Jimi Hendrix - Killing Floor

[22hulahula]

cool but is he not wearing pants

[bengreens]

How can you not love this man, watching him here? Too cool for words, can chew gum and play guitar like nobody's business, doing shit no one had dreamed of before but that we see all the time now. Why did I not hitch over to SF and catch his free show in Golden Gate Park, or go to see him at the Fillmore? Being 12 was no excuse. I saw Cream then. Would so much rather it had been Jimi.

[jimdarling15]

Fue con este tema cuando destruyo a clapton !!

[genericgeorge]

He got a shit sound at Monterey. Mud. Watch the show and you think it's god. Just listen to it and you'll think it's an average joe.

[megajames3000]

@genericgeorge i think it's a fuzz masterpiece. i listened to the cd like 20 times and i love it every time. this is a tone that i doubt most of us could get

[genericgeorge]

@megajames3000 The playing and the tone when he's rocking the rhythm intro is good. The lead notes when he hits the bass strings are just a blur. Not hard to get , just turn the distorrtion up

[Mirada84]

muthafuckin mitch mitchell

[hailmasch]

@Mirada84 I don't think people give him enough credit. I'd like to hear how this would sound without him.

[joacoalvear]

fucking drumer

[CaptainConcorde]

He makes it look easy, effortless.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

Interesting cover by Jimi but I'm not real sure that he does Wolf justice.

[ericksongeoff]

@AllBobsAllTheTime i agree

[Marcus1916]

@AllBobsAllTheTime Apparently Wolf himself wasn't too fond of this version. I heard both at around the same time at age 16 when I was first getting into blues music and other genres. I like both but I can see why Wolf might not have been too enthused about Jimi's approach I think Jimi actually produced much better blues songs as he went on when he wrote songs that were personal to him such as Hear My Train Coming for example.

[lgoler]

there have been rumors that Jimi was on LSD during this performance, which if true, makes this even more unbelievable. Mitch's drumming is awesome on this!

[lgoler]

during the heaviest moments of Jimi's career (Monterey Pop, Woodstock, New Year's Eve 1969-1970) he delivered some of the most amazing rock performances of all time. jimi astutely aware of his place even at the beginning of his incredible journey as the greatest guitar player rock has ever known.

[lastofthefinest]

There was no song as hard hitting as this song for the time. It truly rocks!!! The only people that came close to hitting as hard as him was the MC5. Kick out the jams!!!!!

[timtipton5071256]

"Wow."..ok.....can I get at least 3 negative comments against" WOW... why does everyone want to argue...This hendrix post is appreciated....

[Robinator7991]

@buddyrush1059 John is just as talented as Jimi; ask anyone with half a brain (which i'm sure you don't even have because you can't even spell).

[daniel7319]

@Robinator7991 fuck off!! no one is as talented as jimi!

[harley9967]

@daniel7319 All kinds of people have the talent of Jimi, most of them never get their chance and never flush it down the embalmer's drain like Jimbo did.

[daniel7319]

@harley9967 yeah i suppose you're right, your mums talent at sucking my dick is pretty mind blowing

[richardmg9]

@harley9967 False, also false... and the rest is false too. also you are false. There will never be another, and it wasn't flushed, some stars just burn bright.  You fail.

[richardmg9]

@Robinator7991 did you even read what you just typed? noone. do you see this text? NO ONE! now get off the internet, you failbot.

[hungerstriker27]

the first time i saw the very first seconds of this song, this version.... I understood why hendrix is the best guitar player ever.... and why nobody it´s even near. He had everything. He sang, he played bass lines, rhytm guitar and lead.... and those amazing solos. This intro it´s basically right hand jog (left in his case) and you can see he was a master in every single thing a guitar player can reach.... the biggest loss in music with lennon and cobain

[Robinator7991]

@hungerstriker27 Cobain isn't in the same universe as hendrix and lennon

[TheIrregular1]

He deserved to be shot for being this good

[ronelas1]

the hardest music ever to be played live even ¨ the god ¨ clapton said one time no one play it like jimmy !!!! long live rocknroll!!!

[DoctorCluny]

That's a killinnnnnnn

[TheDoxster]

I was there and surprised how many in attendance thought this song was Jimi's own song , not knowing that it was originally done by Howlin Wolf.

[sparksnstuff]

The drummer has a pretty shirt.

