crazy watery reverb...these rooms that they played in back in the day, were often so different than today. Rooms set up for anything OTHER than music..especially loud music, and NOT through a PA, through the amps themselves...freaking sweet.
I was there ... saw Jimi play 3 times over the years but this was the best - not so much the show moves and stuff. mostly he just stood and played. i miss him a lot
something frightened me about this performance.. and it took me a while to realize what it was.. Jimi goes to places in this song that, while they make musical sense technically.. emotionally- it's devastating. It's the musical equivalent of a haka: a war cry- in every sense
@shelbado That is an awesome observation! I'm Maori and his music definitely evokes the emotion felt in a Haka, it's why Maori have an affinity to his music. It may have something to do with his native american roots too, like some cherokee medicine man bestowed some supernatural power on to him! hehe peace!
I saw Jimi 3 times . Once in Monterey once in San Fran and once in fort worth texas. all 3 times i went to jail after the concerts. pigs loved tossing runaways in jail. fuck the pigs, & long live Jimi Hendrix
It's a good thing he was born when he was. This kind of music just isn't made today. The environment just doesn't exist. Too bad he never got to see the troops come home. But as far as I'm concerned, his music has made him immortal.
Can't thank you enough for such a priceless chapter in American History.
There were only a handful of "celebrities" bold enough to put their commercial value out there on the line and whole heartedly make it clear how they felt about the insanity of war and America's role.
I can't believe what I'm hearing. the playing is so emotional, right there in the heartland, when the triple option was blowing people's minds. this Hendrix performance is one of he absolute best.
I just completed an art film called "WAR IS OVER" which is sort of an updated "machine gun" which Hendrix fans may want to check out, it's on my youtube channel
what an intro... beautiful... nice pics btw.. fun to read the articles in those newspapers.. i guess he really surprised the audience in this perfomence,, haha i would be ... wauw
The tone and the melody of this version is so haunting. I really have never heard anything like it. I think this is one of those songs (which are always few) that really bare his soul, where I really get a sense for the being of Jimi. This is of the deepest blues I've ever heard.
What's great about Jimi, when it is the easiest to impress, such as in a setting like Norman, OK, instead of becoming arrogant, he just wants to know and be known, like a real communication rather than a monologue.
I had this version of Machine Gun saved on my hard drive for a while, and for some reason kept coming back to it. It's hard to explain what I feel with it that keeps drawing me. I think what it is, this is what Jimi was really playing to the people, away from the big cities, not thinking it would ever be recorded. But it seems very sincere nonetheless. Like he was telling a very intimate story, behind the scenes almost, with emotions that could only be conveyed in such a setting. I love this...
Amazing. Thank you for this. Would love to know the story on this recording and the photos. Who made it, etc. Norman OK in 1970 seems like it would not have been ready for this... Need anecdotes! :) Again, thanks.
I've always loved his most well known versions of Machine Gun but what struck me about this was the incredible introduction. Over 40 years since he left and still I 'm being surprised by him. How I wish there was a great recording and video of this version. Thanks so much for posting it.
i suspect the nice billowy curtains behind the setup along with the wooden bleachers made for a nice acoustical non-symmetrical cocoon...so warm and lush even with this modest recording...i suspect Jim was deep into a place on this one...u can tell he took it to another sonic stone.
@tony9L9L The reverb your hearing is from the Venue itself, this was probably a bootleg recorded from a distance away...so the reverb is a part of the recording...listen past the production value through to what's being played...peace
@AlejandroAdams555 Oh I see thanks for that. The guitar player is very loud but the singer has a pretty good voice and it would be good to hear the words a bit more. Maybe they could redo the vocals in a recording studio if this really is live and not a reverb effect (they even have reverb sounds in little tiny foot operated pedals can you fucking believe it man!!!!!!!)
@tony9L9L you do realize the man playing guitar and the man singing...are the same man...and that man is no longer with us... you must live in a hole... sry dude
@TheAbby202 Yes Jimi could read and write.there are many pieces of his handwritten lyrics to be found throughout the net to view.Also as the previous comment stated,he was extremely well versed in music theory.I think that people would be stunned at the insight that jimi had about so many things.i really dig his interview on the Dick Cavett show.
@irishseano yea bro im right their with u, hear about the shit yngwie talked about him? said the only thing that influenced him was the desruction on stage, said the music was noise,coming from a swedish motherfucker who plays spanish castle magic live,hes a fucking soulless robot.....
