The Jimi Hendrix Experience at Monterey

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Here's a minute-by-minute account of a seismic event in rock guitar history: The Jimi Hendrix Experience making its American debut at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival. To help convey the magnitude of Jimi's performance, I've done a deep dive into the research and embedded film and audio of his set. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!

The Jimi Hendrix Experience at Monterey

#jimihendrix #jimihendrixexperience #thewho #rockguitar #likearollingstone #wildthing #talkingguitar #jasobrecht
 
Story of my life.
NOW we are talkin’ THE man.
I’m more a Band Of Gypsy’s “Machine Gun””
24/7 kinda picker these days
 
I absorbed many facets of Jimi Hendrix's style of his playing .
Back in the early 1980's, I used Hendrix's triad fret work to essentially master Yngwie Malmsteen's arpeggio fret work from headstock to the body .

Hendrix is beyond relavent today .
 
The live footage from Stockholm Sweden, 1969:



and RAH 1969:



are some of my favs. Jimi makes mastery look effortless IMO
 
Diary of a Axeman said:
I absorbed many facets of Jimi Hendrix's style of his playing .
Back in the early 1980's, I used Hendrix's triad fret work to essentially master Yngwie Malmsteen's arpeggio fret work from headstock to the body .

Hendrix is beyond relavent today .
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:ROFLMAO: keep dreamin' dude. you're another nobody like many of us. what exactly did you add to what Jimi did? Maybe you're EVH or Tim Henson?

edit: Yngwie J. Malmsteen is a zit on Jimi's dead ass
 
Jas O said:
Here's a minute-by-minute account of a seismic event in rock guitar history: The Jimi Hendrix Experience making its American debut at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival. To help convey the magnitude of Jimi's performance, I've done a deep dive into the research and embedded film and audio of his set. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!

The Jimi Hendrix Experience at Monterey

#jimihendrix #jimihendrixexperience #thewho #rockguitar #likearollingstone #wildthing #talkingguitar #jasobrecht
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He was on fire at Monterey! Many minds were blown that gig for sure.

Can’t wait to read this Jas. Thanks…
 
rsm said:
:ROFLMAO: keep dreamin' dude. you're another nobody like many of us. what exactly did you add to what Jimi did? Maybe you're EVH or Tim Henson?

edit: Yngwie J. Malmsteen is a zit on Jimi's dead ass
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So much anger. Perhaps, you shout practice instead of being a Troll.
I never stated anything insinuating that I was this or that.
Then again, you could be Jack White ??
 
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Jas O said:
Here's a minute-by-minute account of a seismic event in rock guitar history: The Jimi Hendrix Experience making its American debut at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival. To help convey the magnitude of Jimi's performance, I've done a deep dive into the research and embedded film and audio of his set. I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!

The Jimi Hendrix Experience at Monterey

#jimihendrix #jimihendrixexperience #thewho #rockguitar #likearollingstone #wildthing #talkingguitar #jasobrecht
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I had a School Councilor that told me he hung out with Jimi back stage and witnessed the Pete Townsend/ Jimi arguement of who was going on first .
I seen the whole film, when I seen him hanging out with Janis Joplin and Mamma Cass .

After Hendrix, the modern Guitar God was born.
 
I almost bought a pair of Jimi’s trouser’s one time.
A man, Michael Braun was one of Jimi’s main
clothing designers.
They would have needed too much alteration
and I couldn’t justify the cost & risk factor.
Michael did a US tour with loads of Jimi’s clothing
& memorabilia he designed,
and all kinds of RAD memorabilia
I got to Michaels show in Tampa, Florida about 15
minutes late and they dead bolt the doors and had all windows covered up.
I knew this before I went so…
I had to break out my most LETHAL get-up.
Made Prince look like a crab fisherman just getting back to the docks.
The doors were locked, I knocked and someone stuck an eyeball through the tiny metal door window..,
-then suddenly Michael opens the door looks me over and says “Yes, definitely” and opened the door high & wide.
Michael is a creatively detail orientated man.
Groovy fuckin’ dude man.
I have photo’s of all this and photo’s of a 60 foot mural I had a super-rad 4D artist perform on my house back in sunny Florida.
My favorite part of the mural was the section with Hendrix sitting down with his Monterey burnt guitar
listening to a vinyl record with Kurdt’ Cobain
sitting with his “unplugged” acoustic electric guitar..
The question I always asked people after they ‘came to’ was:
“What record do you think they were listening to?”
 
