I wonder if Jimi ever met Rod Stewart and the Faces or Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones? Could Jimi have even met Jimmy Page? I wonder what Jimi would've made of "Stairway"?
Talent like this doesn't exist anymore. Some day our "society" may "regress" and we can again see people who affect the people they play for, not try to con them, but probrably not. This is why recording was invented, to immortalize people like this, so maybe someday someone can learn from them.
This is the "classical" music of our time. People may be listening to these same guys thousands of years from now, why not, your not going to ever improve on them.
Guys, weight doesnt mean shit when your talking about talent and BB king is one talented blues musician and an inspiration to all guitarists who came after him show some respect
Jimi Hendrix played with the low E string on top, just like almost all of us do. His guitar was a righty; he turned it upside down, but the strings were strung as usual. Unlike Doyle Bramhall, Otis Ruch, Albert King (I think) and a few others who learned to play that way because they probably didn't know any different.
For those who are commenting on BB's girth, he doesn't look like that any more. He is a diabetic who has lost a lot of weight for health reasons and as a nelderly gentleman, is said to now take care of himself to manage the disease and his energy levels. Amazingly, he continues to perform regularly - pretty good for an 86-year old with a still-dangerous illness!
living legends, walking music history books, these guys deserve so much credit and when they move on , people will realize what we missed while they were her e!
Is BB wrong? I could have sworn that Jimi changed the strings -- not like Albert King or Dick Dale or...is there someone else who plays that way -- with the high strings on top?
People commenting on BB King's girth? That man is a Legend. I, too, would love to sit on the front porch, drink ice tea, and listen to his stories. What a life!
@TheSaltydog07 Anotyher few pounds and they would have had to set up a cinderblock throne for BB to sit on rather than a chair! Anyone would 20/100 vision would have had a hard time differentiating between BB and the chair!
Buddy Guy, What a true gentleman! Love the way he kicks back and encourages B.B. to keep on talking, with a little , yes, um hm, A couple of class acts right there. Great upload. Thanks.
I was lucky enough to tour supporting BB and Buddy. So I got to meet and talk with them. BB is so sweet and gracious... Buddy 'l cutcha(we joked)... If only I coulda met Jimi. 2 outta these three aint bad...
@joe1969812 lol! are u kidding? watch the video of Buddy Guy with Big Mama Thornton. Buddy's style back then was almost uncanning to Jimi's even then. My point is Jimi got his style from Buddy. Not the other way around like you're suggesting.
@Freethinker12341 Dude you've lost your mind, Buddy never sounded like Jimi. He had a very clean tone in the 60's, now he sounds like a 18 yr old kid trying out distortion pedals in Guitar Center. I know what you're saying bout the Big Mama video, l've never seen that, he did hit some Jimi sounding licks, and l know Jimi stole some from him, but what lm saying is that now Buddy sounds like shit, and loves talking bout himself. Just my opinion.
@joe1969812 Dude, I gotta tell you, that is one of the most brutal comments I have ever heard made about a guitar player. I was laughing my ass off. I had to share that comment with my girlfriend. Damn, if you want to insult a guitarist, that comment will do it. I will have to remember that one. You are right though. Buddy's sound in the 60's was VERY clean. Hendrix's tone changed from song to song. Clean, distorted, heavy uni vibe, etc. Buddy's and Hendrix's sounds were not the same.
@kuhnmartin Just my opinion dude, l still listen to old Buddy Guy, but nowdays he sounds nothing like what made me like him. l'm not a hater of Buddy. Sorry if anybody thinks that.
@craigfromnewcastle Were? Eric Clapton,Carlos Santana , and Yes Jimi too as well as just about any guitar player then and now all looked up to Buddy and BB.And after 50 years they are still in the game
@craigfromnewcastle They are still greats in every way. And they are both two of the nicest people you will ever meet. I ran into Buddy on an Amtrak in Milwaukee recently and he was very cordial. These are the some of the giants whose shoulders we stand on today.
@craigfromnewcastle The black blues masters took pain and misery caused by centuries of racism and disrespect and distilled it into a pure art form. Without their genius we would not have rock n roll, jazz, blues, hip hop, R&B - in short, THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC. Every time I hear some cracker (I'm white) say that blacks are stupid I just pity them. If Mozart were alive today these are the people he would be jamming with. THESE ARE OUR LIVING AMERICAN LEGENDS!
A lot of people these days don't have any respect or understanding of what people have gone through and succeeded in spite of.
BB King has played with almost every popular musical icon in living memory - from Elvis to James Brown, he's got about 50/60 years in show business, most kids these days don't last 2 years.
He had death threats on the road for years man, massive debts, and he never gave up.
lol @ B.B.! Buddy "i had the guitar behind my head, trying to get some attention mostly..." BB King (simultaneously) "You Did" Lmao these guys have bright personalities!
2:37 B.B. says he asked Jimi when he realized Jimi was a lefty, "Why didn't you change the strings?"
B.B. must have been confused between Jimi and Albert King because Albert King who was also a lefty was the one who dIdn't change the strings from right handed to left handed. Jimi did change the strings.
People seem confused about this: Jimi took a right handed guitar and restrung it left handed, most often. But he could play it strung the other way as well. Paul Kossof talked about it in an interview, how Jimi came in the music store where he worked and picked up a right handed guitar and played like it didn't make any difference. On a Fender guitar you can flip the nut over without too much trouble. Albert King played lefty on a righty guitar, Wronghanded he called it. But he tuned funny.