@soonernation69 There is another interview of Yngwie giving him serious praise. I suspect he started dissing him because he probably got tired of people asking him about Jimi... Mamlstien is an egotistical prick... easily rattled.
@TheFingerlady When Blackmore heard Hendrix he changed the sound of DP. Malmsteen is a big RB fan. There was no YM without JH. But there are more vids of YM talking about JH. and he loves JH..
@TheFingerlady well, ijust took that interview at face value, and malmsteen with all his tech prowess becomes boring within a few min, ican listen to hendrix for days.....
So many thanks for posting this. I always thought the Machine Gun solo to be one of his finest works, I can hear the screams and cries of women and children in this magnus opus on the truth of war.
The amazing part is that what sounds like a solo that an average guitarist would have worked on for a lifetime to create, was just totally improvised. Every version of this song is different, and the amazing part is it is flowing directly from the should of a true master.
@TheAbby202 of course he could read and write. He also had extensive knowledge of music theory and thats plain to see in the likes of axis bold as love.
Lucky Brothers....!!! Check my channel out if u get a chance for some great old Blues stuff and my band .....Jimi was from another planet !!! We all dream of being able to play like him but then we wake up !!! Peace & Blues
music has been my life sine a little kid when i was exposed to the tail end of this scene. out of every musician who has passed, jimi i the only one whose end pains me. i thank god for robin trower!
@photoslum totally agree. same with me. Hendrix died beginning of my first year in High School, and Trower is at the forefront of the disciples. These priceless recordings of Hendrix are much appreciated.
Thanks for uploading this in full. At the time I uploaded this on my page Youtube only allowed videos of 10 minutes! Lol. Love love love this version so much.
it is said that he was headed definitely in the direction of playing acoustic, but i heard that he had wanted to play with some cats like paco de lucia. that would have been an interesting pairing.
He was doing them mostly on "The Cry Of Love" tour in 1970. The version of "Machine Gun" from Berkeley has another good one but it always gets cut out on the recordings. And most of the versions or "Hay Baby". Just his creativity streaming out onto his fingers......like "extra" talent.
this is one of the most dramatic versions ever...his solo around 545 is such a work of art. This is Jimi at his most intense. Your brothers were very lucky to have witnessed this.
i'm stoned right now, listening to this... and I have a feeling that Jimi's solo is somehow healing me from the inside... They called themselves once, The Electric Church....
@kokybhakta thats the power of soul. its more real than anything u will ever experience. jimi wanted to bring back some reality into this crazy world of lies and distortion that are being force fed down our throats. i play guitar also and when im really in the zone i feel like my spirit has become stronger and more of who i really am. theres like a spritual concentration that happens and others are affected by it also
There's a cool story about this Hendrix concert and Kent State U. shootings I read online, details about this show, I think it was published in 1988, at rockprophecy com/may70.html
you have to add a dot to the address, I couldn't get youtube to let the whole url in this comment.
thank you sooooo much for posting this clip- never heard it before = Exceptional Live Jimi !!!
gypsyguitars 2 hours ago
crazy watery reverb...these rooms that they played in back in the day, were often so different than today. Rooms set up for anything OTHER than music..especially loud music, and NOT through a PA, through the amps themselves...freaking sweet.
dannon2010 1 day ago
Jimi I miss you !
claptoncla 1 day ago
The best version of Jimi's Machine Gun--- just wish it was soundboard quality
AXISOFHENDRIX 1 week ago
I was there ... saw Jimi play 3 times over the years but this was the best - not so much the show moves and stuff. mostly he just stood and played. i miss him a lot
wrbolle 1 week ago
i wish this was a better recording
iggystompbarnyard 1 week ago
One guy was forced to do his homework that day.
oliverecords 1 week ago
i wish i was there. i was from norm
spud2ooo 1 week ago
Fucking great!!!!!
whatthehellimbored 1 week ago
Hendrix sounds are still a million year's ahead of our time.
PREZ150 2 weeks ago 2
Just uploaded some new Hendrix videos to my page!!
GuitarAxisdotcom 3 weeks ago
mitch on drums
kenny2894spd 4 weeks ago
I was at the 10:00 show and I was on acid. When he played Red House Blues it blew my mind! What a night.
docthebluesman 1 month ago
@docthebluesman , lol, acid and hendrix concert, lucky you :- D
TomasKristiansen 3 weeks ago
something frightened me about this performance.. and it took me a while to realize what it was.. Jimi goes to places in this song that, while they make musical sense technically.. emotionally- it's devastating. It's the musical equivalent of a haka: a war cry- in every sense
shelbado 1 month ago 2
@shelbado That is an awesome observation! I'm Maori and his music definitely evokes the emotion felt in a Haka, it's why Maori have an affinity to his music. It may have something to do with his native american roots too, like some cherokee medicine man bestowed some supernatural power on to him! hehe peace!
