Michael Harvill ....... Just.... No, I'm gonna let you work that one out on yer own, mate.

Michael Harvill Oh, don't be so bitter now, sweetie. You know I didn't mean it.

+matt short I'm not sure if that's true. There's a youtube recording of Jimi jamming WITH B.B. King.

yeah go cry over that

Jimi showed respect to those he learned from Buddy, BB and even Mike Bloomfield. He never tried to show them up like he did others (Clapton). Although he didn't mean any disrespect he just wanted to show them how good he was. They knew.

Haha - know what you mean...

Kamy GG it indeed is :))

Kamy .! Clever observation ...*

Jonathan Gomez trueee :-)

God bless them both

No they are not. They are awaiting the Great White Throne Judgement. They may be in a place like Lazarus. Read the Bible. Do not spread myths.

Nope, they're dead. The Big Sleep. Taking the dirt nap. You live, then you die. Move on.

Thomas Pick amen

I would probably cry

Trashy Channel I would definitely cry

@John Days They're not just people to him, they're most likely his idols, and in my opinion they are very well Legendary people. Stop it, please stop it sir. You must be fun at parties.

@John Days ..... Appreciating greatness is valid.

@John Days not really. Its just an excuse for anti social people to stay in their basements

BubbaZen10 I met BB King. He was kind of a dick.

and I met him at Montreux Jazz Festival, early 80's. He was polite and an absolute gentleman.

These 3 resposes are EXACTLY why you cant believe anything you read on the internet. Yeah your 12 second fucking interaction with another human beings says everything about them right? LOL im kind of a dick sometimes and polite other times as well. How about you dolts? Jesus lol

@@brianwilliams5662 thank you

@@brianwilliams5662 ....TRUTH. !*

Not only that imagine the looks on their faces when he played I mean hendrix got Clapton to walk off stage cause it shocked him how good he was

He said they were saying, "Be cool, Buddy!" Lol

There's a clip on KZfaq somewhere of this.

This have to be one of my favorite story ever ahaha Buddy guy is such a cool cat xD I keep coming back to this video from time to time

Have you heard the hendrix gig where he asks the crowd which blues legends they like and then he plays a short lick in their style? I love it. He was a scholar.

@@theinternetkilledmusic2054 Got a link for that? I'd love to see/listen to that stuff!

@@moose6182 I can't find that online but it is on the Jimi Hendrix Experience 4 Disk Box Set. It is on disk 2 where he asks the audience if they know Mississippi and asks if they know Muddy Waters and he plays a short lick in Muddy style, and then he asks if they know John Lee Hooker and he plays a short lick from him and then he plays a cover of Catfish Blues in Jimi style but you can hear the influence from all those guys. Great cover. There are also some recordings of him playing session before he became famous. He played with a lot of blues legends but wanted to branch out.

@@sabbracadabra8367 Thanks! I'll look it up :)

I got a good question for you Laurel, just your opinion, Michael Jackson had been know to have guitarist such as Van halen and Slash appear on his album, my question for you, if Jimi was still alive during that time , do you think Michael would have asked him to appear on any of his albums

I was thinking the same thing too.

Buddy, too! he would have been, what, 73 here? and he's very sharp as well. it's a bit impressive, the both of them.

Years of good living!

Except for the part where he forgot which way round a left-handed guy would hold a guitar, that was a funny little lapse.

shizzy35 black don't crack man...

BB's memory is innacurate. They did meet at least one more time in april 68. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8liYJlenrrQemg.html Im sure they exchanged a few words.

I feel like jimi wouldn't like to tell stories. "man I'm not worried about that stuff, it's all about now and what we are gonna do today" or something like that I bet

you just gave me goosebumps. you gotta be a magician.

Just think if Jimi and Stevie Ray Vaughan were both still around. I guess the world wasn't ready for that much guitar virtuosity at the same time.

Someone needs to start taking some LSD and riffing.

Don't worry i'm working on it ;)

Yes, you are, Bro.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLR8h6qYtbKahmg.html

that's my favourite jimi hendrix song, every single version he ever played is amazing

@Joshua Dowling waiting on the train...your right! Absolutely the best of the blues. But then especially on the rehearsal tracks Jimi really didn't want you to hear he unleashes some of the best hard rock soloing ever done. Still make my hair on my back stand up every time.

that's cool

“Stevie Ray Vaughn is dead, and they can’t get Jon Bon Jovi on a helicopter.” - Denis Leary, stealing Bill Hicks’ joke.

Saw him in NOLA, the man knew how to perform for an audience. And almost impossible to imitate unless your timing, bends, and vibrato are spot on.

Rip The King, RIP my guitar hero Hendrix. -Г- vсk paIastine💥🎆🎇

still true 11 years later. just saw him again last week and he is still bringing it. seeing him again in October, can't wait!

