Jimi Hendrix - Red House live San Diego (part 2)

[SuperStuey2]

Is this the version from the Henrix in the West album?

[Staziish]

You cant beat this. It`s so much more than just a guitar solo.. And Mitch is awsome too.

[dantana7747]

2:33  says it all !!!

[sipimanify]

like this video NOW

[freegie27]

I wasn't a Jimi fan when this came out (due to my age!)

It was the segue from SSB into Purple Haze, in the Woodstock film and seeing Jimi perform Foxy Lady in Rainbow Bridge in the early 70's that got me into him.

Since then though, I've always thought of this track as the greatest piece of rock/blues guitar playing ever.

Hear My Train and and Machine Gun are in the mix though

(Amongst a load of other tracks that other Jimi fans may prefer)

The Greatest - Thankyou Jimi

JMH #1

[HolliValsMusic]

There are so many great things he only did once, atleast in available recordings like that little frustrated scream at 0:51

[bigmidland]

who the hell plays with a pink boa? and why the fuck do i know what a boa is? hendrix is king of the guitar

[73SD455TA]

"Little Wing" at Royal Albert Hall was the best.

[jgcaesar4]

I'v listened to this literally hundreds if not a thousand times since I first bought the old vinyl Hendrix in the West Polydor issue and I love it every time. Sometimes I can't believe Jimi existed. When he was on, like this performance, it was transcendent. Every version of Red House has something, but this one stands out for me. The transition at about 6:00 is incredible and then he plays with his teeth for variety at 6:41. The fills at the end are so fluid and inventive.

[jahlats]

wooo! oh my God ! This solo is one of Jimi's best ever. It just rips into your soul

[skoolincraze]

at the end- "yeah ok" hahahaha

[bea30tl42]

Anybody, anybody ever play a guitar like Jimi?

[trignoriver1]

Only 17K people know about this?

[73SD455TA]

Best version. Best "Hey Baby" is K.B Halen. Best "Little Wing" is Albert Hall.

[trignoriver1]

Only 16k people are aware of this? Sad.

[jgcaesar4]

@HolliValsMusic That's a beautiful way of putting it. Rock on.

[73SD455TA]

He's playing with his teeth near the end.

[trignoriver1]

Hopefully audio triangulation technology will permit us to identify the jerks who were whistling and screaming during this classic performance, so that they may be eliminated. How dare they ruin this great recording.

[jamoster]

This is by far the quintessential performance of Red House and one of those peak Hendrix moments. Jimi had many stellar performances, but some were 'perfect' in a way that seems almost cosmically ordained. "Stone Free" at Albert Hall, "Johnny B Goode" and "Hear My Train" at Berkeley, "Machine Gun" at the Fillmore... the list goes on.

[hansove1]

Does anyone heard of a VIDEO from this fantastic session, not just an audio ?

[trignoriver1]

Simply devastating. Hendrix is the last link to the old blues men.

[mistrynp]

@trignoriver1 devastating, I like the way you put it....I agree about the blues, its a cultural thing I guess, always felt out of place playing blues myself, but listening to someone like him play it...devastating

[lwwatterson]

@capetown Thanks man, Ok Im a Little old and feeble after I noticed the dates I put it together ( even though I DID actually own the "Hendrix In the West" Vinyl at one point) Id forgotten that, still wicked its a"Tight as a Gnats Ass" rythym section!!!

[lwwatterson]

you know.. this is MY favorite version but I wonder why No One ever comments on how Tight and completely Mitch & Billy are in synch with him the Whole Mutha F__in' time too!i from the wildest Moments to that beautiful walking,swinging whole neck tapping bidness @ 3:34 - 4:41 ! Props to an Incredible Rhythm Section!

[capetown99]

@lwwatterson

Billys not on this. Its Noel on bass, May 24th 69.

