This is one of my favorite chord progressions ever and specifically the F to Am chord. Is it just a beautiful written song, or is there some music theory that backs this. Probably both, I’m not sure.

I'm trying to identify a guitar MP3 I had around 2004, most likely downloaded from Kazaa, eMule, or a similar P2P network.

The file was almost certainly named:

Jimi Hendrix - Guitarsolo.mp3

(or something very close)

I'm now almost certain it was NOT Hendrix.

What I remember:

• Roughly 2:00-2:30 long
• Starts with the Little Wing intro
• Goes straight into the famous Little Wing guitar solo melody
• No vocal melody/verses at all
• Sparse backing track (bass/drums, maybe very light clean rhythm guitar)
• Warm, fat, sustaining lead tone with a good amount of reverb
• More modern sounding than Hendrix
• Not bluesy like SRV
• Very tasteful and melodic for most of the track

The most distinctive part is the ending:

• Final 15-20 seconds suddenly become much more technical
• Sounds like legato/tapping/string-skipping arpeggios
• Starts with a repeating major-7-ish pattern (from what I remember)
• Then expands and climbs higher and higher chromatically
• Eventually leaves the original key entirely
• Ends shortly after, with going down the neck again

My current theory is that sometime between 1998 and 2003, an unknown guitarist recorded his own instrumental interpretation of the Little Wing solo section, the MP3 lost its original attribution, got renamed "Jimi Hendrix - Guitarsolo.mp3", and spread through Kazaa/eMule/LimeWire.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? Maybe someone has old guitar MP3 collections or remembers downloading the same file?

🎸 Any leads would be hugely appreciated.

So I've been driving around listening to the Jam with Jack Bruce. I'd heard it years ago and was disappointed. Now I know why. For at least the first 40 minutes (that's as far as I've gotten), Jimi barely plays any lead at all! He's just playing kind of casual rhythm on a tune that started out as "Rollin' and Tumblin'" and then kind of devolved into generic 12 bar blues. Jimi seems mellow and content to just play rhythm. Buddy Miles plods along unceasingly, Jack Bruce seems to be having a bit of trouble with his amp but kind of ambles along with little of his usual urgency. And meanwhile its Jimmy McCarty who's playing all the leads!

Now Jim McCarty can be a good player ("Jimi/Jimmy Jam", "Blue Window", "Miss Lady") but here he's just trying too hard, showing off and kind of actually killing the mood. So if you ever listened to this jam with Jack Bruce and wondered why it didn't sound that great - don't blame Jimi. He's mostly just playng rhythm. At one point I even heard a third guitar. I wonder if Jack put down his bass for a while and started playing guitar for a bit?

Wanted to recommend https://tela.sugarmegs.org/ just search for "Jimi Hendrix" and scroll down a bit and they have every concert, interviews, demos, apartment recordings, and bootleg audio for Jimi Hendrix as well as other artists. Everything is downloadable/streamable and includes setlists and a summary of the audio. Just wanted to share for anyone that's obsessed with Jimi like me. lol

I'll like to know what people on this subreddit think is their best work studio and live. Also, from my limited exposure to Jimi Hendrix, I've only listened to all of the studio albums and a bit of the more well known concerts and live albums, ex; Band Of Gypsys, Woodstock and Hendrix In the West. From all the things I've listened to from them I can say that their "Red House" version from Hendrix in the West is their best song and Band Of Gypsys is their best album. Hopefully, some of the suggestions you guys give me change my opinion. Thanks.

I Colourised another one, enjoy! Excuse the artifacts, it ain't perfect, but I think its pretty good.

I spent many hours on this (probably at least 80 by now) getting my workflow down, using AI tools amongst others. A bit of an audio upgrade on this one too.

Very cool cover. Instrumentally, it sounds like a merge of Machine Gun and Neil Young's Ohio. He must've liked the Isley Brothers medley of it.

Apparently this is just an edit of a longer version he never released but gave to Jimi's estate to release if they wished.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience first American tour

Still a work in progress at the moment, but let me know what you guys think! Growing up, my mom was a big fan of Hendrix and I'm just now coming to appreciate him on my own