I was just closing my eyes and listening to this upon waking up this morning, and I was thinking how cool it would have been if artists in different time periods had access to the technology we have today to create music videos. I was picturing this song as a modern video with Jimi walking through a lush CGI psychedelic hallway or something.... that would be so cool. Or old beatles tunes, stuff like that... think about it maaaann lol
So-long as there's a Jimi, if-only in our memories, or a Jimmy, the world is a better place. I don't know 'why' I love this song, but I just DO. It isn't like it's full of bad-assed guitar licks, which, either of these guys could play, but more the tempo, and the mood. Jimmy playing Misty Mountain Hop? No, more what he's doing, is UNDERplay. And the results are tremendous. Keep in-mind these guys were seasoned and polished professionals, long-BEFORE they joined the groups that made them famous.
Where the 19th century met the 21st, and even as a none-year-old living opposite Olympic Studios in Barnes one could sense it. My 7" must have been played HUNDREDS of times in the first month or so!
The best social document of the 60's experience??
I think that all people are more or less developt in their personality or world view than others. Those people just arnt ready to let loosse but they will be in the future. So wenn somebody acts like a rascist is less social or has a immature view of the world its just were they are in their journey of their mind and they will change over time and over events.
The music industry these days are going to HELL! This is the real stuff, when people used their minds and creativity! All of us young musicians need to rise up and bring real music back to this world!
@StratoBlaster420 Hendrix was not unique in his ability to play numerous musical instruments. I'm a guitar player but can also play bass, drums and (some) keyboards. I can't read music (except tabs) and I'm entirely self-taught outside of music 'lessons', i.e., tips and tricks, I've received from fellow musicians. The greatest thing about Jimmy James which sets him apart from others is his very likeable PERSONA and of course, his unique, spellbinding onstage showmanship.
Bash on Lady Gaga...the woman is doing something I wish I could. Maybe not to the same level, but she reached a level of success in music that I think we can all envy.
Whether or not this is the best song Jimi did,is not an issue with me, nor is his prowess at guitar or hopsichord. I just love this song. Thats all there is to it. There are other versions, but this is my fav. Now that I've seen the vid and heard the song, I now want to teach it to my band and play it with a Hendrix feel. Not to do it better or anything, but just to do it. Peace
@JimmyPage97 Shut your little bitchass up. Nothing more needs to be said. This song is blatantly good, and needs no further explanation. You can go fuck a rusty railroad spike if you don't think Hendrix had a better ear for music than any other rock guitarist since. The man was almost completely self taught, played bass, drums, and keyboard on some of his songs and achieved the title of #1 In Rolling Stone Magazines 100 Greatest guitarists of all time almost 40 years after his death.
@StratoBlaster420 I don't think you know much about how Hendrix learned to play. From my understanding he was NOT self taught...but anyways we can assume.
Many musicians are self-taught and play a whole crap load of instruments. I know many of the beatles could play multiple instruments. Actually I have a cousin that plays Drums, bass, keys, as well as left handed upside down guitar. I don't think that means a lot though. Being a posthumous rolling stone #1 doesn't mean much to me either.
Man the video's fantastic. One of those afternoon trips larking about town with pals you know you'll always remember fondly (coz you've got a film). Cool, sexy pranksters as real revolutionaries. See how he kissed the white stallwoman's hand? There was a time a black dude got hanged for that. Especially such a supersexed flash dandy. Yeah, nice!
@JimmyPage97 Think you can see kids at caberets and holiday shows tapping thier foot to the music, most just dance around and bounce off the scenery. Jimi was a foot tapper, as was Mozart. You can love music, and be frustrated by you own lack of ability to repeat what you hear. As jimmy is renowned for his ability, so is he for his frustration, which lives in us all who love music. Only jimi knew how he wnted to sound, and never really accomplished it in his own opinion. Jus look at woodstock
@Masheded999 What does all this mean? What I'm understanding is that people who simply tap their feet to music are generally more musically sound then those who dance erratically? I would disagree. I also think Jimi and Mozart alike (as well as many other people) had a good sense of what they wanted to hear. I don't think we can really understand the differences between Mozart and Jimi. Its just my opinion, I take a lot more from Jimi's music than Mozarts. But neither would be more skilled imo.
Yes. What i mean is, that some people have an ear for music. This is not a talent, but a gift of the ear and mind. You have it, or you dont. My point is, is that people that have to "learn" music, achieve perfection in thier own right. However, if you look at jimi at woodstock, you can sense and see his frustration when 1 rift goes bad, although to us its a perfect set. I imagine mozart was the same. This is why they are genius, cuz they always wanted more. I think we agree lol
@Masheded999 I know what you mean. To be honest my dad told me this same thing when I asked him if I could take guitar lessons.
I love Jimi, but to be dead honest I don't see why so many people like him. I feel that Hendrix was equally as "good" as many musicians. Hendrix is just a good musician who I find as my more favorite. Really I don't say Hendrix is better than _______... I just like listening to hendrix more.
But to say Hendrix had a more evolved ear and brain... I think not.
@JimmyPage97 Then i guess this is where we sign off. You think not, but i think so. In would even class kurt cobain in this categorey, ttho im not personally a fan. I susspose i could be saying they are natural lrycists also, poets if you like. Which ever jimmy, i think its gifted and not learned. Nice to be grown up for a change anyway, not like most of my posts (lol). Be lucky.
