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  • I love this raw stuff. It really gives you an insight to where the artists head was at. Awesome.

  • Most interesting to hear "The Master", working to get exactly what he wanted. Unfiltered and unrefined, yet in it's purest form, MAGNIFICENT !!!

    Listening to this is akin to sitting at the feet of a Holy Man, giving advice freely and asking for nothing in return... We have been blessed to have recordings of Jimi in the many stages of his musical life.

  • "Tape's running Jimi...". No shit.

  • Always love this song, this version is amazing

  • Mitchell on drums?

  • I love the way Jimi never seemed to settle for the conventional chord progression that we mere mortals might go for in writing a song. That's another part of his genius.

  • There are riffs from Valleys of neptune and Villanova junction before Drifting. Nice recording :)

  • @Kevra777 That's the beginnings album, House of the rising sun,Hey Leroy,Let the God Sing, Free Spirit,Something you got baby, She's a fox. Album was released under different names. Free Spirit, Beginnings and one or two other names.

  • The spaced out part at 3:50, is that part of the song drifting or is it part of another song? that little lick was so deep and otherworldly

  • beautiful version....

  • i'm thinking this is played on the Gibson Flying V - neck position...thoughts ?

  • @talpajam Yeah, definitely sounds like a Flying V, especially once you hear the fuzz at the end...

  • This is in "Acoustic jams", an unreleased album with only studio takes. The real drifting song from the cry of love, not remastered is in there too, no lead guitar and dirty sound.

  • @Kevra777 That would be the song "My Friend"

  • My favorite version of this song!! It's so euphoric my subconsciousness gets high

  • in the book "inside the experience" by mitch mitchel, he (mitchel) believed there was a conspiracy and that jimi`s death was no accident. you may say "what does he know?"-he was only jimi`s best friend and drummer throughout (minus the short band of gypsies time) study the facts but nobody will ever know for sure.

  • Ass Argument below please enjoy the song folks and try to imagine yourself drifting on a peice of puple silk float thru a space like lake in an alien world looking at the wonderful colors that fill the alien atmosper stars fill the sky ,violets and blues every were just. DRIFTING

  • who's the one asshole who disliked this?

  • Great to listen the music Great old find, Electric for sure!!!

  • @7WarAnglesFly yeah its an amplified acoustic...listen hard

  • Amazing outro!

  • dude was murdered.

  • @universalmanchild Um, no he was not! Why would you want to trouble your soul by believing that? Why would ANYONE believe that when the simplest explanation for his death is the truth. His death was a tragic accident, a combination of many factors that came together at the wrong time. If any one of those factors did not happen, he would not have died when he did. What is sad though, if he survived and didn't change his ways, it was only a matter of time anyways...

  • @jimistreets if you believe that then you're a fucking idiot.

  • @universalmanchild Me and everyone else that doesn't smoke weed all day, that possess the capacity to look at evidence and come to the most logical conclusion. It is sick to want to believe this great man of peace was murdered in the most horrific way when the simple truth says it was a tragic accident. Then to curse and get angry at those that don't buy the conspiracy is disturbing. Let the Man rest in Peace, and let your own soul rest while you live. Geez...

  • @jimistreets I don't smoke weed you asshole. so don't insinuate that I do.

  • @universalmanchild Never said you did, tough guy! So many other like-minded conspiracy nuts do. Think about it: Why the hell are you resorting to cursing someone you do not know because he doesn't think Jimi was murdered? Something is seriously twisted. I would almost understand why better if you did smoke weed. That might explain it.... universal manchild...uh-huh....sounds about right...Time to grow up...

  • @jimistreets Dude I don't give a shit if you don't think he was murdered you are the one who fucking messaged me in the first place, get over it.

  • @universalmanchild Ok, you drop the f-bombs and it ME that needs to get over it? I didn't "message" you, only replied. Then YOU started the hateful attacks. Believe me, there is nothing to get over concerning you. Foul-mouth fools are easily dismissed...

  • @jimistreets Cool

  • Great version of a beautifull track, thanks.

  • jimi your the best man peace

  • why he had to die?? imagine if jimi had finished this song ,i mean this is still FUCKING beautiful but i bet jimi could have make it better

  • @kimmedavid The officially released version is more or less complete and is lovely.

