Albert saw the writing on the wall with Jimi! He wasn’t just a blues player. He was an innovator. He took blues, jazz classical and something from God and made music totally unique that had never been heard before in the history of mankind! Albert was a light bearer. We wanted to pass the torch on to someone else. Jimi was lighting his own flame!

I didn't really get Hendrix until I played an R$B steps gig for 6 months in the mid 1980's. 60+ hours a week in the club. I think he had it all together on guitar around the time of Mercy Mercy in 1965. Obviously Hendrix loved blues but he never claimed to be a blues player or any kind of player. Dylan's lyrics are what inspired him to become what he became. One of my favorites is Castles Made of Sand. In my opinion, All Along the Watchtower is one of the most well crafted and haunting solos ever recorded. It's not a contest. If you put the time in and practice blues like crazy you will get good at it. There's just much more to Hendrix than blues, or R&B, or rock.

RIP Jimmy , Stevie & Albert, your music brought me so much joy.

If it wasn’t for Hendrix we wouldn’t even be talking about Stevie or Al

Hendrix was a man much ahead of his time...and till today no one has been ever closer

I personally don’t think Albert hated Jimi. While he stated that Jimi couldn’t play the blues, it’s evident that he did respect him and write songs together with him. During the beginning of Blues at Sunrise, Albert says that he wrote it with Hendrix and Janis Joplin. A few mins in, he says “Now see, you got to play the Jimi Hendrix thing…cause he was on this too”. Now… Albert was a traditional Bluesman. His style was simple and all about soul. Jimi was a fusion of rock & blues. His style was more modern and playful. I think what Albert didn’t like was that Jimi was very outrageous during his career. He would sometimes smash and ruin guitars & amps because he was a showman. Albert was more a traditional man when Jimi was like the rebellious kid who does what he wants. Albert stuck to blues and hendrix played blues when he wanted to play blues. Two very different styles too. Jimi favored effects and loved making new sounds. His sound really went hand in hand with the psychedelic movement. He wanted to push the Stratocaster to its full potential. Albert was strictly about being a good clean cut player and playing with heart. He didn’t care about using all kinds of effects. That said, all three of these players are among the best there ever was. All three influential in their own right. All three continue to inspire generations of guitar players. Let’s just appreciate that all three were filmed during their careers and we can learn from them.

I will not compare these gentlemen to each other in any which way.I am a fan of all three of them. Gentlemen RIP we miss you all.

I love Albert King. I love SRV. But Jimi is the man. Psychedelic Blues.

Albert heard Jimi’s version of Born Under a Bad Sign and never recovered from the damage to his ego. Not only schooled by Jimi but using his own track too. King cried himself to sleep for the rest of his life.

Some of SRV's tone was similar to Hendrix for sure, but the phrasing in Vaughn's soloing was always like Albert King on steroids, to my ears. King got a little extra out of his bends since he was pulling his strings down (with his guitar being strung upside down), but SRV was still able to mimic that while bending them up.

I loved Albert King's playing, he was undoubtedly a great bluesman. I also loved SRV's playing, despite it being clearly derivative of Jimi's. And yeah, you could hear Albert King's influence on Stevie, as well. One thing you don't hear mentioned a lot is Albert King's influence on David Gilmour's playing. It's all over Pink Floyd. I think Albert was jealous of Jimi's playing in some respects and just didn't understand the "psychedelic/hippie thing". He wasn't the only bluesman to feel this way toward Jimi. He mentioned the burned guitars, and the spearing the amp cabinets, and so on, and I think he thought that was disrespectful. Stevie was an absolutely electrifying live performer, but he wasn't super original in what he did. He was still AWESOME! But Jimi was, is, and remains the very best, most innovative electric guitarist ever. There are guitarists now who can play a lot faster, have cleaner and more impeccable technique, but you have to remember that Jimi did this over 50 YEARS AGO. Nobody was doing what he was doing, and although there are dozens, maybe even hundreds of guitarists now with superior technique, none of them have been as over the top in terms of innovation as Hendrix. They also play MUCH nicer guitars, more versatile amps, far better effects pedals, and have studio tools that were far beyond anything available in Jimi's time. Eddie Van Halen never gave Hendrix credit either. He said "Clapton was a bigger influence" than Hendrix. Okay man, if you say so.

If you're talkng straight blues, I agree with Albert about Jimi.

