“Machine Gun" (Live) by Jimi Hendrix (Drummer Reacts)

[@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 💚

[@YvonneWinslow-v9n]

The entire band was absolute perfection ❤ Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox (bass) and Buddy Miles (drums). And the fact they played 4 shows back to back that night, New Years eve '69 into new years '70. This line up was unmatched and untouchable. Still is imo. Sad thing is that the contract Jimi signed unabled him to use the name Band of Gypsies and couldn't have new members. So it led to his depression and demise. Jimi wanted to do other things with multiple musicians. Could you imagine if he were still with us today ?😢❤

[@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.

[@gardenoftwitty]

A true spiritual experience. Soo intense and everything you said Peace N Love

[@hongfang2348]

I can find no evidence that Miles Davis attended this concert or any other Hendrix concert. They did know each other and Miles wanted to make music with Jimi according to Miles' autobiography. Miles was a fan.

[@TURTLES_FOR_LIFEEE]

@@hongfang2348 You right. Miles heard this performance and then became a major Jimi Hendrix fan. Miles next album Witches Brew can be contributed to Hendrix's influence on Miles Davis.

[@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.

[@yaasooft]

It really is

[@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.

[@nodaysback1]

Jimi was The Baddest Guitarist That Ever Walked The Face Of The Earth.

[@GregFoster-f6o]

100 percent %

[@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

[@jimideaton]

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

[@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 !

[@PepeAtreides-s3b]

No one is Hendrix…SRV isn’t alone in that category and he would be the first to admit it

[@claytonpaul4259]

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

[@markferrett700]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@og0567]

I am 76 now a Namibian, we had freakouts like theses on the Hendrix Experience, we never used drugs, ok, a beer here and there, and we had a guy called Jimmi, tall and slender as a reed, bur we enjoyed the best of our lives in this poor poverty stricken Namibia!

[@flyingardilla143]

This song will never get old.

[@rubensanchez7605]

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

[@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.

[@JohnLedger-g4i]

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

[@kingscorpion915]

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

[@patrickandraska2033]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@NickWebber-vp4pd]

And to think hendrix played like that, bent over backwards on his knees, with his axe behind his head…or with his teeth…his skills are untouchable…i am humbled…😮

[@hesch-tag]

He played this song by almost completely standing still. No tricks, no show, pure emotion, pure concentration, pure genius.

[@madintuitsports5513]

The sounds of souls leaving their bodies during warfare is haunting! This is one of the finest pieces of music ever created!

[@steven.6227]

Buddy Miles on that vocal near the end

[@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 👍

[@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.

[@samuellord8576]

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

[@gregkerr725]

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

[@JohnLedger-g4i]

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

[@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!

[@clivematthews5296]

Yes SRV played excellent covers of Jimi, as did Gary Moore, Frank Marino (Mahogany Rush), and to a degree, Robin Trower (ex Procul Harem) but Jimi was the innovator.

[@michaelwoods9005]

​​​@@alanberg5575why do people use the "but stevie used heavier strings!" Argument for why SRV was better? It's not a weightlifting competition.. Jimi was a true artist in every sense of the word. Stevie just played licks and made stupid faces.

[@alanberg5575]

@michaelwoods9005 Well, to be able to bend, manipulate, and control strings of that size on a guitar, and play with that kind of skill and technical precision, INCLUDING behind-the-back, is absolutely extraordinary. THAT'S why people make mention of it!! By the way, I already said in my earlier comment that Hendrix was the more innovative (creative/artistic) one. Why can't we let it rest on that?? And for you to disparage Stevie's guitar playing, despite it having all the elements that I listed, is really unfair. Have a wonderful day.

[@hectorchavez3405]

@@alanberg5575Hendrix could play just as clean , in what way was Stevie better technically?stevie , as great as he was , want as good a player as Jeff Healy, maybe a better songwriter , but nowhere as good technically or as fast as Jeff .

[@JohnLedger-g4i]

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.

[@JohnLedger-g4i]

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

[@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

[@bretthefret]

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

[@anthonythomas6578]

This is an understatement, but what an incredible reaction. You really got it and then extended your thoughts on history, present and future conflicts and civilization. Deep stuff man and thank you for putting it out there. Would be interested in your thoughts now on this song/experience. I've been a huge fan of Jimi since 1969. He has so many extraordinary songs and live improvised versions. Personally think this is the most intense, technical, soulful and emotional experience, transporting us from what we hear to what we visualise. There's so much going on at times, that I visualise those poor young man being shell shocked by the confusion of bullets and shells flying past their ears from every direction. So many fantastic comments from my fellow Jimi brothers and sisters. Sorry for my ramblings. Stay free

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

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

[@ap7498]

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

[@hastobe303]

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

[@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. ✌️

[@jkoolb07]

Truth. Glad you shared that.

[@davescurry69]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@icu___]

imho the best live rock performance ever

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Trunkfish]

The single greatest Live performance of all time I think

[@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.

[@mark501w]

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

[@bikes8923]

You're a smart and compassionate guy, thanks for sharing. It's all overwhelming. Don't take all the weight on your shoulders!

[@goonbelly5841]

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

[@srv2217]

100%

[@gregkerr725]

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

[@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?

