I've been a drummer for almost 40 years. I'm a big fan of Rock, Rap, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Blues and Electronic. Jimi Hendrix is hands down the sickest, most fierce guitarist that has ever walked the planet earth. He is my hero. Absolut #1 favorite.
I’m so jazzed that you’re digging the Jimi vibes. Picked up the guitar at 15, dead at 27. God knows where his music could have gone had he lived longer.
That’s crazy. I picked up a guitar at 14; I’m now 44 and I’ll never be anywhere near the ballpark of how good Jimi was. He was a channel for something supernaturally amazing and wonderful
I had a long chat with Jimi on break at the Armory when he filled in with Wilson Pickett on a road date probably in 1966. He's not on a drug to get that sound. Jimi got that sound by not being "hung up" trapped in his own head which is what happens when you over think stuff. Jimi never over thought stuff. He never "rehearsed" what he would play---he just got on with it. He realized at an early age that freedom is mostly just not letting your own head dominate the rap. What you hear in his singing and playing is his HEART, not his HEAD. I asked him how he got all those sounds and he patiently showed me his amp. He was a great guy. He played better because he "talked" his guitar and let it say stuff. And he danced the guitar and kept the beat with it. He was music in motion when he was on stage. I was hoping everybody would listen and decide to become a Buddhist so they would all be more like Jimi. And stay calm like he did. And feel the groove like he did. So far it hasn't happened like I hoped it would. But there's you guys so who knows? I'm 74 which probably sounds pretty old to you guys. But I can do that thing too and it never gets old. Heck staying calm even makes my guitar play better. I believe Jimi was right and his idea was the best idea: Don't over think stuff! Stay calm and see if the power can go right through your fingers. Yeah baby that's what I'm talking about!
"Jimi got that sound by not being "hung up" trapped in his own head which is what happens when you over think stuff. Jimi never over thought stuff" Which he learned by a tripping a few times. You don't have to keep doing a drug to be influenced by it. Unless he told you otherwise; speaking to Jimi is pretty awesome and I'll take your word on whatever it is he said on the matter.
Younger people might not know, before Jimi...no one ever heard a guitar sound like that...He was a Force of Nature still to be reckoned with to this day..
Nobody else could turn a Stratocaster into an orchestra like that--not even Page, Clapton, Beck, or others at the time, all of whom have acknowledged their debt to Jimi.
There are two versions of this song: On Jimi's album "Electric Ladyland", there is "Voodoo Chile", the long studio version which is amazing. What you are hearing is Voodoo Child Slight Return, a shorter version of the song. Jimi is my favorite guitarist, hands down; saw him live in '68 when I was 14. It's very difficult to find much of his music on YT because his estate and music rights are now controlled by his half sister Janie Hendrix and she won't release anything. I don't think he would approve. If you really want to delve into his music, you would be smart to purchase either the CD's or vinyl's of "Are You Experienced", "Axis Bold as Love" and "Electric Ladyland" and maybe do reactions from those. R.I.P. Jimi.
Watch a live video of him. He plays the guitar behind his back and with his tongue. I am 68years old and I still listen to Jimi. I was a teenager in the mid 60's oh my goodness that was a great era to be young.
I wish I would have experienced the 60s and 70s especially hendrix. Anyways bering born after him at least I'm still able to listen to his music. The true disaster for me would have been dying before hendrix.
There are quite a few guitarists from this era who I absolutely love, I could listen to Page all day, Townshend is underrated but brilliant, Santana - pure fire, and on and on. HOWEVER... nobody was plugged in to another dimension, truly, like Jimi. His playing was simply on another plane of reality, and he was inviting us all to go there with him. And for a few minutes at a time we could!
Hendrix was the pioneer who elevated the electric guitar to a wholly different level with his music and has inspired guitarists ever since. the guy was a genius whose memory is reinvigorated as new generations discover what he was about and achieved ..
great reaction guys, that's exactly how I felt over 50 years ago, Jimi changed my life. He was definately one of a kind and still is the G.O.A.T. as far as guitar players go.....
Here's a few great musts for Jimi tunes: Are You Experienced, Third Stone From the Sun, Little Miss Lover, You Got Me Floating, If 6 Was 9, Voodoo Chile, Red House, I Don't Live Today, and everything else he did in between. This man was pure genius.
Not only... for a young black man in his 20's, Jimi had tapped some high spiritual knowledge. When you listen to the interviews his insight is pretty deep
Everything to that point in rock was going thru the roof with taking out all the stops & Hendrix did it with "Are You Experienced" & "Axis Bold as Love" but this was on a different level taking it up into the transcendent. I played this over & over when it first came out & unfortunately most music after that point became more mundane. Loved the side of Electric Ladyland with "Rainy Day Dream Away" & "1983". Beautifully produced.
...now imagine this on LSD at maybe 16... Hendrix is incredible, I could see you both were amazed at his sound. Best music genre so far, produced the best innovative and breakthrough advances and has since not been matched. Great reaction from open minded young people. If you haven't already, please try Hey Joe; Red House; the Wind cries Mary(featuring his smooth voice); Purple Haze; Little Wing. You shouldn't go another day without seeing his Woodstock performance of the Star Spangled Banner, where you will see him in his red, white and blue jeans glory. Check out Jimi's beautiful hands, with long slender fingers, born to master the guitar. RIP, Jimi. You are legendary. 🎸👽🔥🔥🔥💔💙. ☮️To all.
