machine gun part I- live in Stockholm 1970

[westkraig]

WELL THE DRUMMER GOT LOST-BUT I DONT BLAME HIM... JIMI HAD TO GO IT ALONE WITHOUT.. THE BASS PLAYER SLUGED ON BRAVELY. THIS JUST SHOWS THE AWESOME WORK BUDDY DID HOLDING IT TOGETHER IN THE BOG VERSION...ALL THE COMMENTS ARE GOOD..THIS TRUELY IS A SOUND PICTURE..AS JIMI OVERPLAYS HIS EQUIPMENT AT THE LIMITS.

[calochamp]

He starts blending the national anthem with that feedback.and wow

[nimrodlev333]

Sounds like he got himself to over-drive, he sounds a bit exhausted.

But also an amazing feel and show. Very interesting to hear this rare show.

Thank you very much.

Jimi Hendrix, Forever in my heart.

[jojog99]

Jag var där! Stod längst fram. Har aldrig hör detta sen dess eller sett bilden. STORT TACK.

[jensbond93]

@jojog99 damn, im happy for you, also jelly =P

[lollito84]

I don't hear his usual sound. Just like he was playing on Gibson, guitar with wich he'd never been in ease....

Personally i think he shouldn't play gibson, cause that brings nothing to his music.

[dgdgdg100172]

AMADEUS HENDRIX!!!!  HEY, HE HAD THE AFRO!!!!!!

[nordzville]

Splashes of uniqueness and genius are all over this track. Why talk shit like a machine gun #36 take style. Ha I'm 60% Swedish though so..byist. 40% Norwegian and that's my MEAN half. Skol

[MorganSoldier]

OMG killing sound killing music killing guitarist.

[drjimiboy69]

That's it. There is nothing beyond this rendition, despite fatigue and all the evil forces hovering around our boy. His feedback is via the burning bush on Mt. Sinai. Who needs tablets and fire to transcribe the voice of the Almighty, when the black beauty Strat, Marshall stacks, and wah wah pedal are at hand. He wrecks it like no one before or since. Freud called it catharsis and sublimation. Maslow termed it self-actualization. Little Richard noted: "He gave it all to ya."

[justin4453]

@drjimiboy69 Comment of the century...

[Dark6Hole]

@drjimiboy69 Your comment made me cry.

[falloutfan91]

@drjimiboy69 that was 2# on my top comments list. i have yet to find a number one.

[rivv3tify]

I was born today.

[RastafariPoet]

@rivv3tify

Welcome to our rugged/beautiful world of ours.

[gldhntr]

Maybe I'm getting old but this sounds like a train wreck to me. I'd bet Jimi wouldn't want to see this version around. He was way too tired to play. Even Filmore East wasn't up to his incredible standards and it was ferocious brilliance. Sorry, this one should be shelved out of respect to his genius.

[mamasboy815]

@gldhntr You're sick!

[goblright]

Given the fact Jimi past september 18 (less than three weeks later) is this the last recording he made?

[orlaej]

Yes, Jimi at his best, super performance!

This is Stockholm 31/8-1970, the day after Isle of Wight.

Anyway, the picture is from next day, Gothenburg, Liseberg 1/9-1970.

[RastafariPoet]

He just flew from England that same day/night. He was not feeling it, yet he was feeling it.

[hardkace42]

this really floats my boat

[Leonardoo69]

Terrible Sound!

[herraotic]

I'm sorry to those that like Led Zeppelin, ACDC, etc. But they are no way as creative as Hendrix. This piece of music is a masterpiece, stands up there with Mozart's Requiem.

[shaserv]

Oh no, I am right with you, I know Jimi has been credited the #1 guitar player, but I think he was much more than just a guitar player. He wrote or if you like, created these songs, he created those sounds, that feed back was fucking amazing, the way he played the blues was differant even songs he covered he totaly made them his own. Fuckin Awesome, Thats all I can say.

[herraotic]

I wish I had a friend like you :D

[shaserv]

You do!

[powerlifter501]

@shaserv What most people don't get is that from 67-70 Jimi was the ONLY person playing like this. Today? You can barely tell one guitarist from the other.

Jimi was light years ahead of anyone else.... Picasso with a guitar....

[guitarguru333]

@shaserv hes the only person to live that truly knew the meaning of ELECTRIC guitar

[DYNODRUM]

@shaserv Great Comment -Jimi Utilized all of that toward a MUSICALITY THAT GELLED together and led you somewhere. He ,was Much more like you said And dudes like ,well we know who they are, trying to invent blues and use feedback as noise are all foolin themselves..".You cant Fool w/ The nature of Hendrix" All the Guitar players back when Bowed to, so to speak and were totally in Respect of Him as We were Because they never thought of or came Up w/ The Creative Originality , basically derived. OM

[w0rdisbond]

@shaserv I totally agreed with the guy above said, but f*cking agree with you more!

Hendrix could say so deep shit with his instrument its disgusting =)

WE GOT TO LIVE TOGETHER =D

[JGZerbe]

@herraotic Dont lump in Led Zeppelin with ACDC, Zepp was always doing something different unlike ACDC, Page and Hendrix are two of the best in skill, song writing and innovation

[boxingin]

@herraotic I love AC/DC and Zeppelin but they shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as Jimi Hendrix-specially AC/DC!