Diary of a Axeman said:
So much anger. Perhaps, you shout practice instead of being a Troll.
I never stated anything insinuating that I was this or that.
Then again, you could be Jack White ??
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Anger, hardly. More accurate description would be incredulity.

I'm not the one who claimed mastery of Hendrix to then master Malmsteen. Nothing more than derivative mimicry unless you do something new and different. Many have copied and learned Hendrix, few have done anything innovative with it, myself included - as I stated, but you were too busy being butthurt when I asked what you did with your knowledge and mastery. I never claimed any such mastery, you did.

Call it trolling if you want, it's all just opinion.
 
rsm said:
Anger, hardly. More accurate description would be incredulity.

I'm not the one who claimed mastery of Hendrix to then master Malmsteen. Nothing more than derivative mimicry unless you do something new and different. Many have copied and learned Hendrix, few have done anything innovative with it, myself included - as I stated, but you were too busy being butthurt when I asked what you did with your knowledge and mastery. I never claimed any such mastery, you did.

Call it trolling if you want, it's all just opinion.
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All one has to do, is practice and you could equal the ones you like the most .... many have done that, anyone can do it,.... unless you're Wes Borland, Head or Monkey, Jack White or just using the guitar as prop to look cool .
 
@Diary of a Axeman copying and mimicking aren't special, creating something new is special. Hendrix was an original, many still copy him. Technical skills don't equal innovation. Those who do something new are rare.
 
Diary of a Axeman said:
All one has to do, is practice and you could equal the ones you like the most .... many have done that, anyone can do it,.... unless you're Wes Borland, Head or Monkey, Jack White or just using the guitar as prop to look cool .
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I'd love to hear your mastery of the Hendrix style.
 
CarlF said:
I'd love to hear your mastery of the Hendrix style.
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It's called dedication and practice .... trust me, it's not a practice regiment, it's a Musical Journey .
 
Jimi would finish a gig and then go jam at another club with some random guys till sun up. He just loved to play anything with anyone and always played what he felt. You can practice 10 million hrs and you still wont play exactly like Jimi. He was sloppy, out of tune a lot and nowadays there a lot of teenagers that have technical skills that he would be baffled by. Would he care?? Doubt it.... From recording tracks backwards to using Kazoos.....There is a reason he is so revered as an icon. Either ya get it or ya dont.
 
Hendrix was the man. A lot of firsts with that guy. Easy now for people to dissect his playing, etc but he was doing insane things on the guitar but also singing, creating layers of sound, etc. As loud and over-the-top as his playing was, his softer playing would come thru at the right time.

I was starstruck in Seattle when I got to see his outfits, guitars, and amps in the Experience Museum. Was so cool.

Hendrix isn't an Yngwie or an EVH, etc. He was flashy in his playing but that isn't where his genius is in my opinion. It is how he used the notes. My favorite period is the early stuff with the British sound, etc
 
Diary of a Axeman said:
It's called dedication and practice .... trust me, it's not a practice regiment, it's a Musical Journey .
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Yes, I've been doing that since 1970. Congrats on avoiding my question. It answered itself anyay. Once a bragger is asked for any recorded examples of their efforts, they run with their tail between their legs.
 
phil b said:
Jimi would finish a gig and then go jam at another club with some random guys till sun up. He just loved to play anything with anyone and always played what he felt. You can practice 10 million hrs and you still wont play exactly like Jimi. He was sloppy, out of tune a lot and nowadays there a lot of teenagers that have technical skills that he would be baffled by. Would he care?? Doubt it.... From recording tracks backwards to using Kazoos.....There is a reason he is so revered as an icon. Either ya get it or ya dont.
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That reminds me of the only time I saw SRV, he played Riverfest in St Paul then after the show we went into downtown Mpls; stopped at Bunkers and next thing you know a huge cheer erupts and SRV jumps on the stage with the local band, Hoopsnakes I think. Pretty awesome.
 
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