  • @lewars1912 on which album? is it "cry of love"? i heard the album was mixed by other people (they dont even knew hendrix)and not hendrix himself... so i dont want to listen to it actually :P

  • @kimmedavid >It was first on The Cry of Love, and is now on First Rays of the New Rising Sun. Both were mixed by Eddie Kramer who engineered all of Jimi's four major album releases when Jimi was alive and who worked closely with Jimi. The track is as close as is feasible to how Jimi would have wanted it. Jimi hadn't made up his mind about the vibraphone. He may have changed that and added another guitar track. This version I'm talking about has been uploaded by kylerober242. Check it out.

  • @lewars1912 i cant hear that version ,sony copyright shit -.-

  • @kimmedavid I sometimes get that copyright shit too and it always seems to be videos from the US.

    I would have thought that you living in Germany you would be able to see the same vids that we watch here in the UK.

  • @lewars1912 apparently not :( i cant watch MANY hendrix videos.... but i can use "hidemyassDotCom" ! then i can see every video :P

  • @kimmedavid You're lucky that you've found this DotCom where you can hide your arse. Is that just available in Germany or do they have it here in the UK?

  • @lewars1912 its available in every country ;)

  • @kimmedavid I've since heard that "hidemyassDotCom" isn't available in Germany at all. It's only available in China and they're only able to watch videos of Chinese girls playing the tin whistle. Hendrix seems to be banned there but a lot of Chinese are really into the tin whistle. Lovely instrument.

  • @lewars1912 well its an normal internet site ,i can go to every internet site from germany ^^ and what do you mean with chinese girls playing the tin whistle? my english isnt that good!

  • @kimmedavid I think your English is fine. I wasn't meaning anything about Chinese girls playing the tin whistle.

    It's just that a lot of Chinese men get turned on by watching Chinese girls playing them. Either the tin whistle or the bagpipes. It depends on what the weather's like.

  • 1:20-1:27 so much fucking feeling.

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  • watch?v=rnaxS9KHas0 

  • DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAANG. This sounds better than the music on some of Jimi's albums!

  • back in the 1980s owned a rare Hendrix bootleg, white cover, nothing on it, and green plastic. It was repeated versions of the start of Voodoo Chile. But it also had Hear my Train, and Hound Dog. Had other rare Hendricx Exp as well.

    Read Noel Redding's & Carol Appleby's book " Are You Experienced". There you will find all the nasty shit the Experience had to contend with. What is portrayed on you tube is a fantasy.

  • @COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY You´re right man! I was in total disgust after reading what they had to accept. That poor man Noel Redding...one of the most lovable persons ever didn´t get shit after being an important part of music history. In many ways he defined that Experience sound...he was no less part of it than Mitchell. He was robbed...my view.

  • @MB280E Have you read "Are you Experienced", im guessing you have. Yes, what is portrayed on you tube is usually fantasy, it's not real. That book is a reality check. many keep calling Hendrix a "God", there's a danger to think of these stars as being super-human, and of course they are not. Noel stated somewhere in his and Carol Appleby's book that problems started to arise when they toured the USA, when tour posters used "Jimi Hendrix" instead of "Jimi Hendrix Experience".

  • @COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY Yes, I have read that book, it was a good one though the story was rather sad. I feel that Noel Redding has gotten a lot less resepct than he is entitled to. Of course Hendrix got a bit bigheaded after being the one getting all focus. IMO Redding contrubuted a lot more to the sound of the Experience than we´re all lead to think. What happend couldn´t be described as less than an artistic robbery in total daylight. He should have gotten a larger part of the cake

  • @MB280E correct. way back in the early 1990s, our bassist got a call, Noel's band "Shut Up frank" was doing a gig (in new zealand) and Noel needed a Fender jazz bass. Our bassist had that kind of bass. So he lent it to Noel for the gig and got in free etc. Got a few LPs signed

  • @MB280E from memory, about the only continuning money in royalties Noel recieved was from "She's so Fine".

    Fat Matress were ok, bit of a hippy trip, but a complete departure from the Experience. The track "How can I Live" and "Mr Moonshine" are great

  • back in the 1980s owned a rare Hendrix bootleg, white cover, nothing on it, and green plastic. It was repeated versions of the start of Voodoo Chile. But it also had Hear my Train, and Hound Dog. Had other rare Hendricx Exp as well.