[madelefant05]

My feeling always was Hendrix wanted to remove the space between notes. He felt limited by them. He wanted it to be one fluid state. He achieved it often

[HolliValsMusic]

I've heard countless other guitarists that play "better", that is, without mistakes and a great even tone, clear very rehearsed technique and can do that night after night after night. But the thing about Jimi is that he was always on the edge, or a bit over it perhaps. And that is why I find almost every other musician I have heard a bit boring in comparison. Not to mention when he really nailed it, it was like those "better" ones, just way more exciting.

[Tommo348]

I think between 6:40 and 7:08 he is playing that bit with his teeth, on this mindblowing masterpeice. 5/5.

[Daldric]

OOOH!!! I just felt ma dick move!

[ILIAD9]

Damn near an exorcism

[yzerbloke]

I totally agree with Minz1066. I 2 bought Hendrix in the west back in 1972. Red House (San Diego) was the benchmark, Just love when he glides it on and off the ground. Nothing anywhere has come near to this version. I eventually bought the album on cd and has a place in my prized collection.which will never be sold.. Eric Clapton once said after leaving the stage after Jimi got up and jammed with The Cream, " I think I'd better go home and practice". What a tribute!!.

[loopspank]

I've listened to this piece thousands of times over the years.

This motherfucker knew how to play the guitar. As I sit here right now I'm thinking, could any other blues guitar solo from any other guitar player come anywhere near being remotely interesting? No.

I don't know what soul is. I have my theories. But what I do know is that Jimi Hendrix had mountains of it. And I have been moved by it for all but the first 7 years of my life.

[anonymouslolxD]

Hey man good pictures, I never seen most of them b4

[JimBozeman1956]

I visited his grave Memorial site about two weeks ago. Renton, WA. Many kisses were on his face image, on granite from adoring female fans. Very moving to visit where he now lays. Jimi's music lives!

[minz1066]

I had this version on Hendrix in the West (LP) for years, and I had to get the box set (about £30) to get this on CD about 10 years ago, worth every penny, this IS the best version of Red House by far in my opinion and theres some really good stuff on the box set, out-takes and alternative versions of loads of stuff. Thanks for putting on!

[bawawa77]

This is from the album Hendrix in the West. Brilliant! I first heard this in 1973 when I was 14 years old. Gave me chills.... Became my favorite album of all time. He blew the guitar wide open - NOBODY on the planet played like he did - stretched it beyond anybody's imagination and completely exploded the future of rock n' roll. Miss ya Jimi!

[liveatthepalace]

who posted this?? you know your stuff!

[jimimurti]

Best version of red house I've heard (first time in 1979), still one of my favorite hendrix solo's

[mkerwin1]

Anyone know the date of this show? Strat or Flying V?

[lahtepa]

@mkerwin1

It was San Diego May 25 1969

[capetown99]

@lahtepa

I think it was May 24th?

[santinorxk]

I SHURE THAT JIMMY WASN´T HUMAN, you feel that when watch him in the stages, look at his face!...not just another guy playing well; like the flute man and the rats he enjoy to harvest minds whit his magic (SEE HIM SMILING AND WILL STAND)...HE did that everytime... like a joke...like a devil...like playing music. R.I.P. dear Jim, allways in our hearts \m/

[Vortigern99]

Holy Mamba Snake of Mercy, that is some bad*** blues rock! The run that starts about 2:22 is as mind-blowing as any thought or conception of God that can or will occur to you. Film at 11.

[MrManonthemoon69]

Sucks now I can only get half of the experience not the full.

[Tayshaun100]

@MrManonthemoon69 half is better than none

[wehaveasituation]

It's great of course, but it's just the recording released as Hendrix In The West--you know, a standard industry release.

[kimmedavid]

pls listen to the red house version i uploaded ,its a true masterpiece from the master himself

[CWF142]

Great version,thanks for posting. One of my favorite Hendrix songs, so you made my day!

