Unlocking Jimi Hendrix's Pre-Fame Tone!

[@georgedavidson5789]

Lots of fighting about who was better, I love them all EVH, SRV, JH, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, BB King, all guitarist who made great music, I think they all had/have their place in guitar playing history! ❤

[@nicholasgargano7396]

Bravo. Your channel is incredible, documenting Hendrix is so important.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot. Hopefully more people come to watch - it’s about keeping the legacy alive ✌️🎸

[@arjanbohm5697]

What a nice lecture, Mikel ! I never heard about this period of Jimi’s career. What a joy and very precious that you pay attention to this phase in Jimi’s musical and artistic life 🙏 Mikel, you are a hero and please keep doing this footage about Jimi. The world needs more Hendrix 🥰

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks so much for your kind words. Most people overlook this period, because Jimi wasn’t soloing that much and he had to play what the bandleaders expected. BUT, listening closely to the songs and licks…there’s already so much to discover in its beginning that later became part of Jimi’s signature moves. Even the song names, partly 😉🎸☮️

[@TheYMCA1980]

Not only a Twin reverb was in Jimi’s gear. But he played his Stratocaster throught a Fender Bassman as well.

[@MikelBluni]

That’s generally correct, but it was another period 😉

[@askburlefot2645]

Have always loved Jimi's pre-fame tone! Great post. Thanks.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot ✌️🎸

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot ✌️🎸

[@JoeMasse-e4b]

People talk about VanHalen, like he was untouchable, but think what a monster player Jimi would have become, if he didn't pass at 27 ? If Jimi lived he would have taken the guitar places Eddie could only dream of, and that's the truth!

[@connshawnery6489]

Jimi accomplished higher feats if you think about it. Remember, Hendrix only released only 3 studio albums during his lifetime while he was alive, and his guitar playing, sound, voice, songbook and creative legacy as a singular figure have had an astonishing impact and influence on the world. Nearly 100 albums have been released since his death for a man with a 4 year history as a recording artist. Hendrix is simply in his own league.

[@AndyMangele]

That's YOUR truth!

[@TeleCaster66]

Hendrix took it further than anyone. Nobody has ever played as loose and free as Hendrix. It was like the guitar was part of his body.

[@Gimi.Endrics]

For over 50 years, the mainstream has tried to discredit Jimi Hendrix and elevate other guitarists, including Van Halen. While there may be several reasons for this, they haven't succeeded. Those who have never played an instrument have been brainwashed by the mainstream into believing that Van Halen is the greatest. However, the reality is quite different. Van Halen is, in fact, one of the weakest guitarists in rock history. He built a 40-year career on just three iconic solos, and never ventured into blues or jazz. He rarely collaborated with other musicians and never released a solo album. His improvisational skills were lacking, and he relied heavily on techniques like tapping, which existed before him, to simplify his playing. Before making judgments based on mainstream opinion, people should learn to think for themselves.

[@siriusra2692]

..can you image how Jimi would've used the tapping technique...and the different ways he would've used it in a blues

[@Gimi.Endrics]

Mikel, Hendrix incorporated the wah-wah pedal into his sound while playing with Curtis Knight. Listen to songs like Hush Now, Love Love, and Happy Birthday to hear it in action.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for mentioning 👍I’ve heard that in the recordings, but it cannot be a pedal Wah as it wasn‘t on the market at that time. It’s a studio filter / hand Wah. That’s the reason why I did not incorporate it in this video ✌️🎸

[@Gimi.Endrics]

@@MikelBluni Based on my research, Brad Plunkett developed a prototype wah-wah pedal in 1966, which is widely regarded as the first of its kind.

[@cliffhanger8170]

That was awesome. Thanks for sharing

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks ✌️🎸

[@NivraeEarvin]

Ganz großes Kino! Danke, Mikel! 😁

[@MikelBluni]

Allerbesten Dank ✌️🎸 Schön, dass Dir das Video gefällt ☮️

[@NivraeEarvin]

@@MikelBluni Ich war kein großer Freund von Hendrix, aber dieses Video gehört zu den Besten, die ich je über Jimi Hendrix gesehen habe. Ehrlich, ziehe den Hut vor dir!

[@MikelBluni]

@@NivraeEarvin Vielen Dank. Videos dieser Art findest du en Masse auf meinem Kanal. Viel Spaß beim Schauen ✌️💯

[@JDStone20]

OH!! THIS IS SO AWESOME!! I love listening to West Coast Seattle Boy 1-4, I live right down the freeway in Portland, so Seattle is like our big brother city. I love early Hendrix stuff, you can still hear his style it is amazing, just his sound changed on the first album, but he really went crazily insane with his sonic range after "Are You Experienced?"!!!!

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot for your feedback and input ✌️🎸

[@aussfish9995]

Great video great playing

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot ✌️🎸

[@aminahmed2220]

Awesome video Mikel have a great weekend also I have lost my voice from a cold and also happy first week of December ❤😊😢

[@kp905]

Another awesome vid mikel. Keep up the great work. P.s. would it be possible to get a vid breakdown of jimis voodoo child maui performance. More specifically the solos. There is hardly any info online of that performance and even the footage used during the first solo is arranged to where its nearly impossible to make out what hes actually doing. Id even be willing to sponser a video on that topic. Let me know if thats something that interest you. Or if you have info on where i can go to find out more about that performance. Thanks mikel have a great day.

[@CorbCorbin]

One of the myriad reasons, that I’ve always loved the Maui show, even on a terrible transfer, from a leaked recording, is how even after over 25 years, I still find things that I didn’t hear before, especially if I’m trying to play some of those leads and rhythms. Jimi was improvising constantly, so I try to get the feel, of the version of a different live or studio recording, and some of the lead lines, to throw out, along with my own thing.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen any detailed info on that particular solo ✌️🎸

[@billtice5057]

Another great video Mikel!

