Archive for September 2008
Jimi at Monterey
I was watching Jimi Hendrix’s performance at the Monterey pop festival in June 1967. What a blistering version of killing floor to kick it off. A lot of questions came to mind. How did his guitar stay in tune with all that whammy bar usage during the gig. Was his strat that well setup? I also did not notice any pedals on the floor. Did he use any? Surely there must have been a fuzz box somewhere. The Arbiter or maybe even the Mestro Fuzz-Tone? Definitely a very minimal live setup. No wah, univibe or octavia like his later years.
The official hendrix site has a fairly good feature on creating the classic hendrix sound.
http://www.jimi-hendrix.com/magazine/601/601,features,effects.html