[Unclemoparman]

What killed me once was somebody - probably Lester Bangs - called Rory Gallagher "the best normal guitar player in the world." Now I under stand why he said this and in a sense it's true but tell me who is more real or normal than Jimi Hendrix? This is your brain on reality. The truth shall set you free. Free your mind. Jimi was a teacher and a preacher.

[Escarpialetto]

Stunningly sweet!

[darthghidorah85]

Talk about telling a story- what growth and emotion this version has- just The Man and his Strat- all from the heart

[zorbazig]

TOUCHING THE PERFECTION !!! ------03:32ss = just magical !!!

[EZIOTHEMASTER]

The man with the guitar, untouchable.

[Creepycottages]

It makes me laugh when people talk about how good or bad or less technical a player is or is'nt - music is an art form and Jimi had it BIG time - lets face it if He was alive and walked down your local bar and played most peoples jaw would drop or they wouldn't know what hit em. A friend of mine met him at Longleat and had coffee with the man - he has never been so moved as he was by Jimi that day and he was just talking.

[BluesRaconteur]

Nah, jaws are still dropping when they hear Jimi, regardless of his death. I'm quite sure that all who've listened to this recording/Machine Gun on Gypsies/Red House at Woodstock are still mind numb from the bluesman and his guitar.

[cdoug91]

@BluesRaconteur I think I fit that description lol

[Creepycottages]

I used to listen to this on my reel to reel in the early 70's when I was struggling to learn the guitar (still am !) I was always struck by the 'Arena' sound , I swear I have played this version > 1000 times, I used to slow it down to half speed to learn the licks - paid off 40 years later - I have my own guitar shop now. Thanks Jimi it's all because of you.

[HolliValsMusic]

Nice :) I'm looking for a particular amp from Fender, called The Deluxe II (I think). I tried it as a new one in a shop back in 2001 I think. Do you think it's possible to reach one of those now? It fits me perfectly.

[Creepycottages]

Hi - not sure about The Deluxe II - I think you mean the 65 Deluxe Reverb® which was favoured by Stevie Ray and I think Jimi used them in the early days, either that or a fender twin.

bothe fab amps by my reckoning.

Cheers

[HolliValsMusic]

I´m not sure exactly what amp it was. I just know it was brand new and was all black with white numers and letters on the controls.

[jasperoosthoek]

Check out the Royal Albert Hall version too, that's my favorite 12 minutes of Red House mayhem! If it wasn't for bootlegging most of this stuff would have never been released.

[guitarswheelies]

Sounds like teeth at about 6:40 at the crescendo solo after the jazzy part

[guitarswheelies]

Check out the strat Jimi is playing in the photo at 4:00 with the go go chick. This looks like a 50's small headstock maple neck(not 65 maple fingerboard) guitar. You can see the dark spot on the headstock that is the truss rod plug.

I received an email from a guitar dealer in London, Richard Henry , who was selling a white or blonde '57 Strat that was Jimi's. He had given it to Steven Stills some time after Monterey . I wonder if this is the same guitar?

[codehendrix]

lol..... thats an actor playing Hendrix from the movie bio of hendrix.....

[guitarswheelies]

Busted! Thanks for posting. Makes sense, I don't think any respectable bluesman would want a go-go chick on stage!

[psyyon99]

cool for a suck of 8:32 ..

[hendrix272003]

All you guys get it man! Thank god there are people who see that blues isnt being technical, its the FEELING. I dont get shivers from malmsteen, van halen, ect.

[marvy1118]

0:37 - 0:43 where the hell did that come from? Brilliant.

Makes the guitar howl like an animal 2:27 - 3:19

3:30 - 3:34 wraps up all the howling very nicely with a really ratty lick

5:53 - 6:10 really dramatic

[truck2112yes]

In My opinion,this was the best live performance of this song.(first released on the album titled IN THE WEST)

[originalname33]

Jimi's being Jimi in this performance, but hats off to Mitch, he's tearing it up

[theozyman]

wow i love that none of his performances are the same.... each and every concert and version of his songs are unique... i love this song in the key hes playing in.... pretty sure its Am like in the studio.. like it much better than him playing it in B like at woodstock wich is also a great version

[qgjq3c]

Musically perfect...never heard before and after hendrix a guitarist able to play a 5 minutes guitar solo without becoming boring!!..Nobody cares about the technical level of hendrix, whose imagination and feeling can't be compared to anybody else..Thx jimi..

