ROCKING OUT ON THE UPSIDE DOWN GUITAR AGAIN! First Time Reaction To Jimi Hendrix BBC Live 1969!

Prepare to be blown away as we experience the legendary Jimi Hendrix live on BBC in 1969 for the first time! Known for his groundbreaking guitar skills and charismatic stage presence, we're ready to see Hendrix work his magic with classics like "Hey Joe" and "Voodoo Chile".
🎸 About Jimi Hendrix: A name that needs no introduction in the world of rock music, Jimi Hendrix is celebrated as one of the greatest guitarists of all time. His innovative techniques and unique sound have left a lasting legacy in music history.
🔥 In This Video: Join us as we react to Jimi Hendrix performing live on BBC in 1969. We've heard legends about his performances, especially his signature upside-down guitar playing. We're excited to witness this and share our reactions to some of his most famous tracks, including "Hey Joe" and "Voodoo Chile."
👫 Why React as a Couple?: Experiencing the magic of Jimi Hendrix together brings a unique perspective to our reactions. We're both excited to explore his musical genius and share our individual insights on his iconic performances.
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💬 Your Thoughts: What's your favorite Jimi Hendrix song or performance? How does his live BBC performance from 1969 rank for you? Let us know in the comments section below!
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[@keithroberts4952]

It was a bold move of Jimi to not stick to the script and change songs live on TV which angered the BBC officials at the time! Great artiste!

[@_eclipz_]

Tends to happen a lot on the BBC lol

[@strangebotwin-]

“We’d like to stop playing this rubbish..” 😂 he was sick of playing the same songs all the time.

[@samuellord8576]

Jimi was saying he was sorry that Cream had broken up, he got along very well with those guys. At first Clapton (and EVERY other guitarist) was despondent over Jimi’s unmatched skill, but they became close friends. Jimi was not only a great musician, but widely known as a great friend and gentle soul. Now to be blown away completely, listen to “Machine Gun”, live in Fillmore East, New Year’s Eve 1969. So powerful, nothing will move your soul like this. A musical protest to the killing in Vietnam. Thanks!

[@JokerInk-CustomBuilds]

Machinegun is such a crazy track!

[@kgunitkeese17]

Unless he was drunk, he was an easy-going guy. If he was drunk, he was known for being a different person and incredibly mean.

[@daverutherford6401]

Jimi Hendrix will never be forgotten! one thing you find when listening to any live performance is that every song is never played the same twice, he always added stuff, changed stuff and generally just adlibed a lot of the time within the framework of the song :)

[@rebeccabailey527]

That's not entirely correct, the songs changed overtime, they weren't vastly different between each peWoodstock. If you listen to the clark University cd, and live in Ottawa, the songs are very similar, those 2 shows were only a few days apart. Like hey Joe, they began doing intros of that nature as early as feburary 68, the star spangled banner from Woodstock, he began playing it like that 1 year and 1 day before woodstock.

[@realbser1956]

Always love seeing live performances by Jimi. Cream is regarded as THE first supergroup of that era. Eric Clapton-guitar and vocals, Jack Bruce-bass and lead vocals, Ginger Baker-drums. Supergroup means that all members are legendary and had an enormous impact on the future of rock & roll, not just because of their influential sound but but also because of the talent of the band members and what they went on to do in later years. The riff you recognize is from the song Sunshine Of Your Love by Cream. 🔥

[@guyray1504]

I always go to the Waffle House and ask for some Baker,Bruce, and Clapton to go with my coffee. I do get strange looks most of the time.

[@roboi2241]

Supergroup originally meant individual members of other bands forming their own band, Clapton was in The Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Bruce and Baker were in other bands and played together in Graham Bond Organization. They were top musicians when they formed Cream but not legendary nor had they made an enormous impact yet though Clapton was recognized as 'God' in some circles but with little wider public recognition until Cream.

[@robertg7396]

Interesting fact. Jimi used to play with some legendary names as a backup guitarist before eventually going solo. Acts like, Ike and Tina Turner, The Isley brothers, Sam Cooke, Wilson Picket, and Little Richard, to name a few.

