The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Wing (REACTION)

[@michaelgray4964]

Couple of things to remember. First off, Jimi recorded this long before guitarists had a board with a dozen different effects pedals. What you hear is a product of Jimi bending strings, riding the volume control, a wah wah pedal, and Jimi's immense talent. 50+ years ago's technology. SRV was greatly influenced by Jimi, damn straight, but he didn't do a slavish copy, he played Jimi's music through a filter of Texas blues. Solid cover that sounded like SRV. Jimi was a revolutionary player. When he turned up on the scene he blew everyone's minds. Often imitated, never duplicated. The Man.

[@hrblsh]

Hendrix was a whole other level of human. So unbelievably talented. Try the studio of Red House.

[@teagiagiteakarotu7027]

RED HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!

[@fernandobarrera6440]

Stockholm Red House is where he is most dynamic in my opinion. Crazy articulation and expression. It seemed like he was actually frustrated with his phrasing too while he was playing. But regardless you can’t go wrong with anything Jimi.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

I 2nd this!

[@markrenton5791]

@@fernandobarrera6440 imo thats the worst Red House. Funny how different taste people have 😀😀

[@TheMarshall1961]

@@markrenton5791 Ever hear the Randall's Island Red House?

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Jimi's version is just MAGICAL. That's why the other legends covered it, but they didn't dare do it like he did.

[@cazgerald9471]

Jimi's guitar is like walking through the clouds.

[@Tijuanabill]

It's never too late to hear a Hendrix song for the first time.

[@davespears2241]

No doubt this is a beautiful piece of art, and the best version.

[@TheDivayenta]

The Wind Cries Mary is another beautiful vocal and ballad by our Jimi❤❤❤

[@rupertlona7075]

Please don’t apologize it’s art and beauty🎉

[@robertprice6830]

This is the BEST version. I was 12 when Jimi died. I cried for a fucking week.

[@jimmybest5404]

Jimi’s music came from his soul. You can see it during his live performances

[@mp-qw3fl]

The innovator! Created the new sound from another galaxy

[@GoldTop57]

The level of creativity of that guy was unreal

[@arthurbernardohaiidamus8658]

I have a picture of him burning his guitar in my bedroom, Iove Jimi and he inspire me so much that I can't even explain

[@827dusty]

This may be Jimi's greatest musical creation of everything he wrote.

[@mikefannon6994]

The others are excellent music, Jimi's gives me goosebumps. He had it all - unique and incomparable. Thanks guys!

[@Bekka_Noyb]

agreed! ♥

[@klasseact6663]

Ladies and gentlemen...THEE GOAT💯

[@bobcorbin7545]

Thanks for your reviews on Jimi Hendrix. What a shame Little Wing doesn’t go on for several minutes.

[@mattharvey968]

Castles Made Of Sand is another great vibe from Hendrix!🔥

[@AJtux]

This song makes me cry every time. Thanks for recognizing the greatness.

[@mark-be9mq]

You don't have a need to apologize when you didn't know. This was 60 yrs ago. Great song & reaction.

[@deniseodaniels5782]

Jimi's artistry was off the charts

[@TheDivayenta]

I love the glockenspiel in this. And I’ve always loved Jimi’s vocals!!!!

[@Jules-um4yy]

You guys are the best!!💞 I am SO happy to see this reaction today. The other "Little Wing" versions are fantastic but Jimi's voice is so pure and sweet with these lyrics - brings a mystical element to it and his guitar playing is something else entirely. Yes it is short but it is perfect. Thank you, thank you!🦋

[@brewstergallery]

Ned from Spain saying OH MY ! fellas. There are interpretations by many great players but the original has a magic that is truly untouchable. It's not just his formidable technique but his touch, taste, colors, interplay with his band, flexible tempo, vocals with a true emotion that is remarkable and astounding. These are not just songs but his very personal, unique interpretations, visions and expressions of the world around him. Amazing as well to think of how much music he made in the very brief time that he was around. It's wonderful to see you guys hearing him for the first time you're gonna love him. Stay well and thank you

[@michaelwalker5257]

I couldn't agree more. And thanks for the apology, guys; Jimi is the Man.

[@TreeFrogWillow]

This song is so pure and beautiful .

[@wendyt7958]

I get so melancholy when I hear Jimi now. The level of talent and what could've been is unfathomable . Love him

[@dreggymon]

If I had to pick a Hendrix sone, it'd be Machine Gun off The Band of Gypsies album. The guitar solo is pretty sick. No proper words to describe that one.

[@324cmac]

The entire Band of Gypsys album is great!

