You can see the audience in the video just standing there - thinking 'wtf am I witnessing - did he play that upsidedown strung fender with his tongue, - Is he really playing that guitar behind his back ?'. Funny to watch. The man was beyond his time musically.
When mike bloomfield. (Number one American guitar player at the time) saw him he just was so scared he couldn't even pick up a guitar for a week. And mike was literally god XD. Listen to work song mike bloomfield 😂
Plus the fact he was able to sing what he played, I feel like that was his little trick to make up for his singing. A little trick I still haven’t heard anyone else do.
I love his voice (it fits his style) but I know a few people who don't like it. He didn't have a typical r&b or rock voice and that turns some people off.
That crowd looked like that because nobody's ever done what Jimi did. It's like that scene in Back to the Future when Marty plays with that band at the high school.
@exodus21v20 umm....no. the crowd acted this way because this was in England in the 60's. The crowds were extremely polite.....had ZERO to do with him being black.
This crowd was Swedish. Probably a little stunned as well but Swedes tend to be a rather reserved lot anyway. No, not as reserved as Norwegians but compared to Americans they are practically silent.
Jamel, if you think this was something wait till you see him do the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock. You'll need to be on life support after you watch it
His whole set is must-see. He was supposed to play the night before, but it didn't work out as scheduled. He said it was time to wake up, and he became the greatest morning alarm in history.
Yes! This is the guy that asked to jam with Cream!!!!!.....and afterwards Clapton himself said "My life was never the same....!!!" just blew them away! Should also remember his band were insanely talented too: Mitch Mitchell and Noel redding!!
He's the man. He's the Usain Bolt of guitarists. A freak who has no true precedent. I'm just a guitar hack who's listened to world class guitarists of all genres, and they're all great in their own way, but the only other guitarist I would put up there with Hendrix is Page. And the only other guitarist I'd put up there with Page is Hendrix
@@pawrik3948 it's the equivalent of all the common phrases in the English language and literature that come directly from Shakespeare. I love what T Bone Burnett said about Dylan when he won the Nobel prize, "He is the Homer of our time. The next Bob Dylan will not come around for another millennium or two, making it highly unlikely that it will happen at all." I wouldn't go quite that far, but he has a point.
They were like that when they saw Janice Joplin for the first time doing Ball and CHain at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Just sat with their mouths open.
Jimi said “when the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” We could have used more people with that mentality. Why do all the truly good people die so young? Peace y’all.
I love Jimi and I have often wondered how life, music and the world would be different had he lived a bit longer, ya know?!? Btw, ever checked out my man Lenny Kravitz??? He has been compared to Jimi since he came on the scene out of NYC in 1991 with "Let Love Rule"... you're welcome.
y? because the good people come to planet earth to give of their soul... once done they leave.. the bad and greedy get stuck and live here in this 3d reality until they wake up and realise and do what good people do ;)
Yup....Quintessential Hendrix yo...even though it's a Dylan cover, he makes it very much his own (🤔kinda like Cornell would do 25-30 yrs l8r...)pax. ✌️😎
There ain't a damn thing wrong with R & B & Hip Hop. But my brother when you met our brother Jimmy here you know your mind expanded like a mushroom cloud, and the world has been a little better ever since. ¡Salud!
Looks to me like a "Top of the Pops" audience. I could be wrong, but... they always had that look about 'em. Kinda forced to 'enjoy' music that didn't suit them.
I wonder the same thing. He was trying to get a bigger band together but his manager didn't like that. And it kinda makes me think the night that Jimi die the next day his contract with his manager Mike Jeffrey was over so I find it very strange that Jimi dies the night before all of this Jimi Hendrix was murdered by his manager or people involved with him for Jeffrey was stealing Jimi money and the owen way to stop him from finding out was to kill Jimi. It is a shame that one of the worlds guitar player dies for the greed of another.
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I was in college during Woodstock and I used that track of Jimi's Star Spangled Banner for a video project. . .Really brings back memories for me. . .It's classic!
Jamel, did you know that my hero, Jimi, died 50 odd years on this September 18. Yes, 50 years ago. I'm 68 y.o. and I cried today. James Marshall Hendrix was the hero of mine. I did'nt care for his tricks, playing with his teeth or tongue, it was part of the show to get known but he hated it all. He just wanted to play his music. That's why I loved him, like the very first time I heard Hey Joe and then Purple Haze, The wind cries Mary... He was my brother, man. My soul Brother. R.I.P. James.
He almost had a lefty guitar: In one of the ultimate sliding doors moments in rock and roll, Eric Clapton had originally planned to meet Hendrix the night of his death but that never came to fruition and left Clapton with an unwanted reminder of his friend’s demise. “The night that he died I was supposed to meet him at the Lyceum to see Sly Stone play, and I brought with me a left-handed Stratocaster. I just found it, I think I bought it at Orange Music. I’d never seen one before and I was gunna give it to him.” “He was in a box over there and I was in a box over here. I could see him but I couldn’t… we never got together. The next day, whack! He was gone. And I was left with that left-handed Stratocaster.”
@@pawstalk Interestingly he continued to play (and often destroy) upsidedown right handed Fender Strats for most his performances and recordings; meaning the the volume, treble and tone knobs were always above the strings.