[@kevinlundgren1169]

I have hours and hours of Hendrix , sometimes I have a Jimi Hendrix night , and just listen to Hendrix all night long . Anything else you want to hear from Hendrix would be cool . Everybody needs more Hendrix in their life !! I even had an Akita years ago that I named Foxy Lady !

[@Christopher-Baltimore]

I’m the same way. I have a playlist that’s everything Hendrix on Apple Music, and sometimes it’s just Hendrix time!

[@WMalven]

Great reaction, Phil and Sam! There are two songs with almost the same name, Voodoo Chile (long "I," silent "E"), which runs 15 minutes in the original and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return") which runs 5 minutes and is totally different. The ultimate Jimi guitar performance happened on January 1, 1970 livie at the Fillmore East, "Machine Gun." It's a 12:30 long guitar masterpiece. Absolutely must hear.

[@mightyV444]

Ohhhh! I'd always believed people were just choosing two different ways of saying/writing the title for one and the same song! 😅 Thank you for clearing this up! 😉👍

[@neilmalyon8784]

Machine Gun is the gold standard for guitar virtuosity! Totally unmatched.

[@marksanders8028]

I’m 66 years old an been a huge fan of Jimi since I could walk. I’ve never seen this cut before. I’m deeply grateful for being able to see this before I pass.Thank you very much.

[@danielyoung6491]

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Sessions_(The_Jimi_Hendrix_Experience_album)

[@sxbvstixn7964]

Jesus, Jimi handles that guitar so effortlessly. Like its an extension of himself.

[@Sonny_Eclipse]

An interesting fact that many people may not know is that on September 17th, 1970, Eric Clapton was shopping in London and ran across a left-handed Fender Stratocaster, which he purchased as a gift for Jimi. He intended on presenting it during a Sly Stone concert at the Lyceum that night. Hendrix never showed up to that show. The next morning Eric Clapton, along with the rest of the world, learned that Jimi Hendrix was dead.

[@thedrummerking13]

Jimi Hendrix and Mitch Mitchel (the drummer) had great musical chemistry

[@brucematzen4678]

But not so much with Noel😢

[@Kakyrock666]

Jimi was The Guitar King !!!!

[@swfcocs1]

Simply the greatest ever, and I say that as a 100% pink floyd guy...

[@rubroken]

"Sunshine of Your Love" is that last song. You might want to react to Cream, and that song. I'm not sure but that might have been Cream's most played song on the radio(at least that's how I remember those days)

[@skmlondon]

I saw Jimmy at the Troubadour club just after he came to London. Nobody at the beginning knew how to react. However at the end he got a standing ovation. That in such a small club will always stay with me.

[@markhodge7]

Cream. Sunshine Of Your Love. Jimi, especially live, often covered songs by other artists, offering his unique style to songs he liked, and artists he respected. Dylan, The Beatles, Cream, The Troggs and Chuck Berry. Hard to imagine but he was very shy off stage and was taken advantage of by the record companies and management. On the night before he died, Eric Clapton had showed up to meet him and brought along a left-handed Stratocaster that he had found in a shop. He'd never seen one before and wanted to gift it to Jimi. The crowd prevented them from actually getting together but they saw each other from a distance. The next day Jimi was dead, and Clapton was left holding the lefty guitar. True story. Eric was one of Jimi's closest friends.

[@jamesgoodwin9829]

Funny thing us that Eric Clapton said that Cream wrote Sunshine of your Love as kind of an homage to Jimi and then Jimi plays it to honor them. There is a bootleg direct from the mixer called Pipe Dream recorded on in late '67 that contains a 10 minute version of SoYL. It rips.

[@bobbo11357]

The woman who introduced Hey Joe is Lulu, a popular British singer in the 1960’s. She also starred in the movie To Sir with Love and sang the title song. A huge hit.

[@damonhines8187]

Married to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees RIP.

