The Album That Changed Everything for Me as a Guitarist - The Essential Jimi Hendrix

[@BudForler]

Jimmy is definitely one of my favorites I have a whole collection of his stuff and you learn every day by listening to it

[@badbrad]

Yes!

[@PaulLoughrin]

Bingo! U hit the nail on the head, Brad. It's not how many notes a guitar player plays, and how fast, it's how they make you feel!

[@badbrad]

oh ya!

[@kirinzon]

What Jimi did with Dylan's Watchtower is the greatest transformation of a cover of all time.Its an absolute masterpiece. Little Richard in an interview said when Jimi started playing he would make his big toe stand up on end. Said God put him in the dipper and spread him over the earth. I love his song Angel on The Cry of Love. It's mind blowing how much music he gave us in such a short time.

[@badbrad]

Man you know it!

[@PaulLoughrin]

💯 Kiri

[@jesusislukeskywalker4294]

​@@PaulLoughrin 🙏 a merman i shall turn to be ... is one of my favourites 👉♥️ it's like a sound scape ☝️🔭🥸

[@wavelengthtrade7586]

A lot of those tunes may not have been hits on Top 40 radio, but they got a lot of airplay on underground radio. In Boston we were lucky to have WBCN 104.1.

[@badbrad]

Right on!

[@alaincharnier1971]

Also WCOZ 94.5 in Boston & WAAF 107.3 in Worcester played "our" music

[@Jeremya74]

Who wasnt influenced by jimi as guitarest growing up 🎸👀🔥

[@badbrad]

Right on!

[@Yeti-Redi]

I started as a classic rock guitarist in the 60's being influenced a lot by George Harrison. Then I found Jeff Beck with the Yardbirds. It was a whole different way of playing guitar and what you could do the with instrument. He really made me start to think about experimenting outside of the box of traditional chords and what you can do with a solo. Controlled dissonance has its own time and place. The idea of playing the wrong note and the right time was a new concept for me. Then Jimi landed! Just when I thought I had finally discovered the transition to the next level of guitar playing and song writing, I realized I was back in kindergarten class. My jaw was on the ground for weeks. Another light-year leap in music; a whole other mountain to climb.

[@badbrad]

Man you know it!

[@fendermarshallbluesbox3407]

litle wing live royal albert hall 1969 , masterpiece

[@badbrad]

love that version...

[@marksguitars5617]

you're talking my jam with Hendrix and boy can I relate to the change in the landscape of music from Jimi on down. Smash Hits was one of the first vinyls I ever owned and another one that we wore out on my parents console stereo. Great stuff Bad Brad, thanks

[@badbrad]

Thank you Mark!

[@DRSTARR-333]

Jimi was the Muhammad Ali of music he broke the color barrier ascended above the prejudices of the time, bringing people together with this music 🎼🎶🎸

[@badbrad]

So true!

[@Nik.No.K]

Electric ladyland is the one that opened my mind just 15 short years ago

[@badbrad]

Right on!

[@ProbablyTooLoud]

It’s difficult to listen forward when most of the great rock music is behind us.

[@badbrad]

Man you know....

[@jamescrow9854]

So proud of Jimi , he lived in my home town Clarksville, Tennessee an played local gigs when he got out of the Army at Ft.Cambell Ky. Jimi Hendrix the King of Rock Guitar ! to quote Carly Simon " Nobody does it Better , makes me feel sad for the Rest " !!!! Peace Out .

[@badbrad]

Man you know it!

[@johndenson3107]

Damn straight Brad! 👍

[@badbrad]

Yes

[@QuincyJamesMusic]

I still remember being 12 and finding a TV showing of The Monterey Pop Festival on my folk's cable network at 1 am and having both my socks blown off and the skin melted from my face listening to Hendrix play Killing Floor, Like a Rolling Stone and Hey Joe live. Life changing and I remember it as though it were yesterday.

[@badbrad]

That is awesome, man.

[@williamcoiner6019]

Duuuude, totally agree. I use to listen to music in the car with my mom in the late 60's through the early 70's on WHB. They played stuff from the 50's 60's and some early 70's. Then I about 1976 started listening to KY 102 which was an album oriented rocks station. They played VH and others from the mid 70's but did go left and right from that 1976 point and time. You could tell Jimi was a different kind of cat. Even for the blues. Not until SRV did we have blues man push things further. Both lives were cut short but left us with an incredible catalog.

[@badbrad]

whew man you know....

