Very nice post. Correction though—the best version is actually this live track from the "Drivin' South" album (see my video post.)
Jimmy is gloriously drunk throughout the entire set, on "New Year's eve plus one" in 1965 at a small club in Hakensack, NJ. (If you listen carefully, you can hear Curtis Knight calling out that he's "playing it with his teeth, ya'll".
If you like Jimi Hendrix and you like blues, I highly recommend this unfortunately currently rare album.
@ANGLOSAXONGOD Yea Jimi was very shy and humble, after witnessing Terry Kath with Chicago he remarked that Terry was a much better guitar player than he was.
Most innovative and free form guitarist of all time.....Argue all you want but there 's a reason all the other guitarists put him at #1 almost every Rolling Stone Top100 list. Any arguments ????
@einsteinbrothers It really is. This is surely the best use anyone has ever made of an electric guitar. Hendrix being the greatest electric guitar player of all time is one of those platitudes that even if a platitude, is just simply true.
Give me a break. The greatest guitarist my ass. You obviously have a limited knowledge of the great quitarist of the world. Jimi was very good period. Have you ever heard of Lenny Breau, Roy Buchanan, Gary Moore, Skunk Baxter etc etc.
@skipper8257 We all know by now that there are a billion trillion great guitarists out there. We also know that stating who is the greatest will always be nothing more than opinion. If you take into account the opinions of reputable sources like Rolling Stone or Guitar Player magazine among others it is clear that he is widely considered to be the greatest. For me he is the most profoundly enigmatic psychedelic electric blues rock guitarist. His albums landmark and concerts legendary.
j'avais pas re-ecouté ce solo depuis des années je me rappelle avoir passé des semaines pour l'apprendre...ajh toutes les notes me reviennent tellement la musique de Jimi parle ... aucun autre guitariste n'a joué comme ça depuis. Je t'aime
The absolute most intensly ferocious balls out psychedelic blues guitar you will ever hear in this life or any other! From start to finish this live in the BBC studio gem is an onslaught of sounds spinning twisting bending up into and clear across the stratosphere. One caution though when playing at a high volume because paint may start to blister and peel from your walls.
@symphonythree I mean really is there anything else that needs that needs to be said about this little ditty, except maybe "HOLY SHIT"? If you are new to the Hendrix universe check out the Red house at Randalls Island or the Stone free at Royal Albert Hall and most definately Hear my train a coming at Berkeley where it is rumored his eyes are closed nearly the whole performance. Just a few among many.
It just doesn't get any better than this. Everything his does is state of the art. His timing, touch, vibrato, use of feedback, the chicken picken at the :27 point, the double-stop riffing ...It's all there. And then you think that he just plugged it and WENT. Completely spontaneous, free-flow guitar playing. I don't know if it's possible to choose one favorite Hendrix cut. But this has always been up there for me. BRAVO!
The licks and soloing on this song are so hot I would bet the guitar strings and Jimi's fingertips were literally smoking when he finished. Honorable mention to the easily overlooked and underrated rhythm section of Mitch and Noel. I still wonder about what "could have been" hen it comes to JH. With all the advances, innovations, improvements of guitars and studio equipment in the last 40 years i believe there would have been much more top quality innovative mind blowing playing/sounds.
i cant go a day with out listing to this man. Where the hell did he come from cause i pretty sure hes even confused the big man upstairs. Even to this day it still baffles me.
Sick Version for sure, but NOT Jimi's finest. This is from 10/6/67 'Top Gear' on BBC, but Jimi's FINEST version is from 11 days later on 'Alexis Korner's Rhythm & Blues BBC Show 10/17/67, the PlayHouse Theatre! THAT version is KING, and the best I've ever heard Jimi play the song in almost 4 decades I've been listening!
I've listened to this track dozens, maybe hundreds of times, and I never fail to be awed into spine-tingling, jaw-dropping submission by the sheer genius of Jimi's playing. That guitar so wants to get out of control but it never even gets close with the god Jimi at the fret-board.
That's a bit over the top, considering some of the live Cream performances. People seem to judge Clapton by how he's playing now, not what he was playing in 1968 or so.
