Joni Mitchell Speaks About Jimi Hendrix

[Khultan]

This is GOLD.

[Exile0nMainStreet]

.... RIP Jimi. such Talent cut short ... too soon. You better save me a few jams when I get to Heaven Jimi. We going to crank it UP... : )

[Exile0nMainStreet]

Jimi did move on. There was a session or 2 he did with jazz musicians and he hooked up with Les Paul who really loved Jimi (called him the wild man who bent the strings up an octave).

In his early career Jimi lit his guitar on fire, humped the amplifier (which were all his manager's idea) but he quit doing that and started evolving. He was so young, quite a few years under 30 if I'm not mistaken. His music was maturing, his stage persona maturing, and then....

[LuciusEsox1]

This woman has a head,,, so right

[celestian1111]

Wow!! OK, you heard it here. Wow! The 27 Club is still alive in our dreams. I bet nobody but nobody is going or could disagree with the lo9vely Joni. She was there, and is still here. And she knows. My heart aches

[animascat]

way too much. wow. have never heard her talk about anything at length.

[tourist54]

amazing interview !! and also with a bit of a surprise when I heard that the journalist speaking to Jony in italian.. well, you know..Italians do it better :-)

Jony and Jimi : an unbelievable,unexpected, magical music-couple..simply UNIQUE !

[tacomadc]

"You know?" Lol, love her Canadian accent.

[tacomadc]

Not surprizing Jimi had amazing taste. She's such an amazing singer.

[shahw1]

I never knew that about Jimi? I heard he was shy and quiet by nature but left of those issues behind on stage. I guess it was a mask he put on to get over the shyness which ended up suffocating him, because he couldn't take it off without his fans 'permission.' May have had a lot to do with his drug use too?

[jimdep1]

I don't think Joni knew Hendrix the way she said she did. Everthing I've read about Jimi never mentioned him being embarrassed by his theatrics is any way.

His stage show was as much of an art as his playing. You can't separate it. The Isle of White show at the end of his life, he was disappointed because he couldn't interact and exchange energy with the crowd (blinded by stage lights). The sexuality WAS him and he was proud of it. He needed to be spontaneous. Joni had her own vision, not his

[SCORNDOGGMELACH]

the business end of things with thier passion as creators. One may say that to be thinking about the money instead of just the music is no way to produce but many of the musicians who are dedicated to the music will just laugh at such comments and say what needs to be said but cant risk saying it financially. "FAN, YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT." The musician can not disreguard the financial aspects and misses the freedoms it creates FOR THEM AS ARTISTS. its all one thing.

[SCORNDOGGMELACH]

Its clear that so many MUSICIANS understood and appreciated the knew directions Jimi was heading into while the typical egocentric listener did not. But can it really be called a change? It was just a part of the growth process Jimi was enguaged in. Evolute. And while the average fan attatched its personal feelings to Jimi's music THE FAN remained dormant while JIMI kept developing musically and intellectually. Tragically, there are very few artist who can find a way to bridge(contabove)

[SCORNDOGGMELACH]

Funny, but some of the so called changes Jimi Made which in my oppinion was like shaking off chains and should be called growth,became an amazing rebirth of this sadly missed artist.And although this wasnt as big a hit with the experience fans the influence AMONST CONTEMPORARY ARTIST AT THE TIME WAS HUGE & CAN BE HEARD ON POST JIMI MUSIC AT THE TOP OF THE 70'S DECADE.The masses,in so many areas of interest have ALWAYS LACKED DISCERNMENT.This stems from ego and not really from music appreciation

[SaypheZonE]

The reason he never made the change is because he was surrounded by a bunch of greedy non musical business oriented idiots who only cared for money and wouldn't let him do his own thing artistically. It's a shame. Even Jimi has said in an interview that his intention of Purple Haze was like 20 minutes long and was more atmospheric. However the music 'business' wouldn't let him do it.

[delpurgatorio117]

is that her real face?

[MrRazorblade999]

@delpurgatorio117 What else could it be? :-)

[ReeseMac]

Jimi made reference to her in the song "Power of Soul" "....floatation is so groovey and easy ..... even Joni Mitchell will tell you that..."

[Ingersh]

Jimi Hendrix guitar genius, he wanted to play guitar his fans a wanted to see a circus act.

