He was “mainstream” for only 4 years, and been gone since 1970, and still considered the greatest.

You guys should definitely check out the incredible studio version of VOODOO CHILD.

Hi guys, to answer the question as to whether Jimi Hendrix wrote his own music: on the three studio albums he released with the Experience, the answer is absolutely yes he did, both lyrics and instrumentation, aside from a few well known covers (Hey Joe, and All Along the Watchtower). On the Band of Gypsys album, aside from Changes, which was a Buddy Miles song, he wrote I believe all the material as well including of course Machine Gun. To this day IMO his first album Are You Experienced is the greatest debut in the history of rock, and one of the greatest albums ever in any genre. He was an incredibly talented artist that the world sadly lost way too soon.

Yeah, Jimi Hendrix pretty much invented this guitar tone and style of playing.

If only Jimi was alive today. Can you imagine where R&B and rock would be today? Truly an amazing guitarist

They once asked Miles Davis what the difference was between a great musician and a gad musician. Legend is Miles said “The difference between a bad musician and a good musician is, a good musician can play what he hears… The difference between a good musician and a great musician is what he hears.” Jimi heard things nobody else heard and came along when amps and wah wah pedals and overdrive pedals were just starting. He was influenced by the blues musicians from Chicago and Texas… but he brought it all to another level.

Used to listen to all my Hendrix with all my Sabbath, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, and so on as a kid in the 70's. We just took all this great music for granted.

Studio version of the.complete song Voodoo Chile off Electric Ladyland, then follow with the Voodoo Chile (slight return) , immediately , this will have the impact of Machine Gun. Almost. More conplex, more beautiful, way more moving. Believe it. No one before or since sounded like him. No one, not even Stevie Ray Vaughan or Robin Trower, or Buddy Guy, great as they are in their own right.

Jimi did have various influences in the Blues genre of music: Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B.B. King, (and some various jazz musicians) but especially, blues guitarist, Albert King.

My face melted when I first heard Jimi

Jimi influenced many guitar players like Stevie Ray Vaughan who does an excellent cover of this song. Stevie Ray Vaughan ~Voodoo Child ~ Live From Austin T

He was the first artist, to have he's own purpose build studio, built to his requirements. He had a big hand in production. Eddie Kramer was he's main engineer, who's still around today.

What an incredible line "well I'm standing next to a mountain and I chopped it down with the edge of my hand" "pick up the pieces and make an island" the man was a true one of a kind.

Jimi was influenced by Buddy Guy, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf, Curtis Mayfield, mainly blues musicians.

You cats gotta do Hear My Train a Comin. Just Jimi on a stool with a 12 string acoustic guitar. Perfect blues, cool as f### & so humble. Great reaction ✊

He was a genius!

His dad bought him a guitar 🎸 he still played an upside down Fender Stratocaster. ... That's because almost all guitars in those days were made for right-handed players - especially in England

Jimi Hendrix was the most communicative spirit who could best express himself with his art and music. You can clearly see that he nestled his guitar against his body like another organ and mastered it perfectly. He used his guitar as an augmented tool of his expression. He also communicated with the colors, using colors as a guide for composing. greetings from the other side of the ocean.

This is live,and JIMI sounds like three guitarists

No version of Voodoo Chile is bad but check out the version he did at Woodstock sometime. Just incredible. Also, he certainly was involved in the production of his music and you are correct in his building his own studio and getting discovered first in the UK. But he went there to get popular first because of racism here in the USA

His influences were old blues and who knows what. Keith Richards' girlfriend, Linda Keith, brought Chas Chandler (Bass player for The Animals) to the Cafe Wha? in the Village of NYC. He became Jimmy's manager and brought him to London in 1966. Hooked up with Noel Redding on Bass and John "Mitch" Mitchell on drums. Became The Jimi Hendrix Experience and hit it big. London press dubbed him the Black Elvis. Paul McCartney recommended him for The Monterey Festival. Of course there are many more historical details... history and legend. Great reactions

He wrote most of his music including this tune.

No one played like Jimi #original #longlivejimihendrix

Yes Jimi wrote 90 percent what he played!

The best guitarist in history.

A 4 year Impact that is still felt today ! GOAT !! I have never heard a Guitarist make you feel what Jimi makes you feel ! He owned that guitar ! No one played like him. He was influenced by the blues greats. Muddy Waters and the like !