@OroborusFMA: Not at all over the top I should say. Clapton was nothing more than an Albert King copycat for his solos and he couldn't (and still can't) play a lick of rhythm guitar. Hendrix created, Clapton imitated. If you can find the works of Albert King and Otis Rush, please give them a careful listen and you will better know from whence I come. Regards!
@nobodyownsthesound It's very tempting to agree, and very difficult to forgive Clapton for shlock like "Tears in Heaven" and "Change the World"; but listen to the best early live stuff he did with Cream (eg. "Crossroads", "Steppin Out", "Sleepy Time") and you just might find it harder posat such a comment n the future.
Even so the old joke about Clapton and cheap coffee is surely spot-on.
...that's Eddie Kramer's comments previous to the song,so perhaps this might be on some compilation or DVD???...matter of fact,I think I have the collection this is from...I'll have to go searching now...
I can play this using Guitar pro5, not exactly like this of course :) but anyway...it FEELS AWSOME, Jimi was a Great Guitar player and a Great Composer.
would like to comment on this, but im just speechless, after around 10years of listening to this trrack it still gives me this musical high !!! pure instrumenatal poetry
why is this guy number 1 on the rolling stones list of greatest guitarist? where is engvay or joe satriani or ching chang kawasaki??
just joking all you shred-nerds listen tot his man play guitar and realize what makes a musically illiterate man playing guitar upside down the best that ever lived
@Greenlite89 Rolling Stone magazine is a toy. I'd have to agree with your disputing the term "greatest" when it comes to Hendrix. I'd say Hendrix was the culmination and the finalization of 20th Century afro blues guitar. I'd say he was more about what he said about himself with the guitar than what others did and do: a voo-doo chile born under a fire red moon, nothing more.
@Greenlite89 Hendrix came from blues- funk traditions.... which at that time was R&b..... r&b during the 60's was todays red hot chili peper funk.....
@Greenlite89 this is a pretty good track, but there have been lots of better guitar players and songwriters. if he hadn't died at the peak of his powers, he wouldn't be the legend people make him out to be. you said it yourself, 'upside down guitar'. he was gimicky and people are suckers for that and dead icons.
@SquishedButterfly The most legendary guitar player off all time was a legend well before he died. "When Jimi Hendrix left the stage he had graduated from rumor to legend."- LA Times June 19, 1967 the day after Monterey Pop Festival. The who's better debate is really not worth getting into especially if you don't have any proof it's all just opinion or as I like to say, worthless foam from the mouth. My frothy mouthed opinion, there may be technically better guitarists but nobody sounded cooler.
@HendrixFreakazoid no argument, he was, and still is, the coolest looking person ever to stand on stage and play a guitar, and he had an immense amount of energy, intensity, and flare. I said he was at the peak when he died but that's not quite true. people were starting to see him as gimmicky and not as good as they thought. he's an extremely cool icon dead at 27, and that's the legend, but most of his songs are just average or dreadful.
@SquishedButterflyJimi gave the audience the gimmicky thing because he thought that's what they wanted. There are many sub par performances that he gave over his very brief span that might lead you to believe he is not very good, you have to realize that this guys life was a complete whirlwind of non stop touring, drugs, women, people claiming to be his friend who want to get him high all the time, you can't even imagine what it must have been like.
@SquishedButterfly During the Band of Gypsys shows Bill Graham told Jimi to forgo the gimmicks and just play the way he knew he could. The result was the most emotional performance Bill said he had ever witnessed and one of the greatest live albums ever. The fact is when he really got down to it he could play like nobodys business and there are many mind blowing examples that make you forget all about the poor performances. As for his songs being dreadful, compared to what?
@HendrixFreakazoid look, I don't want to get into slagging off Hendrix. He was a great guitar player with bags of natural talent, and I really like a few of his songs, especially this one, but if people continue to go around saying he's the best guitar player of all time, then expect others to say, 'hang on a minute' don't get carried away with the hype. There are people who outdo him in every department except looking cool. He deserves his status as greatest rock icon, no doubt.
@SquishedButterfly Of course he's not the greatest jazz, classical, flamenco, bluegrass etc. player. His style was amplified psychedelic blues rock from the cosmos. He was an enigma with a completely "ape shit for" factor that has never been surpassed by another guitarist period and I'm talking about his music not his appearance or that he died at 27. Some people just don't hear or perceive Hendrix but there are multitudes upon multitudes who believe as I do. In a class by himself.
