Drummer reacts to "Purple Haze" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Thank you to our patron Scott for this amazing pick... a warm up for our big Jimi video tomorrow. We did a couple tracks from this album last week and my mind was absolutely melted. I am so glad Scott requested this one. The first 10 seconds were very familiar but the rest I didn't know. And I'm an idiot for not knowing it LOL this was amazing. Not even 3 minutes long and it melted my butter. Good stuff...
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[@elizabethbrown6384]

The second track "Manic Depression" deserves attention. Mitch Mitchell kills it!!

[@glenndespres5317]

He ain’t lyin, Lee! Check it out!

[@charliecochran3035]

Absolutely. Manic Depression is probably my favorite from the first album.

[@mjsmcd]

@@elizabethbrown6384 i know what i want but dont how to get it Great line from manic d

[@srv2217]

Consider that this hit almost SIXTY YEARS AGO and guitarists TODAY are STILL trying to unlock Jimi

[@umpdaddy1]

Jimi's cover of Dylan's All Along the Watchtower is pure genius.

[@martinegauthier9081]

’67 was the Summer of Love, and this was at the height of the psychedelic era. Jimi was pure talent, pure genius!!!!!

[@L33Reacts]

I knew it was 67 I don’t know why I doubt myself lol

[@martinegauthier9081]

@@L33Reacts You shouldn’t!!! 1🙂🙃

[@genegarrett3372]

One the handful of songs that embodied the 1967 music revolution

[@John-et9yl]

"Excuse me while l kiss the sky". One of THE great lyrics of all time.

[@gailpitts4311]

That and ..."kiss this guy...:😊

[@nancy9891]

“Foxy Lady” is another banger. One can see why SRV loved his music.

[@scottyhotty1003]

I also love Crosstown traffic and All Along the Watchtower a Bob Dylan cover that Hendrix made his own❤

[@realbser1956]

This song and that opening riff probably influenced more guitar players than maybe any other song.

[@gavinmallett9331]

Bill Hicks said it best about Jimi... That he was an alien who arrived on earth to show us how to wail & then went back to his own planet.

[@Newfie-zc7ug]

I love it..............................

[@jimralston7562]

If you are ranking based on influence, Jimi was/is the most influential guitarist ever. And his songwriting skills top notch.

[@polittek]

Jimi Hendrix, who was already a great fan of The Beatles, bought the Sgt Pepper on the day of its release and two days later performed an audacious cover of the title track at the Saville Theatre. He didn't know at the time that some of The Beatles were in the audience.

[@johnsilva9139]

Well I think he he did it because he knew they were there and to pay respect, but in any case a great historical moment for rock music. BTW, I think it was Paul McCartney who recommended to the producers of the Monterey Pop Festival that Jimi be given a slot there a few weeks after the Saville Theatre show. Brian Jones introduced him at Monterey.

[@debjorgo]

I like the quote from The Traveling Wilburys' song End of the Line, where Tom Petty sings, "You'll think of me, wonder where I am these days, maybe..., when somebody plays Purple Haze".

[@BringItMAGA]

50 years later and I still get cold chills when I listen to him.

[@chitownlee]

67 was the summer of love and Monterey Pop when people got to see Jimi.

[@jasonralph4286]

"Hey Joe" and "Purple Haze" were the two Hendrix songs I remember hearing the most on the radio back the late 60's

[@ricktiberio]

I was 17 years old, high as hell, bangin a hot blonde, with this blasting on the stereo. Those were the days my friend.

[@hopeklemann1]

🌸 he had such a stage presence and ironically when you listen to him just talking one-on-one to someone or an interview, he's so painfully shy and quiet

[@L33Reacts]

Isn’t it funny how that works out. We always project the opposite of what actually are. He just happened to be a shy guitar god! lol

[@hopeklemann1]

@@L33Reacts true .. the fact that he had that soft quiet side actually makes him even more endearing to me.💔

[@hopeklemann1]

@@L33Reacts btw .. where would I mail something to you if I wanted to send a pkg?

[@L33Reacts]

@@hopeklemann1 you can email me [e-mail] ! You are too kind

[@hopeklemann1]

@@L33Reacts will do. in case it goes to spam or something, my email starts w/ rainbow...