I think both Jimmy and SRV was super talented guitar players in their own way. ITS hard to compare ART 😊

All 3 are great players, & they all took the guitar to the next level, Jimi took music to the next level, far beyond what blues alone could achieve.

Didn't need the dramatic sounds when Albert King was speaking of Jimi Hendrix. His opinion was worthy of respect.

I think it's fairly clear that Albert resented Jimi's success, and when someone feels the need to be that negative about another artist, the motives do not generally come from a good place.

Make no mistake, Albert was Stevie's main influence. Watch the session with he and Albert, and it's quite obvious. Hell, you can actually hear Albert in damn near every note Stevie played. I agree that Jimi was a major influence on Stevie, but in respect to pushing the limits of his abilities as a guitarist and the limits of what his guitar could do in a technical sense. As a result, Stevie took Blues to a place it had never been before by laying the foundation for what we know today as 'Blues Rock'. As we all know, Stevie liked to push the envelope (Hendrix-style), but his baseline was always Albert King.

Interesting. There is a great Michael Bloomfield interview where he talked about jamming with Hendrix. Bloomfield was intimidated by Hendrix and said something to the effect of, "I just stood there thinking to myself, 'God damn I wish I was Albert King right now'." Meaning you would need to be Albert King to blow Hendrix off the stage. I guess Albert King would agree with that.

It all subjective. They are both great guitarists. Some like one, some the other. Its the way it is in comparing anything.

I thought about that. Thanks for posting!

each of the three were hall of fame legends, however what Jimi did was to take the guitar and drive it into areas that changed how guitarists could really play and sound. When you can impress musicians like Clapton, Page, McCartney, Townsend then you truly are a legend. Really since then EVH would only have the influence on so many future musicians and equipment design. I have nothing but respect for Hendrix, SRV, and King for their contributions and musical genius they left us all.

SRV was great, no doubt. But Jimi was the master and Stevie would be the first to admit it. Love them both.

Stevie was a better blues player than Jimi. However, when Jimi put his heart into it, he took off. Red house by Hendrix still reaches me to my soul. That version is one of the best electric blues songs ever.

Albert was very jealous of Hendrix. Not to mention, Stevie Ray worshipped Albert King like he was a god, which stroked Albert's ego. Jimi respected Albert but didn't kissed his butt. Hendrix was an innovator. Huge innovator.

I remember the King does The King’s Thing record which was covers of Elvis songs.

All three are great guitar players. You almost have to get into Albert Kings head to understand his thoughts. He couldn’t get past any variation other than blues. Jimi played it all while having a blues and rhythm and blues style was totally unique, inspirational and set a standard for so many future guitar players. Plus, the songs he came up with and the arrangement and the tone of his voice was also so very impressive. Stevie really laid out southern rock and blues style. He was so strong. Only getting better. You have to consider that both Stevie and Jimi learned a lot of their blues from Buddy Guy. And I know that Buddy loved Jimi Hendrix, and looked at Stevie as a son. It’s all great music and has helped the progression of what’s happening today.

People never called Hendrix a blues player when he broke out with Are You Experienced (Hey Joe in UK). He defined acid rock. Most of us white teenagers back then never heard of the blues. (I remember playing some scales on the piano with some inadvertent blue notes-I was supposed to be practicing my lessons-and my old man came through the room, said, “That’s the blues!” I didn’t have a clue what he was talking about. I quit school early as legal and went to the West Coast where I heard Robert Johnson for the first time. “Wow! I love this kinda music! What is it?” My squeeze at the time-who was several years older n me said, “That’s the blues!” At least I understood her better now than I did my old man). But I’ve been playing the blues ever since I first heard it-over 50 years by now. (I was raised on C&W). After Hendrix died, people-including me-said he was a kind of blues player-but only a special kind. But I never thought of him as a “real” blues player. He was too avant garde. But if you asked me who was the better player, regardless genre, I’d have to say Jimi: look how much he got done before dying at only 27! Don’t get me wrong: I love Albert. In fact, I strung my Les Paul upside down (I’m right-handed), put some slinky strings and tuned it to the open tuning Albert used so I come get that sound ( really the only way) and I was just practicing on it (the curve is steep) when I saw this question. So now you have MY answer.

Well, Jimi played blues influenced psychedelic music, as one did in those days. SRVwas much more of a "true" blues player. Albert King was probably also a bit jealous of Jimi's success in those days. And also he had played with SRV before, Stevie expressing his admiration for him. He never met or played with Hendrix. If he had, and Jimi had told him he admired him, he might have had a different opinion about him.

