Beautiful! Jimi Hendrix - Angel REACTION/REVIEW

[@justinbakerking]

Jimi’s deeper tracks are where the real magic is.. but it’s all great

[@hongfang2348]

Jimi was a great and innovative guitar player. Most everyone knows that. But he was a great songwriter too. Jimi wrote this song for his upcoming 4th studio album before he died in 1970. Angel is about a dream he had about his mother. The song was released after Jimi's death. All 3 studio albums are treasures. They are "Are You Experienced", "Axis Bold as Love" and "Electric Ladyland" FYI: Jimi wrote most of the songs on those albums. Jimi's bass player, Noel Redding, added a few songs to the albums. The difference in quality is stark. Jimi transitioned away from his first band, called the Jimi Hendrix Experience, after the 3rd album, Electric Ladyland, toward a loose-knit ensemble that Jimi called Band of Gypsies.

[@traceyraffle6675]

I always love Jimi's guitar, but his vocals were amazing too :)

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

Love this song. I highly recommend buying the albums "Axis Bold as Love" and "Electric Ladyland." Jimi was very humble and shy. He was also a great songwriter. I'm so lucky I got to see him live when I was 14. He's my favorite guitarist. Some other great songs are: "If 6 was 9", "Spanish Castle Magic", "Axis Bold as Love", "May This be Love", "Little Wing" and "One Rainy Wish" and there are lots more. Amazing how much great music he put out in a short 4 years. We lost him too soon. Also, here's the link to Jimi's long, studio version of "Voodoo Chile" on Electric Ladyland; it's awesome. Other reactors have done it, and it wasn't taken down. kzbin.info/www/bejne/en2qnWuFmJlrarM

[@Hapmorii]

"Love or Confusion" from the album "Are You Experienced" is the one that really grabbed me. That and "Third Stone from the Sun."

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

@@Hapmorii Yes! And "May This Be Love."

[@pcraig1383]

This whole album is great: The Cry Of Love. He composed some serious music.

[@bobcorbin3294]

Thats why he was better than Stevie Ray Vaughn even if Stevie had better technique.

[@bookhouseboy280]

@@bobcorbin3294 "I’m surprised that everybody thinks he was such a brilliant player when there are people like Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Peter Green and Mick Taylor; Johnny Winter, who is one of the best blues players in the world, is also very underrated. His vibrato is incredible. Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that’s what caught everybody’s attention... I followed Hendrix because I thought the way he used riffs [and surrounded songs] in a riff, it had magical moments. Brilliant guitar player and he also looked like he was from the moon ... Even the way he walked was amazing ... I had the same temperament as Hendrix in terms of ‘I’ll kill you’, but he did in such a good package with beautiful songs." - Ritchie Blackmore

[@aquamarine99911]

@@bobcorbin3294 "Technique"? No. One. Cares. OK, maybe a few guitar nerds do. But even for musicians like me, the rest of us want songs. Jimi was was one of the best songwriters of his generation. We also want soul. Jimi and Dave Gilmour will always be legendary not for their chops, but for their ability to wring raw, heartbreaking emotion from their Stratocasters.

[@bobcorbin3294]

@@aquamarine99911 that's the point I was trying to make, I don't put technique over feel Jimi was a better composer and arranger

[@nickcrisp7252]

Jimi was apparently very self conscious about his singing voice, would hide behind a screen or partition when laying down vocal tracks in the studio. But I think this tune shows that he really could sing well, and with great sensitivity. You have to try to take yourself back to when he was alive. No one had heard anything like him, such a pioneer of guitar and song writing. And still he stands the test of time, is not diminished by the passing years.

[@claytonpaul4259]

Written for his mother who had alcohol troubles and died when he was young.

[@alrivers2297]

Hendrix was pure magic

[@user-dj7gr1ed1j]

Jimi wrote this song in remembrance of his mother. I have always been touched by this song. If you are enjoying Jimi's musical talent, I urge you to explore more! He was brilliant!

[@Mike-kv5pl]

Check out BOLD AS LOVE and SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC.

[@randybaker6042]

He is one of the best song creators who has ever lived. It's the entire package and it's all coming from the the existence of the guitar. I think the best tribute and example of his song creation is Tuck and Patti's arrangement and performance of Castles Made of Sand/Little Wing. Take two of the great songs, one off each side of an album, make them one song and record it one vocal, one guitar. The 6:00 studio version is a must listen. One of the best recordings there is.

[@mariaportengen2959]

A great guitar player and mucisian. A legend. Glad we still have his music 🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸❤

[@Tune-O-matic]

Another overlooked Jimi tune like this is .."MayThis Be Love"- (Waterfall)

[@mr.goodenough3796]

Love seeing you and others discover that Jimi wasn't just a guitarist, because the man was a true artist. ✌🏻

[@36karpatoruski]

Yeah man, do the studio vinyls! Top 2: Machine Gun (Band of Gypsies album) and the long version of Voodoo Chile Electric Ladyland Album) - not the short Voodoo Child slight return off the same album because I think you already did it. If not, hell do them both.

