Chords for What Jimi Hendrix thought of Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page

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[G] [N] Alright, that's gotta be pretty much every guitar player's favorite riff.
Smoke on the water ain't got nothing on that riff.
But anyway, hey how you doing?
[Abm] And thank you for [C] watching Kars [N] Guitar Channel.
I'm Shawn Staples, Kars 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 [Gbm] course, I mean, how can we stop
talking about [N] Hendrix?
So Kars wanted me to show you this rare album I have.
This is a rare album, Band of Gypsies II.
[A] And the reason why this album is so rare is [N] because on the inside it has [G] 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 [Gb] [G] $700 to [N] $900 on eBay.
This personally is the first time I've taken out, I have plastic cases for my rare albums,
and this is the first time I've taken it out of the plastic wrap.
Pretty much 20, 30 years and I did it exclusively for Kars Guitar Channel.
And so Kars always going to bring you the latest of [Em] everything.
Please subscribe.
I mean, there's so much [Gbm] cool stuff coming up.
So Hendrix, [N] if I was to pick personally, 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 [Ebm] much selflessly to the [Fm] guitar that [E] it's hard to pick which
one was the [N] best.
But I choose Jimi Hendrix because Jimi Hendrix just, he just took it to the next level instantly.
There was no gradual period, it's like boom in your face.
So enjoy another great video.
According to legendary drummer Carmine Apice, Jimi Hendrix wasn't a fan of Led Zeppelin.
He thought they stole from everybody.
This is what Carmine Apice had to say.
Jimi Hendrix [G] personally told me that he didn't like Zeppelin because they were like excess
baggage and they [F] stole from everybody.
You Shook [G] 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 [Ab] member of the band that the Good [G] Times Bad Times riff came from
Tim Bogart's bass line.
[B] We used to go and sit [Em] on the side of the stage [N] and watch Zeppelin.
We hung out in the dressing rooms and we built a great relationship with them.
However, Jimi Hendrix's 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, Jimi's favorite
bands were Chicago, he loved Terry Caff, their guitarist, he loved Led Zeppelin and Cream.
He played their albums a lot.
His hero was Bob Dylan.
I don't know if [G] he ever met him, but he was his hero and he did all on the Watchtower.
Jimi's only top 40 hit, by the way, made it to Billboard charts at number 20.
[B] He could never remember the words he used [G] to sing the first verse four [N] times.
Yes, indeed, Jimi Hendrix played an instrumental version of Cream's Sunshine of Your Love
on BBC's Happening for Lulu show in January 1969.
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 Hendrix telling him, [Ab] that lick you [G] play on
[E] Happening ten [A] years time ago, I swiped it to use [N] 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 [G] would have criticized Led Zeppelin for [Ab] borrowing
music from other artists.
Yes, Led Zeppelin used what they liked from other bands, but it would [G] be [Gb] hard to say that
they didn't make it all their own.
[Gm] Anyway, other bands did exactly the same, and it was something of a tradition in the blues.
Unfortunately, [F] Led Zeppelin 3 came out a month later after [Gm] Jimi Hendrix's death, and he
[N] would have only heard their first two albums.
It's well known that Jimi Hendrix admired John Bonham's playing.
Hendrix considered Bonzo an absolute [G] master of the drum kit.
What Bonzo did with one bass drum, [N] most supposedly great, drummers couldn't do with two.
Jimi said as much to Robert Plant saying Bonzo had a foot like a jackrabbit.
Jimi Hendrix also admired Robert Plant's singing.
So it looks like Jimi 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 an
enormous commercial success.
In April 1970, just a few months before Jimi died, the British music journalist Keith Alfam
asked Jimi Hendrix, what do you think of Led Zeppelin?
And Jimi just replied, I don't think much of Led Zeppelin.
I don't think much of them.
Jimi Page is a good guitar player.
Jimi Hendrix was pretty humble and complimentary 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 [G] greatest guitar player on earth
and was probably hesitant to express appreciation of a genuine rival for the title.
[Fm] Jimi Page in his turn [B] called Jimi Hendrix the [G] most amazing guitarist he ever heard.
Jimi Page told that he listened to Hendrix records but unfortunately never met him, just
saw him once in a club in [N] New York.
When Jimi Page was asked, as a producer, what do you think of his records, Page replied,
I thought they were excellent.
Oh yeah, Jimi'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 Jimi Page was 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, [G] where in Led Zeppelin,
you had four amazing artists.
A truly great band.