I really hate it when musicians disparage each other. Just say something nice or don't say anything at all.

I just wanted to add (…in case anyone doesn’t know this, you all probably do), Stevie loved Jimi and was crushed when he died. Stevie moved to Austin and cycled through various bands, but after a club called ‘Anton’s’ opened in Austin-a club that could afford to get real blues singers to come from Chicago and play, Stevie was exposed to many more blues men he had heard on albums and admired. Albert King was known to be a no nonsense man who didn’t give a damn about what some white people thought about him. In fact, Stevie had already owned (borrowed!!) a King album, definitely admired Albert King, and al-ways cited him as an important influence. Knowing this, one night the owner asked Albert King whether Stevie could join him on the bandstand, and Stevie played Albert King licks, and Albert King was definitely impressed by young Stevie, altogether, and to quote a wonderful singer of that era, who Stevie brought to Carnegie Hall, ‘it was a wonderful night-everyone was so happy for Stevie, and it was just beautiful.’❤️I recommend the documentary for rent on utube, but the two part ‘Amplified’ series on SRV is well worth watching, and heartbreaking, as it part ll focuses more on how he met Jana Lapinsky in NZ, only sixteen, and how she was by his side when he was hospitalized …and the wedding and children they were planning. Truly gut wrenching. I can’t say it’s fair to suggest any drama about the fact that King merely accurately described Jimi as not a blues player. In fact, their performance in Canada together was after Stevie had recorded Testify, from the Isley Brothers, when Hendrix was in it. It’s beautiful to see this live televised performance together, recorded immediately after Stevie fi-nal-ly was signed, and having left the David Bowie world tour-Stevie determined to make his music his way. He had earned Albert King’s love and respect, plain to see in the live recording on Canadian TV. (ps, in fact I was buying blues CD compilations made in Canada in the 1990’s) SRV had reportedly been turned down from everyone from Epic to The Rolling Stones-the A&R ‘suits’ who thought it wasn’t ‘marketable’ because of the eighties MTV synthetic sounds (🙄-so damned dumb!) even the Stones label choose not to sign him.

I gotta tell you bro, everything about SRV’s playing, guitar, string thickness. Neck, styling was tailored after MR ALBERT KING, nobody could play for long the setup Stevie had which was MR KING, that speaks far more to his likening style of King than covering Jimi’s two songs, which I’ll add as many black musicians have stated, was in fact better than the original, all due respect to Jimi, I was all over him in high school, but I’m a blues man inside and out, and the first time I heard MR KING, I was reborn, in fact all three Kings were all Blues kings in their right and my, at the time, 8 tracks and LP’s were deep with these men’s works among many others, and if you FEEL the blues and or the style, and you pick up and play the instruments and importantly, their setups, you’ll get the point of Stevie’s emulation of Mr King. Not many guitar played could play Mr Kings hard thick stings, board and bend for very long at all, maybe on a good night, 15-20 minutes and they’d all be jammed up and cramped, these two men could do it all night long!

SRV was a better singer and had a bit more speed in his fretting hand. Jimi is more or less unparalleled in creativity, IMO. I can only imagine the things he could have conjured up with the technology we've had available over the last 20 years. He also drew inspiration from a much broader range of music styles than most, and I think that allowed him to create these textured, layered songs with so much depth to them. This is not to downplay Stevie in any way, shape, or form. Stevie did much like Jimi did, and grabbed inspiration wherever it presented itself and he made it his own. And he played some of the most beautiful, soulful blues ever recorded.

One of the best tv recordings ever.

All three of these artist are unique in their own way. Art, wether it's painting, poetry, photography or music can be interpreted in 100 different ways by 100 people. If it doesn't work for you oh well, but if you really enjoy it then do you. We all look at things differently and i enjoy the music of all three men in my own way.

Jimi had ego man he knew what he was doing with that guitar though but he was Rock and blues in the heart, Stevie had blues in his soul and had a lot of time to play, he led from the soul. Stevie did a lot of charity as well. All together wonderful artists and musicians. Also King liked that Stevie learned and listened

Jimi could full well play the blues, it's just that he ventured into realms that took Blues into another direction as well, and was a showman. Jimi had imagination, and it flowed through his fingers.

