Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun (Norman, OK, USA May 8, 1970) Part One

[fridwoow]

what a performance.. beautfiul... nice to see all the articles in the newspapers.. he really seemed to have suprised the audience here

[raceyboy]

Does anyone remember who opened for Jimi at this show?

[pfflam]

Note that he is wearing an arm band with the letter K on it - is that for Kent State remembrance?

[ccwalk5ege]

i was there and what little i remember through the fog of time and ____ was when he played the most incredibly soulful rendition of the national anthem -- can't believe it's over forty years ago....

[HendrixUntilDeath]

Heavy heavy stuff!

[cutis1000]

One of the best renditions of this tune Jimi ever did. Just a masterpiece. Certainly Kent State must have weighed on his mind. The intro alone is worth the price of admission. Just unique and extraordinary.

[HendrixUntilDeath]

R.I.P. 40 yrs today Jimi Hendrix.

[jeff10547]

hendrix in soonerland playing machine gun!!! hell yeah!!!

[hardkace42]

the one who dislikes this should be put up a wall and machine gunned

[ccwalk5ege]

I was there, and believe me when I tell you that he played the most soulful rendition of the star spangled banner ever--I was an 18 yr. old freshman at OU and Kent State had just happened and it was a wild mother***kin' time. seems like yesterday

[RastafariPoet]

Jimi Hendrix using his Spanish Scales = Beyond Godly

[TheEarthBlues2]

@RastafariPoet Lol, that's sometimes my favorite from, Jimi. I wish he could have lived longer so he could have improved his guitar playing. Just think, that when he hit London in 1966 he had been playing guitar for only about 10 years! That's outstanding if you ask me.

[illbehaviour76nz]

@TheEarthBlues2 he got an acoustic guitar when he was a kid from his old man, when you are young years count for more, he was at the top of his game, creative expression to the fore, but I do agree, he could certainly have gone to new levels, a guiding light, a visionary, into the universal fabric he wnet, we all go, the universe moves on, his music moves with us, as does he, we all flow through to the beyond.

[ramsypak]

@TheEarthBlues2 I had never thought of it that way - he did about 100 years in 10.

[drjimiboy69]

@ramsypak In reality, JMH really was the hardest working man in show business, all due respects to the GOS JB. He packed more feeling, imagination, meaning, talent, and soulfulness into one song than most musicians produce in a career. His output was prolific. This guy lived through music and really became fused with his cultural productions. He has to be on the short list of the most original musicians of the modern age. Machine Gun is a crowning achievement. Somewhere btween G-d and man.

[HendrixUntilDeath]

Excellent! TheEarthBlues2, thank you for this.

[GeorgeLupine3]

Where can you get this concert?

[judomouse]

Im a massive fan of Hendrix but this version is nowhere near as good as the new years gig at the Filmore. Got a little bored with the intro...

[JackKangaroo1]

Minor correction...just caught a typo....I was 21 years old at the time, not 22. Not that it matters.

[JackKangaroo1]

No shit, folks, I am 61 years old now and I was there that night. I heard this performance live when I was a 22 year old junior at OU. I'd swear you could see the sounds flying around the field house like World War 3 was going down in there. There was this freaky weird skinny kid who went to all the concerts and always got up close to the stage. He tossed a tab of acid wrapped in foil to Jimi at the first concert. Jimi opened it, popped it in his mouth. He was tripping when he played this.

[RingsofSaturn67]

god damn!!! I've listened to countless renditions of this masterpiece but I've NEVER heard anything like this! I'm speechless. Jimi Hendrix was on another plane than anyone else and remains the most inspired guitarist to ever touch six strings

[raceyboy]

where can i get that pic of jimi playing guitar in front of the stage and behind him looks like an insanely high wall?

[TheEarthBlues2]

What time signature is the picture at? 25 second mark?

[raceyboy]

Yeah, 15 through 30 seconds. Just a cool shot. Would make a great poster.

[Transmission3000]

@TheEarthBlues2 It shows it a couple of times. One is at 1:23.

[JackKangaroo1]

@raceyboy I don't know where you can find a photo of it but I can tell you where it was. This was at the University of Oklahoma athletic field house in Norman, OK. I was there that night in May 1970 and Hendrix was amazing. Just four months later he was dead in London of an overdose of drugs. Glad I got to hear him live before he passed away.

[raceyboy]

@JackKangaroo1 Wish I could've been there. I'm not even sure whats in the old field house building nowadays, but I'm pretty sure it's still standing.

[JackKangaroo1]

@raceyboy I left Oklahoma in 1977 and didn't return until 25 years later in spring of 2002. The field house was still there but the university was on a massive building spree under the administration of David Boren---former governor of Oklahoma, former US Senator from OK and then president of OU---and it wouldn't surprise me if they tore it down by now and built something newer and bigger in its place. Back when I lived there a lot of rock concerts were held at the Field House.

[popeiix]

So, in the 60's we had Jimi and Beatles and Stones with Brian jones and Cream and Jeff Beck and Traffic and the Who with the greatest drummer of ALL time and Zappa with more notes than anyone will ever comprehend. But this remains an amazing thing that I cannnot put my brain around.

[2448go]

i was there

[AXISOFHENDRIX]

my Favorite version of Machine Gun

[LesPaulGoldTop21]

Wow!

[uchihaeyez7]

The intro puts me at a loss of words everytime I hear it..

[TheEarthBlues2]

Me too...I hope you're okay with me re-uploading it (I know you already have)...I just need to get some material up, lol.

[uchihaeyez7]

Lol it's all good. Really sucks your channel was shut down man. I'll try and put up a video pointing everyone to the second channel. :)

[TheEarthBlues2]

lol sweet...well at the time I made the "look at these other channel's video", you only had 98 subscribers so it looks like it worked somewhat...

[doox420]

@TheEarthBlues2 uchihaeyez7 had some good hendrix videos. FUCK

[JTerrible63]

THE VILE PIGS CAN'T STOP THE WHOLE WORLD, THEY CAN'T FIST WATER: we will win in the end because they cannot afford to censor, jail, savage every last one of us: they'll "be goin just the same/three times the pain..."