Jimi Hendrix - Power of Soul Live at the Filmore East [2nd show]

[duqmiguel]

Floatation is groovy and easy . . even a jelly-fish will agree to that ..

[Gammodore]

I think all guitarists have been inspired by James at some point in their life. He is the greatest to ever live.

[1isaacmusic]

Jimi is my God

[TheMichaelseymour]

Define great? these young "turks" playing endless scales at blistering speed and dexterity -

....and then what ? NO compostional skill to speak of ....devoid of inventive melody and tonal variation.

And ....may i add - with all the effects and bells and whistles my generation never had.

When a modern player comes out with the inovation of jimi ..and the compositional flair then we will have witnessed a massive leap ...not in my life i fear .

[TheHoneybear13]

Hendrix would have NEVER said he was the Greatest quitar player Ever. He just liked to play music. IN THE NAME OF JIMI HENDRIX STOP COMPARING. HE IS JUST

JIMI HENDRIX!

[tacitus2244]

Jimi wasn't a GREAT player he was the GREATEST guitar player

[MrJhonnyBgood]

Jimi is not dead!! he returned to his planet...

[theean]

thanks.

[djjsinclair]

still fresh today!

[ghostguy1]

GREAT VERSION!!

Jim was the man.......

[KennethRMullins]

So many cats out there sayin..Jimi wasn't a GREAT player or Sucked compared to the new modern guitarists... just ask who THEY call the greatest guitarist EVER... JIMI hands down...with out the genious WE all know of Hendrix..there wouldn't be those guys... my gosh..I hear this and other songs I have heard thousands of times...I still say wow...what did he do there....I never heard that before..if there was ever GOD on guitar...it was JIMI..hands down...just listen...still fresh today !!!!!!!!!!!

[chma0401]

@KennethRMullins He was just #1 guitarist on rolling stones top 100 guitar players of all time if you need any references:)



[KennethRMullins]

@chma0401 ......it's ok...I have read alot of articles and interviews from other pro guitarists and usually most of them rate him number 1.... and now day guitarists have different heros and it will constantly evolve and change with the times.... thankx for the reply though and have a great new year....

[seltzerman69]

I was at this amazing show. only time I got to see Jimi just met someone who was there too. amazing as well.

[biggiebrownn]

@seltzerman69 id literally give anything to see jimi live. but, unfortunately i was born in 91

[electrixladyland69]

The BOG album version of this tune is much better.

Electrix

[Zboots]

I love the damn groove to this song. Swingin', heavy and tasty all rolled into one.

[bml516]

"with the power of soul anything is possible" 

[pgoggins]

What's amazing about Hendrix and the Band Of Gypsies is how they modulate between progressions, and do starts and stops, effortlessly and apparently on the fly.

[DarthKaiden]

@pgoggins yea this is some of the best music ever created. the more you listen to it the more you appreciate the nuances and realize just how amazing these musicians were.

[motatoable]

people should listen to real music

[anthropod4]

I saw his last show! with riot & tear gas! Oh! jIMI! aND THEN he o.d'd on my birthday! So I'm not so smart....OOh...OOh... humm...

[sherriffofhongkong]

They need a love button like isn't strong enough.....just GREAT guitar playing...

Still the standard 42 years later.. with the power of soul anything is still possible.

[ghostguy1]

never heard this version before

thanks!! V cool shit

[highguyontour]

Amasing, just FUCKING AMASING!!!

[blackdude57]

sounds like a soundcheck to me he was just talking and making jokes 

[BurgerGrabber]

LOL what is jimi babbling about at the end... 50s gangster impression ftw HAHA

[LoewenRanger]

How does he come up with these crazy unique licks every damn time. It's ridiculous.

[negadon80]

WHAT THE F!!! Where the hell did you get this??? This power of soul isnt on any of the CD's that were released through experience hendrix.

[jdleonard999]

Jimi creative blues/jazz in 69-70 unequaled. Band of Gypsies a key album. Revolutionary to young minds of that era. I remember smoking hash the first time I heard this album, it was like an epiphany.

[440John]

bloozemc said: "i dont think rock and roll ever got better after this"

It all depends on what you define as "better." Robin Trower, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Johnny Winter, Van Halen, etc. put out a lot of guitar-centered, bad-ass rock 'n roll music in the post-Hendrix era. There is a world of music outside of Jimmy James' stuff. You and the rest of the Hendrix worshipers who think the rock music universe revolves around him ought to expand your musical horizon/

[BurgerGrabber]

@440John post hendrix era forgot about FUNK! imo.