[TheInboil]

HI, my name is JImi, and I am about to change the face of music.

[aewd1980]

what a debut hendrix made!!!!! talk about stealing the who's thunder, hahahaha!! good in him :)

[Harmonator1000]

Killing Floor = The floor of the slaughterhouse where pigs, cows, etc would get their necks slit, and the blood would collect on the floor. Not a good place to work, but a helluva inspiration to a helluva song!

[ninjabreadman57]

something makes me feel they stole the show :D brilliant

[ledzepped96]

3 people got killed by the floor

[seasonedtoker]

one of the greatest musical lineup ever!

[JonSmoke90]

It looks like Bob Dylan, strung out on LSD, is playing drums. Gotta love Mitch!

[wailnshred]

2 people should have quit a long time ago.

[scottjk1995]

@wailnshred really? do these type of comments really belong on a hendrix video?

[wailnshred]

@scottjk1995 I meant the two people who voted "dislike".

[scottjk1995]

@wailnshred i know, these comments are soo old now. fair enough that comment was a month ago but still

[MultiShades]

Pete Townshend sucks jimis balls--if Jimi wants

[streetbobster]

@forrestpaul555

What about Stevie Ray? And going back to Jimi's era what about Tommy Iommi. Just sayin'

[bluesprodigy4]

Check out my cover it has vocals I know it sucks but anyway check it out thanks :)

[bluesprodigy4]

Check out my cover of this song lol i know it sucks any way cjeck it out :)

[Muzikman127]

this is literally not possible to play.

[pwyndam]

@Muzikman127 I beg to differ. This is actually quite an easy song to play if you kick ass on guitar which I humble submit to you good people that I do. Blood, sweat, and tears. Check my cover posted on this vid. Hendrix the man the myth the legend paying homage.

[woode29]

@forrestpaul555

Page.. is legendary ... But not in the same stratosphere as Hendrix..

[kewlfonz]

Check out my version - electric loveland on youtube. Could quite nail the choppy intro but soon started to cook. Cheers.

[hendrix7755]

poor mitch lol

[TheBrokenTelescope]

sounds like 3 guitars, but no thats one man, and he sings while doing it

[woode29]

@TheBrokenTelescope

Exactly! who else but Hendrix could play rhythm, lead and solo all at the same time, then to top it off throw in all the nuances of Jim i's style, very complex guitar work. And he did this consistently through out his career!

[revnasteewaters57]

@woode29 Jimi played like that befor going to Europe. Most blck bands he was in wouldn't give him the freedom to play like that. I wasn't surprised to see him do his natural thing.

[woode29]

@revnasteewaters57

Right on.. I agree

[Harvesterofmetal]

@TheBrokenTelescope I know, that's why Hendrix impresses me so much. Hendrix wasn't only the "pentatonic king" as my guitar teacher told me once, kicking out the best of it, mixing it with blends of modes and experimental stuff, taking you where you don't except to, but he also has a great "rythmic vibe". This is just one of the best intros for a good ole rock concert (and by the way, where's brian jones?)

[annolenno]

Omg 1:56! Its looks like the trick that he did by woodstock! But this one is...wow!

I think that i would break my arm and that the guitar was slapping in my face, i would fall on the stage and said: Hmmm.. yeah i think that only jimi can do this.

But ofcourse theres more then that trick xD AMAZING performance! So realy fast!

I saw a comment at another video:

We can all fuck a guitar.

But only Jimi could make it cum.

R.I.P. Jimi Hendrix

[sehguh1]

GORMLESS TOSSAS

[ziderazzi]

He sure killed the floor that night

[kinoboy94]

it sounded like godzilla at the end

[JamesTKirkCobain]

Can you imagine never seeing or hearing of this guy before, and you are front row at this concert when he comes out and explodes on stage with this? Talk about having your mind completely blown. But that's exactly what most of those people in the audience experienced. Nobodyy in the USA had any idea who Hendrix was. This was his first US concert after he made it big in England.. This is probably the most mind blowing performance ever recorded on film.

[MrMatdalegend]

@JamesTKirkCobain Apparently they got to play at Monterey because Paul McCartney was a fan of them after seeing them play in England, so apparently he suggested the Experience to the organisers of Monterey Pop Festival.

The Who and Jefferson Airplane also played at this festival.

What I would give to have been around in the sixties.........

