i don't remember how many times i got goose bumps on my brain while this video going on. that was too impressing. my head even hurts now. totally dig it.
@jadrummer110 Agreed and Agreed... This guy is UNREAL to see up close and in person... WOW. I think that the Sax player is Skarrick who also plays in The Fearless Flying Frog Brigade (les Claypools band) and he is SICK too.
As I clicked on the video, I thought to myself, "I wish Charlie Hunter and Stanton Moore would collaborate on something, that would be sick..." Just then, the video loaded, and I soiled myself.
@Svoster12 Dude, they've been playing together for since like '98. Check out Stanton Moore's album "All Kooked Out." That was the first place I heard Charlie Hunter. Good stuff.
@Svoster12 Dude, they've been playing together since like '98. Check out Stanton Moore's album "All Kooked Out." That was the first place I heard Charlie Hunter. Good stuff.
@Zappatalist How are you not hearing the bassline and the chord changes? It's If 6 was 9 with a 6/8 groove, and the melody is embellished, but still there.
I revisit this at least once a month....I wonder if they felt that way up there playing it? I remember a few times with these couple players, usually at practice, where it was ELECTRIC, MAN! And this ONE TIME where where we were diggin' on stage (should've did a LOT MORE) man and it was like my feet weren't touching the floor....Everybody -musicians included- don't have that capacity and I MISS IT!
If Six was Nine... I was expecting the marvelous Hendrix composition and got this self indulgent noodling. The guy is good, has a cool style, and the eight string guitar, but shoulda' named the song "If Six wasn't Nine". A little honesty in advertising please.
@StarchildPFunk seriously. I've been looking for this guy since frog brigade... not very diligently i might add, but looking nonetheless. Good to see he found a suitable home.
This is an amazing blues jam! uhmm but if 6 was 9 has lyrics, and I never picked up on the melody of the Hendrix song anywhere here. or the syncopated bass riff / drum riff that are key to that song.
Gotta say I used to be a big fan of Charlie Hunter. The man can play, but he's not a blues player, as for Skerik, well he's one... bad.... mambajamba. Ouch! If Charleyboy was paying attention during skerik's solo he could have learned blues phrasing, and he should have been.. considering he doesn't play jazz anymore.
@HendrixIsGod47 Same chord changes. Both Charlie and Skerik start their solos with the melody that hendrix sings. They just take the song and jam it though. They're not gonna repeat it note for note or anything.
He's playing with "fanned frets". They allow the lower strings to stretch farther out so you can get extra low strings without much buzz. Don't forget the guitarist is playing an 8 string in this. There's no bass player in this video, the guitarist takes care of both parts.
BANANAS, BoNkeRs they may as well have set their instruments on fire and walked off the stage at the end like "take that take that!" lol i'm trippin, these guys are awesome
While I agree that John Ellis is a hell of a sax player, this is not John Ellis. Ellis plays with the old Charlie Hunter Trio, Quartet and Quintet. This is Garage a Trois, with Skerik on the sax. John Ellis plays alto, while Skerik plays a tenor.
i had been reading about Hunter for a while in guitar mags. the written word cannot describe this guy. that funny looking guitar is also a bass guitar. he is doing double duty, man!
Looks like the top 3 strings are a bass with the lower 5 as the guitar, along with different pickups for each as well. Makes it that much better seeing him play the guitar and bass part at the same time.
The only piece of "if 6 was 9" that was preserved with this was the tempo and feel. Maybe if there had been some vocals to the song it wouldn't just seem like a blues medeley. And just because there is a saxaphone and there playing at a slower tempo does not make it jazz ;)
Hey you crazies! why on earth does it matter which specific catergory you want this to belong to. The cool thing about music is seeing/hearing creative folks lettin it flow. Dont be frightened if you cant immediately declare what type of sound is presented. just observe and try to go with them. PS---this interpretation is absolutely phenomenal.
Well said man. It is silly to label and thus confine music within a genre because there is so much global communication. That allows influences to be drawn from so many sources that most music today is very eclectic and to restrict it with a label automatically makes people assume certain things about it, when an open mind is really the best way to experience art.
yes! thank you.i dont think they come up with anything saying "How can we make sure peoplw know this is jAZZ or this is blues" or whatever. its music damnit...