[CuzinK]

The Band of Gypsies was put together because Jimi wanted a black band. Check it out, you'll see it is true..

[EddieHazel74]

@CuzinK That's not it at all. The musicians he knew and that were availible at the time just happened to be black. But since when does race matter anyways?

[CuzinK]

@EddieHazel74 I guess you really do not know the FACTS behind this because what I said was and is the true story stated by Jimmy........

[PBGSURFER65]

@EddieHazel74 No,cuzink is correct on part of it.Jimi was,I believe,swayed in that direction.Because at the time the Black People's Civil Rights Movement was happening.Also,he makes a reference to the movement at the beginning of Machine gun at the Fillmore concert...giving a shout out to 'all the soldiers fighting',giving city names before mentioning Viet nam.Don't poach from the past to compartmentalize how you think history was....back then it did.

[EddieHazel74]

@PBGSURFER65 Well yes that did coincide with it, but that wasn't jimi's point. He didn't seek out buddy miles and billy cox to form some all powerful black supergroup that would change the world. He just got buddy and billy because they were friends and great musicians he knew. But you do bring up an important point about jim's reference to the civil rights movement, but i think jimi brought more of a theme that applied to the wars and movements of the 60's in his Machine Gun lyrics.

[drjimiboy69]

@PBGSURFER65 Only natural that by '69, a mature and seasoned JMH would have leanings in the direction of black liberation, including the Panthers as well as MLK. I don't know why people are threatened by that. JMH is a universalist, but he channels that universality through an ethnic and cultural experience which is heavily influenced by black working class culture, including jazz, blues, soul, r&b, and gospel. He also factored in Euro-Am. culture and his individual stamp and created new genres.

[PBGSURFER65]

@drjimiboy69 You brought up an interesting aspect to this running narrative.The Panthers were bringing a lot of violence to the table of the Civil Rights Movement.Other groups sympathetic to the 'Rights movement did too.My opinion on this is Jimi did what he could to show solidarity but stopped short of anything radical,not wanting his music to be dragged down by that bummer situation.Can't blame him.His music blew open a lot of doors,and he knew it / lived it.

[drjimiboy69]

@PBGSURFER65 JMH was a humble genius. He noted himself that his best mode of communication was via music. He was not a joiner or a spokesman for any ideology or group. But he was quite clear at times about his support for the black liberation struggle, and can be heard introducing Voodoo Child Slight Return as the Black Panther national anthem. At Newport Pop (6/69), he intros a scoring rendition of VCSR: "This is a black militant song, and don't you ever forget it." He lived his blackness.

[blackdude57]

@drjimiboy69 yeah but mike jeffrey didnt like that black power shit and the next concert he gave him an overdose of lsd sohe tripped onstage at the madison square garden saying thats what happens when earth fucks with space and then he sat down on the stage and had to be led of the stage by buddy miles never to play black music again

[drjimiboy69]

@blackdude57 JMH had to go away from his father (rhythm&blues) as a necessary resolution of his musical Oedipus conflict He mastered every nuance, crevice, and expressive avenue to be found in r&b culture. Check his resume. Amercia (black or white) was not ready for him in 1966. He went to Europe, drew upon psychedelic , and wrecked the place He made his fortune and fame and returned to his father (r&b), and created the next genre: hard funk. He was always black and always universalist. JMH=LGK.

[drjimiboy69]

@CuzinK JMH was looking for a sound. His brothers Bill Cox and Buddy Miles provided that. He did what he had to do and spoke directly and forthrightly to his ethnic group, while also bringing along the white counterculture. After BOG he still recorded with Buddy, and more frequently with Mitch Mitchell. Juma Sultan was also in the mix. JMH lived his blackness and his politics through his music, not via rhetoric or slogans. Machine Gun speaks to black liberation and human struggle together.

[SaypheZonE]

Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies is like the Jimi Hendrix Experience on Steroids!

[canopener505]

Pinnacle of all rock

[kikzu]

AWHOASf

just so lucky to hear and see this.

[Willinthehall]

Buddy fit the scene Jimi was feeling right then. Heavy vibes that produced a new sound. Ya'll are hard headed.. and so damn critical.