@Masheded999 Sorry to say but I posted that three months ago. You have already signed off. But either way, what we have here is a disagreement. The solution is simple, we must agree. Either way, I'll say the same thing I say to everyone. Jimi Hendrix once lived a day of his life that he looked up too someone, the same way we look up to him. He looked at himself and questioned weather he could be a "legend" or just a brick.
He didn't pick up a guitar and make this song, it took time and effort.
@JimmyPage97 Alas, as i said. I think youre wrong. Some folk are imbued to kick a football, or hit a golf ball..whatever. What im saying is, that jimi had born talent. I agree practice makes perfect. This dosnt apply to everything, but def music. Agreed. But jimi was gifted, and i wont have it any other way.:)
@Masheded999 Okay so would you agree that I say that your view on this is based around "faith?" Jimi was pre-programmed to play guitar, pre-programmed to decide to try and learn guitar, pre-programmed to like music and try to pursue a musical career, and finally pre-programmed to become a star in this hobby.
Like the Bob Marley song says.."Some say its just a part of it, we've got to fulfill the book"
@JimmyPage97 Hmm. You nealry had me there. Interesting point. What i would say is a case of "Fate" more then "Faith", insofar that there are probably 100 jimis walking the earth today, who have never picked up a guitar and dont know they have a gift, like i might be a top gun pilot but dont know it.Pre-programmed no, but a love of music and a born talent naturally leads to a music career, and possibly fame. Lets remember, jimi used a lot of gimicks too, but without support, prob wouldnt made it
@Masheded999 Sorry the word I was looking for was Fate (thats what the bob marley thing means, you know). But to me, I totally disagree with fate. When you look at the intense list of irony that must happen in order for all the cards to fall into place (in your belief) .. I guess it makes sense or is just easy to blindly point the finger at something like fate. I don't know how we can argue how valid fate is but, if fate exists for Jimi, then I have to argue it exists for you and I as well.
@Masheded999 And I also think that regardless of fate, Jimi still had to have the "raw" talents to play like he did. Speed, dexterity, and all those traits. They don't just all come natural, and typically are a result of hard work, practice, persistence, and all that stuff.
@JimmyPage97 I agree with this observation, that anyone doing anything physical in any field will need to work on skills such as dexterity speed and flexibility, and that this only comes with practice, but his ability to pick up melodies and instinctivley scribe beautiful music happens in the ear and brain, and is then conveyed through the instrument. Thats the talent imo, not the physical act of playing. Jimi could play lots of instruments (electric ladyland), but he loved the guitar most.
@Masheded999 So you will agree that every part of the body except the brain and ears can be polished? Why can't you achieve an "ability to pick up melodies" in the same manner that you achieved "speed and flexibility"
@JimmyPage97 Alas, because not all abilities are tangible and concious. I think you can condition the brain, and the body, but the melodic ear would be like trying to teach somthing like common sense, or empathy etc..As the old saying goes "everybodys good at somthing". I always used to love playing footie at school, and tried and tried. I was 1500m champ every year till leaving, so i was fit enuff. Just shite at footie. Almost like you cant teach "Vision", as its too sub concious.
@JimmyPage97 no, I havnt tried. I own 2 guitars, but rarely play them. Ive been content with learning a few tunes, and only get them out when im bored.But i know enough to know that Hendrix was very different. Do you play in any capacity? Have you ever had lessons? have you trained your melodic ear? For me it is just a hobby, and always will be. Saying this, i know i would never reach jimis level of ability, cause your born with a sense of rythm. Take my missus for instance (lol)
@Masheded999 yea I play all the time, but for for the same thing. Its a hobby and I enjoy it. When the enjoyment isn't there, I just drop it for a bit. I had guitar lessons for around a year, once a week. My guitar teacher taught me everything I know (which is little). I studied up on the "modes" of music, and learned a good deal in that year with a great teacher. And I had a ton of fun with it. I don't know what it means to "train a melodic ear" but..
@JimmyPage97 I took a class at college called Ear Training 101. I walked in to the class a complete open book, and walked out amazed at not just what I had learned, but what all the students in the class had become.
But all this nonsense aside. I know (I'd call it a "fact") that if you don't believe, your totally right. You will never become.
in heaven the play hendrix and zeppelin, in hell they play gaga and bieber. but seriously this music is just so genius i wish i was alive in the 60s and 70s
@Masheded999 so, todays quality of life is like a prison bathroom, kids are basically pissing their knickers and dribbling down their chins when they sit on facebook 20 hours out of every day
The distorted voice of Jimi, sounds as if it was meant to be listened to this way, I dont think i'd want to hear it any other way ~ ( Baby in stroller : OMG run for your live's! It's the filthy hippie's! :)
Crap, in my video response I said I was playin my strat, and actually that day I was using my Les Paul. Got so many guitars and use different ones depending on the show, that I forgot. Oh well.
@SpeedyTase May have taken the tune.... But MJ's version is better... No offense. I like Hendrix and MJ but if you repect Music and not play favoritism... you would agree MJ made this song better
Could this be in Paris? All the fruit & veg signs are marked up in Kilos & francs, the cars are driving on the right and the registration numbers on the cars are not British. Do they go down into the metro at the end?
