Jimi Hendrix Experience (Official Thread)

[E-Z]

The thing with Jimi he learned his craft 'out on the road' backing people like Little Richard and the Isley Brother's to name but two acts.

Jimi was totally adept in playing in the following musical styles-

1.R&B
2.Soul
3.Blues
4.Heavy Rock
5.Psychedelic Rock
6.Blues/Rock
7.50s Rock & Roll
8.Jazz
9.Jazz/Rock
10.Hip Hop (accompanying earlier rapper's 'The last peots' with Buddy Miles)

How well would Clapton & Page fare with the above musical styles?.

 

[Squidbilly]

New single from the upcoming album People, Hell and Angels.

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Caught this tune on Alice Cooper's Radio show this evening on the way home from work,He said that Stephen Stills played Bass on this tune.

 

[Phil B.]

Other guitarist like clapton and page for examples could outplay the guy no problem and hendrix knew it. And again I'm not crapping on him but just being objective and as I've mentioned love much of his work, And to be fair I think townshend was also limited because he played fairly simple stuff and couldn't play a solo to save his life, and I'm just being objective about him because I'm a who fan.

I think Townshend and Clapton were quite intimidated by Jimi Hendrix, personally.

This quote is from the "100 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time" put out by Rolling Stone. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of RS, but this interview with Pete Townshend was quite interesting:

I remember feeling quite sorry for Eric [Clapton], who thought that he might actually be able to emulate Jimi. I also felt sorry that he should think that he needed to. Because I thought Eric was wonderful anyway. Perhaps I make assumptions here that I shouldn't, but it's true. Once-I think it was a gig Jimi played at the Scotch of St. James [in London]-Eric and I found ourselves holding each other's hands. You know, what we were watching was so profoundly powerful.

Pete Townshend

 

[E-Z]

Yeah i'll go a long with that Phil, i believe i read that after Jimi had jammed with the Cream at the Marquee Clapton left the stage in a state of shock and was shaking!!.

Apparently the Cream went into a London recording studio the very next day where Clapton recorded some tracks with 'heavy feedback' in a Hendrix style!!.

 

[METALPRIEST]

Jimi Hendrix Asked Paul McCartney to Play Bass on Record With Miles Davis



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One of the great “what-ifs” in rock history just got even greater. A newly uncovered telegram shows that Jimi Hendrix had asked Paul McCartney to play bass in a proposed recording session with legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and drummer Tony Williams.

Billboard is reporting that, on Oct. 21, 1969, Hendrix sent a telegram to McCartney at Apple Records in London, which read, “We are recording and (sic) LP together this weekend in NewYork, (sic). How about coming in to play bass stop call Alvan Douglas 212-5812212. Peace Jimi Hendrix Miles Davis Tony Williams.”

Unfortunately, Hendrix’s usually impeccable timing was off. Peter Brown – the same man referenced in the Beatles‘ ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’ – informed Hendrix that McCartney was on vacation and would be back in two weeks.

Coincidentally, Hendrix contacted McCartney on the same day that the infamous “Paul is dead” hoax was first mentioned on New York radio. The story had started in the Midwest a month earlier, but it wasn’t until that morning that it broke nationwide, forcing Apple to issue a denial. However, the story freaked out McCartney enough that he retreated to his farm in Scotland.

Hendrix and Davis became friends in the late-60s, at a time when the jazz great was looking to incorporate rock and funk into his sound. The duo jammed together on a number of occasions, but scheduling conflicts made it impossible for them to record the album they frequently discussed making before Hendrix’s death in 1970 put a permanent end to the plans.
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[CP/M User]

The think I find fascinating about Hendrix is he could do a Dylan song "All Along The Watchtower" and make it sound like his.

Regarding Clapton, he did some fine Guitar Work with The Yardbirds, even though I think he's strictly Blues Roots (which is all good), though it's interesting to Compare some of the tracks from "Five Live Yardbirds" album when they were redone which is on The BBC sessions album, during the period Jeff Beck was there.

 

[METALPRIEST]

46 Years Ago: Jimi Hendrix Joins Monkees Tour



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What do you get when you cross a psychedelic guitar genius with one of the world’s bestselling pop bands? A frustrated guitarist, a disappointed band and a bewildered and confused audience.