[NANDO218]

@Willinthehall yea man it seemed more spiritual with these guys. idk maybe its just me. its more rythym and blues

[guyleclairemusic]

Dig what what ur sayin dr

[jman99110]

1 dislike.... 

[GibsonDeAndre]

@jman99110 He should go dig a hole and bury himself alive!

[peaceswirl]

THE DRUMMING SUCKS PERIOD ONLY A FRONT IS THEY//..HER/HIM. ROCK IS TO RESTORE.

[Muff0o0]

Whoever mixed this should of really turned that kick down.

[cwphunky68]

@Muff0o0 - The kick and snare volume levels could be reversed.

[Muff0o0]

@cwphunky68 Agreed. But the engineer was probaly on acid so i forgive him.

[tynitty516]

Buddy Miles is leagues ahead of Mitch.......There was talk about replacing Mitch with Ginger Baker even before the end of The Jimmy Hendrix Experience

[junjan88]

@tynitty516 wha>??? are you stupid man?? thisa guy is only pounding the same beat like a drum machine while mitch would live with what jimi is doing you are..... crazy and stupid to say that he did not replace mitch either it was all because of the contract problems that they desolved the experienc temporarily otherwis ed chalpin would get all their concert money you getting a little smarter now???????????this show would pay his debt but they wanted more

[glueforall]

People bitching about "wheres the video?"....please....for those of us who grew up in the pre-"i want my MTV"...."I want my youtube (fill in the blank) video"....listen up...we used this thing called our imagination...and could VISUALIZE these great performers playing onstage....those great moments of our imagination...we had these large diameter vinyl discs called 'records'....they were the means to escape reality and lay back and go on a journey.....of pure imagination and bliss

[leesha812000]

@glueforall shonuff!



[LiquidRelief]

@glueforall I'm 21, but I agree totally, they lost it all completely, but i consider weed to be my television :D.

[f3l18ipsk8ermm]

@glueforall ha you would rather imagine hendrix than see him?

[MrGitsnShiggles]

@f3l18ipsk8ermm no. but this is nice too.

[WickedCityBc]

@f3l18ipsk8ermm,

since there is no possible way to see him in the flesh, sometimes it is nicer to imagine hendrix because he loved imagination and its fun to imagine him when anything is possible

[glueforall]

@WickedCityBc amazing that a kindred spirit responded to his response to my post before i even did...well said...thank you

[YourStrangeNeighbor]

@glueforall You put that in a better perspective than anyone else. I do the same thing. Thank you so much man.

[glueforall]

@YourStrangeNeighbor Thank you. Perspective is key. So many people either ignore it, or it is a strange concept to them. A shame.

[yippierb]

I discount the drum machine comment but I prefer Mitch for Jimi. Buddy is great I saw him live in the day he was good in 75 but not great. He had a good run from 65-72 and then shit the bed. Mitch was just sensational.

[MrErlendFS]

I've started playing guitar in order to learn this song. I guess I have a long journey ahead of me.

[jeffreyhsykes]

@MrErlendFS yeah but its a good journey. best of luck!

[seltzerman69]

I was at this show unbelievable!!! voices of harlem opened for them and they gave out little tambourines for everybody

[911jbg]

@seltzerman69 That has to be a #1 concert that everybody wishes that could go to.

[rocknrollhoochiekoo1]

@mcdstuff In what ways? They were just different. Sometimes physical ability doesn't define who is better or worse. I think Mitch Mitchell played more from the top down as where Buddy Miles played from the bottom up. He let the kick guide is his playing not to mention his incredible sense of dynamic.

[steveinmidtown]

@mcdstuff who knows...it gave Hendrix a different groove for sure

[0909sleeper]

Compaing apples and oranges there, mcdstuff and all the other fools with no ears !!!!!

[jhexp999]

If buddy was so good why didht he keep milkin it ?.did he slip jimi some bad acid?jimi was getting a lot of crap from the black community about playing with whitey,! did monica danemin tell jimi about the sleeping pills?somebody get that guitar off her!

[blackdude57]

@jhexp999 yeah she has the guitar named black beauty No she does not she is dead found dead in a fume filled car just 2 days before she had to testify about what really happened to jimi Urly Roth should have it 1998 i suppose

[jhexp999]

this sucks! except for machine gun.jimi only did this because of a bad deal he made.buddy miles made a carear from this one gig.

