Jimi Hendrix The Wind Cries Mary Reaction

[@patriciaporcaro8753]

LOVE Jimi, no one will ever be the same after hearing him! This is with The Experience.

[@littlegiantproductionsandr3091]

Jimi was all that. Your father knew genius. Thanks, J.Fro!

[@joannerichards1750]

Jimi was electric in concert. Yes, he picked the guitar with his teeth - and he was SOOO damned loud that my ears still ring today (I was sitting in the high balcony!)

[@27thangel23]

Jimi and Janis. YES! I'm an old dude from Canada and those were my faves too... just add Joe Cocker and Robert Plant and Beth Hart- voilá: Blues Rock Royalty. Peace, love and bellbottoms.

[@davidantonacci9525]

You should now go and listen to the studio version of Wind Cries Mary.

[@EvanWeber1234]

Wow thanks for sharing that story about your dad. I'm glad to hear Jimi was his favorite artist, he's mine too. I'm happy you're discovering Jimi. Yes it's the Experience.

[@mr.goodenough3796]

Jimi came up with this song very quickly in the evening right after a fight with his girlfriend Kathy Mary Etchingham, in there London apartment. Jimi had criticized her cooking that evening which prompted the blowup. The song is very much a blues ballad , but with some psychedelic imagery woven in. Here are the lyric J Fro. After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Footprints dressed in red And the wind whispers, "Mary" A broom is drearily sweeping Up the broken pieces of yesterday's life Somewhere, a queen is weeping Somewhere, a king has no wife And the wind, it cries, "Mary" The traffic lights, they turn blue tomorrow And shine their emptiness down on my bed The tiny island sags downstream 'Cause the life that lived is dead And the wind screams, "Mary" Will the wind ever remember The names it has blown in the past? And with this crutch, its old age and its wisdom It whispers, "No, this will be the last" And the wind cries, "Mary"

[@mr.goodenough3796]

A cool documentary is West Coast Seattle Boy: Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child. It uses Jimi's own words from interviews to tell his story, with legendary P Funk and James Brown bassist Bootsy Collins narrating Jimi's words. It was on Netflix for a long time but currently isn't, although it will probably be back at some point.

[@60sbaby456]

November 1942 to September 1970. A night comet crashed too soon❤ born Seattle Washington

[@RByrne]

Jimi was the greatest, not just at playing the guitar but performing and songwriting. Like yourself, my Dad(passed away last year) was a huge Jimi fan, and my mom loved Janis Joplin too. They would always be playing in the house when I was growing up. This is one of my favorites, along with Red House, Wait til Tomorrow, and Hear my Train a Comin'. Nice too hear someone who feels the same way, but I'm sure there are millions of us. The BBC documentary is probably the best one. Or if you are really interested, there's a box set with a great DVD of his life.

[@J.Fro90]

Thank you so much Ryan, and I'm so sorry to hear your dad passed away too, sending love & support to you & your family with that, it's a heavy thing. And thanks for giving me some more tracks to check out & I'll definitely be cecking out the BBC doc too.

[@SonusCosmos]

An amazing performance available on youtube is a cover of Johnny be Goode at Berkley I think. Also plays with teeth again and does phenomenal solo's and feedback ending.

[@pekkapohjola2727]

Experience. This is from Sweden -67. Song is written after argument with Kathy (Mary) then Jimi's english girl friend. Read: Electri Gypsy, by Harry Shapiro & Caesar Glebbeek. Many documentaries about Jimi are unreliable. Your father had good taste.

[@MrMoggyman]

This is The Jimi Hendrix Experience, consisting of Jimi Hendrix lead guitar, Noel Redding on bass, and Mitch Mitchell on drums. Who is Mary? Kathy Mary Etchingham, Jimi's first UK girlfriend. This song written after a late night bust up between Jimi and Kathy that saw Kathy walk out on Jimi. They were sharing a London apartment together. That is why this song is so personal and from the heart.

[@axis2946]

Thanks for the heart ❤️ on my comment. Unfortunately I edited the date of his Macine Gun performance to New Years eve 1969, and therefore the heart you gave me got deleted. The Band was called Band of Gypsys. In that band everyone was African American. Jimi didn't see colour himself, as I'm sure he saw himself as 100% human as we all are, but did experience some racial incidents. One concert he did directly after the assassination of Martin Luther King, was not recorded, but he did only one song that was described as so gut renching, haunting and emotional, that most people were crying uncontrolably. He finished and just walked off. I would say that Machine Gun might come close to that. It's the 1969 New Years eve concert, at the Fillmore East,not the night before.

[@polskityton6062]

Love this

[@sherilynkd]

Jimi wrote it for his girlfriend Mary. I bought the lp when it came out and remember hearing the story.

[@Mike-kv5pl]

Check out his song BOLD AS LOVE: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKGucmyVha-roZI

[@axis2946]

The original Doco. on Jimi in 1973 is pretty damn good. You want your mind blown again? watch " Machine Gun " at the Fillmore East 1969 New Years eve. He holds a note that screeches and echoes throughout the Universe!!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@hpb5495]

The baddest electric cat of them all..

[@curtisscarmon3267]

James Marshall Hendrix 😊

[@rebeccabailey527]

I've always liked this version, it's more subdued. But that poor guitar... that was a 1965, candy apple red, custom ordered maple cap fretboard (you could only normally get new fenders with rosewood fretboards at that time, unless you knew you could custom order the maple fretboard), but he didn't order it, he buying second hand at this point. Anyway i say poor guitar, because not long after this, over the course of the spring of 1967, it got a lot of scars, and a giant crack in it, because hendrix would smash it, and his roadies would glue it back together. The last time it was smashed up was in June 67, he painted it up, and totally destroyed it. Part of it is in the former experience music project museum (can't remember what that place is called now)

[@patriciaporcaro8753]

Have you done Voodoo Chile yet?

[@mr.goodenough3796]

He did Voodoo Child live in Maui. ✌

[@kingmusa44]

Did Jimi predict the "single mom" epidemic? Wish I knew his mind.

[@dstu1699]

React to Machine Gun at Fillmore East... You're welcome.

[@mr.goodenough3796]

Great recommendation.

[@adelsuleman5042]

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