As unlikely as the match-up sounds, the Jimi Hendrix Experience joined the Monkees during the summer of 1967 for a short run of concerts. The rising guitarist joined the tour on its first date in Jacksonville, Fla., on July 8, and stuck it out for six more shows, exiting after a run of three concerts at the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium in New York City on July 14, 15 and 16.

Both Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork had attended the Monterey International Pop Festival in June and saw Hendrix’s groundbreaking performance. Like everyone else, they were knocked out. “Micky said, ‘We gotta get this guy,’” recalled Tork in the documentary ‘The Monkees Story.’ “Micky was just enthusiastic about his music.”

“You can’t imagine what it must have been like for an act like Jimi Hendrix opening for the Monkees,” Dolenz wrote in his autobiography ‘I’m a Believer.’ “It was evident from the start that we were witness to a rare and phenomenal talent. I would stand in the wings and watch and listen in awe.”

Tales from the tour reveal that everyone involved got along great. “He was such a sweet guy,” said Tork. “It was really just a pleasure to have him around for company.” But the group’s young audiences, as well as their parents who often accompanied them at shows, didn’t feel the same way.

“[The parents] were probably not too crazy about having to sit through a Monkees concert,” said Dolenz, “much lees see this black guy in a psychedelic Day-Glo blouse, playing music from hell, holding his guitar like he was f—ing it, then lighting it on fire … Jimi would amble out onto the stage, fire up the amps and break into ‘Purple Haze,’ and the kids in the audience would instantly drown him out with, ‘We Want Davy!!’ God, it was embarrassing.”

Tork said that “it didn’t cross anybody’s mind that it wasn’t gonna fly.” But rumors began to surface that Hendrix was asked to leave the tour after the Daughters of the American Revolution complained about his “lewd and indecent” conduct during performances.

Legend has it that Hendrix flipped off the audience as he left the stage on that final date. Either way, Hendrix decided enough was enough, and asked to be released from his contract. “I was sorry to see him go,” wrote Dolenz. “We did have some great times, running around the New York City psychedelic scene like kids in a candy store, tripping at the Electric Circus and jamming until all hours of the night in the hotel room.”

Shortly after Hendrix left the tour, both ‘Purple Haze’ and ‘Are You Experienced?’ started to climb the charts, revolutionizing modern music in the process. And in certain parts of the world, the Monkees were viewed with just as much respect. While they were considered mostly a disposable pop band in the U.S., in the U.K. the Monkees were seen in a different, more kaleidoscopic light. A Melody Maker critic wrote about the band’s tour of England in 1967: ”I suddenly realized the Monkees were actually freaking out properly and much better than many of the much vaunted psychedelic groups.”
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[jeffrey]

Two Royal Albert Hall concert programmes

covers re-uploaded

 

[Metal Head Mike]

Jimi will live on forever through the new fans that discover his timeless music

 

[METALPRIEST]

Jimi Hendrix Documentary, Live Album Coming in November

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A new documentary about Jimi Hendrix will be released in November as the final part of a yearlong celebration of the late guitarist’s 70th birthday. A CD featuring previously unreleased concert performances will come out on the same day.

The two-hour documentary, titled ‘Hear My Train A Comin’,’ will also be shown on PBS as part of the ‘American Masters’ program on the same day of the DVD release, Nov. 5., according to The New York Times. The CD compiles two shows from the Miami Pop Festival on May 18, 1968, by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and includes faves like ‘Foxy Lady’ and ‘Fire’ as well as early performances of ‘Hear My Train a Comin’ and ‘Tax Free.’

Footage from the concert appears in the documentary, which features interviews with Hendrix collaborators, concert performances and a profile of the artist. Director Bob Smeaton, who’s worked on other Hendrix films in the past, told The New York Times that ’Hear My Train A Comin’ also reveals just how experimental Hendrix was with his music.

“You try to get to the real musicality of the guy, rather than just, ‘Here we go again, another guitar solo,’” he said. “You hear about Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth or behind his head. But he knew what he was doing. And that sometimes gets overshadowed by the crazy hair and the other stuff.”

The documentary and CD wrap up Experience Hendrix’s 12-month celebration of what would have been the music legend’s 70th birthday on Nov. 27, 2012. A new collection of studio outtakes, ‘People, Hell & Angels,’ was released earlier this year as part of the program.
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