Drummer reacts to "Machine Gun" (Live) by Jimi Hendrix

As promised... Live at the Fillmore East on New Years Day 1970. This video gets a little wild, just a warning.
Link to original content (Please support the artist! I'm just giving my opinion, go get the real deal.)
• Machine Gun (Live)
If you’d like to donate to the channel or just show your appreciation, all the details are below. I created this channel for my daughter, so she has videos of her father talking and doing something he enjoys(listening to music and talking about it) since I don’t have any of those of my father. :) thank you again for your generosity guys, I appreciate you all more then you will ever know.
▶️ PAYPAL◀️
www.paypal.me/...
@L33Reacts
🔴PATREON🔴
www.patreon.com/L33Reacts
🔶️CONTACT ME 🔶️
[e-mail]
IF YOU ARE IN A BAND ARE INTERESTED IN BEING FEATURED ON NEWSDAY, PLEASE SEND YOUR BEST SINGLE AND A PICTURE OF YOUR LOGO TO [e-mail]
All rights to this song belong to whoever they belong to, this is just a video containing commentary on the song and falls under fair use
#jimihendrix

[@srv2217]

This performance is both completely unhinged and immaculately controlled. It's perfection.

[@L33Reacts]

That is the best way to put it. It’s war, basically.

[@DaveB-hg7el]

Yes, peace ❤🙃💚

[@physicalgraffiti88]

That's a pretty apt description, not just this performance but Hendrix as a whole. He was like the embodiment of chaos and nature that someone managed to wrap in human form for a few years, convinced to write some music, then let loose back into the ether a few years later

[@DaveB-hg7el]

@@physicalgraffiti88 Yes I agree that there is a beauty in chaos, and I have found a few other songs which have that chaos also. Not really sure why I'm attracted to this, and don't really care. Dust Bowl Dance, Mumford and Son (live is best), My Son John, Boiled In Lead, Ballad Of Jed Clampett, Bela Fleck,The Rite Of Spring, Stravinsky, Carmina Burana, Carl Orff, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, and more, before and after Jimi, are other examples of what the greatest chaos in music has produced. A pantheon of musical genius, where unhindered control is food for the soul. Peace 💚

[@davidbowman6740]

Jimi brought the chaos and horror of war through his guitar. The jazz genius Miles Davis, who was in the audience described Jimi’s performance as “Not just the greatest solo guitar performance ever but the greatest solo performance by any instrumentalist ever”. No higher compliment is possible.

[@samlewis7878]

Miles Davis in the audience! A pair of the all time greats of music, Jimi was blazing in this piece.

[@Heathsmusic1]

There’s actually a filming of this performance that has its own vibe. The drummer Buddy Miles did the backing vocal and vocal at the end. He had his own soul/rock group called the Buddy Miles Express in the late 60s. This band is perfect for Hendrix playing because they just laid down a solid pocket groove that allowed Hendrix to go anywhere he wanted. Love the “experience” as much but just a different vibe rhythmically. When you hear this, it just goes to show that SRV, as great as he is doesn’t hold a candle to Hendrix

[@davelouis4004]

Exactly !

[@steven.6227]

Buddy Miles on that vocal near the end

[@srv2217]

This is the absolute apex/mountain-top of live electric guitar performances. Absolutely unbelievable

[@L33Reacts]

I was moved by how much Jimi knew firsthand how horrible it was to be over there…. It’s nothing to be proud of. It’s nothing to be celebrated. It’s a terrible, brutal reality. Every person who that war touched fucked up in ways they don’t even understand fully probably. Sorry, this topic is just close to the heart it seems. Thank you for watching my friend.

[@srv2217]

@@L33Reacts I know where you’re coming from. My Uncle and Father both served in Vietnam and my mother was the director of a VA hospital in Texas for a number of years when I was a kid.

[@samuellord8576]

@@L33Reacts Just for the record, he didn’t go to Vietnam. He was in the 101st Airborne, dunno if he entered or completed jump school. I believe he was discharged early, perhaps for medical reasons. But we had no large presence in Vietnam at the time he served (1961-1962). But he DEFINITELY knew many men who were later sent to Vietnam. And black soldiers were sent and were killed and wounded in far greater proportions to the population than whites. When he composed the song, the very bloody Tet offensive had happened over a year before.