@guitarmaniax I agree. People were so enthralled by his theatrics and flash that they overlooked his genius. I discovered this only a few years ago and it still just blows me away. Hendrix was NOT left-handed. The ONLY thing he did left-handed was play the guitar. Being a guitarist, I can't even imagine attempting that. It only adds to his legend.
Jimi was a phenomenal guitarist by any standards in the Cosmos.It was hard to believe he was playing the same instrument as other guitarists - it sounded so very different. The first time I saw him, like BB, was as Little Richard's guitarist. As I recall he just sat on his amp and strummed along in a fairly pedestrian manner... he looked very unassuming - almost embarrassed to be there. But Buddy really opened my eyes to what blues guitar was capable of - no wonder Beck calls him God!
If you get the chance to see Buddy Guy live you won't be disappointed he puts on a hell of a show and he sings and plays the most wailing blues you've heard
What I love about this, among other things, is that Buddy is the bridge between B.B. and Jimi, in the same way that Roy Eldridge is the bridge between Louis and Diz, or that Crosby is the bridge between Jolson and Sinatra... This is great stuff.
No, he's right. He didn't change the strings he just flipped it around that's why the thinner string was on top. BB was telling him to change it so the thick E string was on the top.
change strings?...just the way I learned..? 2:50 Jimi did change the strings, every vid I ever saw of him, fat string is on the bottom like a right handed guitar... He doesnt play the Eric Gales way. thats why the tone is different is a bit more unique (other than its Jimi), because of the different string config over the pickups. BB was just makin it up, or filling in blanks.
@Matt24ishere I AGREE. SOMETHNG FISHY ABOUT B.B.s STORY BECAUSE I'VE NEVER HEARD OF JIMI PLAYING THE GUITAR STRUNG UPSIDE DOWN. VERY INTERESTING. MAYBE B.B. IS JUST GETTING OLD AND ACTUALLY DOESN'T REALLY REMEMBER..
@Matt24ishere Your right about the strings . I'm left handed and used to play a righty guitar with the strings reversed like Jimi Also he may possibly be getting confused with his lefty mate Albert king who played a righty guitar but didn't reverse the strings .
@brucey39 true that, he probably was thinking of Albert... when you meet as many people as BB has, and over such a long period of time, im sure it just all runs together.
@brucey39 So if you reverse the strings what do you do about the nut? That part is always left out when I here left handed people talk guitar lingo. To picture this in my head when you say reverse you do mean to get back to what is standard EADGBE with the low E on top?
@icabodcranium Yes your correct its reversed so the low E is on top as per normal .As for the nut I always had tuning problems playing a righty guitar because the reversed fat strings would catch in the thin slots, or the low E would pop out of the slot .The nut should really be re cut or even better turned around to match the reversed strings I think Hendrix had the same problems when he had to use what guitars were available .
@brucey39 that must of been what jimi was talkin about when he was introducing voodoo chid live on the concert album the one with the painting of him on front. hes says quote its realy frustrating you know when you try & play some, some sounds & the string slips of the thing up here so lets pretend there aint no strings so this part,ll not slip off, so we,d like to catch you down on the thing we recorded on our third l.p called electric ladyland & its a thing intituled voodoo child slight retun
@annabatarowicz That's one of my most favourite albums of Jimi's .Yeah sounds like he's got nut problems on that performance with strings popping out.If he was alive today and touring he would have about 10 guitars and a full time guitar technician to look after them.
@brucey39 there is a version of red house on that album. you ca get it on voodoo child compilation it is one disc studio one disc live. that is my favorite geetar solo. its fuking great. i was arguing with some people on you tube on slash & zak wilde jam on voodoo child. but to me i dont realy like a lot of that sort of style triplit on the beat machine gun style dat da da dat da da dat da da. hendrix was into a lot of jazz he played with time. this to me is a hell of a lot more interesting
@annabatarowicz I know what you mean about these thousand notes a minute modern players ,I loose interest pretty quickly I love how Hendrix would go from hard out rock power chords to waling blues then intricate jazz style octave passages . Villanova Junction live woodstock version is one of the most beautiful pieces of music he did IMHO.
@brucey39 you know it yoused to piss me off when i started getting into hendrix and geetars i would talk to people about jimi and some people including geetarists would say oh he made a lot of shit.. this is not true he only made 3 albums and 1 live albums and there classics. its cause of fukers like alan duglous relesing studio jams as hendrix recordings and people think hendrix relesed it this is sad man. concidiring how obsesive hendrix was in the studio an all. its sad. polluting his legacy
@annabatarowicz Yeah I think Alan Douglas was a self serving leach living off Hendrix's legacy .Those shit recordings were sometimes peoples first introduction to Hendrix and it put them off for life.I remember back in the 80s buying two or three brand new Douglas produced vinyl records only to throw them strait in the rubbish bin after one listen.
@brucey39 well yeah plenty of people were put off. the first albums i ever got were cornerstones & the concerts album the one with the painting. so i was allright. the first album i listend to was my sisters smash hits in mono. even noel reading said ones that it is better of jimi being dead as to see what would have become of his work. there is a great book about hendrix writing in 2004 by sharon lawarence called the man the magic the truth. she was a music journalist who traveled with jimi
@annabatarowicz The painting album was the first I got as well .Bought it back in 83 when I saw it on a local Tv show.Speaking of Noel Reading I was lucky to see him play at the long gone GluePot venue in Auckland NZ .He played a couple of Hendrix numbers which was cool.I got meet him after the show and got my one and only ever autograph lol. I will try and get a copy of that book you mentioned .