Pointless? What's the point of any music? This is just fun as hell to listen to. These guys can all play any style they want. I heard Skerik do a dead on Mingus arrangement with himself and a tape looper a few months back. If you don't like it, why even comment?
haha you people are crazy. First off let me say that these guys are fuckin awesome. Secondly, let me clear some things up for you crazy fools. This is not jazz, but these ARE jazz musicians. this is blues rock played by jazz musicians. Jazz fans are often very stuck up and get very upset when things that arent jazz are called jazz, it happens alot. just please everyone, keep your cool, keep your blood pressure low and live longer : ) Charlie hunter is the fuckin bomb.
well put ohchaaase I completely agree, lots of jazzheads get really hung up when something that isn't "jazz" is called jazz. I swear...jazz enthusiasts are the most pretentious people ever hahah
If you think jazz ethusiasts are pretentious than you haven't encountered a classical music enthusiast. They can be just ridiculously stuck up. I know I am a grad student at a music school and being a rock and jazz musician has been hard for me when most of the idiots at the school have mozart rammed up their ass.
I am also going to a school of music for classical guitar even though I play jazz and rock electric almost as much. It isn't the style of music that makes people stuck up or that it attracts stuck up people. It is just that stuck up people tend to open up there mouth more often. (although there are hella classical performers who are uptight as hell)
1)Jazz players have done jazz arrangements of all kinds of other tunes forever...if this isn't jazz, then neither is blowing changes over "Bye Bye Blackbird"...
2) Jazz isn't a particular sound, it's an attitude, and Jimi Hendrix is more jazz than 90% of what most "jazz fans" lap up.
The original recording of this tune can't be accurately described as simply "blues rock", the whole middle section is pure jazz, especially the rhythm section.
ok smarty pants... jazz IS a particular sound... its a particular style of playing, and its not an attitude.
you might be able to say some songs, such as rainy day dream away are very jazzy, which they are. But Jimi didn't really play jazz, he played psychedelic blues rock.
blowing changes over bye bye blackbird IS jazz.. what are you talking about...? where are you basing all your information?
the sound of jazz is stereotypically characterized by a swing feel, seventh chords, II V's (that means II-7 V7 I chords,) harmonic changes, accents on the upbeat, jazz lines used in impovisation, arpeggios... blah blah i could go on for ever, i go to school for this shit.
of course there are no fine lines when categorizing music.. all I am trying to say is that jimi hendrix is much closer to blues rock than he is to jazz.. most jazz musicians would laugh at someone calling him a jazz artist...
you just contradicted yourself, because when it is someone playing a Jimi song in a jazz style you claim that it *can't* be jazz and remains "blues rock", even though as I've pointed out before, "If 6 was 9" goes into what can only be described as a purely jazz style right after the "I'm gonna wave my freak flag high" part...if you think that that is "blues rock" maybe you should pay closer attention to that part of your instruction.
I used to live in Seattle and I would see Skerik and critter's buggin just jamming at house parties! He did quite a lot of Hendrix back then too! (1994)
I like how he clowns with the group and has such an excellent repoire with them. He exchanges some hillarious looks with them. They push the envelope and have fun doing it.
Fu%*ing Awesome. I have seen all of some of these guys live together or separate several times at Bumbershoot. Skerik is the shit and Charlie Hunter is absolutely amazing playing the bass and guitar at the same time on his specially made guitar. Amazing musicians and yes it is jazz, REAL JAZZ, not that smooth jazz.
I mean, HOLY SHIT!!!! This song rules! He's playing sax through a damn effects pedal, listen to that groove!!! Again "TheHumanBee"....Your a dick. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
I award you one point for an excellent movie reference! I just saw the CH Trio in Denver this weekend and was blown away. I wish they had the sax along also, but the guy on keys was great. Nice video!
Your an outright dick. "It's not that cool...and just because something has saxophone doesn't mean it's jazz." What a stupid comment. Define Jazz for me if you would then...you have nothing? Cool. Didn't think so. If i never heard another song after this fucking SWEET, ripping groove then i would die one happy motherfucker. Go listen to your 1940's, moth-ridden jazz and leave the bad-arse music to real cats becuase you obviously have no sense of taste.
you're a clueless fucking retard. You have no idea the talent level of these 4 guys. I beg you to tell me where you have ever seen 4 people with this much talent on their intsruments play together. I've seen GAT 8 times now, not only is their music amazing but the energy they bring to the stage is unbeatable--and I don't think I've ever seen them stop playing before 5 am.
