Eddie Kramer on the Potential Sound of Jimi Hendrix's Fourth Album

Watch Part 2: https://youtu.be/HReL_3fCvKI Neil Shukla interviews legendary music producer and recording engineer Eddie Kramer at the Cosmo MusicFEST & EXPO. In Part 2, he discusses how mistakes led to the iconic psychedelic section on Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love".

I was lucky enough to meet Hendrix in a London nightclub in 1968. He was on his way out the door and I just kind of followed him and blurted out ..."Excuse me Jimi..." and he turned around....I said..."I just wanted to ask you how you keep your guitar in tune when you are doing the stuff you do..." And he smiled and said "Oh man, you just gotta tune while you play man, just tune while you play" and laughed. I thanked him and said "Have a good night " went out the door of the club....

Eddie Kramer should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as one of the greatest engineers in history.

A man who changed the course of history with just three albums.

Eddie is always much better than any interviewer. He'll answer questions nobody even thought to ask but we all needed answered.

When Mr. Kramer is asked about Hendrix, his brain must flood with a tidal wave of memories.

Jimi had already made so much and changed so much in just the three/four years that he was prominent in the music industry. I’m 24 and to think that he was changing music forever at the age I am now is insane to think about!! Band Of Gypsies would’ve blazed across the 70’s like a comet had Jimi lived longer. Thank you Jimi Hendrix and all those good folks that helped him create what he did. The world of guitar playing is beholden to you for eternity 🤟🤟🤟

As someone famous in the music biz once said about guitarists: "There's Jimi Hendrix and then everyone else." Jack Bruce said later, after Hendrix had played on stage with Cream after he'd arrived in London and asked if he could jam with them, "Eric was a guitar player. Jimi was some sort of force of nature." Clapton said to Chas Chandler backstage after Hendrix's performance of Killin' Floor jamming with Cream: "You never told me that he was THAT f#cking good!"

It makes me so happy when I go on YouTube and see so many Hendrix fans! I used to feel like I was the only one. But it turns out that some people are even bigger fanatics than I am! I almost feel like he's appreciated more now than he was back in the day.

"Pali Gap" on the old vinyl "Rainbow Bridge" LP is a lost classic and sounds great with headphones. Thank you Eddie for that gem and the others you gave us after Jimi left us.

We can only speculate as to how Jimi's music would have evolved but I think almost everyone would agree he would have continued to expand the musical universe beyond anyone's wildest imagination. He was so much more than just a great guitar player. He was the complete package. Until we meet again Jimi.

Hendrix is the GOAT. No one was making sounds like voodoo child or Machine Gun. He could make the guitar laught sing cry, moan, scream. The King of Feedback. The God of Rock n Roll He really was a gift from god straight from the cosmos. Wow now it Makes me think of a simpler time in my life when i only smoked weed and listened to hendrix and thought the world was heaven. Oh my, how sad that makes me feel how much life has changed. Remembering the times as a teen. Im still young but feel so tired. Music is the greatest gift a d therapy. Hendrix will always be my favorite artists of all time. Coolest guy to touch the earth If i dont see you in this world I'll see you in the next one dont be late.

A major part of America died with Jimi.He was that powerful and gifted beyond belief.Just hearing stories about this magical guitar player was really too much for most Americans and then the realization that the stories of this superhuman musician were true and beyond anything anyone could have imagined.The nightly news came on the last day of Woodstock and that sound in the background of the broadcast was so mesmerizing it was truly scary in 69.The next day the entire east coast was talking about what had happened.A vast majority of young people were extremely proud to say this is the guy that speaks for us with his music.It was that heavy.This was not just a guitar player but perhaps one of the greatest musicians the world had ever witnessed bar none.

Awesome. I love hearing Eddie's stories- greatest producer ever. I don't understand how anyone can give something like this a thumbs down.

I could listen to Eddie talk about Jimi all day. Thanks for posting!

As much as I Love Jimi, as a Great Guitar Player...which cannot be measured! My heart weeps for him,and his tragic life! Even more so He was taken advantage of.his innocence,and trust of others were his down fall....shame shame shame on All of those blood suckers...thats what killed this gentle giant!

What an amazing guy. Very gracious of Mr. Kramer to share these stories and insights with everyone.

What nobody seems to grasp......Hendrix was born in 1942 but one month short of 1943.  He started to play guitar at 15, so that would have been in 1958.  3 years later he enlisted in the army and spent a year in.....and thus discharged in 1962 where he eventually moved to Tennessee  which could have been going in to 1963 depending on the date timeline.  So starting out playing in the professional sense at around 20 years old......with at best 4 years of beginner practice and improvement mastering playing the instrument.....to have enough confidence to step out to attempt to play professionally to try to make a living as an entry level player in the sea of competition.  By late 1966, essentially after 3 years experience playing as a professional and cutting his teeth beyond being an entry level player......he moved to England and became "discovered".  Got recorded quickly and 6 to 7 months later is back in the USA to play the Monterey Pop Festival in the summer of 1967...…...and dead by September of 1970 at 27 years old.  So at 24 years old, 9 years after starting to play guitar......he is an ICON of history.  He rode a wave for 3 years on his own after 3 years professional entry level playing skill......based on 4 years of beginner practice to learn to play.  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>when I see pictures and video of Hendrix.....I see the image of a guy that looks 30 to 40 years old with considerable experience...…..when the reality is that he is really a mid 20's kid who some by age alone would have him green behind the ears.

I was blessed to grow up in the 60s and 70s and I think it was and still is the greatist period of devopement and progression of music. The amount of talent in that era at one time would be almost an impossibility to happen again. But we can only hope.

I understand why Jimi like Eddie and of course Eddie like Jimi. They had the taste of music. Eddie could sence what Jimi wanted, he knew the sound what Jimi liked.