TEN GUITARISTS TALK ABOUT JIMI HENDRIX

WHAT TEN MUSICIANS SAID ABOUT JIMI HENDRIX : HIS MUSIC, INFLUENCE & LEGACY 00:00. THE MUSICIANS’ MUSICIAN His contributions to guitar rock gained him widespread recognition, establishing his legacy in the annals of history. Hendrix was many musicians, favourite musician. 01:21. ALICE COOPER Alice Cooper recalls Jimi Hendrix was the first person that gave him a joint: 02:10. SIR PAUL McCARTNEY “I admired him so much anyway, he was so accomplished. To think that that album had meant so much to him as to actually do it by the Sunday night, three days after the release. He must have been so into it, because normally it might take a day for rehearsal and then you might wonder whether you’d put it in, but he just opened with it.” 03:42. CARLOS SANTANA “Some people go outside into this absoluteness. I’ve said: ‘Ok, there is no school to teach you that’. For you to ignite yourself like that, you’re literally playing outside your body. Something else is playing you right now, you know. I think that’s why people go to church, because they want that holy ghost to take over you physicality, you mentality. So I cherish that Jimi at that evening showed me that there is way to manifest the highest and the deepest in such a way that it’s not scales and notes anymore. It’s just a whole other kind of frequency. 05:43. ERIC CLAPTON He got up and blew everyone’s mind. I just thought ‘ahh, someone that plays the stuff I love in the flesh, on stage with me. ’I was actually privileged to be (on stage with him)… it’s something that no one is ever going to beat; that incident, that night, it’s historic in my mind but only a few people are alive that would remember it”. 06:57. DAVID GILMOUR “Jimi Hendrix, fantastic. I went to a club in south Kensington in 1966. This kid got on stage with Brian Auger and the Trinity. (He started to play) the guitar with the other way around (upside down) and started playing. Myself and the whole place was with their jaws hanging open.” 08:39. ERIC JOHNSON “Nobody had done anything like what Jimi Hendrix was doing. Hearing him was like seeing a new color or tasting a new food - you don’t have a frame of reference, really, but you know you mind has been altered in some incredible way. 10:21. JERRY GARCIA Garcia was a great admirer of Hendrix’s guitar technique and said, “He was obviously a great musician and a great showman. He was a very special player. He was a genius in his own right.” Garcia also saw Hendrix as a huge influence on his own playing, saying, “Jimi’s influence has been very great on me. It’s like I can always hear him in the back of my mind when I’m playing.” 11:35. JOE SATRIANI “I still can’t believe he did what he did, It’s just freaky,” said Satriani. “Every once in a while I’ll get the courage to listen to Machine Gun, Live at the Fillmore again. Somebody could do that live, you know, it’s absolutely amazing. And that was 1969, you know. Just crazy when you think of the tools that he had, It’s just amazing.” 12:22. KEITH RICHARDS “Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain’t; you’ve got to be a Jimi to do that, you’ve got to be one of the special cats.” 13:36. PETE TOWNSHEND ‘It’s the most psychedelic experience I ever had, going to see Jimi Hendrix play. When he started to play, something changed. It was just so superbly psychedelic . . . I didn’t know what I’s heard and I didn’t know what I’d seen. #jimihendrix #jimihendrixexperience #noelredding #mitchmitchell #celebrity #JanisJoplin #brianjones #jimihendrixlive #heyjoe #purplehaze #likearollingstone #voodoo #voodoochild #voodoochile #rockmusic #wildthing #montereypopfestival #monterey #beatles #sgtpepper #hendrix #rock #rockstar #rockmusic #beatles #celebrity #celebrities #alicecooper #paulmccartney #carlossantana #ericclapton #davidgilmour #ericjohnson #jerrygarcia #joesatriani #keithrichards #petetownshend #woodstock References: ‘Jimi Hendrix – Electric Gypsy’ by Harry Shapiro & Caesar Glebbeek, Heinemann, 1990. ‘CROSSTOWN TRAFFIC: Jimi Hendrix and post-war pop’ by Charles Shaar Murray, Faber & Faber, 1989. Wikipedia COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research.