@brucey39 (wow!) you met noel readin did he say much? there is footage of him in his pup or a pub i ireland & he is talkin about electronic tunners & how you never had that in his day & that. anyway i herd he charged people for social visits in pubs near the end of his life. i dont know for sure how true this is. that book i was talkin about was by a women called sharon lawrence. i have been trying to find out about pat heartly from rainbow bridge. do you know anything
@brucey39 have you hers the geetar solo on spanish castle magic at the atlanta festival its fukin awsome you can see it and here it on you tube. anyway i here people like chas chandler saying hendrix has been potrayed as tragic but it was only his death that was tragic. i dont think so i think he had shit life. his mum dying young . movin from carers and relatives. i think 67 was his happest time. i think hendrix was lonley tragic figure. that red house at randells is an example of this sadness
@annabatarowicz Yeah I don't know if he was or wasn't a tragic figure . There's was a lot of evil people in the music business that wanted a piece of his action that's for sure . Mike Jeffreys is a good example that .
@brucey39 yeah its shit &then youve got chas saying its all groovey when it aint, and then theres the bullshit death how convenient. they done an inquest in the 90s & the ambulance guys said there wasnt anybody with hendrix just dead black guy (fully clothed) on da bed. were this was the opposite of what dahnemen said & when she was ment to go to inquest she commit suicide instead. even the doctor thought it was strange it was only when she came &said she was there that he didnt phone the police
@brucey39 and look now with janie hendrix doing the same as alan duglous and his brother is getting fuked. this (is a sad tragic story) that is still on going. you mentioned villanova junction at woodstock i love to play thatb on geetar and it was perfect for woodstock. you know like the movment of people. this inspired hendrix. and that piece was perfect to close the show. it even sounds like that , like a exodus of people horses and caravans moving across the desert.he did hey joe as encore
@brucey39 then youve got all these famous people like beck & clapton & all the rest praising hendrix. but they fukin only praise his talent. they didnt give a shit about the man behind the talent. not one of them has spoke out about the bullshit death & the rest just maybe how (THEY) felt when he died. bullshit man. a real friend would of pushed this in the media...... anyway. i like what ive read about the hendrix & miles davis meetings. cause davis learned at college jimi on the streets
@brucey39 as i said miles & hendrix would meet & miles had contempt for rock & pop musicians. wich hendrix was catogrized as. but i think he new hendrix learned the old blues man way leavin broke home with geetar traveling ARound the country n bars & shit were i think im correct in i think miles was from middle class backgroung & learned at N.Y JULIARD so there was a meeting of too halfs there man. they were very similar i think. what do you think. i might be wrong on miles being middle class.
@annabatarowicz It seems like Miles had a middle class upbringing and education, opposite to Hendrix as you say .Hendrix had limited musical knowledge or theory but he certainly made up for it in sheer imagination when jamming those who did
@brucey39 yeah! do you know anything of pat heartly she was a couple of years later in the great docomentary by is it jim boyle made in 1972 called jimi hendrix documentary. but she had the junkie scratch in that she was scratching a lot with somtimes vacant stair and rushed talkin wich suggested heoin use so i dont know there? do you know anything?
That must've been the most awesome thing: the two greatest blues guitar artists and the greatest rock 'n' roll guitar artist (dude, come on, how can ya debate his rendition of "the Star-Spangled Banner"?) all there together...
I only wish I was alive then to have been able to see a legendary jam session like that...
I am a bit confucked here...... I read in (i think guitar player mag) about 15 years ago that bb and hendrix jammed in a studio and bb asked hedrix for the tapes several times but never got them and then jimi died......but BB here makes it soundd like they met only once. Maybe i misfuckedup something
@pimpdaddywompa1 Well... That was probably what Jimi was thinking man, actually... Jimi loved Bbs music. ......
....Check out Jimis song Come on..... Its a rearrangement of a BB version of Let the good times roll.. ( Written by one of Bb`s music heros... SRV redid the Jimi song, too.. kinda cool I think... )
Thank you, Bill Wax, for recording all the amazing moments we need in order keep the Blues alive and well. My hat is off to you, Sir! Be well~ Suzanne Swanson
It's funny to imagine; we think of Jimi as a god (I know it sounds stupid for me to use only his first name) and these were his Jimi Hendrix's Jimi Hendrixes
man, after watching so many interviews about, an with, jimi,, it really makes u tear up that we lost one of our greatest insprations so soon.. but r.i.p jimi. its about 3 in the mornin, il listen to hey joe one more time for you
I wonder if Jimi ever met Rod Stewart and the Faces or Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones? Could Jimi have even met Jimmy Page? I wonder what Jimi would've made of "Stairway"?
PhilipK100 1 day ago
Talent like this doesn't exist anymore. Some day our "society" may "regress" and we can again see people who affect the people they play for, not try to con them, but probrably not. This is why recording was invented, to immortalize people like this, so maybe someday someone can learn from them.