[@stratcat4450]

Im glad you love Hendrix so much. I grew up thankfully during his time. I would highly recommend just listening to Jimi's actual stidio albums as he was highly involved in thier complete production and you can listen to the entire album exactly the way Jimi intended you to hear them. They are way more than just a collection of songs! Sadly you cannot buy anything Jimi without padding his fake sisters pocket. I would highly recommend anyone truly interested in the life of James Marshall Hendrix to get a copy of Sharon Lawrence's book on Jimi. On new year's eve i will break out the band of gypsies to listen especially to machine gun. Definitely a lifelong lesson in a live guitar performance, sadly even though I can't stand buddy miles!

[@badbrad]

I have gone back and listened to those records as their own entity but it was this record that set me on the path....

[@ricklaino6385]

"Cry of Love" was my influential Hendrix album...... to this day even......!!!

[@badbrad]

Awesome!!

[@amghawgless]

perfect description of jimi I said similar things in a recent video you did its what his playing makes you feel I love the way he used speed as an effect or accent didn't hit you over the head for a whole concert with it like the newer players including evh, he was all about painting a picture with his guitar just wish he was more aggressive in the studio like he was live

[@badbrad]

It’s hard to have the same intensity in the studio as live.

[@DRSTARR-333]

🎸 Hendrix set the bar of playing guitar -so strat•ospherically “High”- Out of this, world & into the next set of cosmos! Jimi painted w his chords and 🎶notes/ ethereal picturesque scenes light years ahead of the norm with his technique! His guitar was an extension of his body!! Plus Jimi’s smooth delivery and his unique poetic vocal style -with a laid back verbal expressionism’s🎙️ a cross of speaking and singing was like no other!! + The fact that he took a right handed guitar adapted it making his own left-handed upside down strung bacwards wasn’t a first, but made it the most memorable & enlightening cuz Jimi didn’t let that get in the way- he invented his own style like no other! Hendrix music was transforming as was his narrative on the world being on the cusp of the trippy changing times in what was once a happy go lucky America tuned in to the AM radio dial of pop the world was being offset with the riots and protests to the Vietnam war Hendrix was brilliant in navigating throughout it all 😮& so was your @BadBrad description! This gave me the chills bro & rekindled the excitement & mad respect for J.H . as if I were hearing it all for the first time again & i actually experienced it first hand as a child being born in 60 I was 7 when Hendrix was played in my grandparents jukebox in their bar over without voodoo or purple acid!! Definitely caught my ear.attention How could you Not do a whole show on Hendrix & this album? Essentially, it would’ve been impossible to do it any justice I mean, you could do a whole show on each song breaking down & dissecting each one! Experimentations expanding tech with Marshall’s & Fender plus the effects were all brand new then cutting edge tech too nobody had a crybaby wah wah with a big muff distortion sounding production “Castles made of sand”. Your description of t It was hard to top Jimi Hendrix 🎸not until Van Halen came out. Did anyone even come close to setting a new standard?

[@badbrad]

Very well said.....

[@bluetopguitar1104]

Right with you on this. I wasn't aware until after Jimi was gone. I wasn't aware of rock radio until 1972...it was all beatles before that. We wore the grooves out on the electric ladyland album. Had the first two also. Cry of love was still pretty decent. Eddie Kramer and Mitch knew pretty much what Jimi wanted. I look at Chuck berry as the first guitar hero, jimi hendrix was the guy that broke the mold. I would say Van Halen as the next pioneer but Jimi invented a lot of it and made it possible. The guys in my band in high school thought I was crazy for playing the national anthem but everyone loved it. Not to mention the incredible tone and feel he had, even through a crappy car radio. He's my number one Guitar God. Maybe Jeff Beck is the only one who is anywhere near him on the pantheon of guitar heroes. I would show my young guitar students footage from the rainbow bridge concerts. They couldn't believe how cool he looked and his mastery of the guitar.

[@badbrad]

Man you know!!!

[@jasonlee8497]

That's a good one. I loved Electric Ladyland. I love them all, but that and Band of Gypsys blew my mind. I could go on and on...

[@badbrad]

Man you know!

[@SeeCSeesCC]

❤ Plus, you know I’m Pacific Northwest, born and raised and in my town Hendrix cousins went to my school

[@badbrad]

That is awesome!

[@SeeCSeesCC]

@ in my area, Jimi was known to have jammed in his early days with many of the local players. We had a treasure trove of musicians in the Pacific Northwest, Brad.

[@badbrad]

@@SeeCSeesCC wow .....I can imagine!

[@Peter7966]

It's the late 60s. I'm just getting into more progressive rock music. I hear about this guitar player who's lighting it up... literally. So, I wander down to my local record store, hoping to find his record. Funny thing, I couldn't remember his name. As soon as I get into the store, the first record I spot is it... Are You Experienced. Me... not yet. I buy it and get home, put it on the turntable and it starts. It was like my musical world went from black and white to full color, Kansas to Oz. Jimi Hendrix was a shaman in disguise.

