Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (5:14)

Cover of Electric Ladyland

From Electric Ladyland and 47 other releases

Jimi Hendrix was very interested in using distortion and effects to produce a psychedlic, or mind altering effect from his guitar playing. This song was recorded “live in the studio” with later studio effects (panning guitar from left to right) added for texture. Several aspects of Jimi’s playing are showcased here, his ease of improvisation, call and response guitar lines, pickup switching, whammy bar dives, wah-wah pedal use, minor pentatonic screams and squacks. Hendrix was a master of sounding like a “guitar army” while being a single person playing.

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I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Well, I stand up next to a mountain
I chop it down with the edge of my hand

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  • bobgreen623

    This came out when I was like 13, and it really scared me! But, in a delicious way, the man was definitely on (to) something and I love it as much now as I did then. Ahhhh, our music was gonna change the world. Well, it may not have changed the world, but it certainly changed mine. RIP Jimi

    30 May 9:43pm Reply
  • Stigbo

    The guitar was invented for Jimi to play.

    19 May 12:42pm Reply
  • dirtydogintex

    Could just be the greatest intro ever. [2]

    10 May 8:32pm Reply
  • xtwntraphq

    Nobody before,......and nobody after!

    26 Apr 3:40am Reply
  • Hardstonerguy

    Best intro a man ever played on a guitar … nobody of this cover version motherfuckers can do it like Hendrix

    14 Apr 9:46am Reply
  • Anne5419

    CLIMAX to the max

    27 Mar 3:38pm Reply
  • tomrud73

    GODLIKE

    25 Mar 7:06pm Reply
  • Hardstonerguy

    Gonna kill everybody ya wanna to listen to this track :-D

    23 Mar 11:14am Reply
  • Hardstonerguy

    Greatest Hendrix Song, so fuckin legendary, this cruel solo part!

    26 Feb 3:39pm Reply
  • byronever

    classic!!

    18 Feb 10:30pm Reply
  • JimiVonMicrodot

    Opressotron--- Love that. 'Pyroclastic solo' My new favourite saying

    31 Dec 2012 Reply
  • JimiVonMicrodot

    Could just be the greatest intro ever.

    31 Dec 2012 Reply
  • JeffMec

    Awesome!

    27 Dec 2012 Reply
  • Taiteki

    I REALLY needed to hear this song right now! Jimi to the rescue.

    27 Nov 2012 Reply
  • oldiesfanjohn

    Responsible for air choppings of mountains everywhere..Could harness the energy of the breezes generated by said chops since Jimi recorded this and power up a large city!

    15 Oct 2012 Reply
  • G8Rbuttercups

    Sex on a string; plucked by Jimi:) Love em.

    12 Oct 2012 Reply
  • keysrgood

    The best guitarist of all time ever, past, present or future! Not my favourite Hendrix track but one of his best.

    7 Oct 2012 Reply
  • TheGhostMutt

    I stand up next to a mountain and chop it down with the edge of my hand....... ULTIMATE BAD-ASSERY!

    26 Sep 2012 Reply
  • Oppressotron

    A Pure unrelenting volcano of riffs and a pyroclastic solo. Ooohh and that DISTORTION is mint.

    5 Sep 2012 Reply
  • cgovier280

    GO JIMMY GO,,,>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    4 Sep 2012 Reply
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