This is the "classical" music of our time. People may be listening to these same guys thousands of years from now, why not, your not going to ever improve on them.
bodhisattvajihadi 1 week ago
B.B.BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
erperejildo 1 week ago
two legends talking bout a legend. I love it
deandre2degruy 1 week ago
buddy guy just wanted the hippy girls. haha
guitarsANDcars39 1 week ago
are bb and buddy friends?
nice1centurion 1 week ago
round man! hahahaha
normalsigara 1 week ago
To best - in - the - game. ....they still are!
mrdomo1949 2 weeks ago
two of the legends, everyone needs to know these dudes
TheOnlySMAWJ 2 weeks ago
Great video
Grandma Mary
Fr3derick 2 weeks ago
Jesus, listen to these men talk about how much time has passed, my god, The times have changed.
ctex93 2 weeks ago
Shame on you dudes. Taking shots for a cheap laugh... That's a punk move. Respect due to the Bluesmaster.
psykomystro 3 weeks ago
Naw, Morgan Freeman looks like a skinny B.B. King
rottenroger 3 weeks ago
Guys, weight doesnt mean shit when your talking about talent and BB king is one talented blues musician and an inspiration to all guitarists who came after him show some respect
IbaShredder4 1 month ago
love ya bb but get you're flabby ass off that couch and sing so excited and nobody loves me but my mother
animascat 1 month ago
BB was always round lol. Fukn idiots
TheDcervi 1 month ago
@TheDcervi Tell 'em again.
psykomystro 3 weeks ago
does bb stand for Big Bucket (of fried chicken)
astroboirap 1 month ago
These are two of the greatest men ever to live.
vanillabear05 1 month ago 2
Dam he look hungry
fuzzyjem3 1 month ago
BB king is in shape... And that shape is called round.
meeebit 1 month ago
@meeebit Round isn't a shape you doltz.
Nemesis0300 1 month ago
Damn... I know BB has diabetes and all, but he got BIG.
Still, the man is a master and pioneer of blues music. All due respect to him. He's the man.
JayIceColdD 1 month ago
Master of blues: BB. King
francast404 1 month ago
@bunnykingIII XD
theduke502 1 month ago
Jimi Hendrix played with the low E string on top, just like almost all of us do. His guitar was a righty; he turned it upside down, but the strings were strung as usual. Unlike Doyle Bramhall, Otis Ruch, Albert King (I think) and a few others who learned to play that way because they probably didn't know any different.
burnyrtele 1 month ago 2
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TheBigdowgz 1 month ago
@burnyrtele Jimi played both ways. He played left hand strung guitars or right hand strung guitars.
astrlman 1 month ago
For those who are commenting on BB's girth, he doesn't look like that any more. He is a diabetic who has lost a lot of weight for health reasons and as a nelderly gentleman, is said to now take care of himself to manage the disease and his energy levels. Amazingly, he continues to perform regularly - pretty good for an 86-year old with a still-dangerous illness!
ohaiiamaunicorn123 1 month ago 2
@ohaiiamaunicorn123 Well that's good. Can you send me a picture of how much weight he's lost? Or a video please? That would be a pleasure.
(Not because I'm worried about his girth. What is a girth anyway?)
MusicbyBenjamin 1 month ago
@ohaiiamaunicorn123
Who's outlived many men younger than himself!!
craigfromnewcastle 6 days ago
living legends, walking music history books, these guys deserve so much credit and when they move on , people will realize what we missed while they were her e!
mekanik85 2 months ago
Is BB wrong? I could have sworn that Jimi changed the strings -- not like Albert King or Dick Dale or...is there someone else who plays that way -- with the high strings on top?
jmorra 2 months ago
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@jmorra Jimi played both ways. He played left hand strung guitars or right hand strung guitars.
astrlman 1 month ago
People commenting on BB King's girth? That man is a Legend. I, too, would love to sit on the front porch, drink ice tea, and listen to his stories. What a life!
TheSaltydog07 2 months ago
@TheSaltydog07 Anotyher few pounds and they would have had to set up a cinderblock throne for BB to sit on rather than a chair! Anyone would 20/100 vision would have had a hard time differentiating between BB and the chair!
Virtuosic1 1 month ago
BB king looks a little bit like Morgan Freeman :P
sebbeas123 2 months ago
i hope i'm as fat as bb king when i'm old
iamnotanumberiamaman 2 months ago
Buddy Guy, What a true gentleman! Love the way he kicks back and encourages B.B. to keep on talking, with a little , yes, um hm, A couple of class acts right there. Great upload. Thanks.
TheNaturalust 2 months ago
@bunnykingIII Yeah. BB is round like Diabeto from Family Guy
watch?v=9H02ECAfT5o
DancingSpiderman 2 months ago
Be cool DUDE! lol
Tanboy97thst 2 months ago
BB looks like a round Morgan Freeman
HaoleJames 2 months ago 41
WOW!!!! What an interesting video. Priceless. Thanks for posting my friend. maurice
PIANOBYMAURICE 2 months ago 2
I've heard B.B. is a real friendly guy.
KidsWithGuns1992 2 months ago
fat albert
StoneProductionsUK 2 months ago
I was lucky enough to tour supporting BB and Buddy. So I got to meet and talk with them. BB is so sweet and gracious... Buddy 'l cutcha(we joked)... If only I coulda met Jimi. 2 outta these three aint bad...
skypeanut 2 months ago 2
BB King is really fat.
PorroFirst 2 months ago
Buddy Guy is so full of himself. Now days he trys to sound like Jimi when he should try to sound like Buddy.
joe1969812 2 months ago
@joe1969812 lol! are u kidding? watch the video of Buddy Guy with Big Mama Thornton. Buddy's style back then was almost uncanning to Jimi's even then. My point is Jimi got his style from Buddy. Not the other way around like you're suggesting.
