jimi hendrix is one of the weirdest motherfuckers I have ever met. He is probably some occult member who sold his sole to the devil. In his interviews he will go into mysterious things about the jerusalem temple, and the pyramids of giza. He will also say he talks with supernatural beings. All of the greats have sold their soul to the devil ex. jimmy page. He even predicted his own death many of times. He says in one interview that he was choking on grape vines in one of his dreams.
@mrclashramone jimi hendrix was amazing,and is one of my favorite guitarists, but he was not the father of guitar, people like muddy waters and chuck berry deserve that title more
I like How Dick Cavett Stated Quote "This Man Served in The 101st Airborne to anyone who wants to write Nasty Letters" telling probably all those Right Wing Fags too Chicken Shit to serve themselves that This Man Served This Country,He can play The Anthem any way he damn well pleases.
@Airsoftcleaner Hendrix got into trouble with the law twice for riding in stolen cars. He was given a choice between spending two years in prison or joining the Army. Hendrix chose the latter and enlisted on May 31, 1961. Elvis joined voluntarily?, Elvis was drafted!
I love Jimi..... I'm so glad my parents were hippies---- i probably would never even know who this wonderful man was & still is. Live on Jimi!!!!!!! Ya dig?!
Like David Crosby said, "We were right that peace is better than war and love is better than hate, but we were wrong about sex and drugs." Tragically, Hendrix was only one example of why that was true.
Hendrix was articulate and humane - I would love to have heard him talk or write at length about this performance (of the anthem), the war, his army experience etc. Alas, maybe in another life.
@Themeparkfanman ITA. Rock music is quintessentially American. Les Paul, a Wisconsin boy, is the father of the electric guitar, so it too is American. And there is nothing more beautifully patriotic than playing the national anthem on an American invention in the style of an American genre of music.
@NawsChicky Well put. It was a great tribute to his love for this country. He meant no disrespect and in my opinion no disrespect was taken. I hope that everyone can find the beauty in his rendition of the national anthem.
Oa Man....I had Dick Cavet come up to me while watching the RHPS in NYC on Broadway, he put his hand on my shoulder and asked if I was enjoying the show? Now, I wasn't even around when dick cavet did his talk show...But thank god for parents who had Amazing taste..I wish it was Jimi, that approached me! Bummer..
Kudos to Cavett for letting his emotions and true colors send a message out there to pasty-white thighed white america-anticipating the traditionalist reactionaryism and understanding that he was in the presence of a one in a million artist.
Hendrix was a musical genius among the very greatest of all. Not just rock stars, but I mean among the greatest of all musicians and composers of all of history. Yes, he was that special and of that unique genius.
Hendrix was killed by white america..lies and lies ---pile up to many lies --music never tells lies and that is why Hendrix is here today and for ever. His music is the truth he felt.I feel so sorry for him when those guys dumped wine down his face and held him till he drowned,,wondering why are these people killing me.MOMEY
@MultiShades C'mon ! What you suggest would implicate the record label & ultimately big Frank. Very hard to believe . I feel terribly sorry for Jimi , yet If anyone killed him and that is a big IF, it was not white America . In fact a much stronger argument has been made that a faction of the Panthers arranged it, for his refusal to associate himself with them ,... & you know they wanted his interest . Possibly his manager whom a roadie SAYS confessed to him , but he was an Englishmen .
@MultiShades good for you--study is a place --I myself think Hendrix was killed as you know ..We will all face our demigod. Hope he doesn't dump wine down my face till I drown or stick a overdose in my ass. Truth is that Hendrix was killed ,he was a black man and messed with white women.I wonder why no black people stand or even know Hendrix. Jimi was and is one of the best guitar and neck people ever to this day. Love that man..
@fernmann7 If you watch the whole interview, you'll see that Dick Cavett was actually on Hendrix's side. He was just trying to mimic what the critics were saying about Hendrix.
This video is so wonderful for being such a short video. When off the stage, the hectic revolutionary mastermind of the electric guitar is a modest, yet strongly philosophical and poetic man.
Actually Mr. Dick Cavette, I think there is an priceless mad beauty in unorthodoxy.
Many great entertainers, explorers, creators...have graced this planet with that "mad unorthodoxy". Often they are ridiculed while here and the vastness of their gift is not felt until they are gone. Some people never recognize it...sad..it's their loss.
@JG40061 He understood the predicament of kids brainwashed by society & military to mass-murder other human beings for no reason whatsoever. That's a far cry from supporting their massacaring & napalming of over a million Vietnamese peasants to keep the 'commies' away when communism was funded by Western bankers as controlled false opposition all along. Read "War is a Racket" by General Smedley Butler online. While you're reading that put "Machine Gun' on by Jimi Hendrix as the soundtrack.
@gabriel12345194 OH my....... Jimi Hendrix, secret member of the Illuminatti! He probably faked his death and is pulling strings on the music industry to make sure he remains the best rock guitarist in history! What a scheming devil!
jimi wasnt necessarily this dumb hippie people make him out to be. he was a soldier, and he defended the cause in nam'. pretty sure he was a chicago bears fan too by the way. its funny the things u learn bout the guy so many yrs later.
@copsondonuts People tend to think virtually anyone who was a prominent figure among the 60's counterculture youth was a hippie, when most singers from that time actually denounced the hippies as being naive and useless.
@xXPinkGoddessXx Not Hendrix, he was both a hippie & did not necessarily feel part of the hippie movement per-se, just the artistic movement in life, he thought like an artist, like a cultured soul. He even wrote lyrics about this dilemma for the song "If 6 was 9." The part of him that was definitely hippie took 300 micrograms of acid before every show just to see where it would take him, freak-outs and all. At this time even Sonny & Cher were being spat on in public by the straights.
@copsondonuts The original hippies weren't dumb, they had serious convictions & integrity & a way of looking at the world that was free of hang-ups, which made all the difference in the world, just like Hendrix here & even Zappa (who was a hippie who didn't take drugs & criticized hippies). It was the hordes of phony hippies that came later jumping on the bandwagon, mainly for the hedonism aspects of it, the drugs & the sex & nothing else to balance it out that gave hippies a bad name.