[@btj-oo8xc]

Also did a version of The Man Who Sold The World produced by Bowie in 1973

[@martinvanderplas5815]

@@damonhines8187 It was Andy Gibb... (no hard feelings)

[@damonhines8187]

@martinvanderplas5815 no hard feelings, you're dead wrong. I just Googled it, even though I've known for years, it was Maurice.

[@martinvanderplas5815]

@@damonhines8187 I'm looking desperately for a hiding place (i.e. I stand corrected)

[@johnclibbens6803]

I remember watching this on the Lulu show when it was originally broadcast - and being blown away by it.

[@edstein5642]

Great camera angles by the techs! That was on the Lulu Show where he cut “Hey Joe” short to play Cream’s “Sunshine…” as a tribute to them as they’d just announced they were splitting up.

[@rowenatulley852]

The GOAT . . .

[@JeffGrimes-bo4cc]

This man is amazing play the guitar upside down behind his head and teeth chewing gum voice so clear wowed

[@perrymalcolm3802]

Voodoo CHILI?!?! 😂😂

[@Bekka_Noyb]

♥ Hendrix! You must do Cream - Sunshine of Your Love, White Room & Crossroads (live) BTW - there is a full live instrumental version of Hendrix Sunshine Of Your Love cover somewhere...

[@metalmark1214]

Second Cream 👍

[@guyray1504]

Make me a big 3.

[@bluetopguitar1104]

Jimi and Mitch Mitchell (drummer) had a special communication onstage. Check out both versions on the Electric Ladyland album.

[@duanetelesha]

I know this is about Jimi Hendrix who is excellent, but the female announcer is Lulu, she was in the movie "To Sir With Love" also sang the song of the same name, starring Sidney Portier.

[@carlomercorio1250]

Sunshine of your Love

[@jeffdembishack2716]

Clearly a man ahead of his time

[@robertlear2712]

I saw Jimi in concert in 1968. It was quite a show.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

I think it's so cool that you guys go on a journey like this and I have seen this with other reaction channels as well, where your knowledge just starts to increase exponentially and you can make connections between things and compare things and recognize styles. Yeah the Jimi Hendrix Experience was a three-piece, and one thing I like about this video is you get some pretty good shots of the bass guitar playing and the drumming. For example, I would point out that the drummer is using Trad or traditional grip with his left hand and Match grip with his right hand, which is more modern. And the bass player is playing with a pick rather than his fingers, which gives it a bit more of a metallic edge to the attack.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Wow, I just made my previous comment talking about the approach to drumming and now the second song has started, and it's interesting because he starts off using the more modern Match grip in both hands but then pretty quickly after some crash cymbal work, flips the stick in his left hand to convert it to Trad grip.

[@guitarman8462]

He also plays this song : Live At Woodstock & Live At Maui. Both a must see!!!!

[@standbytogo123]

I remember watching this live on the TV back in the day. It was on the 'Lulu Show'. When he stopped playing 'Hey Joe' and changed to 'Sunshine of your Love', it was like what? but brilliant.

[@andypandy9013]

06:15 The host of the show, Lulu, was a Scottish singer who was married to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees. 🙂 I actually watched that show when it was transmitted. Myself and my Brother loved it. Our Mum was less than impressed. 🤣

[@izzyryder4969]

"To Sir With Love"

[@andypandy9013]

@@izzyryder4969 Yes indeed. She had a hit with the theme song. 👍😃

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Wow, I've never seen this particular performance before and just into Hey Joe and it's still in the first verse, did you catch the Beatles reference? I've never heard him do that before. For just a second he works in the George Harrison guitar riff to The Beatles song that I think would have been a hit maybe just a couple years earlier, Day Tripper.

[@roboi2241]

Beatle's I Feel Fine

[@malcshone4409]

Gotta try “ Voodoo Chile”!! The riff you heard and recognise was “ Sunshine Of Your Love” by Cream, which is well worth a reaction by itself!!

[@claytonpaul4259]

Voodoo chili!!

