Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock Question - was there more than one lead guitarist?

Taverner

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Fri Aug-21-09 03:57 PM
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Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock Question - was there more than one lead guitarist?

Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 03:57 PM by Taverner

At points, I swear, it sounds like there's a second guitarist on stage. Was he using delay pedals? Was there another guitarist? Or was he just that good that he could play intertwining leads simultaneously?

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GCP

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Fri Aug-21-09 04:34 PM
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1. He was just that good

I'll see if I can find a youtube for you.

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Fri Aug-21-09 04:39 PM
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2. It's all Jimi

Delays back then were little more than tape-loop devices-- pretty crude by today's standards. Hendrix was just that good. Nobody could play like him, and not many have even come close since then.

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melman

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Fri Aug-21-09 04:40 PM
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3. There was a second guitarist

and you can see him in the picture you posted.

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GCP

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Fri Aug-21-09 04:56 PM
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5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience had only 3 members

Jimi, the bass player and the drummer.

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Tyrone Slothrop

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Fri Aug-21-09 04:58 PM
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6. The Experience broke up before Woodstock

That was Jimi's brand new band, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, that played Woodstock.

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Taverner

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Fri Aug-21-09 05:03 PM
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8. I thought that was a bass ?

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melman

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Fri Aug-21-09 05:07 PM
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9. Lee is next to the bass player

to his left - our right.

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Tyrone Slothrop

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Fri Aug-21-09 04:55 PM
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4. Larry Lee

Edited on Fri Aug-21-09 04:57 PM by Tyrone Slothrop

Well, that is to say, there was a second guitar player, Larry Lee -- but he was mainly/only playing rhythm.

So, yeah, you're hearing two guitars. But Hendrix is the only lead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Lee

On edit: Actually, I just read my own link after I posted it. According to the Wiki, Lee did play intertwining lead with Hendrix on a few of the Woodstock numbers.

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Taverner

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Fri Aug-21-09 05:01 PM
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7. That makes sense - Villanova Junction seems to be one of the intertwined solos

And damn, those were amazing!

Sad thinking what would have come out from Hendrix if he didn't die - imagine all of that insane funk!

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gmoney

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Fri Aug-21-09 05:07 PM
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10. You know what else is amazing...

...that all 3 guys in your sig picture are still alive today... who would have taken THAT bet in 1973 or whenever that photo was taken. :)

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Taverner

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Fri Aug-21-09 05:16 PM
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12. HAHAHAHA True that!

I think all of them went "clinically dead" at one point in their lives though - Iggy once told a story of ODing and the dealer literally kicking the shit out of him to wake him up.

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Tyrone Slothrop

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Fri Aug-21-09 05:13 PM
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11. Yeah, I'm just watching some of it now

I haven't listened to that album in a while, even though I think it's better than any of the Experience albums. His performance is just ferocious.

Found the full video here.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3981364972665945187

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