Help identifying this show.

[LeftyStrat]

I've never seen this particular performance before. Any idea which show this was? Buddy Cox is on bass, so it has to be 69 or 70. No shots of the drummer but sounds like Mitch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBgyXXnb ... re=related

[boots]

Don't know which show, but it's definitely Band of Gypsys era. Probably 1970. Definitely Mitch on drums - there are a couple quick shots of him (he looks like he is wearing a dress). I've seen photos of him with that outfit on.

That is a great video! Jimi died before I even knew who he was, but I would love to have seen him play in person. No one to this day approaches guitar playing like he did.

Good stuff!

[Cliff Schecht]

Yeah Band of Gypsies for sure. Great performance too, he was way on that night.

Boots I think SRV is the one guy who could really conjure up the spirit of Jimi in his playing but still sound like himself. Obviously Jimi came first but in my eyes Stevie was the next guy to really carry the torch.

[boots]

You're absolutely right Cliff - if Jimi's spirit were ever to inhabit another human, it was SRV for sure. Robin Trower also has the "feel" of Jimi's vibe, but has a different style.

There are other great guitarists out there who can blow Jimi away on the technical aspects, even covering his songs and making them sound even better than Jimi did. But Jimi had something about him that defies description, that I don't think other guitarists can emulate. You either have it or you don't (I wish I did!).

Jimi was able to completely express what he was feeling through his guitar, on the spur of the moment. I doubt that he ever played a solo the same twice. He was truly an artist in that he could take an odd sound from his guitar or rig, and run with it and develop it into a song or solo. On the spur of the moment. And it sounded GOOD.

I guess it's obvious that I'm a Hendrix freak.

[LeftyStrat]

Jimi was able to completely express what he was feeling through his guitar, on the spur of the moment.

I think this is what sets him apart from a lot of great guitarists. If you listen to both nights of the first Band of Gypsies performance. The solos for Machine Gun are completely different.

The second night's solo is a complete masterpiece, yet made up in the moment.

Not that the first night's solo was bad, it's just the second night's solo is off the charts. If you listen to it within the context of the song, you can hear women and children screaming, and can hear and feel the agony of war.

[Structo]

With Jimi I think it depended on what mind altering substance he was taking on any given day.

I know its not really politically correct anymore but I think some artists benefited from a little experimentation.

Most will probably disagree with me but I preferred some of SRV's work before he got sober.

You know the classic Carlos Santana Woodstock performance?

He was totally on acid.

I hope this doesn't get me banned.

[LeftyStrat]

I hope this doesn't get me banned.

Only if you refuse to share your drugs with us.

[Structo]

Would if I could.

I'm getting too old for that stuff anymore.

[LeftyStrat]

I'm getting too old for that stuff anymore.

Taking drugs for me these days is down to taking my blood pressure medication. Just staying alive is fun enough for me.

[boots]

I'm getting too old for that stuff too.

I totally agree. You don't have to be on acid to make great music. But a lot of great music was made while the artist was on acid. And being on acid makes music sound extra-groovy.

I hope I don't get banned too! It was the 70's (and 80's), and well, everybody was doing it, and....well not everybody, but well, you know.... that was a long time ago, and I'm much better now.

[Bob S]

You know you're getting old when your dealer's name is Walgreen.

[vibratoking]

I'm a huge Jimi fan and SRV fan. You guys will obviously disagree, but I don't get the SRV Hendrix comparison. For instance, I can't stand SRVs over the top version of Little Wing. For me it's almost an insult. That is a perfect song the way Jimi wrote and performed it, even though Jimi recorded several versions of that song before the the released version. When I listen to Hendrix on Band of Gypsy's, I hear a totally inspired ARTIST creating on the spot. When I hear SRV play Little Wing, I hear an over the top copy cat - sorry. In fact, I read somewhere that it was not one of SRV's proudest moments. Kind of like trying to improve on the Mona Lisa to me.

In total, Hendrix was an almost fully original creative artist and songwriter. SRV very closely copied so many guitarists and I really don't appreciate when he spits out the licks of others. I think that SRV finally consistently found his own voice on the guitar and with his songwriting late in his career with Family Style and In Step, of course there are exceptions. Songs like Riveria Paradise and Lenny are masterpieces IMO. Again, I just don't get the SRV Hendrix comparison. There is a very little to compare IMO, except that SRV used a lot of the same gear and tried to cop Jimi's tones, unsuccessfully IMO. As mentioned, I think that Trower copped Jimi's elastic feel, tones to a much higher degree. He also wrote songs that had much more Jimi vibe.

[Gibsonman63]

In defense of SRV, Little Wing was released after his death, so we can't really know if he had intended to release the song in that version.

Frank Marino is another that could channel a good Hendrix vibe.

[vibratoking]

Great points, Gibsonman. I am not trying to attack SRV. Just give another perspective other than the often repeated Hendrix comparision that everyone seems to so often repeat.

[John_P_WI]

Speaking of channeling Hendrix - Google Randy Hanson. Sorry I can't post a youtube link, I'm firewalled here at work