[@TerenceDixon-l6b]

Cream was one of the greatest trios. They were one of the first progressive rock groups consisting of 3 great individual artists, and Ginger Baker was just a crazy drummer, I last saw him dancing on the tables in the University bar following their set in the late 60s. I was devastated when they broke up, but they all went on to do great things.

[@grahamhowes6904]

Ginger was famously aggressive and used to argue with Jack Bruce constantly. A friend of mine had the honour when he was running a club of ascending some narrow stairs as Ginger came down. Ginger stopped and growled: ‘Get out of my f’ing way or I’ll knock you downstairs!’

[@TerenceDixon-l6b]

@@grahamhowes6904 I can certainly believe thatof him from what I read, He was very pissed on topof whatever he had used earleir in Cartmel college bar when I saw him.

[@FrancesThompson-e3m]

Cream broke up in 1968, the show was introduced by the Singer Lulu who had many hits from 1964 onwards and is still going strong!

[@mightyV444]

My favourite of hers is 'I'm A Tiger' 😊

[@alxbolt6225]

Mr Cosmic Jimi on the BBC live and in full color opening an intergalactic time portal.

[@thomaswoods1365]

""We're being put off the air."' Only Jimi. Genius! And I just heard your pop quiz. He was born I believe in Seattle, but his home at the time was in Renton, Washington, 8 miles from where I grew up.

[@hesch-tag]

Jimi plays Berkeley, Woodstock, Royal Albert Hall and Fillmore East are the things you'll need to watch.

[@dhavaramdan7043]

can't wait to see you reacting to Jimi's favorite band, King Crimson 😁

[@roborr5287]

Nice to see this footage in colour only ever seen it in B& W. Have you see him play acoustic guitar, Hear My Train A Comin'

[@cspaikido]

That's Lulu "To Sir With Love" on the microphone as the emcee.

[@976PAIN]

He loved the Beatles and he snuck in the I Feel Fine guitar riff as a fill during the first verse of Hey Joe here.

[@Tijuanabill]

Jimi's first guitar was right handed, because his crazy dad did not technically permit him to be left handed. His dad was religious, and thought being left handed was a thing of the devil. So he restrung it like any lefty would, but he had to show progress on the instrument, to his dad, as it was an expensive item for his family, which meant playing right handed. So technically Jimi could play a bit right handed, but with the strings backwards. You could accurately say, he knew the instrument backwards and forwards. Later in life, Jimi didn't want a left handed guitar because back then, they were all handmade, and he didn't think they got enough practice on the left handed ones, for them to be the same quality as the right handed ones.

[@jaydMANifistation]

That last riff was from Sunshine of Your Love by Cream.

[@jnagarya519]

The riff is from the "Cream" song "Sunshine of Your Love". And Hendrix makes it sound like Clapton is struggling.

[@KelleyStrzelczyk]

Jimi was a feedback master. Used it to for depth in his layers of sound.

[@JeromeDukes]

Loving the videos of some of the great bands and musicians from the 60's, 70's and 80's. I love that you've also focused on some of the elite guitar players of those eras. Hendrix and what he did for the electric guitar changed everything. One of the guys that picked up the torch after Hendrix's death and imo is easily one of the greatest guitar players of all time is Frank Marino from Mahogany Rush. The band hails from Montreal and was a powerhouse especially when it came to Psychedelic Blues and Rock. Frank Marino Live at the Agora, just might be the best collection of guitar playing ever. Highly recommend watching Something 's coming our Way or It's Begun to Rain.

[@markhodge7]

Mahogany Rush is possibly the most unknown amazing bands from this era. I grew up in Montreal in the 70's. Hendrix was dead, but CHOM FM played the best FM radio, and Mahogany Rush made the grade. My teenage friends and I had their albums, and Frankie we considered on par with all the greats of the time. "Strange Universe" is a must have album. No weak songs.