[NeilThompson30]

@herraotic - What does Jimi Hendrix have to do with Mozart?

[adhaelon]

@herraotic

Led Zeppelin? C'mon man.. Stairway, Babe I'm gonna leave you, the battle of evermore. You might like jimi more than led zeppelin.. I personally do... but more creative than led zeppelin?.. ahh i dunno, so hard to compare!

[Cluoss]

@herraotic With his guitar Jimi was boss, but his producing doesn't compare to Jimmy's

[jimistreets1]

@Cluoss Saaaayyy WHAT?! 1983 from Electric Ladyland....Nuff said....

[codehendrix]

@herraotic Hendrix had the dynamics of a classical musician....a deep sense of sound range........ this is why he himself categorized his own music as "classical"........... He did in fact describe it as such and Billy Cox also says the same... in some interviews....... in the time of its creation.... music had more of a tangible and imaginatively propelling character...

[jimistreets1]

@herraotic Amen! For a long time during the '70s when I was a teenager it seemed like I was the only one around "preaching the Gospel of Jimi"! I got "Smash Hits" for my 8th birthday in 1968 and that settled it for me, and nothing has changed. I am a professional musician with 30 years in the biz and it is so cool to see the rest of the world catch up and realize what we Jimi-philes knew a long time ago: Jimi was the most important musician of the 20th century. hands down. Case closed...

[csguden]

@herraotic what if i like them all?

[rikibitta]

@herraotic ya man, or Handel's Messiah, Bach's Art of Fugue and Suites for Cello, Nocturnes from Chopin, Charlie Parker playing in '47, A love Supreme by Coltrane, Kind of Blue and the last acoustic quintets of Miles Davis, Bill Evan's firt great trio, Jaco Pastorius or Frank Zappa at best... it's about Human Art.

[ArtOfNoise2000]

@rikibitta ben detto !! grande Riki ;-))

[rikibitta]

@ArtOfNoise2000 Jimi in questa versione della Mitragliatrice è oltre lo scibile -si sente che stava andandosene- semplicemente si stacca dalla realtà delle vicende umane,e vedendola da un'altezza ancora incompresa la sua condanna di morte è definitiva.

[Nickthegreek123]

This is fucking amazing!!

[deadbeatpoetry]

This is mind blowing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[waydeepinside]

I AGREE WITH

bigstU25 when he wrote Hendrix was a true vituoso of the Electric Guitar !

[shaserv]

Just my opinion, Hendrix has got to be the father of heavy metal, I know, Black Sabbath, but remember they started out a blues band and came after Hendrix, I know someone is going to throw Led Zep at me, as well they should I love both Black Sabbath & Zep but my goodness listen to this. Jimmy Page was not playing like this and neither was Tony. I'm not throwing rocks at anybody I'm just saying, listen to this and you tell me.....

[bigstU25]

Hendrix wasnt the father of Heavy Metal but he Definitely helped raise it!

Hendrix was the 1st in Rock music to tune full steps and half steps down and played with Fuzz and Echo Pedels. So in that respect he invented the sound that is used for Heavy Metal today.. Its just that nobody was as soulful, creative and talented on the Guitar like he was...

Hendrix was a true vertuoso of the Electrical Guitar.

[shaserv]

You know, after 2nd thought I agree, Hendrix is not the father of heavy metal but he had alot to do with it.....The man was awesome.

[ki11erjo]

jimi never used echo pedals?

he had a wah wah, a fuzz face, a univibe, and an octavia,

echo pedals didnt exist back then :)

[coughlintm]

they did actually, Hendrix just iddn't use them. Gilmour used A binsen echorec on almost all of pink floyd's albums. they not pedals, but machine. They only had tape delays back then.

[jimistreets1]

@bigstU25 Fuzz and echo were around before Jimi hit the big time. Heck, the Beatles used fuzz, so did the Yardbirds. Echo is freaking ancient...

[bigstU25]

@jimistreets1 The concept is that no1 put it together like him creating the sound of heavy metal. Get my point?

[jimistreets1]

@bigstU25 Sure, but you said the "first" and that was what I replied to. I do get your point. You will certainly get no argument from me. I've been a Jimi-phile since 1968 when I was 7 years old! Its true though, Jimi never really gets the credit he deserves for laying the groundwork for metal...

[bigstU25]

@jimistreets1 I agree w/ you except for i could say 1st cause nobody before Hendrix had a fuzz, uvi-vibe, and wah pedal with dropped step strings playin off of the feedback all @ the same time. That the closest to theHeavy Metal sound. So i could say 1st.

[junk206]

@jimistreets1 but rotovibes and octave pedals not so much but, giant hands,cherokee blood, guitar upside down (controls under the palm), custom Marshall 100watt amps, acid. There it is. Once in a generation.

[bigstU25]

Pure Wick'dness! Get some more GB's so you can post the ending where it sound like a war was going on! Please! The people NEED that!