Man, you're entertaining! I like that you claim, "most of his songs are just average or dreadful." Yet you have Tori Amos among the artists on your favorites page. You remind me of a recent experience in which I was drinking out to dinner with my wife. We were drinking a 1990 Cheval Blanc, when a fellow diner mentioned how overrated he found Bordeaux. Meanwhile he had was drinking a bottle of Yellow Tail. Yeah, you're that guy, simpleton.
@67goldtops couldn't care less about people's opinions of Tori's music. I never sulk when people slag her off because I know she doesn't appeal to everyone and so most've never took the trouble to give her music the time of day. Tori isn't simplistic. She was at the Peabody conservatory at the age of 5. Deutsch Grammophone asked her to write an album for their classical label. This doesn't make her great, but it does show that musically savy people respect her abilities.
Musically savy people respect her abilities? Well, if you say so. If that's why you listen to music, to "respect a musician's abilities." lol I'll stick with the players who move me on an emotional level. I'll stick to the players who put their hands on their chosen instrument & just GO without seemingly ever repeating themselves. The "musically savy" players that I like, guys like SRV, Santana, Mick Taylor, Johnny Winter-They all know Hendrix was THAT guy.
@67goldtops First Tori is simplistic, now she's unemotional. You do know how to pick 'em.
Hendirx's inability to play the same way twice could be viewed as lack of discipline, rather than a sign of his greatness, but those that idolise him will view his flaws as strengths. Just imagine a lead violinist in a world class orchestra being unable to play the music accurately, then smashing the violin up and setting fire to it. He'd look like a fool, and then be fired.
A few things-I never said Amos is simplistic. What I said was that YOU are a simpleton. Do try to pay attention. As for Hendrix's "Inability to play the same way twice," wrong again. There's no such "inability" on Hendrix's part. All one need to is listen to the endless unreleased tracks from his studio recordings. That, as a live player, he was always pushing his playing in new directions a surely a strength. Lastly your "violinist" analogy is sadly inept.
@polymath7 guitar players is too awkward. Yngwie is clearly superior to Brian May or Gilmour in terms of technical excellence, but M and G make more pleasing tunes, to my ears at least. so how do you account for that? what's more important? As for songwriting. You can honestly tell me you've never cringed at J's clunky lyrics? Wait til Tomorrow may have a great backing tune, but the words... a chimp with a typewriter could do better. Manic Depression is just dreadful in every department. "
@SquishedButterfly " he was gimicky and people are suckers for that and dead icons."
That seems to be your entire argument. Forgive me if I've misread you, but the irrelevance of the hype goes both ways: it has as little bearing upon whether he wasn't a great guitarist as whether he was.
Polymath, there is no shame in comparing him to Mozart...both had that somewhat uncontrollable creative genius with real feeling in everything they played
Hendrix is so endlessly inventive and musically agile; his improvisations here constantly change directions while remaining perfectly coheseive and coherent.
He's a little like Mozart that way (don't scoff or scratch your head; it's not as odd a comparison as it might sound).
My feeling is that people just can't "hear Jimi". They can't hear him therefor they don't understand that he was enormously talented almost beyond belief. ~cg
The first time I heard this I was watching a surf film by Volcom entitled Magmaplasm, The segment was all about the north shore of oahu in the winter, super Heavy waves and guys rippin it up!!! just like James Marshall here.....
I first heard this version when I was 15. I have never before or since heard such exciting guitar playing. He's absolutely on fire here!! God Bless you Jimi x
nice
Akorps666 2 weeks ago in playlist Jimi Hendrix
Very nice post. Correction though—the best version is actually this live track from the "Drivin' South" album (see my video post.)
Jimmy is gloriously drunk throughout the entire set, on "New Year's eve plus one" in 1965 at a small club in Hakensack, NJ. (If you listen carefully, you can hear Curtis Knight calling out that he's "playing it with his teeth, ya'll".
If you like Jimi Hendrix and you like blues, I highly recommend this unfortunately currently rare album.
lovelyistheworld 1 month ago
He was once asked what it was like to be the greatest guitar player on earth? Jimmi answered, ask Rory Gallacher!