[@PepeAtreides-s3b]

Greatest Live performance of rock guitar ever recorded…The Master was in his bag that night Long Live Jimi

[@og0567]

Once someone asked me to lend him an LP I just bought, first thing I did ask him, will he understand the music, two days later he returned the album because it gets stuck, i said no, hell, can't be! The album or record was never stuck. You connect to your music, if not it's not your cup of tea! Love Jimi, always!

[@matto9734]

What a gig to start the 70s off...

[@realbser1956]

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

[@gregkerr725]

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

[@jamesmcclain5005]

The song Hear My Train a Comin is HEAVY!

[@rodgerarne1437]

Love seeing people enjoying Jimi's music as much as I do. This is probably my favourite song of Jimi's out of all of them.

[@darkmagus64]

This was Miles Davis favorite Hendrix song.

[@L33Reacts]

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

[@corawheeler9355]

That was amazing

[@G.M.1944]

I so appreciated your genuine reaction and comments about your background. Very touching. Thank you for sharing, brother.

[@L33Reacts]

thank you for the kind words, brother. it means a lot to me. this song is one of THOSE songs that just gnaw at your soul because you know it's real. Every last thing image he creates in your mind... it's all happened. It's scary at how good he is at that. I love hendrix, man.

[@G.M.1944]

@ Ah brother, I hear you… I’m 50 y old now, and have been deep into Hendrix’ music (amongst some others’) since I was 15 y old, and I live in Belgium. Back then, in my youth, in the second half of the 80’s, as a boy who was seen as weird because I was into old classic movies from the 1930’s onwards, and all that “old music” incl James Brown (with his glorious musicians, also), while virtually all others in school were going nuts over the latest bland pop bands with synths and singers. I didn’t have access to then-upcoming cd’s, let alone the money for them (20-30 euros per single cd and 50 euros was the norm, so it was a question of me going to the public libraries in my area, and renting old vinyl and original audio cassette tapes. Then copying them on cassettes through an old double tape deck from home. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing ! I was perplexed at how great that music was ! How involved they were in the music, how not-calculated, how sincere and beautifully naieve, how fantastically creative and free. How musically interesting and open and socially engaged. So I recognize that look on your face very well, as you groove with this music, it transports you, it brings you almost in a trance. And you feel mentally affected through it, afterwards. You need some time. Jimi and his band (Billy Cox, Buddy Miles) bring you INTO the war zone. Man, that’s heavy ! :-) I think silently “waaw, man…. This is just .. incredible”. Jimi has that effect on me. Bob Marley at his most inspired has this effect on me. Jimi never was just playing. He was expressing his emotional turmoil or joy directly through his guitar and voice. And even more so as he matured as a musician, leaving the show-elements behind more and more, concentrating on the music.

[@helenespaulding7562]

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

[@arizrich]

The GOAT...

[@rickeylucero3955]

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

[@JoeSmith-ey2xp]

Exhibit one on why Hendricks is the real GOAT, sorry Stevie, sorry Eddie, sorry Jimmy Page but there is but one king.

[@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

[@-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.

[@longcastle4863]

Best thing I’ve heard in awhile..

[@VereinPlatzhirschamHirschenpla]

Best Guitar Solo ever

[@JohnLedger-g4i]

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

[@FenderTele71]

Trey Anastasio of Phish called that long hanging note after the first vocal section the greatest guitar note ever played.

[@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

[@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.

[@CliffordLake]

Please finish this album. Thank you.

[@mickell241]

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

[@scotstevens5263]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@jimholt1888]

Looking forward to this!

[@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

[@shiannesmith6877]

YESSSS FINALLY ❤❤

[@Upe-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!"

[@Larsskoldebjer]

The # 1 musical expression in history!!!!

[@jamessomers8808]

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

[@davelouis4004]

Buddy Miles singing at the end , lots of great guitarists out there with great solos but nothing ever moved me like this , always loved this record ! Really glad you appreciate it , no one like Hendrix !

[@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

[@YvonneWinslow-v9n]

This is Band Of Gypsies. No where close to The Experience 😂

[@YvonneWinslow-v9n]

​@@elmorevandodewaard544machine gun was Miles Davis's favorite song.

[@spoolstring1853]

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

[@PointyTailofSatan]

The Shakespeare of the electric guitar.

[@patrickscutella836]

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

[@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 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸😎

[@guttorocha]

His guitar gives me chills, his voice gives me chills, the band gives me chills, Buddy miles vocals gives me chills, its from 1970 but its totally futuristic and timeless really

[@sharondavid-melly1498]

Who couldn't love Jimi💥🎸

[@YvonneWinslow-v9n]

Real raw musical emotion at its best. And he didn't even have to say anything at all bc its all in the music. His guitar tells the story on its own. That's true magic and musical genius ❤

[@Linda-y9h]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@michaelgronlund9714]

There’sa 5 cd box tamed ”Songs for groovy children” cotaning all the 5 conserts he did that new year. It’s fantastic

[@curtvaughan2836]

Thanks!

[@jazzmandolin5004]

This album and this solo when it first came out was so astounding. What Hendrix did prior to the Gypsies had already taken things to a whole new level and then comes Machine Gun. Fans of his were shocked that he took himself to a whole new level. To me the Gypsies was a departure from what came before and probably was an indicator of what was coming if he hadn't passed on. Many great guitarists have covered Hendrix and did him justice but there's something about Hendrix that's just goes deeper than anybody else.