Hendrix was left-handed, but he played a right-handed guitar turned "upsidedown". Everything Hendrix did on the guitar was unique and transformative. He had massive hands, wiith tremendous power. A friend of mine, very skilled in guitar, noticed that at Woodstock, Hendrix's guitar went out of tune in the middle of the jam. As he played, Hendrix was physically bending the guiitar neck to bring the guitar back into tune! Crazy power annd skill.
It's not exaggeration to say Hendrix literally shook the world, it doesn't get mentioned as much as his guitar playing but Jimi was a damn good songwriter, one of the coolest humans ever to exist.
You're correct, Jimi was known for his guitar playing, not his singing necessarily but his songwriting, yes. Not sure if you know he was from Seattle, and I saw his last concert in the continental US before he passed. At Seattle's Sick's Stadium (a small open air baseball stadium). It was raining, of course, and he'd had an argument with his Dad but he still put on an amazing concert. My brother, an amazing lead guitarist in his own right, gave me a ticket for my 21st birthday. Nobody will ever be as good as he was. He changed and revolutionized rock n roll guitar sound and techniques forever. When we heard the news he was gone, none of us could believe it.
That was the riff that changed it all. When other musicians of the day heard that they all changed their sound to heavy distortion and riff centered guitar songs. Learning how to speak in riffs thru the guitar, to improvise freely, that's what Jimi's all about.
We love Jimi Hendrix on guitar and his soulful vocals... He was actually a member of Little Richard's band before he went to England to be a part of the scene w/ Cream in the mid-60's. Eric Clapton (guitar) of Cream recalled Jimi Hendrix play live and his mind was blown how good he was... Paul McCartney of The Beatles recalled in 1967, just after their album 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely hearts club band" was released, he went to a show to see The Jimi Hendrix Experience live, and Jimi played the song "Sergeant Pepper's lonely hearts club band" ... 😲 When Jimi Hendrix came to England, his manager got him the band - the Jimi Hendrix Experience... a trio w/ Mitch Mitchell (drums) and Noel Redding (bass), and they quickly became a huge live attraction in the UK... Guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who was mesmerized by Jimi Hendrix and became good friends w/ him... Lemmy Kilmister (who went on to form Motorhead in 1975) was a roadie for Hendrix and called him the "best guitarist ever"... Lemmy said, "I got to see Jimi Hendrix play every night for free..." 😁 Jimmy Page was the guitarist of The Yardbirds in 1968, and when the band broke up, he was a huge fan of Hendrix and formed Led Zeppelin based on the music he had heard - that wild, hard rock that was based in 50's blues... There wasn't a guitarist in the 70's who was not influenced by Jimi Hendrix - K.K. Downing & Glenn Tipton (Judas Priest)... Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)... Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath)... Ace Frehley (Kiss)... Mick Ralphs (Bad Company)... Brian May (Queen)... etc. etc... Stevie Ray Vaughan was a huge fanboy of Hendrix, and he dropped out of school in 1972 to become a performer in Austin, TX and formed his band Double Trouble in 1978. Jimi Hendrix actually became a fan of a 17 year old Texas guitarist named Billy Gibbons, whose band Moving Sidewalks opened for Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968(?)... He told all his peers that Billy Gibbons was going to be a star... He was right. Billy Gibbons formed a rock trio w/ Dusty Hill (bass + vocals) and Frank Beard (drums) and debuted as ZZ Top in 1971. The thing about Jimi Hendrix was that he was a very complicated genius... he did not like playing 'greatest hits' live sets that promoters demanded... He would get bored playing the same set night after night and needed change... He eventually parted ways w/ Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell after 3 groundbreaking albums as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and started working w/ various musicians including Buddy Miles and Billy Cox as Band of Gypsies... His live recordings often had completely different setlists because he insisted on keeping things fresh. He built a studio in NY called Electric Ladyland and spent hours at a time recording tape after tape, but did not deliver any new music... His frustrated manager quit... Miles and Cox were fired. Jimi Hendrix had bills to pay and the only income was coming from touring, so he brought new musicians and toured into the fall of 1970... He was found dead from an OD at age 27... His catalog of music actually sold more copies after his death. He had recorded so much material that a number of Jimi Hendrix records and live tapes were released by his estate over decades.
This one sounds cleaner and better in his Are You Experienced? Album which changed rock and is ICONIC. Hear the funk? I loved Jimi’s voice!!!!! Foxy Lady is pure funk.
When comparing Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, it's important to realize that nobody had ever made a guitar sound like this before Hendrix. A totally new sound, it shocked the "guitar gods" of the 1960's like Clapton. I used to dismiss Stevie as a talented "Hendrix impersonator". Stevie's sound was just so Hendrix-specific. But eventually I got over that, and now I can appreciate Stevie as one of the greats. But Hendrix is by far the #1 original greatest!