As is the original- and really, the only "rock" part of it was the distorted guitar.
Hendrix even referred to Mitch Mitchell as "my Elvin Jones", "3rd Stone From the Sun" is revered as a free jazz classic by all kinds of mainstream jazz players, and Jimi was entered into the Downbeat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1970, between Charles Mingus ('69) and Ornette Coleman ('71)...anyone who thinks that Hendrix just wrote and performed blues-rock tunes doesn't know anything about Hendrix *or* jazz.
holy shit i could've sworn tht sax was a guitar
tylerjschwartz1 3 weeks ago
i don't remember how many times i got goose bumps on my brain while this video going on. that was too impressing. my head even hurts now. totally dig it.
triprosin 2 months ago in playlist triprosin さんのお気に入り
that guitar sounds killer
JimiPlaysWoodstock 2 months ago
holy shit that sax is unbeleiveable
JCO7264 4 months ago 2
Hendrix would shed tears of happiness if he saw this.
driftwood277 4 months ago 2
Holy Shit
blaknift 4 months ago
=)
MariangBakal 6 months ago
Not if 6 was nine at all. But it is good shit
jadrummer110 7 months ago
@jadrummer110 Agreed and Agreed... This guy is UNREAL to see up close and in person... WOW. I think that the Sax player is Skarrick who also plays in The Fearless Flying Frog Brigade (les Claypools band) and he is SICK too.
4rescue 7 months ago
Charlie is god, end of story, no one is better than him, he has speed, soul, and he plays lead guitar and bass at the same time.
Intelligentia100 7 months ago 4
that's a crazy way to play sax- I love it!
PeabodyJones 7 months ago
that sax was fucking great!!!!!!!!!!!!
littletingoddess96 7 months ago
As I clicked on the video, I thought to myself, "I wish Charlie Hunter and Stanton Moore would collaborate on something, that would be sick..." Just then, the video loaded, and I soiled myself.
Svoster12 8 months ago
@Svoster12 Dude, they've been playing together for since like '98. Check out Stanton Moore's album "All Kooked Out." That was the first place I heard Charlie Hunter. Good stuff.
WittyRaindrop 7 months ago
@Svoster12 Dude, they've been playing together since like '98. Check out Stanton Moore's album "All Kooked Out." That was the first place I heard Charlie Hunter. Good stuff.
WittyRaindrop 7 months ago
Why even title this video "If 6 was 9"? It sounds like they're just playing blues to me, nothing to really linking it to the Hendrix tune.
Zappatalist 8 months ago
@Zappatalist How are you not hearing the bassline and the chord changes? It's If 6 was 9 with a 6/8 groove, and the melody is embellished, but still there.
OnSugarHill 7 months ago
stanton moore is the man!
mattypad2 8 months ago
here shown in this video a rare specimen of Fender Saxocaster!
awfulguitarplucker 8 months ago 4
I revisit this at least once a month....I wonder if they felt that way up there playing it? I remember a few times with these couple players, usually at practice, where it was ELECTRIC, MAN! And this ONE TIME where where we were diggin' on stage (should've did a LOT MORE) man and it was like my feet weren't touching the floor....Everybody -musicians included- don't have that capacity and I MISS IT!
theguitarczar 9 months ago
A moment in Time!
theguitarczar 9 months ago
At 4:14 where they all 'trill' -THAT IS IMPROV! That is what I got to find, man!
theguitarczar 9 months ago
Skerik is the man!
jjensen20 10 months ago
it's hard to think there is no bass player lol charlie is crazy good at guitar
freakoutguitarsolo1 11 months ago
If Six was Nine... I was expecting the marvelous Hendrix composition and got this self indulgent noodling. The guy is good, has a cool style, and the eight string guitar, but shoulda' named the song "If Six wasn't Nine". A little honesty in advertising please.
bloozintro 1 year ago
@bloozintro Not the only mislabeled Charlie Hunter video actually.