[DYNODRUM]

@JamesTKirkCobain Yes, and maybe in-1967 ? I, did see Him buy almost Unknowingly :Sounds screwed up but True. He, was getting Boo'd By teenyboppers,screaming at the time ,wanting the Headliner . He later Jumped off the Tour .This was in N.Y too, I dont want to say who the Headliner was , but they were a Bunch of Chimps? PEACE

[greatbighand]

@JamesTKirkCobain That was still nothing to what Clapton experienced the first time he met him.

[phantom5691]

@JamesTKirkCobain not that i'm comparing him to Jimi, but that happened to me when i saw Stevie Ray Vaughn open up for another artist in n.y.c. back in the 80's. i never heard of him but i was TOTALLY BLOWN THE FUCK AWAY...i will never forget seeing SRV for the fisrt time that night, yet i cannot even remember who the headliner was!!!

[dannyknapp]

@JamesTKirkCobain I think I would have naturally assumed I was witnessing demonic possession and/or alien life forms. I still think probably alien is the most logical explanation.

[pabloem0910]

The Intro is superb.

[TheRealErnestogod]

0 dislikes ;)

[NeuroHead]

Look at Mitch go!!!

Hendrix finish 2:40 is fucking epic . Can a guitar player get any cooler then that .

I don't think so.

[JimmyPage97]

Take it Jimi boy. 

[KEVBO7125]

his first ever performance in the U.S. :D

[maddywoo13]

Hendrix just makes me wanna shake it.

[BJeldiabolo]

Damn right no fricken dislikes

[Siddle66]

This is the song he played at a Cream show after he asked to jam with cream. Eric Clapton was in such shock of how he played this song that Eric left the stage. Eric didn't like playing Killing Floor because he said it was too difficult (I'm sure Eric could play it though). I think Eric was too critical of himself, however, Jimi didn't give a shit. His down to earth nature allowed him to play and express with little if any resistance to inner tension. He is an amazing legend.

[Grendelmonster8u]

@Siddle66 Neat comment about Eric but Jimi *was* definitely critical of himself. At first he didn't think he could sing but they made him sing. Then at some performances, say one at Albert Hall, he was *not* happy with the performance - the sound & something with Mitch Mitchell & he didn't think he/it was up to snuff. Every performer has bad days...Jimmy Page has been critical of performances. Monterey here, however, was just mind-blowing, and you need a good drummer for this one, for sure.

[Siddle66]

@Grendelmonster8u Wow. Usually when I post something people try to argue with me over petty details. This is a first. Thanks!

[Grendelmonster8u]

@Siddle66 You're welcome. You're right too about his down-to-earth nature. When you watch interviews with him he's very sweet and humble...unaffecting is the word. It's odd that he didn't sing when he started playing guitar and didn't think he had a good enough voice, but it all sounds fine to me. Lack of confidence, but he got over it, which might be what you intended. But he definitely cared about his quality. Watch this one from the doc: /watch?v=0DmY87ajqm0

[JimmyPage97]

@Siddle66 "express with little if any resistance to inner tension" - I think that's a great thing to work for. With in and with out music.

[slantyrock]

ahhhhhhhhh, so this is what kirk hammet is playing on that binge and purge cd. cool.

[CujoshuntLives]

@slantyrock I think that was Little Wing

[casu3]

check out howlin wolf version its way better and its the original jimmy was good but most peolple dont know his roots and dont know were jimmy gets his style

[Grendelmonster8u]

@casu3 Howlin Wolf was great, and you're right, but I think any fan of Jimi knows what his roots were b/c he talked about it. When he saw Buddy Guy he was amazed and then Buddy ended up covering Jimi's song "Red House". Jimi always gave credit & he took those blues, ramped them up into what he called "electric church" music. So many bands adapted blues & those guys' style & turned it into rock n roll. Mitch is so great here too & he had a jazz background.

[MaabudZ]

you know I love Jimi and all but Howlin' Wolf owned this song and always will.

[Brunschweig]

Jimi at his best.

[Karmlik]

if you want to get into a "so and so stole" argument, listen to machine gun, then listen to no quarter by led zep. Then look at the dates of when they were written.

[tokthompst]

I can't get it LOUD ENOUGH!!!!

[xxKittyQueenxx]

@tokthompst same here :@

[leegenix]

I saw a rare video of Hendrix with Buddy Miles on drums. It was in the late 60's. They were ahead of their time with that sound. Sort of like a funk rap kind of sound. The players of course, were all black. These guys rocked.