Comparing Hendrix to SRV is like comparing any rock musician to a classical, jazz or blues man. SRV played clean...... he played Hendrix like a jazz guitarist. Hendrix played dirty ..... as unclean as he could. You just can’t compare the 2 styles......only acknowledge both are great and Hendrix created the music to start with. lol
@@Rassskle Hi Kent, I like your point about SRV's "clean" vs Hendrix intentionally "dirty" sound. Also, since the 1950-60's, the improvements in recording equipement and guitar effects is a factor. It's unfair to compare even slightly later musicians (1970-80's), without considering the earlier equipment limitations. Like SRV, Hendrix built on earlier guitar pioneers, but Hendrix's genius transformed guitar the most.
@@jraben1065 Thank you...... Already too many arguments about SRV....... to my ears he clearly plays with a jazz attitude . Clean and clear blues with an occasional jazz riff. All my favourite guitar players use jazz riffs and blues as their core.
Considering that most of theses reactions are of SRV doing Hendrix covers, I think it's safe to say that Stevie was more than a little influenced by Hendrix.
Reactors always watch his live performances (which are amazing), but to get his vocals and a constructed 'song', you have to listen to the studio versions. They're amazing and how the world fell in love with him, from his albums. The fashion was all bright colors and flowing fabric with tight pants. That's the 60s..psychedelic hippy style. Queen was in the 70s, which evolved into something less psychedelic but still long hair, flowing clothes, maybe less bold, colorful patterns and definitely less hippy.
Most Hendrix fans don’t know how good he really was. YES...... he played a right handed guitar upside down, but he didn’t have to. He could play right handed as well as left, and play a left handed guitar right handed if he wanted to show off. lol He could also play and sound the same with the cheapest guitar and amp from the pawnbrokers. Performers on the Chitlin circuit would hire him for his guitar skills, and then fire him the first time he showed his skill. When fired he would pawn his guitar and amp do he could eat. When hired, he would buy the cheapest guitar and amp to perform. When Linda Keith discovered Hendrix she told everyone about him , but no one was interested and she gave up. Talking to Chas Chandler she mentioned she was going to see Hendrix play .....after an explanation as to who Hendrix was, Chandler went along and the rest is history. Once in England, Linda discovered that Hendrix needed a guitar...... so she stole her boyfriends white strat and gave it to Hendrix...... apparently Keith Richards never realised his favourite guitar was missing. lol When Linda gave Hendrix the white strat, it was the first time Hendrix had ever held a first class guitar ...... and then he got to play it.
To add to Jimi's greatness, please note that he played a right handed guitar, while being left handed. You can tell, because the whammy bar on his guitar is at the top, instead of the bottom. When he was a kid, his step father bought him a used guitar that happened to be for right handed people. He learned to play on a right handed guitar, and even when he could afford to buy a left handed, he stayed with a right handed, since that's how he learned the chords.
Gotta hear machine gun to really see why he's the greatest. He changed the game like none before or since. Regardless that there's been better players, that's why he's the greatest. He spoke in human empathy thru sounds. Anyone since has just been trying to copy him, but it's impossible to think of how to take it further, and no one really ever has.
Chas Chandler was formerly the bass player with The Animals (House of the Rising Sun) and discovered Hendrix while on tour . He left the Animals and became his manager/producer
"Are you experienced?" That is THE question. You will be with Hendrix. There were three line ups. One with all white guys from Britain, The Experience, one a bit later, trading the bassist out for an old military friend, an all black back up band with Buddy Miles on drums who was a great act all by himself. Having said that it is my way of saying no band members were seeing color even back then. All three phases were awesome and different. Hendrix the epitomy of experimental guitar pioneering.
The best, the top 1% of guitarr players, all agree that Jimi Hendrix is the GOAT. He was way ahead of his time. You can sound like him, yes, you can follow in his footsteps. But he was the one who changed the game. And, like Janis Joplin- died wery young in 1970.
Back in the day, i saw Jimmy in San Francisco Filmore West in 1968. As far as I can remember, Purple Haze was LSD that came in a purple tablet. As well Orange Sunshine and the popular Windowpane LSD. Groovy times back then.
There is no doubt that Jimi Hendrix raise the bar. Jimi Hendrix changed the guitar forever. He opened the eyes inspiring guitarist as well as the extremely popular current guitarist as to the full potential of the electric guitar. Guitar players everywhere had to reinvent themselves and up their game considerably in order to be considered one of the best.
Hey man, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes people are called the greatest 'cos it's said so often everyone just goes along with it. And then other times, some people are called the greatest because that's just how it is. Jimi was one of those times. There's still nobody to match him all these years later.
Some people believe that Hendrix was the most talented musician of the 20th century! He revolutionized psychedelic rock. I think he gets overlooked because folks who are into the great jazz and European classical music performers don't often listen to rock, particularly psychedelic, or "acid" rock.
J Raben says everything I wanted to say about his guitar playing.... especially the part about playing a right handed guitar upside down !!!!!! think about that.
The start of the psychedelic age hench the clothing tripping drugs i love Jimi no one comes close, im 69yrs old now, when i started listing to Jimi back in the sixtys my parents were horrified even though i never sampled any tripping drugs best times ever
You have got to check out his music from his newest band before he died, the band of Gypsies. It was a new Direction for Jimi Hendrix and some classified it as a Power Soul. It does not get enough playtime nowadays and it is in my opinion his best work.