@@bryanmannoia8410 Great to hear he is still killing it at 86 years old

Just saw him in France last weekend. Still the best bluesman you can see on a stage. I'm still mind blown by the show he gave

He played near my town a few years back, & I was blown away. First off, his band was incredible by themselves, & he walked out & all around in the crowd, even up to the top of the bleacher seats I was sitting in, all the while playing brilliantly. Never seen anything like that live. I respect & appreciate the Hell out of blues music, but I don't listen often to it, but Buddy's blues are an exception, he's one of a relative few that can truly make his guitar sing or cry like it's a living, breathing organism. Again, I was mesmerized watching & listening to him play.

big phil...Jimi was all about the blues!

Rip The King, RIP my guitar hero Hendrix. -Г- vсk paIastine💥

I once heard an old blues man say: "It gotta be in ya before it can come outta ya." They were a product of everything they experienced and everything they learned. This world may spin around a billion more years, but it won't ever come back by this spot. Treasure what we were privileged to have.

@@dpatrick5164 Amen, Bro.

Wow to share the same air with a legend like that is something but to be friends with one is a whole other thing. Do you have any other stories that you remember from those days?

case in point kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8uqlNGfst7GZ6c.html

Robin Trower man ..

Way to make it about yourself. No one came here to read about your husband. Famous people go to a different heaven than regular people anyway...

Justin Bieber and his flock of sheep I expect....

well, you'd not see them dead, in Brazil; since they didn't die there. LOL but, I get what you mean... peace...

just saw this clip and wondered the same thing. I've corrected many people who say Hendrix played a right handed guitar without changing the strings around. Every video I've seen debunks that, I wonder why BB said that?

Dunno... even in old pics of Jimi with "...the Flames" (?)... if you look closely you can see low E at top.

Because he could play both ways. It didn't matter if the guitar was configured for right handed or left handed people. Just goes to show how good he was.

buddinmaplestory buddinmaplestory - I did some googling and found some posts to back up what you're saying. I am pasting here: James Marshall Hendrix was naturally left-handed but his father, Al, initially tried to force the young James to play right-handed. Al Hendrix reportedly believed playing left-handed was a sign of the devil. Why so? It has its roots in language. “Sinister”, in ancient Latin, means “left” and also “unlucky” - in modern times someone “sinister” is un-trusted or even evil. These linguistic oddities persist. “Right” means “correct” in English, obviously. In French, “gauche” means both “left” and “awkward.” So, even in language, left-handers get a bum deal. Jimi Hendrix tended to write right-handed - there are photos of Jimi signing autographs and writing lyrics right-handed. And Jimi did learn to play guitar right-handed, as demanded by his father Al. Jimi modified his first (right-handed) guitars for his natural leftism - restringing and changing the nut. But when Al was around, he felt he had to play a right-handed guitar simply flipped over (treble E at the top). So Jimi taught himself to be “both-handed.” Free’s Paul Kossoff, when he was a young guitar salesman in London, once recalled Jimi circa 1967 trying a guitar in the shop where Koss worked, and simply flipping it over so the treble E was closest to his face. And Hendrix still played brilliantly. Maybe all this explains why Jimi could play just about anything on the guitar?

Dennis Parrish Gary Moore was left-handed, but learned to play right-handed, and continued to play right-handed all the way through his life. Some say that was part of the reason he had so much control and strength in his fretwork, and why his pick hand position always seemed a bit odd, compared to what we normally see.

@God Love he could play it with the strings upside down. That's how he originally learnt it was only later that he did switch the strings around, here's a video with rolling stones n him picking up a strung up righty guitar flipping it and playing just fine. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNehlNpqzrSUeqc.html

Mr. Bludclot its not spam. unflagged.

William Seroyer He did, but according to BB he could play it either strung properly or literally upside down.

William Seroyer no, his guitar was upndown, stringing was standard

john pshitek He could do it all man lol once he got big and could afford stuff he always played regularly stringed but I read this biography on him where people are quoted saying that he could play a guitar left handed or right handed and just flip a guitar over with upside down strings and play it just as good.

Travis Gooden Yes indeed !!, Jimi knew the Guitar inside-out, there are many people who have witnessed Jimi play upside-down, right handed & every other way, He was ambidextrous like many Genius' are, Peace.

+MrJeditwinz Wow..that's something.

Grumberf Warcraft' Keith Richards taught ike open G tuning by gun point

He did not write Hey Joe

Hey joe is basically a old cowboy tale he turned into a blues song with his own lyrics

The spelling whyyyyy son

@Ulysses432 little richard said it in an interview ' i had to fire him ;he was stealing my show "