I agree. Noel Reddings bass lines were not that great either.

[Nimrod9458]

@leegenix was it the fillmore east concert maybe with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles?

[golddustwoman78]

This is absolutely brilliant!!!! Jimi Forever! 

[willwelsh816]

eh, noel's bass playing was nothing special, billy cox was a much better bassist for the brand of electric blues that hendrix played. billy worked with buddy guy before hendrix, and buddy was hendrix's big influence.

[oclero]

@willwelsh816 Noel Redding was a very good deal for Jimi Hendrix's first songs, which were very heavy. Noel had a heavy sound, and his style fit very well Jimi heavy blues like this one. But later in his career Hendrix went funkier, and Noel was not good for that style. I still prefer Killing Floor, Voodoo Child, Purple Haze... (old classics) with Redding over Billy Cox, who is very good for Jimi later songs.

[JimmyPage97]

@oclero What I've read is that Noel was and still considered himself a guitarist. He often bitched about how he wanted to play guitar. I also read that Jimi used to take the bass and record all the parts while Noel was out on a smoke break. Jimi's way or the highway. Noel went on playing for Thin Pillow..

[Hacker506]

@oclero I guess it depends more on moods than trying to change the style, Hendrix was on crescendo when he was with Redding, after that he realized he didn't need to be smashing everything but to stay calm and concentrate in his music and sound, that will make a lot of complex composing and at the same time different from the beginnings, Redding was also a guitarist so he felt somehow depressed to not be able to play guitar or a great and quick bass line. Jimi hendrix made him a star anyway.

[TheRadar77]

I hope his whole set from this show is on itunes because I freaking need it.

[bruces3]

oh man to have been there for this Hendrix invasion of the US starting at Monterey Ca.!!!

[mayermusic1092]

i love hendrix experience

[thenamesfrancisco]

holy cow

[AndreMoveeTV]

GROOVY! :D

[glaetze]

If you listen real closely, one can almost hear Jimi hitting 2 different cords simultaneously. That is insanely fast and otherworldly talented, not to mention Mitch Mitchell's drumming, along with Noel Redding's flying bass lines.

Oooooh my, what incredible stuff! I'm breathless.

[MegaYoshitsune]

Jimi made the best cover songs ever (All Along the Watchtower, This, Day Tripper, etc)

[artistsandbox]

@MegaYoshitsune . . wild thing

[leoking57]

@MegaYoshitsune Hey Joe

[sccory]

with out a doubt the greatest opening song of any concert in the history of music, period!!!

[glaetze]

@sccory

Yes. You are spot on correct.

I have listened to mountains of rock and roll in my lifetime, and this certainly is in a class all by itself.

[jeevanirajiv]

jimi and this band could have owned ANY band you put up against them, EVER!

[erock195]

@jeevanirajiv I could see the Who drawing them.

[DudleyScardsdale]

@erock195 exactly why Jimi and Pete Townshend had to flip a coin to see who got to play first at Monterey - no one wanted to follow the other.

[jeevanirajiv]

@erock195 I would respectfully disagree...not even close man!

[pokerlad32]

@jeevanirajiv Dude, those drums are amazing. As for Jimi: "What is understood. doesn't need to be discussed."

[kikzu]

FOREVER.

[Gubbinz]

respect to the hard rockers and punks but hendrix implements with more grace than i've ever heard out of a punk band

[jk2008jk]

Hendrix used to unleash some kind of wild animal inside of Mitch Mitchell. Fuck me that guy could play the drums.

[rievans57]

HENDRIX!!!

[13thfloor18]

They are cetainly experienced, mitch mitchell was an insanely good drummer.

There is a gig with the band of gypsies where he is on fire.

[TexasMist]

Thank goodness Jimi had a row with Pete Townsend before this show. It propelled both groups to epic performances.

[1954JagXK140]

alot of people are not goin to like this but Motorhead, Bad religion sound alot like this and out side of the psychedelic clothes and fros, this sound alot like Punk. but in the any type of rock has it's roots in the same place the Blues and early Rock. b4 Jimi, Chuck Berry was the definitive Rock N' Roll guitarist. both are important in any genre of Rock

[foofighter1337]

That is a fair observation. I listen to a lot of Motörhead and I definitely can hear Hendrix's influence.