[@pongosnodgrass7014]

Ratatata-tat-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom! Hendrix captures the zeitgeist perfectly...amps cranked, wah being used as kind of tone control on feedback, the exhaustion of witnessing war being normalised, now on TV, Hendrix's guitar screams and soars in stoned and sometimes slurry emotional agony. Ratatata-tat-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom! This is a powerful piece of music that echos through time.

[@markferrett700]

I was 15 when I first heard this album......was mesmerised by it.... ...Still am fifty years later.🎸

[@flowersnyams]

The greatest example of soulful guitar playing ever recorded by anybody. The whole album is magnificent

[@L33Reacts]

I’m gonna keep going with it for sure this was electric

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

You can hear the bullets, the helicopters and battlefield all by the way plays that guitar to its ultimate and in the right hands

[@woedan48]

NOW you are EXPERIENCED !

[@L33Reacts]

For sure my friend. I love this guy

[@elmorevandodewaard544]

Serious?? Miles was in the audience..?? Miles was a fan of Jimi’s music for sure

[@flyingardilla143]

This song will never get old.

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Because the rhythm section was so tight Jimi could concentrate on pouring his heart out through his guitar.

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

Buddy Miles singing at the end. Billy Cox was in the Army with Jimi. Great reaction, Lee.

[@mark501w]

Hendrix “hey baby”, Buddy Miles,”Them changes”

[@rubensanchez7605]

Painter, Poet, Prophet,Artist,Activist Genius!!!! I had the amazing luck to hear and see his group in 1970 just before he died.

[@irrefudiate]

When he played the National Anthem at Wood Stock, he included an air battle in the middle of it, with machine guns blasting and bombs falling. Thanks for playing this. My respect for Buddy Miles just went into the stratosphere. Amazing sound.

[@gregkerr725]

The singer late in the song is the drummer Buddy Miles.

[@stayclean777]

Jimi was on an entirely different level than his greatest guitar slinger peers. It took a while for me to see clearly that there's no comparison. Brilliant reaction dude 👍

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

Probably Jimi’s best ever !!!! Nobody can ever follow that !!!!!

[@L33Reacts]

Yeah that’s why I made it the last song of the day. There is nothing that can follow that.

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

@@L33Reacts probably nothing to follow that in our life times !!!

[@darkmagus64]

This was Miles Davis favorite Hendrix song.

[@L33Reacts]

One can see why… this is amazing!! And miles is just fantastic himself…

[@darengraves1717]

Lenny Kravits said that this song was so intense that he had to take a nap after hearing it for the first time 🎸🎸

[@Niko3387Y]

I have goosebumps every time

[@neilwoodley530]

More of my vinyl kiddo. I watched you and I saw a sixteen year old me moving in the same way. You just listened to the greatest electric guitar solo ever recorded. Anyone who says that Jimi Hendrix was not absolutely the best electric guitarist ever is not talking out of his mouth. (You don't believe me? Ask Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page). The composition is extraordinary, the performance is almost unbelievable and that guitar tone..... There's more where that came from. Not much more sadly..... All the best young man.

[@gregkerr725]

Complete and utter mastery of the electric guitar. There are good and even great guitarists out there...but only one Hendrix.

[@helenespaulding7562]

Never heard this live cut. OMFG! Peak Hendrix here….60’s psychedelic rock guitar APEX here!

[@CliffordLake]

Please finish this album. Thank you.

[@patrickandraska2033]

Jimi is the GOAT. Machine Gun is my favorite guitar performance ever. 27 years old. Can you even comprehend that?

[@jimideaton]

Amazing piece of guitar work. This moves me deeply every time.... and that's a lot of times.Magic, mesmerizing, moving, masterpiece!

[@claytonpaul4259]

This song will change you forever. Thanks for having an open heart. This song is more relevant now than ever.

[@destrojohnson6564]

Mitch Mitchell is one of the most underrated drummers of all time.