@metamorphosis67 The original hippies were basically some very old guys - all guys who were way out like Leary, who was born in 1922, or Ginsberg, who was a gay poet hating the closet, so he wrote HOWL. These beatniks who were mostly doing meth and pot, sometimes heroin, then LSD via Kesey and Leary helped out by a chemist code named Bear, basically sold a lot of kids on a completely dumb set of ideas that left most of them stranded in life, were arrogant elitists, hence "fake" hippies, etc.
@deaddoc You can't eliminate idiots from the face of the earth. Just as many people were enlightened by LSD as were driven insane by it by unsupervised, indiscriminate ingestion mixed with all kinds of other drugs like the Manson family & such. Leary was always against indiscriminate LSD ingestion. Being somewhat stranded in life is a lot better than adjusting yourself to an evil, dehumanizing system created specifically to make you a 'happy' slave. The kids today are the pathetic result.
@metamorphosis67 Not only did I work at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, I am well read and been close to many of the main players. LSD use was hardly ever (never) the only drug anyone used. This "enlightenment" you speak of is a very transient thing. I've known people who did so much acid that it affected their thinking from then on, and NOT in an enlightened way. You can get similar enlightenment from just going out and living a real life, and it lasts longer.
@metamorphosis67 The idea that drugs change things for the better is a completely untrue idea that got promoted by folks like Leary, who when asked to tell people how to live after they "tuned in. turned on, and dropped out," had no idea of what came next. Leary was NOT at all against indiscriminate use, that is a myth, he made $ on it and got much of it from left over military sources and even from a source in then Soviet Bloc nation Czechoslovakia. I AM "experienced" too.
@deaddoc It ain't drugs you have to worry about, it is the people doing them with no knowledge or insight.You take drugs all the time, even enjoy a nice coffee or smoke.It is just chemical's, powerful one's, that does not make it wrong, it is the people using them too much, or the drug war or the money that goes into the banking system from the trade,or the kooks that push them on people.I have taken acid and it was a very positive thing, it was very interesting, that is all I have done.
@metamorphosis67 What LSD and other drugs DID do was make people pliable and suggestible. People were often so naive then that the idea that "if a little is good, a lot more is better," was more often the case. I can't believe how many people try to romanticize something that really caused so much damage to so many people, one way or another. But Leary, Kesey, Bear, et al, were irresponsible and playing with ideas and lives without concern for consequences, as were all those lofty Beat poets.
@deaddoc Completely incorrect where Kesey is concerned. He was incredibly forthright and articulate where personal responsibility and social impact were concerned. He was virtually the only one of that generation to insist on growing and changing AWAY from where things were going. 1966 saw his departure from the wider "movement" because of the irresponsibility he was witnessing. He grew up. Leary and others never got that.
@TigerRocket By 1966, the damage was done. HE was by then dodging the law, trying to not get arrested. Read up on it. I never saw or heard him recant anything. He made a few appearances at Grateful Dead shows in the 70s and early 80s. I was there as medical support. That seems to me an ongoing endorsement of the acid taking lifestyle. My references are 1. My own witness. 2. The Haight Ashbury - A History, Charles Perry. Read UP, you are wrong.
@deaddoc Kesey's book 'Demon Box' contains essays which speak in detail about his views of the sixties, including what he thought about what went right and what went wrong. The issues often laid at the feet of various personalities of the period tend to ignore the fact that despite the problems there were also successes in the ideas. It's essentially wrong (and very unrealistic) to paint the entire period and all of its participants with a single 'brush.'
@TigerRocket Not only did I meet Kesey in the 1980s, I have known a number of the core players, at least brief encounters in most cases or heard them speak in the 80s, full of what ought to have been enough time for perspectives to mature. I also own my own share of books detailing the history, including Charles Perry's very rare publication which is the most complete and objective account available. I was with the Haight Free Clinic for 14 years. People dont' want to admit mistakes, period
@deaddoc I personally think there are times when some rebel rousing is not the awful evil it's continually portrayed as, 'just because...' I think Kesey was an exception based on the life he lived, rather transparently. He suffered the same as all who have a notoriety that is big. Lots of myth precede the facts unfortunately. It's completely debatable that his only influence was negative...or even his responsibility.
@TigerRocket Well articulated comment. A few people did begin to see that after a few trips, there was little but damage and delusion to be had from tripping. There were a few voices of reason trying to provide some correction, but the momentum was set and is still rolling today. That is why I am posting the way I am today.
@deaddoc 'One Flew Over' and 'Sometimes a Great Notion' are hardly the works of someone who doesn't understand things.
I just don't buy that everything he or the "movement" yielded were negative, awful , or destructive in every single aspect. The fact that it all remains 'controversial' and polarizing says otherwise. It's a discussion of culture and values way to vast for the limit of characters placed on 'comments' really.
@TigerRocket OH, and by the way, he was NOT of That generation. Kesey was born in 1935. HE should have been grown up way before 1966. Even if he did speak out against LSD and the wild life style (he didn't), he had already led hundreds of thousand, and by projection of influence millions and millions of kids to take drugs, and adopt a wannabe lifestyle. Some things can not be excused, GOD DAMN THE PUSHER MAN.
@deaddoc man what are you talking about,I've taken LSD and of course it should'nt be taken lightly but it was very interesting,old races of people have been doing stuff like that for thousands of years,it's no big deal at all.Have you ever thought that maybe the world may become a better place because of it,all the movements that have actually improved the world the peace movement,the equal rights movement,guess what alot of those people took LSD,anything can be use for good or bad.
@RussMaxable LSD did not exist before the mid-20th century, it was man made. Of course psychedelics have existed in other forms. Societies that used psychedelics as a religious rite (what you are getting at) have fairly uniform histories of collapse and chaos. "Have I ever thought that maybe the world would become a better place because of it, all the movements... blah, blah, blah. YES, I was pretty much there and witnessed much through my involvement with medical volunteering.
@RussMaxable As for the world being a better place; This is an illusion. The world is a worse place. You ought to track down some real lives and see what happened to most of the people who were in the MOVEMENT. Most are dead, many living marginal lives. I knew some of the big players from the day. Ironic that so many fools are idolizing and otherwise imbuing Jimi Hendrix, who died due to this lifestyle. Even death doesn't deter the "true believer" - you are deluding yourself.
