Guitar Teacher REACTS: "MACHINE GUN" Hendrix / Band Of Gypsys | LIVE COLOR FOOTAGE

[@brianatherton4157]

I'm a 74 year-old Londoner, and was utterly privileged to see Jimi live six or so times. His performances were at times playful, enlightening, profound and always mesmerising. However, this performance is a chilling, gut-wrenching, visceral assault on the senes; it sends shivers down my spine, leaving me drained and brings me to tears every time. The harnessing of electricity. Absolutely. This performance is as relevant today as it was then. Thank you, Michalel.

[@bsimpson4076]

I'm 63... I saw him on the Lulu show and had to have a Strat from that day.. Eventually got one but lack the talent to abuse it like this solo..!! Wished I'd seen him.

[@darkaouireda8603]

❤ you're the luckiest man alive😂

[@scalefingerz]

Brian, thank you for your comment! I was 6 years old when he died and I didn't even know who he was until I was 15 years old. Discovering him changed my life. Made me pick up the guitar. This "performance" is a channeling of Jesus Christ! THIS IS GOD, THE SON, AND THE HOLY GHOST hating war!

[@laurenpeot846]

It came to him in a dream. When he awoke, it was all there. In his dream, he found himself on a battlefield, standing next to a Viet Cong soldier as he was cut down by a heavy machine gun. Jimi's 100 watt Marshalls were heavily modded by LA Sound. They put out 340 watts, as I recall. Speakers were changed to Altec Lansings to handle the power. Jimi wanted more sustain, not increased distortion. So, instead of 300 watts, he had 1300 But those early shows in London are my favorite, I think. I heard a 45 minute long Purple Haze from early '67 that after the first few minutes was completely freeform, but I have been umable to track it down. Probably Janie got it removed.....

[@randall_4126]

you are so lucky, what a cool experience to tell people about!

[@JosephJeffrey-ep1ci]

His control over raw power is mystical It’s like he’s standing in a faraday cage with bolts of lightning around him. No one comes close. No one ever will.

[@LostMyMojo100]

Perfect!!!!!

[@JamieShogun1973]

You got it !! Listen to the feedback intro to Are you experienced? Live at Winterland. Minute 1:23 Hendrix split the atom .

[@theprofessor8589]

Truth!! Nobody, and that includes the hyped up Stevie Ray Vaughn!

[@JDD1515]

"The harnessing of pure electricity" - you are 100% correct, that is the most accurate description of Hendrix I've heard-particularly for this performance.

[@jamescassidy3995]

Nikola Tesla would have dug Jimi fo’ sure fo’ sure ⚡️⚡️🎸🎸⚡️⚡️⚡️

[@NoNameForThisGuy]

Correct. Dude was dead almost 2 decades before I was born anyway, to me he's always been a fucking beam of light.

[@AllTheCoolNamesAreTaken84]

Legend has it that the sustained bend at 8:11 is still traveling through the stratosphere.

[@stevecosta]

That will be the first sound an alien civilization will hear!

[@jimmyramos8908]

​@@stevecostayeahhhh 🎸🎸🎸😎

[@GrahamNash-m3t]

@AllTheCoolNamesAreTaken84 Bro Stratocaster Stratosphere!

[@richfoster6677]

I have been listening to this performance of Machine Gun for like 40 years or more (I am 58), and I NEVER grow tired of it…absolutely effing incredible…that one note he hits at the beginning, probably the single greatest single note of electric guitar EVER!!

[@FranciscoGonzalez-ei3vg]

This is the greatest guitar solo of all time. There’s no argument about it. All those cosmic sounds that were made live.

[@YvonneWinslow-v9n]

Totally agree. The blast off part always gets me pulled back into my seat and I just listen with bliss 😊

[@YvonneWinslow-v9n]

Miles Davis was in the audience and for that particular part. He said it was Jimi Hendrix's best song ever and the best song in the world at the time.. and tbh it still stands the test of time.. Still one of the most profound and historical experience to ever exist ❤😢😮

[@FranciscoGonzalez-ei3vg]

@@YvonneWinslow-v9n exactly and Miles Davis saying that is an understatement for what this performance is people gotta remember about the solo too this solo is in premeditated. Jimmy is simply using all his psyche into the guitar genius.