[@Richarddraper]

Jimi is famous for his guitar playing and rightfully so. His singing gets overlooked but he was great at that too. Reminds me of Dylan in that the singing is about the expression rather than the technique. Brilliant songwriter as well. Mitch Mitchell on drums deserves credit on this one too. He really decorates this song and I can feel the emotion in his playing as the drums were finished after Jimi's death. Jimi is singing about being visited by his mother in a dream many years after her death. The depth of his feelings come through clearly and it makes for a beautiful song.

[@willieboy3011]

"Machine Gun" will never leave you. I remember this one. Struck me then as so different. Glad you do Hendrix. Appreciate the struggle with that.

[@timwanwick179]

Such a BEAUTIFUL song ---- and so prophetic : JIMI singing about an ANGEL coming down from heaven , to take him away ... 😏🎸💓

[@KennyY-bh3zl]

Isn't that a pretty one? One of my favorites from Jimi. It was released posthumously in 1971. I hope you'll also listen to Rod Stewart's version and compare the two. He issued the song a year later on his 1972 album "Never a Dull Moment'. Rod adds to the soul on his version. If you can play Jimi, "Burning of the Midnight Lamp", "Come On", "Castles Made of Sand", "Spanish Castle Magic", "Long Hot Summer Night". I've read Jimi never liked his singing voice, which is strange because like you said, he really has a great voice.

[@Hapmorii]

Nice tune. I've been a Hendrix fan since I was 16, and that was five years after he died. He's the greatest of them all. It was like a spiritual experience listening to him. If you want to really hear his genius, there are two albums that, imo, rise above the rest. His debut album, "Are You Experience" and the first album released in 1971, a year after his death called "Rainbow Bridge." "Are You Experienced" absolutely blew my mind, it was so bold, so trippy, so funny in places, so deep in places, so swag, it's just a masterpiece. "Rainbow Bridge" is the mature Hendrix, the deep, spiritual mind blowing spirit lifting Jimi. Songs like "Hey Baby" and "Pali Gap" brought tears to my eyes, otherworldly beautiful. Songs like Hear My Train, Earth Blues, and Look Over Yonder had everything, guitar prowess, studio effects 30 years ahead of it's time, and a message hope and uplift. Some of the guitar work on "Hear My Train" just tears your heart apart. I've been a Beatles fan, a Stones fan, An Alice Cooper fan, a Frank Zappa fan, Captain Beefheart, Lou Reed, Nirvana, The Ramones, Tom Waits, a relatively obscure British band from the 80's and 90's called "The Fall." (You should check out "Hip Priest" by The Fall. It's the first track in their album, "Curious Orange." I've loved all these bands and more. But Jimi towers above them all.

[@J_Gamble]

Beautiful. Never formulaic, our Jimi.

[@JimiBurleigh]

It is my belief that Jimi is the greatest, most influential guitarist that has ever lived. Jimi Hendrix stands behind only Louis Armstrong as the most important American musician who has ever lived. In the same way the "Satchmo" changed the way that we'd understand music from then on, Jimi Hendrix forever changed the way that we understand the guitar as a lead &/or rhythm instrument. So if you want to dive into the Jimi rabbit hole, I'll just amplify the suggestions for "If 6 Was 9", Spanish Castle Magic"(**), "May This Be Love" and "Little Wing" and I'll add "3rd Stone From the Sun" "Manic Depression" "Red House" "Hear My Train A'Comin'" (acoustic rendition is pretty darn awesome "Castles Made of Sand" "All Along the Watchtower" (cover of a Bob Dylan song) From the "Band Of Gypsies" with Buddy Miles on the drum kit and Billy Cox on bass guitar: "Machine Gun" "Changes" - (A Buddy Miles tune. Miles recorded his own version as "Them Changes") "Power To Love" That'll scratch the surface of Jimi's genius, and there's a LOT more to explore in the Hendrix catalogue. I'd say you could drop the needle on literally ANY Hendrix track and you won't be disappointed. (***)Re: "Spanish Castle Magic" was inspired by a roadhouse in the area just south of Seattle - in what is now the city of Des Moines, Washington - Many local bands played there and the venue would occasionally host notional touring acts from time to time. It's long gone now, of course. I'm frae "Bonnie Scotland" originally, but my parents immigrated to America and brought me to live in Seattle when I was a teenager. I've loved living i the Pacific NW ( North Wet💯💯😂😂🤣🤣). One of the places that I frequently get asked to take out-of-town guests is Jimi's gravesite in Renton, WA. It's a lovely day's outing and we get fish & chips at Ivar's for lunch and watch the boats on Lake Union from the barge that floats out behind Ivar's Salmon House. But I digress, LOL🤣🤣✌✌🤣

[@davegibson757]

Beautiful Song it was a song Jimi had been working on for a couple years ..There is a version of Jimi alone with his Strat from 1968 in his NYC apartment it will give you goosebumps its very personal something that he never thought others would hear ...I first heard it when a bought a box set called "Lifelines" Then I bought a book called "Illustrated life/history of Jimi Hendrix" I can't remember the Title anyway it came with a cd with 6 songs Jimi alone with his Strat..songs were: 1983...(A Merman I Should Be) Angel ,Cherokee Jam, Hear My Train A 'Comin, Voodoo Chile/Cherokee Mist, Gypsy Eyes...This is the best version of Angel

[@peterfields4801]

Beautiful song from a fabulous album!

