Yes! Finally someone reacts to Voodoo Chile, rather than Voodoo Child (Slight Return). The latter gets tons of reactions, but the former is mostly ignored by youtube reactors for some reason. So thanks for this. 😄 Edit: I believe it's Mitch Mitchell on drums (not Buddy Miles), and I also have to give a shout out to Steve Winwood who was awesome on keyboard for this song.
Forgive them! I bought this album in 1980 at 16yrs old, still have it in excellent condition & to this day i absolutely LOVE this underrated song. The part where he says: turn that down, then starts to jamming again is priceless.🔥🔥🔥🔥
You are wise grasshopper. The only thing I would add is: Jack Cassidy from Jefferson Airplane also plays n this track, he is thumping on that bass guitar.
@@smoothoperator7023 Similar here. I bought this album new in 1977. I was also 26 years old. Freaky.... When I brought it home and showed m y Mom the cover artwork she was like "Son, have you lost your F'n mind?" Ha ha
Mitch Mitchell on drums. Possibly his best showing on any track. Absolutely ridiculous. It was a super group feature. Jack Cassiday on bass from Jefferson airplane (?). On keys none other than Steve Winwood of Traffic. Jimi had these guys in mind specifically to record this track, happened to find them in a club in NYC one night, Took them back to the studio, and recorded this. One of his absolute best and most epic tracks.
Electric Ladyland is a masterpiece. The "Rainy Suite" (Rainy Day, 1983, Still Raining...) is quite possibly the most beautiful of all Jimi's music, and music in general.
I had this album in high school and listened so many times I knew every note 😅 you’re the only person I’ve ever heard mention Rainy Day it’s my lifetime favourite of his.
Listen to Mitch Mitchell on drums on ANY Hendrix song. He is outstanding and underrated. I can’t imagine any other drummer playing with Jimi other than Mitch at this time. He keeps up with Jimi and they are in sync. Jimi blended improvisation with his stage performances and Mitch, and Noel, followed Jimi’s cues to perfection! Later drummer was Buddy Miles and Billy Cox on Bass with the new name Band of Gypsys.
THE best. Steve Winwood on organ. Mitch Mitchell (from The Experience) on drums. Jack Casady on bass. Jimi's lyrical imagery is brilliant and colorful; I don't hear the devil in there at all. Love this song! You are one of the very few to react to it. So lucky I saw Jimi in '68 right after Electric Ladyland came out.
This era of music was not prehistoric. There were a plethora of great rock drummers great guitarists great bassists and great singers. The 60s and the 70s was the best time for music. Today's crap, well, don't get me started.
you sound like me, i go backwards listening to old blues and jazz....todays music sucks...luckily you never run out of material from the 60s and 70s....
P.S. You are dead right about drummer Mitch Mitchell & guitarist Jimi Hendrix making a fantastic combination. When Jimi was auditioning drummers in London for what would become THE EXPERIENCE band, he said that first hearing Mitch Mitchell's drumming, made him want to pick up his guitar and play!
This recording was played live in the studio. One take. Back in the day musicians would hang out late in the night at local clubs and jam. Whoever showed up got up and played. On this night Jimi invited friends from the club back to the studio for this recording. He asked Jack Cassidy to play Bass, and he always wanted to play with Stevie Winwood, and asked him to play the B3 organ. You can hear his friends in the studio in the background.
Here I am again for Jimi!! I was 18 and had ingested my first psychedelic substance when I first heard this album beginning to end! What a fu€king awesome trip that was, I wouldn’t touch any of the stuff out there now, but back then it was just our hippie thing and it definitely did expand people’s minds and imagination. 😎👵🏼💜☮️
Buddy Miles didn't join untill it became The Band of Gypsys a few years after this. Steve Winwood on organ here and Jack Cassidy from Jefferson Airplane on bass. I wouldn't pay to much attention to the lyrics. It was just an improvised jam in the studio in front of a group of friends
What a jam right? Mitch Mitchell was the original drummer for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. This song is based on the Muddy Waters song Rollin' Stone, but the lyrics and the music is Jimi's. Steve Winwood on the organ is worth looking into bro. He started with the Spencer Davis group on vocals and keyboards. Had a handful of damn good songs. After a few years with SDG he quit the band and formed Traffic. The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is a great jam IMO. After Traffic, Steve had a big solo career. You would like him, I believe.