[@FranciscoGonzalez-ei3vg]

is not premeditated *

[@paulhicks3595]

GOAT. No question. The peak. The godhead. I’ve been in absolute awe of this for over 50 years.

[@alamosabill201]

None better, never will be.!

[@TommyWrenn]

Fuck yes. My entire life revolves around this track. I think I actually provided the exact same commentary to my children when letting them hear this. My son asked me what God looks like and I told him Jimi Hendrix.

[@bpatts1652]

Me as well

[@billmoonshire67]

naaa

[@jamesschpeiser4326]

Like Groovin on a Sunday afternoon but in a different groove

[@kdavis63]

As Steve Vai said in his and Satriani interview with Rick Beato... "Hands of God. The best solo ever."

[@jessejordache1869]

Steve Vai gives good interview.

[@sacredgeometry]

He's not wrong.

[@jessejordache1869]

@@sacredgeometry It's not often that he is. Vai doesn't do "teams", and is a consummate music lover. Most of the time when people put down Hendrix, they're really trolling. "Look how original I am."

[@spatnaspolecnost]

I really like Satriani’s live performance of A Cool New Way here on yt, it always reminds me of BoG a little bit.

[@sledzeppelin]

@@jessejordache1869 The same people who say Piper is the only good Floyd album.

[@leeinthesprings]

I can't even imagine hearing this back in the 60's... Even today it absolutely blows my mind... Hendrix's ability to create the sound from his mind through his guitar... Unmatched!

[@Andre-b6w3b]

So true. One plus one equals one.

[@michaelratner693]

I was at this concert I sat in the 4th row. Seat number dd3. It was even better live. I also saw hendrix at randles Island downing stadium where he gave another incredible performance! There will never be another like him...

[@Trwillis9]

WHOA!!!!!

[@elmorevandodewaard544]

No way?! Awesome

[@yurolson]

That’s amazing. Do have been there just at the right time. Fully aware to go and have the cash. But the moment is huge. Was it loud!!!??? Hard to feel another give so much. Every thing else pales in comparison…

[@camronbay1]

Oh man the sound must of sounded so powerful.

[@MorningView4]

Godspeed, Michael ♥️

[@lesterunwin]

that sustained bent note never fails to make my hair stand up on end - no matter how many times i've listened to it.

[@eroldcroft3045]

It's because of the univibe. Don't get me wrong. Greatest guitar solo ever. The univibe is all over this.

[@jessejordache1869]

@@eroldcroft3045 True, but keep in mind that he didn't pick up a Fuzz Face from Guitar Center. It was made to spec by Roger Mayer. Story is, Roger Mayer approached Jimmy Page at some point in the 1960s, and as Jimmy Page stories often go, Page was busy with something else at the time. Couple years later, Page is in the Yardbirds, gets in touch with Mayer, who says "sorry, I'm doing Jimi Hendrix' sound now."

[@dwyerjh061]

The sustained note - I label it as "the greatest single guitar note ever played". Hard to argue with. Then....the way he gets out of it is like a galactic machete. That whole phrase is monstrous.

[@SlowfingerJC]

Amen!

[@eroldcroft3045]

@@dwyerjh061 his tremolo whammy bar trill is what still scare my soul how he pulled that off on the fly. The opening single solo note he hits at the start is because of the univibe, period. It's the oscillation of the uni. Mind blowing. It has zero to do with technique. I love univibes. Archaic effect that has never been truly furthered. Trower, Uli Jon Roth,gilmour, Eric Johnson use them. So do I. Because of machine gun.

[@wowOKlol]

That first huge sustained bend after he cranks the volume. I shed tears. Long time fan of Jimi and the channel. I've heard this rendition many times. You do it justice Michael. You get it bud. Fly on

[@stevesharpe361]

Thought that was just me.

[@Steven-o9t9y]

I’m 71 years old black man and I was first starting to play the guitar in 1969. My brother had the Are You Experience album and I listened to it then I bought the Band of the Gypsies album. My life changed forever after that and that solo took to me to another dimension and place. I have been listening to all of the greatest guitar players for over 60 years. No one can ever replace Hendrix. I have heard them all. No one can master the feeling and sounds. He controlled electricity, his mind and body was connected to his instrument and they became one. He was an artist and he painted music he didn’t play music. I have a fear of flying but when I get on an airplane I put on Machinegun and it takes me to another place. After that I’m good 😊 to go. When I die Machinegun will be played at my home going celebration.