ANGLOSAXONGOD 2 months ago
@ANGLOSAXONGOD Yea Jimi was very shy and humble, after witnessing Terry Kath with Chicago he remarked that Terry was a much better guitar player than he was.
HendrixFreakazoid 1 month ago
How cosmically hillarious his middle name was 'Marshall' !
boobtuber06 3 months ago
Most innovative and free form guitarist of all time.....Argue all you want but there 's a reason all the other guitarists put him at #1 almost every Rolling Stone Top100 list. Any arguments ????
landonrob 3 months ago
HENDRIX F***ING SUCKS! NO TALENT!
/watch?v=Qzn-M3SKL3M
johnwaynegacy94 3 months ago
hendrix was the guitar,nobody comes close
585858000 3 months ago in playlist 585858000's favourites
sheet! ey taint neva herd dis take b4!! whiskey wow wow!! thank u kind soul. ill b wearin this 1 out. (if possible)
emilyoshiro 4 months ago
best version
borchabronx 5 months ago
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p.. ça déchire vraiment. j'ai du l'écouter 500 fois, et à chaque fois je mets 10 minutes à m'en remettre
le jour où j'arrive à le jouer je mange ma strato avec les mécaniques et le vibrato.... je ne sais pas si c'est lui qui l'a écrit, au fait
retsacotartsrednef 5 months ago in playlist More videos from DrGreenegg
Page,Clapton,Beck and Townsend, all guitar hero`s.
But Hendrix... Total other level..
Staziish 5 months ago
Hendrix is number one because the others stood on his shoulders that's what they all say in interviews
fenderguitarman1 6 months ago
Can you listen to this and deny Jimi is God?
karlmoles65 6 months ago
If you dig Jimi, check out Danny Gatton, he had a gift too.
1isaacmusic 6 months ago
Imagine sitting in the studio with THIS happening in front of you...that fly had no idea.
dannon2010 7 months ago
A Thousand Thank U's to You! Superb!!!!!
sn00pyize 7 months ago
Whoever wrote the text for this doesn't have "Live on Radio One" on CD. It WAS released!
paullubliner 7 months ago
The greatest guitar solo ever
einsteinbrothers 7 months ago
@einsteinbrothers It really is. This is surely the best use anyone has ever made of an electric guitar. Hendrix being the greatest electric guitar player of all time is one of those platitudes that even if a platitude, is just simply true.
polymath7 7 months ago
@polymath7
Give me a break. The greatest guitarist my ass. You obviously have a limited knowledge of the great quitarist of the world. Jimi was very good period. Have you ever heard of Lenny Breau, Roy Buchanan, Gary Moore, Skunk Baxter etc etc.
skipper8257 7 months ago
@skipper8257 We all know by now that there are a billion trillion great guitarists out there. We also know that stating who is the greatest will always be nothing more than opinion. If you take into account the opinions of reputable sources like Rolling Stone or Guitar Player magazine among others it is clear that he is widely considered to be the greatest. For me he is the most profoundly enigmatic psychedelic electric blues rock guitarist. His albums landmark and concerts legendary.
HendrixFreakazoid 7 months ago
@skipper8257 please tell me you're not puttin Jeff "Skunk" Baxter in the same catergorie as Jimi Hendrix?
jrzmac 5 months ago
@elusivescousegit
Curtis Knight & Jimi Hendrix (26th December 1965) utube
joeyinempirestate 8 months ago
@elusivescousegit It is recorded live in the studio no overdubs.
HendrixFreakazoid 8 months ago
Ha ha ha thre's two people who don't like it in the vote.It's very strange,don't you think!?
rashnumberone 9 months ago
j'avais pas re-ecouté ce solo depuis des années je me rappelle avoir passé des semaines pour l'apprendre...ajh toutes les notes me reviennent tellement la musique de Jimi parle ... aucun autre guitariste n'a joué comme ça depuis. Je t'aime
mybabybluues 10 months ago
The absolute most intensly ferocious balls out psychedelic blues guitar you will ever hear in this life or any other! From start to finish this live in the BBC studio gem is an onslaught of sounds spinning twisting bending up into and clear across the stratosphere. One caution though when playing at a high volume because paint may start to blister and peel from your walls.
