Jimi Hendrix Was Everything -Kenny Vaughan

Kenny Vaughan shares some Jimi Hendrix stories.
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[@rylieriley]

Kenny is a delight in every way. His stories, his playing, he's just a wonderfully enjoyable person.

[@dreamwell2020]

Yup.

[@karensueblanton9402]

He sure is! He has plenty of stories from his many years of playing!

[@beachcomber4141]

He really is.

[@blackrainbowfiresword177]

I don't think younger people can really appreciate just how "from another dimension" that record was in 1967,... like a portal beyond the known universe , cool post guys, Cheers!

[@WillyPDX94]

As a college freshman at the University of Missouri I drove 100 miles to see him play at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis. Snagged a great black and white poster of Jimi and hung it inside my closet at the fraternity house where I was a pledge. A red neck member of the fraternity called me up to my room, threw open my closet door, and sneered at me "WHAT is that?" I replied, "HE is the greatest guitar player in world." I de-pledged the fraternity the next week. ✌❤

[@ClintonCaraway]

Great story!! Sounds like Townes pinning his chest!

[@cosmicman621]

✌️😂

[@taurushamilton2739]

RESPECT!🤘🏾👌🏾💯✊🏾

[@missesmew]

Most impressive story. You are the kind of American sir that makes the world a better place. I commend you. ✊🏽👊🏾

[@dannyhood7433]

I can imagine a lot people didn't get Jimi Hendrix. When I asked my guitar teacher in highschool 83 he said Jimi Hendrix didn't become popular until after he died. I'm thinking Hendrix was highest paid musician during his time (even though Hendrix never saw any money) Then I realize Hendrix wasn't popular in hick town's Fresno calif until years after his death. Fresno had lot of concerts, Hendrix never played their. That tells me most people didn't get it. Buckethead never played Fresno until 2013, the kids were writing letters. Musicians were lame typical. Like, Oh you get it now! Rock guitarist doesn't listen to Buckethead? Even Pat Metheny listens to Buckethead. Hendrix went through the same thing. Lot worse

[@shannon5373]

51yrs old and been a Jimi Hendrix fan my entire life. Great stories from Kenny who himself has made his own mark. Kenny's a cool cat himself!!!!

[@BUNKERJR53]

I saw Hendrix in '68 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. I was 14 and it was my first concert. Jimi blew me away. He that night became my life-long "Hero".

[@toterola451]

"Hey man, I need that $20 back..."😂😂😂

[@williamsullivan7635]

Hendrix is my favorite musician I am a complete fanatic and have been for 40 years.This dude right here gives the best possible description of what I have always felt was Hendrix true personality.thank you Kenny!

[@michaelgregory2231]

Jimi is the reason I took up the guitar at age 9. A friend of my mom's left 4 records at our house: axis, Live At Monterey, Best of Cream and Zappa's We're Only In it For the Money. It was a fabulous foundation.

[@TheMapman01]

There's a lot there. A good start

[@BIZARBIES]

Jimi Hendrix Live at Monterey was the first tape I bought of Jimi when I was about 12 years old. It was so influential on my music taste from then on. I later saw the video of it and blew my mind even more! It was on HBO and a friend of mine tape it on VHS. I "borrowed" it and watched it about 1000 times.

[@captainsouth4460]

Kenny is da man! We go see Marty and Superlatives every time they are nearby! One of the best live acts around!

[@andrewpearson1903]

Getting to see Captain Beefheart, Soft Machine, Hendrix and the Doors within a couple of weeks... there was something very special about the music scene of that time

[@joshporter08]

At 40 years of age, I can honestly say that Jimi never had a chance to grow up. Lord only knows what he could’ve achieved sonically if he would’ve lived longer. He was something truly special. Kenny is such a great and funny storyteller. Great work Otis

[@stringbender3]

@@RAEckart22I totally believe that. I think it all the time. His music near the end of his life was getting so absolutely mind blowing. Jimi said himself he wasn’t even at the stage where he can just flow yet. Forget his exact words but that’s what he said. Near the end the energy and emotion expressed in his music was becoming otherworldly. Some of my most transcendent like states ever where under hypnosis/meditating of his music. Just found the “Pali Gap” jam not too long ago one of my new favourites. Just and random jam too you know jimi could make it even better.