Freethinker12341 2 months ago
@Freethinker12341 Dude you've lost your mind, Buddy never sounded like Jimi. He had a very clean tone in the 60's, now he sounds like a 18 yr old kid trying out distortion pedals in Guitar Center. I know what you're saying bout the Big Mama video, l've never seen that, he did hit some Jimi sounding licks, and l know Jimi stole some from him, but what lm saying is that now Buddy sounds like shit, and loves talking bout himself. Just my opinion.
joe1969812 2 months ago
@joe1969812 Dude, I gotta tell you, that is one of the most brutal comments I have ever heard made about a guitar player. I was laughing my ass off. I had to share that comment with my girlfriend. Damn, if you want to insult a guitarist, that comment will do it. I will have to remember that one. You are right though. Buddy's sound in the 60's was VERY clean. Hendrix's tone changed from song to song. Clean, distorted, heavy uni vibe, etc. Buddy's and Hendrix's sounds were not the same.
kuhnmartin 2 months ago
@kuhnmartin Just my opinion dude, l still listen to old Buddy Guy, but nowdays he sounds nothing like what made me like him. l'm not a hater of Buddy. Sorry if anybody thinks that.
joe1969812 2 months ago
Buddy Guy has alzheimers?
jacksondemarre 3 months ago
bb is a ball.
keyb0t 3 months ago
To anyone who doesn't know - both Buddy and B were the best in the game at one point - and for a long time.
The - best - in - the - game.
Learn dat.
craigfromnewcastle 3 months ago 15
@craigfromnewcastle Were? Eric Clapton,Carlos Santana , and Yes Jimi too as well as just about any guitar player then and now all looked up to Buddy and BB.And after 50 years they are still in the game
rima49 3 months ago
@craigfromnewcastle They are still greats in every way. And they are both two of the nicest people you will ever meet. I ran into Buddy on an Amtrak in Milwaukee recently and he was very cordial. These are the some of the giants whose shoulders we stand on today.
farseas 6 days ago
@farseas Absolutely.
B was incredibly kind to my Mother and I, a true gentleman.
I can't believe the level of disrespect on these comments - people have no idea what either of these men have been through.
Sometimes the human race disgusts me.
craigfromnewcastle 6 days ago
@craigfromnewcastle The black blues masters took pain and misery caused by centuries of racism and disrespect and distilled it into a pure art form. Without their genius we would not have rock n roll, jazz, blues, hip hop, R&B - in short, THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN MUSIC. Every time I hear some cracker (I'm white) say that blacks are stupid I just pity them. If Mozart were alive today these are the people he would be jamming with. THESE ARE OUR LIVING AMERICAN LEGENDS!
farseas 6 days ago
@farseas Sure are.
Originators and legends.
A lot of people these days don't have any respect or understanding of what people have gone through and succeeded in spite of.
BB King has played with almost every popular musical icon in living memory - from Elvis to James Brown, he's got about 50/60 years in show business, most kids these days don't last 2 years.
He had death threats on the road for years man, massive debts, and he never gave up.
Now the owner of a club and loved worldwide.
craigfromnewcastle 6 days ago
Jimi was indeed a quiet personality. It's nice to hear BB say this.
Indianart1 3 months ago
@bunnykingIII Oh that's funny. He's the eight ball.
Contractnik 3 months ago
if my name was King i would have a belly like that too
flipsy87 3 months ago 4
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flipsy87 3 months ago
lol @ B.B.! Buddy "i had the guitar behind my head, trying to get some attention mostly..." BB King (simultaneously) "You Did" Lmao these guys have bright personalities!
HeyJoe1488 3 months ago 2
man! those guys are sooooo cool!
labbern 3 months ago
as if bb king doesn't no his right from his left
jimidrix15 3 months ago
2:37 B.B. says he asked Jimi when he realized Jimi was a lefty, "Why didn't you change the strings?"
B.B. must have been confused between Jimi and Albert King because Albert King who was also a lefty was the one who dIdn't change the strings from right handed to left handed. Jimi did change the strings.
robbiedaug 4 months ago 3
@robbiedaug Could it have also confused him that Jimi played the guitar upside down?
Contractnik 3 months ago
@Contractnik Could be, yea.
B.B. doesn't look too sure, and Buddy just nods and agrees with him out of respect.
robbiedaug 3 months ago
alot of blues in that room.
hershysquirts187 4 months ago 3
People seem confused about this: Jimi took a right handed guitar and restrung it left handed, most often. But he could play it strung the other way as well. Paul Kossof talked about it in an interview, how Jimi came in the music store where he worked and picked up a right handed guitar and played like it didn't make any difference. On a Fender guitar you can flip the nut over without too much trouble. Albert King played lefty on a righty guitar, Wronghanded he called it. But he tuned funny.
guitarmaniax 4 months ago
@guitarmaniax I agree. People were so enthralled by his theatrics and flash that they overlooked his genius. I discovered this only a few years ago and it still just blows me away. Hendrix was NOT left-handed. The ONLY thing he did left-handed was play the guitar. Being a guitarist, I can't even imagine attempting that. It only adds to his legend.
guitarist3813 4 months ago
I LOVE YOU JIMI HENDRIX!!
Anniefreshness 4 months ago
Damn BB King Is fluding. :/ But Hendrix For Life !
zOmarTv 4 months ago
bb king looks like he ate the burger king.
Flerg3 4 months ago 2
@Flerg3 Fuck you. BB King eats nothing but your mom's greasy pussy.
DiCkRiChArDz 4 months ago
@DiCkRiChArDz i love you :-)
Flerg3 4 months ago 2
@Flerg3 I love you too man.