[DayofHendrixxx84]

@jhexp999 i'm glad miles could boost his career off of this show, says a lot of good about the whole situation. he already had a career before this show and this band would have gone on if it weren't for Jimi's asswipe manager at the time breaking up the band. this band was and still is tha shit!

[blackdude57]

@DayofHendrixxx84 Not really Jimi refers to Miles when he says thats what happens when Earth fucks with space nothing else . and buddy miles confirms this telling it to the audience during the last song . he really boosted his career on many others its a fact that Jimi was a ride for him to fame he was almosta nobody down by the river and them changes thats all. he was holding on to others too Santana for exmple but he could play fucking guitar as hell if you didnt know

[blackdude57]

@DayofHendrixxx84 Not really Jimi refers to Miles when he says thats what happens when Earth fucks with space nothing else . and buddy miles confirms this telling it to the audience during the last song . he really boosted his career on many others its a fact that Jimi was a ride for him to fame he was almost a nobody .,, Down by the river,, and Tthem changes thats all. he was holding on to others too Santana for example but he could play fucking guitar as hell if you didnt know

[EduardHeinrichAlfons]

Jimmy plays his guitar now in another world of love and light.

Forever the emperor of guitar-players.

[1orpheusmusic]

Listen, that's all you have to do with Jimi. Relax, let the music create the vision. Regardless of any other guitarist that has ever and will ever come out. There are very few that can actually revolutionize the way the guitar is viewed. Hendrix is one of the biggest reason all future guitar gods wanted to play in the first place or his music may have enlightened them in some way. He revolutionized Blues music and music all together.

[blackdude57]

miles sucks all the time

[DayofHendrixxx84]

@blackdude57 miles was one of the best and heaviest drummers of that time, your a bit of a fool i must say

[blackdude57]

@DayofHendrixxx84 yeah he was good for niggers not for what jimi wanted he was just helpinmg out an old friend I accept that he had a strong technique but it does not fit a jimi hendrix that my point of vieuw

[blackdude57]

@DayofHendrixxx84 he could have been anything he wanted but he did not fit for the hendrix style jimi sounded heavier with the jazzy mitch this is straight pounding any drummer on my native country could drum like that but not like mitch mitchel . you guys dont have to get angry at me just listen to his drumming in this song he could better use a drum machine

[blackdude57]

@DayofHendrixxx84 ok I notice you are a drummer I dont know your level of playing but lets consider the true facts my friend mitch would not be able to play this soul music better than Miles anyway cuz thats what it was electrified soul music the name of the song says it all > Im trying to break it down in bits and pieces so you can understand what I mean. the real jimi hendrix vision was far beyond buddy miles level and you know it if it was not for mitch his power would have been less

[TumisHumis]

Randy Hansen Band. If you missed on on Hendrix, don't feel bad.

[snowmaker2000]

This guys was playing like this in 1969!!!!!! HE QUITE POSSIBLY IS AN ALIEN!!!

[Johann759]

@snowmaker2000

...yes that was´nt an afro he just wanted to hide his big alien geniusbrain ;-)

[Narek003]

WITH THE POWER OF SOUL ANYTHING IS POSIBLE !!!

[EdPolepsy]

Last day of the 60's.

[peacemover]

Jimi was incredible! In his 28 yrs on this earth he blazed some amazing trails with his incredible amalgamation of rock, blues and funky-soul guitar and singing. All this from a self-taught guitarist who played a right-handed guitar left-handed. Power of Soul is probably one of my top 3 performances by him, and his band of gypsies performances are so raw, earthy and soulful, I never get tired of hearing them. Thanks for sharing!

[collinrox]

30 seconds my attention was completely diverted to this omgggg

[digjoeyt]

He just PLAYED man!!!!

[guruofpiano]

Excellent !! my friend. Thumbs up of course. G.

[kingbee48185]

There was never anyone as good and there will never be another like Jimi. God how we miss him in this day and age of crap/garbage/dogshit that passes as music

[fredsassy5]

Jimi Hendrix is THE guitar god

[univibe23]

Doesn't get any better than this!!

[caradepotorocks]

@univibe23 times change, before jimi someone else was considered THE god, he evoved music...but nowadays there are people (not yet found, i guess) that are better than him...im not insulting jimi, but thats what happens. although now we are stuck with justin beaver,lady gaga, etc

[experienceads]

I just had to hear me some Power of Soul!!! Jimi, Buddy, and Billy...er um..A Band Of Gypsies!!

