Machine Gun
Song by Jimi HendrixWikipedia
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Search complete. 7 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Machine Gun".
Oct 16, 2026
Adam ChoitHOST
1999.
Michael DrummGUEST
But they've always done Ohio with Machine Gun, the Hendrix track.
David FlammGUEST
Mm-hmm.
David FlammGUEST
Yeah.
David FlammGUEST
Well worth it.
Adam ChoitHOST
Sounds like, yeah, I'll read the set list quickly.
Adam ChoitHOST
Crazy Crying, I Got You, Midnight, Midnight, Harlem Hero, What in the World, Future Soul, 1999, Part of Me, Ohio- Uh, with the Machine Gun tease, I'm sure, and Got to Get Better and A Little While to close out set one, then set two, Wildflowers, Do I Look Worried, Bell Bottom Blues, Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad, Midnight Fair, Dreams, Got My Mojo Workin', Angel, Sugaree, Bound for Glory, uh, The Storm, Into the Whipping Post, and the...
Adam ChoitHOST
Then that epic encore of I Can't Make You Love Me, then Loving Cup, Leavin' Trunk, Volunteered Slavery.
JoshHOST
But the, the album that got me hooked on guitar was the Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys album.
JoshHOST
You know, hearing "Machine Gun" for the first time, it was life-changing.
Henry KaiserGUEST
Point out that the lyrics there are about the shamanic experience.
Henry KaiserGUEST
"I stand up next to a mountain," kind of, you know? He's talking about what he's playing, where the music comes to him from.
Chris PolandGUEST
It's a bonus track.
Chris PolandGUEST
And we did this jam, and, and somehow Pag started going into, um, this Hendrix vibe of, um, Machine Gun.
Chris PolandGUEST
And I wasn't playing a Strat.
Chris PolandGUEST
I was playing through two Yamaha solid state amps.
Jedd BeaudoinHOST
The other element with the news kind of side of it is the history side.
Jedd BeaudoinHOST
You mentioned the Isley brothers earlier, and when I became acquainted with their version of Ohio and machine gun – And then I realized, OK, these are black artists singing the song Ohio.
Jedd BeaudoinHOST
Those were white kids.
Jedd BeaudoinHOST
But what if they had been black kids? And then that's married to Machine Gun.
André CymoneGUEST
Right.
Jedd BeaudoinHOST
About, you know, people of color being disproportionately represented in the Vietnam War.
John SimsHOST
First, some Zapper from his 22nd studio album, 1976's Zoot Allures, and Black Napkins.
John SimsHOST
And then some Hendrix from his fourth album and his first live recording, 1970's Band of Gypsies, from which I'll be playing the epic Machine Gun.
John SimsHOST
Thank you. . . . . .
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