@JimmyPage97 Funny, that's a comparison I was just looking at an hour ago. Both preferred improvisation, which they could do endlessly, to lip-synching 'one I did earlier'. Jimi had the advantage of acid and grass of course, plus the ability to absorb whatever he heard and liked, which may have included the fine maths of Mozart and Bach.
@AbususNonTollitUsum I don't think anyone has any idea of the Advantage/Disadvantage of drugs. And there were drugs back in mozarts day as well. Plus mozart prolly could "absorb whatever he heard" just as well.
I totally agree music now a days is just too damn crappy. Whats really bad is great rock legends like Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck can't even bring it back to the for front. I've seen Jeff Beck play on the grammys and no one got it too bad no one even try's to listen anymore they just get into stuff tht everybody else listens to.
KenSebring You're right we all should be as comfortable in our own skins as Jimi was in his. and seek our inner selves to express ourselves in the most original way that he did. he was the only one who did it his way back then. Not a copycat but an original. This was like my favorite song.. Great piece.
Jimi was so cool about everything, Noel and Mitch tried way too hard, like white boys with afros, to keep up with the kool. They looked self- conscious and Jimi looked embarrassed. But I love it. Nothing like it now!
@thebitkid hey man itsfunnyyou say tht cuz i said the same thing on a pink floyd video i commented on. haha fuck lady gaga. rock on bro glad to see im not alone
This is one of my all time Hendrix favourite songs...Listening to this song in its original form on Vinyl 45 is just terrific!! On Cd the magic is slightly lost with the constant re-mastering etc!! Jimi Hendrix, in such a short space of time did so much for expression and music!!!
and this song wasn't even included in some bacobens top 500 songs of all time. This song is top 10 at LEAST...with other Hendrix songs filling out the other 9 spots. LOL
Almost all top lists are total bullshit. Rolling Stone Magazine's best albums list has some of the Clash's albums near the top beating out the Beatles and many others. Don't get me wrong the Clash is okay, but they have no right being up there with the greats.
Not that I don't really like the Clash, but once you take into account The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, etc the Clash gets crowded out of the top 5. Anyways, I was being a fuckface when I said they have no right being up there with the greats, my word choice was unneccesary. Still I don't think they are quite on par with the Beatles, and I think the White Album was more innovative, and influential than London Calling, even if Rolling Stone disagrees.
Passing along something I read from another YTer...look for the live versions of "I Know What I Want" by Cheap Trick. Tom Petersson, CT's bassist (and one of the greats), plays the harpsichord line from this on bass as the intro to his song. Cool.
Sorry Uisquebeatha! Have to correct you, Jimi composed this on the harpsichord, he speaks of it in an interview, and it's obvious if we listen closely...
@anthoneycrunch - Well I think it was from the Swedish radio, interviewer a guy called R. Anderson, and I heard Jimi said it himself, so it's not written in some magazine, he said something like "picked out those different notes on the harpsichord" - good luck anthoney - Rhon
actually this song expresses width, depth,and breadth of how it feels to be lonely and the depth of hendrix...but thats my opinion your entitled to yours of course
The universe wouldn't have been able to handle the awesomeness of Jimi Hendrix in his later years its why it took him from us so early, the world had him long enough to be inspired.... after that his job was done and he wondered off our stage and into legend...
i heard that when they were producing it noel got pissed because they werent doing it his way so he went outside for a smoke and when he came back into the studio jimi was recording the bass lines and he was almost finished
I was just closing my eyes and listening to this upon waking up this morning, and I was thinking how cool it would have been if artists in different time periods had access to the technology we have today to create music videos. I was picturing this song as a modern video with Jimi walking through a lush CGI psychedelic hallway or something.... that would be so cool. Or old beatles tunes, stuff like that... think about it maaaann lol
blee21483 3 days ago
I don't know why, but this clip makes me being nostalgic... Even if I'm too young to know Jimi.
9xarthurx9 2 months ago
@9xarthurx9 i know exactly what you mean...
justchill919 3 weeks ago
Damn Hipsters! haha great video.
VoodooKush 2 months ago
Haha they act like a bunch of urchins, camp and all.
Who would know looking at them they delivered some of the best music of the 20th century.
psirou 3 months ago
Nice video Super 8mm Film Increible..
javier2765 5 months ago
This is a tremendous composition!
boxingin 7 months ago
Great ! Big thanks ! 3 Aliens in the streets of the old Paris, where I grew up...
Tushratta 9 months ago
whats facebook?
JoeyTHEArms 9 months ago
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Now this is what i call real Rock!
RDCrock123 10 months ago
So-long as there's a Jimi, if-only in our memories, or a Jimmy, the world is a better place. I don't know 'why' I love this song, but I just DO. It isn't like it's full of bad-assed guitar licks, which, either of these guys could play, but more the tempo, and the mood. Jimmy playing Misty Mountain Hop? No, more what he's doing, is UNDERplay. And the results are tremendous. Keep in-mind these guys were seasoned and polished professionals, long-BEFORE they joined the groups that made them famous.
tallpaul881 10 months ago
Out there giving Hippies a bad name
SalemStorm 10 months ago
Where the 19th century met the 21st, and even as a none-year-old living opposite Olympic Studios in Barnes one could sense it. My 7" must have been played HUNDREDS of times in the first month or so!