[@nirvana3356]

Jimi27,GOAT of🎸🎸🎸

[@joebarrera9741]

Jimmi born in Seattle..an Amazing Guitarist One Of A Kind ❤❤❤❤

[@samuellord8576]

Thanks! I hope you will do Jimi’s greatest performance, “Machine Gun” live from Fillmore East in 1969, OR the back-to-back performances of “Voodoo Child” and the “Star Spangled Banner” at Woodstock. He played them together, in that order, and was on fire. Thanks folks!

[@barsandbarbells2022]

Thanks so much Samuel! We appreciate you!! 🫶. Jimi at Woodstock & Fillmore East - noted!

[@Christopher-Baltimore]

Live Jimi is the best Jimi

[@billyoliver4000]

Another must listen JH song is All Along The Watch Tower.

[@davidjohns4745]

English guy here. Went to Seattle to visit his grave and the Hendrix museum. So the question was simple for me 😃

[@jgsrhythm100]

The main ingredient is the connection to the black blues, soul that came before him He began. With the Isley Brothera Check Isley Brothers - Who's that Lady 🔥

[@Goomberdups]

jimi with the cream shoutout lmaooo

[@megamaniac7402]

Presenter and singer Lulu was planned to join Hendrix on stage to do a duet performing "Hey Joe". She had begun walking towards the stage, but was abruptly stopped by Jimi when he choose to play "Sunshine of Your Love" instead. He was sick of playing the same hit song over and over. Because he always wanted to progress and not stick to old material.

[@rebeccabailey527]

That's right, if you watch the isle of wight before playing foxy lady, he mouthed the F word. He hated having to play the "Hits" constantly.

[@peterstrayhorn5316]

This is a compliment I call it controlled chaos.

[@joshs4594]

10:38 - Jimi does a riff from The Beatles “I Feel Fine.” 👍🎸

[@metalmark1214]

BBC - Beef, Bacon and Cheddar. I loved those at Rax restaurant 😋

[@stevedahlberg8680]

Oh man, you've got to check out Jimi Hendrix doing Crosstown Traffic, preferably the audio track, but any live video of him doing it would be fascinating as well. But I love the audio track because that's what was on the radio and then when I went out and bought the record, and it is a total banger.

[@RockinMamaT]

That is Sunshine of your love.Cream wicked tune❤

[@mikefetterman6782]

Left handed guitars were few and far between and their quality was usually sub par at the time. Jimmy took a right handed stratocaster (several) turned it upside down, switched the strings and made his own left handed guitar out of a righty (I did the same when I was 10, I was a lefty trying hard in 1980 to find guitars).

[@kelvendyson1508]

@10:40 he plays the lick from I Feel Fine by The Beatles!! Love it!!

[@ofenomeno1381]

Driving south at the bbc, one of the best instrumentals

[@CesarAugusto-tq5gm]

Mitch Mitchell said that backstage before the show Lulu suggested to Jimi that they do a duet on Hey Joe. Jimi said yes but didn't want to rehearse the song with Lulu, telling her that 'improvised it will be stronger'. So he cut the song in half and said 'stop the rubbish' before moving on to the song Sunshine of Your Love. Someone from the BBC management told the band that they would never play there again but Jimi didn't seem to care. 😁

[@donaldbrunner6250]

He was born in Seattle Washington and buried in Dreenwood cemetery in Renton Washington. Try these 2: Are you Experienced Purple Haze (his best song)

[@gregroberts8240]

check out cream - white room! as far as hendrix guitar ,if u notice the pick up closest to the bridge is angled. right side up it gives the low e string more depth while the high e as well as b & g strings more bite. upside the effect is reverse. also changing the strings for lefty, while the strings may be "in tune" unless u have the right equipment to adjust the bridge, the intonation will be off causing a ton of harmonic distortion. which plays a huge factor in to the hendrix sound. side note , if u look up many of his live footage he is wearing a headband. he would place tabs of LSD in the band so the more he played and sweated they would dissolve absorbing i.to his skin getting higher and higher w every note played!

[@metalmark1214]

One to do from BBC is Judas Priest - Dreamer Deceiver / Deceiver. A totally different Judas Priest than you have seen before.