This is off the Electric Ladyland album, which is like the soundtrack of my life, since I was 17, over 50 years ago, every track is great, stoned or straight.
this level of drumming indeed - Mitch Mitchell was a pioneer - he didn't just keep up with Jimi, he propelled him! He was also bloody fast! thanks so much for taking the time to play this highly underated piece.
Voodoo was an actual religion, look it up. It was very weird, and some blues players had some fun spoofing on it. I have a cd titled Jimi Hendrix blues, and it's filled with long concert songs like this.
Buddy Miles was his drummer near the final 1-2 years of his life. "The Experience" (Mitch Mitchell / Noel Redding) actually broke up. Hendrix put a new band together called Band of Gypsies with Buddy Miles and Billy Cox. You can hear them on the Live at Filmore East album. On the Electric Ladyland album it is the Experience line up with also some great guest musicians. On the track you are reviewing here, Steve Winwood is on keys, and Jack Cassidy (Jefferson Airplane) is on bass.
Just Jimi on guitar , An organ player , Bassist and Drums , And Jimi often had people in the studio to make it more of a performance and they ran this through once or twice then hit record. And that's what you hear.
"Voodoo" is not of the devil. It is its own religion. You hear references to Voodoo and Hoodoo practices in blues songs back to the 1920s ("She sprinkled hot foot powder all around my door" -Robert Johnson, "Going to Louisiana, gonna get me a mojo hand" -Lightnin' Hopkins, and many more, of course). The closest figure in Voodoo that some equate with the devil is the orisha Legba. Jimi, at his heart, was a bluesman. Songs like this are not only extremely blues based, but a bit of a call back to songs like "Seventh Son" or "Born Under a Bad Sign", but Jimi was also a Sci-Fi nerd, so of course his going to take these concepts through different places in outer space or other dimensions.
Mitch Mitchell " Jimi's Drummer " , Was a pure jazz drummer , And was thrown together with Jimi along with Bassist Noel Redding who had never played bass before but could play guitar. Mitch's style of drumming was very common in the Jazz world and he never really liked or listened to Rock music in his own time but man when they were together they created something incredible !
Ned from Spain here to say it's so great to see people getting introduced to Jimi Hendrix and going for deep cuts like this. Normally people go for the " hits". The drummer is the legendary Mitch Mitchell ( RIP). The relationship between he and Jimi was uncanny, symbiotic telepathic and the heaviest jazz you've ever heard. Mitch was a lover of jazz players like Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Art Blakey... They also bonded over Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions.
Thank you for actually taking the time to hear this. Hendrix went out one night and brought Steve Winwood (Traffic) and Jack Cassidy (Jefferson Airplane) back to the studio with Mitch Mitchell (OG Hendrix drummer) and laid this track down using nothing other than a mixer and their talent. There were about 10 people watching this happen, you can hear them in the background clapping and celebrating. You're listening to a moment captured in time that will always be inspiring to those who can catch a groove. Be good and enjoy the ride!
Liked this reaction video of yours so much on my first listening. Since I happened now to be in your neighborhood, I'm just swinging by your crib, so we can share and groove on this one of Jimi's again! When the Voodoo Chile 15 min jam was first released, people didn't expect to hear such stoned lyrics to Jimi's down-home blues jam. But I think a younger fan hit the nail right on the head, when he called this track "Psychedelic Blues"!
Yeah you're listening to the blues version of voodoo child and there's The slight return voodoo child which are both on the same album electric Lady Land from 1968 was the year this album was released and by the way I love that Alice in chains shirt that you have on I was just playing that dirt album last night every single track on that album is good! 🎛️🎛️🥁🥁🎛️🎛️👍💯 No boddy plays on rainy day dream away which is on this same album Mitch Mitchell plays on this this track by the way incase you didn't know this is a double album set
Buddy Miles played with Jimi on some sessions, Band of Gypsies, and jams in various clubs. This was Mitch Mitchell, Jimi's regular recording and touring drummer. A easy way of thinking of it, by Jimi's description, is that Buddy was more of a solid-rock-drummer, and Mitch is more of a Jazz-funky-loose-drummer. This was recorded late night/morning in the studio live in from of a group of friends and fans. It sounds like it.
