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What Makes Jimi Hendrix Such a Good Guitarist (Original Post) ProudLib72 Jul 2019 OP
You are right. No one. Ever. N/t peacebuzzard Jul 2019 #1
I used to like Ulrich Roth a lot. Still do but not as obsessed with him. Michael Schenker, though, LuvLoogie Jul 2019 #2
Remember in Crossroads Vai was the Devil's guitarist ProudLib72 Jul 2019 #13
Well, maybe one... Zambero Jul 2019 #3
speaking of telecasters retread Jul 2019 #22
so sad for those he never met greyl Jul 2019 #4
If 6 was 9, I don't mind. Fall mountains just don't fall on me. MasonDreams Jul 2019 #5
A fellow bricklayer? MasonDreams---I used to dream I was at work panader0 Jul 2019 #15
Sorry to say ,but no I should have mastered one thing MasonDreams Jul 2019 #21
the upside down left hand stratocaster is alien to most guitar players rampartc Jul 2019 #6
Hendrix's upside down Stratocaster, unlike Dick Dale's, was conventionally strung for a southpaw Brother Buzz Jul 2019 #10
He used to be good but hasn't been for many years now. Kaleva Jul 2019 #7
So glad I got to see him live, back in '67. (nt) Paladin Jul 2019 #8
1968 for me DFW Jul 2019 #11
Is anyone else Alpeduez21 Jul 2019 #9
I think with most great guitarist it comes up out of the soul. Hotler Jul 2019 #12
Here's my favorite ProudLib72 Jul 2019 #14
I got to see him 9/9/69 in Portland, Oregon. panader0 Jul 2019 #16
An employer of mine in Boulder loved Hendrix Harker Jul 2019 #17
I can tell the difference ProudLib72 Jul 2019 #18
Gunsmoke! Harker Jul 2019 #20
Eddie Van Halen is a great also. Archae Jul 2019 #19
Lot's of hard work honing his craft. Paid his dues on the "chitlin' circuit". retread Jul 2019 #23

LuvLoogie

(6,823 posts)
2. I used to like Ulrich Roth a lot. Still do but not as obsessed with him. Michael Schenker, though,
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 02:05 AM
Jul 2019

has remained dear to my heart since the 70s. That said, I think Steve Vai is from another universe where God is a guitar player and Steve Vai is one of his angels. Do I think Steve Vai is better than Jimi? No. But that is not what this is about. I post two videos (there are more) that beautifully show what Steve Vai is all about.



MasonDreams

(756 posts)
5. If 6 was 9, I don't mind. Fall mountains just don't fall on me.
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 03:58 AM
Jul 2019

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, , , so let me live my life, , the way I want to.

panader0

(25,816 posts)
15. A fellow bricklayer? MasonDreams---I used to dream I was at work
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 02:36 PM
Jul 2019

and wake up tired....
If I didn't get 4 or 5 hundred bricks or block a day it was a bad day.
I figure somewhere between 3 or 4 million units laid in my 40 years.
Then I went into drywall.....
It's so hot here in So Az now that I can hardly believe I used to work
in this sun every day.

MasonDreams

(756 posts)
21. Sorry to say ,but no I should have mastered one thing
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 05:50 AM
Jul 2019

I have made garden walkways, sm stairs, & walls with block. I've mostly fixed existing buildings ,helped with all trades. Block in AZ sun sounds more extreme than summer roofing in Alabama. We always got on roof from 4am--11am. After 11 too hot, melted my shoes once.
The mason part is my last name and I think we should build our dreams (the good ones) into existence.
Sounds like a great career building that lasts. No mold just cause it got wet, doesn't catch on fire, crashing cars and tornados lose. I always wanted to be a part of something that would last, like Denver's Capital (all stone). It might sink into the Earth but it'll be there in a thousand years.

rampartc

(5,216 posts)
6. the upside down left hand stratocaster is alien to most guitar players
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 05:25 AM
Jul 2019

but the practitioners of that art, dick dale, buddy mules, Hendrix seem to use it to their advantage.

Brother Buzz

(36,126 posts)
10. Hendrix's upside down Stratocaster, unlike Dick Dale's, was conventionally strung for a southpaw
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 10:53 AM
Jul 2019

Oh, and the crazy thing, Leo Fender actually built Dick Dale a left handed Stratocaster, but it was strung backwards.

DFW

(53,930 posts)
11. 1968 for me
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 10:55 AM
Jul 2019

Had fate intervened a little earlier, my band would have opened for him in D.C. at the Ambassador in 1967. Can‘t have it all, I guess.

Alpeduez21

(1,734 posts)
9. Is anyone else
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 09:01 AM
Jul 2019

struck by that irony that Hendrix was cool. But this Poindexter nerds him all up?

Hendrix was great. I sometimes wonder what he would've created had he the technology that was available for Prince. Jimi Hendrix and the Jimi Hendrix experience was just THREE people. The sound was HUGE!. Look at the Police or the Stray Cats. Good bands but not able to fill the speakers the way Hendrix, Most and Redding could.

Hotler

(11,325 posts)
12. I think with most great guitarist it comes up out of the soul.
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 12:15 PM
Jul 2019

their ability to feel and express that through the notes of the guitar. I think there is a difference from playing music with just mental thoughts, to pulling it up from the depths of your soul. Like meditation, not everyone can reach that deep state. Jim Hendrix, Stevie Ray, Joe Bonamassa, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, and many others here and passed are able to pull it up from from the toes.

Harker

(13,822 posts)
17. An employer of mine in Boulder loved Hendrix
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 02:59 PM
Jul 2019

and dismissed Stevie Ray. He came back from lunch once during SRV's take on "Little Wing." "Nobody could play like he could", he said.

You should've seen his face when I replied, "yep... there's only one Stevie Ray."

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
18. I can tell the difference
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 05:39 PM
Jul 2019

Sorry but I think Stevie Ray Vaughn was derivative of Hendrix. That's not to say he wasn't a damned fine player. We're going to have to meet for a showdown one of these days, Harker.

Harker

(13,822 posts)
20. Gunsmoke!
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 06:29 PM
Jul 2019

I'm confident that I wouldn't make that mistake, either, having heard so much of them both. I loved SRV for himself, but he was certainly a follower, and openly imitative. A biography I read recounted him having punched Jimmie Vaughan after he told Stevie Ray that he sounded like Robin Trower.

Big ears, musically speaking.

I saw Stevie Ray at Red Rocks, after Bobby Blue Bland, Albert King, and B.B. King. Hendrix died a few years prior to my first rock concert.

In PA, hoping to relocate to upstate NY soon.

retread

(3,751 posts)
23. Lot's of hard work honing his craft. Paid his dues on the "chitlin' circuit".
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 08:07 AM
Jul 2019

Acknowledged he stood on the shoulders of giants.






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