HendrixFreakazoid 10 months ago
@HendrixFreakazoid i think you've hit the nail on the head
symphonythree 8 months ago
@symphonythree I mean really is there anything else that needs that needs to be said about this little ditty, except maybe "HOLY SHIT"? If you are new to the Hendrix universe check out the Red house at Randalls Island or the Stone free at Royal Albert Hall and most definately Hear my train a coming at Berkeley where it is rumored his eyes are closed nearly the whole performance. Just a few among many.
HendrixFreakazoid 8 months ago
This tune is the greatest piece of guitar work I`ve ever heard.
drivinsouth651 11 months ago 8
There in the smoke-filled riot
the whole room turned tense and quiet
as Jimi stood up, every inch a star
and with all eyes on him
The Great Minstrel Pilgrim
Touched the strings of his Burning Guitar...
IAS/lAST tRAIN TO Crossroads/
ratherfam 1 year ago
Jimi's the FUCKING man.
eliaspappas16 1 year ago
perhaps the greatest five minutes of guitar playing ever recorded
awesome :D
subvert47 1 year ago
Thank you very much can't go without it.
tc112760 1 year ago
This is a composition of music that will be relevant in 2010 and 2110. Timeless.
StratoBlaster420 1 year ago
It just doesn't get any better than this. Everything his does is state of the art. His timing, touch, vibrato, use of feedback, the chicken picken at the :27 point, the double-stop riffing ...It's all there. And then you think that he just plugged it and WENT. Completely spontaneous, free-flow guitar playing. I don't know if it's possible to choose one favorite Hendrix cut. But this has always been up there for me. BRAVO!
67goldtops 1 year ago
The licks and soloing on this song are so hot I would bet the guitar strings and Jimi's fingertips were literally smoking when he finished. Honorable mention to the easily overlooked and underrated rhythm section of Mitch and Noel. I still wonder about what "could have been" hen it comes to JH. With all the advances, innovations, improvements of guitars and studio equipment in the last 40 years i believe there would have been much more top quality innovative mind blowing playing/sounds.
patlavert 1 year ago
Damn hyperactive blues, he had ADD.
gaddyify 1 year ago
@gaddyify you mean ADHD otherwise it wouldn't be hyperactive.
hesmon 1 year ago
Drivin' South was released on bootleg in 1970!
walt7500 1 year ago
can YOU HEAR Jimi?
curiousgeorge555 1 year ago
i cant go a day with out listing to this man. Where the hell did he come from cause i pretty sure hes even confused the big man upstairs. Even to this day it still baffles me.
AnyDayKnow 1 year ago
Holy Shit!!! At 2:40s he sounds like he's pulling demons out of hell with that guitar. Is it any wonder Hendrix is the best ever?
HMG5588 1 year ago
This is the stuff.
zodiacbluesbaby 1 year ago
i rememver hearing this track for the first time. i shat my pants
TUBEMAN192 1 year ago
Sick Version for sure, but NOT Jimi's finest. This is from 10/6/67 'Top Gear' on BBC, but Jimi's FINEST version is from 11 days later on 'Alexis Korner's Rhythm & Blues BBC Show 10/17/67, the PlayHouse Theatre! THAT version is KING, and the best I've ever heard Jimi play the song in almost 4 decades I've been listening!
BeenBad4U 1 year ago
@BeenBad4U YES!
walt7500 1 year ago
@BeenBad4U post a link
gargano3000 1 year ago
Man.. you can only dream to leave behind a legacy like that. Some day I would like to.
RastafariPoet 1 year ago
I've listened to this track dozens, maybe hundreds of times, and I never fail to be awed into spine-tingling, jaw-dropping submission by the sheer genius of Jimi's playing. That guitar so wants to get out of control but it never even gets close with the god Jimi at the fret-board.
telboy1966manu 1 year ago
Even in his most vivid fantasies, Clapton couldn't carry Jimi's jock...
nobodyownsthesound 2 years ago 6
That's a bit over the top, considering some of the live Cream performances. People seem to judge Clapton by how he's playing now, not what he was playing in 1968 or so.
