Jimi Hendrix Discuss

[Riordan]

Jimi amazes me.

 

[Kevin]

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.

coincidently i got voodoo child playing right now..... I'm partial to "little wing" myself

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Little Wing, that intro says it all so - much tone and heart there, he's a legend!

 

[rootybooty]

"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.

Bollocks!, plenty people die and stay forgotten......but if they die and nobody forgets them.well then..there´s a reason for that.
This thread is too obvious to really go any deeper...hendrix was a master of his instrument, not many have done it as good as him.

 

[strict66]

completely revolutionised electric guitar playing. No one sounded like jimi before him and no one has sounded like him since . Big man for studio trickery aswell i.e the backward solo on are you expirenced sheer genius.

 

[CHANCE]

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.

i didnt say that,if you read it again .Its a person opinion on another msg board.

 

[CHANCE]

Bollocks!, plenty people die and stay forgotten......but if they die and nobody forgets them.well then..there´s a reason for that.
This thread is too obvious to really go any deeper...hendrix was a master of his instrument, not many have done it as good as him.

why so ?

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

i didnt say that,if you read it again .Its a person opinion on another msg board.

I was aware of that..

 

[PigCapitalist]

Jimi had more in common with John Coltrane than with Page. He had absorbed the harmonic lessons of the modernists, and applied them to Rock music. Listen to 'A Love Supreme' then "Axis Bold as Love' and you will follow what I am saying. It was all about the harmonics, not just the speed, style and phrasing. Jaco Pastorius understood this also.

 

[Jim Comic]

http://www.nme.com/news/jimi-hendrix/41024

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/147397-jimi-hendrix-experience-drummer-mitch-mitchell-rip