The best social document of the 60's experience??
PercyPavilion 10 months ago
My girlfriend was murderd in 1986 and I miss Her so..Some how this song brings us closer and yet so far away...
calman1951 11 months ago
3.04 HAHAHAHA the Wig:D:D:D
c2lhu 11 months ago
A star is sinking in a sea of art
Jimi hendrix
sTiVeN232Af 11 months ago
Im almost 25 and since age 7 have been enjoying and evolving my grasp and appreciation for Jimi, as if God held his hand he plays.
SmithPaul23 11 months ago
greatest song of all time!
FUbuilderburg 11 months ago
Mitch Mitchell is a beast
PaulKersey108 1 year ago
who are those two chumps he's with?
projectfunky 1 year ago
@projectfunky ur two uncles and hendrix is your dad
Bonzotriplets1 11 months ago
Speaking of funerals, this would be an awesome "outro" song.
naslund10 1 year ago
I think that all people are more or less developt in their personality or world view than others. Those people just arnt ready to let loosse but they will be in the future. So wenn somebody acts like a rascist is less social or has a immature view of the world its just were they are in their journey of their mind and they will change over time and over events.
jeroenvlas 1 year ago
smallpenis said: 'everything aboiut hendrix is amazing. I have no respect for you as a person now! i hope you get cancer!'
More proof that mental illness is on the rise.
Don't forget to take your medication.
Electrix
electrixladyland69 1 year ago
The music industry these days are going to HELL! This is the real stuff, when people used their minds and creativity! All of us young musicians need to rise up and bring real music back to this world!
dixiemetalhead00 1 year ago 5
lol 2:58 mitch lifted that guys toupee
doox420 1 year ago 4
oh my god
9meyun 1 year ago
Excellent video of Hendrix
josh71111 1 year ago
@StratoBlaster420 Hendrix was not unique in his ability to play numerous musical instruments. I'm a guitar player but can also play bass, drums and (some) keyboards. I can't read music (except tabs) and I'm entirely self-taught outside of music 'lessons', i.e., tips and tricks, I've received from fellow musicians. The greatest thing about Jimmy James which sets him apart from others is his very likeable PERSONA and of course, his unique, spellbinding onstage showmanship.
electrixladyland69 1 year ago
@electrixladyland69 everything aboiut hendrix is amazing. I have no respect for you as a person now! i hope you get cancer!
scrambledpenis 1 year ago
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electrixladyland69 1 year ago
Cool video. How many people know that NOEL REDDING is the one who came up with the opening riff to this song? Hmmm?
Electrix
electrixladyland69 1 year ago
This is the best song ever written hands down.
StratoBlaster420 1 year ago
lol what are they doing at 1:53
Slay3r2103 1 year ago 2
BEST RIFFS EVER!!!!!!!!!
BJeldiabolo 1 year ago
Bash on Lady Gaga...the woman is doing something I wish I could. Maybe not to the same level, but she reached a level of success in music that I think we can all envy.
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
Whether or not this is the best song Jimi did,is not an issue with me, nor is his prowess at guitar or hopsichord. I just love this song. Thats all there is to it. There are other versions, but this is my fav. Now that I've seen the vid and heard the song, I now want to teach it to my band and play it with a Hendrix feel. Not to do it better or anything, but just to do it. Peace
konaspirit 1 year ago
This song is about the prime time for acid consumption. Getting those good ol' explosions going through your mind at midnight.
StratoBlaster420 1 year ago
@StratoBlaster420 Another crazy insightful and analytical view of the song. Hendrix can't slide anything past you geniuses.
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
@JimmyPage97 Shut your little bitchass up. Nothing more needs to be said. This song is blatantly good, and needs no further explanation. You can go fuck a rusty railroad spike if you don't think Hendrix had a better ear for music than any other rock guitarist since. The man was almost completely self taught, played bass, drums, and keyboard on some of his songs and achieved the title of #1 In Rolling Stone Magazines 100 Greatest guitarists of all time almost 40 years after his death.
StratoBlaster420 1 year ago
@StratoBlaster420 I don't think you know much about how Hendrix learned to play. From my understanding he was NOT self taught...but anyways we can assume.
Many musicians are self-taught and play a whole crap load of instruments. I know many of the beatles could play multiple instruments. Actually I have a cousin that plays Drums, bass, keys, as well as left handed upside down guitar. I don't think that means a lot though. Being a posthumous rolling stone #1 doesn't mean much to me either.
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
@JimmyPage97 None the less the original comment I made disregards Hendrix and his talents.
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
Both the song and the film:CLASSIC!!!!!
JByrd029 1 year ago
Man the video's fantastic. One of those afternoon trips larking about town with pals you know you'll always remember fondly (coz you've got a film). Cool, sexy pranksters as real revolutionaries. See how he kissed the white stallwoman's hand? There was a time a black dude got hanged for that. Especially such a supersexed flash dandy. Yeah, nice!
AbususNonTollitUsum 1 year ago
See Jimi here? such a laid back and gentle guy superstar but so quiet and polite, and just fun to be around. Young guys with a smile on their faces.