[glaetze]

Jimi's flyin', Mitch is flyin', Noel's flyin'.

Setting a supersonic speed record, not to be broken, since 1967.

Yeah baby, dig that one.

[mts2]

mintira

[Hendrixfan112233]

look at mitch go

[ThreeDaysOfPeace]

Yeah but Jimmy Page of Zeppelin took some guitar leads out of Howlin Wolf's song, Don't Laugh at Me, and put it in the Lemon Song

[AnitCsah]

What an epic intro to a breakout performance

[Platano0587]

All true but Hendrix died in 1970 not 69, in his prime sadly. =[

[macdaddy100]

which was first, led zeps lemon song, or this? where does this song originate?

[shaserv]

Howling Wolf!

[shaserv]

Opps, I was wrong, Zep Did do killing Floor but I am right about Howling Wolf.

[saron380]

Neither, it a blues Standard by Howlin Wolf called killin' floor. Hendrix is just covering that song of this performance while Led Zeppelin "stole" some guitar elements and bass line for the lemon song.

[LedZeppelin222]

zeppelin formed in 68, hendrix died in 69. so this would be first. the song is originally by howlin wolf in 1966

[lordieuan777]

The Lyrics to the Lemon Song are taken from both this (originally by Howlin' Wolf) and from a song called Traveling Riverside Blues, but I'm not sure who wrote that originally

[DJDansound]

@macdaddy100 Dude Killing Floor came out in 1964 and infuenced Led Zeppelin. Lemon song was 1969, I\it also has lyrics from the Robert Johnson song 'Traveling Riverside Blues' which Zeppelin recorded for BBC sessions and that recording was also on the final album 'Coda' in 1980.

[cavekiller480]

there aren't enough stars in space to properly rate this

[WhiteDwarf18]

like a fucking train

[fenderstrat918]

mitch mitchell steals the show here... lol

[mantishandz]

Man, Mitch just does not stop! He must need to lay down after playing that song.

[brewepau]

@mantishandz Mitch could have played with anyone. His drums heroes were the great jazz drummers, Elvin Jones and Tony Williams. Mitch brought their approach to drumming into rock. It still amazes that he was able to do it. No one else did it at that time. Mitch doesn't get anywhere near the credit he deserves for transforming the role of the drums in rock and roll. He was truly great.

[rasserjob]

agreed.  kinda looks coke-powered. not necessarily though

[WetheBest96]

I own a scratocaster, I can not he how he rocked out like that with one of them.

[gunnabeangus]

jimi didnt see his guitar as a strat, more as a wooden extension to his body, that guitar screams his soul :).

[johnkongaroo]

DANK? your attempt to be "hip" failed. how dare you even mention jack next to Hendrix! this man would wipe his arse with jack. only SRV was as good. that's right i said it Stevie was just as good!!!.

[hiatus8]

.... holy shit

jimi was such a badass

[Spoondude]

We ALL have OUR OWN Soul.

[Snotra]

Go Lakers!!

[muhfuckinganthony]

are you saying jack hasnt tried this song or his isnt as good as jimis version?

because the white stripes totally played killing floor at a show in germany and it was DANK

but this is also DANK

ps jimi was on 4 hits of monterrey purple when he played this set B)

[rjkn89]

I think just that the white stripes played it in a very different way. They didn't try to copy hendrix, they just played they're own way, which is good.

[BlueBlueFeelin]

super channel!

[nivek0270]

He knew he was putting his stamp on this song forever every time he played it... i mean just watch him grin ear to ear durring his solos.... he knew nobody was going to be able to touch it... ever... jack white didnt even try... and im glad. Makes me like both of them much more.

[WetheBest96]

Jack And Jimi are my two favorite blues rockers

[Cuasifocles]

Casi na, con la de nenazas que hay ahora tocando la guitarra. Hendrix forever.

[blackmiroz]

the best version!!!

[sharrer2]

Am i the only one that in the first 12 seconds hears some Moterhead ace of spades?

[AirHendrix91]

Good observation. It DOES sound like Ace of Spades in the beginning!

[markpen23]

Lemmy was friends with hendrix

[DaMuttzNutz]

Lemmy was his roadie

[Logankeller352]

really?? i didnt know thats cool

[mikemcculloch]

amazing cover

[petra74x4]

A true legend.......

[rockerpunK0]

rock god