@RussMaxable Drugs are destroying America, Mexico and many other places. LSD gives you the notion that you are enlightened because you see things differently, but like all the other "recreational" drugs, this is a delusion. You believe in the hype of the fashion of taking LSD. You think MLK was taking LSD? The Chicago Seven didn't take it either. No time for drugs when you are really doing something real. You are deceiving yourself.
@deaddoc hahaha ok man, i will just take your word for it.....you know everything.As I said anything can be used for good or bad.That was my point, you could become a shaman or a madman depending on how you use it,It opened my mind and it was very interesting, good for a creative people and it has amazing idea's.Like people from culture's that use it for healing, if taken with the right mind set, it could have very positive effect's for human being's by being a spiritual idea or at least be open
@RussMaxable It is a delusion to think that higher spirituality is learned from superstitious use of psychotropics. It is not as if I am inexperienced Russ, in the Hendrix meaning of the word. I just know the factual limitations. I also know the history of the use of substances, the inside history of the big 60s experiment with lsd and other drugs in the Haight and extended scenes. I worked for years for the HAFMC as a volunteer. You believe what you want to believe as most believers do.
@deaddoc Gee, I always thought that superstition and psychotropic were mutually exclusive. So tell me, how does the mind work when someone engages in (what you call) "superstitious use" of a drug? I am asking for clarification, which incidentally will probably manifest itself in you needing your foot extracted from your mouth. Seriously, it sounds like you have done WAAAAY too many of the drugs in which you speak.
@DrumTchr Mutually exclusive, why? A number of indigenous groups have utilized psychotropics like mushrooms and peyote in enhancing and supporting their spiritual/religious practices. If you can make the leap to understand that that is a realm where superstition rules, then you have to see that the two are NOT mutually exclusive. Insults from people who cannot articulate clear thought - "Drum Tchr!"
@deaddoc Yes, I agree that you are one who insults because you can't articulate a clear thought. You don't have any argument from me on that, and I am happy that you admit the truth about yourself.
@deaddoc Perhaps you would like to define "Indigenous Groups". Trying to sound over intelligent again? Now we also see that you equate superstition with spiritual/religious practices. Why didn't you say you were an Atheist in the 1st place? That's fine, but you need not hide behind anything. Of course, trying to act more intelligently than you really are just results in someone like me seeing right through your BS and calling you on it.
@DrumTchr and deaddoc.....Both of you are silly and slow witted....Please just be quiet. Most of what you argue is simple and sophmoric...Let everyone enjoy jimi and you two just turn off your minds, relax and float downstream......peace out!
@RussMaxable The insights one really receives from drugs of any sort are temporary. You can get much more and permanent enlightenment from education and the pursuit of the physical disciplines, without hype. That is just the hard way, but the REAL way. You think what you do because you're a wannabe hippy. You would do anything to be accepted as "cool." All the anti-war, love stuff doesn't count I guess when it comes to how many people die from drug use, LSD included.
@deaddoc People have died from the drug LSD? Wow, we learn something every day. Thanks Mr Expert deaddoc. Have people died from smoking pot too? Please educate us more. How about coffee? Caffine is a drug too. How many people have died from coffee?
@DrumTchr You are woefully uninformed. There were countless instances of people getting killed while high on LSD. Not from the toxicity of it, but from bad decisions based on delusions such as the ability to fly, etc. It happened too much. Not only that, many females were sexually victimized while high. I have the record showing that in August of 1967 the Free Clinic was talking down 400 bad trips a day, just there! You are silly and simple, another wannabe who can't admit foolishness.
@deaddoc I am a "wannabe"? Oh really? Who is trying to sell their way of thinking here? You are. You doth protest too much. In doing so you have shown the world that you are an idiot and a fool... but more than THAT, you've shown us all that you would LOVE for us to believe that you are an expert on something you really know very little, if anything. Now you say that people killed themselves through bad decisions based on delusions. So, now you admit the truth. It was NOT LSD that killed them.
@deaddoc ......People thought they could fly and saw color in sounds because they TOOK TOO MANY MICROGRAMS ! Back then it was new, it was legal, and it was the "wild frontier.....There was no way to gauge what too much and not enough was.
@RussMaxable So how many dead people are worth the cheap insights you and others think you get from LSD or any psychotropic? True spiritual insight is gained through hard work, mentally and physically. One of the follies of the60s was the notion that you can take a pill, any pill, and get automatic results, including in this case, spiritual insight. It ended and ruined many a life and isn't done yet. I DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING, BUT I KNOW MORE THAN YOU DO ABOUT YOUR OWN POSITION.
@RussMaxable LSD did not cause the Civil Rights Movement, did not cause the anti-Vietnam protests. Hippies originally were NOT political. They believed in removing themselves "dropping out" of society altogether. The CV Movement was well underway before 1966. The Vietnam protests did not arise from the Hippie movement, but rather arose in Chicago and then Berkeley, a completely separate history that later became blended. But drugs melt brains, doesn't improve them.
@metamorphosis67 The most "real" hippies, I suppose were The Diggers. The Diggers were a collection of guys, all guys at first, who were some Ivy League trained actors who wanted to take theater to the street. They modeled themselves after a 17th century communist/religious community. They didn't have many real ideas though. They said that since we lived in a time of abundance, it was possible to live from what they looked at as extra stuff.
@metamorphosis67 The Diggers were great scroungers, but they also shoplifted what they lacked. They must have been the first to grab materials from construction sites on weekends. They had no problem with the idea of living off welfare and other public assistance because they thought of that as the "extra stuff." That idea really spread and created a great deal of social and political angst.
@metamorphosis67 IF you read up on it, you will find that Chester Anderson who ran a printing press in the Haight wrote a notice in April of 67 blasting the exploitation of young teen females by dealers who would lure them in, shoot them full of speed and lsd, then sell their bodies for a couple days to all those HIPPIES who were in the Haight, getting all enlightened on drugs and philosophy. BAD SEX, drugs and rock and roll, PLUS the notion that you could live off others. That's about it.
I don't what peoples problem is . Jimi's rendition as he put it was BEAUTIFUL our national anthem. He served in the army. He was for the war at first then against it like most of the country was at that time. So what? It was wrong like the war in the middle east is now just like another vietnam all over again.
dick cavett was a dork
bloozeman1000 1 week ago
any one know were i can watch the hole interview
slimquikthis 2 weeks ago
i have a feeling he is a bit high on drugs here,
ILLbiteURfaceCNT 3 weeks ago
@ILLbiteURfaceCNT just a bit, as Keith Richards would say.