DiCkRiChArDz 4 months ago
Fascinating.
rwestber 4 months ago
jimi did invert the strings
bruninhazd1 4 months ago
What channel was this interview on Sirius?
tu43 4 months ago
I love how the all-time guitar legend B. B. King has to think about how Hendrix plays guitar.
hafrox 4 months ago
bb king is a legend but his mass is nearly planetary. fuck it, at his age its amazing he can still play guitar
ronniemurga 4 months ago 2
I wish i could just sit on the porch with these men and a glass of sweet tea.
bondman00794 4 months ago 71
@bondman00794 B.B. is a diabetic. He might refuse the sweet tea.
robbiedaug 3 months ago
@bondman00794 that is an awfully racist comment
djs259 2 months ago
@djs259 no its not. I sit on the front porch with lots of old people and drink sweet tea. I'm from Louisiana man. Southern Hospitality.
bondman00794 2 months ago
@bondman00794 If you're white then that's really racist.
ShaneMacgowanFan93 1 month ago
Jimi`s teachers...
Staziish 4 months ago
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haha, "trying get some attention", .. BB king, "You did!"
sportsportsport 4 months ago
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badromenful 4 months ago
So cool that they're getting all this stuff on tape before they're gone. Nothing like a couple of greats reminiscing about the old days.
jab3785 5 months ago 3
looks like hes talking to a child 0:04
jamirosmajicrocks 5 months ago
BB King's got a serious mom front butt going on.
tegrenath 5 months ago
Jimi was a phenomenal guitarist by any standards in the Cosmos.It was hard to believe he was playing the same instrument as other guitarists - it sounded so very different. The first time I saw him, like BB, was as Little Richard's guitarist. As I recall he just sat on his amp and strummed along in a fairly pedestrian manner... he looked very unassuming - almost embarrassed to be there. But Buddy really opened my eyes to what blues guitar was capable of - no wonder Beck calls him God!
zthetha 5 months ago
If you get the chance to see Buddy Guy live you won't be disappointed he puts on a hell of a show and he sings and plays the most wailing blues you've heard
brucey39 5 months ago
Funny the New York TIMES Had the obituare on the Death of Clarence Clemons yet The 3 pictures shown was of Buddy Guy
carlox1 7 months ago
What I love about this, among other things, is that Buddy is the bridge between B.B. and Jimi, in the same way that Roy Eldridge is the bridge between Louis and Diz, or that Crosby is the bridge between Jolson and Sinatra... This is great stuff.
tuxguys 7 months ago 2
Those last words are quite sad
RIPHendrix 7 months ago 58
@RIPHendrix yeah definitely got me too, rather heavy. his memory lives on through his awe inspiring music :)
Bmac1313 6 months ago
wow jimi played with little richard,didnt know that.
katkal3 8 months ago
@katkal3 he started in his band before he was famous
joydivision808 7 months ago
@katkal3 played with tommy chong to
222whatthehell 6 months ago
@222whatthehell of cheech and chong? seriously? i guess jimi got around.
katkal3 6 months ago
@katkal3 yeah its in his bio room full of mirrors real good book
222whatthehell 6 months ago
No, he's right. He didn't change the strings he just flipped it around that's why the thinner string was on top. BB was telling him to change it so the thick E string was on the top.
abujorjj 8 months ago
change strings?...just the way I learned..? 2:50 Jimi did change the strings, every vid I ever saw of him, fat string is on the bottom like a right handed guitar... He doesnt play the Eric Gales way. thats why the tone is different is a bit more unique (other than its Jimi), because of the different string config over the pickups. BB was just makin it up, or filling in blanks.
Matt24ishere 8 months ago
@Matt24ishere I AGREE. SOMETHNG FISHY ABOUT B.B.s STORY BECAUSE I'VE NEVER HEARD OF JIMI PLAYING THE GUITAR STRUNG UPSIDE DOWN. VERY INTERESTING. MAYBE B.B. IS JUST GETTING OLD AND ACTUALLY DOESN'T REALLY REMEMBER..
MrJimihnrx 8 months ago
@MrJimihnrx he does err.. did lol look at the pictures.. his strings are the wrong way
Camerenc123 8 months ago
@Matt24ishere Your an idiot! Listen more clearly
ImHayleyable 7 months ago
@Matt24ishere Your right about the strings . I'm left handed and used to play a righty guitar with the strings reversed like Jimi Also he may possibly be getting confused with his lefty mate Albert king who played a righty guitar but didn't reverse the strings .
brucey39 5 months ago
@brucey39 true that, he probably was thinking of Albert... when you meet as many people as BB has, and over such a long period of time, im sure it just all runs together.
Matt24ishere 5 months ago
@brucey39 So if you reverse the strings what do you do about the nut? That part is always left out when I here left handed people talk guitar lingo. To picture this in my head when you say reverse you do mean to get back to what is standard EADGBE with the low E on top?
icabodcranium 5 months ago
@icabodcranium Yes your correct its reversed so the low E is on top as per normal .As for the nut I always had tuning problems playing a righty guitar because the reversed fat strings would catch in the thin slots, or the low E would pop out of the slot .The nut should really be re cut or even better turned around to match the reversed strings I think Hendrix had the same problems when he had to use what guitars were available .
brucey39 5 months ago
@brucey39 that must of been what jimi was talkin about when he was introducing voodoo chid live on the concert album the one with the painting of him on front. hes says quote its realy frustrating you know when you try & play some, some sounds & the string slips of the thing up here so lets pretend there aint no strings so this part,ll not slip off, so we,d like to catch you down on the thing we recorded on our third l.p called electric ladyland & its a thing intituled voodoo child slight retun
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@annabatarowicz That's one of my most favourite albums of Jimi's .Yeah sounds like he's got nut problems on that performance with strings popping out.If he was alive today and touring he would have about 10 guitars and a full time guitar technician to look after them.