[@mightyV444]

Rush's Geddy Lee shared an interesting story recently while promoting his auto-biography, about choosing to watch a gig of his old band (who'd just kicked him out) over seeing Jimi Hendrix in concert! His reasoning being that he'll see Jimi the _next_ time he's in town - which of course then never happened due to Jimi's early death.

[@Billy-te4ev]

Hi again its Billy from England, just watched your reaction to jimi hendrix, truly a all time great, but and I expect others will say the same thing in their comments, and this is a true story,when Hendrix was once asked by a music journalist what's it like to be the greatest guitarist ever he replied don't ask me ask Rory Gallagher, and I quite agree, for me arguably the best ever along with and not being rude to you both as you probably haven't heard of him a guitarist called Alvin Lee of Ten years after a brilliant English band I've saw God 10 times ,and the saddest thing is all three are dead, so that leads me to my request as I don't think you have done any of mine yet, not a complaint as I know you're obviously very busy, the track is Help me, but you must do the live album version not any concert footage,I'm just listening to it because I haven't heard it for years, in the middle of the guitar solo there's a note he sustained and I've just timed it at 13 seconds can you believe that,he was said to be the fastest guitarist ever and one more thing Jimmy page says he was his favourite guitarist, really hope you do react to the song, and you too take care and keep up the great work English Billy.

[@markhodge7]

Ten Years After is one of my favorite bands from that era. Alvin was astonishing. I find Jimi to be a tad more creative. One Of These Days is simply the heaviest Blues I've ever heard.

[@stevetreloar3129]

That bass...!!!!!!

[@correctlyrics]

Phil & Sam, Jimi was left handed but there were no left handed guitars back then. That's why he had to play regular guitars upside down. Eric Clapton was in a music shop one day back in the day and he saw a left handed Fender (I believe) He bought it as a gift for Jimi. A few days later, he saw Jimi at a party and wanted to tell him what he had found and bought for him, but never got a chance to speak to him. He just thought he'd see him soon enough. But, Jimi died that night. (A couple days later?)

[@brucekay9290]

Sunshine of your love is "the riff" you're talking about

[@davescurry69]

Love your reaction guys and also for your choice of clip. If you want to be completely blown away, check out either the audio or the newly colourised film clip of Jimi playing "Machine Gun" at the Fillmore East in New York, in the early hours of January 1, 1970. The track is on Jimi's BAND OF GYPSYS album.

[@simgamer313]

I don't know if it's been told here. But, the lady was Lu-Lu a very well know British Pop singer. Now, what was supposed to happen was that the BBC wanted Jimi and Lulu to sing "Hey Joe" as a duet, as it was her show. She was to come out and sing with him. Jimi told them, "okay". But, Jimi told his band, "I ain't letting that white girl upstage me." and so, he stopped and launched into "Sunshine of your love" a song by Cream. (Eric Clapton and co.) and, with that, it was over and Jimi was banned from the BBC.

[@brentgeller3489]

His music was ahead of the time for when it was recorded. It's a shame that we lost this tremenedously talented guitarist way too soon.

[@fishboy91]

His playing may not seem such a big deal today BUT watch older videos from the sixties and see what other bands and guitar players were doing at the time. They were playing very conventional and safe. They were not even close to Jimi. Jimi had to be seen as a Martian back then. No one was playing or sounding like him. No one looked like him either.

[@stephenkittle6586]

If you heard Jimi saying "We are going off the air" Lulu didn't like Jimi stopping playing this rubbish "Hey Joe" So She cut him off !! Lulu was host of a tv music show in England in the 60's ! Nobody played like Jimi back then and even now!!😍😁🔥🐐🎸

[@keithroberts4952]

Lulu didn't cut him off. It was the BBC officials who didn't like the fact that he didn't stick to the plan of playing "hey joe" and instead played a tribute to Cream, "sunshine of your love". Lulu may have been disappointed but the BBC were furious!

