if anyone finds a website with the pepsi cola commercial with jimi hendrix at the superbowl today, please post it here!
for those who missed it:
http://www.pepsi.com/ads_and_history/index.php
choose the one called crossroads…
now if someone finds the Larry Bird vs. Michael Jordan, McDonalds commercial, please add a link!
I have that one, but I don’t have a host.
I don’t think a brand new Telecaster (or “Broadcaster” as it was known) would have been in a pawn shop window at a price an 11 year old could afford. I’m not even going to mention that Jimi was a Strat-man, because the ad was dated 1953, and Strats weren’t released till '54.
We now return to the 21st Century
aware that JH was playing with a stratocaster…
besides it seems that the guitar in the ad was not for lefties (even though this came later for JH, wasn’t he playing with a regular one, just as a leftie at the start?)
but it was a cool ad nonetheless
Ooooh, I didn’t think of the left-handed issue. Good call.
Jimi played a right-handed guitar turned upside-down but strung in a traditional manner (low string on the top, high string on the bottom). Dick Dale plays a right handed guitar turned upside down but NOT restrung (low string is on the bottom, high string on the top, so the chords are played upside-down, backwards and very very fast)
I once built a “left-handed” bike that had the front and rear brake levers and shifters reversed … it was fun watching people try to ride it … total confusion then SMACK!!! into a tree.
Mr. Hendrix greatest controbution to rock was the time he put into the studio expirimenting with all the electronics. Took rock to another level.
Then Justin Timberlake ran the torch up higher on rock moutain with is love ballad “Cry Me a River”.
What makes you think Jimi NEVER played a Broad or a Tele? Sure he played a Strat once he made it big time. . .but I’d be willing to bet he fretted more than one Tele in his day. Still, you have a point that the most likely thing is that the ad folks only did 1/2 their homework.
No, no, no, no.
I ABSOLUTELY never meant to imply that Jimi, ONLY played Strats, just that his first guitar most likely was NOT a Tele. The photo I remember is from the booklet to “Ultimate Hendrix” where a young Jimi (15 y/o??? no 'fro) is posing in his back yard with a decidedly Department Store guitar. It has Fender qualities to be sure, but it ain’t.
anyway guys, let’s face it…You give a walmart guitar to Hendrix and he will be a kick ass guitar player like lance would kick butt on a walmart bike…
“it’s not about the Strat” 
Note (related to other post): Jimi Hendrix never denied he used drugs
Hey Francois,
I heard (yet another) cover of Little Wing the other day by SRV. No better or worse than JH but just a little different. Although he does stretch JH’s masterpiece from about 2 1/2 minutes to almost 7 minutes of whaling on his guitar. I’ll be burnig this one onto my Ultimate Indoor Cycling CD.
Hi Kevin,
I think I heard it too…just heard some JH stuff, but it wasn’t him.
But the cool thing is eventually I have managed to find the CD where there is an 8’30’’ version of Gloria by Jimi Hendrix…this is an definite masterpiece for any Ultimate Indoor Cycling IMHO!
I have the vinyl version of Gloria. But I have to say my favorite Hendrix is Machine Gun off the Band of Gypsy’s album. Live, no flash, no gimmicks, just stood there and played amazingly. Then there’s both versions of Voodoo Child on Electric Ladyland, and …
He also played right handed guitars right handed, and left handed stung both normally and upside down. It didn’t seem to make much difference to him.
Yes, yes, with the story about this chick coming to his door, and her name was … G-L-O-R-I-I-I-I … GLORIA. Love it, have it. That’s one of the things people overlook about Jimi … his sense of humor; quoting “Strangers in th Night” in the solo on “Wild Thing” (“Ultimate Hendrix”); “You will never hear surf music again” (“3rd Stone from the Sun” and then back TO HIM in by Billy Cox on “EZ Ryder” ); barking and howling in “Hound Dog” (more faithful to Big Mama Thornton than Elvis ever was); “Owlsley, can you hear me now?” in “Day Tripper” (JH: Radio One)
“You may listen to Jimi, but you don’t HEAR Jimi, Billy Hoyle”
Wesley Snipes as Sidney Deane, “White Men Can’t Jump”