[@badbrad]

Man I love to hear about that first time hearing Jimi!

[@wolfie322]

Definitely the master of assault guitar, totally awesome even by today's standards. I heard one of his techs picked up his guitar during soundcheck the feedback and volume was so loud he couldn't make any recognizable notes I don't know if that's true or not.

[@josephharris1869]

One more for from the road - Skynyrd- Allen Collins-Steve Gains - Gary Rossington- that record changed my life

[@badbrad]

Had that on cassette...great record but didn't hit me like Jimi.

[@MaxDolluz]

Not to mention, Jimi looked really cool all the time. Most black dudes looked like the temtations at the time. Great video Brad

[@badbrad]

He had it all....

[@SeeCSeesCC]

❤I’m awful partial to Band of Gypsys.

[@badbrad]

Great record....

[@jacklbrt]

I bought "Are You Experienced" and "Axis:Bold As Love" when they first came out in 1967 and '68 when I was 11,12 years old. Playing along with those records is how I first started learning to play guitar. I dreamed of becoming the "white Jimi Hendrix" 😂

[@badbrad]

Man that’s awesome you were playing along to those records!

[@bpatts1652]

Nice job on your version of 3rd Stone !

[@badbrad]

Thank you!

[@bpatts1652]

I had it on cassette also … I was about 14👍

[@badbrad]

👍🏻 right on

[@robertbuffalo8287]

My top 3 Albums before Van Halen., Deep Purple (Made in Japan), Rush (first album before Neil Pert), and UFO (Strangers in the Night live). Did not find Jimi until later.

[@badbrad]

Right on!

[@thefuneralparade]

In my opinion...if anyone can't see the MAGICK of HENDRIX upon first look,listen...etc.then they don't have much hope as a person...Hendrix is undeniable.severely awesome and full of feedback.but it RULES.plus gotta love my fellow lefthanded brothers.

[@iternityhuman1782]

I never heard ''Third Stone From the Sun'' I just checked it out! To me it sounds like > Free form wild guitar moaning and groaning EFX + Jazzy rhythm + Beatles: Lucy In The Sky + Rush: Bytor And The Snowdogs EFX + Kool & The Gang: Too Hot, bar chord guitar. Van Halen: Intruder. All mixed together in a psychedelic haze! I could imagine what this sounded like way back then........Who0o0oa!

[@badbrad]

Wild isn’t it!

[@richcharvel7162]

Jimi used a cigarette lighter to play the slide part on "Watchtower". "Band Of Gypsys" is my favorite Hendrix LP.

[@badbrad]

Did not know that.

[@jerryhatrick5860]

A gram of mushroom tea, some headphones.. Hendrix , and for me Genesis and then there were three. Laying on the floor with some pillows under my had and knees. One can finaly understand it. The music turns to beautiful colors. And can hear every note and beat of every instrument. Then if I put on heavy metal put country the colors n shapes turn sharp and ugly. But fliyde hendrix Genesis? Beautiful vibrant warm rounder colorful shapes.. I'm not kidding. Reminds me of the water experiment with music being played as the water freezes. I'd rather use naturals than chemicles. Lsd was fun, Florida had the best but once I tried cow patty gourmet naturaly flying saucers it changedy life. I no longer needed them , I can access that dimension through music.. Travers is coming to a small venue in Saratoga Springs.. In February. Don't wanna miss it.

[@badbrad]

Wow

[@thebadcat69]

I like Hendrix, I never loved him. I like his rhythm playing more than his lead playing. I know I'm crazy. I got into the guys that influenced him, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, etc... My favorite Hendrix tune is Crosstown Traffic.

[@badbrad]

👍🏻

[@deandavisusa]

At one of his last live concerts, Jimi asked the audience if anyone had the answer to Life to come and speak with him after the show... sadly, no one came to see him... if he had been told simply, John 3:16-17. He was dead shortly afterward...

[@badbrad]

Man that is heavy.

[@jerryhatrick5860]

Imagine being on stage at woodstock playing to all those people and your guitar neck turns into a snake and you have to keep playing lmao. Who was that? Santana? Or hendrix it happened to... I forgot.

[@badbrad]

Santana!!!

[@jerryhatrick5860]

It was Carlos Santana yup.

[@terrygrady7683]

That SG sounds so clear. Led Zep 1....telecaster. He did vocals at the same time and he played bass on the records. He also had the longest fingers in the business. He could bar with his thumb. Are you kidding? The Beatles aren't the greatest band of all time because of lead breaks.