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Jimi Hendrix best guitar riff and performance?

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited September 2010 in Other Music
i say its gotta be machine gun live, but the woodstock Star Spangled Banner is also mindblowing, its the only version of the national anthem i would ever stand up for.

Whats your pick for top Jimi jam?
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    edited September 2010
    My Favorite is Pali Gap

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgIaLL-i ... re=related
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  • Newch91Newch91 Posts: 17,560
    Hmm...tough one. Machine Gun is awesome. Hear My Train A-Comin' (the few arrangements he has are all great). Red House is one awesome blues number when performed live is something else (check out Isle of Wight performance from 1970). My favorite has to go with the classic Voodoo Chile (Slight Return). The most recognized riff in rock history? I think so. Woodstock version is unbelievable.
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  • boroff89boroff89 Posts: 786
    Voodoo Chile. Picking one with Jimi is ridiculously hard, but if I had to. . .
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I gotta go with 'Little Wing'.
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  • Jokertt14Jokertt14 Posts: 2,566
    Best Performance i have seen . "not in person " . is the Isle of Wight Festival . far better then woodstock :o . i think it was even close to one of his last shows . ;)
  • rhcpjam1029rhcpjam1029 Posts: 1,981
    boroff89 wrote:
    Voodoo Chile. Picking one with Jimi is ridiculously hard, but if I had to. . .

    that riff....oh that riff.....
    Beavis: All my friends are brown and red? What does that mean?
    Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
    Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
    Butthead: Huh huh.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    My favourite Jimi performance is "Stone Free", Fillmore East, 31st December 1969, second show. (Technically it was performed on January 1st 1970.) This is not the version officially released by EH on Live at the Fillmore East and all over YouTube: that's from the 1st January 1970, second show. If you get hold of the Box of Gypsys box set you'll hear it.

    The 1969 jams with Larry Young hint at what might have been, had Jimi been able to embark on his jazz odyssey. They're a bit scrappy, but nonetheless they're a tantalising glimpse of the ever-expanding breadth of Jimi's vision.

    I enjoy listening to audience boots from the 1970 US Cry of Love tour: the version of Machine Gun that Jimi played at Norman, Oklahama in the immediate wake of the Kent State, Ohio shootings is my favourite for intensity and extent of artistic realisation:

    Part one:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbV4dTooDfA


    Part two:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ5DTJrzx2I



    Today is the fortieth anniversary of Jimi's final official concert, at the Isle of Fehmarn, by the way.
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,482
    all of monterey pop

    its an insane performance
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Get_Right wrote:
    all of monterey pop

    its an insane performance
    True. His version of 'Like A Rolling Stone' is off the charts.
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  • craigbcraigb Posts: 806
    Bold As Love.

    The best Hendrix song out there.
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  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    musicismylife78 wrote:
    its the only version of the national anthem i would ever stand up for.
    That is an odd statement to make.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I gotta go with 'Little Wing'.

    Me too. The introduction to the song is absolutely beautiful.
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  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    rhcpjam1029 wrote:
    boroff89 wrote:
    Voodoo Chile. Picking one with Jimi is ridiculously hard, but if I had to. . .

    that riff....oh that riff.....

    I love it, but it some what reminds me of Hulk Hogan. He used to enter the arena to that song. It's sad that I know that. :oops:
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,508
    intodeep wrote:
    musicismylife78 wrote:
    its the only version of the national anthem i would ever stand up for.
    That is an odd statement to make.

    I agree i stand up to when ever the National Anthem is played ..
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
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