Nice to see some more young folks reacting to the music we grew up on. Electric guitar music had been around for a few decades but when Jimi laid this stuff down we knew a new era had dawned.
Mr. Jimi Hendrix, was the man that turned everybodys heads such as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend, and Robin Tower, Stevie Ray Vaughan, etc.. Jeff Beck, once said to Eric Clapton, we’re gonna have to turn our amps higher now, after hearing Jimi Hendrix, for the first time in London England.. On RUclips Led Zeppelin, covering Hey Joe, from Jimi Hendrix
It's great to see you guys discovering Jimi, a true guitar god. What makes him even more amazing is that while many guitarists can play like Jimi today, he was the first. He was making music that no had ever heard, or thought of, before!
You guys need to buy the DVD “Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock”, it’s his entire performance from the 1969 festival, and it will fry your mind. There are portions of it on RUclips, but not the entire show. You can find it easily on Amazon. Jimi was a performer as well as guitarist, he knew how to put on a show. Even if you watch his hands you’ll never figure out how he got the sounds he did.
Jim’s ability is unquestioned but what most people fail to realize is what a great musician he was. Check out Eddie Kramer pulling apart some of Jimi’s songs and it is just mind blowing how someone could think of the things he did.
It's funny, ABC had a film crew following them around, and they wanted to get footage of what it's like to record, so hendrix decided to try this song. The thing is, back then music was recorded "live". All the musicians recorded their parts all at the same time, unlike today the drummer plays to a click track, the bassist adds his parts, then the guitar is added, and then vocals, and usually each riff is recorded separetly and copy/pasted. Also, they hadn't really checked all the levels, which is why the bass and drums are rather low in the mix. They even just used the scratch vocals instead of a proper vocal overdub. It was a quick and dirty recording. Then during mixing, hendrix and Eddie kramer (his engineer) did a lot of work to the recording, adding the maracas, fading in his guitar at the beginning, added reverb, and all that crazy panning. Now, the nastiness of hendrix's guitar was achieved with a fuzz face pedal, and amplifier overdrive. A fuzz is an early type of extreme distortion. If used with a clean amp tone, it'll sound like a pissed off 2,000 bumble bee, (most people hate that sound) but when you use it with an overdriven amp, you get what you just heard. The fuzz face is called that because it's a fuzz, but the pedal itself looks like a face, go look up a picture of a fuzz face, it's ridiculous, but cool.
That was so awesome. Jimi was the greatest guitarist that ever lived and it was such a pleasure watching you guys appreciate him. Keep the videos coming!
Jimi Hendrix invented so many guitar techniques and influenced so many rock guitarists. When Eric Clapton was asked how it felt to be named Greatest Guitarist in the World, he said, "I don't know, that's Jimi Hendrix." As far as the drugs, Jimi died of an overdose that he vomited on and suffocated in his own vomit induced by the drugs, so, unless you want to join the "27 Club," the drugs are a no-no.
He had taken sleeping pills... but was forcefully drowned in wine by his crook manager's thugs, shortly after Michael Jeffery acquired million-dollar life insurance policy, and just before Jimi was headed to sue and fire his ass for ripping him off. The doctors that received him said his lungs were filled with raw wine, not vomit. and there was very little in his stomach or bloodstream. It's all out there on more than a "theory" level.
You'd better do some extra research. The quote is fake (and over-used and is always used with diffferent guitarists talking about other guitarists) and the drugs story too is wrong too.
@@hesch-tag I literally saw Eric Clapton in a clip from an old talk show where he said this, so my research was already done before I put this out for the world to see.
Also, I read a biography about Jimi Hendrix that explained this exact thing. He was in Germany. He would get these creative manic episodes where he couldn't sleep. He took two German sleeping pills, not knowing that 1/4 of this particular sleeping pill was the equivalent of two American sleeping pills, so he unknowingly took the equivalent of 16 American sleeping pills. He asphyxiated on his own vomit in the ambulance and died. Research already done-- again.
There are the obvious sounds he played but there are also subtle under currants, sounds and details that make Hendrix, Hendrix and make him imitated but never ever duplicated. Some people just think of burning guitars and feedback but Jimi Hendrix was a genius and played and wrote some of the most heavenly music ever.
Hendrix has been consuming a loooooot of acid back in the day. Many of his songs have a very psychodelic and nasty vibe like voodo child, purple haze, machine gun. But anyways he also wrote songs like little wing, the wind cries mary, castles made of sand or bold as love which do have a very unique soft vibe to them. Even though you might not be able to stream all of them on yt because of the copyrights Id really recommended listening to them :)). I really enjoyed the reaction and I hope you are doing well zayyy.
If you like Jimi Hendrix I'd like to see you react to Stevie Ray Vaughan- Texas Food - live at the el Macombo. Amazing to watch and everyone's surprised to see what he does with a guitar.
Glad you guys reacted to the Hendrix studio version and not a live version or stevie ray Vaughan version. For me the Jimi studio version has always been the best!!