[@L33Reacts]

He really is. I wish he was here for this but buddy killed it

[@destrojohnson6564]

@@L33Reacts yeah, that’s right. This is one of the first shows with the band of Gypsies lineup isn’t it?

[@dynodon9182]

Steve Vai and Joe Bonamassa both say the Machine Gun solo is the GOAT.

[@mr.goodenough3796]

As well as Lenny Kravitz, Slash , and Vernon Reid. They speak about ots impact on the Band of Gypsys DVD. ✌️

[@dannywilliams9264]

Also Joe Satriani ​@mr.goodenough3796

[@dstu1699]

So did Miles Davis

[@BlackMountainMike]

Imagine being around in 1970-71 and losing Jimi, Janis and Morrison in the same year! All 27 yrs old and all self destructed on substance. Such an unnecessary loss!!

[@marksimpson1991]

Still remember the day Janis died. Sitting in the back of my sister's Rambler. News came on the radio and I was devasted.

[@wade8240]

Hendrix did not self destruct. He died of asphixia. The amount of sleeping pills he had ingested was not a leathal dose. He literally chocked on his own vomit.

[@bradjenkins1475]

Listening to Jimi just now took me back and made me miss my stereo set up back then, which was awesome, including a Pioneer turntable, Marantz amp, and Advent speakers.

[@helenespaulding7562]

Pioneer turntable. Yup.

[@gregkerr725]

The current generation is a bit under educated when it come to Hendrix. It even kills me when someone will hear Stevie Ray Vaughns cover of Hendrix's Voodoo Child and think SRV is the GOAT. Don't get me wrong...SRV was a great guitarist, but were he alive today and told him to his face that he was even better than Hendrix, he'd likely call you an idiot. I've played guitar for over 50 years and don't even consider myself a good player..........I mean Hendrix was his own music genre!

[@alanberg5575]

Stevie was too kind and modest of a man to say he was the greatest. But many of us think he absolutely was. Hendrix was certainly the innovative one. But Stevie was better technically, cleaner in his playing, had an unbelievably massive tone, had every bit the showmanship and stage presence of Jimi, AND did this on guitar with incredibly heavy-gauged strings and high action! I appreciate and respect your opinion. I'm merely expressing mine. By the way, I'm sixty-six and have heard them all. Peace, and have a wonderful day!

[@samblethen]

I was at this concert

[@nickvertucci4187]

The garden 1970 New Year's Eve?

[@samblethen]

@@nickvertucci4187 New Year's Day

[@L33Reacts]

Man you are LUCKY 🍀 that is amazing

[@scotstevens5263]

Just the BEST!!!🎸🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶😊 That’s Buddy singing, “Don’t you shoot him down and drumming.

[@patrickscutella836]

Miles Davis dug this. There are certain songs that just scream Vietnam and this is one of them.

[@arizrich]

The GOAT...

[@corawheeler9355]

That was amazing

[@hastobe303]

Perhaps the greatest performance on the electric guitar, even to this day. He was something special. Such a loss.

[@fd1930]

An incredible performance and no surprise it moved you so much I was blessed to grow up with 60’s and 70”s music all around me And now you’re blessed that the community guides you through our experiences and lets you feel your own A really interesting and enjoyable reaction bro

[@shemanic1]

Superb Hendrix. Give us more.

[@L33Reacts]

Oh don’t worry… Thursday belongs to Jimi and no one else until there is nothing left to hear

[@VereinPlatzhirschamHirschenpla]

Best Guitar Solo ever

[@bretthefret]

That note at 5:40 never fails to give me the chills, Jimi completely tapped into something!

[@realbser1956]

Jesus, hearing Machine Gun again, maybe it’s been 20 years, no way to fully understand the level of his guitar playing. 🔥🔥

[@ozmaile7938]

Its the Musical Version of Apocalypse Now,,,,,,,,

[@johnbruin5547]

Lee, as was already mentioned previously in the comments, that was Buddy Miles the drummer singing at the end. Just FYI, his father played upright bass for some of the big band greats of the 30s and 40s, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon.

