Purple Haze 🎸Full Version🎸Steve Costello🎸Jimi Hendrix guitar cover 🎸studio version🎸

Steve Costello performs Purple Haze, a Jimi Hendrix guitar cover of one of the Jimi Hendrix Experience's greatest hits in 1967, along with Hey Joe. Steve's guitar playing is similar to Jimi's classic blues style, with improvised licks, rock riffs, various chords, bass lines and scales.

Purple Haze - Steve Costello - Vocals, Guitar - studio type cover background version.
The vocal track of this Jimi Hendrix guitar cover is Steve's style, not trying to mimic Jimi, and was performed live with the guitar track over this background most likely sometime in the late 1990's.
The background drum track is not original in this version, it was pre-made, unlike the other two original versions of Purple Haze that Steve has put together and are available on this channel. Unfortunately, this background track is from an unknown source, and being very well done, it was a pleasure to use it to build a song upon.
Jimi Hendrix guitar cover Remastered 2025
Background picture is from The Brass Rail, Middletown, New Jersey in 8-18-2009
Purple Haze song style influences: Jimi Hendrix, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan

The main influence for this studio type rendition is the studio version from the album "Are You Experienced?"

For this version of Purple Haze, the guitar and vocal influence was from the original Jimi Hendrix studio rendition , with some of the influence coming from audience tapes of Jimi Hendrix's live shows.

Some favorite Jimi Hendrix's live shows with Purple Haze':
7-30-1970 Mauie with the guitar
1-23-1969 Sportspalast Berlin
5-17-1969 Providence
1-1-1970 2nd show Fillmore - unique with Buddy Miles playing superb drums
5-8-1970 Norman
9-4-1970 Berlin
5-30-1970 Berkeley - first show
... and many more.

The primary guitar influence for Purple Haze was obviously from Jimi Hendrix, however this version adds to Purple Haze Steve Costello's unique style of playing (which is similar to Jimi's style) based on the structure of the original studio hit Purple Haze.

Listen to the other two Purple Haze version recorded by Steve Costello, and you can hear many difference compared to this version. These other two versions were original and created completely by Steve - background, guitar, bass and vocals, and they have interesting varied structures but still retain the feel of Jimi's Purple Haze including Jimi's live concert versions.

This song is in the Key of Eb, with the guitar tuned down 1/2 step to Eb, and then played with the open "E" strings.

The verse progression is E - G - A / E - G - A / , the intro riff and guitar solo parts are over the E chord.

There are three stops in the song followed by the riff F# - E - D - - B - D - G - B - D - G .

Listen to the Jimi Hendrix style guitar solo, where the firsr time sround the guitar is similar to the studio rendition, but the second solo is unique. Feedback sustain with a wawa pedal is tastefully achieved throughout the song with a rich heavy tone.

Purple Haze uses repetition patterns within a four bar period.

The guitar riffs have a good mix of repetitive and linear motives with feedback sustain (no whammy bar), combined with solid root resolutions of riffs, making listening to this rendition very enjoyable.

Analyzing songs is very enjoyable. Using the Deductive reasoning approach, songs are examined from the song key, down actual waveform frequencies, including the song progression, the analysis of melody including it's motif, contour, rhythm and essential pitches. Actual waveform frequencies are examined using the tool Audacity for PC.

Actual waveform frequencies are examined using the tool Audacity for PC. Much thanks to Fil at Wings Of Pegasus for all the in-depth great videos, as he is excellent in song analysis and looking at the actual frequencies. Many thanks to Fil for the idea of using the great App VocalPitchMonitor for analysis. Fil's work is very valuable, and one can learn much from him, so it is a good idea to check out his channel.

Enjoy!

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