Hendrix - Machine Gun (live at Filmore East - the real version not the YT version btw!) - has to be part of this Journey. 😊 It‘s the most impressive display of his abilities.
Hendrix wasn't just an artist, he was A GAME CHANGER! Seeing what he did on stage was life changing even for VETERAN musical artists. Another GAME CHANGER was Tom Scholz, one man basement band, of Boston. The electric guitar sound was forever changed by him.
Young Man, Jimi Hendrix is one of the 3 masters (Jimi, Bruce Lee, Ali). Jimi will blow you away, but you have to listen, the more you listen the more you will hear. If you haven't check out: Jimi Hendrix "Johnny B. Goode" Live from Hendrix in the West, Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe" Monterey Pop Live, Jimi Hendrix "Like a rolling stone" Monterey Pop live, "Star Spangled Banner" from Woodstock and his Masterpiece "Machine Gun". After that any studio versions of, "Red House", "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and many others. Then pass it on to other young people, the man was truly a Legend!!! If heard, people will be more impressed these days then some of us were when he first came out. There will never be another like him. Sadly, his family seems to want to regulate him into obscurity by blocking a lot of content. Help keep his memory alive; he loved music too much not to heard... Peace!!!
A lot of Jimi Hendrix early work with the band of gypsys doesn't get as much play time as it should. It was a very intense and high-energy funky rock and roll played the power Trio, band of Gypsies.
Sorry to keep commenting. Part of what you need to see on video is Hendrix's stage skills. Playing guiitar with his teeth, behind his back, how he sexualized the guitar like nobody else. At Monterey Pop (1968) he ended the show with "Wild Thing", an all time classic rock performance. Following The Who, Hendrix pulled out all the stops to top their agressive set, which had included the destruction of their instraments. That night, Hendrix was "fire".
Purple haze is acid or LSD. Little secret about this song. I was a teenager in the 70's that would occasionally take acid probably 4-5 times total and always liked this song. One night I took acid for probably the last time ever I was about 20 at the time and was driving home listening to the radio late at night and Purple Haze came on. It was a completely different song from what you hear sober. I could hear so much more little detail in the music that I had never picked up on before and realized that Jimi had to be tripping on acid when he wrote this song bc he was speaking to those of us tripping on acid on another level, really.
There are artists who produce perfect identical results evening after evening, and those more improvising. Like Hendrix who seems to send his emotions directly to the guitar or Zappa who expressly composed while playing.
Happy you have the appreciation for a musician with talent and skill, and not written by a computer programmer with advice from a psychology department to hook Young people.
I always wonder why everybody's got to listen to Hey Joe and Purple Haze and the SSBanner first...when almost everything else he did is - to me - better than those three. Starters: first studio album (Are You Experienced), please listen to The Wind Cries Mary, Foxy Lady, and the title song. THEN, let's talk about Hendrix. And that's just off the first album.
Because you appreciate what Jimi could do and because you like innovation, I suggest Che king out Roy Buchanan. He was known for his unique sound, techniques, and the fireworks he produced with his guitar. One thing that very much separates Roy from the pack, besides the fact that he was taking crazy riffs in the early 60's, was the reality that he only used his Telecaster plugged directly into his Fender Amp - no effects or any other help to help him. Check out his first 4 albums, or the Austin live show video.
Jimi did not know Stevie Ray Vaughan. SRV wasn’t around when Jimi was with us. “Purple Haze” was LSD (acid). He describes the effects of Purple Haze in the song.
I love how Americans are so confident in themselves they're happy to go live online knowing nothing about a topic expecting to somehow just know everything and then when they know zip on it are not phased when they know nothing and just say I best look that up but probably won't. 🙂
The weirdest thing about that 27 club, is that almost all of them said they wouldn't make it to 30, or just plain they're going to die young. I know Jimi said it.
While there was some top notch audio equipment in the 1960’s, not all of it was good. Also, some audio technicians were were much more adept at “capturing” a quality recording than others.
Purple Haze was LSD. Psychedelic rock, as a genre, is music that's designed to alter your consciousness like the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Use of reverb, odd rhythmic patterns, unusual chord patterns, and trippy lyrics to create an altered state for the listener. "Excuse me while I kiss the sky," for example. Hendrix is maybe the greatest guitarist --and he died so young -- only 27. Who knows what more he could have created?
Jimi Hendrix hated his own voice saying “When I first heard Bob Dylan I thought, ‘You must admire that guy for having that much nerve to sing so out of key then I listened to the words.” He really admired Dylan and loved his records.
You said you've heard Hey Joe before. Now you must watch the master at work during the Montery Pop Festival. I wont say anything else besides Jimi was trying to find a way to incorporate flossing with guitar playing. 🤔🤔
Not too many of Hendrix's great performances are on video on RUclips. A lot of them are on audio and I doubt you'll be able to react to a lot of them but if you give this a 10 out of 10 you haven't heard nothing yet! This is Hendrix mediocre performance, as great as it was. You really want to get your your cap blown off, react to Machine Gun at Fillmore East. That's one of his masterpieces! Only the audio is on RUclips but if you get to check out his Band of Gypsy DVD, You can see the work that man puts it. But the audio is good enough. Believe that! Great reaction, bro!
