Jimi is the foundation upon which all the greats were built. After 40 years of listening to rock, I've learned to not try to label someone as the greatest musician of their craft. When someone enters that coveted space of greatness, that's it! "The greatest" is a personal choice. Jimi is a guitar legend. He will always be amongst the greatest of all time. And his clothes....the man had swag before swag was a thing. Look at Prince and tell me where he got his style. Even SRV had that Jimi swag going to some extent. RIP to the master.

Jimi was The Baddest guitar player since the beginning of time.

Thank you for giving Jimi the credit and acknowledgement that he deserves. People don't seem to realize that he was doing all this in the late 60's. So far ahead of everybody else. Since this appears to be the second time that you've listened to "Hey, Joe", were you aware that he played a right handed guitar...but played it left handed upside down. 😲 My personal favorite is Jimi's cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower". SideNote: I'm not taking anything away from Stevie Ray Vaughn. What a gifted talent gone to soon.

Jimi was first and foremost an INNOVATOR, from the guitar sonically to fashion to showmanship to SWAG!!! He is the giant whose shoulders the rest try to attain... Plays guitar with his teeth, chews gum, sings, flirts with the audience and does it all making it look easy, yet none can ever copy...

When comparing Hendrix and SRV is a diservice to the tallents of both. Hendrix was the true pioneer, the experimental creative master of rock guitar, that SRV admired. Hendrix was 20 yrs before Stevie. Doing things that nobody ever heard of before back then and he shocked the world. One of his girl friends said he was like a wild man from Borneo with his look and wild flamboyant appearence and sound on stage. He was one of the kindest persons they said. Hailing from Seattle. To bad the drugs got him early though. RIP You must not overlook his Band of Gypsies stint. I think it was a cool unique sound. Buddy Miles on drums.

Jimi is definitely one of the most ground breaking, influential and special artists of the 20th century. One of a kind ☮️

So important to see what Jimi was doing on stage. Using his teeth, playing one-handed, behind his back and head, his sexual guitar use. Yet his playing was also phenominal, both raw and refined, a totally original pioneer. The topic of "Frontmen" has come up. Hendrix was a true guitarist frontmen, holding the stage with his theatrical playing style. Pete Townshend "The Who" was an agressive "Frontman guitarest" who influenced Jimi's stage performance and distortion use.

Hendrix is technically very proficient and way ahead of his time! Hes even listed in thr Rock Hall of fame as the greatest instrumentalist to every play guitar! Ive been playing for over 40 years and he still amazes me! hes the best Guitar player to ever pick up the instrument!

Nice to give a shout out to drummer Mitch Mitchell... a god in his own right.

The drummer Mitch Mitchell use to score commercials and movies before joining Hendrix. Hendrix was above all rock guitarists. He was the goat they'd say today. He not only played fantastic he wrote and sang. This is one of the few covers he did but he did great job with it as he did Dylan's Watchtower.

What's up, MMB? Nice watching you react to Jimi! Yes indeed, he was an original so much back then (well over 50 years ago) with his aura, his fashion (very much his own), his guitar playing, and his music! Hendrix was considered to be in class all his own!!

I agree with others that comparing SRV to Hendrix is unfair to both of them. SRV played very technical and clean, intensly focused on traditional Blues, without being a theatrical "Frontman" performer. In contrast, Hendrix was impossible to look away from on stage, while blowing the doors off Rock music. Jimi revolutionized guitar, and his technique influenced everyone including SRV. If SRV has the "technical" edge, Hendrix was the originator, and dominated as a Rock performer.

This was the song that i discovered the GOAT that is Jimi Hendrix, my absolute fav song from him

The look on you youngins faces when you see Jimi get outrageous is effing priceless 😅😅😅

Great reaction again Old quote.. " If Jimi ain't your favorite guitar player, he is Your favorite guitar player's favorite guitar player" !!!!!

Linda Keith (a model and Keith Richard's girlfriend) saw Jimi and was blown away. Invited many producers to see him and they all passed until she met with Chas Chandler, bassist for the animals, who was looking for an act to manage. He wanted somebody to record hey Joe specifically, walked in to see Linda's guy and lo and behold its Jimi playing Hey Joe. It was fate. Chas signed jimi and took him to England, formed the band and the rest is history. Hey Joe gave jimi his big break as a solo artist. He had been playing with little Richard and the isley brothers Ike turner etc before getting his own group together in NYC (blue flames) and then the experience in England. Great job can't wait for more Jimi!!