5thhokage113 1 week ago
Genious
Hjelm1225 1 month ago
I am in love with this man , and he passed along time ago ! REST HIS SOUL ! LONG LIVE JIMI !
lexnic07 1 month ago
jimi hendrix is one of the weirdest motherfuckers I have ever met. He is probably some occult member who sold his sole to the devil. In his interviews he will go into mysterious things about the jerusalem temple, and the pyramids of giza. He will also say he talks with supernatural beings. All of the greats have sold their soul to the devil ex. jimmy page. He even predicted his own death many of times. He says in one interview that he was choking on grape vines in one of his dreams.
Thejeter5770 1 month ago
@Thejeter5770 What is your trip man?
PaperTreeMusic 1 month ago
i fucking love hendrix... ahead of his time, and i dont just mean his guitar playing
DoctorSess 1 month ago
The Father of the guitar.
mrclashramone 2 months ago
@mrclashramone jimi hendrix was amazing,and is one of my favorite guitarists, but he was not the father of guitar, people like muddy waters and chuck berry deserve that title more
AmericanStatesUnited 1 month ago
@AmericanStatesUnited
Muddy Waters n' Chuck berry was great, but the guitar hero is Robert Johnson.
mrclashramone 1 month ago
i am forever honored to visit ur grave in washington :')
stitchybob 2 months ago
Lol at the end
rololoo 2 months ago
Jimi Hendrix is Jesus.
EP1KCAMPER 2 months ago
What a fuckin boss
rabbidskaters 2 months ago
The good always go too soon...
m1a2sg 2 months ago
Guitar God can play what ever he wants in anyway he wants because he can.
TheTangaloa 2 months ago
i just got an erection, i didn't know he was such a classy guy, dam
CantTopThisdotcom 2 months ago
Jimi is the real father of Lenny Kravitz...lol
rkeeton88 2 months ago
Hey, Joe, can you see?
7beers 2 months ago
@7beers I can See
Joeomelina 2 months ago
all those people who said he played it in a "unorthodox" way is retarded as Jimi said shit was beautiful.
SlowFingers12 2 months ago
thats a cool dude man
PEACE bro
R.I.P
RandomGaming26 3 months ago
What comes across is that he was a shy talented person who changed the world through music by being an Innovator.
nycsoulrebel 3 months ago
Jimi Hendrix: cooler than goat playing the trombone with it's feet while eating a taco, in space, all while riding a unicycle on Spudnik 1.
snowflakeFactory 3 months ago 4
what happened to the black culture? real talent taken over by rap....sad
yappertrap 3 months ago 3
Jimi Hendrix was the most BEAUTIFUL human inside and out to grace this planet!!
2138red 4 months ago
He's a fucking god.
whochachi 4 months ago
exactly! Who gives a crap about what people say. If you think it's good. Then it's good. But in his case, it was a masterpiece!
FLIGHTCOMPANY 4 months ago
Class
Silvergoldstarfish 4 months ago
..."I THOUGHT IT WAS BEAUTIFUL..." such a timeless statement of fact... what a human being and genius
LoveTubeUSA 4 months ago 46
He did it...pace out, A-town at 0:44
KevinDeArman69 4 months ago
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Jimi, we all thought it was beautiful.
RedWolf3487 4 months ago
DICK IS A DICK
bleedingheart292 4 months ago
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"I thought it was beautiful"
jamarco31 4 months ago
one word, respect.
Jimi must be in heaven giving god guitar lessons.
R.I.P Jimi Hendrix. :(
diego59x 4 months ago
a fucking men
355pinkfloyd 4 months ago
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I thought it was beautiful to bitch!
Distractions88 4 months ago
Jimi is the only one in history who can actually pull off the Star Spangle Banner. am i right?
TheSonofPosidon 5 months ago 3
i thought it was beautiful..hahahahaha
kogieblues07 5 months ago
i thought it was beautiful too Jimi
96Hmarie 5 months ago 3
I like How Dick Cavett Stated Quote "This Man Served in The 101st Airborne to anyone who wants to write Nasty Letters" telling probably all those Right Wing Fags too Chicken Shit to serve themselves that This Man Served This Country,He can play The Anthem any way he damn well pleases.
Airsoftcleaner 5 months ago 4
@Airsoftcleaner It was join the ary or go to jail.
detaildon 5 months ago
@detaildon Not at the time Jimi was in ,He joined voluntarily, Jimi was not in During The Vietnam Era He Joined in the 50s Like Elvis did.
Airsoftcleaner 5 months ago
@Airsoftcleaner Hendrix got into trouble with the law twice for riding in stolen cars. He was given a choice between spending two years in prison or joining the Army. Hendrix chose the latter and enlisted on May 31, 1961. Elvis joined voluntarily?, Elvis was drafted!
detaildon 5 months ago
@Airsoftcleaner Umm, Hendrix was born in '44, nowhere near able to be drafted or go in voluntarily during the 50's. And, Elvis was drafted.
DoubledareTV 5 months ago
@DoubledareTV 1942 dipshit
R3ALM3NOFG3NIUS 5 months ago
The untouchable dark lord Hendrix can bludy well play any way wants...He's earned the right to do so like no other.
lopaaione 5 months ago
Who's that interviewer? What a dick.
Spike90 5 months ago
Fuck unorthodox!! Hendrix is the reason why i spent 130 bucks on effects pedals :) Woodstock lives on!!!
ShadowFalcon2343 5 months ago
@ShadowFalcon2343 LOL 130$..
kursk39 5 months ago
dick cavett, living up to his name
XxAdnan1995xX 5 months ago
these two probably ran away together right after that show. ;)
chelseamuse72 5 months ago
He is one cool cat. B)
noobcake19 6 months ago
What a BEAUTY.
LovefortheZeppelin 6 months ago
so cool....
Ebeet0FAN 6 months ago
I heard a lot of Jimi, he is really cool everywhere=)
cry2love 6 months ago
I thought it was beautiful too!
labbern 6 months ago
cavett is so obviously condescending to him but trying to act like he's hip
justsomefellow 6 months ago
All i do is play...because i'm american...and that's it! AWESOME!!! hell yeah!
kevincpg 6 months ago
I love Jimi..... I'm so glad my parents were hippies---- i probably would never even know who this wonderful man was & still is. Live on Jimi!!!!!!! Ya dig?!