Stevie was just a guitar player. Hell, his most famous work are covers of Jimi Hendrix songs that Jimi wrote! What does that tell you? Same with Texas Flood. That’s not his song either, it was written by a Texas bluesman named Larry Davis. Jimi did some covers too but he has a whole catalog of original self written songs that are classics. Jimi is an icon. The king. The reason for the season. 💯
Concert's have a sound mixing board in the audience different spaces have different acoustics ,plus a bad sound man can have wrong mix levels like hard to hear vocals! Tapping is the technique you wanted to know!
Hendrix was part Native American & almost always wore a headband or other traditional wear of his tribe. He wore his heritage & ppl just thought he was trying to be cool.
By 1970 Jimi Hendrix got tired of Playing that song as well as a lot of Other Song from his 1st & 2nd Album. He was trying to move on To another level Musically but Management wanted him to stay with the same formula.
This recording was not great, muffled, out of sync with the video. Personally, I always loved his voice, phrasing, emotion. As a White guy, I thought Hendrix was the first singer to put authentic Black sensibilities into Rock music. You could hear Black voices in Motown and Blues, but Hendrix influenced a White Rock audience. Sadly, Hendrex hated his own voice. He often had to be talked into singing, because he didn't want to.
Well Hendrix claimed Purple Haze came from a dream he had. I think it's probably true. He did a lot of drugs, but I don't think he was real interested in writing about it. People at the time thought he was always writing about it, but I don't think he was. But who really knows.
Like, not disputing the deeply drug culture Hendrix mode of being... but I could see where the song may have been written specifically about the chemical high of infatuation and how the endorphins leave people in a distracted fugue state.
Jimi was the greatest. Just listen to Electric Ladyland and you'll know. His guitar sounded different because he played a right handed with the strings reverse. Stevie was in diapers when Jimi was around so Jimi never knew Stevie Ray. Stevie Ray idolized Hendrix.
Hendrix was far before Stevie. Stevie was a 1-4-5 12 bar shuffle, blues artist. The only thing he did outside of that were Hendrix covers. Hendrix wote a pot of songs outside of blues. He started a style that Stevie and many others copied a lot. Stevie also has a couple other influences lot Albert king and Lonnie mack.
Jimi Hendrix is far too copywritten on youtube to fully experience him unlike the rest, best you can do is react to his live cover of Johnny B. Good if you wanna get a true glimpse of the real Hendrix on antiJimi RUclips!
Do yourself a favor and please get yourself educated before talking about Jimi Hendrix and please stop mentioning Imitators when talking about Hendrix!!!!
I doubt Hendrix ever heard of the existence of SRV. SRV was 16 years old when Hendrix died and had not even issued any commercial recordings. So, to say Hendrix always spoke kindly about SRV is ridiculous. Please kill that misinformation immediately! That's your job for today. I expect results.
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Hendrix was left-handed, but he played a right-handed guitar turned "upsidedown". Everything Hendrix did on the guitar was unique and transformative. He had massive hands, wiith tremendous power. A friend of mine, very skilled in guitar, noticed that at Woodstock, Hendrix's guitar went out of tune in the middle of the jam. As he played, Hendrix was physically bending the guiitar neck to bring the guitar back into tune! Crazy power annd skill.
It's not exaggeration to say Hendrix literally shook the world, it doesn't get mentioned as much as his guitar playing but Jimi was a damn good songwriter, one of the coolest humans ever to exist.
You're correct, Jimi was known for his guitar playing, not his singing necessarily but his songwriting, yes. Not sure if you know he was from Seattle, and I saw his last concert in the continental US before he passed. At Seattle's Sick's Stadium (a small open air baseball stadium). It was raining, of course, and he'd had an argument with his Dad but he still put on an amazing concert. My brother, an amazing lead guitarist in his own right, gave me a ticket for my 21st birthday.
Nobody will ever be as good as he was. He changed and revolutionized rock n roll guitar sound and techniques forever. When we heard the news he was gone, none of us could believe it.
That was the riff that changed it all. When other musicians of the day heard that they all changed their sound to heavy distortion and riff centered guitar songs. Learning how to speak in riffs thru the guitar, to improvise freely, that's what Jimi's all about.