Jimmy was a generational talent like nobody had ever seen. People were trippin on him for real. Truly a gift to music and he paved the way for many guitarists you hear today
You said,"I've been living in a bubble of R&B and Hip Hop". Damn, that's like having only eaten hamburgers and french fries your whole life. Those are great, even outrageously great at times but, there is SO much flavor out there to be savored! Being open to new experiences (whether it is music, food, cultures, etc...) is what makes life rich! Wishing you much love and prosperity!!
Embarassing to admit, but I was in a bubble, too, before moving to Germany and meeting my now husband 30 yrs. ago. Had heard of Jimi, and Janis, but didn't know their music until my German boyfriend introduced them to me. Sad for an American girl born in the 60's!
Can you imagine watching a whole concert? No wonder the name of the band was The Jimi Hendrix Experience. You don't watch & listen . . . you experience.
Jimi was THE man. I feel how you feel from your reaction. Now you know how every musician feels about Jimi Hendrix. Every Jimi Hendrix fan knows Jimi's story. Just the coolest guy and the greatest guitarist who ever lived. IMO.
Sure there will be. That's the hope of the future! That because of the influence the young strive to achieve more than those who have come before. There will just NEVER be anyone to come FIRST again! RIP Jimi!
When Jimi came to the UK he recorded sessions for BBC Radio 1. The sound engineers are on record saying they could see the soundproofed glass moving in the studio and the classical studio TWO FLOORS above called to complain about the sound bleeding through into their recording.
Absolutely incomparable and an original. A tragedy he died so young as the influence he's had on rock and roll, rhythm and blues and heavy metal is beyond measure. Thanks for your honest reaction Jamal. The first time I ever heard Hendrix I was blown away the same way.
How do you define that? best rock guitar player technically? best composer? better than the top Classical, Flamenco, jazz or other styles players technically?
uh ...then the 80's happened... sorry but, I can name ten who took it to another level ... guitar only has 6 strings, but the best guitarists have to use all ten fingers now.... see Eddie Van Halen, cuz he started the revolution.... Hendrix was the best in his short life though R.I.P.
James Marshall Hendrix, the reason I took up guitar. James Marshall Hendrix, my guitar hero. James Marshall Hendrix, often imitated, NEVER duplicated. RIP Jimi. You were the best. EVER.
Jamel, the crowd is so tame because of the times. You got to realize that was about 68 or thereabouts. They hadn’t been awoke yet! give them another year or two! Some of them probably weren’t even tore up yet, or as Jimi says ‘experienced’! It was all part of the progression that’s got us to where we are now. Think how important his mind blowing addition to it all was.He opened a lot of peoples eyes to the fact that thru music, we are all the same.❤
@@cleekmaker00 Allegedly that guitar was said to have been burned at Miami Pop. Except Jimi didn't burn a guitar there. Plus the guitar now looks totally different again to when Dweezil first started showing it off in the 80's & 90's .
You Just witnessed the greatest guitar player ever , sad he passed away at 27 years old in 1970 , theres no one ever come close to his guitar skills , Mr. Jimi Hendrix was a magician with that Stratocaster !!!!
This is the reason why 50 years later he is still rated greatest guitarist of all time. There's an interview on RUclips with Ron Wood who lived with Jimi for two weeks. He said Jimi could play the guitar stringed upside down or right side up. While he was left handed, he could also play right handed. What is truly amazing is how he changed music as well as playing the guitar. The only way I can compare it to is The Wizard of Oz. Before Jimi, music was black and white. Seeing Jimi play was like going to Oz where everything was in color.
wow I saw him in concert many years ago electrified this man was out of control he was the bomb.. Woodstock we were in the mud rain no one cared we rocked for days..he played the guitar with his teeth and tongue ..you can not know how much I cherish those days.the music lives on...
I was fortunate enough as a teenager to have seen Jimi several times live in concert. The last time was May 7th 1970. His final performance in the DFW area. I quit my job to attend and I am and glad I did.
I was a flower child of the 60's .... so amazing I lived through this era . Jimi was major then ,.....blew us all 💥 well don't forget we had the best music/musicians of any era we were spoilt to heck . Also mods and rockers, hippies , depends on which audience went .
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then there will be peace!" The immortal words of James Marshall Hendrix, perhaps the most talented and innovative guitar player of all time.. He certainly would have been, he was way ahead of his time and died tragically way too young - Born 1942, died 1970, so he was only 28. We loved him in England. Chas Chandler the Animals bassist discovered him playing and got him his break in London. RIP Jimi, we miss you.
Yes he played his guitar with his teeth, behind his back and he lit his guitar on fire on stage. He is from Seattle, Wa Before Nirvana their was Jimi. Never before and never after, no more need be said.
The crowd had that reaction when he first came on the scene because they’ve never seen anything like that. Jimi was ahead of his time and he also had his own unique sound that the world had never heard. I remember when I was around 7 years old and one of my older brothers said....check out this new Hendrix album..... I loved growing up during the 60’s & 70’s.... the greatest music ever recorded was fresh and new.
Yea that's what inspired Stevie to learn how to play blues when he was like 8 yrs old.. Along with folks like Johnny winter.. And if you like Stevie and Jimi, give a listen to Johnny Winter(RIP) back in 1970, the Bass player in this video also played for Stevie in the videos you reacted to.. First white guy inducted into the blues hall of fame.. ruclips.net/video/8Tyg5SJDpiQ/видео.html
Any and everybody who ever picked up a guitar is influenced by Jimi......take a look at Chicago 25 or 6 to 4, and listen to Terry Kath riff for over 2 minutes.....when Jimi saw Chicago in concert, he told Terry Kath "You're better than I am" High praise indeed !!!