[@blitztim6416]

Beautiful song.

[@flobp2381]

If you like this version - there's an acoustic version of this song - just him and an acoustic guitar. It's beautiful! You'll REALLY feel it!

[@paulprendergast3184]

Great song from his later efforts. He was really evolving his sound before he passed. FYI Biz, whoever is currently running the Jimi Hendrix estate loves money. They are a pain in the ass about streaming his music. When I switched services a while back, none of my Jimi albums transferred. YT music has it all now so they must have paid up.

[@megdelaney3677]

🎸JIMI!!!

[@Bekka_Noyb]

♥

[@benhinds2971]

I think this song has something to do with the one time he met his mom, and how she kept coming up in him dreams later on.

[@EvanWeber1234]

nice! More Jimi please!

[@troyshilanski380]

Its all good bro. I appreciate it.

[@channel-zd4ux]

Can you please do little wing it's a so amazing song and I'm sure you're gonna love it

[@marthayoung2308]

I know I asked you if you would react to "Fire", Biz. Lol. Had no idea you could possibly get in trouble!

[@watchbizmatik]

Lol

[@stevetalia1474]

If you ever get to do a reaction for the San Diego '69 version of "Red House", you'll be speechless afterwards.

[@KenJohnsonFlyfishing]

Jimi got me through my teenage years. What a combination of soul and power. His music has a way of grabbing you way down deep, and he could also take someone else's songs further, like All Along the Watchtower.

[@marybalestraci6157]

Personally, my big four when growing up were The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Can't go wrong with anything in Hendrix's catalog.

[@marcosaganju6114]

Man "Voodoo Child" is dope too! Studio version

[@kenhoyer8601]

Not enough is said about drummer , Mitch Mitchell .

[@daryletoews7099]

Great song Rod Stewart did a cover of this

[@gilbertorodriguez5344]

📻🎧check ARE YOU EXPIRENCE🐸🍄🍄🍄🎼🎩🎸🎶🎶🎶💯✌️🏜

[@benhinds2971]

Not a deep track, but rarely played is Bold as Love. Please give that reaction. If that doesnt make you love Jimi, then you probably just dont like music.

[@user-dj7gr1ed1j]

My favorite!

[@user-el5ve1fq5t]

Until you hear the 15min blues version of voodoo Chile you haven't heard anything yet

[@benhinds2971]

As great as the tracks are on this album. None of them were a finished product. Comparing these to Electric Ladyland you could guess they might have sounded very different when they were completed.

[@marksanders8028]

Stevie Ray Vaughn gave Jimmy a run for his money on the strings but Stevie couldn’t touch Jimmy on vocals.

[@hesch-tag]

Nor on improvisation, originality, musicality, imagination, variety and songwriting.

[@troyshilanski380]

If anyone had common sense theyd let you play it

[@aquamarine99911]

The idiots managing Jimi's estate have ZERO regard for his legacy, or even how to market his music in today's environment.

[@markmeisels1737]

not his best work, but who cares, it's Jimi

[@Oldhogleg]

Although one could argue SRV is technically better, Jimmy was more innovative.

[@julienmarquet8612]

Thanks to have made the effort to listen to some JIMI, bro! And, i like, you noticed, and felt, the great job, of Mitch MITCHELL, his drummer, (the Hendrix of drummers😂 as wild and free as Jimi), 👍AS you said, he was a great guitarist, singer, songwritter, a genius of sounds... At the same level as Chopin, Mozart, or Beethoven.....And, as you said, you can't find a lot of Jimi....the problem, is that it's his half sister, Janie "the bastard" Hendrix, who's managing the Jimi's, inheritage, catalogue.....She was 5 years old when he died.....She doesn't know Jimi, like we, all the fans, know Jimi.....She doesn't care about his music, she just wants to earn money🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮😭😭😭😭DISGUSTING! If you want to discover why, we are all saying Jimi is the greatest, you must try to listen to him, everywhere, except on that shit youtube! KZbin, and Janie Hendrix, are always deleting everything from Jimi....You have 3 shit cuted videos of Jimi on that shit youtube! It's ridiculous.....Thanks again, to make efforts to discover Jimi, bro.....Peace from France 👍✌️

[@claytonpaul4259]

Written for his mother who had alcohol troubles and died when he was young.