[@TBSSPILOTviews]

Well said brother Steven…saw the experience in NY back in late 68’ (felt forum) Madison Square Garden. He was truly a master of electricity…I switched from being a drummer to electric bass after this man pulled my mind into strings…😎🎸🎶🙏🏼

[@thomaslepoutre8736]

As a non guitar player, when I first saw this performance in high school I was in complete awe and it led me down a path of utter admiration for Jimi Hendrix. I still remember every note of the solo 18 years after first hearing it. As an introvert, it completely changed my way of looking at music in that it became a conduit of feelings and emotions. Thank you so much for bringing this performance back to my radar in 2024.

[@Hbougassa08]

I must’ve listened to that performance thousands of times … hell, there have even been long stretches in my life when I couldn’t listen to it because it would just wreck me deep down. These days I make the pilgrimage a couple of times a year to remind myself of the mystery and wonder of existence. Crazy, too, it’s just a simple blues vamp. I don’t even think there’s much in the way of chord changes anywhere. But more than that, it’s a protest song, at a time of unspeakable slaughter going on in the jungle and people tearing each other apart at home. I recall reading an interview with Vernon Reid where he said it was the single greatest musical statement of all time. To me, at this point, it’s beyond music. The only way I’ve ever been able to explain that performance to myself is to say Jimi was just an antenna that night. The universe screamed and wailed and cried and shuddered through him; I can’t even imagine he was fully conscious of what was happening. A human but no longer just a human, charged and entranced and delivering some awesome primal signal coming from both deep within and all around. The other thing that just kills me about that performance is at the end, as the sounds fade out, the audience is just … silent for a long moment. So eerie and heartbreaking. I don’t know, man, but I’m grateful it happened.

[@VODECI]

Wow man that’s deep

[@oneworld1563]

Amen. And today, as haunting and gut-wrenchingly real as ever.

[@edwardyazinski3858]

And. Its. Still. Going. On! Evil Men. Ex grunt here btw.

[@riley59100]

I think the audience was stunned by what they just witnessed! This was New Year's eve 1969. The 60's was like living through a hurricane and at midnight chronologically it was over.

[@goodpeopleoftheworldunite]

Yeah, that's what we don't want to hear any more. ​@edwardyazinski3858

[@nickb.237]

This is my favorite video you’ve ever done. The passion was unmatched that I feel to Jimi’s playing.

[@midnitelion5238]

He didn't play the guitar, but used the guitar as a brush to paint with. He painted his feelings in a divine way. When I first heard this in the seventies as a teenager I was incredibly moved by what I heard and especially felt. I can still get very emotional about it. Timeless and devine!

[@cacadodo666]

I would always point to this song among many others displaying Hendrix's utter mastery of expression outside of the classic blues swing paradigm where note emphasis was places on predictable beats. SRV, though a master of expressively playing within that 'swing' paradigm, never ever broke this free. SRV and many other technically proficient artists were playing. Hendrix was painting.

[@plasticrap4577]

Can’t truly get a full understanding of this performance without knowing the story that I’m about to tell. This performance took place on New Year’s Day 1970. This was the second of two shows that evening. The first being on New Year’s Eve, the second after midnight. Between the two shows, promoter Bill Graham and Jimi Hendrix were talking about the first show. Jimi asked Bill, “what did you think about that performance”. Bill said, “wow Jimi, you played with your teeth, you played behind your neck, you did all the cool moves. You did everything but play the guitar”. Jimi was surprised to hear this take from Bill. So, Jimi came out in the second show and you’ll notice in the video, he stands mostly in one place the whole show and plays the fucking guitar and amplifier! That story I just told is the reason why we have this beautiful performance! Now that you know, Rock On! Give a thumbs up if this true story moved you!

[@MrRast23]

Insane.

[@gmerciez]

This version of Machine Gun came from the early show on 1/1/1970. If you get a chance, listen to all 4 versions from the 2 nights. All different. I believe this version is the only one with "The Note."

[@green6string434]

8:11 will never be surpassed. Put it in a time capsule, to be opened in 1,000 years, with a note saying "This is the electric guitar."