Jimi was the influencer. He played a right handed guitar upside-down and strung backwords because left handed guitars are not as available and cost twice as much. What you've listened to thus far was all revolutionary in the world of music. Jimi Hendrix was one of a kind. EVERY guitar player that has followed him is only imitating him. Jimi set the standards and the trend of feedback and shredding. This black man set the world of music on fire, you should be proud. His music was an influence on my own music as well.

Jimi was influenced buy muddy waters . Howling wolf . Buddy guy . Curtis Mayfield and all those old blues players. He just took it to a whole new level. He was the greatest .....

The first studio version is called "Voodoo Chile" Jimi was influenced by Blues players like Muddy Waters. I met the Bass player from the original recording Jack Casady he complimented me on my playing. I was using a tone very close to Jimi. That was in San Francisco in 1984. Jack Casady was the Bass player for The Jefferson Airplane.

1st time everyone saw him was Monterey Pop 1967. He did Hey Joe then busted his guitar(in the Rock HOF) and set it on fire chanting then busted his amps. The crowd was silent and in total shock. Minds officially blown. The King is here.

greatest guitarist of all time. R.I.P. JIMI.

There is a wonderful video/film of him performing voodoo Child with the experience “live in Maui 1970”. The audience is a large group of mostly white kids grooving along with the vibe in the style of the time don’t miss the girl on the floor at the four minute mark as she floats off into space Sadly this was one of his last performances because he died less than two months later but the wonderful quality of the sound and vision will keep him alive for decades to come

So if yall like Jimi Hendrix and the bluesy rock he plays perhaps you can go even further back and listen to Muddy Watters. I recommend Mannish Boy, it's a great song!

People today have a hard time understanding why Jimi was so amazing. He was not technically proficient with the guitar, as so many are today. However, you have to transport yourself back to a time when the music world had never heard anything like what Jimi was doing back then. He was unique in that time, and every guitarist in the game was frantically trying to figure out how to keep up with his innovative and stylistic approach to the guitar. He propelled the guitar game to a higher level in a very short space of time, and rock music ever after has been completely different because of Jimi. This is why he is so admired and respected as a guitarist to this day.

Blessed by the electric gods he was, period.

He played with the Isley Brothers and taught Jasper Isley before going to England. He was influenced by Bules guitarist but he was self taught which is why he held the guitar the way he did

Gone way too soon!! A legend is a understatement!!! ✌🏻✌🏻. This is 🔥🔥🔥🔥!! You need to see the video version and take it all in !! I agree!! No one could come close to his whole look, groove or vibe!! He really had it all !!! RIP JH🙏🏻

Even to this day there is Jimi, then there's everyone else. To steal a phrase, today's guitarists play twice as fast and half as good. He was the first to really convey different emotions and ideas while creating this huge soundscape full of different dynamic tonal colors, textures and images, all full of meaning. A true original. Jimi was a painter and a visual artist as much as he was a guitarist. His version of "Wild Thing" (which I doubt KZfaq will allow you to react to, even if you can find it) from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival is, if not his greatest live performance, certainly his most exciting and dynamic. To this day it is still shocking. Perhaps you could react to it without posting the video. I had the pleasure in seeing Jimi live 4 times before his death. What his studio performances don't capture is his personality. He was funny, incomprehensible, witty, forward thinking, spiritual, and just a bit shy. It was odd at the time to be one of few black people in the audience enjoying him. He was and remains truly amazing. We miss you Jimi.

Yes jimi produced and wrote all his music!!!!!

Jimi said to Buddy Guy the he, Buddy, was one of his teachers. Buddy had/has an aggressive blues styles with some tricks that he emulated. Buddy thought Jimi was the man, Buddy is a National Treasure.

Jimi died when I was 17! Still today am wondering how someone can play like that! He was a genius! God Bless him!

Pretty much the OG. No one sounded like this before him.

Has anyone ever been as cool as Hendrix? No, no one.

You raised a good question. Hendrix was influenced by early Rock and Roll artists, as all musicians of his generation were. And also all the classic Blues Artists, BB King, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Albert King, and Buddy Guy. He was a huge Bob Dylan and Beatles fan. He took song writing inspiration from Dylan, even though the musical styles were totally different.

So trippy and gigantic sound, love it

In the 50s and 60's a lot of African American artists performed in England, where they did not have the problems of rampant segregation and prejudice that was dominant back in the US at the time. They were a huge influence on many of the young rockers who formed the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and others who were part of the so called "British invasion" of rock in the 60s.. but really they were bringing the music back home !