WELLBRAN 1 year ago
I think he's talking about a bong :I
Optithra 1 year ago
@Optithra Wow. That's a very good analytical view. Who would have thought of something like that?
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
@JimmyPage97 Think you can see kids at caberets and holiday shows tapping thier foot to the music, most just dance around and bounce off the scenery. Jimi was a foot tapper, as was Mozart. You can love music, and be frustrated by you own lack of ability to repeat what you hear. As jimmy is renowned for his ability, so is he for his frustration, which lives in us all who love music. Only jimi knew how he wnted to sound, and never really accomplished it in his own opinion. Jus look at woodstock
Masheded999 1 year ago
@Masheded999 What does all this mean? What I'm understanding is that people who simply tap their feet to music are generally more musically sound then those who dance erratically? I would disagree. I also think Jimi and Mozart alike (as well as many other people) had a good sense of what they wanted to hear. I don't think we can really understand the differences between Mozart and Jimi. Its just my opinion, I take a lot more from Jimi's music than Mozarts. But neither would be more skilled imo.
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
@JimmyPage97
Yes. What i mean is, that some people have an ear for music. This is not a talent, but a gift of the ear and mind. You have it, or you dont. My point is, is that people that have to "learn" music, achieve perfection in thier own right. However, if you look at jimi at woodstock, you can sense and see his frustration when 1 rift goes bad, although to us its a perfect set. I imagine mozart was the same. This is why they are genius, cuz they always wanted more. I think we agree lol
Masheded999 1 year ago
@Masheded999 I know what you mean. To be honest my dad told me this same thing when I asked him if I could take guitar lessons.
I love Jimi, but to be dead honest I don't see why so many people like him. I feel that Hendrix was equally as "good" as many musicians. Hendrix is just a good musician who I find as my more favorite. Really I don't say Hendrix is better than _______... I just like listening to hendrix more.
But to say Hendrix had a more evolved ear and brain... I think not.
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
@JimmyPage97 Then i guess this is where we sign off. You think not, but i think so. In would even class kurt cobain in this categorey, ttho im not personally a fan. I susspose i could be saying they are natural lrycists also, poets if you like. Which ever jimmy, i think its gifted and not learned. Nice to be grown up for a change anyway, not like most of my posts (lol). Be lucky.
Masheded999 10 months ago
@Masheded999 Sorry to say but I posted that three months ago. You have already signed off. But either way, what we have here is a disagreement. The solution is simple, we must agree. Either way, I'll say the same thing I say to everyone. Jimi Hendrix once lived a day of his life that he looked up too someone, the same way we look up to him. He looked at himself and questioned weather he could be a "legend" or just a brick.
He didn't pick up a guitar and make this song, it took time and effort.
JimmyPage97 10 months ago
@JimmyPage97 Alas, as i said. I think youre wrong. Some folk are imbued to kick a football, or hit a golf ball..whatever. What im saying is, that jimi had born talent. I agree practice makes perfect. This dosnt apply to everything, but def music. Agreed. But jimi was gifted, and i wont have it any other way.:)
Masheded999 10 months ago
@Masheded999 Okay so would you agree that I say that your view on this is based around "faith?" Jimi was pre-programmed to play guitar, pre-programmed to decide to try and learn guitar, pre-programmed to like music and try to pursue a musical career, and finally pre-programmed to become a star in this hobby.
Like the Bob Marley song says.."Some say its just a part of it, we've got to fulfill the book"
JimmyPage97 10 months ago
@JimmyPage97 Hmm. You nealry had me there. Interesting point. What i would say is a case of "Fate" more then "Faith", insofar that there are probably 100 jimis walking the earth today, who have never picked up a guitar and dont know they have a gift, like i might be a top gun pilot but dont know it.Pre-programmed no, but a love of music and a born talent naturally leads to a music career, and possibly fame. Lets remember, jimi used a lot of gimicks too, but without support, prob wouldnt made it
Masheded999 10 months ago
@Masheded999 Sorry the word I was looking for was Fate (thats what the bob marley thing means, you know). But to me, I totally disagree with fate. When you look at the intense list of irony that must happen in order for all the cards to fall into place (in your belief) .. I guess it makes sense or is just easy to blindly point the finger at something like fate. I don't know how we can argue how valid fate is but, if fate exists for Jimi, then I have to argue it exists for you and I as well.
JimmyPage97 10 months ago
@Masheded999 And I also think that regardless of fate, Jimi still had to have the "raw" talents to play like he did. Speed, dexterity, and all those traits. They don't just all come natural, and typically are a result of hard work, practice, persistence, and all that stuff.
JimmyPage97 10 months ago
@JimmyPage97 I agree with this observation, that anyone doing anything physical in any field will need to work on skills such as dexterity speed and flexibility, and that this only comes with practice, but his ability to pick up melodies and instinctivley scribe beautiful music happens in the ear and brain, and is then conveyed through the instrument. Thats the talent imo, not the physical act of playing. Jimi could play lots of instruments (electric ladyland), but he loved the guitar most.