[@ralphthomas7868]

And his big note on Johnny B Goode at Berkeley.

[@jeffnewman8633]

After all these years, this still puts a shiver down my spine. Just incredible

[@gutenberg2]

I love your videos. You're not only a competent and technically interesting guitar teacher with a very good ear, most of all you are sincere and emotional and fragile and also (which is something that lacks a lot on YT tutorial), you make us smile. This it what gives you a unique originality. Thanks a lot for your videos and particularly this Hendrix one.

[@Guitargate]

Thank you SO MUCH MY FRiend!

[@bry3921]

Best I’ve seen, I appreciate you truly getting It: his focus, heartbreak, bravery, he’s speaking in so many voices, communicating. Saw him 4 times, last was Woodstock. I’m privileged.

[@craigshelton5903]

Fantastic guided tour of the world’s greatest electric guitar solo! Thank you, Michael

[@shakirbaruka8923]

I’ve listened to Machine Gun more times than I can begin to count four decades and you’re sooo right! He’s harnessing electricity, it almost feels like he’s wrestling with a giant electric anaconda, yet it’s musical, melodic, unbelievable to this day! Taking the analogy further, when he goes into that run, it’s like he goes underwater, yet it doesn’t sound muffled. It’s bold! Bold as Love!

[@Chase57Tx]

I was born in 57, and have always had to listen to this performance for a refill at least 2 or three times a year. It is soul food.

[@JohnSmith-mx8wp]

That long, sustained note that begins this amazing solo (greatest ever, imo) just cuts right through you like a dagger. It's a musical moment that Hendrix grabbed from...who knows...some other multiverse.

[@thomaspetro7081]

Love your passion, Michael, as you sway when the song starts. The way the Univibe hits as Jimi starts in never gets old. It is otherworldly.

[@G_4213]

For anyone that doesn't know, The album, Songs for Groovy Children: The Fillmore East Concerts has tracks from his other performances over those few days. I agree, the greatest performance of all time... been listening to this for well over 50 years and it never gets old.

[@DS-ic6lw]

I was lucky one night and met Trey after a show in a bar around 2000. I told him I always loved his playing and how every now and then he’d get “close” to that sustained note. His face lit up and he held his ears and said “the ahhhh” note while shaking his head back and forth, laughing. Told me thanks it means a lot. Read in a magazine a month later “Machine Gun” was/is his favourite solo. It was nice to give a guy a complement that obviously meant something.

[@michaelheller8841]

Hendrix was the master of feedback, he didn't allow it to beat him, he worked with it and controlled it in real time. A lot of guitarists fear feedback because it comes with no warning. Hendrix welcomed it. That bend in the beginning of his solo gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it. Heard it ever since I was a kid, and as a 55 year-old man, I still feel like a kid.

[@keiranbradley3238]

This performance and his "improvisation" at Woodstock from the end of "Purple Haze" all through to "Villanova -Junction" are the greatest examples of a musician at one with their instrument ever captured on film.. The unadulterated beauty and majesty can never be surpassed!. He was so utterly fearless!.

[@blakewhittington4336]

I'm always surprised that nobody talks about the ending of Purple haze at Woodstock it's one of the best moments of Jimi ever caught on tape. But the Star Spangled banner gets all the talk

[@leifhoffman6533]

I was 14 years old and saw Jimi at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland in 1968. You know the place Michael. It completely changed my life. I've studied his music backwards, forwards and upside down. This man has been my hero ever since. He was the greatest then and will always be. He was taken way too soon.

[@sorenwolff4954]

Electricity was certainly a major component into Jimmy's ability to translate emotion. It was Jimmy's ability to expose himself emotional and the courage to expose himself and how he was so opposed to the war. This performance is one of the best examples of performance art at the highest level.

[@mhelsher]

I think he was an alien in a human suit. Give me chills every time. This is by far my favorite guitar solo of all time.

[@manwithumbrella]

Fluidity and effortlessness are the two words that instantly leap to mind as I hear this, same as when I listen to Coltrane. Both were born to play their instruments.

[@TheMan-d6f]

He was very emotional at times describing the intricate details of Jimi's abilities. Other guitarists can certainly appreciate the work of art that is this number on Band of Gypsies album.

