Hendrix - live

[I-am-the-reverend]

Yeah I know.

But I'm old enough (just) to remember him but not old enough to have seen him. There are lots of videos of him, Noel and Mitch playing, most of which I've seen. But this IMHO is the best yet. Noel was a solid bassist but Mitchell was an insanely good drummer. They've all passed on alas.

Do enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Ue55muT_Y&li...

[MCBrowncoat]

Why the fk are those wkers at Experience Hendrix sitting on this when they've remastered it and it's ready to go and was actually screened way back in 2019? In fact, that's why most of the clips of this exist on YT, because some fker filmed it on their phone in the screening, complete with the classic silhouettes of people in the audience standing up and getting in the way of the shot

It drives me nuts!

aholes

[dandarez]

I saw him twice, first at Newbury Plaza in Feb 1967, and again on the last day at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. The best thing about both events, especially the latter was the cost - Newbury was 7/6d but the Isle of Wight was just 3 quid for the whole weekend Fri/Sat/Sun (we turned up on Wed, that and Thurs were free!
How much is rip-off Glasto these days?

Talking of 'Free' that's who I'd gone to see, plus the Moody Blues who were superb, and the Doors, not so much.

Of course, within a couple weeks or so later he (Hendrix) was dead.

[MCBrowncoat]

dandarez said:

I saw him twice, first at Newbury Plaza in Feb 1967, and again on the last day at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. The best thing about both events, especially the latter was the cost - Newbury was 7/6d but the Isle of Wight was just 3 quid for the whole weekend Fri/Sat/Sun (we turned up on Wed, that and Thurs were free!
How much is rip-off Glasto these days?

Talking of 'Free' that's who I'd gone to see, plus the Moody Blues who were superb, and the Doors, not so much.

Of course, within a couple weeks or so later he (Hendrix) was dead.

To be fair to Glastonbury if it was cheap the lineup would be st and the security and facilities would be absolutely non existent, just like they were back in your day. It simply wouldn't exist.

I'd rather it did

[Lotobear]

Mitch is one of my all time favourite drummers - TBH he impressed me as much if not more that Hendrix.

The Hamsters used to do a very good Hendrix show

[vixen1700]

These two clips popped up on my Youtube feed the other evening, not seen them before. Good stuff.

Quite random when you look at the other small number of videos on that particular channel.

[suthol]

Lotobear said:

Mitch is one of my all time favourite drummers - TBH he impressed me as much if not more that Hendrix.

The Hamsters used to do a very good Hendrix show

Indeed, he had wonderful feel and swing he wasn't just a rock and roll basher, for mine one of the best ever

[Roofless Toothless]

I saw Hendrix twice. The first was at The Uppercut Club in East London in 1966. I believe it may have been the one where he wrote Purple Haze backstage. Oddly, I remember that one in black and white!

The second show was definitely in colour - Woburn Abbey in 1968. That was certainly in colour, if you know what I mean.

The strange thing that has occurred to me only recently was that at that time I was so surprised that he was an American guy playing with two of our musicians. The fact he was black didn’t even come into the picture. I think of him more of black music history now than I ever did then.

[sidewinder500]

https://youtu.be/eMREU0528WE?is=9rlbLjx4eNUZH8_S

The bend at 2.32 is awesome

[Panamax]

To be fair, I doubt many people did ever get to see Hendrix play live. His lifetime audience was probably equivalent to a few weeks of a Taylor Swift tour.

As an example, by the time he got on stage at Woodstock on the Monday morning it's reckoned that only 30,000 to 40,000 people were still there to see him (from a weekend crowd c.400,000).

[Warhavernet]

I would think for a 4 year headlining career in the late 1960s Jimi was probably seen by more people who saw The Beatles live, remember he played other big outdoor festivals, Miami, Monterey, Isle of Wight in 1970, in front of an estimated 600 000 crowd.

[I-am-the-reverend]

sidewinder500 said:

https://youtu.be/eMREU0528WE?is=9rlbLjx4eNUZH8_S

The bend at 2.32 is awesome

Impressive.

But I'll raise you this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFfnlYbFEiE&li...

Band of Gypsys(?) - looks like Billy Cox on bass. Is that Mitchell on drums?

[sidewinder500]

I-am-the-reverend said:

sidewinder500 said:

https://youtu.be/eMREU0528WE?is=9rlbLjx4eNUZH8_S

The bend at 2.32 is awesome

Impressive.

But I'll raise you this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFfnlYbFEiE&li...

Band of Gypsys(?) - looks like Billy Cox on bass. Is that Mitchell on drums?

It certainly is

[sidewinder500]

Panamax said:

To be fair, I doubt many people did ever get to see Hendrix play live. His lifetime audience was probably equivalent to a few weeks of a Taylor Swift tour.

As an example, by the time he got on stage at Woodstock on the Monday morning it's reckoned that only 30,000 to 40,000 people were still there to see him (from a weekend crowd c.400,000).

Not so sure, soon after the band was formed in mid 66 they played the first couple of gigs in Munich in November 66 (wrongly called Jimmy Hendrix...) before going to Paris and then having the big bang playing on TV at RSG (aired January 67), from then on he was the hottest ticket until his demise.
My parents were regulars in the (well known) club in Munich back then, the big apple (next to the pn hit house, another well known club back then), they had lots of big names playing there on a regular basis, and in general it was easier to access, cheaper as well, so if you were interested in live music it was quite easy to get to see all these now revered musicians.

As mom and dad were more into Beatles and Stones, they told me it was way too loud and screechy, and he banged his guitar on the ceiling as well, if they only knew...

The pics are from Ulli Handl, one of the last chronicler of 60s Munich.
Feast your eyes!

Edited by sidewinder500 on Monday 9th March 16:27