Jamal's reaction is priceless. '@5.21, he is unable to talk after witnessing Jimi's supernatural brilliance. That's why the audience was so stunned. Jimi still remains in a field of one, five decades since he left this mortal coil.
When Jimi played with his mouth I thought only used his teeth but on closer examination you can see that he obviously used his tongue as well and , on top of that , the man didn't miss a beat. If you only listened to the audio you'd never know that he did that and played behind his head. G.O.A.T.
Well, actually he played a legato only with the hand on the frets. The tongue movement was useless for the sound, just a scenic move. But in the piece before he used his teeth as a pick.
❤️❤️❤️Jimi. Lost way to young but his music will always live on!! Yes he looked so very very cool!! Jimi was the Guitar God!! Jamal you must check out, Are you experienced, Foxy lady and All along the watchtower! All phenomenal
@@jamelakajamal He was left handed. So he put the strings on his fender backwards and played like a boss. Oh by the way im still waiting on my reaction lol
Jonell Fretz yup, and actual guitarists use those tone and volume knobs which are below the strings for a reason. It’s way harder to use them the way his guitar is configured.
I was fortunate enough to see him in April, 1969 - I sat there transfixed throughout the whole concert - it seemed like it was over in 5 minutes, I lost all track of time, just mesmerized. My ears rang for several hours afterwards, I didn’t care - I had just witnessed the best electric guitarist that ever lived. 🎸
Jamel, your reaction does a lot to explain the audience. This was the 60's and they weren't dead, they were stunned! Being a British audience, they would have started out a bit more reserved, but this was entirely new and innovative at the time and they had never see the likes of that type of performance. [A lot of what he did is now incorporated by modern guitar players. The playing behind the back and with the tongue (actually hammer-ons and pull-offs) were typically only done by the old bluesmen.]Another unique guitarist from the 60s and 70s was Richie Havens. He was a true and righteous person. [He, Paul Williams, Eric Oxendine and I shared a bottle of rum back stage following a concert at my college.] I saw him in concert several times after that over the span of 20 years and he remembered me.
Yeah, I would've been on the floor had I saw this performance live..........nothing compares to this, EVER!! The band backing Jimi was outstanding as well, never get enough credit.
You do realize that Jimi Hendrix learned to play his guitar upside down. He was left-handed and couldn’t afford a left handed guitar, even if they were available then. So he is playing upside down, even more impressive, when you think about it.
With all due respect, that's not strictly true. Yes, he is left handed playing a right handed guitar but the guitar was re-strung conventionally for left handed playing i.e. with the first string at the lower edge of the fretboard and the 6th string at the upper. So, he would have no problem picking up and playing a "proper" left handed guitar. Albert King was a different matter - he used a right handed guitar turned around for left hand playing but left the strings where they were resulting in a totally unique sound and style. Later, Gibson made "signature" Flying Vees for him with a standard left hand layout for the controls but he still had the "upside down" string set up. When Jimi used Flying Vees he sometimes had a right handed guitar, sometimes left handed but they were always strung conventionally.
He didn't have his strings "upside down." Learning to play lefty isn't hard when you're a lefty. Check out Eric Gales. He's a modern blues player, a lefty, that does play with the strings upside down. Also, keep in mind, and I say this as a lefty guitar player, that most people have right handed guitars. So when you go to someone's house and they have a guitar lying around, you start fiddling with it, and after years of those kinds of situations, before you know it, you know how to play guitar upside down. At least for me, all the cowboy chords and bar chords are just as natural to shape upside down at this point.
@@marcofernandoguarino709 Eric Gales - did not know that. He is a great performer. In all my 60 years playing the guitar as a "righty" I've never tried to play a left handed guitar turned round so I'll take your word for it that it's not that hard!
"I don't even know how I feel about what I just saw." Yeah, dude. God bless you, Jimi just expanded your mind. Bear in mind he'd be 80 in 2022, had he lived. (I think he'd have taken us all to another dimension if he had.)
We weren't dead, we were stupefied! We came out of the concert and couldn't find our car - listening to Jimi live we were never the same again.
Hendrix was so ahead of his time that the people who saw him then didn't realize what they were seeing.
He actually opened for The Monkees once and the kids had no idea what they were seeing.
You can see the audience in the video just standing there - thinking 'wtf am I witnessing - did he play that upsidedown strung fender with his tongue, - Is he really playing that guitar behind his back ?'. Funny to watch. The man was beyond his time musically.
He was amazing, almost god like.
He makes me Remember Richy Vallens... That kids could have gone far... ;_;
A bit like Marty Mcfly's guitar solo in back to the future.
When Eric Clapton first heard him, he said Well, it's all over for the rest of us.
I'm sure it uped everyone's game including Jimmy Page
And Robin Trower took it from there ! ❤😎
i thought it was "you never told me he was this fucking good"
You got that right
When mike bloomfield. (Number one American guitar player at the time) saw him he just was so scared he couldn't even pick up a guitar for a week. And mike was literally god XD. Listen to work song mike bloomfield 😂
It amazes me that he didn't like his singing voice. It sounds like the gods. Beautiful.
Yes me too!
Maybe not the best version!
Plus the fact he was able to sing what he played, I feel like that was his little trick to make up for his singing. A little trick I still haven’t heard anyone else do.
I love his voice (it fits his style) but I know a few people who don't like it. He didn't have a typical r&b or rock voice and that turns some people off.