OroborusFMA 2 years ago
@OroborusFMA: Not at all over the top I should say. Clapton was nothing more than an Albert King copycat for his solos and he couldn't (and still can't) play a lick of rhythm guitar. Hendrix created, Clapton imitated. If you can find the works of Albert King and Otis Rush, please give them a careful listen and you will better know from whence I come. Regards!
nobodyownsthesound 2 years ago
Please check out the guitar by Albert King on the song "Crosscut Saw" which can be found here.
nobodyownsthesound 2 years ago
@nobodyownsthesound It's very tempting to agree, and very difficult to forgive Clapton for shlock like "Tears in Heaven" and "Change the World"; but listen to the best early live stuff he did with Cream (eg. "Crossroads", "Steppin Out", "Sleepy Time") and you just might find it harder posat such a comment n the future.
Even so the old joke about Clapton and cheap coffee is surely spot-on.
polymath7 4 months ago
Spine tingling. What a legend. This is the best version of this track in my opinion.
xbob1980 2 years ago 4
Thank you...Probably one of the best displays of Hendrix's brilliance.
morrisonmcfadden 2 years ago 4
like a stone message from god
hiddenshadow77 2 years ago
i love it when jimi takes me on a aural rollercoster....
guyascott 2 years ago 3
except for the guitar, is a jazz song
LucasMarquesGHC 2 years ago
its from the album Radio One, released in 1990 or so.
ppericodelosppalotes 2 years ago
...that's Eddie Kramer's comments previous to the song,so perhaps this might be on some compilation or DVD???...matter of fact,I think I have the collection this is from...I'll have to go searching now...
emithband 2 years ago
Someone posted the 1st BBC version of this which I feel is inferior to this version - Kudos for the selection!!!!
joetube1 2 years ago
I couldn't agree more.
strictlyhardware 2 years ago
I can play this using Guitar pro5, not exactly like this of course :) but anyway...it FEELS AWSOME, Jimi was a Great Guitar player and a Great Composer.
He reinvented the Guitar.nuff said.
StarfireEKS 2 years ago
yeah its awesome with guitar pro...
Guitar mute
Bass High Volume
Drums High Volume
Awesomeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
mts2 2 years ago
Man .....I've been looking for this version for years....anyone knows where can I download it with better quality
dundotomo 2 years ago
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I got it on a CD called Radio One.
thebahana 2 years ago
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mitchmitchell68 2 years ago
would like to comment on this, but im just speechless, after around 10years of listening to this trrack it still gives me this musical high !!! pure instrumenatal poetry
donTomcyko 2 years ago 7
why is this guy number 1 on the rolling stones list of greatest guitarist? where is engvay or joe satriani or ching chang kawasaki??
just joking all you shred-nerds listen tot his man play guitar and realize what makes a musically illiterate man playing guitar upside down the best that ever lived
Greenlite89 2 years ago 46
@Greenlite89 Rolling Stone magazine is a toy. I'd have to agree with your disputing the term "greatest" when it comes to Hendrix. I'd say Hendrix was the culmination and the finalization of 20th Century afro blues guitar. I'd say he was more about what he said about himself with the guitar than what others did and do: a voo-doo chile born under a fire red moon, nothing more.
guywalker29 1 year ago
@Greenlite89 amen
yogy529 1 year ago
@Greenlite89
I was about to really let you have it unil I read "just joking". ;-)
polymath7 1 year ago
@Greenlite89 Hendrix came from blues- funk traditions.... which at that time was R&b..... r&b during the 60's was todays red hot chili peper funk.....
codehendrix 1 year ago
@Greenlite89 Hey Satch is a God too. But no one is as great as Jimi, or Jimmy either actually.
karlmoles65 6 months ago
@Greenlite89 this is a pretty good track, but there have been lots of better guitar players and songwriters. if he hadn't died at the peak of his powers, he wouldn't be the legend people make him out to be. you said it yourself, 'upside down guitar'. he was gimicky and people are suckers for that and dead icons.
SquishedButterfly 5 months ago
@SquishedButterfly The most legendary guitar player off all time was a legend well before he died. "When Jimi Hendrix left the stage he had graduated from rumor to legend."- LA Times June 19, 1967 the day after Monterey Pop Festival. The who's better debate is really not worth getting into especially if you don't have any proof it's all just opinion or as I like to say, worthless foam from the mouth. My frothy mouthed opinion, there may be technically better guitarists but nobody sounded cooler.
