Billy Cox Interview on Jimi Hendrix (1973)

[@dannomusic47]

Damn, I miss when people weren’t trying to sell themselves all the time and were just low-key chill like Billy there. He clearly remained grounded.

[@keithmccaslyn2527]

Indeed & agreed ! I Met Billy Cox in san diego in 2001 right after the Jimi Hendrix Tribute show... I'll comeback and tell more of this storysoon. I got to sit with Him for an hour and da half..after the show in san diego... talk about a dream come true. Just He & I for an hour & da 1/2 ,Mam. closest I'll ever get to Jimi until I see him in the next world and I wont be ;late.!!

[@mr.goodenough3796]

Billy, the only surviving member of Jimi's main groups. Seems like such good guy.

[@Unclemoparman]

He is. A real sweetheart.

[@VictitiousStudios]

He is a great guy.

[@elmorevandodewaard544]

Young Billy. Still with us today and doing some good stuff

[@tubebobwil]

"I did flips for him" ... What an amazing friend. Seriously want people like Billy on your side.

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

What did he flip?

[@caprise-music6722]

@@MrJohnnyDistortion I assume records. LP’s

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

@caprise-music6722 Sure it wasn't flap-jacks or burgers?😋

[@fullcircle4723]

Band of Gypsies is my best album ever. Just passed my vinyl to my son a couple of years ago and told him "own like its your life".

[@OrchestraUnderGround3000]

Bill Cox what a cool cat humble as it come Bill is a beast on the bass . Thanks for sharing .

[@precbsfender]

Last standing Gypsy, we love you Billy..

[@napomania]

I've never heard his voice till now. He's so deep !

[@billmiller5741]

That album recorded at the Filmore East. Is one of best live albums recorded...in my opinion. Great band...the bass licks always in my my mind. The best !! I have always wondered most of my life what this band's next album would be...as I hear that bass and Jimi's voice follow through..."Who Knows" great song

[@Kowasi]

The Band Of Gypsies album featured songs by both Mssrs. Hendrix and Miles, so I guess that the next album would have done too. Maybe it would have been a single album with about four songs from each of the principals mixed together. The posthumous releases like First Rays Of The New Rising Sun show Mr. H was developing Band of Gypsies' songs, and Mr. M's 1970 release was called Them Changes. How about this? 'Gypsy Rising Sun' A -Side 1- Izabella (Hendrix) 2- Heart's Delight (Miles) 3- Stepping Stone (Hendrix) 4- Runaway Child (Little Miss Nothing) (Miles) B-Side 1- Earth Blues (Hendrix) 2- EZY Rider (Hendrix) 3- Paul B. Allen, Omaha, Nebraska (Miles) 4- Hear My Train A Comin' (Hendrix)

[@antarcticorb9197]

Yup...I was seriously floored when I heard this back in the day...and played Who Knows in my own band.

[@CP-kb1du]

Machine Gun enough said

[@robertjones9006]

Be mindful when listening to the Fillmore East recordings while in public. The music is so powerful that it can move one to tears.

[@skeletonshorror5184]

Amen. 💀🔥

[@chizorama]

Just a genuine good soul, & a great bass player to boot, much love for Billy...

[@uiu510]

Jimi is the best of the very best!

[@goojedooje660]

Billy is a good bass player he also plays other instruments

[@jackwalker1822]

Band of Gypsies is my all time favorite electric guitar album. Machine Gun, what can I say? Not sure why Jimi didn't like how that record turned out. I do think Jimi was better with Billy Cox than with Noel Redding, although I do think Noel got panned too much. Noel did a good job for years.

[@peterburke8388]

keep in mind, there was never any plan or design to turn this trio into a touring or recording act. no tour, no second album -- they knew that from day one. Billy and Buddy had a 3 month contract for a couple concerts and some studio work, nothing more than that. all along Gypsys was viewed as a short-term arrangement.

[@stephenszklarski5446]

These are the Interviews that were not used in the movie Jimi Hendrix what document is this it showing all the rest of these clips is anyone know the name of the documentary I would like to watch it.

[@jimivibes609]

Thanks for this gem. Subbed

[@jmsantel]

I'd love to know what stories lie behind the chuckle @ 0:38

[@bartpitt2991]

Perhaps one of Jimi’s only true friends before the hype train of people trying to hang on to him. God bless Billy x

[@shable1436]

What ppl were afraid of was open minded ppl, so open that there was no such thing as social norms. No binary sexual categories, now today has gotten wild, but back then it was an evolutionary thought, because they all had orgies together, and love was a different definition than it is today. It's hard to describe artists from back then mindset to today's ppls. But it was a thing that jimi swore by, and either because his hard upbringing, ir color, then anything was better than what he experienced his earlier life with.

[@LloydMajor]

Real cool!

[@laurastrobel718]

☺💝🎆

[@erik9830]

smoking a j during an interview in the 70s, what a chad

[@maxcuthbert100]

Looks like a cigar to me....

[@mindcontrol67]

@@maxcuthbert100 I'm sure its a cigar but erik wants to think everyone associated with jimi is flying high.

[@maxcuthbert100]

@@mindcontrol67 🧐😳😂😂😂

[@fortunatoofamontillado1059]

its a MORE !! popular skinny cigar/cigarette

[@erik9830]

@@mindcontrol67 what's your point? Why would you asume that lol, it doesn't look like a cigarette and you don't inhale cigars, so I asumed it was a joint/blunt. No shit a lot of his friends did psychedelics and smoked pot, what's wrong with that? Weirdo.

[@shable1436]

What's the chance of two army ppl getting famous separately, then back together again?

[@billyshane3804]

Band of Gimpys were brilliant but one time Buddy Miles stole my heroin.

[@dickjames2204]

Are you being serious? Please elaborate.