That crowd looked like that because nobody's ever done what Jimi did. It's like that scene in Back to the Future when Marty plays with that band at the high school.
Exactly! I was just going to say something like this. He might as well have been from the future.
I think a couple of them actually shat themselves. like shock therapy to them.
@exodus21v20 umm....no. the crowd acted this way because this was in England in the 60's. The crowds were extremely polite.....had ZERO to do with him being black.
😆 yess indeed
@@mikemclaughlin3306 , Yes he lived in England for a while.......
Lots of Jimi's crowds looked like that - they weren't dead - they were stunned.
This crowd was Swedish. Probably a little stunned as well but Swedes tend to be a rather reserved lot anyway. No, not as reserved as Norwegians but compared to Americans they are practically silent.
@@imvandenh Very enthusiastic applause, however.
They KNOW they've just seen something amazing, but they just didn't know what the hell it was
Reverend JimJones lol...they were all tripping!
No they were all stoned , out there nut. 🎶🎸🏴
Jamel, if you think this was something wait till you see him do the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock. You'll need to be on life support after you watch it
LOL! You're absolutely right. That or Johnny Be Good live!
Agreed! I recommended that performance to Jamel, too. I hope he finds it and reacts to it.
YES!!!
Oh YES! Has he done that one yet???
His whole set is must-see. He was supposed to play the night before, but it didn't work out as scheduled. He said it was time to wake up, and he became the greatest morning alarm in history.
" The Wind Cry's Mary"
Hendricks prettiest song.
What about bold as love? And little wing?
@@bakersfielddoug Little Wing is definitely the winner of that contest.
The Wind Cry's Mary, my favourite Jimi song.
~ Cries, not "Cry's" "Hendrix, not "Hendricks." *
50 years later, still considered to be rocks most talented guitarist.
🤯
Indeed. Not one in a generation, Jimi is one in the entirety of human beings.
Yes! This is the guy that asked to jam with Cream!!!!!.....and afterwards Clapton himself said "My life was never the same....!!!" just blew them away!
Should also remember his band were insanely talented too: Mitch Mitchell and Noel redding!!
He's the man. He's the Usain Bolt of guitarists. A freak who has no true precedent. I'm just a guitar hack who's listened to world class guitarists of all genres, and they're all great in their own way, but the only other guitarist I would put up there with Hendrix is Page. And the only other guitarist I'd put up there with Page is Hendrix
Hardly...
RIP Jimi Hendrix. Sitting here with tears in my eyes. crazy.
You are not alone.
I am with U 100%
Absolutely - me too.
Let's start a movement!
All along the watchtower....Jimi makes it his own
and another great song written by Bob Dylan.
@@angelazuzu People don't even know how many covers have been done of Dylan tunes
@@pawrik3948 it's the equivalent of all the common phrases in the English language and literature that come directly from Shakespeare. I love what T Bone Burnett said about Dylan when he won the Nobel prize, "He is the Homer of our time. The next Bob Dylan will not come around for another millennium or two, making it highly unlikely that it will happen at all." I wouldn't go quite that far, but he has a point.
This is a cover too lol
Jimi was a sweet soul who played as one with his guitar. Breaks my heart that he was one of the "27" club.
Crowd not dead, they were in SHOCK...just like you were
They were like that when they saw Janice Joplin for the first time doing Ball and CHain at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Just sat with their mouths open.
😆
Yep, they were stunned, and this was so revolutionary, it is quite understandable that some couldn't take it.
Crowd in the past was more quiet and smoked, but very happy to watch and listen music like in the modern days.
They were there to listen to music. Try listening to music while screaming YUUHUU
Jimi said “when the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” We could have used more people with that mentality. Why do all the truly good people die so young? Peace y’all.
kathy pelkowski-----------------maybe they are so enlightened, they give us a gift and then go back home, where there is peace, sister.
zezmerelda Bodhisattva 😉
Only the good die young...remember?
I love Jimi and I have often wondered how life, music and the world would be different had he lived a bit longer, ya know?!? Btw, ever checked out my man Lenny Kravitz??? He has been compared to Jimi since he came on the scene out of NYC in 1991 with "Let Love Rule"... you're welcome.
y? because the good people come to planet earth to give of their soul... once done they leave.. the bad and greedy get stuck and live here in this 3d reality until they wake up and realise and do what good people do ;)
RIP Jimi...they’re still listening to your soul 60 years later and it’s still blowing minds! Peace out!
Jimmy Hendrix played the guitar supernaturally only way to describe it
React to Jimi Hendrix-"All along the watchtower"
Definitely
That's his signature song, really.
Yup....Quintessential Hendrix yo...even though it's a Dylan cover, he makes it very much his own (🤔kinda like Cornell would do 25-30 yrs l8r...)pax. ✌️😎
My favourite song!
Yes...dude you have to do Watchtower!!
There ain't a damn thing wrong with R & B & Hip Hop. But my brother when you met our brother Jimmy here you know your mind expanded like a mushroom cloud, and the world has been a little better ever since.
¡Salud!
That's Jimi with an "i" not a "y". Have a little respect.
Like Jimi Hendrix never played R&B lol 🤦
@@shaunw9270 or wouldn't have dug hiphop... ruclips.net/video/sO3dgiCxOI0/видео.html
The greatest band I ever saw. There was nobody like Jimi before, nobody like him since and there will never be anybody like him ever again.
I like how you say “Band” Jimi always stole the show and rightfully so but they are all masters of their craft.