[@AJimiDigginKat]

I don't play, but you have given the single BEST description of how, what and why this song is the holy grail of guitar performances ever! And BTW, if this line up had stayed together it would have literally changed the direction and outcome of the sound of rock n roll.......

[@mikecumberbatch2734]

THE TRUTH

[@Gimi.Endrics]

Jimi Hendrix was a force of nature, a pioneer. His guitar was an extension of his mind. To match him, someone equally innovative would need to emerge, creating new sounds, effects, and techniques never heard before. Your video analysis is excellent and very professional. Thank you for your expertise.

[@rex8524]

Excellent review of one of my favorite artists. Huge hendrix fan! Nobody plays with the same intensity as that man, right there. Great job 👏🏼

[@titussardonicus338]

This song still kills. The heaviest, rawest, cry for sanity ever produced.

[@joedewitwomey9627]

Amen brother 🙏 ❤️

[@joelchernin3867]

Michael, I'm not sure how long ago I first saw one of your videos and was immediately drawn to you and your vibe, but your reaction to this just has me laughing out loud and giddy. You so totally get it (and a lot of great guitar players don't). He is not thinking of what key am I in or what scale, pattern, mode, etc. compliments the rhythm section. These are not notes, they are just pure emotional expressions coming out as sound. Thrilled to watch this and your reactions. Thank you so much. Love It!!!!

[@RobinTig]

For me it has always been his controlled chaos of sound and feel. That is what all those so called clean tight players are missing. It is just beautiful to see these snippets in these short live footage we have. Children today through the internet can learn to play and mimic people's playing, but it is that raw wild energy from Hendrix that feeds your soul

[@jonmars9559]

Such an extraordinary musical moment in time. Reminds me of a Rick Beato asking Steve Vai and Joe Satriani what their all time favorite guitar solo was. Reluctant at first, they both settled on this version of Machine Gun claiming it was the "Voice of God". Amen!

[@claytonpaul4259]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttt omg yes. Can't believe I'm seeing this. The best performance of all time

[@deangoritz9625]

I don’t believe Jimi was trippin at all. I think he was committed to laying it all down. No flash theatrics, just standing there dishing out that raw electric energy. Making you feel the war with sound! Unfreakin believable!!! Love it

[@jessejordache1869]

Yeah, I've personally always thought those "acid in his headband" stories were apocryphal at best. But we'll never know. It stands on its own.

[@darwinsaye]

It’s well documented that Jimi liked his drugs, but the assumption people tend to make that he was blasted out of his mind all the time when he was on stage is ridiculous. Jim Morrison was well known for taking acid for Doors performances, but I’ve never seen Jimi look like he was tripping on anything stronger than pot when he played.

[@jessejordache1869]

@@darwinsaye This maybe TMI, but I'm "experienced", and I remember the first time when I just wanted it to be done and to have it pass out of my body. I went to bed listening to Muddy Waters, and I was like "my GOD this is boring". LSD and 12-bar blues don't mix. What LSD likes is stereo, and sounds that appear on one ear, then in the other.. in other words, it likes surprises. I could totally believe that the tactile parts of what Jimi is doing are informed by his experience with drugs, but... yeah. What should be a side point, like his preferred string gauge often becomes over emphasized when it comes to Jimi and drugs. If taking drugs could make you play like that, there'd be a lot more guitarists playing at an almost incomprehensible level. Of course, we've been here before: Charlie Parker and heroin -- it got to the point where heroin was supposed to enhance your sense of pitch. The extreme case is John Keats, who died at the age of 25 from tuberculosis. Keats wasn't appreciated by the general public until the 20th century, but other poets thought -- correctly -- that what he was doing was on a whole different level than what they were doing. Result? A whole generation of aspiring poets went around trying to contract tuberculosis, so that they could catch fire with brilliance and die in the incandescence of their own genius. Being slowly deprived of oxygen was the secret, or so it was thought.

[@Dad-Gad]

Buddy Miles has stated that Hendrix was spiked with bad acid before this gig .

[@benstephens1972]

Love this song. I remember my dad blasting this all the time as a kid. No one like Jimi

[@mikelarrimore8826]

Bro! The facial expressions are PRICELESS!! You feel every note! I thought that was just me, because I do the same thing every time I listen to this tune. Never ever gets old!