Amazing I hadn't heard this version before. So different not just the vocals, guitar and drums but that crazy organ always in the foreground which Jimi is obviously tuned into. The real "Jimi Hendrix Experience' not just him but the whole band.
Hi! The 3rd album (a double album) of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, ELECTRIC LADYLAND, was released in the U.S. & in Britain with the same recordings. There is a 15 minute live jam, and the next day a shorter studio variation of the song was recorded. On the U.S. album, the 15 minute live jam is titled VOODOO CHILE, and the shorter studio variation is titled VOODOO CHILD (SLIGHT RETURN). On the British album, the 15 minute live jam is titled VOODOO CHILE, but the shorter studio variation is also titled VOODOO CHILE.
Amazing how a person years ago made sounds of Earth, of Space, of Deep Space, etc. he truly gave us what he wanted us to hear. Jimi with Mitch on the drums is always the quintessential rock partnership. This song has moments of heavenly chords. You’ll feel it and just know. Peace N Love.
fvkin vibed with that a super lot. alpha tier musical content. how come I’m finding them out for the first time? I'm now eagerly waiting for your reaction to Nick Thurl Mavromatis' new song!
Voodoo Chile doesn't get enough love. I'm a simple woman. I see a "Voodoo Chile" reaction, I hit 'like'! I love how straight away you a 'stink face' on his opening riffs
That is Mitch Mitchell on drums and Steve Winwood on organ and Jack Cassidy on bass. On several of your Jimi reviews, you give credit to Buddy Miles on drums. The only LP featuring Miles is the Band Of Gypsies. All others are Mitch Mitchell. You are correct though when you mention that he sounds like a jazz drummer,, which Mitch was. Check out Jimi's "Manic Depression' Or "Fire" for some superior Mitch Mitchell performances. Thanks Man!
This recording sounds sooooo good. You can hear the studio. The reverberation from the walls. It has that close mic combined with distance mic sound. Not to mention the spontaneity and all star line up of musicians. BTW the lyrics dont mean s**t. They are all taken from Muddy Waters songs like Rollin Stone and Hoochie Coochie Man.
There were a ton of GREAT Rock drummers in this era, most notably Ginger Baker (Cream/Blind Faith), Keith Moon (The Who), John Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Ian Paice (Deep Purple), John Densmore (The Doors) and Bill Ward (Black Sabbath), among many other greats.
What Jimi is doing lyrically is the Blues version of "freestyling". The difference between rock and hip-hop is that rock lyrics don't always have to mean something, tell a story, or be intelligible on any level. Sometimes they do, and sometimes they are complete gibberish. The idea in rock music, is that the attention is on the music, first. The are some exceptions, like Dylan, but then you wouldn't necessarily call Dylan a Rock musician.
There were drummers this good before the 60's, but they were all playing jazz. By the mid 60's, kick ass drummers started materializing. Mitch Mitchell, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, and John Bonham all came to power in 60's. And those are just some names off the top of my head. I think drummers in general got more adventurous, and there were A LOT of really good drummers in the 60's and a lot of them were teens in garage bands that never saw success.
Jimi and Mitch Mitchell on drums. No there was never a better partnership. They were made for each other. Steve Winwood on organ here. The one of a kind Jack Cassady from Jefferson Airplane on bass. Haven't heard this in ages. Jimi at his primal bluesiest
i can not understand all the confusion today when it comes to Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - side D track 4 of the record and Voodoo Chile side A track 4. growing up with this record none of us were ever confused as to which song was which or the spelling of each song and we smoked and smoked and smoked tons of weed and did chemical drugs and still got it right. maybe because we looked at the album while listening to it... everywhere here on YT its a mess as to which is which along with the correct spelling of each song....
I think you might be the only person to react to this song on RUclips. It's because so few people realize that Chile and Child are not the same song at all.
