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Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

HazeyTwilight — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 09:54:57 GMT

Author: HazeyTwilight

Posted: 07/27/2019 13:54

'scuse me while i kiss this guy

Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

PurpleHazel — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 04:43:04 GMT

Author: PurpleHazel

Posted: 07/27/2019 08:43

indieshins wrote:

While players like Clapton played all the right notes, but always seemed to be thinking about the notes to play (even if they weren't)... I find Clapton mostly boring

Agree with you about Clapton to a large extent, but I think we're in the great minority. My favorite Clapton is Layla (the album) and when he stretched out with Cream. When his blues album, From the Cradle, came out, PBS broadcast a concert of his promoting the album and his playing seemed a little stiff and repetitive, more obvious because I could see his fingers.

I'm a big Jeff Beck fan, but that's a topic for another day. Great in his own way, but not quite in Hendrix' league.

Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

indieshins — Sat, 27 Jul 2019 02:35:43 GMT

Author: indieshins

Posted: 07/27/2019 06:35

I think PurpleHazel pretty much covered it, honestly. For me, it comes down to the simple fact that he played with an incredible amount of feeling and with a fluidity that is to be envied. There's a video of Jeff Beck playing Little Wing on Youtube somewhere, and even though the whole thing is a lot cleaner and the notes are more defined, it lacks something. That's what Jimi had. While players like Clapton played all the right notes, but always seemed to be thinking about the notes to play (even if they weren't), Jimi sometimes played wrong notes, but played them with more conviction and feeling than almost anyone before or since. So many players playing the same sort of stuff as him felt kind of bland in their technicality - their fingers had memorised classic licks and they played them by rote over simple blues structures. Jimi took all of that and added creative flair that few of his peers had.

Of course, this is entirely subjective. Some people love Clapton and Beck. I find Clapton mostly boring, and can't comment on Beck. That's an argument for a different time. With Jimi, I think it was the added artistry of it, beyond the simple virtuosity. The man played as if the guitar were an extension of his body, and he made it cry like no-one else.

Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

CharlieBarley — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:56:07 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 07/26/2019 23:56

His charisma, his talent, his versatility and his unique and peerless way of playing guitar.

As well as having cool hair he had a cool singing voice too.

I have a question:

Does the song "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Rolling Stones reference Jimi Hendrix?

I always thought it was spooky that the Jimmy/Jimi in the song looked " pretty ill " in the drug store then Jimi Hendrix died the next year after Let It Bleed came out. In 1970. It's almost as if Jagger and Richards predicted Jimi Hendrix' death.

Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

mickilennial — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 19:35:48 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 07/26/2019 23:35

i like when he does the guitar stuff

Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

craola — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:34:01 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 07/26/2019 16:34

Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

Skinny — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:13:56 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 07/26/2019 16:13

Hayden wrote:

His hair.

He did have great hair.

Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

Hayden — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 10:13:24 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 07/26/2019 14:13

His hair.

Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

Fischman — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 09:15:02 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 07/26/2019 13:15

PurpleHazel wrote:

He and Miles Davis were in negotiations to make an album with Tony Williams on drums when he died.

Now that would have been somethin'! Throw in a solid bassist and you'd have a unique and supremely talented ensemble. I would have loved to have heard what they would have produced.

Oh, and in response to the OP, of all the rock musicians destined to land on the heap of long term anonymity, Jimi's about the last who might suffer that fate. Really, in terms of long term staying power, he's right up there with The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin.

Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

PurpleHazel — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 03:15:19 GMT

Author: PurpleHazel

Posted: 07/26/2019 07:15

Hendrix' popularity has never flagged a huge amount.

The archival collection Heaven, Hell and Angels (2013) reached #2 on the U.S. album charts. Valleys of Neptune (2010) reached #4 and Both Sides of the Sky (2018) reached #8.

Posthumous albums that went gold:

The Cry of Love (1971) [Platinum]
Rainbow Bridge (1972)
Hendrix in the West [Live] (1972)
Crash Landing (1975) (boo!)
BBC Sessions (1998)
Live at Woodstock (1999)

Of course, his albums do pretty well on here, with Are You Experienced? at #31 and Electric Ladyland at #69.

Given where rock guitar was when he emerged, I think he's the greatest rock guitarist of all time. You don't hear enough about his influence on heavy metal, but who had a bigger, heavier guitar sound in 1967? Big influence on Sonic Youth. The whole subgenre of shoegaze owes something to him (Sethmadsen touched on his influence on alternative rock guitar). He might not have invented the use of feedback in rock, but he's the first rock guitarist to make it central to his sound and explored its possibilities more thoroughly than any other guitarist of the 60s. He thoroughly explored the possibilities of a whole bunch of guitar effects and used and blended them with great musicality.

He was a great improviser. When he got a chance to stretch out, he never played the same notes the same way twice, had a stream of consciousness quality to his soloing that might've been influenced by John Coltrane.

He was a terrific blues player too. There were many rock guitarists in the 60s who were trying to build on the electric blues, but Hendrix had a great blues foundation, having toured the chitlin' circuit with The Isley Brothers and Little Richard and rubbing shoulders with many blues greats like B.B. King and Buddy Guy (he and Guy were friends).

He was very admired among jazz musicians. He jammed with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, John McLaughlin and Larry Young. He and Miles Davis were in negotiations to make an album with Tony Williams on drums when he died. He and Gil Evans were also planning an album featuring Hendrix with Evans' orchestrations. Evans went on to record an album of Hendrix songs, The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix (1974). Hendrix tunes were a staple of Evans' concerts until his death in 1988 (the live versions are generally much better than the ones on the studio album, and Evans put out quite a few live albums).

Re: What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

911Turbo — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 19:04:47 GMT

Author: 911Turbo

Posted: 07/25/2019 23:04

Well , for 50 -60 years, jimi has changed many lives with his guitar playing.
Is he going to be a distant memory? Possibly. Who can predict the future.
Certainly not in my life time.

What do you like about Jimi Hendrix

StefanR10 — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:05:23 GMT

Author: StefanR10

Posted: 07/25/2019 20:05

I ask while this great guitarist will get lost of memory