[@Driecnk]

One of the greatest songs ever

[@Cheryworld]

one of Jimi's best, and most famous

[@theeloquentbaby]

I’ve known about and have heard Purple Haze before. Wow, it’s incredible to hear again! It’s so short… I was 11 years old when it came out in ‘67. My mother bought Beatles, but not Hendrix, so I didn’t know his music then. He was amazing.

[@shemanic1]

"Purple Haze" is probably my most played Hendrix & a prized vinyl 45. & yes the acid was amazing.

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

"'Scuse me while I kiss the sky." This song and Foxy Lady were Jimi’s first commercial hits. He soon got tired of playing them.

[@shiannesmith6877]

60 years old and still better then anything these days ❤

[@keithmccaslyn2527]

Word and then some !! Been into Jimi since 1970 !! At 66, its as fresh as ever....

[@MaunderMaximum]

No one's a bigger Hendrix fan than me. His influence is incalculable. But there has been guitar genius on Jimi's level long before he arrived. Please check out Django Reinhardt at some point. His jaw-dropping improvised solo on "I'll See You In My Dreams" is legendary, as is his entire career.

[@Cheryworld]

There was a strain of LSD called, you got it, Purple Haze

[@CharCanuck14]

Acid flashback!

[@fineasfogg1461]

I've been waiting for them for decades but none 😂 ​@@CharCanuck14

[@fineasfogg1461]

And I think there's a lot of purple haze stuff in the cannabis family too

[@vicprovost2561]

I remember it going around, not as potent as Window Pane but a dose was as good as blotter acid. It is a miracle me and most of my friends survived the 70s, everyone was doing crazy stuff back then. I don't regret doing that stuff but can't fit that pill in my mouth any more. (Mushrooms on the other hand...).

[@scottyhotty1003]

Double barrel white, purple, Mescaline I was told was popular by a friend back in the day

[@Trunkfish]

This song changed music forever in 1967 baby

[@stuBdoc]

This was our introduction to Jimi in the US in 1967. Never heard anything like it! That line, "Scuse me while I kiss the sky" was misinterpreted for years as, "Scuse me while I kiss this guy". lol

[@terrycunningham8118]

When this came out it was the the most aggressive thing we had ever heard. It was extraordinary in its ferocity.

[@L33Reacts]

I bet it was a shock inducing song. You are just baffled at what is happening lol

[@davidspalten1304]

Right on. This was the single most disruptive album of the 60s, with the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper No. 2. There is a reason he is idolized, but check out his mastery of the guitar through his catalogue- a genius in that light as well.

[@chitownlee]

This is the one that put him on the map, all over the radio back then.

[@glenndespres5317]

Summer of 67. Summer of Love. I was walking home from hanging out in the schoolyard. Just finished 6th grade and excited to move up to Jr. High School. This song came on someone’s transistor radio. It just had the sound and message that, “things are changing. Big time and fast.” You had it exactly right. It was like, “Whoah! What is THIS???” Axis Bold as Love album and Electric Ladyland are my favorites.

[@normanmiller604]

The live version of this from Woodstock is unbelievable.

[@shelleybleu4903]

When anyone mentions Jimi I think of this song immediately.

[@SueBrash712]

Jimi as a meteor. Yeah! That’s about right!

[@Driecnk]

Jimi was the epitome of cool

[@condorenvy]

I was in 8th grade in 1967 and my buddy’s older brother played this record for me and blew my mind!

[@DianeGardner-i8d]

Was my favorite song in highschool

[@Bill_Jones.]

I was lucky enough to see Jimi live twice with The Experience (both times in Houston). The first show was at the Houston Music Hall (my first concert). I was stunned at what I was seeing and hearing. Human beings just aren’t supposed to be doing that (except for David Gilmour). At the 2nd show at The Sam Houston Coliseum, we had much better seats (around row 20 on the floor instead of row 15 in the upper balcony like we had at the first show). Why I remember it so clearly is because Jimi ran onstage wearing a black silk headscarf and dressed in a black silk bodysuit that had silver sequins running up and down his arm sleeves and the sides of his pant legs. We punks could only stare at this apparition of coolness before our eyes. Of course, Jimi just tore the stage down and we walked out afterwards in a dazed stupor. I think we’d just been Experienced.