If this song doesn't give you "stank face" then you probably aren't alive and nothing will. Lord sweet Jesus this song rocks soooooo hard and sweet at the same time.
Yes Young Brothers… love your reactions. Please watch videos and react to Jimi playing Hey Joe at Monterey pop festival and Star spangled banner at Woodstock. Peace and Love Graham.
I heard this for the first time when I was a teen in the '70's, didn't have any headphones, just some mini speakers, so I'd put my head between them lol!! Soul changing!!
Love your videos - your reactions are a testament to the universality of music - real music transcends generations, cultures...Now that you have listened to Jimi you MUST listen to Stevie Ray Vaughn doing Voo Do Child next...you'll be blown away.
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) was actually an impromptu track recorded the next day after Jimi jammed and recorded (Voodoo Chile) According to Noel Redding Jimi's bass player Hendrix returned to the studio for the filming of a short documentary by ABC television. Noel Redding explained, "We learned that song in the studio ... They had the cameras rolling on us as we played it".
Great video lads and love the reaction👊 hope you both doing well and have sorted out whatever was getting you down. If you wanna hear Jimi at his best and the greatest guitar solo ever recored live u gotta check out 'machine gun' Live at the filmore 69' from the band of gypsy's album. One of his old friends said god was playing through jimi on this track that night, it's NASTY😁
Machine Gun LATF69 is arguably the most amazing live electric guitar performance ever recorded. The only thing that is close is Rush: Bytor and the Snow Dog from their first live album All the World's a Stage. Astounding!
Great to see Hendrix blowing minds to this day, more than fifty years after his untimely death. About the drug thing. So many misconceptions about that. If taking drugs was all it took to become Jimi Hendrix, then we would have a million Jimis by now. We don't, there is and only ever will be one Jimi Hendrix. The dope you can buy, but his personality, imagination, heart and fingers you cannot. Maybe the drugs helped him for a short while (freeing him from musical constraints - if any - he might have had or helping to broaden his creativity), but not as much as starting playing at a young age, paying his dues and honing his craft playing in many bands (including back-up for The Isley Brothers and Little Richard) and most of all: practising at his art all day, every day up until the day he died. If you can find a decent video (what with the Experience Hendrix company blocking all of them), listen to "Machine Gun" from live album "Band Of Gypsys" or his rendition of "Star Spangled Banner" from his performance at Woodstock. Great work and welcome to Electric Ladyland. EDIT: At 6.15 the question was asked how he did that. He bent a note a full note upwards and slowly released the tension on the string, causing it to slip back to the original note slowly. At the same time he clicked his wah-wah pedal on and off with his foot.
Jimi, like Robert Johnson, played his axe nearly 24/7, since he got hooked on it... walking down the street, practice till you fall asleep still holding your guitar, etc. Billy Cox said before Jimi was "discovered" they once went to a theater and Jimi walked in playing his electric guitar unamplified IN the movie theater. He probably had 15 times the amount of hours playing in the same period of time most develop at. Some "practice" 2 hours a day a few time per week. Some "practice" ALL day every day. It shows, huh? Ahahaha
Jimi played "Sound machine"... using a guitar and his blues and funky R&B chops. His "poetry/lyric" writing was just as deep. What really struck me, was that Jimi wasn't doing much songWRITING before he hit London. I suspect Stone Free and Highway Chile may have been among the first he wrote when he got there. And I STILL want to know who the hell played bass on Highway Chile. Doesn't sound like Noel, and Chas Chandler never took credit. It was the B-side of the UK Wind Cries Mary YEARS before it was released on the USA "War Heros". lol.. I'd already been playing it for years when War Heros came out. I still play that song at nearly every performance
Psychedelics (LSD, Mescaline,Peyote, Magic Mushrooms)and of course marijuana, were the drugs of choice a during this time ! We used to to be "trippin",when we listened to Hendrix's music ! Of course Jimi was trippin" too ! It was a wild time !
Possibly one of the most failingly attempted Hendrix classics, by soooo many, of all time. Electric Ladyland was Jimi's finest studio work, in my opinion. That solo was just one of those unrepeatable takes that blew by. Never heard even Jimi play that song so well, EVER again. House Burning Down is another often overlooked masterpiece of "blazing" guitar lines. I clearly remember that "hair standing on end" reaction when I came to the end of that album. QUITE the closing statement!
It always makes me cringe when people try and copy this song note for note. It’s literally an improvisational stroke of absolute genius. My vote for the greatest piece of electric guitar ever recorded.
the blues men were the og og’s! Bragging on their loving quality, ability to drink, fight, just telling the world how cool they were. This feels like jimi’s tribute to that imo. I’m standing next to a mountain, chop it down with the edge of my hand. Paul Bunyan, John Henry type stuff lol.
Jimi was a genius. He ripped the guts out of the guitar when he recorded this. Word is, every time Jimi played this song he had to have his guitar repaired. 😆 Peace.
Fire 🔥 This song was inspired from an improvisation of Voodoo Chile, which is much slower and bluesier compared to this raucous version. Listen to the original to see what he can do with the same song. Also, check him out live… if you can get it by the RUclips censors.
The planet got completely short changed when Jimi passed. As great as slot of his work was, especially in the “Trio” , we never got to see Hendrix hit his peak. Let that sink in.