He had a voice that was out of this world.

Played the guitar upside down and backwards with his teeth doing a solo... what I'd give to see this live.

The guy was a literal alien. Dude had SOUL.

All time favorite Jimi song!!

I dig where you're coming from in trying to quantify who and what Hendrix was. People like to get into the GOAT conversations. They prove to be tiresome. Folks who would put SRV above Hendrix are responding from an American Idol place. They are looking at clean technique and production quality. The thing about Stevie is that he was the sum of his influences. If you want to dig down on that, you HAVE to dig into Albert King, and a little bit into Wes Montgomery to begin to get a picture. Hendrix was also in a lot of ways a collection of influences. Look at Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, and maybe some other blues cats who came ten or twenty years before Jimi. But the real thing to look at is the body of work. The songs. Hendrix would tell you in a second that he was not the greatest anything other than maybe being the greatest Hendrix... And that might depend on the day But he is a class of artist that I would compare to someone like Fredrick Chopin. Part of the reason I say that has to do with how the fingers fall on the instrument in the context of the composition. It's about the nature of the hands and the expression that flows naturally from that. Watch his interviews on the Dick Cavett show.

U have just witnessed the greatest guitar God ever!

Those other guys are all great but they were able to live and play longer honing their skills. Jimi passed at 27 just before the prime years of 28-34 so imagine how much better Jimi would of been had he been alive for a longer time. Yet in his short time he became legendary.

Guitar Masters are much more than technical guitar playing they understand mixing, producing and editing their sound, to MAXIMIZE their effects. Jimi and Jimmy not only are musically gifted they are playing Rhythm AND Lead guitar as one, but they also know how to make their music sound full and very different. Jimi stands out as being Lead Singer, as well. The fact that most of his work was done from 1962-1970 makes him most influential to late 60's/70's bands, including Jimmy Page.

Dude was in a flow state. Whatever was going to happen was going to be other worldly. It had no other choice. The stuff flowed out of him like blood moving through our veins. It just happens.

JIMI IS THE COOLEST, GREATEST GUY EVER😂✌️🌹❤️

Hey..,you do know he playing that guitar upside down,don’t ya…👍✌️

Jimi's otherworldly performances were enabled by a. genius-level natural guitar proficiency and b. epic amounts of drugs LOL

Jimi Hendrix was a natural musician - make no mistake, he worked like a man possessed at his craft, but had a very unique approach to playing the guitar. One of the things that made him so compelling, was that he had a very open ear for guitar music. He was an rnb guitarist, but unlike most of the other guitarists who worked the chitlin circuit of his generation, his reverence was reserved for classic blues, and he also absorbed things from folk, surf music, Jazz etc - Dick Dale, Dylan, and also later the amplified experiements in the U.K music scene. Hendrix was NOT a "Rock" guitarist, because Rock was a label invented to draw parameters around late 60s music by record labels to sell it a commodity to affluent middle class kids. Jimi Hendrix was a Electric Guitarist - and there IS a big difference - He didnt want to have a career as a posing "Rock Star" He was not interested in trendy genres and slotting into a nice comfy box to line his pockets, he was 100% dedicated to exploring MUSIC. Just grab his albums, and you will hear an artist who NEVER repeats himself- Then listen to his more obscure peices like "Pali Gap", "Villanova Junction":Live at Woodstock, or "Hey Baby"/ "New Rising Sun" : Live at Berkeley, and you soon realise that he was taking music to another place, and not just repeating the past for a new audience. A musical explorer and visionary who marched to his own drumbeat always. His indelible influence is on Rock Music, Funk Music, Soul Music, Hip Hop Music, Jazz, Blues, Electronic, Fusion, Reggae. Theres Hendrix, and then theres everyone else. To me Jimi Hendrix will always be the Alpha and Omega of electric guitar .🎸 🔥🔥🔥

You got a lot of listening to Hendrix to understand how good this man really was, I mean, he was the innovator and a lot of what you hear today is because of Hendrix that's all Vi got great Respect for but when I think about a guitar player. I think about Jimi Hendrix. The first hour my brother brought home. Was Jimi Hendrix and he said listen to this guy. I listened to that 1 album. All day

It takes time to get into Jimi! Listen with your feelings and deep coolers! Everything you hear is authentic and will only appear that precise moment! All the others just learnt how to play a specific version! Saw him twice!