[@ChorusArtists]

Kenny is a rare gem, a first person testifier of important history, much of which few others saw. He seems like he'd be a fantastic hang, and I thank him for sharing all his great stories.

[@donny_doyle]

As a lefty, playing guitar, born in the 60s- there was only one star in my sky. Jimi changed my life- Completely... ✌️🎸

[@ClintonCaraway]

I wonder if Kenny knows there are thousand....tens of thousands of guitar players who say.... I've seen Kenny Vaughn _x_x_x_ number of times. The first time he was playing .... ..... through a .... ... amp. He is one of the most humble people ever....especially since he's one of the greatest guitar players since Clarence.

[@stevevice9863]

Hendrix influenced so many guitarists, and his music has been played so much that he has been mainstreamed. It is hard to imagine what it would have been like hearing Jimi for the first time when he came on the scene, and listening to him doing things that had never been done before. It must have been like seeing an alien land and start playing guitar. Jimi paid his dues and was a great traditional blues player, but he really took it to the next level and pushed the envelope with his own music.

[@mikefannon6994]

I still remember the first Hendrix song I ever heard - "Hey Joe" in 1967. Mind-blowing! Got to see him at Atlanta Pop Festival in 1970. Well I so far away I really couldn't see him, but the music came thru loud & clear.

[@mj.l]

hearing jimi for the first time as a kid in the 90s, i can only begin to imagine. same can be said for so many artists back then though. crazy.

[@TheMapman01]

Hendrix influences every single artist. To deny this is to deny humanity music and history. I wonder what the Romans would have thought.

[@beachcomber4141]

That is just it. If you understand the prospective of the people when Jimi came out it adds a thousand times to how innovative and different he was from ANYTHING they had ever heard before.

[@stringbender3]

You can only imagine how it would be to grow up 50s60s with how the world was. All proper and old fashion. Then wild man Hendrix and the others on stage making noise and energy’s never experienced before. Literally changing the mental states and minds of the world. Countless stories of kids or adults or young adults seeing Hendrix for the first time 1 time changes their life and way they look at the world forever. Connects them and wakes them up to their true spirits. Exactly what Hendrix said his concerts were church music made go open the minds and awaken the audience.

[@rbmindful]

Man, go to a show, never heard of the artist, Jimi Hendrix walks out....There's an OMG for you!

[@rikstrange662]

I was 15 yrs old in 67’ when I saw that lp screaming at me from record rack. I brought it hope and my life changed in a milla second! I never looked back after that. Great story. 🖖🚀

[@_Peremalfait]

Kenny is always interesting to listen to, one of those musicians that appreciates music across multiple genres. Here's a guy whose favorite band was Soft Machine and ended up a country music player. That's quite a musical journey.

[@mairianncullen8753]

Kenny plays in multiple bands and certainly not only country music. Plus, the country music he plays is stellar.

[@Alex16993]

I'm so happy that you did another interview with Kenny! I hope you have much more to come!

[@rbmindful]

Heard a Les Paul interview once. Les and his son were driving to a studio to drop off some tapes. They stopped at a venue to see who was playing. Les's son went in side and came out after a bit with his chin in his chest. "We have to come back tonight and see this guy! He's all over the neck." They come back later but the guitarist is gone. "What happened?" "He was too loud. so I threw him out." "What was his name?" "I don't know, something Hendrix."

[@MrDallman]

One things for sure , there will never be another….the untouchable,unparalleled and totally unique JMH.

[@telebender]

Kenny just seems like the coolest, down-to-earth cat and boy-howdy, what a picker! Love when you feature him, Otis. Cheers!

[@bradc32]

wow what a ending thats a riot..ladyland is my fav too.i was drawn to Mitch's drumming as much as Jimi's playing

[@tomabbot7324]

Can't get enough of Kenny Vaughan. More Kenny, Otis!