I remember the day he died. September 18th 1970.

[ReekoChet]

Joni Mitchell is also an inspiration to Prince and he is a huge Jimi Hendrix fan. You can here that in his guitar playing. This is why Prince changes styles and music on every album. I remember when the Around the World in Day album came out, Prince lost alot of fans, but he's still around, and a new generation picks up on his new sound. Then they go back and discover the old stuff and become hooked forever. He understood the nature of the Fans. Fans are what they are, FANATICS.

[lanomyster]

Joni Mitchell is a cool cool lady.

[bluesborn]

Change in the weather, change in the sea,

Come back baby, you'll find a change in me.

Everybody, they ought to change sometime,

Because sooner or later we have to go down in that lonesome ground.

I want to jump in a time machine and go back to the night where they all go and hang out with Jimi at the hotel.

[rwestber]

Fascinating.

[bamboosa]

Genius on genius.

[yellingelk]

If only Jimi had sat back, got away from all the hangers on and took some time out to get his mind and playing together, then I'm sure he would have recorded some great new music, in exactly the way he wanted to go...more musical and less freaking out. Towards the end he was just basically all over the place in a hundred different minds,'all of them tired', playing a thousand and one pointless notes per second, up and down the neck without any real direction at all. That statement had been made.

[shimokita2]

I had read somehwere a long time ago that before he died, Jimi was getting tired of doing a lot of the same songs and wanted to do other projects - maybe that was what Joni is also talking about here? Maybe also something with Brian Jones? Anyways, interesting comments.

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@luvtogothere

I apologize for the "Pending Approval" situation. As you can see, this page is hardly attended to. I came here one time and found rude remarks that had been posted for a couple of months and that's why I changed the comment section policy for this. Up until then, I would have never expected that to happen on a video with Joni Mitchell.

[BohemianConspiracy]

hendrix here hendrix there... i have all his albums... but i'm quite sad and it irritates me that most people especially in continental europe and other places just know all the some old (and excellent) artists... beatles-doors-l.zepellin-hendr­ix-p.floyd-the who and the stones...always the same name are circulating... those records represent at best only the 20 % of the good music of that time...

A lot of people does not even know what they are losin'

Excellent Interview by the way :)

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@BohemianConspiracy

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

[Funkdogg]

@BohemianConspiracy like so many people never heard of eddie hazel from funkadelic. who in my opinion is the next best thing on guitar after jimi.

[BohemianConspiracy]

@Funkdogg yeah hazel is another star who burned fast ...for the moment with Hazel i just own Funkadelic "Maggot Brain" & "Free your mind & your ass will follow"(great tittle!) both are top psychedelicfunkrock albums...

[Funkdogg]

@BohemianConspiracy yeah they are. i heard free your mind was recorded in a week while they were constantly trippin on acid and did it in memory of jimi

[BohemianConspiracy]

@Funkdogg ...they surely made some prayer & incantations at the beginning of their trip... and probably listened to Jimi's music while trippin' too... but i'm nearly sure that if Jimi was not dead ...they would have taken (psychedelic) drugs anyway : ) ... it's just another kind of trip ,  less ceremonial type...

[Funkdogg]

@BohemianConspiracy  yeah they would take it anyways.

[MegaWildswan]

@BohemianConspiracy your cooking with to much lard-I've run across some interviews with Jim H 

[savedfaves]

She's a genius.

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@savedfaves

Very much so!

[acousticgrooven]

This is a beautiful interview. Such great insight. Imagine jimi with the big bang ambiance, man he could have created wonders. Just imagine jimi creating jazz standards of the future, or whatever his astro-mind could conjure up. There's no doubt in my mind if he would have lived out his full potential and lived on to achieve his lives old age legacy. He was the prophet of guitar, if you ask me. I would have loved to hear jimi branch out into other styles. That would have been something.

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@acousticgrooven

Thx.

[garmonbozia318]

@acousticgrooven @acousticgrooven Me too. To know that he had scheduled studio time with Miles Davis and Gil Evans before his death is almost torture. I can't even conceive of how amazing that collaboration would have been!

[MrPrincepop]

@acousticgrooven - Well said!