[@Trunkfish]

The single greatest Live performance of all time I think

[@Bluesrockguy]

That first note that he plays for the solo is enough to chill you down to the bone. Beyond the haunting and terrifying beauty with which he combines aggression with soulful sensitivity, he also uses onomatopoeia to make you actually visualize the "war scenes". You can 'feel' the rain, mud and blood, the soldiers limping from their injuries. Shear genius.

[@-R.Gray-]

Miles Davis was in the audience. Fillmore promoter Bill Graham had complained that Hendrix was doing too many of his guitar tricks during the previous show, so for this one Jimi just stood there and played. Both Joe Satriani and Steve Vai say this is their favorite guitar soloing. The concert was held in order to fulfill an agreement Hendrix had signed in the past resulting in him owing Capital Records an album of new material. The only video of this complete song is an old black and white VHS recording on Vimeo. The camera work is annoying, but if you're a fan, it's worth it.

[@shiannesmith6877]

YESSSS FINALLY ❤❤

[@user-oe9hj9yl7m]

That’s a better interpretation of Vietnam than Apocalypse Now. !!!!

[@angiek6799]

Interesting story about this night in Bill Grahams Fillmore East. In the early show Jimmy did all of his usual moves, playing behind his back, humping the guitar, playing with his teeth, etc. After the show Bill Graham told him all of that was great and all, but you just forgot to play. This stunned Hendrix so much that in the second late show Hendrix stood still for the whole show and just played. After coming off stage, before the encore, he gave Graham a few choice words, and then went out for the encore and let loose again with all of his theatrics. This Machine Gun is from that late show. There is video of it on KZbin. That story is in Bill Grahams book, a great read if you’re interested. ✌️

[@bradjenkins1475]

Wow this gives me a great rush just to say it, but I was one of the lucky 2500 people to see Jimi at that concert at the Fillmore that evening. That was. During my tenure where I lived in the East village 5 blocks from the Fillmore, from 1969 to 1972.

[@L33Reacts]

Wow. we really do have the best community on this platform lol you were THERE man…. Wow. I’m eternally jealous.

[@bradjenkins1475]

@@L33Reacts And I myself am actually jealous of my own past.

[@goonbelly5841]

IMO, Band of Gypsys is Jimi's best album.

[@srv2217]

100%

[@gregkerr725]

Agreed..........and just think what would have followed had he lived.

[@1perfectpitch]

You can come back to the 70s and hang out with us boomers.

[@Humb7757]

I had the Vinyl at 13!! (1970)

[@user-px3oh1fk6b]

The # 1 musical expression in history!!!!

[@samuellord8576]

Beautiful reaction, thank you. This performance is a masterpiece, and has a powerful cause. I’ll finish, of course, with Peace.

[@scotstevens5263]

Believe It or not, I had Buddy Miles sitting across from me in my apartment in Long Beach Ca. talking about Jimi and Janis whilst we smoked a joint back in summer of 1980 just when he was released from prison and traveling north to visit Dennis Wilson (beach boy) on recording a new album. I never forget that as long as I live. Buddy sing s back up on They don’t Know when Jimi’s guitar string breaks and plugs back into the amp playing solo while tuning the guitar up. Do You Know, like I Know? Do, do, do, do doooo a dodo 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸😎

[@davescurry69]

Loved your reaction to this masterpiece by THE Genius musician of rock music too, Lee. Loving your choices man.

[@DrVonChilla]

Been listening to this for more than 50 years and it REMAINS the greatest piece of electric guitar expression I'll ever hear. When Jimi hits the wail of the siren, IT'S ON.....and it never fails to give me goosebumps. JIMI HENDRIX LIVES

[@claytonpaul4259]

You nailed it bro. Nailed it. Excellent reaction. I've been waiting for this. Totally agree with you. This is the proper reaction to this song.

[@mickell241]

my first concert... amazing! Burning of the Midnight lamp, Freedom, little miss strange, still raining, still dreaming.......

[@jamesmcclain5005]

The song Hear My Train a Comin is HEAVY!