"Why is that crowd so dead?" Look at those kids .... They're not so much dead as they are in shock.
stunned & stoned...
Looks to me like a "Top of the Pops" audience. I could be wrong, but... they always had that look about 'em. Kinda forced to 'enjoy' music that didn't suit them.
His music was before their time and it still is today.
They're not dead or in shock. They're English.
They're way too high 😏
Jimmy didn't play guitar. He made love to it.
Brian Baker Oh yeah, wild Love
Those Swedish kids had no idea how to react.
Oh! dear here we go again!
😅😅😅 .. AKA 'the magician' on 🎸..✌️😎
Jimi
I wonder every day how much music we lost the day Jimi died R.I.P
Sean Slaughter it’s best not to think about it
when black people had talent before hip hop and rap which made them musically backwards. thanks cia.
I wonder the same thing. He was trying to get a bigger band together but his manager didn't like that. And it kinda makes me think the night that Jimi die the next day his contract with his manager Mike Jeffrey was over so I find it very strange that Jimi dies the night before all of this Jimi Hendrix was murdered by his manager or people involved with him for Jeffrey was stealing Jimi money and the owen way to stop him from finding out was to kill Jimi. It is a shame that one of the worlds guitar player dies for the greed of another.
Jimmy was murdered. RIP
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LETS MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!! LET ME ASK U A QUESTION? IF SOMEONE CLOSE 2 U HAD DIED UNDER MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, WOULDN'T U DO EVERYTHING IN UR POWER 2 FIND OUT THE TRUTH!?!
PEACE N B WILD WELCOME 2 THE DAWN. LOVE41ANOTHER ? #NOACCIDENT #TRUTHMATTERS #ALLLIFEMATTERS #JUSTICE4PRINCE #JUTICE4CUZ #PEACE4PRINCE #AROYALLOSS
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Jimi Hendrix on guitar and Janis Joplin on vocals were the 2 most gifted performers of rock to have ever lived.
And Tina Turner among others like BB King, etc.
I would give anything to hear a collab between my favorite 2 artists🔥🔥🔥💙💙💙
Even in 2019, Jimi is still ahead of our time!
Its 2020 now bro
Please react to Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock. One of the most iconic music events of the 20th century!
They actually played him on a huge screen at WOODSTOCK '99, MY MIND was still blown.
@@spiralout1999 Otis Redding doing Satisfaction @ Monterrey Pop = 🤯
I was in college during Woodstock and I used that track of Jimi's Star Spangled Banner for a video project. . .Really brings back memories for me. . .It's classic!
one of the coolest versions of our Anthem ever
Or in the final of his act on Monterrey pop festival
One of the greatest rock guitarists whoever lived.
THE greatest guitarist that has ever lived........
THE. The greatest guitarist , even according to living great guitarists.
Correction The greatest guitarist that ever lived!
Not one of. He is the GOAT!!!!
(don't tell tom morrello) 🤔
The look on your face is absolutely priceless! I saw him perform 3 times, and you should have seen the look on my face!
Jimi playing the “star spangled banner “ is a beautiful, mind altering experience that should be had by all.
Do it while you're high and alone....also Hotel California.
I play it every 4th of July while the fireworks are going off!
Crowd wasn't dead, their just busy getting their faces melted......
As far as I know, the concert was in West Germany. Those were German hippies.
Edit: Think Kraftwerk.
They didnt know what to think...they learned soon enough....
Morty Mortinsin true
They were in awe just like Jamel here...
People were more civilised back then as the demographics were more in that spectrum
He was amazing!! If you look he played the Strat upside down because he was left handed. Phenomenal👍👍👍
🤯
Right handed strat strung right.....but played upside down left handed........"phenomenal" almost starts to describe it.
@@patrickpenix3399 It is a right-handed strat strung left. Doesn't diminish his greatness though.
Jamel, did you know that my hero, Jimi, died 50 odd years on this September 18. Yes, 50 years ago. I'm 68 y.o. and I cried today.
James Marshall Hendrix was the hero of mine. I did'nt care for his tricks, playing with his teeth or tongue, it was part of the show to get known but he hated it all. He just wanted to play his music. That's why I loved him, like the very first time I heard Hey Joe and then Purple Haze, The wind cries Mary...
He was my brother, man. My soul Brother.
R.I.P. James.
I was 12 years old when I heard this song and it changed my life for ever and now Im 64 and it still moves my soul.
Same here and I'm 65.😄
Same here... I'm 65
I don't believe I had saw this video before, but I was too busy with my own reaction to watch much of Jamal's. Just incredible!
and at 72 😎
Did anyone mention that Jimi is playing his Stratocaster left handed and UPSIDE DOWN?
he never bothered to get a left handed guitar since he learned to play with a right handed guitar
nooooo!! We never knew that
The Stratocaster is upside down but the strings are switched around to be in the correct order for a lefty.
He almost had a lefty guitar:
In one of the ultimate sliding doors moments in rock and roll, Eric Clapton had originally planned to meet Hendrix the night of his death but that never came to fruition and left Clapton with an unwanted reminder of his friend’s demise. “The night that he died I was supposed to meet him at the Lyceum to see Sly Stone play, and I brought with me a left-handed Stratocaster. I just found it, I think I bought it at Orange Music. I’d never seen one before and I was gunna give it to him.”
“He was in a box over there and I was in a box over here. I could see him but I couldn’t… we never got together. The next day, whack! He was gone. And I was left with that left-handed Stratocaster.”