MaybeitsTokar2 1 year ago
@bloozintro
It's an interpretation and harmonically goes around if 6 was 9 (with a few changes). I think it deserves to be called if 6 was 9.
pastyourhorizon 1 year ago
is that stanton moore on the drums?maan he grooves ....and jumps around behind his set! :D
0oTHEJACKo0 1 year ago
@0oTHEJACKo0 ......That is indeed Stanton Moore,....what a groove-cat he is, eh?? :)
metzilla 11 months ago
CHARLIE HUNTER WITH ERIC KALB AND MIKE WILLIAMS 8:30-10:30
IN THE CAMEO (BACK OF THE LOVIN CUP) 93 north 6 between berry and whyte, williamsburg, brooklyn!!!
mbateco 1 year ago
i've never been a stanton moore fan. love everyone else up there.
danogzilla 1 year ago
SKERIK OWN THE STAGE WITH THAT SAX!
StarchildPFunk 1 year ago
@StarchildPFunk seriously. I've been looking for this guy since frog brigade... not very diligently i might add, but looking nonetheless. Good to see he found a suitable home.
petrahanson 1 year ago
weirdo at 6:06
applebite101 1 year ago
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RyanLynch2000 1 year ago
nice !...
maidoodesu 1 year ago
This is an amazing blues jam! uhmm but if 6 was 9 has lyrics, and I never picked up on the melody of the Hendrix song anywhere here. or the syncopated bass riff / drum riff that are key to that song.
greenmachinevivi 1 year ago 3
@greenmachinevivi
i think the sax just begin the voice melody at 4:26 " if the sun... refuse to shine"
wathever they jam with the hendrix spirit :D
thw for sharing : )
fotoflame 1 year ago
damn. thank you
wassonii 1 year ago
Skerik is an awesome sax player, you can also catch him on Colonel Les Claypools Fabulous Flying Frog Brigade albums, some great stuff there.
mrsleep0000 1 year ago
Garage a Trois for the win!
btfink 1 year ago 2
these dudes got some life
assquark 1 year ago
hell yeah!
toweringflesh 1 year ago
I would have killed to be at this! CHARLIE HUNTER IS THE MAN! and I love the sax man.
dallasssssssssssssss 1 year ago
Great tune, I love the live mixing!!!! Totally Raw! Thats how it should be my friends.
SmokinStubs 1 year ago
cool song, poor live mixing though :(
ashg1231 1 year ago
yes, that's Stanton Moore, and although Charlie Hunter is fantastic I agree blues is not his forte!
pootbutta 1 year ago
Love this. Wish I could have caught this band. I used to see Charlie all the time in the bay before he moved to NY over a decade ago.
07BSPtC 1 year ago
Damn!
mysticjaz 1 year ago
Gotta say I used to be a big fan of Charlie Hunter. The man can play, but he's not a blues player, as for Skerik, well he's one... bad.... mambajamba. Ouch! If Charleyboy was paying attention during skerik's solo he could have learned blues phrasing, and he should have been.. considering he doesn't play jazz anymore.
xilucantes 1 year ago
the beginning of the sax solo sounds more like Sabbaths Planet Caravan
BenFairbank 1 year ago
anyone have a form of this song
guitarplayerbayarea 1 year ago
Is stanton moore drumming?
guitarplayerbayarea 1 year ago
I still can't help but stick with J Mayor when he calls the sax the Bitch Wistle. It's just too true... Saw Charlie Hunter in Ashland, OR. Dope shit.
daSaboriGuitars 1 year ago
I love when he shouts in his mic on the sax there, sounds so gritty!
martinxander 1 year ago
That was the baddest sax playing I've ever heard. And I mean bad in its totally cool and awesome meaning.
Theblob516 1 year ago 3
I never heard a sax sound like an electric guitar before... interesting...
Great playing all around
bluesgurugod 1 year ago
HAHA the sax is overdriven!? awesome!
h0bgawblin 1 year ago
WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!
yesmon4real 1 year ago
red house i think
drmJB23 1 year ago
This is so awesome, but how is this if 6 was 9?
HendrixIsGod47 1 year ago
@HendrixIsGod47 Same chord changes. Both Charlie and Skerik start their solos with the melody that hendrix sings. They just take the song and jam it though. They're not gonna repeat it note for note or anything.