[@ESP77769]

For the last 50 years, this still tingles my spine at the fist bent high A note of that solo, lord... This isn't a guitar, it's Jimi's soul, poured out to the world.

[@danaparsons854]

To be there live had to have been life changing for any musician in the audience.

[@darrellkelly7614]

The greatest example of electric guitar playing by anyone at anytime. GOD HIMSELF SPOKE TO US ALL THAT DAY...IF ONLY WE LISTENED...

[@peterkiefel4324]

Wow! And I thought I was super passionate about this song! The thing about electricity and the air is spot on. Ive felt it and is super sexy but that was a 30watt combo, not a Marshall stack so i can only but marvel at Jimi's mastery. Starting at around 13:15 where not only do you have the guitar face happening, but in the moment you put aside playing 'air guitar' and instead you are playing 'air AIR'...priceless!

[@JohnMcDermott-t6l]

I agree, Jimi was one of a kind, a pioneer that was so powerful in his mastery of energy it was art when he colored outside the lines as much as when he chose which colors to use, to drive our emotions

[@Happy-Me.]

The guy who produced the show at the Fillmore bet Jimi that he couldn't just play the guitar without any tricks and antics and he did. He played his ass off that night!

[@johnwhyte2638]

Right, Bill Graham pushed Jimi to play. Bill's version of the story: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIS1nYWlgcuNfsksi=XxavJ2_mkq8HsQQI&t=433

[@seanlewellyn3886]

I’m pretty knew to the guitar and really understanding the language of music. I can’t tell you how helpful these videos are for putting all the notes and scales into context. Awesome stuff. Thank you!

[@harveydilworth7140]

I'm right with you I think I was 18 when this record come out it was my all-time favorite and I still listen to it all the time it's just fantastic

[@guitarwill]

He’s the best mostest greatestest guitarist that will ever exist his rawness his finesse his groove and interpretation of melody is just other worldly, his style was uncopyable he was him

[@nathanielvargas3863]

This morning I was looking for a decent video on this song. I’m so glad to see this uploaded.

[@jacatijagago1233]

This just can not be described, any description you can possibly think of is inadequate! There’s something there a presence of sorts all throughout the sound that is otherworldly and it reaches some of us and cuts deep into your soul, unmistakeable and unforgetable, and I’m sure unrepeatable, I tried for years but something is always missing! That unmistakable energy thing it’s just a magical thing

[@willarddickerson921]

All I can say is thank you for recognizing Hendrix in his later days with Band of Gypsys. I have 11 of the original vinyl Hendrix Albums, from Electric Lady Land to Band of Gypsys. Thanks. All of his music was goid.

[@JellyBean-jb7em]

That extremely intense bend at the start of his solo that you referred to as his lift-off I often thought of as a sonic recreation of an air raid siren. I know that is a subjective interpretation, but based on his interpretation of the national anthem it isn't hard to read meaning into some of those utterly new sound forms he created. Love the univibe warble there as well!

[@justaguy2365]

The band of Gypsies album was my introduction to Hendrix as a kid. One of those cds I scored for "free" from Columbia house. And this song has ALWAYS stood out to me. I remember being blown away by the solo back then. This was about the time I first started playing guitar

[@ianmcgranahan]

For real man you have given me such an appreciation for music and music history and theory. Completely changed my playing too. All the small things and tips I can’t believe these are free. Thanks Michael!

[@saliv88]

13:49 One of the things that blows me away about the run is that not only does it sound as though he instantaneously switched to a different guitar yet didn’t, the burning sound almost sounds like a digital noise. On a guitar. In 1970.

[@adamguinnmusic5871]

Band of gypsy's imo is the greatest live album of all time. I wish to God those guys had stayed together. Hendrix at his best.

[@sledzeppelin]

Best guitar performance ever, hands down, not even close. I tear up trying to just describe how good it is. It will never be equalled.

[@leonid4468]

"top o' the wave...." WOW Truer words have never been spoken!! Found that in '97 and loved it ever since...