[@MarkFromHawaii]

If you watch the Rainbow Bridge footage of Jimi playing on Maui, you’ll notice how happy and relaxed he was. If he had just spent another week or two in Hawaii, maybe things would’ve turned out differently. 😢

[@jamesbush3665]

They would have just murdered him on Maui

[@curbozerboomer1773]

@@jamesbush3665 There is no "They".

[@jamesbush3665]

I guess that is what "They" say. -- I would hope my coroner's report came back that clean, of course, excepting that drowning in wine part.@@curbozerboomer1773

[@toddsisk1473]

Thanks for stories of Hendrix from Kenny. I had the pleasure of meeting Kenny a few years ago. He seems like a really down to earth humble guy.

[@49VinCom]

Such a rock and roll story. So great.

[@2packs4sure]

When I was 13 years old in 1976 one of my cousins had the Are You Experienced album and I'd never heard anything like it. I was mesmerized I don't specifically remember Foxy Lady but the whole album mesmerized me. The next album my cousin played for me was Cosmo's Factory and I loved that even more !! Loved Jimi but really loved CCR and 50 years later that's still the pecking order...

[@beachcomber4141]

May this be Love!! I Don't Live Today!!! Manic Depression!!! Red House on the English release! Third Stone From the Sun!!! Those are not even the hits off of that record. Talk about blowing ones mind to have heard that album for the first time especially when it came out. Just amazing.

[@alexandermills382]

Yep, met so many Foxy ladies in my life, but luckily not enough to give me Manic Depression! Viking Scot in the Third Stone mountains.

[@marklwest7089]

Kenny's ability to recall small details from decades ago is astounding!

[@soloperformer5598]

And already one of the greatest "forgotten" guitar greats. Modern ears have no appreciation of talent and quality.

[@macdaddy63]

Always enjoy hearing Kenny’s stories!

[@fredparadisogroup]

Mr. Otis Gibbs and Mr. Kenny Vaughan: Thank you for this candid and fantastic moment. this was the best so far. Bless you. ❤

[@missesmew]

I always wondered what could’ve been when I think of Jimi? He definitely had the charisma and talent to have gone through the roof. RIP Jimi

[@mikegunter4600]

I got the opportunity to meet Kenny and shake his hand at the Shakori Hills Music Festival in Pittsboro, NC last night!!! What a totally memorable moment!!! Kenny is one of the nicest, most gracious, down to earth guys you will EVER meet!!!! He is just a regular guy that can play the hell out of a telecaster!!!!! I still cant believe I got to shake that magical right hand!!! That memory will be with me for the rest of my days!!!

[@flagrentfoul3829]

I saw Kenny on the Marty Stuart show and it made it all the more enjoyable after watching your videos

[@rogerwilliams2629]

Favorite song is hard, but the one that slays me most is DRIFTING

[@rogerscottjackson524]

Kenny must be one the coolest people on Earth to hang out with. The absolute best teller of stories about musicians. BTW: First time I saw Hendrix in Houston, he was playing a white SG, not a Strat, and was using Sunn amps. No PA, no monitors.

[@basura2001]

Did The Moving Sidewalks open the show?

[@matthewgregg31]

That may have been the show my old friend Neal Ford (& the Fanatics) opened?

[@basura2001]

@@matthewgregg31 The Fanatics rocked! Very few of them survive today unfortunately. At any rate I still listen to their music.

[@matthewgregg31]

@@basura2001 That’s so cool!! Neal was a dear friend. I loved when you tell stories about the time he opened a lot of for Hendrix in Houston.

[@NateTheMeh]

Kenny is an American treasure

[@mj.l]

this is special. one day there will be nobody left to tell us about seeing hendrix or the velvet underground or any of the thousands of legendary acts of the 60s, and that’s really tragic.

[@ergot57]

I agree but just glad today's technology allows it to be kept alive in some sense. You're very right though.

[@cosmicman621]

@@ergot57 yeah the tech is wonderful,compared to the footage documenting the life of someone like,Charlie Parker,for instance.