[@827dusty]

There is only one. The greatest ever. And he plays his guitar upside-down! Freaking crazy good.

[@johncampbell756]

Buddy Miles can sing. They do Buddy's song Changes which he later sings on one of his own albums. Cox was a buddy from the military.

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Who couldn't love Jimi💥🎸

[@rickeylucero3955]

The whole LP is one the greatest guitar LPs of all.

[@jamesscura7122]

This is his great gift, that exploration that Jeff Beck picked up on and ran with. It wasn't his technique, some say he was sloppy, but his exploration was his gift to all guitar players.

[@kingscorpion915]

One Of The Very Best Solos Ever Amazing since it first came out 54 years ago

[@rockitflash]

You totally got it!!!! Jimi was a shaman. He perfectly channeled the horror of war through that Stratocaster. You heard the rat-tat-tat of the machine guns, the bombs falling and exploding and the cries of the victims. I think it’s Jimi’s best recorded moment.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Best thing ever recorded

[@L33Reacts]

I can’t disagree. That was the thing dreams are made of. Music wise. But the effect is toiling and just straight up brutal. As an “empath” with music, this one hurt lol

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

@@L33Reacts oh yeah you are right about that

[@genegarrett3372]

I consulted my Ouija Board and Jimi's spirit said to like this video for him. And so I did. He also said he likes your channel.

[@michaelkeefe8494]

Knew you'd get to this sooner rather than later; knew you'd dig it too. "Who Knows?" next?

[@L33Reacts]

I’m glad I took the jump last night. It brought out some stuff from me I’ve not felt in a while to be honest

[@KenHunter-lt8wm]

Quite a powerful experience watching your reaction. The power of music! There's rare times in music where a performer just transcends their instrument - it becomes more than notes or chords or playing scales. Jimi did it in that performance of Machine Gun. The expression comes straight from his soul. Maybe Miles or Coltrane and a few others did it too, but it's a rare, powerful thing to witness. There's one other Hendrix song (at least...!) where I think he does the same. It's Voodoo Child (Slight Return) off Electric Ladyland. This is a different peroformance from the long blues jam version you did already. But the guitar again just transcends; goes beyond notes and bends and technique - becomes some demonic presence unleashed in the studio....like he summons some wild living breathing creature into existence. A perfect encapsulation of the subject of the song into pure sound once again, just like in Machine Gun. I'm rambling I know...can't help myself! God, music is great! 🙂

[@L33Reacts]

I appreciate the rambling, don’t worry. I do it myself. Especially when the topic involves such immortal performances like this. Thank you for watching my friend! I have no doubt we will get to that track eventually ;)

[@PointyTailofSatan]

The Shakespeare of the electric guitar.

[@gl2700]

My quintessential Hendrix tune. This song had me in tears more than once. Great reaction!

[@L33Reacts]

That was a rough one man. Hard to get through. But some of the best music I’ve ever heard

[@L33Reacts]

Worse than any war photo. Puts such a graphic and terrifying and confusing picture in your mind. Which is war in a nutshell for those on the ground and the civilians caught in the crossfire 😢

[@spoolstring1853]

this can never be matched incredible control tone sounds like a wolf howling intricate noodles

[@jimideaton]

When you're ready for another intense cut by Jimi, try House Burning Down.

[@jimholt1888]

Looking forward to this!

[@dstu1699]

You should check out the video of this performance so you can see what hes doing. All of that sound of chaos and Jimi's just standing there wailing away. Story goes, the owner of Fillmore East (where this was performed) challenged Jimi to not dance and gyrate all over the place while he's playing. Jimi took it personally and this performance was the result of the challenge. Safe to say Jimi won the challenge. 😂😂😂 Great reaction btw.

[@user-fc8lz1cg4x]

Jimi. What an influence he had on our lives. I was just a kid. Your candle definitely burned out long before your legend did. ❤

[@johnhebert3986]

If anybody asks why Jimi Hendrix is widely considered the greatest electric guitarist of all times just point to this epic performance. Case closed.

