Jimi Hendrix Band Of Gypsies / Machine Gun: Fillmore East 1970. Perhaps the greatest guitar performance of all time. Don't know it it's true or not, but I read where Bill Graham, the...

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Fillmore East 1970. Perhaps the greatest guitar performance of all time. Don't know it it's true or not, but I read where Bill Graham, the owner of the Fillmore got on Jimi's case about too much showmanship and not being serious about his guitar playing. This was Jimi's reaction to that. Notice how restrained he is visually. The very next set at the Fillmore, Jimi stuck his tongue out at Graham and went right back to his usual showmanship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxFW5F87xK8&t=3s

SparkyNYC Loc: NYC & Coconut Creek,Fl

I thank you for the clip.
I did get to see Hendrix and the Experience live at the Fillmore East.
They shared the bill with Sly and the Family Stone .
It was the late show, on a Friday night, I got my ticket on the street right before the show.
Those were the days, being a young adult in NYC and spending numerous week-end nights at the Fillmore.
Bill Graham was one egotistical person.

Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

The Aardvark Is Ready wrote:

Fillmore East 1970. Perhaps the greatest guitar performance of all time. Don't know it it's true or not, but I read where Bill Graham, the owner of the Fillmore got on Jimi's case about too much showmanship and not being serious about his guitar playing. This was Jimi's reaction to that. Notice how restrained he is visually. The very next set at the Fillmore, Jimi stuck his tongue out at Graham and went right back to his usual showmanship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxFW5F87xK8&t=3s

I still enjoy listening to Jimi play "The Star Spangled Banner" and morph into "Purple Haze", even after 50 years of not being high :-) He was the best!

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SparkyNYC wrote:

I thank you for the clip.
I did get to see Hendrix and the Experience live at the Fillmore East.
They shared the bill with Sly and the Family Stone .
It was the late show, on a Friday night, I got my ticket on the street right before the show.
Those were the days, being a young adult in NYC and spending numerous week-end nights at the Fillmore.
Bill Graham was one egotistical person.

I saw Hendrix at the Baltimore Civic Center. Not quite historic as the Fillmore. LOL. On the bill were Cat Mother, Rhinocerous. A couple bands that faded into obscurity.

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Ava'sPapa wrote:

I still enjoy listening to Jimi play "The Star Spangled Banner" and morph into "Purple Haze", even after 50 years of not being high :-) He was the best!

Thanks for the info

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

He was a great innovator. He has been far surpassed in talent by many of today's players, however. That doesn't make him any less great.

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kpmac wrote:

He was a great innovator. He has been far surpassed in talent by many of today's players, however. That doesn't make him any less great.

We will have to agree to disagree on that my friend.

sheebe2 Loc: Lake Isabella, CA

Red house was redone sometime ago. Slash, Robbie Robertson and Boz Scaggs. I saw Hendrix I was 11 years old. My sister knew Randy Hanson and his band turned to the Jimi Hendrix Experiment. I was lucky to have met him.

bcheary Loc: Jacksonville, FL

The Aardvark Is Ready wrote:

Fillmore East 1970. Perhaps the greatest guitar performance of all time. Don't know it it's true or not, but I read where Bill Graham, the owner of the Fillmore got on Jimi's case about too much showmanship and not being serious about his guitar playing. This was Jimi's reaction to that. Notice how restrained he is visually. The very next set at the Fillmore, Jimi stuck his tongue out at Graham and went right back to his usual showmanship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxFW5F87xK8&t=3s

Jimmy was something else!

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sheebe2 wrote:

Red house was redone sometime ago. Slash, Robbie Robertson and Boz Scaggs. I saw Hendrix I was 11 years old. My sister knew Randy Hanson and his band turned to the Jimi Hendrix Experiment. I was lucky to have met him.

Wow, believe it or not, I had never heard of Randy Hanson before your post. I googled him and come to find out he did part of the soundtrack for my favorite movie of all time, Apocalypse Now. I always thought his parts reminded me of Hendrix.

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bcheary wrote:

Jimmy was something else!

A funny story. When I was in basic training in 69, a couple of us would play Hendrix for the black guys in our troop. They all said "I ain't listening to that white shit." We humored them for awhile and finally showed them the cover of his first album. Man, they loved the afro hair, the wild clothes and were hooked. Music is universal.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

sheebe2 wrote:

Red house was redone sometime ago. Slash, Robbie Robertson and Boz Scaggs. I saw Hendrix I was 11 years old. My sister knew Randy Hanson and his band turned to the Jimi Hendrix Experiment. I was lucky to have met him.

Red House is my 'go to' Jimi this century.

campyboy1 Loc: vancouver Washington

I don't know if you people have ever heard of Eddy Money, before he became musician, he was NYPD police officer and he arrested Bill Graham one time and when Eddy was performing in San Franisco Bay Area he walked up to Bill Graham and asked him if he remembers him arresting him and Bill told him he didn't remember it.

jccash Loc: Longwood, Florida

The Aardvark Is Ready wrote:

Fillmore East 1970. Perhaps the greatest guitar performance of all time. Don't know it it's true or not, but I read where Bill Graham, the owner of the Fillmore got on Jimi's case about too much showmanship and not being serious about his guitar playing. This was Jimi's reaction to that. Notice how restrained he is visually. The very next set at the Fillmore, Jimi stuck his tongue out at Graham and went right back to his usual showmanship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxFW5F87xK8&t=3s

I’m happy I got to see him and Janis Joplin a couple times. One concert with Jenna. She got arrested in Tampa for cussing out the cops with all the young people try to jump up on the stage.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

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We will have to agree to disagree on that my friend.

I'll agree with you there. Jimi Hendrix was a unique artist and innovator. The only pedal back then was the wah-wah, he did a LOT with 'primitive' equipment and influenced generations of musicians. He and Miles Davis planned to record together. I'd like to have heard Jimi cover Dylan's ''Not Dark Yet". For my money, it could've be another "All Along the Watchtower"

... and Prince's, all too brief, Half Time nod to Jimi and Watchtower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twa3oiqOdOE