Masheded999 10 months ago
@Masheded999 So you will agree that every part of the body except the brain and ears can be polished? Why can't you achieve an "ability to pick up melodies" in the same manner that you achieved "speed and flexibility"
JimmyPage97 10 months ago
@JimmyPage97 Alas, because not all abilities are tangible and concious. I think you can condition the brain, and the body, but the melodic ear would be like trying to teach somthing like common sense, or empathy etc..As the old saying goes "everybodys good at somthing". I always used to love playing footie at school, and tried and tried. I was 1500m champ every year till leaving, so i was fit enuff. Just shite at footie. Almost like you cant teach "Vision", as its too sub concious.
Masheded999 10 months ago
@Masheded999 and you know this only because you have failed trying to "condition your melodic ear?"
JimmyPage97 10 months ago
@JimmyPage97 no, I havnt tried. I own 2 guitars, but rarely play them. Ive been content with learning a few tunes, and only get them out when im bored.But i know enough to know that Hendrix was very different. Do you play in any capacity? Have you ever had lessons? have you trained your melodic ear? For me it is just a hobby, and always will be. Saying this, i know i would never reach jimis level of ability, cause your born with a sense of rythm. Take my missus for instance (lol)
Masheded999 10 months ago
@Masheded999 yea I play all the time, but for for the same thing. Its a hobby and I enjoy it. When the enjoyment isn't there, I just drop it for a bit. I had guitar lessons for around a year, once a week. My guitar teacher taught me everything I know (which is little). I studied up on the "modes" of music, and learned a good deal in that year with a great teacher. And I had a ton of fun with it. I don't know what it means to "train a melodic ear" but..
JimmyPage97 10 months ago
@JimmyPage97 I took a class at college called Ear Training 101. I walked in to the class a complete open book, and walked out amazed at not just what I had learned, but what all the students in the class had become.
But all this nonsense aside. I know (I'd call it a "fact") that if you don't believe, your totally right. You will never become.
JimmyPage97 10 months ago
Harpischord FTW
ZeppelinFan6980 1 year ago
I agree 100% Uisquebeatha. This is pure genius. His mind is as expansive as the universe itself.
East St. Louis, IL loves our illuminated brutha.
ausaurwest 1 year ago
man, how I'd love right now to be apart of a rock band in the '60s, it seems like so much fun
mircea1910 1 year ago
Hendrix is great, but he'll never be Bieber
BigBellyAndi 1 year ago
Bieber fans perish at the resonates of hendrix awesome notes. bieber is twat scum and hendrix is a mastery of gods music
LOVS2SPOOG 1 year ago
@LOVS2SPOOG
Amen brother. We've gone from John Lennon to Justin Bieber . WTF happened?
I want the the man boy association to kidnap Justin Bieber and molest his ass to death. At least the lil fag will die happy, and die!!!
BigBellyAndi 1 year ago
@BigBellyAndi hahahahah wtf
spaceboy2289177 1 year ago
in heaven the play hendrix and zeppelin, in hell they play gaga and bieber. but seriously this music is just so genius i wish i was alive in the 60s and 70s
animalman1122 1 year ago 23
@animalman1122 true, true
Tadeusnikos 1 year ago
@animalman1122 And if you were, youd be pissing in your knickers and dribbling down your chin by now
Masheded999 10 months ago
@Masheded999 so, todays quality of life is like a prison bathroom, kids are basically pissing their knickers and dribbling down their chins when they sit on facebook 20 hours out of every day
animalman1122 10 months ago
@animalman1122 Hahaha, yeah, or youtube...
omeyegod9 9 months ago
@omeyegod9 youtube takes the place of tv for me pretty much
animalman1122 9 months ago
don't wanna sound ignorant but i think he's the best musician of our time
0live0wire0 1 year ago 3
lol 2:59 this vid gave me goosebumps
h3llf1re1 1 year ago
The distorted voice of Jimi, sounds as if it was meant to be listened to this way, I dont think i'd want to hear it any other way ~ ( Baby in stroller : OMG run for your live's! It's the filthy hippie's! :)
RAYZE1ER 1 year ago
what are they doing in the video??
fredsassy5 1 year ago
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Best Artist Ever
TIEZepp 1 year ago
jimi hendrix lives on!
ninetailedfox3 1 year ago
M.O.P. - Follow Instructions (2nd part)
Vaginification 1 year ago
my fav hendrix song
Rinebilla 1 year ago 17
all the peeps were prolly going who are these smelly boys
hemet92544 1 year ago
why would anyone even mention lady gaga in Jimi's distinct presence
Aaronjrh 1 year ago 3
Crap, in my video response I said I was playin my strat, and actually that day I was using my Les Paul. Got so many guitars and use different ones depending on the show, that I forgot. Oh well.
konaspirit 1 year ago
How I would have loved to be alive in the 60's music was so much better. I just can't stand all this hip hop/rap shit
Stinkfist43 1 year ago
@Stinkfist43 but trust me, underground hip-hop is still good...still has some meaning to it.
bradlaypamp 1 year ago
Where is this footage at? Nice toupee' lift 2:58
anthoneycrunch 1 year ago
Oh, I just love his wah-wah pedal for 40 years !
- Loneyness is such a drag.
Psykelic68 1 year ago
Many thanks for sharing, Uisquebeatha.
tallpaul88 1 year ago
Ah, psychedelia at its best!