I bought this CD when it came out. Phenomenal record 🔥

STEVIE was a force of nature. For a blues man there is no comparison between STEVIE & Jimmy ! RIP SRV

I think Albert King was a 'purist' and protective of the blues (which is cool) and he felt Jimi was desecrating the genre. Like when I started learning the upright bass, my teacher told me that my electric bass was a "toy" and I should put it down a just play the upright because "that's Jazz".

There’s more going on. On this Canadian recording, Albert tells a story of jamming with Jimi & Janis at the Fillmore on ‘Blues at Sunrise’ and asks SRV to mimic Jimi. Secondly the time between speaking in an interview about Hendrix & recording this with SRV sounds like different eras. With time Albert would have had a chance to let the craziness about Hendrix coming and shooting to the top then departing the earth, pass a bit and probably had a different perspective. In the interview it sounds like he’s not familiar with Hendrix beyond not even knowing the name of the radio hit ‘Foxy Lady’. He sounds like he’s lying when asked if he has heard ‘Red House’. Red House is written by Hendrix and alone puts Jimi in the same camp as Wolf, the Kings and Dixon. It is an amazingly authentic blues tune.

I love Jimi, but SRV is the goat to me. His life without you performance at the capitol theatre could be among the greatest live performances I've ever seen.

I've seen that set. It's fantastic.

The main issue with Hendrix is he’s stuck in time. He was still growing as a musician before he died. Would he have kept pushing forward with rock or gone back to the blues? Clapton did and so did Gary Moore.

I think we will never understand what it was like for all these people like Albert King, Albert Collins, Clarence Gatemouth Brown etc who invented and pionered a style of music through hardships, poverty, racism suddenly watching some kids with a few years of experience using their licks and getting those huge recording contracts and pay checks. I love Hendrix but the older I get I recognise that the 50's is the golden era of the electric guitar and these people were just untouchable technically, stylistically and as complete artists. They had the whole package each one very unique but all serving the mother style of rhythm and blues. So, I can understand what he's saying about Hendrix and I don't think it comes only from bitterness and jealousy. SRV came more from the same school as he did. That was the style of music he wanted to play and there was the connection between those two

Lol Albert King couldn’t play Hendrix tunes like he just said, lmao. I love them both. Some people just weren’t ready for Hendrix. Hendrix didn’t want to just play the blues. Hendrix just played. I love all these guys. What a great video, thank you for sharing.

Jimi Hendrix play things way over Albert King's head and understanding King was right Hendrix was not a stone cold blues player Hendrix was a force of nature Hendrix innovative way he play the blues,Rock was something to behold and I think Mr. King was jealous of that.I listen to a lot of versions of Hendrix Red House among other blues songs hendrix did and I can say Jimi could play the blues with the best of them.What Albert King didn't realize Hendrix was more than a blues player .Hendrix musical imagination didn't limit himself only to that genre.Jimi Hendrix was a versatile and innovative musician who transcended genres.Even though Hendrix was indeed a phenomenal blues player, his musical imagination and creativity allowed him to explore and blend various styles, including rock, psychedelic, and funk. This ability to push boundaries and experiment with different sounds is what made Hendrix such a revolutionary figure in music.

So wild… I read in Howling Wolfs book Albert came in a juke joint and saw a dead man on the floor with Howling still playing guitar and asked if he was dead? 💀 Wolf said Yep and kept going Wow

Albert is definitely right! I like Jimmi, love Jimmi, but he has an extremely overblown image by the public. And if you want to talk about musical influence, for the life of me I can't figure out why Rory Gallagher gets left out of the conversation way too often.

One of the best thing about this jam session is a bass player. If you want to learn how to give it bottom and really lay down solid lines, listen to his bass player.

This is way out of context. Albert did not hate Jimi, he just didn't consider him a blues guitarist.

Imagine Albert is a shoemaker worried about the next generation of shoemakers. He has 2 apprentices who grow up to master his ways. One is dutiful and respectful of the tradition and the other,, well he can't contain his creative genius to traditional shoes...He still uses what he's mastered, but he's so colorful and experimental that the shoes he makes are something so personal to his senses that it can't be contained in a category like the master's work. The master looks upon him as a sort of failure who distracts from the tradition and would lead others astray...or maybe he is envious that the master had his creative ideas too, but chose to honor the tradition, so his strong feelings are really about his undiscovered and repressed creativity.