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_ [G] _ [N] _ _ Alright, that's gotta be pretty much every guitar player's favorite riff.
Smoke on the water ain't got nothing on that riff.
But anyway, hey how you doing?
[Abm] _ And thank you for [C] watching Kars [N] Guitar Channel.
I'm Shawn Staples, Kars 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 [Gbm] course, I mean, how can we stop
talking about [N] Hendrix?
So Kars wanted me to show you this rare album I have.
This is a rare album, Band of Gypsies II.
[A] And the reason why this album is so rare is [N] because on the inside it has [G] 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 [Gb] _ _ [G] _ $700 to [N] $900 on eBay.
_ _ This personally is the first time I've taken out, I have _ plastic cases for my rare albums,
and this is the first time I've taken it out of the plastic wrap.
_ Pretty much 20, 30 years and I did it exclusively for Kars Guitar Channel.
And so Kars always going to bring you the latest of [Em] everything.
Please subscribe.
I mean, there's so much [Gbm] cool stuff coming up.
So Hendrix, _ [N] if I was to pick personally, _ _ 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 [Ebm] much selflessly to the [Fm] guitar that [E] it's hard to pick which
one was the [N] best.
But I choose Jimi Hendrix because Jimi Hendrix just, he just took it to the next level instantly.
There was no gradual period, it's like boom in your face.
So enjoy another great video.
_ _ According to legendary drummer Carmine Apice, Jimi Hendrix wasn't a fan of Led Zeppelin.
He thought they stole from everybody.
This is what Carmine Apice had to say.
_ Jimi Hendrix [G] personally told me that he didn't like Zeppelin because they were like excess
baggage and they [F] stole from everybody.
You Shook [G] 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 [Ab] member of the band that the Good [G] Times Bad Times riff came from
Tim Bogart's bass line.
[B] We used to go and sit [Em] on the side of the stage [N] and watch Zeppelin.
We hung out in the dressing rooms and we built a great relationship with them.
However, Jimi Hendrix's 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, _ Jimi's favorite
bands were Chicago, he loved Terry Caff, their guitarist, he loved Led Zeppelin and Cream.
He played their albums a lot. _
His hero was Bob Dylan.
I don't know if [G] he ever met him, but he was his hero and he did all on the Watchtower.
Jimi's only top 40 hit, by the way, made it to Billboard charts at number 20.
_ [B] He could never remember the words he used [G] to sing the first verse four [N] times.
Yes, indeed, Jimi Hendrix played an instrumental version of Cream's Sunshine of Your Love
on BBC's Happening for Lulu show in January 1969.
_ _ 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 Hendrix telling him, [Ab] that lick you [G] play on
[E] Happening ten [A] years time ago, I swiped it to use [N] 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 [G] would have criticized Led Zeppelin for [Ab] borrowing
music from other artists.
Yes, Led Zeppelin used what they liked from other bands, but it would [G] be [Gb] hard to say that
they didn't make it all their own.
[Gm] Anyway, other bands did exactly the same, and it was something of a tradition in the blues.
_ Unfortunately, [F] Led Zeppelin 3 came out a month later after [Gm] Jimi Hendrix's death, and he
[N] would have only heard their first two albums.
It's well known that Jimi Hendrix admired John Bonham's playing.
Hendrix considered Bonzo an absolute [G] master of the drum kit.
What Bonzo did with one bass drum, [N] most supposedly great, drummers couldn't do with two.
_ Jimi said as much to Robert Plant saying Bonzo had a foot like a jackrabbit.
Jimi Hendrix also admired Robert Plant's singing.
So it looks like Jimi 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 an
enormous commercial success.
In April 1970, just a few months before Jimi died, the British music journalist Keith Alfam
asked Jimi Hendrix, what do you think of Led Zeppelin?
And Jimi just replied, I don't think much of Led Zeppelin.
I don't think much of them.
Jimi Page is a good guitar player.
_ Jimi Hendrix was pretty humble and complimentary 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 [G] greatest guitar player on earth
and was probably hesitant to express appreciation of a genuine rival for the title.
[Fm] Jimi Page in his turn [B] called Jimi Hendrix the [G] most amazing guitarist he ever heard.
Jimi Page told that he listened to Hendrix records but unfortunately never met him, just
saw him once in a club in [N] New York.
When Jimi Page was asked, as a producer, what do you think of his records, Page replied,
I thought they were excellent.
Oh yeah, Jimi'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 Jimi Page was 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, [G] where in Led Zeppelin,
you had four amazing artists.
A truly great band. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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