brucey39 5 months ago
@brucey39 there is a version of red house on that album. you ca get it on voodoo child compilation it is one disc studio one disc live. that is my favorite geetar solo. its fuking great. i was arguing with some people on you tube on slash & zak wilde jam on voodoo child. but to me i dont realy like a lot of that sort of style triplit on the beat machine gun style dat da da dat da da dat da da. hendrix was into a lot of jazz he played with time. this to me is a hell of a lot more interesting
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@annabatarowicz I know what you mean about these thousand notes a minute modern players ,I loose interest pretty quickly I love how Hendrix would go from hard out rock power chords to waling blues then intricate jazz style octave passages . Villanova Junction live woodstock version is one of the most beautiful pieces of music he did IMHO.
brucey39 5 months ago
@brucey39 you know it yoused to piss me off when i started getting into hendrix and geetars i would talk to people about jimi and some people including geetarists would say oh he made a lot of shit.. this is not true he only made 3 albums and 1 live albums and there classics. its cause of fukers like alan duglous relesing studio jams as hendrix recordings and people think hendrix relesed it this is sad man. concidiring how obsesive hendrix was in the studio an all. its sad. polluting his legacy
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@annabatarowicz Yeah I think Alan Douglas was a self serving leach living off Hendrix's legacy .Those shit recordings were sometimes peoples first introduction to Hendrix and it put them off for life.I remember back in the 80s buying two or three brand new Douglas produced vinyl records only to throw them strait in the rubbish bin after one listen.
brucey39 5 months ago
@brucey39 well yeah plenty of people were put off. the first albums i ever got were cornerstones & the concerts album the one with the painting. so i was allright. the first album i listend to was my sisters smash hits in mono. even noel reading said ones that it is better of jimi being dead as to see what would have become of his work. there is a great book about hendrix writing in 2004 by sharon lawarence called the man the magic the truth. she was a music journalist who traveled with jimi
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@annabatarowicz The painting album was the first I got as well .Bought it back in 83 when I saw it on a local Tv show.Speaking of Noel Reading I was lucky to see him play at the long gone GluePot venue in Auckland NZ .He played a couple of Hendrix numbers which was cool.I got meet him after the show and got my one and only ever autograph lol. I will try and get a copy of that book you mentioned .
brucey39 5 months ago
@brucey39 (wow!) you met noel readin did he say much? there is footage of him in his pup or a pub i ireland & he is talkin about electronic tunners & how you never had that in his day & that. anyway i herd he charged people for social visits in pubs near the end of his life. i dont know for sure how true this is. that book i was talkin about was by a women called sharon lawrence. i have been trying to find out about pat heartly from rainbow bridge. do you know anything
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@brucey39 have you hers the geetar solo on spanish castle magic at the atlanta festival its fukin awsome you can see it and here it on you tube. anyway i here people like chas chandler saying hendrix has been potrayed as tragic but it was only his death that was tragic. i dont think so i think he had shit life. his mum dying young . movin from carers and relatives. i think 67 was his happest time. i think hendrix was lonley tragic figure. that red house at randells is an example of this sadness
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@annabatarowicz Yeah I don't know if he was or wasn't a tragic figure . There's was a lot of evil people in the music business that wanted a piece of his action that's for sure . Mike Jeffreys is a good example that .
brucey39 5 months ago
@brucey39 yeah its shit &then youve got chas saying its all groovey when it aint, and then theres the bullshit death how convenient. they done an inquest in the 90s & the ambulance guys said there wasnt anybody with hendrix just dead black guy (fully clothed) on da bed. were this was the opposite of what dahnemen said & when she was ment to go to inquest she commit suicide instead. even the doctor thought it was strange it was only when she came &said she was there that he didnt phone the police
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@brucey39 and look now with janie hendrix doing the same as alan duglous and his brother is getting fuked. this (is a sad tragic story) that is still on going. you mentioned villanova junction at woodstock i love to play thatb on geetar and it was perfect for woodstock. you know like the movment of people. this inspired hendrix. and that piece was perfect to close the show. it even sounds like that , like a exodus of people horses and caravans moving across the desert.he did hey joe as encore
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@annabatarowicz Janie Hendrix is not even a blood relative of Jimi. Doesn't seem fair that Hendrix brother only got a gold disk out of the estate .
brucey39 5 months ago
@brucey39 then youve got all these famous people like beck & clapton & all the rest praising hendrix. but they fukin only praise his talent. they didnt give a shit about the man behind the talent. not one of them has spoke out about the bullshit death & the rest just maybe how (THEY) felt when he died. bullshit man. a real friend would of pushed this in the media...... anyway. i like what ive read about the hendrix & miles davis meetings. cause davis learned at college jimi on the streets
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@brucey39 as i said miles & hendrix would meet & miles had contempt for rock & pop musicians. wich hendrix was catogrized as. but i think he new hendrix learned the old blues man way leavin broke home with geetar traveling ARound the country n bars & shit were i think im correct in i think miles was from middle class backgroung & learned at N.Y JULIARD so there was a meeting of too halfs there man. they were very similar i think. what do you think. i might be wrong on miles being middle class.
