The genius that was...
stateoflove79
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Jimi Hendrix...been listening to him alot lately...what an amazing talent.
Let's do a top ten Jimi Hendrix songs thread just for the hell of it...
Mine are as follows...
Little Wing
51st Anniversary
Freedom
House Burning Down
1983...A Merman I Should Turn To Be
Fire
Crosstown Traffic
Angel
The Wind Cries Mary
Spanish Castle Magic
Let's do a top ten Jimi Hendrix songs thread just for the hell of it...
Mine are as follows...
Little Wing
51st Anniversary
Freedom
House Burning Down
1983...A Merman I Should Turn To Be
Fire
Crosstown Traffic
Angel
The Wind Cries Mary
Spanish Castle Magic
Is it so wrong to think that love can keep us safe?
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Stone Free
Ezy Rider
All Along The Watchtower
Castles Made of Sand
Purple Haze
Voodoo Chile(slight return)
Spanish Castle Magic
In From The Storm
Manic Depression
Although this changes from day to day.:)
Angel.
The rest.
Castles Made of Sand
Voodoo Chile
Fire
Red House
All Along the Watchtower
Little Wing
Angel
Machinegun
Long Hot Summer Night
And to the person who said he wasn't a genius, seriously?? He's hands down the greatest and most important guitar player who has ever lived. No one else is even in the same ballpark.
your list has no merit without "All Along the Watchtower".....even Bob Dylan admitted that Jimi's version was superior to his own, and began performing it live Hendrix style.
THAT is the song! I love it so much. I'll never get tired of it.
Neato.
Now let's make Hendrix look like the amateur he is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW_ZTq5IAqE
Little wing
Fire
Purple Haze
hey joe
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Voodoo Chile
Crosstown Traffic
Long Hot Summer Night
Killing floor
That's just unlistenable, pointless, toneless fretwanking. You don't think Hendrix wouldn't have been able to do that, had he been into fingertapping and had thought it necessary to play all the scales at once? Hendrix was creating art in his solo. Buckethead or whatever the talentless fuck his name is is just showing that his previous job was a touch typist. Boring. Next.
We're talking Hendrix, and you give us Buckethead?? Seriously??
being a musician is not about how fast your fingers move, it's about making something beautiful. there was no SOUL in that video. At least pick someone like Vai if you are going to choose a shredder. he actually has *shock* slow songs.
Thank you. It's amazing how many people on this board and in general just don't get this. These are the same people who think Mark Tremonti from Creed/Alter Bridge is a good guitar player. Great guitar playing is all about soul. It's about playing with feeling and invoking feeling in those who are listening.
that was just a showing of his skill
if you're interested in "soul" (which to me is what people attribute to guitarists who are simply minimalists who like to close their eyes alot) then listen to Buckethead's albums "Colma" or "Electric Tears"....the man will have you crying.
You lose a credibility saying that Tremonti is not a good player. That is also one of the stupidest things i have ever heard about guitars and guitar players.
yeah the "soul" argument is what people use when they like shit guitar players like Jimi Hendrix and John Frusciante. haha
here's some soul for you....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61k041I4aEo&feature=related
it even has all the cute head shaking that comes along with "soulful" guitar playing.
Pfffffft. No tone = no soul.
top ten...hmm
little wing
all along the watchtower (love bob dylan as well)
castles made of sand
the wind cries mary
...i cannot rate the rest...
peace
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He blows. He has no soul. I have yet to hear a solo of his that enhances a song. It's typically him just trying to play as fast as he can. There's a lot more to playing guitar than speed.
Hendrix changed the art of guitar playing. He hit notes that connect with me emotionally/spiritually in a way that no other guitar player can. There are so many perspectives on what makes a great guitar player. I don't give a fuck about technique. I don't give a fuck about "songwriting" (that's for the Jimmy Page folks). For me, it is all about the reaction created in me by the guitarist. Hendrix creates the strongest reaction in me. SRV and McCready are next in line.
As for that Buckethead clip, he's a good guitar player in a sense. There's still no soul there. To compare him to Hendrix is blasphemy. He creates little feeling for me.
When he sings that line... it gives me chills... he sounds so sad
Love for Little Wing
I'll Hold The Pain... Release...
Yourself
Butthead: It means that his friends are like turds and that they like suck.
Beavis: Heh heh. Oh yeah. Yeah! Get those spoons out of my face before I shove them up your butt!
Butthead: Huh huh.
Give me Hendrix or *shock* Frusciante over that any day. And don't try to say I don't know because I'm not a musician. yes I am. I went through the "shred is cool" phase and ultimately came to realise that it means fuck all.
Hear my train a comin'
Red house
Still raining, still dreaming
Angel
51st anniversary
Bold as love
Steppin stone
Fire
Crosstown traffic
And to the poster mentionning buckethead, are you crazy? Boring guitarists who play 44 nps can be found anywhere, a guitarist like jimi hendrix... not so much
I was just at Jimi's grave in July...pretty cool monument.
I know its a cover but 'Hear My Train a'Comin' blows me away, especially the latter solo from the Band of Gypsys show. For me, many of his blues covers demonstrate his guitar greatness best and I don't mean those on the studio albums.
Star Spangled Banner just gets on my nerves, know some will view this as blasphemy but I wonder if he himself considered it notable in comparison to his other work(Im already aware of the symbolism of it).
as for Buckethead, well, maturity cannot be depended on eh.