OnSugarHill 1 year ago
its a jam. hail satan
jjani9 1 year ago
Hunter is a great player, but this is no if 6 was 9. Sit down players just bug me for some reason.
MissEgasMoniz 1 year ago
I would have KILLED to be at that concert.
gibsonfan3 1 year ago
super!
semionbahtin 2 years ago
This man truly understands Hendrix music!!! (3 exclamation marks - the sign of a true madman) I've never thought that of a musician before.
"Go ahead on Mr. business man - you can't dress like me"
MrSnowblindMoose 2 years ago
the guitarist has a wacky looking fret board... looks like some frets are curved
oh well.. I will stick with drums..
syndirella08 2 years ago
He's playing with "fanned frets". They allow the lower strings to stretch farther out so you can get extra low strings without much buzz. Don't forget the guitarist is playing an 8 string in this. There's no bass player in this video, the guitarist takes care of both parts.
OnSugarHill 1 year ago
@OnSugarHill
charlie is the man. he and skerik= sex
dubbeld91 1 year ago
BANANAS, BoNkeRs they may as well have set their instruments on fire and walked off the stage at the end like "take that take that!" lol i'm trippin, these guys are awesome
AlienEnigma84 2 years ago 3
Garage a Trois was much better with Charlie!!!
littlefeatlowell 2 years ago 3
jesus christo!
see it to believe it.
papasmurf624 2 years ago
Skerik on the saxophone, ladies and gentlemen.
hikel31169 2 years ago 25
this sounds nothing like the original. It sounds a lot more like Texas Flood by srv or red house by hendrix
ffguru15 2 years ago
this is supposed to be if 6 was 9??
no, no i don't think so
mikejano13 2 years ago
Dopest shit I've ever seen.
symen79 2 years ago
holy crap! that is the hipest shit i have ever seen.
rixills 2 years ago
OMG, I've never heard anything like this!
CadillacL 2 years ago
Sick, in every way
dallasssssssssssssss 2 years ago
where's Shrek?
ceasarvanstorm 2 years ago
what effect does skeriK use there?
schazam04 2 years ago
stanton moore on drums??
MMMuller 2 years ago 3
Skerik is beyond insane. And I like it.
Gummy132 2 years ago 2
where is this?
tbmills 2 years ago
Interesting how the frets are placed on the neck, nice cover of the song
roebliss 2 years ago
those are called Fanned Frets...
Ravenhunt 2 years ago
Saxophone player is Skerik, not John Ellis.
djwillspencer 2 years ago
Yep, electrified, effected and downright mean sax... That is definitely Skerik
jaffijoe 2 years ago
john ellis is the sax guy. he is sick as shit.
ycfightingirish1 2 years ago
While I agree that John Ellis is a hell of a sax player, this is not John Ellis. Ellis plays with the old Charlie Hunter Trio, Quartet and Quintet. This is Garage a Trois, with Skerik on the sax. John Ellis plays alto, while Skerik plays a tenor.
lowendfrequency 2 years ago
Skerik
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why doesn't he just play guitar.... it would sound better than this.
thesoundofconfusion 2 years ago
Because he can.
MrGuybrush 2 years ago 17
does anybody know where and when this concert was?
Musikermomo 2 years ago
... It says it in the beginning of the video, man.
The Independent, San Fransisco, CA
August 8th, 2005
MusicMang1024 2 years ago
Yea that was sick
Hintz6 2 years ago
Why is Skerik so out-of-his-mind awesome??
stevothebassist 2 years ago
What a mind!
PauloNideck 2 years ago
that was friggin awesome, I don't see what it has to do with if 6 was 9 though
jlivings10 2 years ago
Six guitar strings plus three bass makes nine.
duncality 2 years ago
Actually, Hunter's guitar has 8 strings: 5 guitar and 3 bass.