[@brettv5967]

Love that one. Such a great album.

[@tedsmith7814]

Yeah. Almost like a different but equal Jimi.

[@324cmac]

@@tedsmith7814 I think Jimi was happy to be playing with Billy Cox, his Army buddy, on bass and Buddy Miles on drums.

[@willieboy3011]

I agree. "Machine Gun."

[@fletcherchristian2254]

the album Axis Bold As Love deserves a full album reaction. Also, always thought JH was totally underrated as a lyricist. It's hard to believe there are only 3 studio albums. Hendrix is eternal and unmatched.

[@MsAppassionata]

I agree about Jimi as a lyricist. I first noticed that when I listened to “The Wind Cries Mary”. What great lyrics. Even my stepmother commented about how she liked the lyrics on that one, and she wasn’t really a Rock music fan per se.

[@fletcherchristian2254]

@@MsAppassionata Wind Cries Mary is sublime.

[@tedsmith7814]

Electric Ladyland, too!

[@fletcherchristian2254]

@@tedsmith7814 100% agreed.

[@robertunderwood6011]

Damned right

[@emmett-amber5456]

This one makes it on my playlists. When I’ve had a rough day, it hits my soul just right. I hope y’all have a great weekend. -Amber

[@ElGordo1959]

Shout out to Mitch Mitchell, another of the English drummers schooled in jazz, transforming rock n blues in the 60's - always part of the Hendrix sound for me...

[@owenhershey13]

yeah Mitch Mitchell was a superb drummer -- complemented Jimi beautifully. Underrated because Jimi got all the attention - but Mitch was outstanding!

[@Greg-io1ip]

You can already hear why SRV didn't even try to dishonor Jimi trying to sing Little Wing. But you hear why Jimi Hendrix was SRV's idol. This song I do believe was what changed SRV. He worked a long time to get that tone. SRV added notes in between to represent Jimi's voice.

[@Deepbluecat]

I love watchin you young cats feelin Jimi in 2023. He would be blown away to know how popular he is in the farrrr future of 2023!! RIP Maestro Jimi! Thanks guys!

[@victorstrickland911]

Sting covered little wing as well with words ! Very good!

[@Bekka_Noyb]

One of my fave Hendrix songs! ♥

[@olly8]

Jimi 'birthed' this, other covers are Tributes to the creator. The GOAT!! Now you know...✌🏻🌈 His voice lifts me to another plane. And it's beautiful❤ Miss you Jimi🌹

[@ernaolsson6763]

Love this original Little Wing! The athmosphere! ❤

[@loadedorygun]

The best he ever did. This is so mature and beautiful. It’s soaring and majestic and proud and vulnerable. My favorite hands down. Stevie Ray Vaughn’s incredible cover expands the theme while honoring the original.

[@mik9124]

Best Song ever written , best ever Jimi . Love it .... all the time I go

[@clifton8929]

Thank You for playing all the different versions that show how each artist uses different colors to paint a story of the same song. It's like BBQ - so many different styles, but all good.

[@324cmac]

But Jimi's the original. There'll never be another one like him.

[@ZalMoxis]

Super playing, never get tired of this......

[@dbradx]

Good morning guys, nice to see your found your way around to the original. Much love from Canada!

[@telebender]

Imho this song is the perfect encapsulation of Jimi's genius. Great singing and lyrics. His guitar work is sublime; everyone focuses on his leads but this shows his sophisticated rhythm chops and good God, that tone (love that swirling Leslie). So, so good. This is my number 1 desert island pick.

[@papa-wp8gp]

I listened to this while shrooming and it was so blissful. Such amazing music

[@stephenroby8498]

Those who played this song were showing respect to Jimi. His voice calms the listener doen. He took a right handed guitar, flipped it, strung as a right handed guitar, and played it left handed. In 1967! The world lost a true talent when Jimi died.

[@ivanhecimovic8397]

The shortest gem of a song in musical history. Period

[@julietate7806]

"Little Wing" by Derek & the Dominoes had words, but Jimi's guitar AND vocals make this one special. No apologies needed, you guys ROCk!

[@davescurry69]

There is one more version that you guys should check out. Jimi's live version recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969 is probably the best version of the song I've ever heard. It's just glorious.

[@hesch-tag]

Amen to that!

[@jccook5353]

Awhile ago I made a mix tape of Little Wing. Jimi, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray, and Carlos Santana. Each put their own heart and soul rendition into it. 20 minutes went really fast listening to it.