My guess is Albert heard Foxy Lady or Purple Haze on the radio, correctly labeled them the pop drivel that they are, and was unable to overcome this first impression.

As much as I love Albert, I think he was a little unfair to Jimi. Something maybe personal happened between them at a gig or whatever and he took it out on Jimi's blues playing. No matter what, I like all three of these guys!

Jimmy was an amazing talent and changed everything when he appeared… It doesn’t mean that someone can’t come along later and outshine him in certain aspects. History is built on the people and knowledge before you! When Stevie played you could feel the blues, he could feel the emotion… You could get lost in his playing as it sound like he was singing through the guitar. Jimi was absolutely an amazing guitarist, but I never got that same feeling. For me it was to psychedelic, although Stevie incorporated some of that in his playing especially early on. Basically, Stevie included more soul in his playing plain and simple!!

this same studio session, albert was talking about him, jimi and janis joplin playing some blues together..??

There wouldn’t have been an SRV without Hendrix

I don't blame Hendrix' who wants to play that !!!! everday? when the entire universe of music, Is so expansive, music for many years were searching for a host, and along comes Hendrix, perfect for the musical exploration ' wow!!! all these years has passed, and these people still can't comprehend Hendrix, he'll be forever reference, as long as society play music, most If not all, history will erase footnotes, leave Jimi out your got!!! mouths period!!!!!

each bring a special sound to the forefront. never judge a book by its cover. look inside it. get it?

fair points from Albert King. Jimi's playing is so innovative, I wouldn't even call it blues. It's almost like he has a subgenre on his own. Passing the torch to Stevie was perfect. SRV IS the the perfect blues player.

Albert was a blues puriest...Jimi wasnt blues enough in his book, and Albert obviously didnt care for the stage show jimi put on....doesnt surprise me. Albert didnt say Jimi couldnt play, but he was way too critical. Reminds me of the jazz snobs

Jimi Hendrix is quoted as saying that the blues was boring he was trying to be a blues player I think he wanted to expand into other areas such as possibly performing with an orchestra expanding his van to have horns and pianos but since Jimmy passed away at such a young age we will never know however he had great respect for blues players since he was on the road with a lot of them including Albert and BB King

i think this is a “get off my lawn” moment from Albert lol

I don't understand it , why Albert would say that about Hendrix & it's kind of uncalled for & disrespectful , seeing as how Hendrix lifted the guitar & sold it's popularity to massive audiences , larger audiences than Albert King ever did So Albert 's criticisms were quite unwarranted !! As one of these comments said " possible he was just jealous. " Just they criticized Miles Davis when he brought Electric Jazz in the 70s , Miles wanted to bring something new into Jazz & there's nothing wrong with that !! Hendrix brought something completely new to Biues & obviously Albert just couldn't rap his head around that & perhaps too old fashioned. Hendrix's surely took Blues to another level & gave Blues a new sound !! Hendrix was a huge influence on Stevie Ray & obviously Albert King missed out on seeing & hearing that too . Since Hendrix was such a big influence on Stevie Ray Albert should have realized this & therefore his criticism of Hendrix was unfairly wrong ... to make some logical sense to this .

Albert had never really heard Jimi play the blues, that much is obvious enough. He saw Jimi, he didn’t hear him. But well done for making cheap content and a mountain out of molehill. He didn’t HATE Hendrix…

Jimi Hendrix played guitar for James Brown and played with the Isley Brothers two Soul artist/Band but once he went rock, his guitar playing skills went down a little bit and was more about on stage antics. Like Albert King was saying, burning his guitar, using the smoke machine. Playing rock music the standard is really not that high. Just play your guitar loud, there’s no soul or feeling in it to be honest the people you’re playing for that like rock music they never been through anything where they had the blues. from the suburbs🤣y Don’t get me wrong there’s some good rock guitarist, not blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan played the blues but he’s not from the blues and never had the blues but he’s a damn good player it’s a difference. 4:39

Hendricks was like if someone for the sky open pulled the soul out of it and then sewed it up again music was never the same again after he came along

Albert was bang on.

Side note…. The photo at the 0:26 second mark seems to be of Jimmie, not Stevie.

Am I the only one that doesn't think King was hating on Jimi? He was just drawing a strict line between Jimi and real blues. Maybe a hardcore stance, but not hate, in my opinion.