[@GreggOliverBass]

This was the second night at the fillmore. After the first night, Jimi asked bill grahame what he thought of the show, which was very physical and "show-y". Grahame said "it was good". Jimi was surprised as the crowd was VERY appreciative. Grahame told Jimi "it would be better if you cooled it on the show and just play like I know you can." He came back the next night and played this. This and "Power to Love" were recorded on that second night. Stunning

[@mchristr]

I was a 12 or 13 year-old when I bought this on vinyl. It was my go-to Hendrix album. Jimi's tone on the record could saw concrete.

[@preciousmetals7114]

Hendrix at Royall Albert Hall was amazing as well Foxey lady was devastating !! Raw power unleashed !!

[@WillKernel-e7x]

The great Jimi Hendrix playing with proper musicians. What more can you ask for 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@frabber321]

Before I ever saw the video, but heard the performance many times, I was baffled he handled everything with the hendrix powergrip with the fretting hand. I was shocked how economically the guitar was played while getting this miraculous sound! I still am shocked today watching it again.

[@iniziodelrumore]

Very nice video about that wonderful live performance. Just found out your Channel, I'll check more! And also I'm happy to see a fellow musician with Sicilian heritage (at least in Sicily it's a very common surname, I'm Sicilian from Italy my self). Bravo compà :)

[@jamalabdul2009]

It was said that Bill Graham had a small confrontation with Jimi saying he was playing into his old gimmicks during the first two shows the night before. This performance was the New Year Day’s performance and the whole show he literally just stood there and played the most amazing guitar in his career. I urge everyone to listen to the entire box set of live at the Fillmore East. Such a great example of a newly formed group gaining confidence from set to set.

[@johnwhyte2638]

Bill Graham tells the story on this clip from an interview with Letterman: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIS1nYWlgcuNfsk

[@jamalabdul2009]

@ Thank you for sharing this clip. An amazing story and a great time to have been alive (unfortunately I was born too late to experience this).😎🎸🎸🎸

[@ericleiter6179]

LOVED THIS!!!...I completely share your love of Jimi and this performance. He was recording to fulfill his unfortunate early days contract with Ed Chalpin and the promoter Bill Graham told him that his playing suffered from his fluid stage antics too much, and basically dared him to play one set completely straight...Jimi gave him this set as the response and the rest is history (thanks Bill!) Although, Jimi was a live wire at virtually every show he did and the other sets from this New Year's bash are just as spine tingling, just in different moments. Hands down, a life changing version of Machine Gun here though...I just subscribed!!!

[@tenkarabadger5244]

Michael, this was a great one. Thank you.

[@hesch-tag]

Beautiful. Jimi was a creative genius, it came completely from within. Nothing is more pure and beautiful than when the notes come naturally because you just feel them.

[@dagvictoras4111]

I met Jimi backstage at HIC Arena on Oahu, 1970, he gave me a Kool cigarette and lite it for me. My first smoke, my only Jimi concert. I don’t smoke anymore but I listen to Jimi everyday.

[@adameggers8146]

The sound of the soul leaving the body at the end. Pure art.

[@blainethompson5245]

Saw Jimi in Berkley, CA for 2 shows. It was great. '70

[@AMR72277]

Back in 1996, I watched Randy Hansen perform this note-for-note with Buddy Miles, and it melted my freakin brain.

[@Guitargate]

NO WAY

[@AMR72277]

@@Guitargate 100% hand-to-God. It was a private party on San Juan Island and the only reason I was there was because a friend of mine was a stagehand and I tagged along to help out in the hopes of being able to see the show. Still the greatest live electric guitar performance I have ever witnessed.

[@jimharris3889]

Every time I hear this song I get goose bumps !!! That sustain note GRABS me every time, his tone and pitch/rythum is incredible !! Incredible guitar playing!! To see your enthusiastic response also gives me thrills ,, he was a genius !!

[@bigverg]

during my first year playing when i was maybe 11, I checked out live at the fillmore from the library and it was one of the big ones for me.

[@linusinw.pa.linusinw.pa.5143]

I was born in '69, so my appreciation for Jimi was relatively late. I got into Jimi at around 20 years of age, and it's made me the person I am today. I choose Jimi as my embodiment of the higher power. Stone free and straight ahead.