Did not play upside down. He strung his guitar in the standard method..top to bottom low to high.
"Move over, Rover - and let Jimi take over!"
jimi was left handed and had to make his own guitar and all the backing tapes were his own creations. guy was a god given genius!
Actually he taught himself to play on a standard right hand guitar held left handed/ upside down.
@@TheOnespeedbiker Yes. He restrung it so that he could use it upside down.
@@pawstalk Interestingly he continued to play (and often destroy) upsidedown right handed Fender Strats for most his performances and recordings; meaning the the volume, treble and tone knobs were always above the strings.
Jimmy was a generational talent like nobody had ever seen. People were trippin on him for real. Truly a gift to music and he paved the way for many guitarists you hear today
Listen to " Are you experienced?" Hendrix was from another planet.......he just stopped in for a little while.......
That was my "labor" song. Easy to breathe to and the OB team loved it.
You've just witnessed greatness! You've missed out on so much.
I saw Jimi about 7 times. The audience was always fairly quiet. we sat in awe of his great talent. He had a very different vibe
You’re a legend, Rubi. Glad you had these experiences.
Lucky
You said,"I've been living in a bubble of R&B and Hip Hop". Damn, that's like having only eaten hamburgers and french fries your whole life. Those are great, even outrageously great at times but, there is SO much flavor out there to be savored! Being open to new experiences (whether it is music, food, cultures, etc...) is what makes life rich! Wishing you much love and prosperity!!
Embarassing to admit, but I was in a bubble, too, before moving to Germany and meeting my now husband 30 yrs. ago. Had heard of Jimi, and Janis, but didn't know their music until my German boyfriend introduced them to me. Sad for an American girl born in the 60's!
Musicians are like audio chefs
“It completely overwhelmed me” Bob Dylan. Upon seeing JH
It’s so cool to see someone experiencing the genius of Jimi Hendrix for the first time. What a player he was...
The crowd were as stunned/ dead as the one in " Back to the Future" when Mcfly did the guitar solo of "Johnny be good".
This is THE GREATEST reaction to Hendrix I have seen. Bless. I'm crying.
You've got to hear Hendrix' "The Wind Cries Mary".
My dumb ass listened to that song for YEARS before I found out that refers to weed lol
Yes and all along the watchtower
Midnight lamp!
In Australia, Wind Cries Mary was the B-side to Hey Joe.
Valleys of Neptune is another excellent song. My favorite song from jimi.
Your reaction and the "I'm Done" was priceless. I laughed so hard I pulled a muscle....
me also!!!!!
I'm still laughing
I want to go back, where is the time machine, world crazy now................... Best talent ever.
The crowd was just as blown away by that performance too. Staring in disbelief.
This was in the midst of a musical renaissance. We need another one.
Greta van fleet
The Warning
Can you imagine watching a whole concert? No wonder the name of the band was The Jimi Hendrix Experience. You don't watch & listen . . . you experience.
saw him live back in the 60's .....brilliant...
Crowd wasn't dead, you were witnessing their minds being blown by Mr Hendrix.
100%
@@corbelius6 White kids had been programmed NOT TO BOOGIE! ;)
@@MrGlastar1 lol
The drummer of his band does not get enough credit.....
True.
HIS NAME IS MITCH MITCHEL/ MY FAVORITE DRUMMER.
They seldom do get ceedit.
Oh Mitch Mitchell was a bad boy!
Mitch Mitchell was just awesome.
Jimi was THE man. I feel how you feel from your reaction. Now you know how every musician feels about Jimi Hendrix. Every Jimi Hendrix fan knows Jimi's story. Just the coolest guy and the greatest guitarist who ever lived. IMO.
Only Hendrix can promote dental hygiene by flossing with his guitar.
lol
He plays the strangs wit his mouf
Hahahahaha!
There will NEVER be anyone to even come close.
Sure there will be. That's the hope of the future! That because of the influence the young strive to achieve more than those who have come before. There will just NEVER be anyone to come FIRST again! RIP Jimi!
Look up Eric Gales
there's a fella named Buckethead that's pretty decent...
SRV
@@exotic_sharts thank you he was the closest thing to him.
When Jimi came to the UK he recorded sessions for BBC Radio 1. The sound engineers are on record saying they could see the soundproofed glass moving in the studio and the classical studio TWO FLOORS above called to complain about the sound bleeding through into their recording.
Absolutely incomparable and an original. A tragedy he died so young as the influence he's had on rock and roll, rhythm and blues and heavy metal is beyond measure. Thanks for your honest reaction Jamal. The first time I ever heard Hendrix I was blown away the same way.
He had to go we probably could not handle the rest
I can’t believe how good this old ass recording sounds. Jimi lead the way for A LOT of styles. Band of Gypsies deserves several listens
Nate Williams
Yes it does.
I can because Europe was better at recording live music in the 60s bar none
This is why he's the best guitarist in history - ever - period.
How do you define that? best rock guitar player technically? best composer? better than the top Classical, Flamenco, jazz or other styles players technically?
@@heavyrules6699 Yes........yes............and yes!!
Jimi was the most influential, but the best? No. We're talking about music here, not sports. Jimi
uh ...then the 80's happened... sorry but, I can name ten who took it to another level ... guitar only has 6 strings, but the best guitarists have to use all ten fingers now.... see Eddie Van Halen, cuz he started the revolution.... Hendrix was the best in his short life though R.I.P.