2patero 4 weeks ago 2
@2patero Would have loved to see him jam with John Trudell it would have been epic.
Cervicconstruction 2 weeks ago
I was there. The gates were crashed.
pokeadope 1 month ago
OMG @ 9:00 sounds like crying blood...
TheFingerlady 1 month ago
total fucking perfection.
VercettiVice 1 month ago
Transcen-Fuckin-Dental!...
77M2K 1 month ago
I saw Jimi 3 times . Once in Monterey once in San Fran and once in fort worth texas. all 3 times i went to jail after the concerts. pigs loved tossing runaways in jail. fuck the pigs, & long live Jimi Hendrix
richfiryn 1 month ago
damn wish iwas there but i was only nine months old lol!
soonernation69 1 month ago
wicked in every way possible. thank you for posting this amazing song
awade1007 1 month ago
Imagine it in the real quality, we would be shocked...
TheEndProject 1 month ago
1969 and 1970 are still a blur to me after all these years..
jdmeaux 1 month ago
It's a good thing he was born when he was. This kind of music just isn't made today. The environment just doesn't exist. Too bad he never got to see the troops come home. But as far as I'm concerned, his music has made him immortal.
uLikeToRideABike 1 month ago
WOW never heard this one before, thanks
ManiDProductions 1 month ago
He showed up to spread the love and encourage the people!
Purplemoon1111 2 months ago
Man, Hendrix at the Field House in Norman. Good God Oklahoma, what has become of you?
furcifur3 2 months ago
Who the fuck doesn't like this RARE version ?
Mirdasss 2 months ago
Can't thank you enough for such a priceless chapter in American History.
There were only a handful of "celebrities" bold enough to put their commercial value out there on the line and whole heartedly make it clear how they felt about the insanity of war and America's role.
I can't believe what I'm hearing. the playing is so emotional, right there in the heartland, when the triple option was blowing people's minds. this Hendrix performance is one of he absolute best.
man, thank you much..
anthropomorphicide 2 months ago
love listening to Jimi, this sounds great. thank you.
trailsB4you 2 months ago
I just completed an art film called "WAR IS OVER" which is sort of an updated "machine gun" which Hendrix fans may want to check out, it's on my youtube channel
bowenmcconnie 2 months ago
What an extravagant guitar player. How beautiful.
ajdguitar 2 months ago
This kind of stuff makes you realize the importance of music as a force of freedom and love and all that shit.
w0rdisbond 2 months ago 16
Never forget Kent State
claptongroupie 2 months ago in playlist Watch Later Playlist
wow that reverb gives the whole song such an amazing sound
genaro699 2 months ago
what an intro... beautiful... nice pics btw.. fun to read the articles in those newspapers.. i guess he really surprised the audience in this perfomence,, haha i would be ... wauw
fridwoow 2 months ago
what an amazing version
fridwoow 2 months ago
Mitch was stll playing with Jimi at this time, I think, and Billy Cox is on bass.
vinegaroon1 2 months ago
The tone and the melody of this version is so haunting. I really have never heard anything like it. I think this is one of those songs (which are always few) that really bare his soul, where I really get a sense for the being of Jimi. This is of the deepest blues I've ever heard.
What's great about Jimi, when it is the easiest to impress, such as in a setting like Norman, OK, instead of becoming arrogant, he just wants to know and be known, like a real communication rather than a monologue.
pppppatrikkkkk 2 months ago
I had this version of Machine Gun saved on my hard drive for a while, and for some reason kept coming back to it. It's hard to explain what I feel with it that keeps drawing me. I think what it is, this is what Jimi was really playing to the people, away from the big cities, not thinking it would ever be recorded. But it seems very sincere nonetheless. Like he was telling a very intimate story, behind the scenes almost, with emotions that could only be conveyed in such a setting. I love this...
pppppatrikkkkk 2 months ago
i can't believe he played Norman, OK, that in itself is heavy.
impala327 2 months ago
Jimi could NOT read music theory. It was all by ear. That has been said is biographies and such. I love him to death.
kevoishere1 3 months ago
Amazing. Thank you for this. Would love to know the story on this recording and the photos. Who made it, etc. Norman OK in 1970 seems like it would not have been ready for this... Need anecdotes! :) Again, thanks.