[@acehays]

My nickname back then was PurpleHaze!

[@samlewis7878]

Boy are you in for a treat. Jimi is one of the ALL TIME giants of music. It never gets tiring ; it never gets old. He was a master on every level.

[@sukie584]

Highly recommend Wild Thing from Monterey Pop… that’s my favorite live performance of his.

[@damonhines8187]

It's a great climax to the set. Watch the whole thing and it's clear why he made the impact he did.

[@TerenceShortman]

Summer 1966. A small Greenwich Village venue. There, a little-known guitarist performing under the stage-name Jimmy James Sitting among the Cafe Wha? audience, on the recommendation of Stones guitarist Keith Richards' girlfriend, was Chas Chandler - bassist with chart-topping UK band The Animals and now on the lookout for new talent to guide through the murky world of the music business. Promising an introduction to his hero Eric Clapton, he soon convinced the 23-year-old to accept him as his manager. Chandler brought Hendrix to London in late September and, with financial backing from Michael Jeffery who had overseen The Animals' short-lived career, set about promoting his young charge. the rest is history.

[@alrivers2297]

The wizard of rock n roll!

[@vicprovost2561]

You can't go wrong with Jimi, this is a signature tune from him, if you play guitar, you have very probably bumped into it along the way. It has been a staple of Classic Rock Radio/Streams since the day it was released. Great song from the master. If you want to hear the best Live version of this do Woodstock, he is insane there. Another great song is Hey Joe, the best Live audio version of It is at Winterland 10/12/1968, the guitar intro is as good as anything he ever did, he just takes flight and you had to know the audience was being overwhelmed by what they heard, some of his most fluid, articulate and beautiful p!laying, totally amazed me when I first heard it. Well worth looking for, enjoy! 🔥 🎵🎸🎤🎶🔥

[@karpatigeorges343]

jimi is a genie👍👍

[@dalemcmillan7231]

Classic Hendrix!!!❤❤ love it!!

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Magical Jimi Hendrix ♾️

[@Bekka_Noyb]

my fave song off my fave album! dbl ♥

[@johndavids4780]

Our band covered this in around 1970 and when I sang it as "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" with an internal giggle. I also used to sing Purple Haze with the lyrics of the Green Acres TV show theme song. His atmosphere was one of incense and pot as I remember it. 1967 was the summer of love but not for me as I was in Vietnam in 67 & 68.

[@Linda-y9h]

I just posted the same thing. 😂❤

[@SupernalOne]

And we had this when we were twelve years old!

[@L33Reacts]

Absolutely mental lol yall were so lucky in the art department back then

[@SupernalOne]

the growing recording industry plus the British Invasion, Motown, LSD and the California scene, FM radio - hundreds of artists forming their own genres, it was wonderful, gotta say - it's not that I don't like new music, just where to find it - satellite radio maybe

[@hopeklemann1]

🌸 and I'm sure you already know this but just in case you don't..... he was also left-handed and played the guitar like Paul McCartney

[@corawheeler9355]

Jimi is so good ... that's all I'm able to say : )

[@genegarrett3372]

Of course , one of our roommates in college went crazy on acid and began listening to this every day and WATCHING the sound come out of the speakers. Like I said Crazy for Coco Puffs

[@jyjjy7]

Seriously? It's coocoo for coco puffs

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

Playing drums to JIMI had to be extraordinary!!!❤

[@coinneachmaclellan3121]

I saw Jimi Hendrix in Vancouver in 1968...people were yelling at him to play "Purple Haze" and he shouted back, "Yeah, I'll get to that Mickey Mouse stuff"...he had already moved on in his music...

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

It’s Blowin my mind

[@Rhiannon011]

Jimi could play his guitar with his teeth live in concert!

