Jimi Hendrix Guitar Competition Winning Performance with Jackson King V 1999 Universal Studios CA

[geetarust]

lucky I wasnt there

[terminater1952]

yes it was good but not really something hendrix would have played

[morbss]

not bad at all , expecially to play blues on jackson guitar

[MultiShades]

great --why didn't you think to use a stratocaster --wonder so much

[roland17110]

sorry guy but i don't like. This guy can play for sure but no fealing, he go fast and we can't hear the notes. And the tone is awfull

[tigre143]

@roland17110

Excuse me mr "FEALING" but this guy has pretty much feeling in this tune

[roland17110]

@tigre143

thanks for mister fealing !! lol. i'm fan of hendrix, but this guy !!but if you like, i've no problem with that. mister "no fealing" !! lol

[tigre143]

@roland17110

Hahahaha Mr. Fealing 

[62rome]

good job and cool shirt mate, don't ever stop.

[TMMSfanCLUB]

jolly good show but the beginning bends had me waiting for more. its not like he's gonna read this and say "ok i have to work on that", but i just thought i'd mention it.... i dig it.

[blurgenizer55]

Decent performance, but you lean on the same licks too much. I guess i understand though, some nights the nerves just kill you, some nights they push you.

[Emberplate]

Its not shredding? WTF are you talking about,

[shanjingo]

time has change everything, nobody,s fault...

[timetherton]

this dude can play no doubt but hes just shredding. no matter how fast or loud Jimi played there was nothing "shred" about it, it was much more melodic. he heard every note before he played it. he spoke through the instrument. in other words he played the guitar the guitar didnt play him which despite the chops, thats what i see here, No one can ever match jimi, Closest thing ever was stevie ray and even he knew he couldnt touch Jimi.

[cyofish]

Jim Hendrix wasn't melodic when playing live. It was mor wreckless abandon. In his day though there was no player that came close technically. As for this guy playing on the video, he doesn't sound much like Hendrix. Just a rocker playing a Hendrix song with very little blusey feel to it. Hendrix was more raw-earthy blues.

[SirFelix377]

you said it.  Hendrix was raw unbridled electricity.

[tigre143]

@timetherton

Don't even try to compare jimi to this. It's like comparing black and white. Jimi had his style, and this guy too.

[yurko420]

fucking EPIC

[RobSchneeberger]

i don't get why people play blues completely wrong, its not a genre for out and out shredding!

its about soul and feeling the jam.

[satinpurplefender]

You all miss the real question...

Who is the bass player and will she join my band? Just the basics, but worth it for the eye candy at least. Would inspire some truly soulful licks to say the least.

[madcapBounce]

its a demonstration of talent which the guy got, not soul talent you aquire soul you got it or you dont but for real wheres the strident dudes when you need em

[recuerdodelfuturo]

He is good you jealous bitches !

[petiethepitt]

It doesnt matter who it is,Vai,Lane,and anyone else that does a Jimi cover nomatter what it is or how its played they trash it.

[Tommo348]

he's good

[nonidentity]

this guys got chops but waaay too much distortion for a jimi hendrix competition - the tone is way off - lets see if he'd sound as good without all that compression - sorry to be a hater!!! - fun stuff though

[mnight207]

Yeah, dude sure can play. But, this is too routine for him, no heart, no soul, jus text book. SUCKs...Unorthodoxy rules

[timmah4476]

Cheesy Bastard!! Dude's got his chops down to be sure.. But no soul!!!

Slow down, lose the Megadeath guitar, & while you're at it put that gum in the bin!!!!

[stashnyc]

Would have liked to see a true Hendrix composition...Bold As Love, Angel, Spanish Castle Magic etc. This is just 12 bar blues to me...

[spaceorbit1]

Jimi would have been proud. This guy really captured Hendrix's Tone.

[Platano0587]

I agree with Elmar, saturating a song with notes doesn't sound good to me. Why play 20 notes when you could say the same or more with 5 or 6? Just my opinion I guess, I guess slow blues doesn't have to be slow in the least. =/

[mts2]

I didnt like the distortion, but he's very good!!!

[Elmar78]

sometimes less is more.

[bozepiemeltje]

lmao, he is a good guitar player but hes waaay to metal to win a Jimi Hendrix competition

[spareco]

loks like the drummer from silverchair

[NKOITH]

Ron Jeremy plays guitar?

[tysonguitarguy]

ewesome preformance!!youregood man keep rocking!!!

[christmyer23]

its good don't get me wrong but he dsnt play it with enough heart seems to easy for him little more emotion would be nice

[gbtayc]

To me, more of a Johnny Winter vibe

[veej31]

horrrible tone, though he is a fine guitar player. i dont think he can play blues very tastefully

[singingfeces]

well cripes just look how flipping metal the dude is!

[kevinflo]

Usually when guys have that much shred influence things turn sour, but he has an intense working knowledge of the blues and plays from his heart.

Much respect.

As soon as I heard the major lick at 1:05 I knew he knew what he was doing.

[tweetertv]

too much shred not enough blues for my taste

[Theelnobody]

a bad start, his bends just sounds very poor until they are at a full bend. but the rest is cool.