Rizantar 2 years ago
satriani did teach him cant beleave that
midiset1974 2 years ago
that is a wicked guitar he has.
lawarsi 2 years ago
DAMN.
teasnax 2 years ago 2
That was one of the sickest things I've seen in a long time....and I've been a CH Trio fan since about 1997
goody13 2 years ago 2
Charlie is talented as hell.
markitymark90 2 years ago 2
i had been reading about Hunter for a while in guitar mags. the written word cannot describe this guy. that funny looking guitar is also a bass guitar. he is doing double duty, man!
tonesage711 2 years ago
Stanton Moore, Charlie Hunter, Skerik, Mike D... This is ridiculous!
tbmills 2 years ago
пиздец
roumesram 2 years ago
too impressive this guys is a genius
pierreolivierbass 2 years ago
what a strange guitar... but well played for sure.
02nothing 2 years ago
Looks like the top 3 strings are a bass with the lower 5 as the guitar, along with different pickups for each as well. Makes it that much better seeing him play the guitar and bass part at the same time.
keepntyme 2 years ago
Nasty.
Bigdaygo6 3 years ago
That's just about the coolest sax solo I've ever heard. Raw! I love that.
Zebula77 3 years ago
Sax is Skerik. He's a nut. Played with Les Claypool and many others. The man.
3staggerlee3 2 years ago 2
charlie spit out grooves from any hole of his body!!
ninenji 3 years ago 3
this is the first heavy metal sax i have ever seen ;p
nice moment
Brackhmmarr 3 years ago 2
the energy on that stage looks incredible
GeneralFUBAR 3 years ago 3
I'd love to have a go on Charlie's signature Novax looks like a mental guitar!
guitarnoize 3 years ago
steve martin - "talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
premedan 3 years ago 2
im pretty sure frank zappa said that
shortys8118 3 years ago 10
Actually, I think that John Cage said that. I'm almost positive.
zollman90 2 years ago
The only piece of "if 6 was 9" that was preserved with this was the tempo and feel. Maybe if there had been some vocals to the song it wouldn't just seem like a blues medeley. And just because there is a saxaphone and there playing at a slower tempo does not make it jazz ;)
brycea123 3 years ago
Sax solo was great but the guitar solo wasn't to my tastes. He plays smart tritone stuff and dumb rock stuff and it doesn't meld.
eastweymouthchris 3 years ago
I disagree. I think his melodic choices were really sick.
The only thing I didn't like was that Charlie was pretty absent during the sax solo and the closing was pretty terrible.
ACDavis629 3 years ago
Do you have any videos of your stuff ... i'd love to hear it
dankbass1 2 years ago
I have to post a video before I say that this is fuzak?
eastweymouthchris 2 years ago
Its MUSIC!!! labels are only interpretations to try and define things... dont try, just listen and let it ease your soul
awakened1 3 years ago 2
The sax is on drugs!!!!LOLLL
StevieRayVaughan84 3 years ago 4
Hey you crazies! why on earth does it matter which specific catergory you want this to belong to. The cool thing about music is seeing/hearing creative folks lettin it flow. Dont be frightened if you cant immediately declare what type of sound is presented. just observe and try to go with them. PS---this interpretation is absolutely phenomenal.
GusJohnsonGotTheKey 3 years ago 2
Well said man. It is silly to label and thus confine music within a genre because there is so much global communication. That allows influences to be drawn from so many sources that most music today is very eclectic and to restrict it with a label automatically makes people assume certain things about it, when an open mind is really the best way to experience art.
shortys8118 3 years ago 2
yes! thank you.i dont think they come up with anything saying "How can we make sure peoplw know this is jAZZ or this is blues" or whatever. its music damnit...
GusJohnsonGotTheKey 3 years ago
great cover...master stanton is the king of groove.
HAPLJARICA 3 years ago
This is as much "If 6 Was 9" as it is, "Bye, Bye Bye" by NSync.
They took the whole song apart and left out the song. haha
I like it though, but it's rediculous. I mean, this isn't that song at all.
JosephLarkdale 3 years ago
I think its closer to If 6 was 9 than to Bye Bye Bye, but I agree with you... hehe
flaviolima91 3 years ago
it's good if u don't know how to play on guitar, but u can play on sax and u want to play with guitar.:D
skatyk 3 years ago
Pointless? What's the point of any music? This is just fun as hell to listen to. These guys can all play any style they want. I heard Skerik do a dead on Mingus arrangement with himself and a tape looper a few months back. If you don't like it, why even comment?
poonjazz 3 years ago
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pointless
why make the sax sound like a guitar?
is the sound of the sax not killing enough?
that's fucking horrible sax playing
koolinsky 3 years ago
This is the band Garage-A-Trois. Sick ass group.
