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Location: big island | jimi |
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Location: Jet City | that's way cool |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Yes it is. I've always thought he was a great talent regardless of how crazy he or his music got. |
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Location: NJ | "eh".
This goes back to that other thread about "Songs to Play on a 12-string" . . .
This ain't one of 'em. |
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Location: NJ | saw that many times |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I'm with Cliff |
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| That is so dam weird to see those strings the wrong way or is it the right way round while he plays. It's hard to figure out what he's doing becuae it is backwards. I wonder if he played in a mirror if it would look correct?
Also that ring he's wearing must weigh a pound or so. Great weight training for the pinky work.
Cool clip I had not seen that either. Thanks |
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Location: NJ | I seem t'recall there was a "Hendrix" documentary movie out in the 70's, and that clip was at the end . . . |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Ya know, compared to some of the greats today, you may not care for his playing, but remember, some of the stuff done on guitar that people take for granted, well, he was the first to try it. And he was how old in that clip? Mid twenties? Imagine what he's be doing today had he lived. |
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Location: NJ | two shows a day in Vegas. |
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Location: Scotland | Playing an early Zemaitis 12-string. Another builder whose guitars don't live up to the mythology, and where the current replicas far surpass the originals. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by cliff:
two shows a day in Vegas. that got a nice belly laugh outta me :D :D |
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| Originally posted by cliff:
I seem t'recall there was a "Hendrix" documentary movie out in the 70's, and that clip was at the end . . . Yeah, it was.
There was also an album which had the same track on it. |
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Location: NJ | I remember the album cover . . . |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Look at the action on that sucker...he would have to be really talented to be able to play that thing at all. |
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| "two shows a day in Vegas."
Sad but true Cliff, they'd change the stage sets between the "Elvis Still Lives" show to accomodate Jimi and his guitar pyrotechniques. |
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Location: Reno, NV | When you turn a "righty" upside down, doesn't the intonation go out the window? Isn't the conpensation in the slant of the saddle which of course would be backwards...??? |
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| He did not change anything. That's whats neet about Jimi, he learned on a standard strung, right hand guitar, he just faces it the other way and goes at it lefty. It's one of the reasons his style is so odd, or was. No intonation change for Jimi. Story was he could not afford... or at first only had a regular guitar to practice on so that's the way he learned. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | But that 12-string has had the strings flipped, but the bridge saddle has not been changed.
Low strings up, high strings down. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | He was unique.
He was talented.
He was a groundbreaker.
He was ahead of his time.
And he could play the crap out of a Fender Strat (or any other guitar for that matter).
Yes, the 12 string clip has been around (I have the DVD) and the guitar was not the best...
FACT: He died young, at he top of his talent, and will therefore remain enshrined in Guitar Hero status for quite some time to come.
Not the first one of us can hold a candle to him...and we all know it! |
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| Perhaps that is why he seemed to be having trouble playing it. It may not have been his? Don't know, Don't have any answers, just sharing what little I know of Jimi's playing and hoped to clarify the intonation question without looking at that particular guitar. probably already more effort than this thread demands but that's what we do ain't it? |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | which is why we keep coming back... :D |
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Location: Tennessee | This isn't Jimi, but it is one of my favorite acoustic 12 string performances: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZkLVinwR4E |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | bobbo, you and I are thinking in the same space...I was just going to post this...it's one of my favorites...another player who left on top... |
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Location: Chicago | Why I like Jimi: VILLANOVA JUNCTION is a superb minor blues jam (ten seconds in). C'mon guys, tell me he wasn't great! |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | While I agree he was truly great, AND that it would have been a challenge to play that particular guitar, there are lots of people who can play as well as he does in this 12-string clip (though I'm definitley NOT one of them!!!) |
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hendrix playing 12 string acoustic