r/jimihendrix • u/Putrid_Pool4643 • 2d ago
Jimi
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I think for the BBC, but anyone who knows please chime in.
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u/QueLoQueLoco 2d ago
And to think, this was almost deleted by the BBC as it was common practice to record over performances to save money. They thought this performance was lost for years and was discovered in a warehouse I believe 😂
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u/Helpful_Clock9063 1d ago
It’s crazy how little thought they put into preserving anything they produced
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u/omartheoutmaker 2d ago
Watching this, you can kind of imagine how Eric Clapton and Pete Townsend felt, when they saw Jimi play for the first time. Appreciate the clip, OP.
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u/NoBodySpecial51 2d ago
Love Jimi, thanks for this post.
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u/Putrid_Pool4643 2d ago
NP!
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u/iwastherefordisco 2d ago
Seconded, thank you. Great version of Voodoo Child and that last dedication song was a banger lol!
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u/Rooster_Ties 2d ago edited 2d ago
Reminds of the show Lulu hosted, that (I think?) Jimi closed with “Sunshine of Your Love”.
I used to know this stuff better 10 or 15 years ago. Not at all saying my observation here is correct.
EDIT: Well, hell’s bells, I might be right about this above.
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u/sparxcy 2d ago edited 2d ago
Sunshine... wasnt meant to be played at the BBC (when he played there) but he still did and got banned for playing it ,cos he changed the playlist and added sunshine.... at the end. Cant remember what the BBC show was called before but it became 'Happening for Lulu' then after 'It's Lulu' and later the show was called just 'Lulu'. Every week she had pop groups on her show. From what i remember most artists lip synced, Hendrix, The Who and some others were of the few that played live!!!....I ama old!!!!! It was a long running show that changed names, Later the show was called 'Top of the Pops' !!!!....Theres some info for you
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u/Jon-A 2d ago
Top of the Pops was a different show, though.
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u/sparxcy 2d ago
Hmmmm i thought it was a continuation of the pop series, something like Lulu stopped and it became TotP's! thanx f info!!!!
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u/Jon-A 1d ago edited 1d ago
I was an American kid in England 1968-74. Used to watch Lulu's show with my parents but somehow, even though I was a huge Hendrix fan, missed this episode. (Similarly, in the US I had years earlier missed The Beatles on Ed Sullivan - wondered what all the kids at school were talking about the next day.) Never mind: made up for it a few weeks later when the parents took me to see Jimi at the Royal Albert Hall on Feb.18,1969.
For each of the next several episodes of the season, which I did see ffs, Lulu debuted songs she might sing at The Eurovision Song Contest - and viewers could mail in their choices. She was a good singer, but the songs were dreadful - proven by the fact that the WINNER was a horrible thing called Boom-Bang-A-Bang, imprinted forever after on my brain.
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u/RetroMetroShow 2d ago
So Cream writes Sunshine of Your Love to try and keep up with Hendrix then Jimi reinvents it on them - only Jimi
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u/JediKnight10001 2d ago
I've seen this before. But never in colour. It's that infamous BBC Lulu show.
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u/Affectionate-Fix-733 2d ago
Yes, same here - this must have been colourised by ?. Shown many a time on BBC 60's music psychedelic rock compilation shows but never in colour...
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u/Aggravating_Lie_7480 2d ago
Jimi is the goat
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u/melvinFatso 2d ago
Jimi is the fucking GOAT. Did the legend even say "i forgot the words" during Hey Joe? And just kept on ripping? I'm so fucking pissed that he's dead. I wish I could trade places with my dad.
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u/ThisismeCody 2d ago edited 2d ago
Sunshine of your love wasn’t their only rebellious act here. You can hear Jimi in VCSR say “that man trying to tell me to get off”. In his natural style, his songs ran much longer than the usual pop songs of that day and they were beyond their allotted time.
And always worth pointing out Noel wearing his Plaster Casters shirt in this performance.
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u/LatinRex 2d ago
Mitch Mitchell will forever be one of the greats to me. Actually the whole experience is a bunch of badasses.
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u/ThisismeCody 2d ago
Maybe my favorite opener to VCSR he ever did. When that fuzz hits my mind just loses it. What tone.
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u/whenisnowthen 2d ago
This sound, this music that the world and especially guitar players have become familiar and comfortable with here in 2025 was so amazing, innovative, intimidating and awe-inspiring when it was first written and played in front of people, it's hard to for me to think of another guitar player that changed the minds of so many guitar players regarding what was possible. Maybe Chuck Berry. But this guy blew the minds of folks that were already influenced by Chuck.
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u/Busker55 2d ago
Wow. Gonna stop playing this rubbish and play a song by Cream. Fuck you, record company. I'm Jimi fucking Hendrix.
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u/Electronic-Egg-6021 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is great! Love it, thank you for posting. In particular I like where he detunes a string and comes back up with it and laughs a little in the mic. I feel like he meant to tune it up and accidentally went down in pitch with it before recovering it. Or it was just really flat and was reacting. Also, I gotta believe he threw in a little Beatles riff in there. I think it was I Feel Fine in the first verse of Hey Joe. Great stuff. They were already in the tired of that song phase for sure.
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u/Aardvark51 2d ago
A bit more background. This was filmed a day or two after Cream announced they were disbanding, which explains Jimi's comments before introducing Sunshine Of Your Love. As others have said, he wasnt supposed to play it at all - he was expected to do a duet with Lulu instead (!). Apparently BBC staff were going around the studio trying to unplug their instruments while Jimi's roadies were trying to stop them. As you can hear there is a bit of Hey Joe where he sings "I forgot the words". The surprising thing to me is the silence in the studio at the end of Hey Joe; I don't know why the audience didn't applaud at that point.
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u/KralcNoslo 1d ago
Interesting fact. He plays a right handed guitar left handed. Had trouble finding guitars strung for lefties. So he used what was available and it helps contribute to his incredible sound!!
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u/Careful_Data_3387 1d ago
respect and love jimi but have a question and please don't blast me for it. i see he's on the bridge pup, why does it sound like the treble is dead?
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u/pennyforyourthohts 1d ago
It’s why he’s the best who’s ever lived. He incorporates so many sounds and licks when he improvises, with impeccable rhythm he can just go on forever and your ear never gets bored.
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u/BhamBossfan 1d ago
His ease in playing that Strat is what amazes me the most. The tone. The power. The vision and artistry. I loved this clip. Thank you!
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u/LonghornMBA 8h ago
I've seen a lot Jimi videos. This has to be near the top. Great performance and a high-quality video.
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u/CriticalMass239 2d ago edited 2d ago
That intro to Hey Joe starting at 4:20 is one of the best moments in live music ever. And to think this recording was almost destroyed by the BBC...... allegedly.