Falizar 1 year ago
This is fucking gd song, this is easy song but this sounds creat with wah wah pedal!
Ever4Guitar 1 year ago
ditto...thanks for posting this...very kool..
StratsRgreat 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this.
elfstone8402 1 year ago
i definitely feel ya on the loneliness jimi....
justchill919 1 year ago
That was beautiful lol video and all
RastafariPoet 1 year ago
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oknarbtal 1 year ago
this is jimi at his best shh dont tell best song great riffs.
withnoego 1 year ago
wow this footage is really good
darklord2626 1 year ago
For all you Michael Jackson lovers(creeps): MJ stole this tune from Hendrix to make his Free Willy song.
HENDRIX RULES!
SpeedyTase 1 year ago 2
@SpeedyTase May have taken the tune.... But MJ's version is better... No offense. I like Hendrix and MJ but if you repect Music and not play favoritism... you would agree MJ made this song better
jfmseh 1 year ago
@jfmseh WTF???????
Paulsworks 1 year ago
i lyke druggs two!??????
q5e7f 1 year ago
Could this be in Paris? All the fruit & veg signs are marked up in Kilos & francs, the cars are driving on the right and the registration numbers on the cars are not British. Do they go down into the metro at the end?
organicpaul 1 year ago
He´s the master of using the Dunlop Cry Baby Wah-wah pedal ! Amazing.
Psykelic68 1 year ago
@Psykelic68 he used Vox Wah-wah pedal. I have his Dunlop Crybaby signature but he actually didn't play it
0live0wire0 1 year ago
Hendrix is beyond music...
JimmyPage97 1 year ago 54
@JimmyPage97
have you been to see "prophetjimi" here on YT?
Hendrix might have gone further than just music
he might have even come from somewhere "beyond" music as well.
he said on multiple occasions, that he clearly remembered past lives on other planets.
smp156 1 year ago
@smp156 You DO know that Hendrix was using LSD and all sorts of drugs at that time right???
mariosapm 1 year ago
@smp156 I remember past lives on other planets too
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
@JimmyPage97
Hendix is music. Hendrix is immortal. Hendrix will become like motzaart in years to come. Watch this space
Masheded999 1 year ago
@Masheded999 Hendrix is higher than Mozart to me
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
@JimmyPage97
Agreed
Masheded999 1 year ago
@JimmyPage97 Funny, that's a comparison I was just looking at an hour ago. Both preferred improvisation, which they could do endlessly, to lip-synching 'one I did earlier'. Jimi had the advantage of acid and grass of course, plus the ability to absorb whatever he heard and liked, which may have included the fine maths of Mozart and Bach.
AbususNonTollitUsum 1 year ago
@AbususNonTollitUsum I don't think anyone has any idea of the Advantage/Disadvantage of drugs. And there were drugs back in mozarts day as well. Plus mozart prolly could "absorb whatever he heard" just as well.
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
I totally agree music now a days is just too damn crappy. Whats really bad is great rock legends like Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck can't even bring it back to the for front. I've seen Jeff Beck play on the grammys and no one got it too bad no one even try's to listen anymore they just get into stuff tht everybody else listens to.
90zosoman09 1 year ago 5
@90zosoman09 If you think good music is dead, I feel sorry for you. All you have to do is dig a little deeper. Don't be lazy.
TheLurchdaddy 11 months ago
KenSebring You're right we all should be as comfortable in our own skins as Jimi was in his. and seek our inner selves to express ourselves in the most original way that he did. he was the only one who did it his way back then. Not a copycat but an original. This was like my favorite song.. Great piece.
romienomie 1 year ago 4
i wish every one couldbe like jimi
acidandmolly 2 years ago 2
whitney houston's mother sang on this song!!!!!!!!!!!
GOGETHAR5 2 years ago
Probably sounded like crap, too.
SpeedyTase 1 year ago 2
Jimi was so cool about everything, Noel and Mitch tried way too hard, like white boys with afros, to keep up with the kool. They looked self- conscious and Jimi looked embarrassed. But I love it. Nothing like it now!
KenSebring 2 years ago 6
loneliness is such a ...drag
KenSebring 2 years ago 5
my funeral to real rock like this doesnt exsist anymore sucks just this lady gaga crap
thebitkid 2 years ago 30
@thebitkid hey man itsfunnyyou say tht cuz i said the same thing on a pink floyd video i commented on. haha fuck lady gaga. rock on bro glad to see im not alone
acidandmolly 2 years ago
yeah we all need to work on bringing stuff like this back into the mainstream and get rid of this pop and hip hop nonsense they call "music"
bobmango54 1 year ago
@thebitkid This stuff is Set in stone ... Not just because of how good it is, but because of how good it is. This stuff is basically unrepeatable...
JimmyPage97 1 year ago
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jeroenvlas 2 years ago
on my funeral.
jeroenvlas 2 years ago
This is one of my all time Hendrix favourite songs...Listening to this song in its original form on Vinyl 45 is just terrific!! On Cd the magic is slightly lost with the constant re-mastering etc!! Jimi Hendrix, in such a short space of time did so much for expression and music!!!
tootstanner 2 years ago
The Best of Jimi Hendrix!