NoFearOfGod 3 months ago
Hendrix is completely stoned in this!
myroseaccount 3 months ago
@myroseaccount So am I
claptongroupie 3 months ago in playlist Watch Later Playlist
no hendrix in jewish tv at all
batalion666 3 months ago
Pretty epic man.....thanks for sharing
thejamzron 3 months ago
I've always loved his most well known versions of Machine Gun but what struck me about this was the incredible introduction. Over 40 years since he left and still I 'm being surprised by him. How I wish there was a great recording and video of this version. Thanks so much for posting it.
dadicarcar 3 months ago
Billy Cox said that this was his favorite show he ever played with Jimi and mentioned this tune as one of Jimi's best ever performances...
jimistreets1 4 months ago 5
i suspect the nice billowy curtains behind the setup along with the wooden bleachers made for a nice acoustical non-symmetrical cocoon...so warm and lush even with this modest recording...i suspect Jim was deep into a place on this one...u can tell he took it to another sonic stone.
talpajam 4 months ago
fucking jimi rockin the ou fieldhouse, fucking priceless, shit iwas 22 months old lol
soonernation69 4 months ago
thanks for posting this, I've already listened to it too much, some of this shit is haunting, but I think that was his point with this song
mistrynp 4 months ago
Can you turn the reverb down a bit please, its a bit wooly? Thanks
tony9L9L 4 months ago
@tony9L9L The reverb your hearing is from the Venue itself, this was probably a bootleg recorded from a distance away...so the reverb is a part of the recording...listen past the production value through to what's being played...peace
AlejandroAdams555 3 months ago
@AlejandroAdams555 Oh I see thanks for that. The guitar player is very loud but the singer has a pretty good voice and it would be good to hear the words a bit more. Maybe they could redo the vocals in a recording studio if this really is live and not a reverb effect (they even have reverb sounds in little tiny foot operated pedals can you fucking believe it man!!!!!!!)
tony9L9L 3 months ago
@tony9L9L you do realize the man playing guitar and the man singing...are the same man...and that man is no longer with us... you must live in a hole... sry dude
CommBreakDown 3 months ago
Damn, this is the best version of Machine Gun, thank you so much.
funkeemon 4 months ago
damn, thats the shit
soonernation69 4 months ago
I'm so high right now.. feel like I'm alone with the music... and the amp is right in fron of me. sooo cool
Neiki18 4 months ago 3
love that univibe, and his tone in general.
daljin1991 4 months ago
@TheAbby202 Yes Jimi could read and write.there are many pieces of his handwritten lyrics to be found throughout the net to view.Also as the previous comment stated,he was extremely well versed in music theory.I think that people would be stunned at the insight that jimi had about so many things.i really dig his interview on the Dick Cavett show.
irishseano 4 months ago
@irishseano yea bro im right their with u, hear about the shit yngwie talked about him? said the only thing that influenced him was the desruction on stage, said the music was noise,coming from a swedish motherfucker who plays spanish castle magic live,hes a fucking soulless robot.....
soonernation69 4 months ago
@soonernation69 There is another interview of Yngwie giving him serious praise. I suspect he started dissing him because he probably got tired of people asking him about Jimi... Mamlstien is an egotistical prick... easily rattled.
TheFingerlady 1 month ago
@TheFingerlady When Blackmore heard Hendrix he changed the sound of DP. Malmsteen is a big RB fan. There was no YM without JH. But there are more vids of YM talking about JH. and he loves JH..
Staziish 1 month ago
@Staziish you sound like youre into hendrix, whats your opinion of hear my train a comin berkley may 3 1970 i think its one of his best solos....
soonernation69 1 month ago
@TheFingerlady well, ijust took that interview at face value, and malmsteen with all his tech prowess becomes boring within a few min, ican listen to hendrix for days.....
soonernation69 1 month ago
So many thanks for posting this. I always thought the Machine Gun solo to be one of his finest works, I can hear the screams and cries of women and children in this magnus opus on the truth of war.