TheCamManCan75 3 years ago
great stuff, nothing like playing your sax through an effects unit like that, it opens the door for new creativitiy, that's for sure!
ModernSaxDotCom 3 years ago 2
Fan-fucking-tastic !
makriikoala 3 years ago 2
Sweet mother of God.
AnthonyCarelly 3 years ago 2
by god! this is truly genius!
amazing!
Jamandsosh 3 years ago
Charlie Hunter rocks! I love jazz fusion!
BazookaSlim 3 years ago
Is that Stanton Moore?
jssskateboards 3 years ago
Skerik's phrasing on this song has some of my favorite lines ever, seriously. He tore that solo up.
OnSugarHill 3 years ago
haha you people are crazy. First off let me say that these guys are fuckin awesome. Secondly, let me clear some things up for you crazy fools. This is not jazz, but these ARE jazz musicians. this is blues rock played by jazz musicians. Jazz fans are often very stuck up and get very upset when things that arent jazz are called jazz, it happens alot. just please everyone, keep your cool, keep your blood pressure low and live longer : ) Charlie hunter is the fuckin bomb.
ohchaaase 3 years ago 2
well put ohchaaase I completely agree, lots of jazzheads get really hung up when something that isn't "jazz" is called jazz. I swear...jazz enthusiasts are the most pretentious people ever hahah
Pprovo1 3 years ago
If you think jazz ethusiasts are pretentious than you haven't encountered a classical music enthusiast. They can be just ridiculously stuck up. I know I am a grad student at a music school and being a rock and jazz musician has been hard for me when most of the idiots at the school have mozart rammed up their ass.
HEADBANGING69 3 years ago 3
I am also going to a school of music for classical guitar even though I play jazz and rock electric almost as much. It isn't the style of music that makes people stuck up or that it attracts stuck up people. It is just that stuck up people tend to open up there mouth more often. (although there are hella classical performers who are uptight as hell)
mike89man89 3 years ago
well, f**k "jazz fans" then, for a few reasons:
1)Jazz players have done jazz arrangements of all kinds of other tunes forever...if this isn't jazz, then neither is blowing changes over "Bye Bye Blackbird"...
2) Jazz isn't a particular sound, it's an attitude, and Jimi Hendrix is more jazz than 90% of what most "jazz fans" lap up.
The original recording of this tune can't be accurately described as simply "blues rock", the whole middle section is pure jazz, especially the rhythm section.
finallytina 3 years ago
ok smarty pants... jazz IS a particular sound... its a particular style of playing, and its not an attitude.
you might be able to say some songs, such as rainy day dream away are very jazzy, which they are. But Jimi didn't really play jazz, he played psychedelic blues rock.
blowing changes over bye bye blackbird IS jazz.. what are you talking about...? where are you basing all your information?
ohchaaase 3 years ago
OK, so explain the "particular sound" that say, Pete Fountain and Pharoah Sanders or Sun Ra share that is exclusive and "particular" to jazz alone.
And "Bye Bye Blackbird" was written as a pop tune, not a jazz tune, so by your logic, it can't be considered "jazz".
Fact of the matter is that people who know what they are talking about knew enough to put him in the Downbeat Jazz Hall of Fame.
finallytina 3 years ago
the sound of jazz is stereotypically characterized by a swing feel, seventh chords, II V's (that means II-7 V7 I chords,) harmonic changes, accents on the upbeat, jazz lines used in impovisation, arpeggios... blah blah i could go on for ever, i go to school for this shit.
of course there are no fine lines when categorizing music.. all I am trying to say is that jimi hendrix is much closer to blues rock than he is to jazz.. most jazz musicians would laugh at someone calling him a jazz artist...
ohchaaase 3 years ago 2
bye bye blackbird played as a pop tune is pop, played as a jazz standard is jazz, its all in the style in which it is performed..
ohchaaase 3 years ago
you just contradicted yourself, because when it is someone playing a Jimi song in a jazz style you claim that it *can't* be jazz and remains "blues rock", even though as I've pointed out before, "If 6 was 9" goes into what can only be described as a purely jazz style right after the "I'm gonna wave my freak flag high" part...if you think that that is "blues rock" maybe you should pay closer attention to that part of your instruction.
finallytina 3 years ago
I used to live in Seattle and I would see Skerik and critter's buggin just jamming at house parties! He did quite a lot of Hendrix back then too! (1994)
monkface 3 years ago
I like how he clowns with the group and has such an excellent repoire with them. He exchanges some hillarious looks with them. They push the envelope and have fun doing it.
cryptsub 3 years ago
Yeah Charlie!!