Mitch Mitchell was the perfect drummer for Jimi, IMHO. The jazz influence in it seemed to push Jimi to keep exploring and express himself, like no other drummer.
This is the better one but less popular. Please look into how many famous players beyond the Jimi Hendrix Experience members contributed. Steve Winwood on Hammond B3 organ was about 19 years of age. Jack Bruce from The Cream played some of the bass, so did Jack Cassidy from Jefferson Airplane. Was Peter Frampton, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and others in the room? You bet. The band played this through over and over and the album version is nearly a clean live take. Electric Ladyland is a Masterpiece double album.
Ever notice Steve Winwood’s song on Back to the Future?!?! “The Power Of Love”. The name is actually a Jimi song but lyrics are modified. Same idea. He really believed in what Jimi was doing Peace N Love Jimi took y’all to church n y’all didn’t even know it
was there a better drummer and guitar partnerships ??? no. to play with the greatest guitarist you would have to be the greatest drummer- Mitch Mitchell. Mitch with a jazz background and his seemingly unlimited circular feel yet ferocious pounding was the perfect fit for Jimi's free wheeling never ending creativity and fire. it was an absolute perfect storm.
@@davescurry69SRV version is technically very very good, but does NOT capture the 60’s vintage feel, or Hendrix’ psychedelic swagger and emotion positively unique to him, and no one has ever done it better. No one. Ever.
Yes! Finally someone reacts to Voodoo Chile, rather than Voodoo Child (Slight Return). The latter gets tons of reactions, but the former is mostly ignored by youtube reactors for some reason. So thanks for this. 😄
Edit: I believe it's Mitch Mitchell on drums (not Buddy Miles), and I also have to give a shout out to Steve Winwood who was awesome on keyboard for this song.
Forgive them! I bought this album in 1980 at 16yrs old, still have it in excellent condition & to this day i absolutely LOVE this underrated song. The part where he says: turn that down, then starts to jamming again is priceless.🔥🔥🔥🔥
You are wise grasshopper. The only thing I would add is: Jack Cassidy from Jefferson Airplane also plays n this track, he is thumping on that bass guitar.
Man! You said it all! Exactly my thoughts.
I know....FINALLY!
@@smoothoperator7023 Similar here. I bought this album new in 1977. I was also 26 years old. Freaky.... When I brought it home and showed m y Mom the cover artwork she was like "Son, have you lost your F'n mind?" Ha ha
Jimi Hendrix stands alone. Unsurpassed even decades after his death.
Mitch Mitchell on drums. Possibly his best showing on any track. Absolutely ridiculous. It was a super group feature. Jack Cassiday on bass from Jefferson airplane (?). On keys none other than Steve Winwood of Traffic. Jimi had these guys in mind specifically to record this track, happened to find them in a club in NYC one night, Took them back to the studio, and recorded this. One of his absolute best and most epic tracks.
Haha now that's a spur the moment jam and what a product it created
I think on this song it was Buddy Miles
I remember reading it in the actual vinyl for Electric Ladyland
Buddy played on a couple songs but not voodoo chile
Buddy played on rainy day dream away and still raining still dreaming 👍🏽en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Ladyland
Electric Ladyland is a masterpiece. The "Rainy Suite" (Rainy Day, 1983, Still Raining...) is quite possibly the most beautiful of all Jimi's music, and music in general.
I had that album 😎👵🏼💜☮️
I had this album in high school and listened so many times I knew every note 😅 you’re the only person I’ve ever heard mention Rainy Day it’s my lifetime favourite of his.
Listen to Mitch Mitchell on drums on ANY Hendrix song. He is outstanding and underrated. I can’t imagine any other drummer playing with Jimi other than Mitch at this time. He keeps up with Jimi and they are in sync. Jimi blended improvisation with his stage performances and Mitch, and Noel, followed Jimi’s cues to perfection! Later drummer was Buddy Miles and Billy Cox on Bass with the new name Band of Gypsys.
Jimi Hendrix - Guitar
Stevie Winwoof - Keyboards
Mitch Mitchell - Drums
Jack Casady - Bass
Probably the best talent ever assembled for one band.