No argument with the Emperor among the Kings of blues. Jimi was the most important and most influential person to have ever played the gee-tar, but it was Son House and Albert King who played, and were, the bluze!

Stevie is the shit and he would never dis Albert because he knew how it went then.

Jimi wasn't a blues purist neither was Stevie , but Stevie played with the soul and intensity of the blues. Stevie played with that blues feeling. I like both. Just my opinion. I wouldn't take anything from from Hendrix.

A man likes ,what he likes.

Albert looks like beatlejuice

One thing Stevie never did was let his head get big!!!

Probably one of the reasons why Albert never reached the status of BB; you have to learn to get along and play well with others.

Yes he was right

Yea i think your wrong sayin Stevie was influenced by Jimi. Stevie clearly said in an interview The only thing Jimi and I have in common is we both played music we loved. On the other hand nearly all of Stevie's interviews find him giving shout outs and props to his blues guitar heros like bb king albert king ect never mentioning Hendrix.

Albert said, “Jimi Hendrix? I could very easily play what he plays, but he can’t play what I play.” As much as I love Albert King, the artist, that statement is so wrong. Hendrix cut his teeth on The Blues and surely could-and most likely did-play anything Albert played. I think Albert was jealous of Hendrix but loved Stevie because Stevie played Albert’s licks as well, or better, than Albert himself. Stevie was the absolute best Albert King style player I’ve ever heard and he was very respectful of Albert. Hendrix probably did not have a relationship with Albert like Stevie did. Different strokes for different folks.

Not sure why Albert would say that ! Stevie and Jimi were equally good but different players :

I think he was right, tho Hendrix was not that much blues, even tho he could play it. But he was getting a big head sadly, that took his life. Tho I like some Stevie Ray songs, there’s some great blues songs he did. He covered Jimi Hendrix as it was one of his influences, but I believe he was way more deeper a blues man than Jimi ever was. King was right about him. Sadly Stevie is not around anymore, I hope Stevie did get along with people who he would pass a torch to eventually.

We are just better off because all of them were here for awhile. Thanks.

Die hard Hendrix fan....after that give me Johnny Winter and Freddy King......

Many Bluesmen dismissed Hendrix because he mixed Blues with Rock a true innovator of the genre Blues Rock. It was not Blues as they knew it so it was discounted like an illegitimate step child. SRV is an obvious combination of Hendrix and Albert. If my memory is correct he met and knew Mr. King before he became famous. When SRV had the opportunity to play with or in front of his idol I am sure he went strictly to his Albert' style and didn't blast out Voodoo Child. This is evident in the Albert/SRV recordings. As important as all three were, Hendrix was the innovator and a great creative song writer.

Two things: 1) I love Albert King and when I practice on my Flying V, it's usually to his music, but, Jimi not playing the blues is completely erroneous. I mean there's a whole posthumous album by Jimi called BLUES. Once I Had A Woman, Bleeding Heart, Born Under A Bad Sign, Mannish Boy, Red House. Then you have a track like Remember on the first album, Are You Experienced? I personally think Jimi is the greatest guitarist of all time, but Jimi's "Electric Church" blues was a little too psychedelic for Albert King to fully understand. And it really bugs me that one of my guitar inspirations like Albert felt that way about my hero. But that leads me to #2... 2): As he got older, I think somebody kind got Albert's ear used to Jimi, because his very last album before he died was called Red House. I think he even covered it. Either way, I respect the hell out of all 3 of them, and I hope they're getting along jamming in Rock Heaven 🤘🏾 peace and love everybody. ✌🏾

Boy... this vid is all kinds of bogus. First of all, Albert King did not hate Jimi Hendrix, in fact, you cut out the part of the interview where he speaks of him as a friend whom he hugged when Jimi got back from England. Secondly, Jimi Hendrix ADORED Albert King, and if you'd ask Jimi himself, he would tell all of you that Albert was the greatest Blues player. Thirdly: Albert had no reason to be jealous. What people seem to forget, or simply do not know, is that Albert came from another place and another time. Albert was a Mississippi Delta Man growing up in the Jim Crow South; he really took off well into his forties at Stax Records in Memphis, combining his blues with soul and creating the exact sound Jimi loved so much. If you read up on Albert, you will also soon find out that he could care less about fame and fortune: Albert, especially later on in his life, got tired of the music business and the hassle of touring and once even stated he'd rather return to his job as a bulldozer operator. He loved music, he loved the Blues, but there is not a single source indicating that Albert ever strived to become a superstar a la Jimi or SRV. But he was a proud man, had his set views on what the Blues were meant to be, and voiced that opinion. That is all it was: an opinion. No hate, no jealousy, an opinion. Oh... and to all those extreme Jimi fans who probably never even heard of Albert King, Jimi himself would be ashamed to read the vile comments you post about a great musician that just wanted to do the Blues as he saw fit. And talk about snobbery? Having ZERO knowledge of the history of the Blues - and Albert's place in it - not an ounce of understanding of contemporary American history (and geography) and even less pertaining to the biography of Albert King, is the APEX of Rock Elitism. There was something before Jimi, you know. And Jimi would be the first to tell you.

