can you see me by jimi hendrix

[WaterPocket]

It awesome just listening to the guitar-tuning! wicked lol...

[concreteplastic]

this live version is way cooler, and faster than the studio version. the few seconds at 2:05 are so awesome.

[carrotsandnutella]

The golden streets of the village... I like that. and the little laugh after each sentence haha.

[WeirdCrazyShortGuy]

I know Jimi was very blues influenced but if this song isn't a precursor for metal then I don't know what is.

[kenny2894spd]

the drummer is great also

[PinkFloyd793]

The two people who disliked this shouldn't ever be allowed to vote for anything again in their lives.

[claptongroupie]

As you can see by my nic who my favorite is but I must say he blew Clapton away...sorry Slowhand..

[creeper109]

I think he was the only one that can pull off just one guitar in the group he played such a monster rhythm guitar and lead at the same time would have love to see him live.

[tearytearyteary]

it's lucky that this great live recording was made. It's better than the studio version. I really wish this one, would have been captured on video as some of the other songs in the set were.

[rhythmrancher]

Technically he's in the key of F, but when you tune your guitar a 1/2 step lower across the board, then physically you're in F#, a great guitar key btw! ;)

[skypeanut]

I hope Jimi knows how much we love him!! and for generations to come!

[duksila]

@skypeanut yea! beautifully said

[jomuthafish]

wow even when he's tuning up it sounds cool..

[petershadbolt63]

@zeppelinrocks100 that's an interesting point. i read once that one of his roadies picked up his guitar and said 'shit man, it's so out of tune'. apparently he only needed the guitar to be approximately tuned and then he'd bend the strings to the right pitch. he must have had a fantastic ear.

[zeppelinrocks100]

how does it sound so out of tune before he starts playing 0:24 and then it sounds amazing when the song starts

[garmonbozia318]

@zeppelinrocks100 Great ears and mastery of string bending. Apparently Jeff Beck used to deliberately go onstage with his guitar out of tune when he was bored with the yardbirds, just to make it more interesting. Also, on most guitars, certain chord shapes and parts of the neck will be in tune when others are out.

[rollingstopp]

look out its johnny b goode playin for you all-((((((-thats his nick name

[dan3452648]

"In the key of F sharp, yeah" The man himself

[AlexandraKales]

This is what I call magic!!

[NeilThompson30]

F sharp - great rock key signature - and Jimi was probably the first.

[irnmadencalmo]

HE IS THE BEST OF ALL!!

[mrdavide36]

metallica :28

[nelsano3]

This is incredible! One of my fave tracks off his debut album. With the overdubs on the record i wouldnt have thought it could have been replicated as well live but fuck me Jimi's playin is amazing here. He could do anything he wanted. And yes Vai and Satriani, as good as they are, will never play guitar as raw and magic as this...

[DFK01091914]

@nelsano3 As Hendrix said himself once..."I can handle Live"..

[colosalblack]

Lol I love how all of his bootlegs start with "I'm out of tune give me a minute". I guess its what happens when you rape the tremolo arm on each song.

[RastafariPoet]

He took acid earlier that day. His high pretty much came down when he got on stage.

[Rebel4evermore]

when i did acid i could still play until my friends mom came in and busted us and from there I had a REAL badass trip. so dont get caught kids haha

[StratoBlaster420]

@Rebel4evermore Getting busted going into a trip is no fun! I got searched and questioned by the cops coming up on 2CB (Which is like Acid and Ecstasy combined) it fucked my whole trip up and made me paranoid as fuck. Psychedelics are only good if you know no bad vibes are gonna take place within the duration, like at home or at a trusted friends house. In the right setting they're the best intoxication known to mankind.

[6402680]

They pick this song NOT to flim???? One of the biggest mistakes in rock history filming,,,,,

[EdVidz]

@6402680 This sounds like his Monterey Pop Festival set in an actual movie film shown in 1968 and or 1969. It had the burn your Strat scene with the crotch rubs grinding the Strat into the speakers, then he lit the sucker up with lighter fluid. Mama Cass was sitting in the audience slack jawed like everybody else. This was actually in a movie about Monterey when I saw it.

[nelsano3]

Hendrix was a force of nature! His guitar playing has the smouldering power of volcanos.... the rumble of oncoming storms..... the soaring quality of an albatros blasting over ocean spray!!!

[zorman1875]

kemplenk

he is the best of blues

Enough said.

[gypsysunerainbow]

hendrix on lsd, stoned and drunk could play better than sober cunts like steve vai. i wonder what steve vai would look like if he dropped acid just before a gig, i think he'd be so scared he wouldnt even be able to pick up his guitar

[ynkysrbest]

@gypsysunerainbow dude if anybody did acid b4 a show they would be afraid, ur not very functional on acid

[gypsysunerainbow]

@ynkysrbest Acid behaves differently on each person. I dont have any trouble playing on acid, and Jimi didnt have either, as we can confirm on many of his famous concerts. It gives me a kind of illuiminated fluency and opens new ways that Id never explored before on the guitar. Have you ever tried it? The only thing that doesnt work for me to play is psylocibin.