Very possible.
Jimi took the blues in to the Cosmos here.✌️
This is the best version
Stevie Winwood on organ and Jack Casady from Jefferson Airplane on bass on this track along with Mitch Mitchell on drums
It's amazing how huge his guitar sound was!
@bobbyz23 You've got that right. Sounds like it's 50 feet tall, here! Hendrix was the master at getting an enormous ballsy sound out of his guitar!
God bless Eddie Kramer
THE best. Steve Winwood on organ. Mitch Mitchell (from The Experience) on drums. Jack Casady on bass. Jimi's lyrical imagery is brilliant and colorful; I don't hear the devil in there at all. Love this song! You are one of the very few to react to it. So lucky I saw Jimi in '68 right after Electric Ladyland came out.
This era of music was not prehistoric. There were a plethora of great rock drummers great guitarists great bassists and great singers. The 60s and the 70s was the best time for music. Today's crap, well, don't get me started.
you sound like me, i go backwards listening to old blues and jazz....todays music sucks...luckily you never run out of material from the 60s and 70s....
Fantastic choice!
P.S. You are dead right about drummer Mitch Mitchell & guitarist Jimi Hendrix making a fantastic combination. When Jimi was auditioning drummers in London for what would become THE EXPERIENCE band, he said that first hearing Mitch Mitchell's drumming, made him want to pick up his guitar and play!
This recording was played live in the studio. One take. Back in the day musicians would hang out late in the night at local clubs and jam. Whoever showed up got up and played. On this night Jimi invited friends from the club back to the studio for this recording. He asked Jack Cassidy to play Bass, and he always wanted to play with Stevie Winwood, and asked him to play the B3 organ. You can hear his friends in the studio in the background.
Here I am again for Jimi!! I was 18 and had ingested my first psychedelic substance when I first heard this album beginning to end! What a fu€king awesome trip that was, I wouldn’t touch any of the stuff out there now, but back then it was just our hippie thing and it definitely did expand people’s minds and imagination. 😎👵🏼💜☮️
Ten years after. I'd love to change the world. 1971 🔥🎶🔥🎶🔥 Alvin Lee's guitar playing it Legendary
Alvin was great!
Buddy Miles didn't join untill it became The Band of Gypsys a few years after this. Steve Winwood on organ here and Jack Cassidy from Jefferson Airplane on bass. I wouldn't pay to much attention to the lyrics. It was just an improvised jam in the studio in front of a group of friends
What a jam right? Mitch Mitchell was the original drummer for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. This song is based on the Muddy Waters song Rollin' Stone, but the lyrics and the music is Jimi's. Steve Winwood on the organ is worth looking into bro. He started with the Spencer Davis group on vocals and keyboards. Had a handful of damn good songs. After a few years with SDG he quit the band and formed Traffic. The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys is a great jam IMO. After Traffic, Steve had a big solo career. You would like him, I believe.
Todo un orgasmo musical, que se puede decir de esto ,sublime , extraordinario, jimi llevandonos a un viaje celestial, mejor que esto no hay.
This is off the Electric Ladyland album, which is like the soundtrack of my life, since I was 17, over 50 years ago, every track is great, stoned or straight.
agree, so diverse, every song has a different effect....best rock album ever!!
this level of drumming indeed - Mitch Mitchell was a pioneer - he didn't just keep up with Jimi, he propelled him! He was also bloody fast! thanks so much for taking the time to play this highly underated piece.
Voodoo was an actual religion, look it up. It was very weird, and some blues players had some fun spoofing on it. I have a cd titled Jimi Hendrix blues, and it's filled with long concert songs like this.
Buddy Miles was his drummer near the final 1-2 years of his life. "The Experience" (Mitch Mitchell / Noel Redding) actually broke up. Hendrix put a new band together called Band of Gypsies with Buddy Miles and Billy Cox. You can hear them on the Live at Filmore East album. On the Electric Ladyland album it is the Experience line up with also some great guest musicians. On the track you are reviewing here, Steve Winwood is on keys, and Jack Cassidy (Jefferson Airplane) is on bass.