[@SquirminHermanthe1eyedGerman]

Funny thing is even tho Jimi played left handed he was actually right handed making him even more unique ✌💖☮

[@andya9487]

Nice little day tripper tribute

[@dsfddsgh]

I love the cheeky smile on Jimi's face at 10:25-10:28 when he hears one of his guitar strings is out of tune. 🤣

[@MrBedZeppelin]

Only ten years 1966-1976 included Legendary guitarists such as Jimi, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Tony Iommi, Pete Townsend, Jerry Garcia, Ritchie Blackmore, Alex Lifeson and Eddie Van Halen, etc. who mostly were inspired by each other.

[@styrelsefksu4463]

The song by the Cream is called sunshine of your love

[@patrickquinlan3056]

The reason that last song is so familiar is that it contains probably the greatest rock guitar riff ever. It was "Sunshine Of My Love" by The Cream which you really must check out. I remember this performance. I watched it live on our family black and white TV. It seems that Lulu, the host, was expecting to do a solo with Hendrix and the change of tune annoyed her and the BBC producers. I still think he is the greatest guitarist ever. Many copy him but none excel Hendrix.

[@ronnypalmisano3797]

When they brought Jimi to London, they introduced him to Eric Clapton of Cream , a 3 man group. Jimi loved and wanted the same, a 3 man group .

[@romienomie]

He played with a 3 piece called Band of Gypsy's live. Check out Message to Love a whole different vibe.

[@Frankincensedjb123]

Amazing quality in sound and picture. Hell, I see some videos from the 80s that look like they're from the 60s. The thing about Hendrix, like many of the greats, is that he was so fluid. He never just played the hits or the way the songs were recorded, making changes as he went. You'll see him here and there signaling the drummer and bass player with a look. By today's standards, many guitarists are technically advanced, but at the time Hendrix set the standard for innovative guitar. Can't get over how this looks like it was recorded yesterday. Great stuff.

[@jaydMANifistation]

Hendrix studio recorded two versions (Voodoo Chile and Voodoo Chile slight return) Slight return is a little shorter version.

[@chrisnicol1644]

That BBC set comes on 2 a-mazing CD's...

[@kevinlundgren1169]

And you have to remember also that , back then he didn't have all the different sound effects , they had to make that sound !

[@primoxxl71]

Jimi can even make a slight mistake sound cool.

[@mimikurtz2162]

Jack Bruce is recorded as saying that he wrote 'Sunshine Of Your Love' as a tribute to Jimi Hendrix. Without knowing that, Jimi heard the riff, liked it and regularly included it in his stage set as a loose jam. After his meteoric rise to fame Hendrix could afford to buy any guitar he wanted to, but using a guitar upside down was by choice. It placed the pickup controls and whammy bar at the top above the strings, giving easy and unrestricted access to them which was beneficial when controlling the sound on the threshold of feedback. Most of Jimi's appearances at the BBC, including this one, were plagued by sound malfunctions because the studio engineers did not understand the non-standard setup designed for high volume sound. After interminable sound checks and endlessly twiddling knobs, one was heard to admit "Something must be faulty. There's some distortion that I just can't get rid of".

[@brucefelger4015]

The experience many time, jimi would say, Bflat, and then he was off, they had to meet his music live where ever he took them.

[@EthanKandler-ti8px]

Hendrix played an inverted guitar. The night he died (barbiturate OD) he was supposed to meet up with Clapton who had got a truly left handed guitar to give to him. Clapton still has that guitar. Also in weird state of happenstance, Clapton had been with Stevie Ray Vaughan, the night he died in a helicopter crash.

[@timothybush9633]

Hi Phil & Sam, I was young but I was there and it just helped me start my Musical journey as a Musician until I found KZbin and it's plethora of videos

[@PishProductions1]

This is a great clip from the vaults. Lulu’s face is priceless she can’t believe Jimi is on her show

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Jimi tuning his guitar on the fly live with a smile is Legendary

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All the things you can do with a guitar; Jimi did it not only best, but first!

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Yup, Voodoo Chili 🌶️