We love Jimi Hendrix on guitar and his soulful vocals... He was actually a member of Little Richard's band before he went to England to be a part of the scene w/ Cream in the mid-60's. Eric Clapton (guitar) of Cream recalled Jimi Hendrix play live and his mind was blown how good he was... Paul McCartney of The Beatles recalled in 1967, just after their album 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely hearts club band" was released, he went to a show to see The Jimi Hendrix Experience live, and Jimi played the song "Sergeant Pepper's lonely hearts club band" ... 😲
When Jimi Hendrix came to England, his manager got him the band - the Jimi Hendrix Experience... a trio w/ Mitch Mitchell (drums) and Noel Redding (bass), and they quickly became a huge live attraction in the UK... Guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who was mesmerized by Jimi Hendrix and became good friends w/ him... Lemmy Kilmister (who went on to form Motorhead in 1975) was a roadie for Hendrix and called him the "best guitarist ever"... Lemmy said, "I got to see Jimi Hendrix play every night for free..." 😁
Jimmy Page was the guitarist of The Yardbirds in 1968, and when the band broke up, he was a huge fan of Hendrix and formed Led Zeppelin based on the music he had heard - that wild, hard rock that was based in 50's blues... There wasn't a guitarist in the 70's who was not influenced by Jimi Hendrix - K.K. Downing & Glenn Tipton (Judas Priest)... Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple)... Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath)... Ace Frehley (Kiss)... Mick Ralphs (Bad Company)... Brian May (Queen)... etc. etc... Stevie Ray Vaughan was a huge fanboy of Hendrix, and he dropped out of school in 1972 to become a performer in Austin, TX and formed his band Double Trouble in 1978.
Jimi Hendrix actually became a fan of a 17 year old Texas guitarist named Billy Gibbons, whose band Moving Sidewalks opened for Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968(?)... He told all his peers that Billy Gibbons was going to be a star... He was right. Billy Gibbons formed a rock trio w/ Dusty Hill (bass + vocals) and Frank Beard (drums) and debuted as ZZ Top in 1971.
The thing about Jimi Hendrix was that he was a very complicated genius... he did not like playing 'greatest hits' live sets that promoters demanded... He would get bored playing the same set night after night and needed change... He eventually parted ways w/ Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell after 3 groundbreaking albums as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and started working w/ various musicians including Buddy Miles and Billy Cox as Band of Gypsies... His live recordings often had completely different setlists because he insisted on keeping things fresh.
He built a studio in NY called Electric Ladyland and spent hours at a time recording tape after tape, but did not deliver any new music... His frustrated manager quit... Miles and Cox were fired. Jimi Hendrix had bills to pay and the only income was coming from touring, so he brought new musicians and toured into the fall of 1970... He was found dead from an OD at age 27... His catalog of music actually sold more copies after his death. He had recorded so much material that a number of Jimi Hendrix records and live tapes were released by his estate over decades.
My late husband smoked a doobie with Jimi at Pandora's Box in L.A.😎
That's awesome 👍👊😎🇨🇦
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This one sounds cleaner and better in his Are You Experienced? Album which changed rock and is ICONIC. Hear the funk?
I loved Jimi’s voice!!!!!
Foxy Lady is pure funk.
When comparing Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan, it's important to realize that nobody had ever made a guitar sound like this before Hendrix. A totally new sound, it shocked the "guitar gods" of the 1960's like Clapton. I used to dismiss Stevie as a talented "Hendrix impersonator". Stevie's sound was just so Hendrix-specific. But eventually I got over that, and now I can appreciate Stevie as one of the greats. But Hendrix is by far the #1 original greatest!
Comparing Hendrix to SRV is like comparing any rock musician to a classical, jazz or blues man.
SRV played clean...... he played Hendrix like a jazz guitarist.
Hendrix played dirty ..... as unclean as he could.
You just can’t compare the 2 styles......only acknowledge both are great and Hendrix created the music to start with. lol
@@Rassskle Hi Kent, I like your point about SRV's "clean" vs Hendrix intentionally "dirty" sound. Also, since the 1950-60's, the improvements in recording equipement and guitar effects is a factor. It's unfair to compare even slightly later musicians (1970-80's), without considering the earlier equipment limitations. Like SRV, Hendrix built on earlier guitar pioneers, but Hendrix's genius transformed guitar the most.
@@jraben1065 Thank you......
Already too many arguments about SRV....... to my ears he clearly plays with a jazz attitude . Clean and clear blues with an occasional jazz riff.
All my favourite guitar players use jazz riffs and blues as their core.
Considering that most of theses reactions are of SRV doing Hendrix covers, I think it's safe to say that Stevie was more than a little influenced by Hendrix.
Reactors always watch his live performances (which are amazing), but to get his vocals and a constructed 'song', you have to listen to the studio versions. They're amazing and how the world fell in love with him, from his albums. The fashion was all bright colors and flowing fabric with tight pants. That's the 60s..psychedelic hippy style. Queen was in the 70s, which evolved into something less psychedelic but still long hair, flowing clothes, maybe less bold, colorful patterns and definitely less hippy.
Most Hendrix fans don’t know how good he really was.
YES...... he played a right handed guitar upside down, but he didn’t have to.
He could play right handed as well as left, and play a left handed guitar right handed if he wanted to show off. lol
He could also play and sound the same with the cheapest guitar and amp from the pawnbrokers.
Performers on the Chitlin circuit would hire him for his guitar skills, and then fire him the first time he showed his skill.
When fired he would pawn his guitar and amp do he could eat.