We used to have running joke back in 1968... It was who can really hear Jimi Hendrix...LoL .. he came on so strong we were blown away. Janis Joplin did the same thing. These people took the stage and it was transcendent. So it was like if you can hear Jimi Hendrix then you had arrived... Check out machine gun live at the Fillmore
Until the Massiah comes again Roy Buchanan ..you guys will thank me. Hendrix Blues....Electric Church Red House ..will knock your socks off. Hendrix died at 27...like Janis Joplin...his dear friend...and Jim Morrison lead singer for the Doors All three died in1970 at 27. Very haunting
Crazy thing is he’s playing a left handed guitar upside down cause his father was a drunk and got the wrong one and told him he had to learn how to play it so when his dad left the room he’d flip it to where he was comfortable. Main reason people have such a hard time recreating his music. Also read his biography, my man’s had a wild life
Don’t know if anybody mentioned…Jimi played left handed…there were no left had guitars..so he got a Fender Stratocaster and put the strings upside down (low on bottom, high on top) and played it upside down! Watch some live utube videos…he was an amazing performer.
slight return is the second half to the first part voodoo chile earlier in the album. You'll have some issue getting hendrix on youtube, most of it is restricted off youtube and the best is on other platforms
Check out Jimi's songs Are You Experienced; Little Wing; the funky drumming on Fire; and, his awesome cover of Bob Dylan's song All Along the Watchtower. "But first, are you experienced? Have u ever been experienced? Well, I have. Aw, let me prove it to you..."
Voodoo Chile is a song that comes before Voodoo Child (slight return) that is last song on the album Electric Ladyland thus kinda bookending his journey through the songs on the album. If you like this song i highly recommend you listen to the album from start to finish it is a musical story!
I've been a drummer for almost 40 years. I'm a big fan of Rock, Rap, Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Blues and Electronic. Jimi Hendrix is hands down the sickest, most fierce guitarist that has ever walked the planet earth. He is my hero. Absolut #1 favorite.
Jimi had a inner driving force to play the way he did.
The beautiful thing is he could go from this to ''One Rainy Wish'' in a micro second....Yeah he was special, real special...
The Mother Ship dropped him off on planet earth didn't it? @@camronbay1
@@spinkawinka6990 Oh most definitely.
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I’m so jazzed that you’re digging the Jimi vibes. Picked up the guitar at 15, dead at 27. God knows where his music could have gone had he lived longer.
Funny you said jazzed because according to those in the know, he was headed into a world of jazz as rock was starting to bore him
@@zyonsdream lol. Was just listening to Miles Davis, then flicked over to this - uncanny. The Hendrix/Davis colab would have been next level.
That’s crazy. I picked up a guitar at 14; I’m now 44 and I’ll never be anywhere near the ballpark of how good Jimi was. He was a channel for something supernaturally amazing and wonderful
@@Mike-rw2nh Hendrix and Davis talked about doing something together, but fate intervened too soon.
@@bryanfouts287 I’m in the same boat as you. Started at 13. Am 46 now. No way near that level of fluidity, but love pentatonic noodling on the sofa.
I had a long chat with Jimi on break at the Armory when he filled in with Wilson Pickett on a road date probably in 1966.
He's not on a drug to get that sound.
Jimi got that sound by not being "hung up" trapped in his own head which is what happens when you over think stuff.
Jimi never over thought stuff.
He never "rehearsed" what he would play---he just got on with it.
He realized at an early age that freedom is mostly just not letting your own head dominate the rap.
What you hear in his singing and playing is his HEART, not his HEAD.
I asked him how he got all those sounds and he patiently showed me his amp.
He was a great guy.
He played better because he "talked" his guitar and let it say stuff.
And he danced the guitar and kept the beat with it.
He was music in motion when he was on stage.
I was hoping everybody would listen and decide to become a Buddhist so they would all be more like Jimi.
And stay calm like he did.
And feel the groove like he did.
So far it hasn't happened like I hoped it would.
But there's you guys so who knows?
I'm 74 which probably sounds pretty old to you guys.
But I can do that thing too and it never gets old.
Heck staying calm even makes my guitar play better.
I believe Jimi was right and his idea was the best idea:
Don't over think stuff!
Stay calm and see if the power can go right through your fingers.
Yeah baby that's what I'm talking about!
Jimi was one with his guitar. And with the universe. Stillness.
"Jimi got that sound by not being "hung up" trapped in his own head which is what happens when you over think stuff.
Jimi never over thought stuff" Which he learned by a tripping a few times. You don't have to keep doing a drug to be influenced by it. Unless he told you otherwise; speaking to Jimi is pretty awesome and I'll take your word on whatever it is he said on the matter.
Great post mate💚
I love how Jimi lays it down initially and then breaks it down. Up and down perfection. Until the end. He's the best guitarist ever. No question.
Younger people might not know, before Jimi...no one ever heard a guitar sound like that...He was a Force of Nature still to be reckoned with to this day..
Nobody else could turn a Stratocaster into an orchestra like that--not even Page, Clapton, Beck, or others at the time, all of whom have acknowledged their debt to Jimi.
Hendrix poured all his emotions into playing !!!! The man can not be duplicated or replicated !.
Jimmi is forever worshipped.
He is every guitar players favorite guitar player.
