What Jimi Hendrix thought of Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page

foreign [Applause] [Applause] all right that's got to be pretty much every guitar player's favorite riff uh smoke on the water ain't got nothing on that riff but anyway hey how you doing um and uh thank you for watching cars guitar channel um i'm sean staples cars man out here in hollywood california and bringing you the best of the best of guitar history and today we're talking about hendrix and again of course i mean come on how can we stop talking about hendrix and so uh carr wanted me to show you this rare album i have this is a rare album uh banjo gypsies two and the reason why this album is so rare is because on the inside it has um the songs that are written on the label are not the songs that are on the vinyl and so this particular album has gone up to um 700 to 900 on ebay um this personally is the first time i've taken out of i have plastic cases for my rare albums and this is the first time i've taken it out of the plastic wrap uh pretty much 20 30 years and i did exclusively for cars guitar channel and so cars are always going to bring you the latest of everything please subscribe i mean there's so much cool stuff coming up so hendrix uh is if i was to pick personally um who would be the innovator and there's only three to choose from i believe and that would be les paul from the 50s late 40s early 50s jimi hendrix from the 60s and eddie van halen all of them contributed so much selflessly to the guitar that um it's hard to pick which one was the best but i choose jimi hendrix because jimi hendrix just he just took it to the next level instantly it was there's no gradual appearance like boom in your face so enjoy another great video according to legendary drummer carmine of peace jimi hendrix wasn't a fan of led zeppelin he thought they stole from everybody this is what carmine apiece had to say jimi hendrix personally told me that he didn't like zeppelin because they were like excess baggage and they stole from everybody you shook me was on jeff beck's record dazed and confused has a bit of the vanilla fudge sound on it and has parts of bex bolero on it i think i was told by a member of the band that the good times bad times riff came from tim bogart's baseline we used to go and sit on the side of the stage and watch zeppelin we hung out in the dressing rooms and we built a great relationship with them however jimi hendrix equipment manager eric barrett claimed that hendrix did listen to led zeppelin among other things according to the book hendrix a biography by chris welch from 1972 jimmy's favorite bands were chicago he loved harry kath their guitarist he loved led zeppelin and cream he played their albums a lot his hero was bob dylan i don't know if he ever met him but he was his hero and he did all along the watchtower jimmy's only top 40 hit by the way it made it to billboard charts at number 20. he could never remember the words he used to sing the first verse four times yes indeed jimi hendrix played an instrumental version of cream sunshine of your love on bbc's happening for lulu show in january 1969. i mean how cool is that the band stopped midway through an attempt at their first hit hey joe and then launched into sunshine of your love as a tribute to the recently disbanded band cream until producers stopped the performance prematurely because the unplanned performance precluded lulu's usual closing number hendrix was told that he would never work at the bbc again there's a clip of jeff beck talking about hendricks telling them that lick you play on happening ten years time ago i swiped it to use on one of mine apparently hendrix wasn't saying it maliciously he made the point that they borrowed from each other so this sounds kind of weird that hendrix would have criticized led zeppelin for borrowing music from other artists yes led zeppelin used what they liked from other bands but it would be hard to say that they didn't make it all their own anyway other bands did exactly the same and it was something of a tradition in the blues unfortunately led zeppelin 3 come out a month later after jimi hendrix's death and he would have only heard their first two albums it's well known that jimi hendrix admired john bonham's playing hendricks considered bonzo an absolute master of the drum kit what bonzo did with one bass drum most supposedly great drummers couldn't do with two jimmy said as much to robert plant saying bonzo had a foot like a jackrabbit jimi hendrix also admired robert plant singing so looks like jimmy enjoyed led zeppelin very much as a band but at the time led zeppelin appeared on the music scene jimi hendrix was already the biggest rock star in the world the world's highest paid performer and his records and enormous commercial success in april 1970 just a few months before jimmy died the british music journalist keith alpham asked jimi hendrix what do you think of led zeppelin and jimmy just replied i don't think much of led zeppelin i don't think much of them jimmy page is a good guitar player jimi hendrix was pretty humble and complementary of most of the great guitarists of the time calling both carlos santana and johnny winter the greatest of all time besides he was locked into the myth that he was the greatest guitar player on earth and was probably hesitant to express appreciation of a genuine rival for the title jimmy page in his turn called jimi hendrix the most amazing guitars he ever heard jimmy page told that he listened to hendrick's records but unfortunately never met him just saw him once in a club in new york when jimmy page was asked as a producer what do you think of his records page replied i thought they were excellent oh yeah jimmy's drummer mitch mitchell was also a man inspired he never played the drums like that or before or since he played some incredible stuff so apparently when jimmy page is forming led zeppelin he was looking for an amazing drummer for his band and got john bonham in a lot of bands you may have one or two excellent players wearing led zeppelin you had four amazing artists a truly great band

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Keywords: Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant, John Bonham, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Kar's Guitar Channel, Jeff Beck

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Length: 7min 34sec (454 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 16 2021