Jimi Hendrix Blue Suede Shoes

[GuitarMan81]

can any one help my out by telling me the chord progression to hendrix's Blue Suede shoes the berkeley version from the The Jimi Hendrix Experience 4cd Boxset, or even tabbing out the whole thing or just the solo. Cause im stuck on what I should do and i want to play this song.

[brewwagon]

Blue Suede ShoesCarl Lee Perkins
GWell it's one for the moneyTwo for the show G9Three to get ready and four to go now C9 GDon't you step on my Blue Suede Shoes D9 C9 GYou can do anything but lay off o my Blue Suede Shoes GYou can knock me down step in my faceSlander my name all over the placeDo anything that you want to do G7But uh uh honey lay off o my shoesC9 GDon't you step on my Blue Suede Shoes D9You can do anything C9 Gbut lay off o my Blue Suede ShoesGWell you can burn my house steal my carDrink my cider from my ol fruit jarDo anything that you want to do G7But uh uh honey lay off o my shoes C9 GDon't you step on my Blue Suede Shoes D9You can do anything C9 Gbut lay off o my Blue Suede Shoes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4lW...eature=related

jimi's take

Intro: A

Well it's a one for the money, two for the show,
A7
three to get ready now go, cat ,go,
D A
but don't you step on my blue suede shoes.
E D A
You can do anything, but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
A
Well you can knock me down, step in my face,
slander my name all over the place,
and do anything that you want to do.

But ah ah, honey, lay off of my shoes
D A
and don't you step on my blue suede shoes.
E D A
You can do anything, but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
A
Well you can burn my house, steal my car,
drink my liquor from an old fruit jar,

and do anything that you want to do.
A7
But ah ah, honey, lay off of my shoes,
D A
and don't you step on my blue suede shoes.
E D A
You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.
A
It`s blue blue, blue suede shoes, blue blue, blue suede shoes,
D A
blue blue, blue suede shoes, baby, blue blue, blue suede shoes.
E D A
Well, you can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes.

i don't think jimi was into tabs he just let er rip

sorry the spacing of the chords got messed in the format of the cut and paste

buddy holly and elvis did covers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Ond...eature=related

[Wally]

Man, when I listen to that Carl Perkins cut, all I can hear is I, IV, I, V, I...in the key of A. The rhythm guitarist just sits on that E back there before going back to the A chord. Perkins and the bass player are working a little boogie line there.
You can see the changes from about 0.30 on. I don't ever hear them going to the D from the E before going to the A....and I don't see it either.
Jimi's cut....I have no idea what HEndrix might have decided to do. I saw one cut of it (IIRC it was this song...if not it was another classic rock song from the '50's.) on youtube that was a total butchering of the song.

[brewwagon]

Perkins wrote "Blue Suede Shoes" after seeing a dancer at a honky-tonk get mad at his date for scruffing up his blue suede shoes. Several weeks later, on December 19, 1955, Perkins and his band recorded the song during a session at Sun Studio in Memphis. Phillips suggested changes to the lyrics ("Go, cat, go") and the band changed the end of the song to a boogie vamp. During the long session, as liquor flowed, the sound became tougher, harder and looser, and Perkins played with passion.

Phillips knew he had found the right song to bring out the blues strain in Perkins' music and produce a pop hit. Presley left Sun for a larger opportunity with RCA in November, and on December 19, 1955, Phillips, who had begun recording Perkins in late 1954, told Perkins, "Carl Perkins, you're my rockabilly cat now".

Released on January 1, 1956, "Blue Suede Shoes" was a massive chart success. In the United States, it went to #1 on Billboard magazine's country music charts (the only #1 hit he would have) and to #2 on Billboard's Best Sellers pop music chart. On March 17, Perkins became the first country artist to reach the #3 spot on the rhythm & blues charts.

That night, Perkins performed the song during his television debut on ABC-TV's Ozark Jubilee (Presley performed it for the second time that same night on CBS-TV's Stage Show; he'd first sung it on the program on February 11).

In the United Kingdom, the song became a Top Ten hit. It was the first record by a Sun label artist to sell a million copies. The B side, "Honey Don't," was covered by The Beatles




i wonder how much carl perkins was influenced by the music of lil richard chuck berry and
richard berry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgWrp...eature=related

or vice versa
bw

[Wally]

PErkins was closer to the country than Berry was, imho. Rock came out of country blues. AS I understand it, Berry's rhythms were maybe more influenced by his pianist than anything else. I love the music that both men brought to us out of that Southern rural influence.
Re: Perkins and 'Blue Suede Shoes'....a traffic accident laid Perkins up and he wasn't able to tour to support that hit and to benefit from it. Elvis was able to steal PErkins' thunder. I prefer Perkins' version, and I find Perkins music to be more influential in many ways....among gutiarists particularly....than EP.