[@ergot57]

@@cosmicman621 True too I think. The real kings and creators of the music of today we for the most part miss. I live in Clarksdale MS the Home of the Blues and we got a list of missed folks a mile long as far as most of the work goes and all of some's work. Just lucky to have gotten some Robert Johnson in my opinion.

[@Jaycee37]

Kenny is always laughing and full of joy, I love Kenny's stories

[@word67]

gives me chills . Great interview. I'm from NH but saw Cream at the Family Dog. I had dropped out of school and was ski bumming in Aspen where I became a huge Hendrix fan. Luckily saw him live at the Boston Garden. I've been to Jimi's grave -- the only grave I've ever visited besides family. Thanks gents!

[@beachcomber4141]

Great to hear stories like this about the greatest most humble monster innovator of electric guitar ever.

[@williamrobinson7061]

KENNY VAUGHAN is extremely cool! This was a good session! Thanks Otis!!!

[@otisgibbs]

What's your favorite Jimi Hendrix album or song?

[@warreng5394]

Hush Now is one of my top favorites!

[@janbuse5835]

Let me stand next to your fire! The first two words that i learned to read was Jimi Hendrix! It was written with black electric tape on a neighbours wardrobe door. My older brother told me that this neighbour guy had Jimi Hendrix´s name on the door. I was about seven and obsessed with Jimi, but had only heard him on radio and tv, and didn´t know how his name looked like. So i went over when he wasn´t in, peeked through the window, saw the electric tape writing and slowly decoded the letters, Jimi Hendrix! True story. 🙂

[@kravitz1999]

Castles made of Sand

[@wademarlar9616]

Wind cry’s Mary. I love all of his music but that one song stuck with me forever

[@randalclarke5487]

Are You Experienced for album... just THANK YOU so much for this video! It seems Hendrix's greatness is being lost through time and I hate that younger players don't understand the gravity of his innovation. Otis, you make us musicians proud sir 😊 Kenny, I'd love to hang with you, pick a little and talk shop sometime

[@ironeddie9917]

I love Jimi Hendrix.. I happen to have an American, Jimi Hendrix signature fender I believe the guitar is from 1996 and I got it from a music shop in New Jersey.. This Stratocaster has Al Hendrix‘s autograph.. Jimi’s father on it🎸👍

[@frankmartin182]

And Kenny's amazing- thanks for these, Otis.

[@tiponin23]

I would love to read a Kenny Vaughan book. Must read!

[@Hurricanehamo]

Great stories and chuckles, I loved going down the Hendrix rabbit hole. He disrupted the scene and left a Legacy of inspiration and creativity. I discovered jimi around the time you could by a affordable brand of Walkman, such a stroke of luck and good timing. Dylans singing apparently encouraged him to give singing a go, I wont say what the thinking was behind it.

[@timshearer5092]

Great stories, as ever. Cannot for the life of me figure out how old Kenny is!

[@johndeere8594]

He’s gotta be about 70,he was in a bar in 1967.

[@brucewelsh3300]

I love the interviews with Kenny. Some of my friends and I went to see Bob Dylan in Atlanta in the early 70's. We went to a place called Ma Hulls in the five point section of Atlanta to have dinner. It was an old boarding house where the entire downstairs had been converted to a family style restaurant. You paid your money to a guy sitting at the front door holding an old cigar box and went in and sat at long tables. I happened to be sitting directly across from Buddy Miles. Passing the peas and potatoes and having a good old time. Followed a couple of hours later seeing Dylan. Great little road trip from Gainesville Florida.

[@timporter6112]

I wish I could just sit down and talk to this guy forever...

[@jerrygirardi]

I have a similar story about first hearing 'Jimi' . I was 18 in '68 and went to hear a local band. They played Purple Haze,Foxy Lady and Manic Depression. I was like wtf are these songs? Totally different from anything else they were playing,Hollies,BeeGees,Buffalo Springfield,Rascals etc. Totally different. I found out it was some guy Jimmy Hendrix (didn't know it was Jimi). I pictured some white guy, maybe looking like Jimmy the head Musketeer or something. I went to a local record store'The Record Bar' and they had one copy. I bought it and my life was changed forever! Saw him twice in Va. Beach April & August '68. First time he was on fire, no pun intended. Second time he seemed tired but still great. So that's my Jimi story.

