gbattle:

newspeedwayboogie:

Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun

Ben Chasny of Six Organs/Comets on Fire calls this the greatest guitar solo ever.  This dude says “Jimi Hendrix’s tone during the song “Machine Gun,” recorded live at the Fillmore East in New York in 1970, is one of the shining moments in the history of the electric guitar”

gbattle sez:

Idiosyncratic, loose, a little off at any given instant, but the Gestalt whole is sublime and transcendent.  Authoritative and authentic from note one.  The note at 4:20, the start of the solo, is the attack and tone that made Clapton, Page, and Beck reconsider their entire approach to the instrument.

I remember getting this CD from BMG when I was a kid and listening to it for days and days. Everything written above is true. It’s the most intense live electric guitar album ever recorded, and guaranteed to give you chills.