[@tonyfleck3029]

Love the Man!!! Hearing his Music under the influence! back as a teenager in the 70s gave me a choice, set me on a path, which I don't regret!!!

[@michaelrogers7426]

Yes, all 3 are great…each is different and their styles are on display

[@TreeFrogWillow]

One of THE most beautiful songs ever written. The lyrics , his voice , the guitar … utter bliss

[@MrDJROGERS]

The GREATEST Guitarist that EVER Lived. Jimi Forever.

[@jeffjefferson7384]

My favourite Hendrix song. Just amazing.

[@lorcazola]

No apologies......makes for a unique and great review..............👍

[@johnfrank3177]

Hey fellas. JImi, Jimi, Jimi! So glad you got to this one! It isn't just his playing and singing, Jimi knew how to make great records. His creativity and style are always front and center. You really should check out his first album (yes, I said "album", I'm old -school and proud to admit it!) "Are You Experienced". This was the record that introduced us all to Jimi back in the day. So many great songs on that one. Check out "Fire" I really think you'll enjoy that a lot. I am enjoying your reactions, as always. Peace.

[@TheDivayenta]

Are You Experienced is extraordinary. I thought Jimi was an alien when I first heard him! A very funky alien!

[@johnfrank3177]

@@TheDivayenta So true. He sounded like no one else and influenced so many who came after him Not many artistes blew my mind like Jimi.

[@johndrx165]

Fantastic song from a fantastic album! Glad you are doing this.

[@kennycamaro2361]

Top shelf beautiful music. Go Laa,Go Chee!

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

Part of Jimi's sole is no doubt in SRV !!! Vaughan Loved Jimi's music and is why Stevie always honored him by playing it on stage, it's not better or worst .... SRV just puts his own edge on the music !! 👍🎼 And now they play off each other everyday !! 🎸🎶🎸

[@chipchiperson679]

SRV copied Jimi’s style and did it far worse since he’s not on Jimi’s level

[@ronniefarnsworth6465]

@@chipchiperson679 ??????? Clueless about SRV, he has his on style !!! 🙄 Go away

[@chipchiperson679]

@@ronniefarnsworth6465 his style sucks for texas country bars that smell mile cowboys assholes

[@thedon2880]

For me Hendrix was more creative and outside the box, while SRV was more technical. The two greatest for me.

[@mr.snicker-doodles7081]

Thank you guys! Apology accepted haha...Incredible right! Jeez, there are like 7-8 different layers of Guitar, one of them is being fed through a Leslie AND he sings through a Leslie as well! And you wanna talk about GREAT and inventive drummers, Mitch Mitchell was THE MAN! More please..."Gypsy EYES" or "Castles Made of Sand" will blow your mind, or "if 6 was 9"! Jimi also does not get enough credit for his singing! Such a beautiful & velvety tone...amazing on every level. I think "PM Dawn" based their entire career on THIS sound haha...Their cover of "You've got me floatin'" is pretty awesome...

[@gregwallace3514]

You get that hook in you, you can't let it go. Beautiful.

[@TreeFrogWillow]

He was so majestic , Hendrix ! No one sounds like him . This song is too bloody short but pure magic . He was a master

[@ezekielmanu3662]

Jimi Hendrix was not human. He was Celestial.

[@darrenmaxwell1085]

Just an amazing composition! It really is!

[@denisemangan1413]

I loved Jimi when I was a kid & still do. He’s the best guitarist 🇦🇺

[@patrickdoake6022]

So many great hendrix songs, many versions of little wing live,bold as love gives me spiritual chills, stone free, 51st anniversary, highway Chile., castles made of sand the list goes on.

[@tommytbone9778]

you can never mess up with checking out the copies...but now you know how much melodic the singing gets it on...short but sweet, baby

[@DoctorD250]

In thi s song he is singing about his mother. He is playing so tenderly it makes me weep.

[@KimLong-v4i]

That voice..

[@GinnyRobertsonLLC]

This touches my soul and brings up some great memories. Got a little teary-eyed.

[@astroteech]

I was 11 when this album came out and I purchased it and still have it today. Jimi Hendrix's music is such an important part of my musical consciousness as it was to SRV.

[@GoofRebelMusic]

It always kills me how quickly this ends. It sounds like it was just about to take off.

[@robwhitmer5294]

No apologies needed, gentleman. Hendrix is the man!

[@ToyutahLifein]

My parents and relatives had most of the 60s albums so I got to hear a lot of them. Full albums were amazing back then. Even if it only had one hit song it was all good. Jimi easily made emotions and thoughts come out of him

[@stopclockapp]

This is every great guitarist favorite song to cover.