[@jayvarner1305]

need that 20 ,thank you .mu big smile for the day

[@frankgoodmanbuzzholland7517]

Freaking beautiful.

[@jgroove007]

These tales are great! Thanks man!! 🤙

[@Joker-ig8im]

So awesome! Thank you for the stories Kenny! Love you man!

[@aliceborealis]

Thanks to both you guys for posting this. I used to teach a Jimi Hendrix class at IUPUI, so I am one of his biggest fans too! I love hearing the first hand accounts of Hendrix in concert. And the Buddy Miles stories really ring true. But I'm pretty sure Sunn came AFTER Marshall for Hendrix. Hendrix only used Sunn for a very short time, but Noel stuck with the brand until he departed the Experience, like Kenny said, right after the Denver Pop Festival. Great stuff!

[@sevenmileridgeband]

Amazing! As always, these first-hand accounts of historic moments are priceless

[@wideawakenotwoke6178]

I saw Jimi at Woburn Abbey in England in 1970 he was think of any and every superlative! And that won't even start to describe him and the ensemble wonderful I was 19 lol

[@joelmccoin9727]

I grew up in the Denver area in the same time as Kenny, I remeber the spots he talks about. Good times in the late 60's.

[@IamZardoz]

Yes, these Kenny interviews are the absolute best. Funny (to me) the first album I ever bought was "Are You Experienced?" as well.

[@davemilke3110]

Whenever I listen to Kenny Vaughan describing something in his past, I am somehow, magically transported to that event in my mind's eye - the detail is just [so] clear to me.

[@randybolt1021]

I met Kenny on the trail and in three minutes we were talking like old friends.

[@TheOldYellers]

Now that’s a story. It’d have been great to see Jimi. I’d have loved that. Axis Bold as Love is my favorite album as well as Live at Monterey.

[@rocketguy2]

Great stories! Always cool to hear someone's first experiences listening to a great player.

[@petej.8676]

Every generation has music that identifies with that time period..everyone knows what it feels like to hear a song..from an artist you've never heard before...can't imagine hearing Hendrix that way..seeing that rock music was in its infancy back then....What a time it must of been..

[@dfwlistener7593]

Wow I've been under a rock all these years!......these are the first interviews I've seen of Kenny. What a lovely soul.

[@seanmurphy26]

Dude Otis!! Kenny again?!!! Thank you so much!!!

[@bradhardisty1652]

It's great hearing Kenny's desxription and he was there in early Hendrix Experience.

[@mikes9759]

Great stories man!! Brings back a lot of good memories!! I was at a lot of shows back then and it definitely was a different time!! I was lucky to see a lot of the big names and cherish those moments!! I've got a t-shirt that says I may be old but I got to see all the good bands. Damn I miss those days!!

[@truebetold65]

One of the best videos/interviews on KZbin. Thanks

[@johnthrasher8146]

Great segment, as usual!

[@GDawg2K2]

I saw that same tour with Soft Machine.. My band saw him at the carousel in Natick Mass. A 2500 seat tent with a rotating stage. All volume was off the stage, though by the time he got to Boston he was using Dual Marshall Stacks.. They played two shows that night before driving back to NY..

[@susiefairfield7218]

👈🏼💞👏🏼🙌🏾😄Thank you Otis & Friends Loved this ❤

[@maynstay9715]

Great stuff!!

[@stlrockn]

GREAT stories!

[@ericcrawford3453]

Good stuff! Funny Buddy Miles story

[@peterpedersen1641]

Thanks for having Kenny on. Great you guys are good friends. Stories of Hendrix are always fun to hear. I was only 14 when jimi came out. but it changed my life... I see it also changed Kenny's.. LOL. Maybe I'll see Kenny in Easton Pa at the State! Nice conversation Otis...