831Chelsea 6 months ago 19
man jimi is a real legend, hope i can smoke some goopies with him when i meet him in heaven
Grubi1990 6 months ago
Remember I was here.Thai 7:25AM 7/4/2011
universetechnique 7 months ago
Like David Crosby said, "We were right that peace is better than war and love is better than hate, but we were wrong about sex and drugs." Tragically, Hendrix was only one example of why that was true.
olflatop 7 months ago
Hendrix was articulate and humane - I would love to have heard him talk or write at length about this performance (of the anthem), the war, his army experience etc. Alas, maybe in another life.
AK2927 7 months ago
Dick "When you mention playing the national anthem in any unorthodox way, you tend to get a certain percentage of hate mail"
Jimi "I didn't think it was unorthodox, I thought it was beautiful"
We do too Jimi. It is even more beautiful than having the best orchestra in the world play it. We were lucky to have you on this earth.
Peace and Love.
Themeparkfanman 7 months ago 3
@Themeparkfanman ITA. Rock music is quintessentially American. Les Paul, a Wisconsin boy, is the father of the electric guitar, so it too is American. And there is nothing more beautifully patriotic than playing the national anthem on an American invention in the style of an American genre of music.
NawsChicky 7 months ago
@NawsChicky Well put. It was a great tribute to his love for this country. He meant no disrespect and in my opinion no disrespect was taken. I hope that everyone can find the beauty in his rendition of the national anthem.
Themeparkfanman 7 months ago
That was the best rendition of the National Anthem ever.
TheTopBloke 7 months ago
I'm very sure Jimi is the most true friend you could have in life. Now he is my most true friend in my imagination and still learning from him.
Dinscripter 7 months ago
Hendrix was way to hip for the suits when he appeared on cavetts show catch it when jimi flashes the peace sign!
mike181338 7 months ago
This is one of my most favourite vids on YouTube !
brusselleke 7 months ago
look at Jimi's facial expression at 0:22 when he says "Nasty letters?!?!?" lol
LifeOfComments 8 months ago
Jimi Hendrix....The first guy to do the peace sign upside down.
zavier117 8 months ago 3
god
frentei 8 months ago
Oa Man....I had Dick Cavet come up to me while watching the RHPS in NYC on Broadway, he put his hand on my shoulder and asked if I was enjoying the show? Now, I wasn't even around when dick cavet did his talk show...But thank god for parents who had Amazing taste..I wish it was Jimi, that approached me! Bummer..
summer3262 8 months ago
Kudos to Cavett for letting his emotions and true colors send a message out there to pasty-white thighed white america-anticipating the traditionalist reactionaryism and understanding that he was in the presence of a one in a million artist.
bugietube 8 months ago 4
Hendrix was a musical genius among the very greatest of all. Not just rock stars, but I mean among the greatest of all musicians and composers of all of history. Yes, he was that special and of that unique genius.
Aeronautics1900 8 months ago 4
his eyes look stoned here.dick cavett looks very Midwestern Homo.
Atomicflash500 8 months ago
fools --forget that Jimi ever took drugs --just hear his music --his guitar is still unreachable by any player alive. Fact
MultiShades 8 months ago
peace up A town down
Biigwes46 8 months ago
YOUR DAMN RIGHT IT WAS FUCKIN BEAUTIFUL.
JoYiSgUiTaR 8 months ago
Jimi's the man.
CliffandLeonardo 8 months ago
Hendrix was killed by white america..lies and lies ---pile up to many lies --music never tells lies and that is why Hendrix is here today and for ever. His music is the truth he felt.I feel so sorry for him when those guys dumped wine down his face and held him till he drowned,,wondering why are these people killing me.MOMEY
MultiShades 8 months ago
@MultiShades C'mon ! What you suggest would implicate the record label & ultimately big Frank. Very hard to believe . I feel terribly sorry for Jimi , yet If anyone killed him and that is a big IF, it was not white America . In fact a much stronger argument has been made that a faction of the Panthers arranged it, for his refusal to associate himself with them ,... & you know they wanted his interest . Possibly his manager whom a roadie SAYS confessed to him , but he was an Englishmen .
Geepsterr 8 months ago
@MultiShades good for you--study is a place --I myself think Hendrix was killed as you know ..We will all face our demigod. Hope he doesn't dump wine down my face till I drown or stick a overdose in my ass. Truth is that Hendrix was killed ,he was a black man and messed with white women.I wonder why no black people stand or even know Hendrix. Jimi was and is one of the best guitar and neck people ever to this day. Love that man..
MultiShades 8 months ago
the almighty jimi hendrix we need him back!
J45USER 8 months ago
hendrix....jesus he was so cool
ninjaboy552 8 months ago
Dick Cavett, the ultimate tool
fernmann7 9 months ago 39
@fernmann7 but wihtout his being such a tool, we wouldn't have this great clip of Jimi !! :)
jnfan2011 7 months ago
@fernmann7 If you watch the whole interview, you'll see that Dick Cavett was actually on Hendrix's side. He was just trying to mimic what the critics were saying about Hendrix.
LoewenRanger 4 months ago 2
Word to Jimmy.... Thanks man
Word to everything else....Excrement
variaxguitar 9 months ago
0:51 lol xD
FJHMX 9 months ago
Blimey, there's some crap boring unrelated overlong hippy drivel masquerading as comments here.
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flaxonx3 9 months ago
This video is so wonderful for being such a short video. When off the stage, the hectic revolutionary mastermind of the electric guitar is a modest, yet strongly philosophical and poetic man.
TheYTPooper 9 months ago
Jimi is Jesus
mrguitarmanguy12 10 months ago
It was beautiful! It was the best rendering of the SSB ever!
teel6060 10 months ago
look at us with all of our paragraphs for comments...were all so educated in shit that doesnt matter, arent we?
Rabastu5 10 months ago
jimi hendrix is the coolest human being that ever graced this universe
Kakaxxx222 10 months ago 131
Actually Mr. Dick Cavette, I think there is an priceless mad beauty in unorthodoxy.