When hired, he would buy the cheapest guitar and amp to perform.
When Linda Keith discovered Hendrix she told everyone about him , but no one was interested and she gave up.
Talking to Chas Chandler she mentioned she was going to see Hendrix play .....after an explanation as to who Hendrix was, Chandler went along and the rest is history.
Once in England, Linda discovered that Hendrix needed a guitar...... so she stole her boyfriends white strat and gave it to Hendrix...... apparently Keith Richards never realised his favourite guitar was missing. lol
When Linda gave Hendrix the white strat, it was the first time Hendrix had ever held a first class guitar ...... and then he got to play it.
He was able to play right-handed also I never knew that wow!
To add to Jimi's greatness, please note that he played a right handed guitar, while being left handed. You can tell, because the whammy bar on his guitar is at the top, instead of the bottom.
When he was a kid, his step father bought him a used guitar that happened to be for right handed people. He learned to play on a right handed guitar, and even when he could afford to buy a left handed, he stayed with a right handed, since that's how he learned the chords.
Jimi could play both ways but 90% of the time he played a right handed guitar upside down strung left handed.
Gotta hear machine gun to really see why he's the greatest. He changed the game like none before or since. Regardless that there's been better players, that's why he's the greatest. He spoke in human empathy thru sounds. Anyone since has just been trying to copy him, but it's impossible to think of how to take it further, and no one really ever has.
Chas Chandler was formerly the bass player with The Animals (House of the Rising Sun) and discovered Hendrix while on tour . He left the Animals and became his manager/producer
"Are you experienced?" That is THE question. You will be with Hendrix. There were three line ups. One with all white guys from Britain, The Experience, one a bit later, trading the bassist out for an old military friend, an all black back up band with Buddy Miles on drums who was a great act all by himself. Having said that it is my way of saying no band members were seeing color even back then. All three phases were awesome and different. Hendrix the epitomy of experimental guitar pioneering.
The best, the top 1% of guitarr players, all agree that Jimi Hendrix is the GOAT. He was way ahead of his time. You can sound like him, yes, you can follow in his footsteps. But he was the one who changed the game. And, like Janis Joplin- died wery young in 1970.
JIMI STARTED IT ALL 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤪🤪🤪🤪🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🎸🔥
Back in the day, i saw Jimmy in San Francisco Filmore West in 1968. As far as I can remember, Purple Haze was LSD that came in a purple tablet. As well Orange Sunshine and the popular Windowpane LSD. Groovy times back then.
One can inuendi drugs(its Rock) however, "Whatever it is, That Girl, put a spell on me". His voice was heartfelt and expressive🎸
Jimi Hendrix is celebrated as the greatest guitarist 🎸of all time for a reason. So sad he died so going to think what he’d be doing Know.
Purple Haze was a strain of Acid that Owsley made for the Grateful Dead in SF in the 60s.
There is no doubt that Jimi Hendrix raise the bar. Jimi Hendrix changed the guitar forever. He opened the eyes inspiring guitarist as well as the extremely popular current guitarist as to the full potential of the electric guitar.
Guitar players everywhere had to reinvent themselves and up their game considerably in order to be considered one of the best.
Hey man, that's just the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes people are called the greatest 'cos it's said so often everyone just goes along with it. And then other times, some people are called the greatest because that's just how it is.
Jimi was one of those times. There's still nobody to match him all these years later.
To be clear, Jimi died long before SRV hit the scene, so he had nothing to say about him lol. No worries.
Jimi! 🔥
Some people believe that Hendrix was the most talented musician of the 20th century! He revolutionized psychedelic rock. I think he gets overlooked because folks who are into the great jazz and European classical music performers don't often listen to rock, particularly psychedelic, or "acid" rock.
Jimi Hendrix had that madness on the guitar
J Raben says everything I wanted to say about his guitar playing.... especially the part about playing a right handed guitar upside down !!!!!! think about that.
The start of the psychedelic age hench the clothing tripping drugs i love Jimi no one comes close, im 69yrs old now, when i started listing to Jimi back in the sixtys my parents were horrified even though i never sampled any tripping drugs best times ever
You have got to check out his music from his newest band before he died, the band of Gypsies.
It was a new Direction for Jimi Hendrix and some classified it as a Power Soul.
It does not get enough playtime nowadays and it is in my opinion his best work.
Check out Hey Joe live at Monterrey, California. Another great is All Along the Watchtower.
Hendrix was self-conscious about his singing. But he adored Bob Dylan, so he styled his singing after Dylan's.
Hendrix - Machine Gun (live at Filmore East - the real version not the YT version btw!) - has to be part of this Journey. 😊 It‘s the most impressive display of his abilities.
Hendrix played with the Motown review. After he left the army where he had learned to parachute. Excuse me while I kiss the sky!
Hendrix wasn't just an artist, he was A GAME CHANGER!
Seeing what he did on stage was life changing even for VETERAN musical artists.
Another GAME CHANGER was Tom Scholz, one man basement band, of Boston.
The electric guitar sound was forever changed by him.