There are two versions of this song: On Jimi's album "Electric Ladyland", there is "Voodoo Chile", the long studio version which is amazing. What you are hearing is Voodoo Child Slight Return, a shorter version of the song. Jimi is my favorite guitarist, hands down; saw him live in '68 when I was 14. It's very difficult to find much of his music on YT because his estate and music rights are now controlled by his half sister Janie Hendrix and she won't release anything. I don't think he would approve. If you really want to delve into his music, you would be smart to purchase either the CD's or vinyl's of "Are You Experienced", "Axis Bold as Love" and "Electric Ladyland" and maybe do reactions from those. R.I.P. Jimi.
actually it's more of a sequel to Voodoo Chile
Yah, it’s sad that their aren’t more reactions of his music, especially some of the live stuff, like Monterrey Pops.
@@Bekka_Noyb I guess
I like your comment, but have to say, you have the best name on these comments.
@@davidnorman530 thank you
Watch a live video of him. He plays the guitar behind his back and with his tongue. I am 68years old and I still listen to Jimi. I was a teenager in the mid 60's oh my goodness that was a great era to be young.
I wish I would have experienced the 60s and 70s especially hendrix. Anyways bering born after him at least I'm still able to listen to his music. The true disaster for me would have been dying before hendrix.
I was a teen in the 70s...I'm 62. What a great 2 decades to be alive!
It's his teeth
There are quite a few guitarists from this era who I absolutely love, I could listen to Page all day, Townshend is underrated but brilliant, Santana - pure fire, and on and on. HOWEVER... nobody was plugged in to another dimension, truly, like Jimi. His playing was simply on another plane of reality, and he was inviting us all to go there with him. And for a few minutes at a time we could!
One important exception?
@@robertpetty7753 Which is?
Hendrix was the pioneer who elevated the electric guitar to a wholly different level with his music and has inspired guitarists ever since. the guy was a genius whose memory is reinvigorated as new generations discover what he was about and achieved ..
great reaction guys, that's exactly how I felt over 50 years ago, Jimi changed my life. He was definately one of a kind and still is the G.O.A.T. as far as guitar players go.....
as someone who plays guitar, voodoo child is an absolute trip. for someone to create this is just insane. so trippy and talented he was
Jimi is 🎸🔥. You really need to see Jimi live to see his Electric stage presence and swag.✌
the greatest guitarists play their guitars in an amazing way, Hendrix makes her sing like an orchestra!
As amazing as Jimi's music sounds now, just imagine what it was like back in the day. He was an explorer... a pioneer! His influence is incredible.
Here's a few great musts for Jimi tunes: Are You Experienced, Third Stone From the Sun, Little Miss Lover, You Got Me Floating, If 6 Was 9, Voodoo Chile, Red House, I Don't Live Today, and everything else he did in between. This man was pure genius.
Not only... for a young black man in his 20's, Jimi had tapped some high spiritual knowledge. When you listen to the interviews his insight is pretty deep
This must have sounded like something from another planet in 1968, I cant even imagine! Legend right here.
It did and we all wanted to move there !
Everything to that point in rock was going thru the roof with taking out all the stops & Hendrix did it with "Are You Experienced" & "Axis Bold as Love" but this was on a different level taking it up into the transcendent. I played this over & over when it first came out & unfortunately most music after that point became more mundane. Loved the side of Electric Ladyland with "Rainy Day Dream Away" & "1983". Beautifully produced.
You can literally feel the energy Jimi out into his guitar.
Yeah Hendrix blew me and my buddies away through high school and college. Still today as well. Nice one fellas
The sound put out by these 3 is just amazing. Hendrix was such an amazing performer, just pulled you right into the music...
...now imagine this on LSD at maybe 16... Hendrix is incredible, I could see you both were amazed at his sound. Best music genre so far, produced the best innovative and breakthrough advances and has since not been matched. Great reaction from open minded young people.
If you haven't already, please try Hey Joe; Red House; the Wind cries Mary(featuring his smooth voice); Purple Haze; Little Wing. You shouldn't go another day without seeing his Woodstock performance of the Star Spangled Banner, where you will see him in his red, white and blue jeans glory. Check out Jimi's beautiful hands, with long slender fingers, born to master the guitar. RIP, Jimi. You are legendary. 🎸👽🔥🔥🔥💔💙. ☮️To all.
Nice to see some more young folks reacting to the music we grew up on. Electric guitar music had been around for a few decades but when Jimi laid this stuff down we knew a new era had dawned.
There were about 16 takes of Voodoo Child the final take is a creative breakthrough. Great seeing you guys getting into this
Mr. Jimi Hendrix, was the man that turned everybodys heads such as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Pete Townsend, and Robin Tower, Stevie Ray Vaughan, etc.. Jeff Beck, once said to Eric Clapton, we’re gonna have to turn our amps higher now, after hearing Jimi Hendrix, for the first time in London England..
On RUclips Led Zeppelin, covering Hey Joe, from Jimi Hendrix
It's great to see you guys discovering Jimi, a true guitar god. What makes him even more amazing is that while many guitarists can play like Jimi today, he was the first. He was making music that no had ever heard, or thought of, before!
Hendrix - „Machine Gun“ of the album „Live at the Filmore East“. You will not believe your ears.