AirlinerAviation 2 years ago
good footage must be around the eastend
glaxev 2 years ago
where was this footage filmed can some find out!!!
oMEN88 2 years ago
Mitch at 2:57 to 2:59 X).....and oh.,, Of course 0:00 to 3:31 is brilliant too!
realfuckinggas 2 years ago
My fav from Electric Ladyland
ziderazzi 2 years ago 2
and this song wasn't even included in some bacobens top 500 songs of all time. This song is top 10 at LEAST...with other Hendrix songs filling out the other 9 spots. LOL
bonguskongus 2 years ago 5
Almost all top lists are total bullshit. Rolling Stone Magazine's best albums list has some of the Clash's albums near the top beating out the Beatles and many others. Don't get me wrong the Clash is okay, but they have no right being up there with the greats.
fireemblem555 2 years ago 4
Ya the Clash is more like a warm up band.
shane4896 2 years ago 3
@fireemblem555 I"m sorry but London Calling is a top 5 album fuck face
hazbotcommandsit 2 years ago
Not that I don't really like the Clash, but once you take into account The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, etc the Clash gets crowded out of the top 5. Anyways, I was being a fuckface when I said they have no right being up there with the greats, my word choice was unneccesary. Still I don't think they are quite on par with the Beatles, and I think the White Album was more innovative, and influential than London Calling, even if Rolling Stone disagrees.
fireemblem555 2 years ago 2
Passing along something I read from another YTer...look for the live versions of "I Know What I Want" by Cheap Trick. Tom Petersson, CT's bassist (and one of the greats), plays the harpsichord line from this on bass as the intro to his song. Cool.
tiefhals 2 years ago
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justchill919 2 years ago
its "smiling portrait of you"
not trying 2 b an asshole lol
siege86 2 years ago
Sorry Uisquebeatha! Have to correct you, Jimi composed this on the harpsichord, he speaks of it in an interview, and it's obvious if we listen closely...
Rhon243243243 2 years ago
thanx for the correction
Uisquebeatha 2 years ago
@Rhon243243243 do you know where this interview is for me please
anthoneycrunch 1 year ago
@anthoneycrunch - Well I think it was from the Swedish radio, interviewer a guy called R. Anderson, and I heard Jimi said it himself, so it's not written in some magazine, he said something like "picked out those different notes on the harpsichord" - good luck anthoney - Rhon
Rhon243243243 1 year ago
wich album s this?????????
yeahyeahyaha2 2 years ago
electric ladyland
justchill919 2 years ago
god, jimi hendrix is so freaking awesome. its a shame he died at such a young age... rip jimi... =(
SilverPfenix 2 years ago 3
OMG these guys were good lookin!!!
And fantastic musicians
RIP Experience
naomi8992 2 years ago
this is the song that most fully expresses the width, depth, and breadth of God's creation
dashdeception 2 years ago
thats a little bit of a stretch...but nonetheless an unbelievable song.
ej928 2 years ago 2
actually this song expresses width, depth,and breadth of how it feels to be lonely and the depth of hendrix...but thats my opinion your entitled to yours of course
Anima2174 2 years ago 2
man this song take me back to when this chick broke my heart in junior high
such a great song
imagine if he would have had more time to grow as an artist???
r.i.p. Jimi
versalmighty 2 years ago 8
The universe wouldn't have been able to handle the awesomeness of Jimi Hendrix in his later years its why it took him from us so early, the world had him long enough to be inspired.... after that his job was done and he wondered off our stage and into legend...
Taud 2 years ago 5
the morning is dead, and the day is too
Scars4lyfe08 2 years ago 4
Loneliness is such a drag.
roytheboy68 2 years ago 4
Is Jimi playing bass on this or is it Noel?
macewindu67 2 years ago
Gota be Noel....hear jimi shredding?
Dijidog 2 years ago
i heard that when they were producing it noel got pissed because they werent doing it his way so he went outside for a smoke and when he came back into the studio jimi was recording the bass lines and he was almost finished
ElectricAxisBlues 2 years ago
yeah that happened alot during the recording of Electric Ladyland. It's what drove Noel to quick the Experience.
iceyhot7 2 years ago
my absolute favorite song by the experience....closely followed by castles made of sand, are u experienced and little wing :)
jimisinspiration666 2 years ago
best song ever...
psychoXomega 2 years ago 3
aww yesterday was the anniversery of noel reddings death=/ rip jimi hendrix experience<333
liltiff14hendrixplz 2 years ago
Great song and cool video.
jmastersherm1 2 years ago 4
Wow, musicaly and lyrically outstanding.... "There's nothing left here to lead me, but the velvet moon" is the best line in a song ever!
blomfield1 2 years ago 2
first time i hurd this was a auto asign 2 my mps i hurd it and just kept skating and redoing the song :p
windworp 2 years ago
this song is fucking AMAZING!!!!!!
zodiacgirl3 2 years ago
If anyone's interested in this clip they are walking in Montparnasse, Paris, 1967
R.I.P: Mitch one of my all time favourite drummers
filthyrich77 2 years ago 3
this song definitly makes me think about all the talent that was in this band that is now gone
minodude01 2 years ago
tears... best song and guitarist... and band
Homieg89 2 years ago 3
This song always brings me to tears. Jimi will live on forever and he was so ahead of his time.
izituorizitme 2 years ago 4