The amazing part is that what sounds like a solo that an average guitarist would have worked on for a lifetime to create, was just totally improvised. Every version of this song is different, and the amazing part is it is flowing directly from the should of a true master.
thudson 4 months ago
@TheAbby202 of course he could read and write. He also had extensive knowledge of music theory and thats plain to see in the likes of axis bold as love.
phunkyboy 4 months ago
wow a flamenco intro to Machine Gun. Name one other artist who could pull that off
trignoriver1 4 months ago 3
Lucky Brothers....!!! Check my channel out if u get a chance for some great old Blues stuff and my band .....Jimi was from another planet !!! We all dream of being able to play like him but then we wake up !!! Peace & Blues
landonrob 5 months ago
I love that intro - setting the mood.
clarkewi 5 months ago
I HATE the fact that he's dead. It's a frustrating feeling that there won't be any new songs coming from this genius.
I would love to hear what kind of music he would make in these days.
CaptainP00face 6 months ago 21
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blackstrat6897 3 weeks ago
@CaptainP00face Those first two statements almost made me tear up man.
blackstrat6897 3 weeks ago
@CaptainP00face
music has been my life sine a little kid when i was exposed to the tail end of this scene. out of every musician who has passed, jimi i the only one whose end pains me. i thank god for robin trower!
photoslum 2 weeks ago
@photoslum totally agree. same with me. Hendrix died beginning of my first year in High School, and Trower is at the forefront of the disciples. These priceless recordings of Hendrix are much appreciated.
thanx for posting.
anthropomorphicide 5 days ago
After Jimi's death guitars turned into cold and reluctant instruments... like they don't want to be played by anybody else
Dinscripter 8 months ago 3
@Dinscripter It sure seems that way sometimes...
yamamonkey 7 months ago
Thanks for uploading this in full. At the time I uploaded this on my page Youtube only allowed videos of 10 minutes! Lol. Love love love this version so much.
TheEarthBlues2 8 months ago
I love those beautiful flamenco intros he was playing in 1970.
railcar123 9 months ago 34
@railcar123
Is that what their called? Flamenco?
RastafariPoet 9 months ago
@railcar123
it is said that he was headed definitely in the direction of playing acoustic, but i heard that he had wanted to play with some cats like paco de lucia. that would have been an interesting pairing.
panamajack612 3 months ago
@railcar123
Can you point me to any others?
Carthsgtr 2 months ago
@Carthsgtr
He was doing them mostly on "The Cry Of Love" tour in 1970. The version of "Machine Gun" from Berkeley has another good one but it always gets cut out on the recordings. And most of the versions or "Hay Baby". Just his creativity streaming out onto his fingers......like "extra" talent.
railcar123 2 months ago
@railcar123
Any youtube clips?
Carthsgtr 2 months ago
@railcar123 That was his mexican side trying to escape.
blackstrat6897 3 weeks ago
this is one of the most dramatic versions ever...his solo around 545 is such a work of art. This is Jimi at his most intense. Your brothers were very lucky to have witnessed this.
sysphus13 1 year ago
this is one of the most dramatic versions ever...his solo around 545 is such a work of art.
sysphus13 1 year ago
we miss you forever and a day !!!
paulkcormier 1 year ago
i'm stoned right now, listening to this... and I have a feeling that Jimi's solo is somehow healing me from the inside... They called themselves once, The Electric Church....
kokybhakta 1 year ago 26
@kokybhakta coudnt have said it better.
sysphus13 1 year ago
@kokybhakta thats the power of soul. its more real than anything u will ever experience. jimi wanted to bring back some reality into this crazy world of lies and distortion that are being force fed down our throats. i play guitar also and when im really in the zone i feel like my spirit has become stronger and more of who i really am. theres like a spritual concentration that happens and others are affected by it also
NANDO218 6 months ago 2
@kokybhakta i feel pretty much the same now and i'm so stoned
kahlan4182 6 months ago
@kokybhakta You are on to something, my brotha. I suggest mescaline/acid and the album live at the Fillmore east.
w0rdisbond 2 months ago
Priceless...
johnTconover 1 year ago
You're welcome, it is a great version of Machine Gun.
bluezguitar1 1 year ago 2
Thank you bluezguitar1 for Posting this vid/Song.
You gotta LOVE The Flamengo Style Intro-Solo/Lick JIMI HENDRIX Played at the beginning of Machine Gun!
And I think The (Sustain) Solo starting in the middle is nearly just as AWESOME as in Filmore East version.
10/10
HENDRIXIANS UNITE!
PEACE
newzealndAllBlacks 1 year ago
There's a cool story about this Hendrix concert and Kent State U. shootings I read online, details about this show, I think it was published in 1988, at rockprophecy com/may70.html
you have to add a dot to the address, I couldn't get youtube to let the whole url in this comment.
ecoblitz 1 year ago 5
Thanks, I'll check it out.
bluezguitar1 1 year ago