One of my favorites by Jimi that doesn't get reacted to is Spanish Castle Magic. It has an awesome groove.
In his last year, he usually opened with that one.
On your own, listen to this again and again. It gets better and better.
One amazing thing about Jimi is he played a right -handed guitar upside down left handed! 😯🎸
You guys need to buy the DVD “Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock”, it’s his entire performance from the 1969 festival, and it will fry your mind. There are portions of it on RUclips, but not the entire show. You can find it easily on Amazon. Jimi was a performer as well as guitarist, he knew how to put on a show. Even if you watch his hands you’ll never figure out how he got the sounds he did.
They need to watch JIMI at Monterey.
Jim’s ability is unquestioned but what most people fail to realize is what a great musician he was. Check out Eddie Kramer pulling apart some of Jimi’s songs and it is just mind blowing how someone could think of the things he did.
I love a lot of music, but this will Always be my favorite song 🤘
It's funny, ABC had a film crew following them around, and they wanted to get footage of what it's like to record, so hendrix decided to try this song. The thing is, back then music was recorded "live". All the musicians recorded their parts all at the same time, unlike today the drummer plays to a click track, the bassist adds his parts, then the guitar is added, and then vocals, and usually each riff is recorded separetly and copy/pasted.
Also, they hadn't really checked all the levels, which is why the bass and drums are rather low in the mix. They even just used the scratch vocals instead of a proper vocal overdub. It was a quick and dirty recording.
Then during mixing, hendrix and Eddie kramer (his engineer) did a lot of work to the recording, adding the maracas, fading in his guitar at the beginning, added reverb, and all that crazy panning.
Now, the nastiness of hendrix's guitar was achieved with a fuzz face pedal, and amplifier overdrive. A fuzz is an early type of extreme distortion. If used with a clean amp tone, it'll sound like a pissed off 2,000 bumble bee, (most people hate that sound) but when you use it with an overdriven amp, you get what you just heard. The fuzz face is called that because it's a fuzz, but the pedal itself looks like a face, go look up a picture of a fuzz face, it's ridiculous, but cool.
That was so awesome. Jimi was the greatest guitarist that ever lived and it was such a pleasure watching you guys appreciate him. Keep the videos coming!
Jimi Hendrix invented so many guitar techniques and influenced so many rock guitarists. When Eric Clapton was asked how it felt to be named Greatest Guitarist in the World, he said, "I don't know, that's Jimi Hendrix." As far as the drugs, Jimi died of an overdose that he vomited on and suffocated in his own vomit induced by the drugs, so, unless you want to join the "27 Club," the drugs are a no-no.
That was sleeping pills.
He had taken sleeping pills... but was forcefully drowned in wine by his crook manager's thugs, shortly after Michael Jeffery acquired million-dollar life insurance policy, and just before Jimi was headed to sue and fire his ass for ripping him off. The doctors that received him said his lungs were filled with raw wine, not vomit. and there was very little in his stomach or bloodstream. It's all out there on more than a "theory" level.
You'd better do some extra research. The quote is fake (and over-used and is always used with diffferent guitarists talking about other guitarists) and the drugs story too is wrong too.
@@hesch-tag I literally saw Eric Clapton in a clip from an old talk show where he said this, so my research was already done before I put this out for the world to see.
Also, I read a biography about Jimi Hendrix that explained this exact thing. He was in Germany. He would get these creative manic episodes where he couldn't sleep. He took two German sleeping pills, not knowing that 1/4 of this particular sleeping pill was the equivalent of two American sleeping pills, so he unknowingly took the equivalent of 16 American sleeping pills. He asphyxiated on his own vomit in the ambulance and died. Research already done-- again.
Hendrix was and still is in a class by himself.
There are the obvious sounds he played but there are also subtle under currants, sounds and details that make Hendrix, Hendrix and make him imitated but never ever duplicated. Some people just think of burning guitars and feedback but Jimi Hendrix was a genius and played and wrote some of the most heavenly music ever.
Perfect!! Slight Return has always been my favorite version of this classic: it hits hard, drives fast, and doesn’t let up!!! ❤️🤘🏼🤘🏼🔥
Hendrix has been consuming a loooooot of acid back in the day. Many of his songs have a very psychodelic and nasty vibe like voodo child, purple haze, machine gun. But anyways he also wrote songs like little wing, the wind cries mary, castles made of sand or bold as love which do have a very unique soft vibe to them. Even though you might not be able to stream all of them on yt because of the copyrights Id really recommended listening to them :)). I really enjoyed the reaction and I hope you are doing well zayyy.
Brought tears to my eyes watching you guys diggin' Jimis Voodoo Child for the first time. Welcome to the world of "Holy smokes, Jimi was good!!"
If you like Jimi Hendrix I'd like to see you react to Stevie Ray Vaughan- Texas Food - live at the el Macombo. Amazing to watch and everyone's surprised to see what he does with a guitar.
Glad you guys reacted to the Hendrix studio version and not a live version or stevie ray Vaughan version. For me the Jimi studio version has always been the best!!
The slight return element is because it's referencing an earlier track Voodoo Chile
I'm glad you didn't get blocked! In fact, the estate are notorious blockers. Thank God you got it through!