[@-R.Gray-]

At the time, many of the sounds on this album hadn't been heard before. A guy named Roger Mayer was inventing never-before heard effects devices for Hendrix. On this song, it was the octave-fuzz device called the Octavia (listen for the note you hear an octave above the one being played). The Woodstock version of this song, starts where the "Star Spangled Banner" left off, and that ends with some great guitar soloing, followed by the tasteful "Villanova Junction".

[@mattleppard1964]

Raw. One of those defining songs. Once heard, it stays with you. Try “The Wind Cries Mary.” ❤️

[@Jonni1027]

Are You Experienced was constantly played in my house when it came out. God my parents were so wonderful to allow us to play all this kind of music on the turntable which was in the living room❤

[@jthaw]

The only equal to this is another Jimi Hendrix song! Yes, 1967 was the summer of love...in California.

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

I remember going to the music experience museum in Seattle about 25 years ago. They had a room of his memorabilia. In one case was his notebook opened to the pages where he hand wrote the lyrics to this song. An amazing experience. Summer of love was 1967 I was 9 years old.

[@davidthrower1553]

When they se advance copies of this to the radio stations they put a note on the label saying “Distortion is OK”…lol. When I first heard this I thought “WTF is this?????wow….” I was hooked on Hendrix for life after hearing this….what a riff!!!!

[@SANPARR1]

Jimi was revolutionary, he is one of the great creators of genres within rock.

[@doughaviland1729]

Can you even BEGIN to imagine how this blew us away back in the day. SO different from the Beatles and Beach Boys!😂❤❤❤❤❤

[@pleasantvalleypickerca7681]

Watch some of Jimi's live performances. It's like the guitar was a part of his body. Amazing!

[@robertnathan2843]

"Whatever it is, that girl, put a spell on me"..most songs by The Master of the Stratocaster, are love songs. Nice reactions 🎸

[@jessrodriguez9160]

Great reaction Lee. I appreciate the way you break down the music and show appreciation for the artists that the musicians are. You should try "Fire" soon. Mitch Mitchell is literally on fire on the drums in that one.

[@davebrooks2385]

This song and Foxy Lady made Jimi a star!! They were his first gigantic hits!!!

[@ta2gypsy]

"Purple haze" and "All along the watch tower" were covered by many greats indeed!

[@pierretoureille7359]

Essential track!!!

[@kweile4339]

Prime Hendrix.

[@luthartlearning6304]

I like seeing you react to music from my era! I feel we had the best music back then!

[@SupernalOne]

You ought to try Manic Depression, it's a rocker

[@craigreid7178]

Back in the early '70s Noel Redding played through my bass amp (Acoustic 360/361). Noel & Mitch Mitchell came into a club my band was playing at and wanted to do a set. Noel asked if he could use my amp (Acoustic 360/361) and I of course said Yes. That was a trip. Later I sold that amp to Jaco Pastorius.

[@christinawoolley6206]

I used to put on headphones and listen to this in 5th grade! 😹 My eldest sister had the album and let me play it (because I was very careful) To say listening to this music helped define me as a person is not an overstatement. Welcome young man! 😽🎶💕

[@docnflossie7351]

My first concert. Jimi November 68❤🎉❤

[@sdversbott8985]

Been listening to this forever, but just realized it’s a funk song. A very, very loud funk song. That haze in the music you mentioned obscures the funkiness, but man, that is some funky stuff

[@elisabethaxelsson4736]

I have never been so much imprest by Jimi, but this song and a handful songs more I like very much .

[@rb9628]

Hendrix at Monterey playing "Wild Thing," and him playing ""Voodoo Child" in Hawaii are must see videos.

[@MJ1]

“Excuse me while I kiss this guy…”

[@TheHogsEarReport]

Yet another misheard song lyric. It's, "Excuse me while I kiss this sky"

[@spooley]

Ha, remember there was a website for misheard lyrics by that name. Not sure if it still exists.

[@ednicholson7839]

To get the full effect of Hendrix watch his Woodstock performance in its entirety. Nothing else like it.

[@michaelbennett4138]

The 1st time I heard this was in '67, at my friend's girlfriend's house. And yes, it was a sonic explosion, but what stood out to me the most were the drums. They were so upfront in the mix, I'd not heard anything quite like it, not even with Cream and Ginger Baker. Credit to Mitch and to Jimi for their bold inventiveness!

