Added: Jul 23, 2006

From: montiac1

Duration: 10:5

The amazing acoustic guitar wizard Monte Montgomery plays his own style instrumental cover version of Jimi Hendrix's Little Wing live in the Austin Music Network studio. This clip captures a bit of the excitement of what it's like to see him live, but you really just have to be there to really feel it. Trust me, just go see him live whenever possible. You can also get better quality audio of this same song by buying his self-titled CD. About that recording Monte says; "As a teenager, I really became enthralled with Stevie Ray Vaughn. Both of us living in Texas, his music was hard to miss. His posthumously released version of Little Wing hit me very hard. I started just playing around with the song, not knowing the words, it eventually evolved into this epic jam. Stevie's tribute to Hendrix has and will forever be my tribute to Stevie." You can find Monte on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/officialmontemontgomery

Channel: Music

Tags: acoustic  bass  david  guitar  hendrix  jam  jimi  little  monte  montgomery  phil  piggott  ray  srv  stevie  vaughan  wing 


Rating: 4.84 (2895 ratings)    Views: 1077698' favoriteCount='8242    Comments: 25

joshuakhs Says:

Nov 11, 2008 - Brilliant playing! It's been more than 6 months since I first saw this video. Now I still come back to view it often.

danmccain Says:

Nov 12, 2008 - It's still an ACOUSTIC guitar. Regardless of effects.... and he uses acoustic amplifiers too.... it's not like he's up there playing through a Marshall stack or something. and no acoustic doesnot mean unplugged... it just means the instrument has a natural resonosance. Just like you have electric drums or acoustic drums. in short... just cause you think acousticshould mean unplugged doesn't make it true!

moloko89 Says:

Nov 13, 2008 - by all his virtuosity and knowledge he wouldnt ever be able to write such a great song as jimi did

akolyte123 Says:

Nov 14, 2008 - hahaha that guy loves his harmonics....

hurtstring Says:

Nov 14, 2008 - Why not put a deeper shade into the performance and build EXCITEMENT by summoning never imagined tones from a piece of crap pawn shop guitar looking like a weathered shoe box carpet taped together and at the end of the performance instead of plucking strings stomp itto coax unheard of tones.

ronnies58 Says:

Nov 14, 2008 - hurtstring that's pretty impressive playing on a shoe box, what you got?

darckstell Says:

Nov 15, 2008 - o manco cuando te enseño das pena no ases nada aissshhhhh

shawnsulliv Says:

Nov 15, 2008 - what a fuckin gay ass comment. you dont know what this guy is capable of. Who knows, maybe something creative will even come out of you one day.

moloko89 Says:

Nov 16, 2008 - i listened to his original stuff you fucking idiot. thats enough to build my opinion on it, cause his own songs suck ass.

greywoolysocks Says:

Nov 17, 2008 - He's good, but he added so much that its barely little wing anymore, shoulda just named something else

starchief59 Says:

Nov 17, 2008 - He is one bad mother fucker but this is barely little wing.

ctx52x Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - and really good at it too

Voodoofreak35 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - thanks bro, but dont call him a mothafucka...lol

chillichomper Says:

Nov 19, 2008 - Bad MOFO, Great MOFO, Whatever, he's just damn good and a complete animal and guitar abuser!. Didn't know you could be so bad to a guitar and it would still love you back. Sheesh. Great tone too.

drking9313 Says:

Nov 20, 2008 - who cares if its barely little wing. Jimi Hendrix played from feeling as did Monte. do u wanna copy the song or play it?

cowasockysquid Says:

Nov 20, 2008 - Here is a question to stir things up a bit; We know Monte can play Hendrix and SRV, but could either of them have played Monte?

EJLOTSoFUN Says:

Nov 21, 2008 - wow!!!

jasoncasper16 Says:

Nov 21, 2008 - I think Hendrix was an innovator for his time but didn't have as much technical influences to pull from as Monte did. Obviously Monte has influences as diverse as Jerry Donahue, Eric Johnson, Via, Micheal Hedges, etc. And SRV did have the chance to be influenced by these people, but he was too busy carving his own style and sound. So, I doubt that they would do what he does, but again, that is from an analytical point of view. I'm glad they all sound unique in their own respect.

hwaycasie30728 Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - it's because hendrix had raw talent, technology back then was limited and hendrix paved the way for where people are today

draa4love Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - From 2:15 on to about 3:04 Look @ the drummer's face. THAT'S the face of the beautiful agony of music. It's funny in a good way - when music feels THAT damn good...it's SO amazing. Who can agree with me? I can almost FEEL how he feels through this dang monitor. =]

draa4love Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - i think so too. i think it actually escalates from head to heart, after the break around 5-6 minutes, i think it's in heart at that point til the end. good comment, velta.

darrellma Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - Fantastic!

jasoncasper16 Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - I totally agree.

buddiesinabag Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - WOW

handtricks Says:

Nov 22, 2008 - that was beautiful man great job making this your own!!!