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot ✌️🎸

[@trevorgwelch7412]

I have many original old Jimi Hendrix LP's... Including a Stage Pass

[@MikelBluni]

Sounds great. So you probably like the pre-fame stuff ✌️🎸

[@frankieconcepcion7860]

This is aweomse!

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks! I’m happy you enjoy it. I think Jimi’s early phase is really interesting ✌️🎸

[@Inspector-71]

No matter what rig he was using, Jimi still sounds like Jimi

[@MikelBluni]

That is absolutely true ✌️🎸

[@DredgenX]

thanks so much and great video! Ive been a Jimi fan for 20 years and Ive never heard about his connection to the jazzmaster this much! I love the jazzmaster sound, especially the neck pickup is great for shredding blues it sounds like the neck pickup on the strat for example. Lots of really cool bands have the jazzmaster sound but Im kinda sad Jimi didnt record with the jazzmaster more, its obvious he recorded with the strat way more because of the tone in my opinion i may be wrong. do you know any songs he recorded with a jazzmaster? my fave is thurston moore love his jazzmaster tones.

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot. His bond with the Jazzmaster was strong. It’s a beautiful and totally underestimated guitar. There’s a recording Jimi Hendrix and Curtis Knight live at George’s Club which is likely a Jazzmaster. Further on the Seattle Boy Box most of the pre-fame tracks on there are recorded with a JM ✌️🎸

[@DredgenX]

@@MikelBluni THANKS! 🎸

[@ManlaySound]

There are some pics of him playing a sunburst Fender Duo-sonic with Curtis Knight and also a picture of him playing a white Duo-sonic with the Isley Brothers.

[@MikelBluni]

Yes that’s another guitar he shortly played. I’ve concentrated on the Jazzmaster as this was his main guitar of choice for many occasions ✌️🎸

[@arjanbohm5697]

You also mentioned the fact that Jimi dimed the volume at the twin reverb amp to 10 in the magic 6 settings. But I am wondering if that was deadly loud and schrill when using a twin reverb 🥴 I was just wondering if that is correct as it is known when you dime the volume of a twin all band members are going nuts and deaf 😳

[@MikelBluni]

It’s deadly loud but not shrill at all. Natural compression does its job. Dining the amp depends on the venue size. Back in the days mostly vocals came through the PA, so an amp still had to be loud enough ✌️🎸

[@larryjackson6075]

I like your guitar playing, and I rarely compliment guitar players. What is the best way to get Hendrix's tone, and what scales did Hendrix blend together?

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot. You are touching a big topic…for the tone, well it’s mainly in his way of playing and his style, then there is his setup on which you find lots of details in my videos. Regarding scales…I’d say pentatonic and here and there some dorian (rarely) ✌️🎸

[@goerfton77]

Is all the breakup coming from the twin? That must be loud in that room. Amazing playing btw

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot. Yes, all you hear comes from the Twin ✌️🎸

[@peterward9446]

Thanx for this - I've always wondered about Jimi's "back-story" - as an interesting aside the "birth" of fuzz happened when Marty Robbins recorded 'Don't Worry' in Nashville 1960, on which bassist Grady Martin played through a broken channel of the Langevin tube mixing board, resulting in an overdriven bass solo that recording engineer Glen Snoddy loved and refused to fix. This eventually led Snoddy to create his own fuzztone prototype, a three-transistor circuit utilizing Germanium 2N270s which he brought to the attention of the Gibson guitar company in 1962. This prototype became the Maestro Fuzz-Tone FZ-1, the world's first commercially available fuzz pedal - here's the original inspiration: ref. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2O6c3WZfZuChrc

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks for your feedback and the highly interesting input on the Fuzz story ✌️🎸

[@siriusra2692]

..........during late 65 to 66 forward......i believe Jimi was starting to modify his Fender amps to get more break up....more distortion.....he was getting more of a Marshall like sound out of his fender amps.....how he was achieving that is a mystery....... maybe he was using special tube or some kind of boost with the fuzz.......i believe Jimi was already modifying his signal chain

[@MikelBluni]

Interesting! Especially on that Little Richard song I presented the overdrive is a bit stronger that with a dimed Twin. To me it sounds like a compressor, maybe from the studio console. I’ve added some to my recording and came very close to the recorded sound ✌️🎸

[@Raj-b2q1x]

STELLAR guitar playing!

[@MikelBluni]

Thanks a lot. Actually, it was quite challenging ✌️🎸

[@CorbCorbin]

To the question “Can you imagine Jimi’s reaction…” I just am say Yeah-uh!!

[@MikelBluni]

It must have blown him away literally! Those Jazzmaster Pickups, the dimed Twin…perfect ground for a Fuzz like pedal. Even I was highly surprised and overwhelmed by the sound…. Couldn’t stop playing it 😀🎸💯

[@CorbCorbin]

@@MikelBluni Yeah, it sounds excellent. I really was digging how you dialed in the amp tone. Worked very well. It makes since why he went to, and stuck with, the Arbiter, once he played them, and was able to have his amp tone, the Fuzz at high volume, and then that cleanup at lower guitar volume. I used to wonder if he ever played the Mk1.5 Tone Benders, but I’m sure he likely did, being so into gear, but he had someone building him a very similar circuit, and would modify them too.

[@MikelBluni]

@@CorbCorbin Thanks a lot Corb! Yeah it was absolutely clear, why the Fuzz flashed him 😀🎸