[NicktheBarber31]

jimi's best band

[bloozemc]

i dont think rock and roll ever got better after this

[Onlymusical]

@bloozemc No, rock and roll couldn't get any better than Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies.

[unitcaptain11]

@bloozemc

Rock DID get even better than this!!!!  Check out "Message of Love" from the same trio.

[trignoriver1]

Drjimiboy69. Extremely well put. Even though I have been listening to Jimi for 30 years, each listening session is different and unique - very much like Bird and Trane. Hendrix is highly highly underappreciated. There is some kind of unconscious but deep connection to the old blues men of the south. Anyone know of any family connections with Jimi with the blues men of the south? I am very ignorant on that issue.

[drjimiboy69]

@trignoriver1Like most black Americans, much of JMH's family tree is a couple of generations removed from the South. While he drew from an array of cultural influences, his connection to blues culture and black American culture is part of his psychospiritual DNA. He internalized the expressive modes of black gospel, jazz, r&b, soul, as well as West African and North African motifs, and recombined them with his own intuitive genius and tireless hard work to leave us a very rich living legacy.

[drjimiboy69]

the authenticity of billie holiday, the attack of Coltrane, and the meaning behind every note of Miles Davis. he enriched black culture and world culture so much more than we have appreciated heretofore. like Coltrane, there will one day be a spiritual discipline centered around JMH. Of course I love it all, but the 69-70 period represents JMH at his most developed and advanced stage. Singular and irreplaceable.

[freeunion]

@drjimiboy69 -- i say amen to that -- wise words

[TheGrabsplatter]

@drjimiboy69 Absolutely correct!!

[blackdude57]

@drjimiboy69 well said so is Jimi,s legacy forever he changed the way everybody does a solo on guitar forever

[glueforall]

@drjimiboy69 agreed. He was advancing leaps and bounds and had amazing clarity in his thoughts, ideas, concepts...intellectually and on his instrument

[32fomood]

@drjimiboy69 It's sad to think how much more his sound would have developed...how much more advanced his music would be... how much more enriched our culture would be if he didn't die at the age of 27.

[g0ldbuG]

why isn't there _already_ a religion of Jimi? After all, 'trane died in '67, only 3 yrs. before Jimi yet he has already had his own religion. perhaps Jimi should become a saint of the Church of Trane or a Sky Church better open up soon near you. all great, deceased musicians could belong to the same religious affiliation, for instance. in addition, a spiritual focus and dedication is prominent in both Trane and Jimi, even more so in the former, especially in 'A Love Supreme', his masterpiece.

[BurgerGrabber]

@g0ldbuG jimis electric church!!!!!!!!!!

[g0ldbuG]

@BurgerGrabber i hear what you're saying, but that was a concept he had that he mentioned at woodstock for how he perceived his band to be a religious group delivering a spiritually driven musical performance, but it isn't an actual religion or church that you can visit like trane has his own church you can go to and pay homage to the great sage of jazz. maybe jimi could have his own garden in the back of trane's church where each flower would be his best songs.

[EZIOTHEMASTER]

This Show (December, 31, 1969, 2nd show) probably was the best of the four BOG Shows. They played an incredible version of Machine Gun during this show. And this rendition of Power of Soul, is just magnificent. At about 2:15 Jimi soloed a little like Frank Zappa in Hot Rats, very advanced modal stuff for the days. His talent was nothing short of phenomenal.

[CarrollGazette]

never heard this version before, super cool!

[toshchance]

Great video ??? Great tune,but there isn't a video..That really bugs me when You post something as a live video of something as monumental as this and You can't watch it.. Sorry ,just sayin !!

[chiknfulio]

@toshchance Just be grateful that this was recorded and has survived long enough for it to be posted here on youtube

[sublime88sublime]

@chiknfulio praise allah, i mean thank god

[sublime88sublime]

@toshchance maybe if you cry about it then he will post the video

[ZeppelinFan6980]

@toshchance Thats because the fillmore is an extrememly small venue and there is very little film from there in the first place. Your lucky there is even audio of the second show.

[rdm100571]

THE greatest exponent of the electric guitar of all time.......! forget the rest.... no one can replicate this level of sheer expression and depth ! - ask them to play this note for note and await there reply as proof....

[cgraz2001]

Great song - Thanks for posting!

[iamearthbornami]

YES!!! anything is possible~let your lovelight shine***

[BonzoTriplets]

great video

the sound quality is amazing.

thank you for this