[@SeaMark782]

I listened to this in 1970, with one more year before I had to register for the draft. I got lucky. Imagine this, I knew of guys, getting high, chasing the dragon, in country, listening to lot's of Hendrix including this song. He was a hero to soldiers in Nam, music was all they had, besides getting high to ease the fear. Some damaged forever, people I knew.

[@abstraktboombap2156]

The power of Jimi. No one did it like that before him. Jimi tapped into something that was beyond music. Can you imagine hearing this live? There was no metal and hard rock was just starting. Both Zeppelin and Sabbath started in 1968. No one was prepared for Jimi. He scared the crap out of Clapton and Townshend. It's really interesting to see you as a young guy getting shook like that because your ears are more accustomed to effects and shredding and other modern developments yet Jimi still did the undoable to your ears. To us, it was from another dimension.

[@ap7498]

Thanks for the reaction!! A true masterpiece that will live on in perpetuity! This was Miles Davis’ favorite Hendrix song

[@Humb7757]

Thanks L33, for this amazing emotional review… this is a timeless album …Perfect Performance!There are other magnificent albums … Check out ‘Rainbow Bridge’. ‘Hear my train a comin’ Jimi with Mitch and Billy Cox’ (Live at Berkeley, May 70) One of his treasures 💎 ( I was 13 then in 1970…)

[@pd4104lang]

Buddy Miles on vocals at the end.

[@jamessomers8808]

Thank you for your reaction and for reminding me how important this song was. I love the drummer singing at the end too.

[@samlewis7878]

Jimi was coming at it on such a high level in this piece it almost defies description. A real peice of genius that I doubt precious lttle work of any genre compares with.

[@meditationlifeskills]

This combination of "top of their game musicians" could have put out a hundred albums and would never get old.

[@allanmakela3011]

Nice analysis,when I heard this in 1970,the playing was unheard of before,instantly Jimi is the man,didn,t need drugs,he would take you on a trip with his Stratocaster

[@benhinds2971]

The way that emotionally affected you is exactly the way it should. It did, and still does, every time I hear it. Keep listening to it. Every time you listen to that performance you will hear more and more. Missles, Bombs, Fire? I swear at some point I hear crying. Someone said that, at the end, Buddy plays a military cadence, which may represent a new soldier going off to meet the gun. I know alot about Hendrix, and the imagery within sounds, were very much something that Billy, Buddy, and Jimi would discuss and try to play. Jimi often talked about painting a picture, and playing emotions with music. (See: Axis.Bold as Love. Lyrics)

[@keithroberts150]

Buddy miles the drummer was the singer. Greatist guitar solo ever. Thank you for covering it.

[@jerryfrentress4107]

Much appreciation for your heartfelt reaction...as a teenager, machine gun and war pigs (so NOT Beetles & Beachboys) had a huge impact. Played on repeat... Your comet analogy is good...Bad Co thought "shooting star". And yes, i think he was an alien

[@robertlear2712]

I would like you to review more songs from Electric Lady Land. It is hard to pick just one but I will recommend Rainy Day, Dream Away.

[@BernardHodgson]

Absolutely brilliant!

[@UlfPettersson-f9c]

Buddy Miles played with Carlos Santana just two years after this, and it was recorded on a live album with the great title "Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles: live!"

[@claytonpaul4259]

LETS GOOOOOOOO❤❤❤

[@kenhewitt7357]

Drummer singing at the end.

[@KennyRansom-l5k]

There is B&W video of this performance floating about . I believe it ties to this story . There were 2 shows at the Fillmore that night . And pertaining to the grainy B&W video of this song , you'll see Hendrix basically standing there playing his ass off but none of the tricks or flair he's associated with . As the story goes Legendary promoter Bill Graham had complained to Hendrix that all of his "tricks" took away from his stunning ability , so for the 1st show that night , Hendrix ( as the video shows) stands pretty much stock still & just plays . When he came off of the stage after the performance he tells Graham "How Was That Motherf*cker ?!?!?" of his performance . Then for the 2nd show Jimi played just as good but he also pulled out every outrageous trick & stunt he had in his bag of guitar playing tricks . 🙂