Hendrik changed the guitar World forever ❤
He was really great...yes Jimi playing it
Just Jimi on guitar , An organ player , Bassist and Drums , And Jimi often had people in the studio to make it more of a performance and they ran this through once or twice then hit record. And that's what you hear.
Bands in this Era were so good and just impromptu jamming sessions and making it sound better than most established bands of our time 🤣
"Voodoo" is not of the devil. It is its own religion. You hear references to Voodoo and Hoodoo practices in blues songs back to the 1920s ("She sprinkled hot foot powder all around my door" -Robert Johnson, "Going to Louisiana, gonna get me a mojo hand" -Lightnin' Hopkins, and many more, of course). The closest figure in Voodoo that some equate with the devil is the orisha Legba. Jimi, at his heart, was a bluesman. Songs like this are not only extremely blues based, but a bit of a call back to songs like "Seventh Son" or "Born Under a Bad Sign", but Jimi was also a Sci-Fi nerd, so of course his going to take these concepts through different places in outer space or other dimensions.
I see what you're saying, thanks for filling me in 😁
Thank you Jimi isn't associated with demons or the devil
Mitch Mitchell " Jimi's Drummer " , Was a pure jazz drummer , And was thrown together with Jimi along with Bassist Noel Redding who had never played bass before but could play guitar. Mitch's style of drumming was very common in the Jazz world and he never really liked or listened to Rock music in his own time but man when they were together they created something incredible !
His drumming was phenomenal!
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood play a gut wrenching version of this on the Live at Madison Square Garden DVD or CD
YES!!!! That killed!
Mitch Mitchell on drums. inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992. Inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2009
Absolute beast!
Ned from Spain here to say it's so great to see people getting introduced to Jimi Hendrix and going for deep cuts like this. Normally people go for the
" hits". The drummer is the legendary Mitch Mitchell ( RIP). The relationship between he and Jimi was uncanny, symbiotic telepathic and the heaviest jazz you've ever heard. Mitch was a lover of jazz players like Max Roach, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Art Blakey... They also bonded over Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions.
Thank you for actually taking the time to hear this. Hendrix went out one night and brought Steve Winwood (Traffic) and Jack Cassidy (Jefferson Airplane) back to the studio with Mitch Mitchell (OG Hendrix drummer) and laid this track down using nothing other than a mixer and their talent. There were about 10 people watching this happen, you can hear them in the background clapping and celebrating. You're listening to a moment captured in time that will always be inspiring to those who can catch a groove. Be good and enjoy the ride!
Buying the vinyl and discovering this song was mind blowing to say the least.
Mitch was drumming...
it's been so many years since I've listened to this one 🎶 i almost forgot it my favorite Jimi composition - AMAZING band 😄
The difference between "chile" and "child" is the dialect. I would guess that chile is how Jimi wrote it.
Liked this reaction video of yours so much on my first listening. Since I happened now to be in your neighborhood, I'm just swinging by your crib, so we can share and groove on this one of Jimi's again! When the Voodoo Chile 15 min jam was first released, people didn't expect to hear such stoned lyrics to Jimi's down-home blues jam. But I think a younger fan hit the nail right on the head, when he called this track "Psychedelic Blues"!
welcome to Jimi!!!!
Awe, man. I was hoping you were going to listen to Voodoo Child (Slight Return!)
It will blow you right out of your headphones.
It's great but this one (Voodoo Chile) is beyond great!
Well, if you're not a Jimi fan by now, good luck!!!!
Yeah you're listening to the blues version of voodoo child and there's The slight return voodoo child which are both on the same album electric Lady Land from 1968 was the year this album was released and by the way I love that Alice in chains shirt that you have on I was just playing that dirt album last night every single track on that album is good! 🎛️🎛️🥁🥁🎛️🎛️👍💯 No boddy plays on rainy day dream away which is on this same album Mitch Mitchell plays on this this track by the way incase you didn't know this is a double album set
Buddy Miles played with Jimi on some sessions, Band of Gypsies, and jams in various clubs. This was Mitch Mitchell, Jimi's regular recording and touring drummer. A easy way of thinking of it, by Jimi's description, is that Buddy was more of a solid-rock-drummer, and Mitch is more of a Jazz-funky-loose-drummer.
