archaeology. Good Job researching this, R.J.!
Ooooh!! Fabulous!!! Thank you!!! You are so right!! You sound just like the original. Oh God, I LOVE Jimi!!! I love his guitar, his voice, his songs - him - everything!!!
Love your videos
On the Live At The Filmore Album Hendix plays it alternating between the two versions.
I've played it since 72 and I agree Rj Good going
Yeah you are correct ❤
Finally someone did it! THANK YOU! I've hearing it THIS way, since the very first time i listended to the BOG record.
The man comes with cold hard evidence! I love it. Rock on!
Hey RJ! Nice (and fun) to see one of your exhibits & research results is a VHS recording of my 1997 TV show!
Yes, I was the guy who invited Buddy and his "New Band Of Gypsys" via the promoter for Italy to perform live and be interviewed, exclusively for my show on TV Capodistria, for the benefit of the cameras and the really packed, enthusiastic audience in the beautiful small hall of the Gravisi Palace, a Venetian historic building in Capodistria, Slovenia.
So, glad to have met Buddy, and Randy and Neil, and brought legends to my hometown, and... glad to have contributed to your discovery (with which, as a guitarist and Hendrix scholar, I wholeheartedly agree, btw)!
😉👍
Gonna follow your channel - if you feel like returning the favour and following mine, there will be some recording and Hendrix related content I believe you will find interesting coming very soon.
Cheers from the Adriatic coast,
AF
Nice!! Never looked at it like that, makes sense. Totally agree with you!
Great stuff RJ!
Great observations and extremely cool video! You have a smooth singing voice too, Bro! Now onto trying to get used to that riff the way that James Marshall Hendrix so clearly wrote it, as you've shown us.
Always nailing Hendrix songs!
Great vid!
awesome sounds dude
I think it's a very cool discovery, and makes sense.
That sounds spot on. Master class.
Makes a big difference playing it the right way. Thanks R. J.!
yes, by all means do more Hendrix content! i think all playrers should study him, and you have really nailed his sound RJ. I could listen to you play all day man, I am so impressed with your knowledge, and that one thing you can't really teach, feeling
Great content man! I think you are spot on
Bravo! And no, none of us could ever hear it the way Jimi did because he was from another dimension! He was not of this world. Thank you and thanks to Jimi for expanding our conciousness.
RJ, loving the 2020 channel features, and your axe tone is great. I see 200K subs this year. Let's make it happen, You Rock...👍🎸🎶🎵🎼
I found out myself before i saw your video and i totally agree. Great explanation, it`s 100% my opinion too.
Well-argued and persuasive!
Ayyy great vid!
Great Jimi'ism RJ! Happy New Year!!
Word up! I always kind of wondered about this!
U right man can't unsee it!!!!
Agreed ! Love your tone !!
Wow! Amazing ...
Thank you Sir ✌
Hot one Jr great tune
hey, youre right! i dont think i can change the way i hear it, but i bet whoever is able to change the way they hear it would be able to improvise with a whole new level of creativity over that riff
Thank you!!! This is awesome! And my all time fav Jimi song!! Could you do one on message of love too?!
You are a genius :-) love your channel...
I've always thought this way💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Love videos!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much ,,,,,,,,lesson learned ...........
I actually played it right, nice video bro
...I agree "Genius Guy"...Thank you very much ☮️🕊️🎸😉...✨🎇
The version of Who Knows that we're all familiar with got an ''extended'' cut on the new Songs For Groovy Children boxset where you can actually hear that it starts on that lower note. I have already listened to that side of the record ten times before it hit me.
I posted this comment and immediatly after that you mentioned it in the video. Life has a way.
I always thought the feel of this Tune was weird. Lol. Thanks for figuring this out.
Has always been G to me. I might have seen someone play that way though (other than Jimi), before I actually picked the guitar to play it myself for the first time. Nice video RJ. This guitar forensics thing is pretty cool.
So glad you ckeared up the big mistake...back then tabs were unheard of no cell phones no internet so you had to go see jimi if you wanted to play it his way the way he was doing that particular tune that week...awesome job Ron....
Nice playing man... you have good ears for Jimi :) He was the man. He had so many "flowers" in his playing. Not many people hear those things :) Randy Hansen is one of those people.
Almost fifty, the band of gypsys cd is still my nr.1 cd, untouchable
I actually always heard it this way, listen to where the bass and drums enter, where the solos start,, where jimis vocal enters…plus I ASKED BUDDY MILES, WHO CONFIRMED IT!!
"....Happy New Year.... Goodbye '69...."
HI RJ it's funny but I had the same thoughts all my life about this riff. You're completely right and I have the same difficulty to keep on singing my first phrases on the G note while playing. This is the proof that Jimi came for outer space :)
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Wow,that's beautiful R.J.,I always wondered why Jimis riff sounds backwards,he must have been doing Jazz,Ive been listening to this record since 1979,had a hard time picking up on this on the guitar,I appreciate your insight,another thing is the astonishing octavia riffs and his half step down part of the solo.thank you.this lesson is so cool.
I love this kind of stuff what an awesome video! It’s the video I saw first of yours and it made me way to subscribe!! Nice work!!! I llove this: “you’ve all been playing it wrong!!!” So good man! It’s a super killer sound you have on your guitar!! Since I subscribed and will tell everyone I know about you, would you please be kind enough to tell me how you’re getting that guitar sound? Like pedals, amp or settings that make it work? Thanks in advance my good man!
Musically it makes sense.Like a one and,two and play beat.I never noticed it.But it totally fits the intro.
I've seen Hendrix twice, you're actually Right..
...excellent
My favourite album of all time!
Bro - I'm gonna go play this NOW!
you got it right and you're also right that not only is it one of the most classic riffs in rock history (along with Whole Lotta Love, Paranoid and Sunshine Of Your Love) but I find it amusing that so many try it and get it wrong. And the whole song (indeed the whole album) is bluesy and funky as doo doo.
I had the Band of Gypsies live at the Filmore East on vhs when I first was learning guitar in 97'. I totally agree with you here. The thing that drove me (drives me) nuts with that incredibly amazing recording is that his guitar is tuned like right in the middle of standard tuning and e flat tuning. So I would always jump back in forth not knowing what he was tuned in. Of course years later I've long figured that out but to the beginner, back before RUclips, its very confusing.
Certainly explains the funky timing and vibe to it
Randy Hansen is the man who knows how to play it.
Jimmy never plays the whole thing twice, just as the same, a free spirit flows far far away whitout moving...
Great job R.J.!!!
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