[jonob600]

never a truer word said my friend, jimi had raw talent unlike any malmsteen shit head who just practices technically but this man sends shivers

[shaserv]

I agree, I always read others on here saying Jimi was not as good as other git player TECHNICALLY but he has a lot of feeling and soul. I say bullshit I don't thing some of these other git player are technically as good as Hendrix and No Shit he had alot of feeling and soul....

[mitchmitchell68]

haha you should hear malmsteen himself on hendrix, or even stevy ray vaughn..they know that there is something else they will never find...and hendrix got it...

[shaserv]

Jimi's influences were the same as all the other brit guitar players but Jimi interpated the music different than everybody else that is why he scared everybody because he played blues like everybody else wanted too but, well you know nobody laid the blues on ya like Jimi.

[mitchmitchell68]

all jimi's experiences where in america....

[codehendrix]

@qgjq3c its because he understood the power of PHRASING>...... playing guitar is like learning to talk.... most guitarist have only learned to blabber.... this man learn to articulate.... ARTICULATE!

[qgjq3c]

@codehendrix instead of articulating, i would say that jimi's main characteristic was his capacity, and it's obvious on red house (as on machine gun and hear my train a comin'), to develop a story, to create a musical universe in a few minutes...In other terms, listen to this solo: 4 or 5 chords, 5 minutes of solo (introduction, development, conclusion) without never playing the same thing!!!!!...That's fabulous...and simply beautiful as, for exemple, Chopin or mozart were...

[codehendrix]

@qgjq3c YES! exactly ... thank you...

[codehendrix]

@qgjq3c what u said was perfect... u understand... thank you so much man.... you my friend have articulation..... you have just explained why Hendrix is the greatness he is...... never repeats constantly new....

[brandonterzic]

@qgjq3c yes. When he was "on" like this, he establishes very strong affinities with all the inputs (cultural,social, political,cosmic) and his phrasing has a "morphological" quality to it. Words fail really. The cresendo is like the funeral march of beethoven's 3rd symphony, it keeps getting higher and higher and just when you think it can't get any more powerful, it destroys you.

[theozyman]

i think ive lisined to red house like a billion times... but wen i lisined to this version... it was like the first concert i ever went to.... i was completely in shock and awe.... idk how it was humanly possible to play like that...simply amazing... best guitarist hands down... if anyone ever qwestions hendrix... they need to lisin tot his song!!!

[daijohn3]

Guess a musician isnt really someone to ,support, like they were a football team,or something..........as a person, JH was 'much of a muchness', like all of us,but the musical stuff obviously speaks for itself and doesnt need backing up with my naff remarks ,or anyone elses,does it?

[bollopox]

Yeah San Diego Sports Arena. I have the full show of this concert and its superb. Includes great versions of I Don't Live Today, Fire and Spanish Castle Magic. Also has some really great dialogue by Jimi in between the songs.

[rurelaxed]

THIS WAS DONE IN 1969 IN REPLY TO droyal2

[rurelaxed]

I saw JIMI play this in White Plains N.Y. on April 6, 1968 on a BLACK LES PAUL for $5. TO THIS DAY I have never heard anything like it EVEN FROM JIMI

[bollopox]

Yeah just another comment. You can just hear, before he sings the last verse, Jimi's playing it with his teeth and it sends a shiver down the spine. The different sound he got when he played with his teeth is unmistakeable. Pure genius. Great to see that this stuff gets listened to nearly 40 years on. Quite simply the greatest musician that ever walked this planet!