Jimmy Hendrix is the GOAT a lot wish they could play like me

Jimi set his guitar on fire after every performance. Check out his Woodstock performance. His rendition of the Star Spangled Banner is epic.

Dude. All I'm going to say is this was 1967. Stevie Ray was probably the most technically proficient but he was 12-13 years old when Jimi was laying down this performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. 'Nuff said.

Grew up with This music. It was Jimi all the way. What a loss.

He’s the king. ❤

Thank you for reacting to this with that umph you did after his playing by teeth. Jimi is the shit. 😎👍

Hendrix changed the landscape for a wave of players. He was revolutionary.

He was a Force of Nature that broke the sound barrier of what a guitar could sound like.--And a huge inspiration on guitar players up until this very day..

JIMI STARTED IT ALL, But JIMI and STEVIE came from the SAME HERD of GOATS and THEN THERE IS EVERYBODY ELSE!!🐐🐐🎸🎸🔥🔥😁😁😍😍🤯🤯🤪🤪

Stevie Ray Vaughn emulated Jimi Hendrix at time but is a separate artist. He loved his music and was a Hendrix fan. This was a great reaction.🔥💖👏

Beautiful

Hendrix did it first and all others after him took what he did and made it their own like SRV. Even Neil Peart from Rush got his inspiration from Keith Moon and Bonham and they got their inspiration from Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. Each Generation builds on the ones that came before. Cheers,

yeah Jimi Hendrix is the greatest in terms of his production his lyricist and his guitar playing as a whole he's

I don’t know if the clip is on KZfaq, but find the clip from Monterey Pop where he literally set his guitar 🎸 on fire 🔥 To see the drummer better, see the black n white clip of Hey Joe

Best guitar player EVER!🔊🇺🇸

James Marshall Hendrix 😊

This is how string cheese and string spaghetti was invented. Someone saw this man trying to eat his strings....💡!....💰🤑

Jimi is the top of the ladder, the rest followed him but they reached half way in the ladder.

Jimmy hendrix is the greatest rock 🎸 of all times hands down

Jimi has gone far beyond "technicality". there's Jimi and there's the rest!

Drugs have taken so many great people away from us. Jimi Hendrix was a virtuoso.

He wasn't trying to play guitar behind his head, he was trying to fix his 'Fro in the middle of his set.

machine gun is a great song also that jimi did

Anyone that tells you that Hendrix was not and still is the greatest Rock Guitarist that ever lived is not a Musician.

Got to watch VooDoo Child live in Maui

You're right... Can't learn what he has...

Self taught guitarists like Hendrix didn't follow the rules. They made their own rules. Even today the people who are considered great guitarists make their own rules. And most of them claim Jimi Hendrix as their main influence. And great drummers also make their own rules. The same with all great musicians and even singers. The greats don't follow anyone's rules but their own.

The guitar, and especially his guitar, is SECONDARY. His strongest ability was the composition and creation of great songs. He doesn't sound good just because he was a great guitarist . . . He sounds good because the songs are good. Music is fundamentally a concept, an idea. Then everything after that are simply material components.

In the studio version, he sings much better. Also, Jimi didn't have a properly built left-handed guitar. This Fender is upside down, pick guard and all. Everything else, like the bridge had to be put on backward, the strings are on the wrong tuning pegs and I can't even address the pickups. I wonder if Fender ever stepped up an made him a proper guitar. Anyone?

Jimi broke ground, he made it ok to go and try anything with the guitar, or any instrument for that matter. There were others doing it before him, but he decided he wasn't going to have any limits and he changed intuitive blues forever. Before this, you might have only thought of jazz players taking risks But the risks Jimi took were above and beyond. Not everything came out good, his guitar got out of tune alot, as today they don't get out of tune so easy. But he could get out of tune, make a mistake, or even do something he didn't like and make a face when these things happened. He gave the kind of smile that was saying, who gives a phuck Because the magic with Jimi is no matter what he did, he always looked cool doing it. Some might sum him all up with just that and they wouldn't be wrong. And when it comes to SRV and Jimi. Why do you think he did so many of Hendrix's songs? It was because he absolutely idolized him.

