Rock n Roll Heaven just called ...

[hammered]

 

[Chester Nimitz]

He was Great! Loved his music.
Let's not forget he was the way he was on a guitar because he was a living LSD experiment. Lets see how LSD affects a human being's brain and an instrument. He slept with his guitar because he said it would make him better.

I knew lots of men & women in the 60's, 70's & 80' that dropped acid [i didn't] and none of them ever sounded like Hendrix.
However you could say they were Legends in their own minds ...

If your logic were true everyone that ever did acid should sound like a bunch of Hendrix's running around.

Fact is since the 60's ive never heard anyone play like him with the exception of SRV's version of VooDoo Chile and Randy Hansen but they don't really have anything to do with LSD.

Hendrix liked to party tho, we all did, that was the thing to do.

 

[Beyond Black]

He was Great! Loved his music.
Let's not forget he was the way he was on a guitar because he was a living LSD experiment. Lets see how LSD affects a human being's brain and an instrument. He slept with his guitar because he said it would make him better.

I knew lots of men & women in the 60's, 70's & 80' that dropped acid [i didn't] and none of them ever sounded like Hendrix.
However you could say they were Legends in their own minds ...

If your logic were true everyone that ever did acid should sound like a bunch of Hendrix's running around.

Fact is since the 60's if never heard anyone play like him with the exception of SRV's version of VooDoo Chile and Randy Hansen but they don't really have anything to do with LSD.

Hendrix liked to party tho, we all did, that was the thing to do.

Totally agree. The whole music world was tripping balls back then, and NOBODY else sounded like Hendrix. There was a whole lot more to that man going on, that just adding acid wasn't going to get. He was from a different planet and scared the shit out of every guitarist out there at the time.

 

[MetalHeadMike]

^^^^
Yep. It wasn't just the drugs. Hendrix just had a gift, mojo, whatever you want to call it. There are just people who are destined right out of the chute to accomplish great feats artistically speaking, and that man was among many. His unique style and talents were showing themselves in the earlier years of his career before he started smoking, popping and dropping.

Man, all this Hendrix talk is making me want to stock back up on his music. I was really into him through high school and had all the typical albums + a ton of live and bootlegged stuff. Nine to the Universe was sick!

Machine gun! Can't even count how many times I listened to that song.

Have always wondered what transformations Jimi's music would have taken had he lived longer. Sadly enough, I think that's part of the mystique of the music. Don't get me wrong, not saying I wouldn't rather still have him here.

 

[MrSticky]

Those freakin' chords!!! At least they're getting easier & I'm practicing more to get them down. His fingers had to have one helluva wingspan. Jimi is one of those artists I can't get enough of.

 

[MetalHeadMike]

^^^
Here ya there. Never get sick of listening to him!

 

[controlled_voltage]

so many things he ushered in
a force of nature who bonded people together of all races globally and his waves are still felt to this day.
did you ever happen to be around someone when they discover Jimi for the first time?
it's as if they just discovered........... god.......
been there
i know that feeling
as guitar rock players we all owe him a debt
he was a Jesus like figure

 

[thiswaythatway]

-only by far the greatest musician of all time-(including all genres, all instruments, all conductors, composers, ANYONE!!!)-

-

Laughs at that statement.

Yeah I have to agree. There are several others along with Mozart who would eat Jimi and his mountain for breakfast but as far as straight up rock and roll Jimi was the best.

Of course. But even Rock N Roll, my favorite Jimmy was Jimmy Page.

 

[Motorpud]

Yeah I think Jimi is probably the most overrated guitarist of all time. There are 12 year olds a on YouTube that will eat him for breakfast. Seems about right considering his pro career was like 4 years.

Ive been gaped here for saying that before but my stance is more solid on him than ever

 

[thiswaythatway]

-statement stands no matter who you care to put up-

No because whether you like it or not Mozart, and others like him, will be remember for hundreds of years past anyone even knows who Hendrix is or was. Even the young generations now are forgetting what Rock N Roll is. The average 12 year old has zero clue who Hendrix was or what any of his songs sound like but they know plenty of Mozart songs. And 12 year olds grow up and run this show we call society.

Not taking away from Hendrix but look at this, kids not even a few generations away hardly know who Metallica is or was. Some of the kids are funny and good sports, except for the little shit with the glasses, but they hardly know who they are. And guess who sold more albums between Metallica and Hendrix.

 

[Motorpud]

-statement stands no matter who you care to put up-

No because whether you like it or not Mozart, and others like him, will be remember for hundreds of years past anyone even knows who Hendrix is or was. Even the young generations now are forgetting what Rock N Roll is. The average 12 year old has zero clue who Hendrix was or what any of his songs sound like but they know plenty of Mozart songs. And 12 year olds grow up and run this show we call society.

Not taking away from Hendrix but look at this, kids not even a few generations away hardly know who Metallica is or was. Some of the kids are funny and good sports, except for the little shit with the glasses, but they hardly know who they are. And guess who sold more albums between Metallica and Hendrix.

Eh, that kid with the glasses personifies our hipster youth. I want to beat him with a pillow case full of bars of soap to toughen him up.

 

[bog70]

Yeah I think Jimi is probably the most overrated guitarist of all time. There are 12 year olds a on YouTube that will eat him for breakfast. Seems about right considering his pro career was like 4 years.

Ive been gaped here for saying that before but my stance is more solid on him than ever

I don't know many 12 year olds (in 1969) that could play like this. Can you point them out?

 

[Chester Nimitz]

12 year olds in 1969 didn't know their ass from a hole in the ground ... and Metallica members were in kindergarden.

 

[IndyWS6]

Kind of a pointless argument. It's impossible to compare because every artist is uniquely different. And that makes it great. It should really be an exclamation of personal preference instead of a contest ("he's my favorite musician, ever" vs "he's the best musician, ever"). Was Jimi great? Sure, if you enjoyed that kind of music. Not so much if you were into the Tijuana Brass

Danyeo has a point, though. Mozart (and other composers of the time) knew music from a level of detail that few others can master. It was like math and science with notes. I'd say that the skill it takes to write a composition for complete sections of instruments; brass, woodwinds, strings, etc., takes far more skill than being able to jump from guitar to bass and vocals. A small number can do the latter, but very few can do the former...

Just my .02...

 

[Rock Bodom]

Mozart was OK, but he never played his harpsichord out of tune or lit it on fire at the end of a concert. So Jimi was still kind of ahead of him.

 

[MetalHeadMike]

^^^

 

[bog70]

Poetry in motion. He was the real deal. No Floyds back then, no fancy shit. Just raw tools and the man made history with what he had. People are STILL trying to figure how he did what he did. The total package, sang wrote timeless tunes, played in his own style and a premier showman. NOBODY followed Hendrix.

 

[Speeddemon]

Yeah I think Jimi is probably the most overrated guitarist of all time. There are 12 year olds a on YouTube that will eat him for breakfast. Seems about right considering his pro career was like 4 years.

And how many of those 12 year olds will have the same impact on rock music in general as Jimi had?

Oh, different times you say? Right....

Ok, how many of those 12 year olds would even HAVE the evolution of rock guitar to equal or trump without Jimi?

Same stupid argument as someone seeing a late Mondriaan painting and claiming "give my dog a ruler, 3 tubes of paint and he can do that"
If you don't know the artistic/skill-learning/evolving journey and are only able to reproduce the end result, you're no artist.