Because the pink one was kissing his behind😂😂😂. R i p jimi hendrix

and Jimi would've worshiped everyone. He would've fell in love with SRV; he obviously loved Albert King and just about everyone else he ran into...because he was a lover. He loved music and everything about music...period. That's why he can't be touched...he loved everything that touched him. He was a sponge. He absorbed everything. Most people are worried about what mark they made here, and how they rolled out the red carpet there. I don't think Jimi gave a shit about any of that. Just the music. Who's got time for anything else!

Albert most probably didn’t like that Jimi had his moments where he completely let go daring to play with uncontrollable sound besides moving out of key/mode. Stevie didn’t go that far, so that is probably why. Makes me wonder what he had to say about Buddy Guy, since he also breaks the tradional rules and dares to play out of key. Might be a bad comparison, but if someone listens Slayer solos for the first time in their live it most probably will be heard as complete chaos, but if one starts to pay full attention and compares recorded to live they will discover that even those guitarist know exactly what they play note for note. Might not be everyones cup of tea, but that does not equal bad guitarist. So I think Alberts statement is silly, it is ok if he didn’t like how Jimi played, but saying that he couldn’t play blues…. Would have been interesting if he tried to play it exactly like Jimi did, I bet he couldn’t since that requires to go against some of the fundamental rules he followed when it comes to playing blues. Thing is, musicians hear music with their inner ear, most are probably really good at sticking to harmonies and a few of them are good at moving out of them while still being able to make it fit to context so that it comes across to the audience. I don’t think one is better than the other, there will always be some who are able to take it further regardless of who was before. It would actually be easier to come up with something new if everyone would have stuck to traditional the last 60-70 years.

I wonder what Albert would have thought of Peter Green in his prime. BB Claimed he was the best

other greats need few notes & phrases to be recognized, but Albert only needs one bending

Stevie was a better blues player but does that even matter? Jimi was a better MUSICIAN. He did things neither Albert or Stevie could dream of or fathom. Yeah Albert and Stevie could make u cry about your woman while you’re drunk in a bar, but Jimi could lift you off your feet and transport you to another dimension, another universe.

You can’t televise and then record something after when it’s the same audio 😂 🤦🏻‍♂️

Apples and oranges. Hendrix was a groundbreaking psychedelic blues rock pioneer while SRV was more of the blues purist that King Albert liked more.

To be fair to Albert and his dislike for Hendrix. Albert really didn’t like ‘people’ a whole lot anyway. Question: Did Hendrix ever claim to be a blues player ?? Albert and Stevie went way back as we all know. But ya gotta think …. What was it that made Albert really like Stevie. If it was the blues playin that Stevie was about, I can’t say for 💯 that he was into the blues like Albert was. Stevie was just finding his way, trying to be main stream in a time when it wasn’t as popular like in Alberts time. Stevie had some misses( never with his playin) tryin to bring blues in the forefront at a time when you had generic hair bands squeezing out of every nook. I’m thinking he really tried. Check out his first performance at Montreaux, they weren’t having it. You know I think Albert loved that he played the blues full of heart as well as his playin. AND, Stevie was an exceptional humble human being. We all saw it, even Albert. Thanks to both for giving us the shivers down our backs and leaving us in AWE !! May they both rest well ☮️

Albert couldn't play Hendrix stuff, no way!

He's Albert King, enough said

I agree with Albert king

Whew!! I'm going to use the word yal !! Some of these remarks concerning Hendrix is very disappointing,Jimi were only 27 years of age , were handed his first guitar "at age 15 thats only 15 years of playing, of all the great guitarists, which of them hold such ⁰😊

concert at the same time...whose concert are you going? srv won't threaten his playing...that's why...