ChristianDavis629 3 years ago
The performance is outstanding, and sound quality of this video is also excellent.
AuntMartha 3 years ago
Fu%*ing Awesome. I have seen all of some of these guys live together or separate several times at Bumbershoot. Skerik is the shit and Charlie Hunter is absolutely amazing playing the bass and guitar at the same time on his specially made guitar. Amazing musicians and yes it is jazz, REAL JAZZ, not that smooth jazz.
anedrow 3 years ago
I mean, HOLY SHIT!!!! This song rules! He's playing sax through a damn effects pedal, listen to that groove!!! Again "TheHumanBee"....Your a dick. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
SwerdyJazz 3 years ago 3
I award you one point for an excellent movie reference! I just saw the CH Trio in Denver this weekend and was blown away. I wish they had the sax along also, but the guy on keys was great. Nice video!
bobdogg23 3 years ago
I don't care what you call this, it's killer.
samepstein1 3 years ago 2
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It's not that cool...and just because something has saxophone doesn't mean it's jazz.
TheHumannBee 3 years ago
Your an outright dick. "It's not that cool...and just because something has saxophone doesn't mean it's jazz." What a stupid comment. Define Jazz for me if you would then...you have nothing? Cool. Didn't think so. If i never heard another song after this fucking SWEET, ripping groove then i would die one happy motherfucker. Go listen to your 1940's, moth-ridden jazz and leave the bad-arse music to real cats becuase you obviously have no sense of taste.
SwerdyJazz 3 years ago
you're a clueless fucking retard. You have no idea the talent level of these 4 guys. I beg you to tell me where you have ever seen 4 people with this much talent on their intsruments play together. I've seen GAT 8 times now, not only is their music amazing but the energy they bring to the stage is unbeatable--and I don't think I've ever seen them stop playing before 5 am.
bziegs23 3 years ago
Guys, relax. TheHumannBee meant that it wasn't jazz, but Blues-rock! Yeah, is hardened white blues-rock of high quality.
Charlie Hunter produces a lot of tasty modern mainstream jazz, but not in this video))
CcocBrice 3 years ago 2
Dude this Jazz-Rock Fusion, exemplified by the licks at 1:33 and 2:11.
optimaloc 3 years ago
As is the original- and really, the only "rock" part of it was the distorted guitar.
Hendrix even referred to Mitch Mitchell as "my Elvin Jones", "3rd Stone From the Sun" is revered as a free jazz classic by all kinds of mainstream jazz players, and Jimi was entered into the Downbeat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1970, between Charles Mingus ('69) and Ornette Coleman ('71)...anyone who thinks that Hendrix just wrote and performed blues-rock tunes doesn't know anything about Hendrix *or* jazz.
finallytina 3 years ago
k fine, its psychedelic jazzy blues rock. happy?
ohchaaase 3 years ago
Guitarist is excellent!
vangied 3 years ago
You mean the bassist? Ha... thats funny because hes the guy you can use the joke on!
blkdrkkngt 3 years ago 4
stanton moore is the shit. oh yea... charlie is good aswell.
zach47 3 years ago
What is that Guitar?
6bongode 3 years ago
its a novax with fanned frets.
Thegrimson 3 years ago
cya tomorrow at Half Note, Athens, Charlie!! You are amazing!!!
Sax with distortion... love it!!!
thanoulijonroth 3 years ago
Iz dat sax player the guy who plays with Les Claypool Now? I may be wrong but it def. looks like him.Not sure his name....
kidpecan 3 years ago
he played with les claypool around '96 but he was les' guitarist.
Thatguy301 3 years ago