Young Man, Jimi Hendrix is one of the 3 masters (Jimi, Bruce Lee, Ali). Jimi will blow you away, but you have to listen, the more you listen the more you will hear. If you haven't check out: Jimi Hendrix "Johnny B. Goode" Live from Hendrix in the West, Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe" Monterey Pop Live, Jimi Hendrix "Like a rolling stone" Monterey Pop live, "Star Spangled Banner" from Woodstock and his Masterpiece "Machine Gun". After that any studio versions of, "Red House", "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and many others. Then pass it on to other young people, the man was truly a Legend!!! If heard, people will be more impressed these days then some of us were when he first came out. There will never be another like him. Sadly, his family seems to want to regulate him into obscurity by blocking a lot of content. Help keep his memory alive; he loved music too much not to heard... Peace!!!
A lot of Jimi Hendrix early work with the band of gypsys doesn't get as much play time as it should. It was a very intense and high-energy funky rock and roll played the power Trio, band of Gypsies.
Purple Haze back then was LSD , He used to put in his Bandana on his head. When he sweat , the acid melted onto his face
Sorry to keep commenting. Part of what you need to see on video is Hendrix's stage skills. Playing guiitar with his teeth, behind his back, how he sexualized the guitar like nobody else. At Monterey Pop (1968) he ended the show with "Wild Thing", an all time classic rock performance. Following The Who, Hendrix pulled out all the stops to top their agressive set, which had included the destruction of their instraments. That night, Hendrix was "fire".
Purple haze is acid or LSD. Little secret about this song. I was a teenager in the 70's that would occasionally take acid probably 4-5 times total and always liked this song. One night I took acid for probably the last time ever I was about 20 at the time and was driving home listening to the radio late at night and Purple Haze came on. It was a completely different song from what you hear sober. I could hear so much more little detail in the music that I had never picked up on before and realized that Jimi had to be tripping on acid when he wrote this song bc he was speaking to those of us tripping on acid on another level, really.
Legend has it he would put blotter acid under his headband and let the sweat activate it. !!
Jimi was SRV's Sifu... I would have loved to have seen them both on the same stage.
Check out Hendrix live on Maui...1970 (a month or two before he died). Voodoo Child is the tune.
There are artists who produce perfect identical results evening after evening, and those more improvising. Like Hendrix who seems to send his emotions directly to the guitar or Zappa who expressly composed while playing.
Happy you have the appreciation for a musician with talent and skill, and not written by a computer programmer with advice from a psychology department to hook Young people.
I always wonder why everybody's got to listen to Hey Joe and Purple Haze and the SSBanner first...when almost everything else he did is - to me - better than those three. Starters: first studio album (Are You Experienced), please listen to The Wind Cries Mary, Foxy Lady, and the title song. THEN, let's talk about Hendrix. And that's just off the first album.
Because you appreciate what Jimi could do and because you like innovation, I suggest Che king out Roy Buchanan. He was known for his unique sound, techniques, and the fireworks he produced with his guitar. One thing that very much separates Roy from the pack, besides the fact that he was taking crazy riffs in the early 60's, was the reality that he only used his Telecaster plugged directly into his Fender Amp - no effects or any other help to help him. Check out his first 4 albums, or the Austin live show video.
Jimi did not know Stevie Ray Vaughan. SRV wasn’t around when Jimi was with us. “Purple Haze” was LSD (acid). He describes the effects of Purple Haze in the song.
I love how Americans are so confident in themselves they're happy to go live online knowing nothing about a topic expecting to somehow just know everything and then when they know zip on it are not phased when they know nothing and just say I best look that up but probably won't. 🙂
You clapped over the ending, the best part, but hey.... you enjoyed it!!!!
He took Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" into the stratosphere..
SRV is guitar God❤❤❤
2:17.. evolution might be the word best to describe that..
He was the GOAT hay Joe played with his teeth and behind his head
People used to trip off Purple Dot LSD and listen to his music, back then !
the GOAT
For >>>>>> ME
The weirdest thing about that 27 club, is that almost all of them said they wouldn't make it to 30, or just plain they're going to die young.
I know Jimi said it.
Check out the studio version of VOODOO CHILD
Btw he played a regular “right handed” guitar upside down. He’s left handed
While there was some top notch audio equipment in the 1960’s, not all of it was good. Also, some audio technicians were were much more adept at “capturing” a quality recording than others.
You got to watch Voodoo Child Live in Maui....
Purple Haze was LSD. Psychedelic rock, as a genre, is music that's designed to alter your consciousness like the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Use of reverb, odd rhythmic patterns, unusual chord patterns, and trippy lyrics to create an altered state for the listener. "Excuse me while I kiss the sky," for example. Hendrix is maybe the greatest guitarist --and he died so young -- only 27. Who knows what more he could have created?
He had the biggest hands. Wrapped all the way around the neck
Jimi Hendrix hated his own voice saying “When I first heard Bob Dylan I thought, ‘You must admire that guy for having that much nerve to sing so out of key then I listened to the words.” He really admired Dylan and loved his records.