  • thank you ...... 

  • I wonder if Jimi would of liked the fact that we hear a lot of his stuff that was just rehearsal or working out songs in the studio. I heard he was a real perfectionist in the studio. The stuff we hear from him posthumously from him he may never have wanted released because it contained some mistakes or sloppy playing.

    Just a thought.

  • @ocean4315 yes he was a perfectionist in studio, of course he was, he was a musical genius... and because of that even his unfinished stuff or his jams are fucking awesome and much better then the overproduced crap that comes out today ! im pretty happy that we have so much jams from him ... or different takes from his songs

  • Drifting....on a sea of old heartbreaks.....on a lifeboat....sailing for.....your love...

    sailing home...

    Simple, beautiful, perfect......JIMI

  • Drifting is a tribute to Curtis Mayfield. It should be played on any radio station that plays Curtis Mayfield's soft music.

  • this is inspiring.

  • Drifting was supposed to have been a tribute to Curtis Mayfield.

  • I got this on an album called acoustic jams, nice jams really. Its version of valleys of neptune is the best I've ever heard.

  • @glothdarien There's a version with vocals too

  • its not acoustic at all. its a strat on clean.

  • beautiful

  • so raw

  • who invented drifting?

  • huh, Bob Marley? Jimi invented Drifting, or should I say wrote it.

  • i love all of Jimi's music,and this song is so beautiful.Thanks for posting

  • so sweet eyes full of tears,

    in a land that made your tears

    so sweet eyes full of tears

    Jimi baby, I feel your tears,

    feel your tears

    respect from germany

  • Man idk about u guys but sometimes i feel like Hendrix is like a brother to me u kno? Just listening to him is amazing......

  • i feel ya man, i love his music so much, & it hits me on such a personal level, that i feel like we are together as one, or brothers

    peace~

  • @lizardkingvoodookid same here

  • the greatest and all ways will be the most inventive and original talent to ever live! we will be listening to him in 300 years! like a young mozart! rip jimi the master!

  • Defines beauty.

  • I think 5 stars is not enough for Jimi

  • CHIEF!

  • You know, when you hear Jimi play, it's like silver wings silhoutted against the glow of a child's sunrise.

  • exactly man

  • He was a genius!

    Most musicians are not. It came effortlessly to him like something flowing out of him.

  • PrincessCleanBottom. Well said. I've been playing the guitar for many years and have never heard any other guitarist come near him for sheer originality and inventiveness.

  • yo if you think hes not from earth you should go drop some acid.

  • how come his posthumous stuff isnt as popular?

  • Everyone always calls Jimi a god, but I think it's important to recognize that he wasn't a god, he was just a man with music in his soul. He was a spiritual person with love and melody and harmony that flowed through his veins. Jimi brought music to new heights, but the idea that he was as great or greater than the highest powers of the metaphysical universe is what truly killed him.

  • Well, my friend.. You never know. Maybe he was a god? For real. Whatever he is, there's no way he could be from earth!

  • Man it's the drugs... That's what kicks the thoughts in. Notice he does allot of skipping points or patterns of thought but yet keeping on the same track .

    But never taking nothing away from his skill's or his melodies. those are from within. Again the drugs help kick them.

    lol.. Peace.

  • Is posting a rating really needed for any Hendrix songs?

  • I think it helps get it to the advertising part when you log in. where you see a bunch of videos to look at first lol. But.?

  • @brian6078 Only if you're a troll.

  • @household93 Yea looks like their was 1 Troll here 146 like and 1 troll.

  • Great stuff, jimi.

  • WOW! Thanks for Uploading.

    PEACE

  • His guitar playing is like a stream of water when you stare at it it flows down the river.................

  • the man were good no matter what he did

    by lovely H.

  • It's more like... floating... (:

    God has a guitar.

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  • don't know where you found this but thank god you're sharing it with us......beautiful

  • awesome version

    (not acoustic though, just very clean electric tone)

  • @bobbymapp The electric tone is very clean.

  • @bobbymapp Here's another one of Jimi's rarities with clean, electric tone!

    watch?v=rnaxS9KHas0 

  • jimi hendrix ...

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