Many great entertainers, explorers, creators...have graced this planet with that "mad unorthodoxy". Often they are ridiculed while here and the vastness of their gift is not felt until they are gone. Some people never recognize it...sad..it's their loss.
8mycrab 10 months ago
0:52 will never get old
TeamXTREMEPANTERA 11 months ago
0:52 SMOKER!!!!!
dickran2142battle 11 months ago
I could watch 0:44 to 0:46 and it would NEVER get old!
0WeZzY0lOvEr0 11 months ago
"You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. " Ken Kesey
TigerRocket 11 months ago
wow what a shame the man died, think of the music we all would be humming right now to.
doberfag 11 months ago
Hendrix didnt have a genre, he just wanted to make symballic songs that were very deep, but yet brought about change to the world.
a5l9e9x5 11 months ago
I don't think Jimi knew what the meaning of unorthodox was
danman2424 11 months ago
Hey Meta- Relax, take a deep a breath, go for a walk and say good morning to your neighbors, life to short to be be on YouTube at 1am.
JG40061 11 months ago
Jimi- you stood up for the 'Troops' back when no one else would-
JG40061 1 year ago 2
@JG40061 He understood the predicament of kids brainwashed by society & military to mass-murder other human beings for no reason whatsoever. That's a far cry from supporting their massacaring & napalming of over a million Vietnamese peasants to keep the 'commies' away when communism was funded by Western bankers as controlled false opposition all along. Read "War is a Racket" by General Smedley Butler online. While you're reading that put "Machine Gun' on by Jimi Hendrix as the soundtrack.
metamorphosis67 11 months ago
? did you see after he threw up the piece symbol.... he pointed his fingers down for the illuminati symbol????
gabriel12345194 1 year ago
@gabriel12345194 OH my....... Jimi Hendrix, secret member of the Illuminatti! He probably faked his death and is pulling strings on the music industry to make sure he remains the best rock guitarist in history! What a scheming devil!
deaddoc 11 months ago
the bombs bursting in air listen to his song it tells a story of war and victory!
Ni4Be55 1 year ago
your right jimmy, it was fuckin beautiful.
clinehar 1 year ago 2
Even better year after year. Or is it the new Bose headphones?
papafenton 1 year ago
lol i love jimi
Tanner596 1 year ago
Jimi thank you very much for this peace song,thank you forever
srtyxczewlsrolkid 1 year ago
Did he just throw up A-town ? Hahahaha
Mr123code 1 year ago
@Mr123code haha
sk8erguy011 1 year ago
Happy birthday Jimi
colmhearne 1 year ago
jimi wasnt necessarily this dumb hippie people make him out to be. he was a soldier, and he defended the cause in nam'. pretty sure he was a chicago bears fan too by the way. its funny the things u learn bout the guy so many yrs later.
copsondonuts 1 year ago
@copsondonuts People tend to think virtually anyone who was a prominent figure among the 60's counterculture youth was a hippie, when most singers from that time actually denounced the hippies as being naive and useless.
xXPinkGoddessXx 1 year ago
@xXPinkGoddessXx Not Hendrix, he was both a hippie & did not necessarily feel part of the hippie movement per-se, just the artistic movement in life, he thought like an artist, like a cultured soul. He even wrote lyrics about this dilemma for the song "If 6 was 9." The part of him that was definitely hippie took 300 micrograms of acid before every show just to see where it would take him, freak-outs and all. At this time even Sonny & Cher were being spat on in public by the straights.
metamorphosis67 1 year ago
@copsondonuts He never went to Nam actually, but he was in the 101st Division, which is legendary.
GoliathWarfare 1 year ago
@copsondonuts The original hippies weren't dumb, they had serious convictions & integrity & a way of looking at the world that was free of hang-ups, which made all the difference in the world, just like Hendrix here & even Zappa (who was a hippie who didn't take drugs & criticized hippies). It was the hordes of phony hippies that came later jumping on the bandwagon, mainly for the hedonism aspects of it, the drugs & the sex & nothing else to balance it out that gave hippies a bad name.
metamorphosis67 1 year ago
@metamorphosis67 The original hippies were basically some very old guys - all guys who were way out like Leary, who was born in 1922, or Ginsberg, who was a gay poet hating the closet, so he wrote HOWL. These beatniks who were mostly doing meth and pot, sometimes heroin, then LSD via Kesey and Leary helped out by a chemist code named Bear, basically sold a lot of kids on a completely dumb set of ideas that left most of them stranded in life, were arrogant elitists, hence "fake" hippies, etc.
deaddoc 11 months ago
@deaddoc You can't eliminate idiots from the face of the earth. Just as many people were enlightened by LSD as were driven insane by it by unsupervised, indiscriminate ingestion mixed with all kinds of other drugs like the Manson family & such. Leary was always against indiscriminate LSD ingestion. Being somewhat stranded in life is a lot better than adjusting yourself to an evil, dehumanizing system created specifically to make you a 'happy' slave. The kids today are the pathetic result.
metamorphosis67 11 months ago
@metamorphosis67 Not only did I work at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, I am well read and been close to many of the main players. LSD use was hardly ever (never) the only drug anyone used. This "enlightenment" you speak of is a very transient thing. I've known people who did so much acid that it affected their thinking from then on, and NOT in an enlightened way. You can get similar enlightenment from just going out and living a real life, and it lasts longer.
deaddoc 11 months ago
@metamorphosis67 The idea that drugs change things for the better is a completely untrue idea that got promoted by folks like Leary, who when asked to tell people how to live after they "tuned in. turned on, and dropped out," had no idea of what came next. Leary was NOT at all against indiscriminate use, that is a myth, he made $ on it and got much of it from left over military sources and even from a source in then Soviet Bloc nation Czechoslovakia. I AM "experienced" too.
deaddoc 11 months ago
@deaddoc It ain't drugs you have to worry about, it is the people doing them with no knowledge or insight.You take drugs all the time, even enjoy a nice coffee or smoke.It is just chemical's, powerful one's, that does not make it wrong, it is the people using them too much, or the drug war or the money that goes into the banking system from the trade,or the kooks that push them on people.I have taken acid and it was a very positive thing, it was very interesting, that is all I have done.