[@robertkees6048]

I love all the greats, but Jimi is the GOAT period.

[@danielnusser8604]

Hendrix's guitar had feeling. The sound mimicked the emotion of the song.

[@richsmith6422]

Guys , Hendrix is the writer and the greatest musician if the 20th century. HANDS DOWN

[@BrixtonTone]

You saved the best till last fella's , no blame for that

[@ubilo]

GOAT and a good human being.

[@fabulousnobody3557]

This will be played at my celebration of life when the time comes…❤

[@CommissionerSleer]

If this means more Jimi Hendrix reactions then looking forward to that by itself but it also means you're going to discover more Mitch Mitchell. I think in any other band he might have been more famous as one of the great drummers but the Jimi Hendrix Experience was mostly about experiencing [arguably] the most gifted guitarist of all time so Mitch didn't get as much popular recognition as he otherwise would.

[@KenBlair-jp5nz]

These songs were released after his death. The album have hadn't been finished and all the songs still had work to be done on so just they released what they had from the recording sessions . I saw Hendrix in 1968 in Toronto at the CNE Coliseum

[@jsj297]

Jimi, Noel Redding & Mitch Mitchell. Yet another LEGENDARY trio lost to the lips of time. These guys were on the stratosphere level. RIP GOAT

[@benofavalon7121]

Still one of my favourite songs of all time 😍such a beautiful composition. I once read that Hendrix was a bit embarassed (or not confident) about his singing abilities/or quality of his voice, so he would try to keep in the low in the mix in terms of the recordings. I don't know if that is true or not, but I have always loved the warmth of his voice, especially in this song (among others) 😍

[@JonHammerHeart]

Hendrix's version comes alive inside the listener. It grabs hold of you. It's such a great chord progression that lends itself so well to solo parts. Sting does an awesome cover of this song you should check out. Thanks for this one!

[@ML-un1oi]

Thanks fellas much appreciated 🙏

[@claireburling8547]

This is the incredible song that made me fall in love with Jimi and his sound. This short tune featuring Jimi's sweet, gentle and magical voice that almost whispers into your ears like sensuous laughter. I've looked at Jimi and Stevie as almost Polar opposites only because I see a very tall left handed black man and a shorter right handed white man; both were guitar geniuses in their uniqueness and natural talent. Both will always remain legends. I'm pretty sure that they have shared the stage at some point in time, maybe more than once.

[@RichardPackard-we5rh]

Jimi was a complex, multi-talented artist who was shockingly smart and insightful about the human experience. To get just a glimmer of some of this, check out his appearances on Dick Cavett. I have no idea why he liked going on that show, but he gave some very interesting interviews as well as performances. However, I think Jimi would agree that the best way to discover him is to simply listen. Electric Ladyland from beginning to end in one sitting. It will change you, for the better.

[@Greg-io1ip]

There was a slew of top talented rock talent dying of overdoses. So much bad drugs it has always made me wonder if England's Royal Monarchy's tax collector was getting revenge on musicians on whole because their banking moved to USA. Imagine a time when USA was the 'offshore tax shelter'? For the Brits and their managers we were. Why Jimi? Black guy popular in England no taxes coming in was taking sales away from bands still banking in England. It was a theory back then. Rupert Murdoch-ski's crimes makes me want to believe it.

[@sapporo81414]

There are a few live versions of Little Wing that are beautiful. Used to play them driving home from late nights out in highschool.

[@bpjr1899]

Well done as usual. Thank you. I am a long time Blues/Hendrix fan. A favorite of his is a track called THIRD STONE FROM THE SUN, from the ARE YOU EXPERINCED ALBUM. A great Blues piece. Thank you..........Good Luck BP

[@feralmario310]

le grand Jimi Hendrix !!

[@buckesmalls]

Beautiful sounds or all of us to enjoy for eternity.

[@doccthomas9842]

They are both DOPE......

[@KenBlair-jp5nz]

Les Paul amazing guitar player and the man who invented and developed the electric guitar back in the 40s said the Jimi Hendrix was the first person he heard and saw that played his invention the way it was supposed to be played . Up until then everyone even himself was playing the electric guitar like an acoustic that was amplified . Guitar was never the same after Hendrix showed the way .

[@keef7224]

If ever there was a song that was way too short, this is it!! 🎸💥

[@jackempson3044]

Hendrix songs always take you somewhere.

[@davidlitchke4964]

Axis bold as love. One of the very best albums of all time.

[@seansilva9542]

My favorite Jimi track right here....

[@metaphoria3]

Jimi sings it so soulful too