This was recorded late night/morning in the studio live in from of a group of friends and fans. It sounds like it.
Winwood on keys snd and Mason on rhythm guitar.
I forgot to mention Dave Mason in my explanation comment.
love to find someone who tried voodoo chile instead of slight return. both amazing but voodoo chile is my favorite of the two
Amazing I hadn't heard this version before. So different not just the vocals, guitar and drums but that crazy organ always in the foreground which Jimi is obviously tuned into.
The real "Jimi Hendrix Experience' not just him but the whole band.
Hi! The 3rd album (a double album) of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, ELECTRIC LADYLAND, was released in the U.S. & in Britain with the same recordings. There is a 15 minute live jam, and the next day a shorter studio variation of the song was recorded. On the U.S. album, the 15 minute live jam is titled VOODOO CHILE, and the shorter studio variation is titled VOODOO CHILD (SLIGHT RETURN). On the British album, the 15 minute live jam is titled VOODOO CHILE, but the shorter studio variation is also titled VOODOO CHILE.
Not true at all. Both albums have both songs and they're not the same.
Amazing how a person years ago made sounds of Earth, of Space, of Deep Space, etc. he truly gave us what he wanted us to hear. Jimi with Mitch on the drums is always the quintessential rock partnership. This song has moments of heavenly chords. You’ll feel it and just know.
Peace N Love.
fvkin vibed with that a super lot. alpha tier musical content. how come I’m finding them out for the first time? I'm now eagerly waiting for your reaction to Nick Thurl Mavromatis' new song!
That’s Mitch Mitchel on the drums.
Voodoo Chile doesn't get enough love. I'm a simple woman. I see a "Voodoo Chile" reaction, I hit 'like'! I love how straight away you a 'stink face' on his opening riffs
Ohh- my kinda woman! 😉
Good job thanks!
Epic and legendary 😮😮
That's just the greatest thing ever recorded. Prove me wrong.
Voodoo Child live at Isle of Wight is pretty mind blowing!!!!
That's a different song.
love this track!
I can actually see your mind being blown 🎉
That is Mitch Mitchell on drums and Steve Winwood on organ and Jack Cassidy on bass. On several of your Jimi reviews, you give credit to Buddy Miles on drums. The only LP featuring Miles is the Band Of Gypsies. All others are Mitch Mitchell. You are correct though when you mention that he sounds like a jazz drummer,, which Mitch was. Check out Jimi's "Manic Depression' Or "Fire" for some superior Mitch Mitchell performances. Thanks Man!
This recording sounds sooooo good. You can hear the studio. The reverberation from the walls. It has that close mic combined with distance mic sound. Not to mention the spontaneity and all star line up of musicians.
BTW the lyrics dont mean s**t. They are all taken from Muddy Waters songs like Rollin Stone and Hoochie Coochie Man.
Uhhhh, that's pretty much all blues tunes..... I don't remember Muddy singing about floating in liquid gardens....
@@LostMyMojo100 lol
@@marymargaretmoore9034 Maybe Muddy on acid ....
@@andymccracken4046 lol again
that was recorded live in the studio with a small pack of groupies clapping...
This song gets me everytime
There were a ton of GREAT Rock drummers in this era, most notably Ginger Baker (Cream/Blind Faith), Keith Moon (The Who), John Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Ian Paice (Deep Purple), John Densmore (The Doors) and Bill Ward (Black Sabbath), among many other greats.
What Jimi is doing lyrically is the Blues version of "freestyling".
The difference between rock and hip-hop is that rock lyrics don't always have to mean something, tell a story, or be intelligible on any level.
Sometimes they do, and sometimes they are complete gibberish.
The idea in rock music, is that the attention is on the music, first. The are some exceptions, like Dylan, but then you wouldn't necessarily call Dylan a Rock musician.
This is a variation, and you could call it a continuation of the original. The original was called _Voodoo Chile, a Slight Return._
the organ player might have been from the Spencer Davis Group...maybe
ya think?
Epic performance!!
Im gonna have to pause and retake this later cats and such. But you do great reactions.