[bollopox]

Yeah the greatest version of Red House. He really does leave the stratosphere in this solo. Mind blowing genius!

[Polyphemus]

I saw Hendrix twice,and I'm convinced this is the PERFECT version of this song!

[daijohn3]

not bad, but VAl Doonican did it better.

[shaserv]

Nobody did it better than Hendrix.

[daijohn3]

maybe, but you should hear 'Raffertys motor car' blown through several stacks of Marshalls!

[theozyman]

if u think ANYONE on this earth can do a better job with this song than jimi... then u should lisin to this bout 300 more times.... then maybe ittl knock some sense into you

[knighterrantfilms]

Yeah best version he ever did! Looking for another s/h copy of In The West.

[shaserv]

I have heard Red House played by Jimi I don't know how many times a couple of different versions too I have never heard this version before and it's like hearing this tune for the first time, is that even fucken possible? SRV was great Eddie VanHalen smoked em, Jimi Page was awesome Eric Clapton what can you say, but when it comes to Hendrix there all skaten backwards my freind, no one could lay the blues down like Jimi. Miss you Jimi....

[droyal2]

dont forget the rest of the band, they are all really going good here, but Jimi is out of his mind....isnt this really in 68?

[ramitupursnout]

No blues guitarist before or since Jimi has topped this performance.

This is as good as it gets, people.

If you can listen to this and tell me Jimi didn't actually become genetically fused to that Stratocaster, then go back into your moma basement and listen to your Kiss records.

[kacl1000]

WoW!!!!

when?

[chz999]

May 26th 1969, San Diego Sports Arena. Probably best ever version of Red House.

[hendrix272003]

Definately, and my sec. favorite version is his perfomance at Winterland. Check it out. I know i was stoned but in that one the guitar was telling the story and all the little details that jimi leaves out vocally.

[mitchmitchell68]

ever heard red house from randall island?

freakishly scary!

[mitchblack]

This was a great performance, of which, I have not listened to in about 30 years or so. Thanks for posting!

Mitch

[EZIOTHEMASTER]

There's no need to say that Jimi was the man but if you have any doubt yet check this version out.

[truck2112yes]

This is the same version that is on the "In the west" album...I had a bootleg video from japan of this concert...I guess it's out there somewhere if You are lucky enough to find it.

[lahtepa]

If you have the this video, please post it here. I asked it from gacelaxd, but he didn`t have it. Please post THE BEST version of The Red House here. I don`t care of the film quality, but I just to want see it and I suppose many others want to see it too. And please name it with something with "San Diego".

[truck2112yes]

I believe there is film footage of it...I think I had it on a bootleg VHS from Japan back in the early 90's. I don't have it now.(and I may be confusing it with w/another concert)

[skeedunabop]

the problem is, when jimi plays, is as if the guitar is singing, its an extension of jimis own inner voice, wailing, but when most other guitarists play, the guitar is ownly playing, its now quite singing... if that makes sense? xx

[BeenBad4U]

Thanx gacelaxd - This is sweet!

[888899991]

yeee

[jmsbk12345]

Name me one guitarist that can play the blues with more feel than our Jimi?

[RBBlues]

T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Albert King, Freddie King, Robert Johnson, Son House,

[WulfusBoof]

Yasss!!! Thas where he came from. Jimi's jus a supreme version of those pioneers. Jimi is the end all be all of the blues expression.

[shaserv]

Some people get it and some people don't and you have got it. Great comment....

[jmsbk12345]

Name me one guitarist that can play the blues with more feel than our Jimi?

[mitchmitchell68]

don't forget the drumming

[jhendrixfanatic2]

Is that Cher?  lol

[HendrixStrat07]

The playing here is so amazing. Mind blowing.

[ckym255]

Yeah.. if someone really understands how much is going on here they find most other guitarists good at best.

[HendrixStrat07]

Haha i know its so true. I can never really feel or get into fully what other guitarists do because they're just not quite there. Its difficult to explain ya know?