"The Telecaster was the first mass produced solid body guitar, originally costing only a mere $139.00! us"

And, to keep things in perspective.....that would be $1200 in 2007 USD.....even more now. It wasn't cheap then.

[GuitarMan81]

Can We Get Back To The Hendrix Version Of The Song

[brewwagon]

Early life
Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942, in Seattle, Washington, USA, while his father was stationed at an Army base in Oklahoma. He was named Johnny Allen Hendrix at birth by his mother, 17 year old Lucille Hendrix née Jeter. She had put him in the temporary care of friends in California (a holiday). On his release from the Army his father, James Allen "Al" Hendrix (1919–2002), took him, and changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix in memory of his deceased brother, Leon Marshall Hendrix. He was known as "Buster" to friends and family, from birth. Shortly after, Al reunited with Lucille. He found it hard to gain steady employment after the Second World War, and the family experienced financial hardship. Hendrix had two brothers, Leon and Joseph, and two sisters, Kathy and Pamela. Joseph was born with physical difficulties and at the age of three was given up to state care. His two sisters were both given up at a relatively early age, for care and later adoption, Kathy was born blind and Pamela had some lesser physical difficulties. Hendrix's parents divorced when he was nine years old, and his mother died in 1958. On occasion, he was sent to live with his church running grandmother in Vancouver, British Columbia because of the unstable household, and his brother Leon was put into temporary welfare care for a period. Hendrix grew up as a shy and sensitive boy, deeply affected by the conditions of poverty and neglect he experienced. In a relatively unusual experience for African Americans of his era, Hendrix's high school had a relatively equitable ethnic mix of African, European (including Jews), Asian (Japanese, Filipino Chinese) and Native Americans. At age 15, around the time his mother died, he acquired his first acoustic guitar for $5 from an acquaintance of his father. This guitar replaced both the broomstick he had been strumming in imitation, and the ukulele his father had found while cleaning out a garage He learned by practicing almost constantly, watching others play, through tips from more experienced players, and by listening to records. In the summer of 1959, his father bought Hendrix a white Supro Ozark, his first electric guitar, but there was no available amplifier. That same year his only failing grade in school was an F in music class.!!! According to fellow Seattle bandmates, he learned most of his acrobatic stage moves, a major part of the blues/R&B tradition, including playing with his teeth and behind his back, from a fellow young musician, Raleigh "Butch" Snipes. Snipes was a guitarist with local band (The Sharps), who performed Chuck Berry's trademark "duck walk". Hendrix played in a couple of local bands, occasionally playing outlying gigs in Washington State and at least once over the border in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Hendrix was particularly fond of Elvis Presley, whom he saw perform in Seattle, in 1957. Leon Hendrix claimed, in an early interview, that Little Richard appeared in his Central District neighborhood and shook hands with his brother, Jimi. This is unattested elsewhere and vehemently denied by his father. Hendrix's early exposure to Blues music came from listening to records by Muddy Waters and B.B. King his father owned. Another early impression came from the 1954 western Johnny Guitar, in which the hero carries no gun but instead wears a guitar slung behind his back. (afro samouri?)

His first gig was with an unnamed band in the basement of a synagogue. After too much wild playing and showing off, he was fired between sets. The first formal band he played in was The Velvetones who performed regularly at the Yesler Terrace Neighborhood House without pay. His flashy style and left-handed playing of a right-handed guitar already made him a standout. He later joined the Rocking Kings who played professionally at such venues as the Birdland. When his guitar was stolen (after he left it backstage overnight), Al bought him a white Silvertone Danelectro which he painted red and emblazoned with the words "Betty Jean" (Morgan), the name of his high school girlfriend.


Hendrix completed junior high at Washington Junior High School with little trouble but didn't graduate from Garfield High School, although he would later be awarded an honorary diploma, and in the 1990s, a bust of Hendrix was placed in the school library. After he became famous in the late 1960s, Hendrix told reporters that he had been expelled from Garfield by racist faculty for holding hands with a white girlfriend in study hall. However, Principal Frank Hanawalt says that it was simply due to poor grades and attendance problems


maybe jimi did this song as a political statement about this issue at school
( do anything that you wanna do just stay off of my blue suede shoes)
bw

[Wally]

GuitarMan81, my apologies. I went to youtube. My computer won't download those two versions there properly. IT only plays like 1 seconds snippets, cutouts out, plays, cuts out....so on.
What I hear there is closer to what BrewWagon posted....all 9th chords in the key of C to my ear. HE does play I, IV, I, V, IV, I....C9, F9, C9, G9, F9 and C9. HE does this song in an R&B manner....funk almost. HE hits the chord/rhythm form, follows the bass down a step on a bass line and works back to the root in half steps. THis arrangement reminds me of the 'I "Don't Know' cut from 'Band of Gypsies'. The fills and lead licks come out of those chords from the blues scale, right? That's as close as I can get you right now. Very funky version of this rock classic.