There were drummers this good before the 60's, but they were all playing jazz. By the mid 60's, kick ass drummers started materializing. Mitch Mitchell, Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, and John Bonham all came to power in 60's. And those are just some names off the top of my head. I think drummers in general got more adventurous, and there were A LOT of really good drummers in the 60's and a lot of them were teens in garage bands that never saw success.
Jimi and Mitch Mitchell on drums. No there was never a better partnership. They were made for each other. Steve Winwood on organ here. The one of a kind Jack Cassady from Jefferson Airplane on bass. Haven't heard this in ages. Jimi at his primal bluesiest
You need to listen to his version of "Catfish Blues" from the Blues album
the 'voodoo child' that Stevie Ray Vaughn covered was the 'voodoo child (slight return)'...just sayin':)
Mitch Mitchell was one of the top drummers of the time with drummers like John Bonham, Mick Fleetwood and Ginger Baker out there.
Hey, Steve Winwood on organ !!!!! Do you believe it.
? Yeah!
"Turn that damn guitar down!!!"
Steve Winwood on organ
Keys was I belive was steve windwood .
You gotta check out the whole album band of gypsies. Jimi
It was basically a blues jam.
i can not understand all the confusion today when it comes to Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - side D track 4 of the record and Voodoo Chile side A track 4.
growing up with this record none of us were ever confused as to which song was which or the spelling of each song and we smoked and smoked and smoked tons of weed and did chemical drugs and still got it right.
maybe because we looked at the album while listening to it... everywhere here on YT its a mess as to which is which along with the correct spelling of each song....
For drums listen to black sabbath war pigs 1970 live in paris...
I think you might be the only person to react to this song on RUclips. It's because so few people realize that Chile and Child are not the same song at all.
Mitch Mitchell was the perfect drummer for Jimi, IMHO. The jazz influence in it seemed to push Jimi to keep exploring and express himself, like no other drummer.
Hi there 😊this is NOT the original Voodoo child song from the studio version. They're jamming in the studio. There's no keyboards on the original 😊
Buddy Miles only drummed for Hendrix for a handful of shows.
This is the better one but less popular. Please look into how many famous players beyond the Jimi Hendrix Experience members contributed. Steve Winwood on Hammond B3 organ was about 19 years of age. Jack Bruce from The Cream played some of the bass, so did Jack Cassidy from Jefferson Airplane. Was Peter Frampton, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, and others in the room? You bet. The band played this through over and over and the album version is nearly a clean live take. Electric Ladyland is a Masterpiece double album.
Mitch Mitchell,,,,drummer
Ever notice Steve Winwood’s song on Back to the Future?!?! “The Power Of Love”. The name is actually a Jimi song but lyrics are modified. Same idea. He really believed in what Jimi was doing
Peace N Love
Jimi took y’all to church n y’all didn’t even know it
That's Mitch michell
Dont sweat the difference bro. Its all good.
was there a better drummer and guitar partnerships ??? no.
to play with the greatest guitarist you would have to be the greatest drummer- Mitch Mitchell.
Mitch with a jazz background and his seemingly unlimited circular feel yet ferocious pounding was the perfect fit for Jimi's free wheeling never ending creativity and fire.
it was an absolute perfect storm.
"Is that Jimi playin' this?"
Uhh, yeah? What did you think he was famous for? Lol
This is a musical orgasm
The other stellar drummer at the time was Ginger Baker.
live in the studio...just sayin';)
Mitch Mitchell
Down and dirty.
Have you seen/heard Stevie Ray Vaughn's (RIP) cover of this? 🤯
Stevie Ray covered "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", which is a completely different song.
@@davescurry69 LOL, I know, was my subtle way of getting SRV into the fray. 🤣
@gman125 Haha! Fair enough. I love SRV, but still prefer Jimi's version.
@@davescurry69SRV version is technically very very good, but does NOT capture the 60’s vintage feel, or Hendrix’ psychedelic swagger and emotion positively unique to him, and no one has ever done it better. No one. Ever.
@@36karpatoruski Agreed.
Any Zappa
Yep. It's just simply VOODOO. 😂