Posted on 05/30/2016 4:51:51 PM PDT by Mariner
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But it's the reason Hendrix came to be known as the greatest guitar player of all time.
The other two are3 the Stones Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out and Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East, there this jewel was recorded.
Thank you. Jimi’s 1969 New Year’s Eve concert is probably the single greatest recording of live rock guitar, ever. To this very day, I’ve never heard anyone do what he did that night. It was transcendent.
IMO, Jimi's most soulful and expressive live gig EVER.
Can’t remember which song, but he even said “thank you” at the end with his guitar and it sounded like “thank you”.
“Can’t remember which song, but he even said “thank you” at the end with his guitar and it sounded like “thank you”.”
I think that might be Message Of Love, but it’s been awhile since I played the whole album.
And Miles was an actual percussionist. Noel Redding was not.
“...amazing to see that Jimi is standing still almost the entire time.”
There’s a back-story to that.
Bill Graham, the owner of the Filmore East, thought that the occasion was so important (last day of the 1960s), and that Jimi was such an icon of the times, that it would be fitting for Jimi to forgo his usual stage act to concentrate on giving the world his best possible artistic performance.
Jimi at first balked at the idea, but Bill Graham eventually convinced him to commemorate the occasion in that way. Obviously, Graham’s idea bore fruit, as the recording can attest.
It’s been said that, after the set was over and the band retired backstage for a break, Jimi walked up to Graham and said, “You happy, mother****er?”
I’ve always taken that last bit with a grain of salt. Jimi was well known for being exceedingly polite and gentlemanly in person.
“Miles was an actual percussionist. Noel Redding was not.”
I think you mean Mitch Mitchell. Noel was the bass player.
He and Buddy Miles may have had very different styles, but Mitch was no slouch. He was a jazz drummer before joining the Experience, and had more formal music training than Jimi and Noel put together. In their early days, Mitch just about rewrote the book on rock drumming.
Its a lot better known now than say 10 years ago. Still not as much airplay as it should. All 3 of the albums you mentioned are fantastic. Check out The Who Live at Leeds, 1970. A really great album. And I’m not a huge Who fan but that one is awesome, double album. They really had their chops down having toured non-stop for years leading into that concert. Obviously a burst of great live stuff in that short period of time.
For years I had my alarm set to wake me up to “They Don’t Know”. Energizing groove to wake up with. Buddy Miles drumming is fantastic, like a soloist drummer to fill in behind Jimmy’s guitar. And clearly its a lot funkier than his work with The Experience, with Bassist Billy Cox leading the opening grooves, but Jimmy’s guitar kept pushing the limits of rock and roll. Buddy Miles was very well known and pushed for more exposute and it worked out great in the end, leading vocals on 3 great tracks (all the tracks are great imo!) and he’s even better singing backup to Jimmy on most of the others.
PS I believe the first BoG album was also recorded at Fillmore East.
“Check out The Who Live at Leeds, 1970. A really great album. And I’m not a huge Who fan but that one is awesome, double album”
Actually LAL was a single disc, Tommy was the double LP. Of course 30 years later when the remastered full length CD of the concert was release it became evident that Decca had their heads up their rear to not have released at least a double LP in 1970
OK I wikipedia’d and learned that the reissue added more tracks. I never owned a hard copy only a digital download. With the added tracks and for reasons I will explain, I assumed it was a double album. But I am still fairly confident it came as a 2-record release at some point since a buddy of mine bought an LP a few years ago, used and beaten up, but it only came with the second album which had tracks from Tommy on it. The reason this sticks in my mind is because when I played him the first “side” (the side with Heaven & Hell as the opener) he was blown away, having not heard it. So I’ll take your word for it, since I don’t know for sure and its possible he bought a re-issue version on LP. I’ll try to dig into it deeper.
Allman Brothers live at the Fillmore is absolutely one of the best, but picking the top three of that era, at the Fillmore, just isn't possible because you've left out Derek and the Dominoes and Humble Pie. No way any list of enduring live albums from NYC in '70 &'71 can exclude them. I'd suggest going with a top 5.
Live at Leeds was reissued as a double LP. The second disc had a lot of live Tommy material. Highly worthwhile.
I consider LAL the seminal Punk Rock album.
Mitch was a faaaaaarrrrr better drummer than Buddy Miles ever thought of being. Jimi himself grew tired of Buddy’s yodeling, one of the biggest daggers into the BOG, Jimi just didn’t care for Buddy on drums but was doing it for the black community power thing....
and on the Bill Graham story story at NYE. Jimi played two shows that night, the first one was all out Jimi with all the stops. At the end of the show Graham says yeah you did everything but actually play the guitar, how about trying that. So in the second (midnight) show is when he stood motionless and just wailed. The live recording of Machine Gun was from the 2nd performance.
Still the best ever. Sure there are guys out there now who can play faster or “better” or whatever but Jimi was the full package and had masterful control over all his elements.
Sometimes when I have time to kill and nothing to do I think alternate reality situations and my big dream would be go to back and save Hendrix from his death in London but then whisk him away to a secret hidden studio bunker equipped with modern technology. Give Jimi a locking tremolo, a modern effects rack, Pro Tools, etc, and lock him up for a few years to just clean life up and produce music that would be light years away.
We can dream cant we....
thanks for posting
Love your thoughts and input to the conversation.
Yeah, I know that Jimi played two sets that night. I’ve got the recordings of both. I listened to the alternate set a few times, but could never get into it. It can’t even pretend to hold a candle to the legendary one.
Boy, wouldn’t we both love to go back in time to save Jimi’s life. It would have been so easy, too. If his girlfriend had snuck out to go shopping that morning, Jimi would still be with us today. He would have had an awful morning, throwing up all over himself, but he would have lived.
He’d be 73 today, and though his groundbreaking days would be long behind him, you know he’d still be performing. He lived by the bluesman’s code, so he would have played til the end of his days.
Last year I saw Robin Trower play. After the show I got him to autograph the cover of my 1974 print of Bridge of Sighs. I got to shake the hand of my second favorite guitarist in the world that night, and thank him in person for the gift of his music. I only wish I could have done the same with Jimi.
Well you are right, but I guess I was too, lol
I agree with the Humble Pie assertion. It was a seminal live recording and the last with both Marriot and Frampton.
The Dominoes recording not so much as they did not have Duane All man at that show and he was integral to their original soun .
Other guitarists play, Jimi created.
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