HendrixFreakazoid 5 months ago
@HendrixFreakazoid no argument, he was, and still is, the coolest looking person ever to stand on stage and play a guitar, and he had an immense amount of energy, intensity, and flare. I said he was at the peak when he died but that's not quite true. people were starting to see him as gimmicky and not as good as they thought. he's an extremely cool icon dead at 27, and that's the legend, but most of his songs are just average or dreadful.
SquishedButterfly 5 months ago
@SquishedButterflyJimi gave the audience the gimmicky thing because he thought that's what they wanted. There are many sub par performances that he gave over his very brief span that might lead you to believe he is not very good, you have to realize that this guys life was a complete whirlwind of non stop touring, drugs, women, people claiming to be his friend who want to get him high all the time, you can't even imagine what it must have been like.
HendrixFreakazoid 5 months ago
@SquishedButterfly During the Band of Gypsys shows Bill Graham told Jimi to forgo the gimmicks and just play the way he knew he could. The result was the most emotional performance Bill said he had ever witnessed and one of the greatest live albums ever. The fact is when he really got down to it he could play like nobodys business and there are many mind blowing examples that make you forget all about the poor performances. As for his songs being dreadful, compared to what?
HendrixFreakazoid 5 months ago
@HendrixFreakazoid look, I don't want to get into slagging off Hendrix. He was a great guitar player with bags of natural talent, and I really like a few of his songs, especially this one, but if people continue to go around saying he's the best guitar player of all time, then expect others to say, 'hang on a minute' don't get carried away with the hype. There are people who outdo him in every department except looking cool. He deserves his status as greatest rock icon, no doubt.
SquishedButterfly 5 months ago
@SquishedButterfly Of course he's not the greatest jazz, classical, flamenco, bluegrass etc. player. His style was amplified psychedelic blues rock from the cosmos. He was an enigma with a completely "ape shit for" factor that has never been surpassed by another guitarist period and I'm talking about his music not his appearance or that he died at 27. Some people just don't hear or perceive Hendrix but there are multitudes upon multitudes who believe as I do. In a class by himself.
HendrixFreakazoid 5 months ago 5
@HendrixFreakazoid yeah, he was definitely the best at being Jimi Hendrix.. well maybe Edwin Collins surpassed him in that department.
SquishedButterfly 5 months ago
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@SquishedButterfly I would appreciate it if you would not use my real name when you chime in. Thanks
HendrixFreakazoid 4 months ago
@SquishedButterfly Edwin Collins? Pardon me, but what the fuck are you talking about?
polymath7 4 months ago
@SquishedButterfly
Man, you're entertaining! I like that you claim, "most of his songs are just average or dreadful." Yet you have Tori Amos among the artists on your favorites page. You remind me of a recent experience in which I was drinking out to dinner with my wife. We were drinking a 1990 Cheval Blanc, when a fellow diner mentioned how overrated he found Bordeaux. Meanwhile he had was drinking a bottle of Yellow Tail. Yeah, you're that guy, simpleton.
67goldtops 2 months ago
@67goldtops couldn't care less about people's opinions of Tori's music. I never sulk when people slag her off because I know she doesn't appeal to everyone and so most've never took the trouble to give her music the time of day. Tori isn't simplistic. She was at the Peabody conservatory at the age of 5. Deutsch Grammophone asked her to write an album for their classical label. This doesn't make her great, but it does show that musically savy people respect her abilities.
SquishedButterfly 2 months ago
@SquishedButterfly
Musically savy people respect her abilities? Well, if you say so. If that's why you listen to music, to "respect a musician's abilities." lol I'll stick with the players who move me on an emotional level. I'll stick to the players who put their hands on their chosen instrument & just GO without seemingly ever repeating themselves. The "musically savy" players that I like, guys like SRV, Santana, Mick Taylor, Johnny Winter-They all know Hendrix was THAT guy.
67goldtops 2 months ago
@67goldtops First Tori is simplistic, now she's unemotional. You do know how to pick 'em.
Hendirx's inability to play the same way twice could be viewed as lack of discipline, rather than a sign of his greatness, but those that idolise him will view his flaws as strengths. Just imagine a lead violinist in a world class orchestra being unable to play the music accurately, then smashing the violin up and setting fire to it. He'd look like a fool, and then be fired.