[Teketzis]

Tell this to Amy winehouse... Sad but true...

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@Teketzis

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[bobbysbackingtracks]

Very cool info! I love Joni and Jimi!

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@bobbysbackingtracks

Yes, indeedy!!!

[JMcLovn]

They say jimi would always bring his guitar with him every where he would go, out to eat, parties, his guitar was like his safety net, thats probaly one of the reasons he was the best.

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@JMcLovn

No doubt!

[drjimiboy69]

You can see her sincere love and admiration for JMH. But with all due respect, he was always evolving and a radical change in his sound, aesthetic, musical ensemble, and consciousness absolutely took place. Just check out the shift from Royal Albert Hall (2/69) and the Woodstock/BOG/Cry of Love incarnations. While his ethnic culture was always a strong influence, from Spring '69 onward Jimi tapped and revisited his cultural roots, while always remaining a universalist. The change was inevitable.

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@drjimiboy69

Right on!

[doable1]

A guy I know has the busted neck and pickups from Hendrix' guitar that he smashed in Ottawa that night

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@doable1

They haven't done an article about this in some guitar magazine at some time?

[dannyhood66]

This is very cool about hendrix and how she felt about him

[coolsweetgroovy]

Wow

[Thejbirdy]

He made the change Joni, simply watch band of Gypsies in concert. Jimi is a solid stone(r) playing there.

JBirdy

[mielazul]

@Thejbirdy i think you're right. His change was kind of off the radar, though.  For instance, Rolling Stone magazine gave him this mocking award at the end of 1969 for "artist doing nothing" or some shit like that (piece of shit rag that it was and is). And of course 1969 was the year he worked SO HARD to change things around and go forward as a musician. But people didn't know all the details at the time...mainly because the so-called journalists at the time couldn't be bothered w/truth.

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@mielazul

I can't argue with any of that. Thx.

[Thejbirdy]

@mielazul He succeeded, the greatest electric guitarist of all time (At least in my opinion.)

[mielazul]

@Thejbirdy I agree with you that he succeeded in making the big change. In general, his 1970 live performances are my favorites - they sound really advanced and more sophisticated than previous stuff. Still, I just got the October 1968 Winterland set that was recently released, and it's awesome. Not only was he playing so well, but he seemed very happy too, which wasn't always the case at the later-era shows.

[Thejbirdy]

@mielazul An Avatar and Maverick....Jimi Hendrix.

[mrJimCharles]

@Thejbirdy The band of Gypsies show released was the second show. After the first was over, Jimi went back into Bill Graham's office and asked him what he thought of the show, and Bill told him that he humped the guitar, did all kinds of stunts but forgot to play. Then Hendrix went out and did the show that we all know. So he was still in a transitional phase at that time.

[Thejbirdy]

@mrJimCharles Thank god he got past the "entertainer" and decided to blow them all away w/ what we already knew was incredible talent on guitar.....Thank you Mr.Jim

[Intheflesh44]

@Thejbirdy is the band of gypsies concert on dvd?

[Thejbirdy]

@Intheflesh44 I have the video, not sure of the DVD, check Amazon perhaps?

[Intheflesh44]

@Thejbirdy right on. Must be a sight to see. There are some clips on youtube but nothing quality. The albums are brilliant.

[Thejbirdy]

@Intheflesh44 It's awesome to see Jimi just kicking back and playing the guitar as opposed to all the "tricks" he was required to do onstage. Just pure playing....

I loved "Crash Landing"....one of my favorite albums after he passed away.

My band used to call Jimi...'Our Founder"......lol.

[Funkdogg]

@Intheflesh44 i bought 'fillmore east'concert on cd and dvd in one. a must have!

[JBigjake]

There is an album of Hendrix live in Ottawa on March 19, 1968.

[danrag]

I'd say early 1980's or late 1970's

[dvs1572]

Thanks for uploading this. would love to see the interview in its entirety.

[MajesticSuperiorHen]

@dvs1572

Hi. As far as I know, Steve says this piece of footage was in an Italian TV special about Jimi Hendrix, on a friends video tape. I'm assuming this footage was shot in Canada, but I'm not sure. I don't know of any other source, but it does look like it went on for a bit longer. If you find it, let me know. I find her to be quite interesting.