[@peterpedersen1641]

Also, I live a block away from Electrric Ladyland Studios in NYC. Yup, right on Waverly Place. Back in 1981, I was living in Monterey Ca. My friend Dave was a recording engineer up in SF. He got a job at ELL in NYC that winter. My girlfriend and I were heading back east for the holidays and Dave invited us to Electric Ladyland for their Christmas Party, one of them... LOL I met Aerosmith guys, The Cars guys, and Mick Jagger that night. Briefly of course. We were all hammered! LOL... What a time for music, eh? 67 to 1989... Then it sort of changed. Glad we got guys like Kenny playing his ass off w Marty and the guys. All good.

[@wideawakenotwoke6178]

Kenny is great

[@brianzak]

I remember the first time I heard Jimi. That's why it was The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Learn your chords, some scales and then what Jim was doing on guitar. It will open up a whole new way of seeing the guitar. His chordal licks an note choice are great I could go on and on. Most guitarist after him stole so much of what he was doing and made it their own. Also remember what he was listening to when he was learning guitar...BB, Albert, Buddy. Great stuff man..

[@docjeffry]

That was great! Thank you. Subscribed and hit the bell!!

[@CP-kb1du]

Thank you for sharing ..

[@stephenhenion8304]

Thanks again Otis!! Kenny sure has been around!!🎶🎵🎶

[@plantagenant]

Lucky blighter to see both The Soft Machine and Hendrix.

[@nighthiker8872]

I was 10 listening to Hendrix for a year, not know he was black. My sister had a new Barracuda. I was in her car looking at Faded 8-tracks, one was Hendrix. One hour later I come running back to her car. TOO CHECK IT, Hendrix is black.

[@roscoenyc]

Fabulous.

[@MrFrogman54]

I cannot believe how much I learn from watching and listing to you channel. Those old podcasts were good but this KZbin thing is great! Thanks again Otis.

[@25bikertrash]

Love Kenny stories

[@blahblahoink]

Our Jimi who art in heaven...Hendrix be thy name

[@hearpalhere]

Haha, man that story about the $20 is hilarious!

[@ragasthegascap1]

Electric Kenny Land.

[@acidfuzzpedals9986]

Hearing Hendrix for the first time in 1967 while at a gig where Captain Beefheart is opening for the Doors! Playing the first Fuzz Face pedals when they came out! What an amazing time to be young & alive generally! I was definitely born in the wrong decade. ✌

[@wallymarx9646]

Kenny is the coolest kid in the neighborhood

[@rickg8015]

That Buddy Miles story was great!😅 I only ever liked Buddy’s playing in ‘Machine Gun’, his snare hits kinda suited the song..

[@piggycity]

Cousin Kenny tells the best stories!

[@hippydippy]

That Buddy $20 story is EPIC! 😝

[@BarbarraBay]

lol - Buddy Miles broke the drums... love Buddy ... love Band of Gypsys 🌹🌹

[@johnselig8261]

I saw Kenny play in the late 80's maybe early 90's as lead guitar for the "Sweathearts of the Rodeo" in las vegas...Janis Ian and her sister sang...one was married at the time to Vince Gill...anyway it was at Calamity Janes club on boulder highway just down from the Showboat Hotel and Casino...Janes band opened for Sweathearts...so here is this extremely tall and lean short haired buddy holly looking guy with dark frame glasses with pants that are too short for him and he is playing a forest green stratocaster and wailing-just killing the lead breaks...he stole the show from the girls as they noticed he was getting all the attention and applause...after seeing over 100 country acts and over 100 rock acts Kenny really stood out...I could tell he was into Hendrix and Junior Brown...Love you Kenny!

[@sspbrazil]

Nice mention of Soft Machine, great band, he was lucky to have seen Jimi 3 times!

[@georgestevens1502]

Kenny has seen everybody. Great observations. Great knowledge of instruments and stage sound. Marty Stuart is sure lucky to have Brither Kenny in his band.