RussMaxable 9 months ago
@metamorphosis67 What LSD and other drugs DID do was make people pliable and suggestible. People were often so naive then that the idea that "if a little is good, a lot more is better," was more often the case. I can't believe how many people try to romanticize something that really caused so much damage to so many people, one way or another. But Leary, Kesey, Bear, et al, were irresponsible and playing with ideas and lives without concern for consequences, as were all those lofty Beat poets.
deaddoc 11 months ago
@deaddoc Completely incorrect where Kesey is concerned. He was incredibly forthright and articulate where personal responsibility and social impact were concerned. He was virtually the only one of that generation to insist on growing and changing AWAY from where things were going. 1966 saw his departure from the wider "movement" because of the irresponsibility he was witnessing. He grew up. Leary and others never got that.
TigerRocket 11 months ago
@TigerRocket By 1966, the damage was done. HE was by then dodging the law, trying to not get arrested. Read up on it. I never saw or heard him recant anything. He made a few appearances at Grateful Dead shows in the 70s and early 80s. I was there as medical support. That seems to me an ongoing endorsement of the acid taking lifestyle. My references are 1. My own witness. 2. The Haight Ashbury - A History, Charles Perry. Read UP, you are wrong.
deaddoc 10 months ago
@deaddoc Kesey's book 'Demon Box' contains essays which speak in detail about his views of the sixties, including what he thought about what went right and what went wrong. The issues often laid at the feet of various personalities of the period tend to ignore the fact that despite the problems there were also successes in the ideas. It's essentially wrong (and very unrealistic) to paint the entire period and all of its participants with a single 'brush.'
TigerRocket 10 months ago
@TigerRocket Not only did I meet Kesey in the 1980s, I have known a number of the core players, at least brief encounters in most cases or heard them speak in the 80s, full of what ought to have been enough time for perspectives to mature. I also own my own share of books detailing the history, including Charles Perry's very rare publication which is the most complete and objective account available. I was with the Haight Free Clinic for 14 years. People dont' want to admit mistakes, period
deaddoc 9 months ago
@deaddoc I personally think there are times when some rebel rousing is not the awful evil it's continually portrayed as, 'just because...' I think Kesey was an exception based on the life he lived, rather transparently. He suffered the same as all who have a notoriety that is big. Lots of myth precede the facts unfortunately. It's completely debatable that his only influence was negative...or even his responsibility.
TigerRocket 10 months ago
@TigerRocket Well articulated comment. A few people did begin to see that after a few trips, there was little but damage and delusion to be had from tripping. There were a few voices of reason trying to provide some correction, but the momentum was set and is still rolling today. That is why I am posting the way I am today.
deaddoc 9 months ago
@deaddoc 'One Flew Over' and 'Sometimes a Great Notion' are hardly the works of someone who doesn't understand things.
I just don't buy that everything he or the "movement" yielded were negative, awful , or destructive in every single aspect. The fact that it all remains 'controversial' and polarizing says otherwise. It's a discussion of culture and values way to vast for the limit of characters placed on 'comments' really.
TigerRocket 10 months ago
@TigerRocket OH, and by the way, he was NOT of That generation. Kesey was born in 1935. HE should have been grown up way before 1966. Even if he did speak out against LSD and the wild life style (he didn't), he had already led hundreds of thousand, and by projection of influence millions and millions of kids to take drugs, and adopt a wannabe lifestyle. Some things can not be excused, GOD DAMN THE PUSHER MAN.
deaddoc 10 months ago
@deaddoc man what are you talking about,I've taken LSD and of course it should'nt be taken lightly but it was very interesting,old races of people have been doing stuff like that for thousands of years,it's no big deal at all.Have you ever thought that maybe the world may become a better place because of it,all the movements that have actually improved the world the peace movement,the equal rights movement,guess what alot of those people took LSD,anything can be use for good or bad.
RussMaxable 11 months ago
@RussMaxable LSD did not exist before the mid-20th century, it was man made. Of course psychedelics have existed in other forms. Societies that used psychedelics as a religious rite (what you are getting at) have fairly uniform histories of collapse and chaos. "Have I ever thought that maybe the world would become a better place because of it, all the movements... blah, blah, blah. YES, I was pretty much there and witnessed much through my involvement with medical volunteering.
deaddoc 10 months ago
@RussMaxable As for the world being a better place; This is an illusion. The world is a worse place. You ought to track down some real lives and see what happened to most of the people who were in the MOVEMENT. Most are dead, many living marginal lives. I knew some of the big players from the day. Ironic that so many fools are idolizing and otherwise imbuing Jimi Hendrix, who died due to this lifestyle. Even death doesn't deter the "true believer" - you are deluding yourself.
deaddoc 10 months ago
@RussMaxable Drugs are destroying America, Mexico and many other places. LSD gives you the notion that you are enlightened because you see things differently, but like all the other "recreational" drugs, this is a delusion. You believe in the hype of the fashion of taking LSD. You think MLK was taking LSD? The Chicago Seven didn't take it either. No time for drugs when you are really doing something real. You are deceiving yourself.
deaddoc 10 months ago
@deaddoc hahaha ok man, i will just take your word for it.....you know everything.As I said anything can be used for good or bad.That was my point, you could become a shaman or a madman depending on how you use it,It opened my mind and it was very interesting, good for a creative people and it has amazing idea's.Like people from culture's that use it for healing, if taken with the right mind set, it could have very positive effect's for human being's by being a spiritual idea or at least be open
RussMaxable 9 months ago
@RussMaxable It is a delusion to think that higher spirituality is learned from superstitious use of psychotropics. It is not as if I am inexperienced Russ, in the Hendrix meaning of the word. I just know the factual limitations. I also know the history of the use of substances, the inside history of the big 60s experiment with lsd and other drugs in the Haight and extended scenes. I worked for years for the HAFMC as a volunteer. You believe what you want to believe as most believers do.
deaddoc 9 months ago
@deaddoc Gee, I always thought that superstition and psychotropic were mutually exclusive. So tell me, how does the mind work when someone engages in (what you call) "superstitious use" of a drug? I am asking for clarification, which incidentally will probably manifest itself in you needing your foot extracted from your mouth. Seriously, it sounds like you have done WAAAAY too many of the drugs in which you speak.