If this song doesn't give you "stank face" then you probably aren't alive and nothing will. Lord sweet Jesus this song rocks soooooo hard and sweet at the same time.
Yes Young Brothers… love your reactions. Please watch videos and react to Jimi playing Hey Joe at Monterey pop festival and Star spangled banner at Woodstock. Peace and Love Graham.
I heard this for the first time when I was a teen in the '70's, didn't have any headphones, just some mini speakers, so I'd put my head between them lol!! Soul changing!!
That song was from 1968 imagine that. So ahead of his time. So great.So glad you experienced it
Love your videos - your reactions are a testament to the universality of music - real music transcends generations, cultures...Now that you have listened to Jimi you MUST listen to Stevie Ray Vaughn doing Voo Do Child next...you'll be blown away.
Hands down greatest all around musician of the 20th century.....
BOLD AS LOVE
GYPSY EYES
1983 A MERMAID
LITTLE WING
HOUSE BURNING DOWN
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) was actually an impromptu track recorded the next day after Jimi jammed and recorded (Voodoo Chile)
According to Noel Redding Jimi's bass player Hendrix returned to the studio for the filming of a short documentary by ABC television. Noel Redding explained, "We learned that song in the studio ... They had the cameras rolling on us as we played it".
Check out Jimi playing Foxey Lady live at Miami Pop Festival 1968 🔥 and
Hey Joe live at Monterey Pop Festival 1967, you wont be disappointed 👍
Stevi rae Vaughn learned to play guitar because of Jimmie
Great video lads and love the reaction👊 hope you both doing well and have sorted out whatever was getting you down. If you wanna hear Jimi at his best and the greatest guitar solo ever recored live u gotta check out 'machine gun' Live at the filmore 69' from the band of gypsy's album. One of his old friends said god was playing through jimi on this track that night, it's NASTY😁
Machine Gun LATF69 is arguably the most amazing live electric guitar performance ever recorded. The only thing that is close is Rush: Bytor and the Snow Dog from their first live album All the World's a Stage. Astounding!
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Great to see Hendrix blowing minds to this day, more than fifty years after his untimely death.
About the drug thing. So many misconceptions about that. If taking drugs was all it took to become Jimi Hendrix, then we would have a million Jimis by now. We don't, there is and only ever will be one Jimi Hendrix. The dope you can buy, but his personality, imagination, heart and fingers you cannot.
Maybe the drugs helped him for a short while (freeing him from musical constraints - if any - he might have had or helping to broaden his creativity), but not as much as starting playing at a young age, paying his dues and honing his craft playing in many bands (including back-up for The Isley Brothers and Little Richard) and most of all: practising at his art all day, every day up until the day he died.
If you can find a decent video (what with the Experience Hendrix company blocking all of them), listen to "Machine Gun" from live album "Band Of Gypsys" or his rendition of "Star Spangled Banner" from his performance at Woodstock.
Great work and welcome to Electric Ladyland.
EDIT: At 6.15 the question was asked how he did that. He bent a note a full note upwards and slowly released the tension on the string, causing it to slip back to the original note slowly. At the same time he clicked his wah-wah pedal on and off with his foot.
Jimi, like Robert Johnson, played his axe nearly 24/7, since he got hooked on it... walking down the street, practice till you fall asleep still holding your guitar, etc. Billy Cox said before Jimi was "discovered" they once went to a theater and Jimi walked in playing his electric guitar unamplified IN the movie theater. He probably had 15 times the amount of hours playing in the same period of time most develop at. Some "practice" 2 hours a day a few time per week. Some "practice" ALL day every day. It shows, huh? Ahahaha
I always assumed he was flicking the pickup toggle
Jimi played "Sound machine"... using a guitar and his blues and funky R&B chops. His "poetry/lyric" writing was just as deep. What really struck me, was that Jimi wasn't doing much songWRITING before he hit London. I suspect Stone Free and Highway Chile may have been among the first he wrote when he got there. And I STILL want to know who the hell played bass on Highway Chile. Doesn't sound like Noel, and Chas Chandler never took credit. It was the B-side of the UK Wind Cries Mary YEARS before it was released on the USA "War Heros". lol.. I'd already been playing it for years when War Heros came out. I still play that song at nearly every performance
Jimi must have been a sweet soul, to make this sweet music. ❤️
"All Along the Watchtower" next.
this is pretty much the way i felt when i first heard this in the 60s when it came out - nice to see the music lives
Yes it does 🙌🏽
It doesn't get any better than 'Voodoo Child' --- Fifty some odd years later and it's still a relevation.
Did you know he played a right handed guitar upside down ,he just flipped the strings back in his day ,wow...can you digg that ,groovy .go jimi
Please check out Jimi's performance of this song from the Woodstock concert !
Jimmi is the GOAT! And always be! Take some magic mushrooms and listen!
Psychedelics (LSD, Mescaline,Peyote, Magic Mushrooms)and of course marijuana, were the drugs of choice a during this time ! We used to to be "trippin",when we listened to Hendrix's music ! Of course Jimi was trippin" too ! It was a wild time !
Jimi was n 101st Airborne in the Army. "The Wind Cries Mary" "All Along the Watchtower"
Don’t forget “wild thing “at Monterey pop festival.The full version.Fun watching you guys!