Hendrix's notes, but with his own style.

[BeefisGold]

absolutely beautiful

[Silencer84]

Dude he's just shredding some notes on a guitar made for metal. That's not Jimi's style. He did it with feeling, because his heart told him so. RIP

[covflo]

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do." - Jimi Hendrix

[taylerwarren]

My dad plays rythym guitar for this band now. I've been over to Jack's house and jammed a little bit with them. They're pretty chill

[timwit28]

wow awesome

[mechtech104]

i thought this performace was very repeated wat he did.

[mechtech104]

ummm sing maybe............ lol if he was as good as jimi then maybe he could talk while hes playing

[bagrat22]

All based on 12 bar blues. The man is solid. Jimi liked to play fast, didn't he?

[JapyDooge]

You ROCK!

[o00o0o0o0o0o]

OH SHIT this guy's got the SHIT IN THE BAG HOLY MACCORONI

[fireballfrenzy]

Nice chick on the bass!

[WeirdAndGeeky]

its really only metal because of the speed and basic feel... if you listen at certain parts theres elements of hendrix and SRV

[stratuser54]

see i'm getting alot of thumbs down. shredders are today what hendrix was back in the 60's, extreme, unusual and not to everyones taste. alot of you just don't get that but then again your probably not old enough to remember those days

[ElectricChurch428]

thats bull shit shredders have no soul and feel

[o00o0o0o0o0o]

I don't consider this guy a hardcore shredder. WTF is everybody talking about? I'm so confused.

This guy is playing a lot of notes fast, yeah. But unlike hardcore shredders, this guy has a very soulful rhythm to his playing, going in and out of shred sequences with very interesting timing.

Hardcore techbased shredders tend to just do things as fast as they can in a constant flow, rather than on a series of feeling based impulses.

[chickenandbaconclub]

No shredders are not today what Hendrix was back then, because shredders today all sound (pretty much) the same, whereas Hendrix sounded like no-one before him, and still 40-odd years on no-one has come close to sounding like him.

[stratuser54]

i was drawing reference to the fact that shredders are different and on the fringes of what is commonly accepted as pleasing guitar playing. not everyone likes them and in the 60's not everyone thought playing the guitar with your teeth or setting it on fire was the right thing to be doing. i wasn't comparing the sound of the 2 in any way

[chickenandbaconclub]

Fair enough.

[69jonnyboy690]

amen man

[stratuser54]

did this guy get lost on his way to a dimebag competition lol. in all seriousness you wouldn't expect that sort of tone from a guitar like that. everyones putting this guy down but i bet if jimi had been in the crowd he'd have loved it and got what this guy was doing. hats of to you man

[HeroOutline]

:(

he took the soul out of it with all that shredding

yeah ok your technical but you murdered the soul of the song

[baronacebass]

shredding has lots of soul in it too you know..... blues isnt the only style with soul this guys fusing two different styles together... id like to see you do what hes doing

[HeroOutline]

name me some songs that shred but have soul and ill take a listen

but he doesnt have soul in this song when he shreds

[baronacebass]

please explain to me how hes playing with no soul. shredding is the exact same thing just a different style. and like i said before hes just playing the song the way he plays it and theres nothing wrong with that. its boring to repeat the same shit over again, or play just straight blues which no doubt is fun too, but you gotta mix it up a bit and get adventerous, and if you want a shredding song with soul check cemetary gates by pantera. dimebag darrell one of the best guitarists ever

[Piratezrule]

He clearly has soul in this song. Look at his expression. He has plenty of soul.

[4portswitch]

To hell with looking at him; a lot of these comments are based solely on this guy's appearance. All you have to do is shut your eyes and let the sweet blues flow in lol

[Piratezrule]

Either way, this guy's got it.

[tehzebrapie]

Dude people shredding over blues and old rock songs is one of my all-time pet hates. Seriously I fucking hate it. But I thought this guy was good. He was tasteful; I liked it. Doesn't even sound like shred to me, just fast blues guitar.

[rsl84416]

playing is good but the tone is totally unsuited for the song.

[eoj115]

it sounds to metal. n not enough Jimi

[pbstratocaster]

if he was the winner,,,,,,,,,What did the other 47 sound like??? Boooring performance cliche´s, no infeeling, no stratsound, no nothing. Somebody must have misunderstood something, when doing a "Jimi Hendrix guitar" competition.

[glennish1972]

winning performance!....?fucking shit,get him off

[knut189]

it's strange to see blues playing with a guitar like that. haha but it's good

[YellowFender]

wanna see a kick ass version of red house gary moore 2004 thats red house done very very well :)

[gitarsko]

Fuck This Guy!!!!

[slothedog]

Jimi Hendrix meets Slayer!! hahahaha... not much blues feel and no space left at all.. but decent guitar chops.

[SlinkyBoyWonder]

meh. Rushed, samey and no lyrics. Didn't take much skill

[parigod]

That whole dirty sanchez thing isn't working for him...

[chongoblanco1]

space?

[jdbuya10]

solid red house

[49erBW]

Outstanding!

[shaserv]

Outstanding young man. Jimi been gone 40 years but he still gets in your blood.

[onetwothreeoclock]

great bending!!