Jimi hendrix played with Little Richard, James Brown, Isley Brothers!! To name a few!!🎶🎸🎵💰

WHEN LYNYRD SYNYRD SIGNED THERE 1ST DEAL THEY WERE HOLDING JIMIS STRAT AND WERE BLOWN AWAY...AND YOU ALREADY HEARD THE SOLO FROM FREEBIRD AND JIMI WAS THIER IDOL....HELLO!!!!!HENDRIX STARTED IT ALL AND HE WAS THE GREATEST

My first time watching one of your reactions. Well done! And thank you for reacting to my favorite music artist.

Yes he did produce his all music and wrote it as well.

It’s mind blowing that Jimi played an upside down right handed guitar left handed.

IMO what this man done for guitar players and music is the stuff of legends, unfortunately no one really thought much of him in the US until Chas Chandler ran into him in NYC and took him back to the UK, according to the history books the rest is history Not only a talent but setting the benchmark I could go on and on for hours about this guy lol I have played guitar for 30+ years and broken down many of his songs to learn there is nothing else like him, his lead was the first thing to melt my face but when I figured out some of his rhythm chops thats when I realized he was a flippin genius - in my world of course :-)

This is live. He built his own studio but hardly got to record there as it was barely finished by the time of his death. It still exists in NYC in Greewich Village. He played back-up to dozens of acts in the US including the Isley Bros, Little Richard, The Ronnettes, and others. Went on his own and was discovered by Chas Chandler, the bassist to the Animals, who brought him to the UK to start him off. His influences were the blues players and the british Blues-Rock players of the time who opened the door to Rocking high energy Blues. He was his own player though. He loved everything and absorbed music like a sponge. Loved classical jazz, folk pop. Everyone who ever met him said /says it - he was humble respectful and curious. A great artist with a great attitude. His inimitable sound comes from playing right handed guitars left handed along with his magical use of feedback and wah wah. and a couple of pedals.

The Animals manager heard Jimi playing with a band in New York and took him to London where it was happening, formed a three piece, making Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck jealous

The great jimi hendrix r.i.p🙏 keep up the great work really enjoy y'all reactions

Jimi Hendrix got started playing behind Little Richard. and The Isley Brothers.

Nothing really comes out of nowhere, and in art, that is just beautiful...

Do yourselves a favor, if you haven't already. Listen to "Electric Ladyland" It's Jimi at the top of his game.

MY OLDER FRIEND HAD AN EXTRA TICKET IN 1969 AND I WAS 11 YRS OLD AND MY MOM WOULD NOT LET ME GO...HE WAS ONE MAN ON THE GUITAR THERE WAS A BASE AND DRUMS...3 PIECE BAND...WHAT YOUR HEARING WAS HIM...WHEN JIMI WAS THE OPENING ACT NOBODY WANTED TO FOLLOW HIM

One things for sure …” there will never be another”…James Marshall Hendrix.

Hi, do not fall for the "Jimi Hendrix Drug Thing"...he was a hard working dedicated man who created something that will forever inspire the universe. He was always touring, recording, creating, writing, practicing and jamming. While guitar players like Clapton, Beck, Page, Townsend and others were over in Europe listening to Black music from America on the radio and trying to figure out how to play it...Jimi was actually out there playing it while he was touring the Chitlin Circut in the South with Little Richard, The Isley Brothers, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Wilson Pickett, Ike and Tina Turner, B.B. King, Curtis Knight and so many more. Jimi was no mimic of the music...he was the real thing. He also used his experience as a paratrooper in the milatary in his music as well. All of those sounds of bombs, sirens, flares, missles and screehes you hear coming from his music is because he lived it and that is his EXPERIENCE...not drugs. Jimi loved playing music and there are no accounts of Jimi ever not showing up for a performance or concert. The circumstances surronding his death could have occured at the hands of others and there are valid reasons to beleive it did and not by Jimi taking an overdose. Yes he partied, got high, experimented with some things (but who did not during those times) but he was not a strung out junkie but instead an innovator as a result of commitment, dedication, hard work and an extremely intelligent man who had a vision that was beyond most before and after him!!!

Jim hendrix ‘Fire’ is a great song

He was influenced by the Mississippi Delta Blues greats; and then he took Blues to outer space and back!!

His guitar was strung for right handers. He played it upside down, left handed

Jimi's rendition of the traditional Catfish Blues theme

Well I'll stand right next a mountain and chop it down with the edge of my hand... - Jimi Hendrix

Jimi was a one of a kind.

Jimi Hendrix music called Electric Church .

Not only did he write all but his covers and a few Buddy Miles songs, but he produced. His mixing was impeccable - requires no equalization on a top rate audio system.