Listen to the live version thst was originally on 'Hendrix In The West.' Used to listen to it daily growing up.
♥ Jimi! I suggest hi songs: Bold As Love, Are You Experienced, All Along The Watchtower, Little Wing, I Don't Live Today & Dolly Dagger
Possibly one of the most failingly attempted Hendrix classics, by soooo many, of all time. Electric Ladyland was Jimi's finest studio work, in my opinion. That solo was just one of those unrepeatable takes that blew by. Never heard even Jimi play that song so well, EVER again. House Burning Down is another often overlooked masterpiece of "blazing" guitar lines. I clearly remember that "hair standing on end" reaction when I came to the end of that album. QUITE the closing statement!
House burning down is an absolute ANIMAL of a song to play on the guitar.
House burning down is an absolute ANIMAL of a song to play on the guitar.
It always makes me cringe when people try and copy this song note for note. It’s literally an improvisational stroke of absolute genius. My vote for the greatest piece of electric guitar ever recorded.
The best, JIMI forever !!
That's why he's the best. What he did no one had done before and now everyone is biting his style.
the blues men were the og og’s! Bragging on their loving quality, ability to drink, fight, just telling the world how cool they were. This feels like jimi’s tribute to that imo. I’m standing next to a mountain, chop it down with the edge of my hand. Paul Bunyan, John Henry type stuff lol.
Jimi was a genius. He ripped the guts out of the guitar when he recorded this. Word is, every time Jimi played this song he had to have his guitar repaired. 😆 Peace.
Fire 🔥 This song was inspired from an improvisation of Voodoo Chile, which is much slower and bluesier compared to this raucous version. Listen to the original to see what he can do with the same song. Also, check him out live… if you can get it by the RUclips censors.
The planet got completely short changed when Jimi passed. As great as slot of his work was, especially in the “Trio” , we never got to see Hendrix hit his peak. Let that sink in.
Can you imagine when I brought the album Electric Ladyland home and this track came up first time! 1970 was a "different" time. 😎🥳🍀💨
Hey fellas. For me Jimi was the GOAT! Thanks for reacting to this one. Also check out Jimi's first album "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" Peace.
We used to have running joke back in 1968... It was who can really hear Jimi Hendrix...LoL .. he came on so strong we were blown away. Janis Joplin did the same thing. These people took the stage and it was transcendent. So it was like if you can hear Jimi Hendrix then you had arrived... Check out machine gun live at the Fillmore
Hendricks at Woodstock doing the Star spangled banner. Amazing 🤩
Until the Massiah comes again Roy Buchanan ..you guys will thank me. Hendrix Blues....Electric Church Red House ..will knock your socks off. Hendrix died at 27...like Janis Joplin...his dear friend...and Jim Morrison lead singer for the Doors All three died in1970 at 27. Very haunting
Jimi was the best. RIP bro
Crazy thing is he’s playing a left handed guitar upside down cause his father was a drunk and got the wrong one and told him he had to learn how to play it so when his dad left the room he’d flip it to where he was comfortable. Main reason people have such a hard time recreating his music. Also read his biography, my man’s had a wild life
"the wind cries mary", "hey joe", "foxy lady" to name a few...
You have to watch him live to understand the genius
yea, it's true, Jimi's music did lend itself to some psychedelic enhancement. No one compares.
Don’t know if anybody mentioned…Jimi played left handed…there were no left had guitars..so he got a Fender Stratocaster and put the strings upside down (low on bottom, high on top) and played it upside down! Watch some live utube videos…he was an amazing performer.
I am one of those lucky (and old) enough to have seen Jimi Live on several occasions, Never did he disappoint.
slight return is the second half to the first part voodoo chile earlier in the album.
You'll have some issue getting hendrix on youtube, most of it is restricted off youtube and the best is on other platforms
You beat me too it. It’s been fifteen minutes and I’m surprised it’s still up. The Hendrix Trust is brutal. Regards.
I noticed the Adelphi shirt. I used to go to Hofstra. Greetings from Georgia. Glad to meet y'all.
Check out Jimi's songs Are You Experienced; Little Wing; the funky drumming on Fire; and, his awesome cover of Bob Dylan's song All Along the Watchtower.
"But first, are you experienced? Have u ever been experienced? Well, I have. Aw, let me prove it to you..."
Voodoo Chile is a song that comes before Voodoo Child (slight return) that is last song on the album Electric Ladyland thus kinda bookending his journey through the songs on the album. If you like this song i highly recommend you listen to the album from start to finish it is a musical story!
Jimi was the first guitar heroe in all intyred world!
Hendrix was from another planet.
1968. Keep that in mind while you listen to other stuff. People stand on shoulders of giants, and Jimi was THE giant.
You have to SEE him to believe how he Plays his guitars !!!!;;
Hey Joe at Monterey Pop Festival 1967
Voodoo Child ( slight return )
at Maui
Very nice job, guys! You let the classic version play for a good while before pausing.
greatest guitarist of all time. R.I.P JIMI.
JIMI HENDRIX IS MAKING HIS GUITAR SOUND LIKE A Conga Because he knew that in VOODOO
It's the DRUMS that call in the spirits
During VOODOO RITUALS.