@@GTLyons lmao did you just compare Eddie Van Halen to Hendrix
James Marshall Hendrix, the reason I took up guitar. James Marshall Hendrix, my guitar hero. James Marshall Hendrix, often imitated, NEVER duplicated. RIP Jimi. You were the best. EVER.
Jamel, the crowd is so tame because of the times. You got to realize that was about 68 or thereabouts. They hadn’t been awoke yet! give them another year or two! Some of them probably weren’t even tore up yet, or as Jimi says ‘experienced’! It was all part of the progression that’s got us to where we are now. Think how important his mind blowing addition to it all was.He opened a lot of peoples eyes to the fact that thru music, we are all the same.❤
Your reaction is priceless. Exactly how all of us reacted first time we witnessed the mastery of Jimi.
Crowd isn’t dead. They just weren’t aware that they were witnessing history being made.
Absolutely. They had no idea what to make of it. At the end during the applause some of them looked a little dazed. lol
@@1234nagel1582 Great video, though.
Watch some videos of him at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. He sets his guitar on fire.
Given to Frank Zappa a few years later, that Guitar is still being played by Zappa's son Dweezil.
@@cleekmaker00 Allegedly that guitar was said to have been burned at Miami Pop. Except Jimi didn't burn a guitar there. Plus the guitar now looks totally different again to when Dweezil first started showing it off in the 80's & 90's .
You Just witnessed the greatest guitar player ever , sad he passed away at 27 years old in 1970 , theres no one ever come close to his guitar skills , Mr. Jimi Hendrix was a magician with that Stratocaster !!!!
Yes he played guitar with his mouth. He also pioneered the wah-wah pedal into R & B.
He was ahead of his time! He changed the way how the guitar sounds. He's one of my influences on guitar.
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This is what happens when you set Guitar Hero to "God Level".
No, this is what happens when you learn an instrument, not how to play with a toy.
hahahahahahaha so true
Greatest guitarist in the world
BEST musician guitarist ever ...... no one can beat him to that. RIP Jimi
This is the reason why 50 years later he is still rated greatest guitarist of all time. There's an interview on RUclips with Ron Wood who lived with Jimi for two weeks. He said Jimi could play the guitar stringed upside down or right side up. While he was left handed, he could also play right handed. What is truly amazing is how he changed music as well as playing the guitar. The only way I can compare it to is The Wizard of Oz. Before Jimi, music was black and white. Seeing Jimi play was like going to Oz where everything was in color.
Try watching the documentaries on Jimi. They played one of his records backwards, and he knew exactly where the notes were, even backwards.
Peter - correct! It could have been strung for a righty or lefty - Jimi could literally play it every which way.
wow I saw him in concert many years ago electrified this man was out of control he was the bomb.. Woodstock we were in the mud rain no one cared we rocked for days..he played the guitar with his teeth and tongue ..you can not know how much I cherish those days.the music lives on...
I so wish I had been around at that time to actually witness all these bands live in person. It must have been an amazing time to be alive.
I was fortunate enough as a teenager to have seen Jimi several times live in concert. The last time was May 7th 1970. His final performance in the DFW area. I quit my job to attend and I am and glad I did.
I was a flower child of the 60's .... so amazing I lived through this era . Jimi was major then ,.....blew us all 💥 well don't forget we had the best music/musicians of any era we were spoilt to heck . Also mods and rockers, hippies , depends on which audience went .
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then there will be peace!" The immortal words of James Marshall Hendrix, perhaps the most talented and innovative guitar player of all time.. He certainly would have been, he was way ahead of his time and died tragically way too young - Born 1942, died 1970, so he was only 28. We loved him in England. Chas Chandler the Animals bassist discovered him playing and got him his break in London. RIP Jimi, we miss you.
David Morgan he was 27 years old when he died, about to turn 28 but he didn’t make it round to his birthday
@@brittneyking4361 - hmm, okay, thanks. 27 = 9. (2+7) and he had the song "If the 6 was 9, I don't mind" too huh - R.I.P. Jimi (Rock In Paradise) :-)
Not only was Jimi as amazing guitarist who changed the guitar forever he also had a loving peaceful soul! Rock in Peace Jimi 🙏🏽
Yes he played his guitar with his teeth, behind his back and he lit his guitar on fire on stage.
He is from Seattle, Wa Before Nirvana their was Jimi. Never before and never after, no more need be said.
The crowd had that reaction when he first came on the scene because they’ve never seen anything like that. Jimi was ahead of his time and he also had his own unique sound that the world had never heard. I remember when I was around 7 years old and one of my older brothers said....check out this new Hendrix album..... I loved growing up during the 60’s & 70’s.... the greatest music ever recorded was fresh and new.
Simply put the---------------GOAT has just entered the room.
Can you see now how Stevie Ray Vaughan got his influence?
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Yea that's what inspired Stevie to learn how to play blues when he was like 8 yrs old.. Along with folks like Johnny winter.. And if you like Stevie and Jimi, give a listen to Johnny Winter(RIP) back in 1970, the Bass player in this video also played for Stevie in the videos you reacted to.. First white guy inducted into the blues hall of fame.. ruclips.net/video/8Tyg5SJDpiQ/видео.html
Any and everybody who ever picked up a guitar is influenced by Jimi......take a look at Chicago 25 or 6 to 4, and listen to Terry Kath riff for over 2 minutes.....when Jimi saw Chicago in concert, he told Terry Kath "You're better than I am" High praise indeed !!!
Not just Stevie Ray Vaughan - without Jimi's influence, no-one would ever have heard of Prince.