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@annabatarowicz It seems like Miles had a middle class upbringing and education, opposite to Hendrix as you say .Hendrix had limited musical knowledge or theory but he certainly made up for it in sheer imagination when jamming those who did
brucey39 5 months ago
@brucey39 yeah! do you know anything of pat heartly she was a couple of years later in the great docomentary by is it jim boyle made in 1972 called jimi hendrix documentary. but she had the junkie scratch in that she was scratching a lot with somtimes vacant stair and rushed talkin wich suggested heoin use so i dont know there? do you know anything?
annabatarowicz 5 months ago
@brucey39 Thank You, Ive always wonder about the nut. I play Bass and don't think it would work at all without modification.
icabodcranium 5 months ago
That must've been the most awesome thing: the two greatest blues guitar artists and the greatest rock 'n' roll guitar artist (dude, come on, how can ya debate his rendition of "the Star-Spangled Banner"?) all there together...
I only wish I was alive then to have been able to see a legendary jam session like that...
DocWyldeCard 8 months ago
jimi was ahead of all time
rollingstopp 9 months ago 3
i wasnt drinking that much... then "! :D ahah xD
xxvogricxx 9 months ago
Two living treasures speaking about a legend no longer with us. :o))
stardust260872 9 months ago 5
I am a bit confucked here...... I read in (i think guitar player mag) about 15 years ago that bb and hendrix jammed in a studio and bb asked hedrix for the tapes several times but never got them and then jimi died......but BB here makes it soundd like they met only once. Maybe i misfuckedup something
kingorbit 10 months ago
love the way bb king says "be cool dude"
CallanD1000 10 months ago
imagine how badass it would be to have met jimi hendrix.too bad i was born in 1989.
pimpdaddywompa1 10 months ago
imagine how badass it would be to have met jimi hendrix.
pimpdaddywompa1 10 months ago
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kaminaridragon66 9 months ago
@pimpdaddywompa1 Well... That was probably what Jimi was thinking man, actually... Jimi loved Bbs music. ......
....Check out Jimis song Come on..... Its a rearrangement of a BB version of Let the good times roll.. ( Written by one of Bb`s music heros... SRV redid the Jimi song, too.. kinda cool I think... )
kaminaridragon66 9 months ago
my dad loves these guys so did my grandad( rip)
wizeguy26 11 months ago
Buddy guy is so AWESOME
Dazzerx 11 months ago
@JoeyFudd
LOL
Sign213 11 months ago
he looks like morgan freeman in a fat suit
voicesinmehead 11 months ago
Buddy says he "must'a been 24 or 25", but his meeting with Jimi, (which was indeed as he says; 2 years before Jimi died), was in1968. Buddy was 32.
lazur1 11 months ago
two old guys you WILL listen to.
Crazybenjiwoo 11 months ago 4
WAIT...
if BB King only saw Hendrix once then how is there a collaboration record with both of em?
thuymoney 11 months ago 4
@thuymoney
because he wasn't saying he met him once. He was saying that was the first time they had met.
dylanvinita 11 months ago
That.. thats Hendrix man! Be cool, be cool!
Jamberia 1 year ago 15
BB= Big Boy !
TokaCola 1 year ago
@TokaCola Blues Boy, actually!
skint0n0minted 11 months ago
2 of my guitar idols speaking of my #1 guitar idol.
lrambach 1 year ago 6
I love bb to death, but he's becoming pretty funny looking.
BlackAppendix 1 year ago 3
Haha they're like two old people on a porch, tellin' stories about back in the day.
jdman331 1 year ago 5
BB King, " ...but I 'didn't get to chance to speak to him again".
Bolzovfire 1 year ago
Dick Waterman?!!? I know him! He lives in Oxford MS now! Use to drive an old red Volvo.
sweatyspaghetti 1 year ago
0:37 he said "geetar" :-)
92007cardiff 1 year ago
I wish i could only get 10 miles close to these 2 guys.
This is history.
order57 1 year ago 3
I coulod only wish to get 10 miles close to there two guys.
This is history.
order57 1 year ago
Thank you, Bill Wax, for recording all the amazing moments we need in order keep the Blues alive and well. My hat is off to you, Sir! Be well~ Suzanne Swanson
katharine46 1 year ago
OH NO, BB ATE LUCILLE
Nauticus89 1 year ago
@Nauticus89 Hey this is a fucking insult!
rafaelzanatabueno 1 year ago
It's funny to imagine; we think of Jimi as a god (I know it sounds stupid for me to use only his first name) and these were his Jimi Hendrix's Jimi Hendrixes
deathstarcafe 1 year ago
BB's wrong, we've all heard the drunk (BB) playing with Jimi in NYC 1968 in the club with Al Kooper and the other folks...
mcleanartists 1 year ago
man, after watching so many interviews about, an with, jimi,, it really makes u tear up that we lost one of our greatest insprations so soon.. but r.i.p jimi. its about 3 in the mornin, il listen to hey joe one more time for you
sweetpickinmik 1 year ago
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sweetpickinmik 1 year ago
I've got to get Sirius!!
davec3487 1 year ago
Probably THE only Hendrix related interview in the last 20 years that wasn't complete shit. Thank you so much for posting this!
Tonypaulljr 1 year ago 4
BB carries a lot of weight in the music industry. ;)
JoeyFudd 1 year ago 172
@JoeyFudd Hahahaha lol
joshua9312 1 year ago
@JoeyFudd And he should
percidaeben 9 months ago
@JoeyFudd Buddy is the ""MAN""! :))))))
pozegausaill 8 months ago
@JoeyFudd and in his belly lol...MASTER
Neurosisistronaut 7 months ago