Jimi Hendrix Discuss

[CHANCE]

does he deserve the respect he gets as a guitarist and performer ? I think he does,simply because of the things he could do with a guitar were from old footage i have seen was amazing,as if hs was letting his guitar speak and let his emotion out through it.Also some of the songs he has written are still good today as they were when they were released.Thats a good sign when songs stand the test of time IMO.

Im not comparing him to any others just on his merits alone really.

 

[STEVIEG]

For me a no-brainer
Dynamite guitarist with loads of soul and capable of incredible music
His version of "All Along the Watchtower" remains definitive for me and we can only imagine what would have happened had he lived longer

 

[goldey]

My God.....

 

[CHANCE]

For me a no-brainer
Dynamite guitarist with loads of soul and capable of incredible music
His version of "All Along the Watchtower" remains definitive for me and we can only imagine what would have happened had he lived longer

well said stevie lad.Hey joe is an amazing song aswell.

 

[STEVIEG]

The thing is, he was close to working more with Miles by the time he died, I can only imagine if those had proper studio time together
same with the George Clintons and Sly Stones of the world, Jimi was such a loss to music

 

[emurf]

The best axe plaers in the world can't do with a guitar turned the right way up what he did with it upside down

 

[CHANCE]

"nah i dont get hendrix.Yeah he was great but his death did it for him.Page is the icon" one persons view from another msg board on jimi hendrix.

 

[paudie]

"nah i dont get hendrix.Yeah he was great but his death did it for him.Page is the icon" one persons view from another msg board on jimi hendrix.

all jimi death did was he could not make anymore great album's and we had the los of there was no more new music from a guy who was not at the end off his carrer but at a new crossroads having taking stuff for the experience and the Band of Gypsysand was going to make some more great music

i listened to axis bold as love the album a few months back it was the first hendrix album and still my fav

 

[Frantic]

Jimi.

Totally deserves the credit he gets, his standing as one of the all time great guitarists and more importantly musicians is as a result of his amazing talent.
His version of all along the watchtower has some of the best guitar playing ever in my opinion.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Jimi is not a guitarist, he never learned to play guitar and he doesn't know how to play it. What he does is something completely different, he took a lump of wood with six strings on it held it the wrong way up and taught it to speak all by himself and in a style completely his own. What Page does is completely different. He plays guitar and he does it really well but he does it completely and utterly by the rules. Hendrix transcends all that and does something completely different. Pure music flows in his veins and I think the instrument of choice for him was incidental, it may as well have been the 9 1/2 stringed ukelele.

Who knows, maybe Chance is right and his death did do it for him, maybe if he stayed around he would have turned into <flame_proof_undies_on> The Artist Formerly Know as Prince </flame_proof_undies_on> but I suspect he had too much talent for that and that the truth is closer to Stevie's suspicions.

I agree that All Along the Watchtower is close to definitive and for a lifelong Dylan fan that's a hard one too say, but I think you can't beat The Wind Cries Mary.