Quite prophetic lyrics...'If i don't see you no more in this world, then i'll meet you in the next......' Hendrix was influenced by earlier blues and rock n roll /jazz guitarists. To me the best line up was Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox and the best performance live at Berkeley. The rendition of Machine Gun is out of this world.

'' Foxy lady''' '' Rock me baby'' from concert jimy plays Monterey 😍 Single "Angel" is a Nice ballad 👌🏽

He was discovered by Chas Chandler (of The Animals) in England '66. He was produced by Eddie Kramer, the best in the business. The LORD created him with a long thumb, like he had 6 fingers. This was his GOD-given gift he shared with the world. He was influenced by Robert Johnson. Played with Jimmy & Stacy band, then Little Richard, then taught Ernest Isley and played with Isley Brothers . 1st american tour was the 'warm-up' band for, get this, the Monkees. After 7 shows he unplugged and walked off stage. I saw him '69 and '70 in Memphis. GENIUS.

He was left handed and played the guitar upside down which could well have had a big influence. Southpaw guitarists usually restring it. I suspect he was jamming with friends sharing instruments and adapted.

He played in Ike Turners band, w/ Tina when he was still a teenager. I read that he couldn't read music and the other two members of the Experience said he communicated what he wanted from them by colors, like " gimme more orange" or whatever. Amazing talent...what could he have created had he lived past the age of 27!??

Check out Eric Gales band Sign Of The Storm 1991, he was a 16 year old Jimi.

Bob Dylan, James Brown, Bb King etc in 1960 is the influencer for Jimi Hendrix

What Jimi did was he played lead guitar and rithem! He made his guitar part of him!

It's easy to see why SRV liked him so much. I went out west once for vacation, so while traveling we went to his cemetery place and took a picture of his grave. Still got it. I think it was in Salem, Oregon

Jimi never really had a chance to use electric lady land He died shortly after it opened up. He did some recording in it but not a lot. He was already producing himself early on ie: electric ladyland was all his producing. And yes he wrote his own music and lyrics.

Oh i LOVE the Jimi Hendrix and SRV performances of this. But I also like how Chantel McGregor performs it." Chantel McGregor,Voodoo Child , Cambridge Rock Festival 2014 (they put the wrong song title)

Jimi said one of his IDOLs is Billy Gibson of ZZ TOP!

You can buy an effects pedal, but Jimmi went beyond that, to me he is still the GOAT!

That's the thing there was no blueprint for what he did (he was the architect) but he brought his R&B and blues experience and just played it from Mars and blew everyone's mind.

Red House or Winds Cry Mary are my favorite. Hendrix was awesome.

Nobody played like Jimi before or since. He took things from Robert Johnson, Buddy Guy, the trilogy of my blues brothers. He was the best, SRV was an imitation. Let's get back into it.

All I can say is that I picked up a guitar because of Mr. James Marshall Hendrix (From the US) and I am from the Dominican Republic..........THAT'S HOW BIG IS THE WORLDWIDE IMPACT THAT MR HENDRIX HAS HAD.

Hi Asia and BJ, First RIP Jimi, A Great song and I see the album is called Freedom which is another great song by him but, I think it may be legal, I cant find the studio version just a live version, where he's obviously high as many people were in the 70s, but it is still great

Thanks Jimi!

Nobody played like Hendrix before him, man. Nothing like him. Of course there's been a few who have tried to sound like him since, but nobody comes close.

Not many people know that Steve Winwood worked with Hendrix on this song. You should check out the Spencer Davis Group with Steve Winwood as a young kid. I’m a man or gimme some lovin are great songs.

Jimi learneom all the old blues players . He just turned the Amsterdam up to 10 and was the first to do that

He wrote his own stuff guys. There was the odd cover that he would do live - and very occasionally on record - but most of Jimi's material was his own.

Jimmy paid his dues always a journey man he even used play guitar for James Brown

The One and Only JIMI HENDRIX........

He also did write a lot of his own music and lyrics too

nobody played like him. he was totally blues, influencd by bb king, buddy guy, robert johnsonm and all the blues legends.

Jimi served in the U.S. Army!

Jimi was influenced by all the old blues and jazz players. But no one. Did what he was doing at the time . Remember this was back in the late 60s

Jimi wrote and produced all his music . He was influenced buy all the old blues players.

they didnt make Left handed guitar when he started so he flipped a righty and learned that...........AMAZING nobody can possibly sound like him...........strings are upside/backwards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??? imagine taking the piano and reverse the keys then be the best EVER ........................... FUCKIN CRAZY