[ynkysrbest]

@gypsysunerainbow i have tried it, i couldn't play very well, i couldn't concentrate on one thing, everything intrigued me...i plan on doing it again and recording myself playing and see how i do this time around..also plan on doing peyote in the near future

[StratoBlaster420]

@gypsysunerainbow I agree with you I can I almost play better on acid. I think the only problem with playing on it is sometimes you kind of get your mind blown by other things going on in your plane of view if you take enough, haha.

[11Zelda11]

He can draw a dick in his guitar and still looks cool, He's Awesome

[kelvinkloud]

this song is more heartfelt & biographical then most realize.written in his hand to mouth days ('65-'66)in the village. he knew then his mind/talents was sitting on a fountainhead that no one & i mean no one could touch. yet, alas out all alone w/ no contracts & only food dimes. stop & imagine your self w/ prophetic musical/lyrical vision as such yet walls all around u. get that & get a glimpse of heart of this song. hence the volcano of emotion in this 1st breakthru performances to the masses.

[jimiguitar100]

out of this world...

[smashingdeano]

we can hear ya : )

[ilmanmuutajamuutilma]

those who dont like this song can go to listen justin bieber

[4rainbowed]

How can anyone NOT like Hendrix??

[romienomie]

One of the best cuts from the Monterey show. Believe me this sounded very futuristic in 1967. Nothing else even close.

[trancentralovertone]

banana pills

[wallfighter]

0:28 to 0:30 is the JUST the main riff of the metallica song "some kind of monster" from st. anger :D

INFLUENTIAL GENIOUS!

[woundedlioninajungle]

@wallfighter your right! thats so awsom

[fritobandito1432]

PlayaDontHate24 is a Simpleton!

[PlayaDontHate24]

it was a joke, becuase he was so damn smart that people never understood him, so they thought he was always on drugs, but he wasnt

[PlayaDontHate24]

that weird ass dude never makes any sense

[TheMaster926]

@PlayaDontHate24 Your name tells me not to hate you but I'm finding that a little difficult.

[PlayaDontHate24]

it was a joke..

[ggman3000]

wow enlightning

[PlayaDontHate24]

jimi was fucking half retarded

[redblossoms07]

I think the reason why they didnt release the video of him playing this song was cause they used it for his intro in the monterey pop film... kind of a big bummer, if you ask me

[datboicuz]

how could you not film jimi in this song... if i was a camera man, i wouldn't stop filming jimi until he gets in his limo and drives away... prolly would chase him too...

[dgdgdg100172]

this is so fuckin sick it makes me puke in a good way!!!! Get the whole concert if you can and hold on to your ass cuz jimi ripppps the shit up!!!!!

[thenamesfrancisco]

dont hate on vai jimi himself would slap you for saying that!

[powerlifter501]

JImi has more soul one note than Vai has in his whole catalog...

[shizyballer]

@powerlifter501 Haha yea even when he's tuning his guitar he puts soul into it.

[MrTrendkill42]

so true man

[TheBitterWeed]

@powerlifter501

Yes.

[salareddia]

0:28 - 0:30 Some kind of monsters ò.o

[muzzster1970]

This is the best version of Can you see me.Up tempo feel really gives it an edge over the studio version.Pity it's not on the Monterey video.I wonder if it's available anywhere.

"Fire" live at Winterland is another ripper track that springs to mind.I think Jimi was ay his best playing live."Like a rolling stone" at Monterey is yet another killer song.

Jimi will always be the MASTER!!

[6402680]

Can anyone tell me what the crew was on that made them not film this unbelieveable moment in rock history????

[The91redskin]

this dude lives on here on earth I wonder sometimes is he stuck here on earth and can't go on his trail to be with his mother and dude may the creator be with you on your trail.

[ranmaz79]

HENDRIX

[Daefflikesrevolution]

i love his voice (:

[threefiftyh]

yes ,lol at 0:30 !!!

[iplayveryloud]

the solo was amazing perfect peed back

[Royelmesias]

CAN YOU SEE ME

[rulerofthe360]

yes

[luckylennyandco]

excellent

[anonymouslolxD]

Sounds like mission impossible at 0:30 lol

[centraal22]

Is it confirmed that this tune was not put on video from this concert.

[jimihendrix5557]

yeah. i heard somewhere the camera wasnt working right then.. but anyways theres no video of him playing this at monterey

[rhydiantitch]

mabye its at a different time like 1968

[knig188]

nah.its definitely monterey. I listened to the monterey album about 1,000,000 times as a teeneager.

[Silk1953]

I wore my album out. You're right its definitely from Monterey Pop. I just finished watching Jimi Hendrix, An American Landing on WLIW and it was his set at Monterey but I was very disappointed that this was the only song that they did not show. Although his performance of Wild Thing is legendary, I would rather have seen the video of Can You See Me.

[smithsfan92]

how the hell does he play that well

[zackscruggs]

because there were no distractions accept girls =)

[alfalhomi]

because he's Jimi Hendrix!

[electrixladyland69]

@smithsfan92 VOLUME, a one-of-kind, natural talent and LOTS OF PRACTICING and GIGGING.

[vespone98]

AMAZING.....

[ThePhoenixWriter]

In the key of Fsharp! Haha. Jimi's awesome.

[Euphoriaman]

Love it!!!!

[problack]

dude was genius. Gift from God.

[ggman3000]

Pure class