vbb99 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This has got to be one of the most amazing moments in music

th3kk (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

mann he must have been trippen crazy here....like seriously

ZimUKForce (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

At 5:55 there is a girl behind or to the side of Jimi. Imagine that feeling after that rift what was going through her mind, her soul if you can't you are totally blind to music.

amneros (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Dude...he was simply amazing.

ziego4ever (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

BLACK POWER!!!!!!

lespaulgibsondee (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

vai might have gotten the idea of tender surrender from here.and was the crowd screaming "more" at the end? it seemed they needed a break lol after 8 minutes of endless solos.

trevarg (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

parts of this sound like tender surender.

cavaleer (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It's called being a perfectionist.

cavaleer (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Rod Temperton (sp) is probably the best example of Brits expressing themselves beautifully through American genres and traditions. His compositions for Heatwave and Michael Jackson sounded so American I was floored when I found out he was a Brit. It's brilliant music. But he had clearly studied Jazz as well as European traditions, as well as Stevie Wonder et al. Y'all have been diggin' our style for the entire 20th century, esp. during the Jazz age, from Duke thru Miles and the Blues of course.

cavaleer (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Everything from Led Zeppelin to Loose Ends to Seal to Sade to Radiohead to Lisa Stansfield to Josh Stone, is based on trying to sound American. And y'all do a bloody good job of it!! I absolutely LOVE Sade and Zeppelin and Radiohead. It's great music. But when you hear a wild genius like Hendrix you only hear America. In this solo you hear everything that took place on the guitar before him and you hear everything, every genre, that has taken place since him. That's the towering American genius.