[@markw.8455]

Have you seen 'Hey Joe' live? (A cover--has rough lyrics) A master-level talent. Plays a right-handed strat, left-handed, while singing and chewing gum, Plus a few other things.

[@mariaportengen2959]

Awesome musicians, with the iconic sologuitar from Jimmy.🎸🥁🎸🎸🎶🎶🎶

[@Linda-y9h]

We used to sing, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy." ❤😊

[@ontrack16]

I really like this album. Jimi’s material was so diverse. I really like Electric Ladyland (Jimi plays bass on some tracks!) and includes blues rock jam with Steve Winwood and Jack Cassidy, bass player of Jefferson Airplane. But my favorite is The Band of Gypsys, live on New Years Eve with Buddy Miles and Billy Cox. There is a lot of great live recordings which is a testament to Jimi’s place in time. ❤

[@Raistlin306]

There is a great story about The Beatles going to see him just 2 days after Sgt. Pepper was released and he played the title track to their amazement!

[@robertdawson8522]

One of the first songs to put the drums up front like that

[@robertcampbell8027]

You might remember the song Nobody But Me done by the Human Beinz in the mid 60s. They were from my hometown in Ohio. I was playing guitar in a different local band and walked into a club one night to hear the Beinz play. As I entered the club they started playing Purple Haze. My ears went into WTF mode and suddenly everything I knew about music changed.

[@fineasfogg1461]

Nobody played music like Jimi. We had never heard anything like him before. He was always on top of things too. 2 days after it was released he did a cover of Sgt peppers lonely hearts. I'm so happy that you love Jimi so much as I do too.

[@bradjenkins1475]

Purple Haze was the name of an awesome acid that was huge in late 60s.That stuff was Clean! I don't know which came 1st, this song, or the LSD. I didn't care.....I loved both!

[@roywallis5915]

This was the first song to receive a lot of airplay (at least in Detroit) but Hey Joe and Foxy Lady (from the same album) also got a lot of play. The entire album is great.

[@-R.Gray-]

If you thought "Third Stone..." was trippy, see Electric Ladyland's "1983 (A Mermam I Should Turn To Be)" and "Moon, Turn The Tides Gently Away", which is basically 1 piece separated in weird ways on CD and Spotify. Not only were new guitar effects pedals being developed, but the same goes for studio effects and stereo panning - so Hendrix and Eddie Kramer would do things like twisting knobs on analog delay units to bend cymbal sounds, and create runaway feedback, etc. There is some of Mitch's jazziest drumming, and the song "Still Raining, Still Dreaming" has some of Hendrix's best wah wah playing.

[@Dreyno]

It’s more that songs were added for the US release. Jimi became, well, Jimi, in London. Chad Chandler of the Animals brought him over and launched his solo career. The album was released after a string of hit singles. When it was released in the U.S., the singles were added to the running order.

[@allenlocke1935]

Jimi was a pioneer and boldly went where no man had gone before...FACT! There could only be one! There is live footage of him doing "Machine Gun", I think from the Isle Of Wight that is earthshaking.

[@davescurry69]

One thing you do have to remember though with the UK acts back in the '60's, the songs they released as singles were NEVER included on the corresponding albums. So whether it's the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, Hendrix, whoever... the albums and B-sides were never included on the albums. Then when the artist's U.S label would put the album out in the states, they would remove a couple of album tracks and put the singles in. That's why "Purple Haze", "The Wind Cries Mary" and "Hey Joe" were on the U.S edition of the album (replacing "Red House", "Can You See Me" and "Remember") and not on the UK edition. Either way, Are You Experienced is in my opinion, the greatest debut album of all time.

[@mikeross14]

Jimi was an Airborne Ranger, had jumped, on of his interveiw's He said he wanted to play like the wind,on a jump!

[@robertmoraga1501]

Mr bros preferred Electrc Ladykand and R U Experienced, but I always went back to Snash Hits. Every track a gem!

[@robertmoraga1501]

For a sultry tune featuring Jimi’s bluesy style try The Wind Cries Mary ;)