Jimi is the MAN. Grew up with him.

Jimmi hendrix plays the lead & rythmn guitar at the same time. SRV is just straight lead.

People talk about being technical, but Jimi was getting sounds out of his guitar and equipment that it was not meant for. Rock and Roll in itself is not technically correct ,but Jimi made it a free for all

Its so hard to say who was better, SRV or Jimi.. To me (and this is all subjective) SRV was more jaw dropping to watch, but Jimi was first and was a HUGE influence to Stevie. Stevie is Stevie BECAUSE of Jimi Hendrix.. and Hendrix never knew of Stevie.

You can say what you want about all those other guitarists..but he came before them all..and he played raw. Not with the technology that those that came after him had the fortune to have.

WILD THING FROM THIS SAME CONCERT WILL TAKE U SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR SURE.

There is no comparison there's jimi then theres the rest

Im old and nothing against Stevie but Jimi is the GOAT.

Jimi was the first to do all those crazy things with his guitar. We wouldn’t be talking about SRV if it wasn’t for Jimi Hendrix the GOAT. SRV was playing stuff Jimi invented. SRV was good, but he was just a clone of Jimi, even down to his clothes he wore. Without Jimi there wouldn’t be a SRV. Just look at Rolling Stone’s Top 100 guitar players, SRV didn’t even make the top 10.

This was 20 years before Stevie Ray he took a lot of his act from Jimmy he even seems most of Jimmy songs

what makes you think hes not up there with his technical abilities?

Whether it's originality, or emotionally, or technically, Jimi Hendrix towers over the rest. If you really want to hear why Jomi was the best, listen to "Machine Gun" from his 1970 BAND OF GYPSYS album. It will make your jaw drop.

Stevie Ray said Mr. Jimi was the best. I will defer to him.

A terrible terrible loss.

Believe it or not, a white dude wrote this song. This is a cover.

Comparing Jimi to SRV, Paige and I've even heard (laughably Eric Clapton) is like comparing Damien Hirst to Michelangelo. Get a grip guys.

The drummer is white..mitch Mitchell.. Jimi is the one. Jimi Plays rythm and solis all the same..

Not one of the guitar players you mentioned can chew gum like Jimi can.

Noone was better than hendrix. And I beg to differ, I dont believe Stevie was more technical than Jimi. So whoever says that just lying to themselves. Jimi was highly technical and most of all Jimi created his own sound. Stevie was heavily influenced by Albert King so you hear that a lot in Stevie's playing where as Jimi sounded like Jimi.

All Rahat and chewing gum the whole time.

Don't rank guitarists against each other.. Stevie was influenced by Hendrix and Albert King. Hendrix was influenced by BB King and Muddy Waters. Page was influenced by Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson. Clapton was influenced by BB King and Robert Johnson. None of them would have been what they were without the previous generation of guitar players. Each generation built off of the previous, So without Robert Johnson, there'd be no Waters, or the Kings, or Hendrix, or Stevie Ray. In the end they are all blues guitarists. If you 're interested int he blues. The original player is Robert Johnson. The 2 guys who influenced the guitar gods of the 60s and 70s, Muddy Waters and BB King. I've always been a big Hendrix fan, but when it comes to the blues, my choice is BB King. If you want some BB King songs, "How blue can you get", "duet with Etta James - "There's Something on your mind", "Lucille"

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Jimi was not of this planet.

Dude this ain't nothing and it ain't about the tricks!!... If you dont at least to his cover of Johnny B Good then you aint seen nothing!! The Johnny B Good cover he does is about the best you can get out of youtube!

SRV isn’t even better than Eric Clapton so how he’s better than Jimi.

Stevie Ray Vaughan is a copy artist of Jimi… Does all his moves and even steals his music… Hendrix changed music with all his distortion and effects… Stevie didn’t

Jimi changed the way people looked at and played the guitar! Until Jimi hit the scene, nobody knew that a lot of the things Jimi did was even possible!

Jimi hendrix, who practiced all day long throughout his entire life. Who's career was 4 years long, and pioneered the entire sound of music after him. Anyone who doubts his technical ability does not understand enough about guitar to speak on it

Hendrix is the greatest guitarist ever. I dont give a shit what anybody says. He took shit to another level