SquishedButterfly 2 months ago
@SquishedButterfly
A few things-I never said Amos is simplistic. What I said was that YOU are a simpleton. Do try to pay attention. As for Hendrix's "Inability to play the same way twice," wrong again. There's no such "inability" on Hendrix's part. All one need to is listen to the endless unreleased tracks from his studio recordings. That, as a live player, he was always pushing his playing in new directions a surely a strength. Lastly your "violinist" analogy is sadly inept.
67goldtops 2 months ago
@SquishedButterfly "...lots of better guitar players and songwriters..."
If you're at all interested in a semi-serious discussion, this is entirely unhelpful if you don't specify. Could you cite (putative) examples please?
polymath7 4 months ago
@polymath7 guitar players is too awkward. Yngwie is clearly superior to Brian May or Gilmour in terms of technical excellence, but M and G make more pleasing tunes, to my ears at least. so how do you account for that? what's more important? As for songwriting. You can honestly tell me you've never cringed at J's clunky lyrics? Wait til Tomorrow may have a great backing tune, but the words... a chimp with a typewriter could do better. Manic Depression is just dreadful in every department. "
SquishedButterfly 2 months ago
@SquishedButterfly " he was gimicky and people are suckers for that and dead icons."
That seems to be your entire argument. Forgive me if I've misread you, but the irrelevance of the hype goes both ways: it has as little bearing upon whether he wasn't a great guitarist as whether he was.
polymath7 4 months ago
@polymath7 Don't waste your time with squishy he is a blind to the evidence non believer.
HendrixFreakazoid 4 months ago
Ouch, the real shit here.
reissue 2 years ago 2
Jimi is just unbelievable hands down for this legend.
behangpapier11 2 years ago 3
This is the song that compelled me to pick-up a guitar and start playing. Fast forward 20 years and I still cant play this- Jimi was magic
guitarprism 2 years ago 5
This Hendrix's track is second only to the heart-rending, immortal "Machine Gun".
angelcode777 2 years ago 3
this is classic Hendrix...
speed, feeling, creativity, blended well.
Polymath, there is no shame in comparing him to Mozart...both had that somewhat uncontrollable creative genius with real feeling in everything they played
HendrixRuled 2 years ago 3
This is just fucking brilliant.
Hendrix is so endlessly inventive and musically agile; his improvisations here constantly change directions while remaining perfectly coheseive and coherent.
He's a little like Mozart that way (don't scoff or scratch your head; it's not as odd a comparison as it might sound).
polymath7 2 years ago 4
So often Jimi sounds like atleast two guitarists if not three. Who can deny Jimi? Great track! Thanks. 5*z ~cg
curiousgeorge555 2 years ago
I Know!! I especially love all the quick litlle whammy dives he throws all over this, and this is when the dude was only 24 years old!!
slowJams88 2 years ago
Agreed.
There is no question, Hendrix is Hendrix for damn good reason.
He is not overrated to even the slightest degree, and richly deserves every inch of his fame.
polymath7 2 years ago 7
My feeling is that people just can't "hear Jimi". They can't hear him therefor they don't understand that he was enormously talented almost beyond belief. ~cg
curiousgeorge555 2 years ago 5
A true classic
mabudon 2 years ago
Wasn't this, what was called 'r&b' once? Where did talent disappear? Probably south of antarctis.
Fruktdemokrati 2 years ago
The first time I heard this I was watching a surf film by Volcom entitled Magmaplasm, The segment was all about the north shore of oahu in the winter, super Heavy waves and guys rippin it up!!! just like James Marshall here.....
frap1408 2 years ago 2
This shouldn't be missing half a star.
Stratotack 2 years ago 2
Yeah ,5 ***** !
Stoned1959 2 years ago 2
I first heard this version when I was 15. I have never before or since heard such exciting guitar playing. He's absolutely on fire here!! God Bless you Jimi x
fishslappingdance 2 years ago 2
here it is! haven't heard this version in forever.
headlygrange3 2 years ago
AHH MAN --HENDRIX AT HIS BEST!
markcloutier 2 years ago 3
gorgeous
boigerboy 3 years ago 3
One of my all-time favourite Hendrix tracks.
DefaultPosition 3 years ago 19
Best... ever.
HCVS13 3 years ago 2
grazie per averlo messo
haller2000 3 years ago
that was a cool intro..
codehendrix 3 years ago