[@markhenderson6389]

Agree 100%. This would be my one all-time performance by any artist to experience live. Just this song. Hendrix was a genius in the studio, releasing some of the greatest albums ever in his short lifetime. I've sought out every live recording I can find, many of them amazing. (Monterey, BBC Sessions, Winterland, L.A. Forum, Berkeley, and Woodstock are just some of my favorites.) But "Machine Gun" is his absolute masterwork in my opinion. I can still hear something new even after listening to it countless times. Thank you for sharing your passion!

[@davidt9841]

For many, many, many years I have told anyone who thinks they know Hendrix that IF they have never LISTENED to THIS performance THEN they DO NOT KNOW Jimi Hendrix! This ONE song is the only education about Jimi that you need! So many things.. too many for some to consider.. ALL CONTRIBUTE TO WHAT TOOK PLACE RIGHT HERE! RIP Jimi Hendrix!!!

[@thomaskafafian2871]

One of my all time favorite performances. We are locked in. Love the Bright Eyes and Elliot Smith stuff last month too!

[@JDU4]

Like Jimi said "a complete natural on stage!" Pure genius! Mastery of the guitar. The union of emotion with sound emanating the colors of music. Pure magic One needs to realize this happened in 1970!!! Jimi was the exception of his time. A true GOAT

[@Sharky55-b3r]

What I love about this channel, is you are obviously a fantastic guitar player yourself, yet you totally geek out watching these other great guitar players - no airs about you. And I love the breakdowns even though I don’t know much about music theory etc….awesome. You’re exactly like me and my friends playing air guitar and noticing the amazing runs and nuances and going “holy shit!” 😂

[@MrDallman]

More indisputable proof my friends that there will never be another, how could there be ? Unprecedented, unparalleled, unequalled….Mr James Marshall Hendrix. Thanks Michael your best ever IMHO , the finest analytical video I’ve ever watched….your passion, knowledge and enthusiasm are truly overwhelming.

[@VirginiaWolf88]

I used to watch the Filmore East footage over and over and over so amazing. Thanks for covering this!!!! Yeah so awesome!!!!!

[@jackg1968]

This entire performance of Machine Gun should be etched into the mind of every electric guitar player. This such an unparalleled moment in the history of guitar playing and live performance. The man lived and breathed music and sound and was an incredible conduit of its power. Also, the people who claim that Jimi’s playing is in any way unimpressive because “it’s just the pentatonic scale” could never fathom making it sound as good or as musical as he ever did.

[@justyo96]

Always felt the moment at 13:45 was one of the pinnacles in guitar history, glad others recognize its greatness as well

[@renmad0078]

Ah real pleasure to ear you and also see your expresion's face in how you describe so perfectly well what's hapening exactly in each moment of this song. We can feel it so stronger like this. It's exactly the same I have feeled with a good friend of mine who was describing one of mozart concerto as you do in each moment of this song. yes For Jimi it's all electricity and right perfect time. Thank you🙏👍👏

[@RobertRagolia]

That solo puts you in a trance, never never ever will be topped

[@chrisdunmore9433]

always thought its the greatest first note of any live guitar solo contained inside the greatest live guitar solo ever recorded....where it was recorded...the date it was recorded and the subject matter of the song makes it absolutely breathtaking to this day

[@bsimpson4076]

Absolutely love this song... and this performance... I can air guitar it note for note...

[@vincenttovar9938]

Thank you, Micheal! Jimi's playing, speaks for itself! You share so much knowledge and emotion! ❤❤

[@carlosmanzo2626]

That run that you speak of 14:16 feels like such a vibe from Hear My Train A Comin’ and Im here for it all!

[@steelpainter]

There have been scores of players who on paper have higher rated technical stats, but no-one in the intervening years since 1970 has played with such searing originality, intensity and presence. When he's pulling those electrical soundscapes out of his signal chain and the air around him with just complete conviction to the moment, you can feel in your bones that's not someone trying to be like Chuck Berry or Eric Clapton (amazing as those dudes are, as much as I love them passionately). That's someone being in the same mental space as John Coltrane, or Beethoven, or Picasso. I wish he had lived. I wish he had gotten to collaborate with Miles Davis, Gil Evans and Teo Macero, and maybe gone to music college. I wish I could go back in time and give him an Axe FX III or a Boss SY-1000 and say "Please - don't shame me with questions. You will know what to do with these far more than I could ever tell you."