You got to listen to Machine Gun (can't decide if live or studio version is best) and to if 6 was 9 - the psychedelic Jimi
You said you've heard Hey Joe before. Now you must watch the master at work during the Montery Pop Festival. I wont say anything else besides Jimi was trying to find a way to incorporate flossing with guitar playing. 🤔🤔
Not too many of Hendrix's great performances are on video on RUclips. A lot of them are on audio and I doubt you'll be able to react to a lot of them but if you give this a 10 out of 10 you haven't heard nothing yet! This is Hendrix mediocre performance, as great as it was. You really want to get your your cap blown off, react to Machine Gun at Fillmore East. That's one of his masterpieces! Only the audio is on RUclips but if you get to check out his Band of Gypsy DVD, You can see the work that man puts it. But the audio is good enough. Believe that! Great reaction, bro!
Stevie was just a guitar player. Hell, his most famous work are covers of Jimi Hendrix songs that Jimi wrote! What does that tell you? Same with Texas Flood. That’s not his song either, it was written by a Texas bluesman named Larry Davis. Jimi did some covers too but he has a whole catalog of original self written songs that are classics. Jimi is an icon. The king. The reason for the season. 💯
Concert's have a sound mixing board in the audience different spaces have different acoustics ,plus a bad sound man can have wrong mix levels like hard to hear vocals! Tapping is the technique you wanted to know!
Hendrix was part Native American & almost always wore a headband or other traditional wear of his tribe. He wore his heritage & ppl just thought he was trying to be cool.
You have to watch his performance of the Star Bangled Banner at Woodstock. It's one of the best versions of the national anthem.
And the Woodstock performance of "Star Spangled Banner" goes into a really great version of "Purple Haze".
You heard that rift from The Red Hot Chili Peppers!
By 1970 Jimi Hendrix got tired of
Playing that song as well as a lot of
Other Song from his 1st & 2nd Album. He was trying to move on
To another level Musically but Management wanted him to stay with the same formula.
hey my channel now we catch the master ever , he is the number 1 guitar heros ever, more , he is a davinci in the music, realy god
This recording was not great, muffled, out of sync with the video. Personally, I always loved his voice, phrasing, emotion. As a White guy, I thought Hendrix was the first singer to put authentic Black sensibilities into Rock music. You could hear Black voices in Motown and Blues, but Hendrix influenced a White Rock audience. Sadly, Hendrex hated his own voice. He often had to be talked into singing, because he didn't want to.
Well Hendrix claimed Purple Haze came from a dream he had.
I think it's probably true.
He did a lot of drugs, but I don't think he was real interested in writing about it.
People at the time thought he was always writing about it, but I don't think he was.
But who really knows.
Like, not disputing the deeply drug culture Hendrix mode of being... but I could see where the song may have been written specifically about the chemical high of infatuation and how the endorphins leave people in a distracted fugue state.
Purple Haze was LSD
Jimi was the greatest. Just listen to Electric Ladyland and you'll know. His guitar sounded different because he played a right handed with the strings reverse. Stevie was in diapers when Jimi was around so Jimi never knew Stevie Ray. Stevie Ray idolized Hendrix.
Close :-).... Stevie was not quite 16 when Hendrix died, so yeah, no way Hendrix ever heard Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Jimi would not have had kind words for SRV. No disrespect. But SRV was around 13 when Jimi died. 🤷♀️That aside…Jimi is a God.
That was nothing, watch him do Johnny B Goode! DAMN! WTF!
Find the Woodstock version. Way better
Odd too, that the black communtah at the time never took to Hendrix at all.
What?
I never knew Jimi said anything about SRV?
Personally I would never ever compare these 2 artists period.
Hendrix was far before Stevie. Stevie was a 1-4-5 12 bar shuffle, blues artist. The only thing he did outside of that were Hendrix covers. Hendrix wote a pot of songs outside of blues. He started a style that Stevie and many others copied a lot. Stevie also has a couple other influences lot Albert king and Lonnie mack.
Stylin and profilin - and chewing gum like it ain't nothin. Sassy.
SRV is the GOAT. Hands down.
absolutely not
There is a better live version on the hendrix white album- the cover is mostly white. Lol
Jimi Hendrix is far too copywritten on youtube to fully experience him unlike the rest, best you can do is react to his live cover of Johnny B. Good if you wanna get a true glimpse of the real Hendrix on antiJimi RUclips!
I'm old school and yeah his audio pitch bass on many performances is whack. The Roadies and or set up crew could have done better.
I love Jimi Hendrix..he’s in my top 3 Favorite guitarist..but listen to Voodoo Chile by Hendrix and then SRV and be 100% honest..who’s is better?
Do yourself a favor and please get yourself educated before talking about Jimi Hendrix and please stop mentioning Imitators when talking about Hendrix!!!!
I doubt Hendrix ever heard of the existence of SRV. SRV was 16 years old when Hendrix died and had not even issued any commercial recordings. So, to say Hendrix always spoke kindly about SRV is ridiculous. Please kill that misinformation immediately! That's your job for today. I expect results.