If you look at SRV's guitar, it has a left-handed whammy bar - it's not for practical reasons, it's a Jimi tribute
Jamal's reaction is priceless.
'@5.21, he is unable to talk after witnessing Jimi's supernatural brilliance.
That's why the audience was so stunned. Jimi still remains in a field of one, five
decades since he left this mortal coil.
When Jimi played with his mouth I thought only used his teeth but on closer examination you can see that he obviously used his tongue as well and , on top of that , the man didn't miss a beat. If you only listened to the audio you'd never know that he did that and played behind his head. G.O.A.T.
Well, actually he played a legato only with the hand on the frets. The tongue movement was useless for the sound, just a scenic move. But in the piece before he used his teeth as a pick.
One of the greatest guitarists that ever played...He was gone too soon.
AMEN
He absolutely changed the way the electric guitar was played. The most influential rock guitarist of all time.
❤️❤️❤️Jimi. Lost way to young but his music will always live on!! Yes he looked so very very cool!! Jimi was the Guitar God!!
Jamal you must check out, Are you experienced, Foxy lady and All along the watchtower! All phenomenal
Fun fact: Jimmi Hendrix actually played his Fender upside down.
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He was left handed. So he put the strings on his fender backwards and played like a boss. Oh by the way im still waiting on my reaction lol
Jonell Fretz yup, and actual guitarists use those tone and volume knobs which are below the strings for a reason. It’s way harder to use them the way his guitar is configured.
Right handed guitar backwards.
He could play guitar either way, left or right, he was just a complete monster.
I'm just a little prejudice but growing up in the 60's with all this greatness I feel honored hearing Jimi & other greats.
I was fortunate enough to see him in April, 1969 - I sat there transfixed throughout the whole concert - it seemed like it was over in 5 minutes, I lost all track of time, just mesmerized.
My ears rang for several hours afterwards, I didn’t care - I had just witnessed the best electric guitarist that ever lived. 🎸
The one and only mr. Jimi hendrix. There will be no other that has or ever will come close to this man's talent. R.I.P.
Thank you Jamel - that was a PERFECT reaction. I'm laughing and crying. Jimi was an unbelievable phenomenon.
My man this was an incredible and honest reaction. That’s how I felt too. It blew my mind watching Jimi do that
Jimi was on a whole other level for that time. So advanced, and ahead of his time.
The Goat , love him.
Jamel, your reaction does a lot to explain the audience. This was the 60's and they weren't dead, they were stunned! Being a British audience, they would have started out a bit more reserved, but this was entirely new and innovative at the time and they had never see the likes of that type of performance. [A lot of what he did is now incorporated by modern guitar players. The playing behind the back and with the tongue (actually hammer-ons and pull-offs) were typically only done by the old bluesmen.]Another unique guitarist from the 60s and 70s was Richie Havens. He was a true and righteous person. [He, Paul Williams, Eric Oxendine and I shared a bottle of rum back stage following a concert at my college.] I saw him in concert several times after that over the span of 20 years and he remembered me.
Yeah, I would've been on the floor had I saw this performance live..........nothing compares to this, EVER!! The band backing Jimi was outstanding as well, never get enough credit.
listening to Jimi is a spiritual experience. edit: Castles Made Of Sand, Axis: Bold As Love, and Little Wing if you haven't heard them already.
Spanish Castle Magic!!
Power of Soul, Hear My Train A-coming
Oh lord, your face when when he started playing with mouth made my year. I love your channel 🤣🤣🤣
You do realize that Jimi Hendrix learned to play his guitar upside down. He was left-handed and couldn’t afford a left handed guitar, even if they were available then. So he is playing upside down, even more impressive, when you think about it.
With all due respect, that's not strictly true. Yes, he is left handed playing a right handed guitar but the guitar was re-strung conventionally for left handed playing i.e. with the first string at the lower edge of the fretboard and the 6th string at the upper. So, he would have no problem picking up and playing a "proper" left handed guitar. Albert King was a different matter - he used a right handed guitar turned around for left hand playing but left the strings where they were resulting in a totally unique sound and style. Later, Gibson made "signature" Flying Vees for him with a standard left hand layout for the controls but he still had the "upside down" string set up. When Jimi used Flying Vees he sometimes had a right handed guitar, sometimes left handed but they were always strung conventionally.
He didn't have his strings "upside down." Learning to play lefty isn't hard when you're a lefty. Check out Eric Gales. He's a modern blues player, a lefty, that does play with the strings upside down. Also, keep in mind, and I say this as a lefty guitar player, that most people have right handed guitars. So when you go to someone's house and they have a guitar lying around, you start fiddling with it, and after years of those kinds of situations, before you know it, you know how to play guitar upside down. At least for me, all the cowboy chords and bar chords are just as natural to shape upside down at this point.
@@marcofernandoguarino709 Eric Gales - did not know that. He is a great performer. In all my 60 years playing the guitar as a "righty" I've never tried to play a left handed guitar turned round so I'll take your word for it that it's not that hard!
Albert King also had the strings done for his left-hand playing.
All of us young hippies in the day learned this as our first song on the guitar.
Still do play it, not as good as Jimi tho.
Was 'Riders on the Storm' for me. But, yeah, I feel ya!
"I don't even know how I feel about what I just saw." Yeah, dude. God bless you, Jimi just expanded your mind. Bear in mind he'd be 80 in 2022, had he lived. (I think he'd have taken us all to another dimension if he had.)