DrumTchr 9 months ago
@DrumTchr Mutually exclusive, why? A number of indigenous groups have utilized psychotropics like mushrooms and peyote in enhancing and supporting their spiritual/religious practices. If you can make the leap to understand that that is a realm where superstition rules, then you have to see that the two are NOT mutually exclusive. Insults from people who cannot articulate clear thought - "Drum Tchr!"
deaddoc 9 months ago
@deaddoc Yes, I agree that you are one who insults because you can't articulate a clear thought. You don't have any argument from me on that, and I am happy that you admit the truth about yourself.
DrumTchr 9 months ago
@deaddoc Perhaps you would like to define "Indigenous Groups". Trying to sound over intelligent again? Now we also see that you equate superstition with spiritual/religious practices. Why didn't you say you were an Atheist in the 1st place? That's fine, but you need not hide behind anything. Of course, trying to act more intelligently than you really are just results in someone like me seeing right through your BS and calling you on it.
DrumTchr 9 months ago
@DrumTchr and deaddoc.....Both of you are silly and slow witted....Please just be quiet. Most of what you argue is simple and sophmoric...Let everyone enjoy jimi and you two just turn off your minds, relax and float downstream......peace out!
deserteach 9 months ago
@RussMaxable The insights one really receives from drugs of any sort are temporary. You can get much more and permanent enlightenment from education and the pursuit of the physical disciplines, without hype. That is just the hard way, but the REAL way. You think what you do because you're a wannabe hippy. You would do anything to be accepted as "cool." All the anti-war, love stuff doesn't count I guess when it comes to how many people die from drug use, LSD included.
deaddoc 9 months ago
@deaddoc People have died from the drug LSD? Wow, we learn something every day. Thanks Mr Expert deaddoc. Have people died from smoking pot too? Please educate us more. How about coffee? Caffine is a drug too. How many people have died from coffee?
DrumTchr 9 months ago
@DrumTchr You are woefully uninformed. There were countless instances of people getting killed while high on LSD. Not from the toxicity of it, but from bad decisions based on delusions such as the ability to fly, etc. It happened too much. Not only that, many females were sexually victimized while high. I have the record showing that in August of 1967 the Free Clinic was talking down 400 bad trips a day, just there! You are silly and simple, another wannabe who can't admit foolishness.
deaddoc 9 months ago
@deaddoc I am a "wannabe"? Oh really? Who is trying to sell their way of thinking here? You are. You doth protest too much. In doing so you have shown the world that you are an idiot and a fool... but more than THAT, you've shown us all that you would LOVE for us to believe that you are an expert on something you really know very little, if anything. Now you say that people killed themselves through bad decisions based on delusions. So, now you admit the truth. It was NOT LSD that killed them.
DrumTchr 9 months ago
@deaddoc ......People thought they could fly and saw color in sounds because they TOOK TOO MANY MICROGRAMS ! Back then it was new, it was legal, and it was the "wild frontier.....There was no way to gauge what too much and not enough was.
AvirtualSwitzerland 8 months ago
@RussMaxable So how many dead people are worth the cheap insights you and others think you get from LSD or any psychotropic? True spiritual insight is gained through hard work, mentally and physically. One of the follies of the60s was the notion that you can take a pill, any pill, and get automatic results, including in this case, spiritual insight. It ended and ruined many a life and isn't done yet. I DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING, BUT I KNOW MORE THAN YOU DO ABOUT YOUR OWN POSITION.
deaddoc 9 months ago
@RussMaxable LSD did not cause the Civil Rights Movement, did not cause the anti-Vietnam protests. Hippies originally were NOT political. They believed in removing themselves "dropping out" of society altogether. The CV Movement was well underway before 1966. The Vietnam protests did not arise from the Hippie movement, but rather arose in Chicago and then Berkeley, a completely separate history that later became blended. But drugs melt brains, doesn't improve them.
deaddoc 10 months ago
@metamorphosis67 The most "real" hippies, I suppose were The Diggers. The Diggers were a collection of guys, all guys at first, who were some Ivy League trained actors who wanted to take theater to the street. They modeled themselves after a 17th century communist/religious community. They didn't have many real ideas though. They said that since we lived in a time of abundance, it was possible to live from what they looked at as extra stuff.
deaddoc 11 months ago
@metamorphosis67 The Diggers were great scroungers, but they also shoplifted what they lacked. They must have been the first to grab materials from construction sites on weekends. They had no problem with the idea of living off welfare and other public assistance because they thought of that as the "extra stuff." That idea really spread and created a great deal of social and political angst.
deaddoc 11 months ago
@metamorphosis67 IF you read up on it, you will find that Chester Anderson who ran a printing press in the Haight wrote a notice in April of 67 blasting the exploitation of young teen females by dealers who would lure them in, shoot them full of speed and lsd, then sell their bodies for a couple days to all those HIPPIES who were in the Haight, getting all enlightened on drugs and philosophy. BAD SEX, drugs and rock and roll, PLUS the notion that you could live off others. That's about it.
deaddoc 10 months ago
@copsondonuts He was smart enough to kill himself with drugs, though. Some people have called this sort of thing, "Social Darwinism."
deaddoc 11 months ago
The Death god Shall hopefully rise again eventually. We need people like him in this day in age.
VLaVey 1 year ago
@VLaVey OH, so you think you are a Satanist with that Le Vey handle? Death god to you.
deaddoc 10 months ago
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I don't what peoples problem is . Jimi's rendition as he put it was BEAUTIFUL our national anthem. He served in the army. He was for the war at first then against it like most of the country was at that time. So what? It was wrong like the war in the middle east is now just like another vietnam all over again.
YOU2UUB 1 year ago
CLASSIC!!
kneapoe51 1 year ago
at 0:45 tell me you dont connect with him
cool
yummpyummp 1 year ago 47
@yummpyummp Peace up A town Down
Bjeezy2 9 months ago
@yummpyummp A town down?
juggernaut0701 8 months ago
Hendrix was the ultimate Rock Star. THE GREATEST.
IntoTheHeartOfMusic 1 year ago
That guy sucked.
LeMaitreDeSorts 1 year ago
I think it was beautiful too.
wouldntyoulike2know 1 year ago
God Bless JIMI
nakedcellist1 1 year ago
the poor guy looks so exhausted. not enough sleep. damn chronic insomnia.
kermicheo 1 year ago