Animal wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:56 pm
sometimes i wonder why Jimi Hendrix is considered the (one of the) greatest guitar player of all time.
I would guess that he's not anymore, but back in the day no one was really making the sounds he was making and for that time he was a really big deal. My fave is Castles Made of Sand.
In '67 no one was creating the sound he was. Just my opinion;)
This, basically. There were those coming close (Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, for example, or early Carlos Santana), but nobody else was the whole package. Ten years later, practically every other garage band lead guitarist could pull Jimi's licks like they were nothing, and by that time there were guitarists going way beyond him, Terry Kath of the original Chicago could outplay Jimi in damn near every way. You got guys these days playing in forgotten bar bands who can tear up Stevie Ray Vaughn's playing on a bad night.
Animal wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:56 pm
sometimes i wonder why Jimi Hendrix is considered the (one of the) greatest guitar player of all time.
I would guess that he's not anymore, but back in the day no one was really making the sounds he was making and for that time he was a really big deal. My fave is Castles Made of Sand.
In '67 no one was creating the sound he was. Just my opinion;)
This, basically. There were those coming close (Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, for example, or early Carlos Santana), but nobody else was the whole package. Ten years later, practically every other garage band lead guitarist could pull Jimi's licks like they were nothing, and by that time there were guitarists going way beyond him, Terry Kath of the original Chicago could outplay Jimi in damn near every way. You got guys these days playing in forgotten bar bands who can tear up Stevie Ray Vaughn's playing on a bad night.
Go on YouTube and you can find 12 year old kids playing Led Zeppelin better than Jimmy Page ever could. But you get remembered for creating your own sound.
Re: what are you listening too?
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 1:45 pm
by Burn1dwn
disco.moon wrote: ↑Fri Jul 23, 2021 12:41 am
I would guess that he's not anymore, but back in the day no one was really making the sounds he was making and for that time he was a really big deal. My fave is Castles Made of Sand.
In '67 no one was creating the sound he was. Just my opinion;)
Great song.
Jimmy played the guitar upside down so it made different sounds than everyone else. Or something like that. Not an instrument player so I don't know how true this is.
sometimes i wonder why Jimi Hendrix is considered the (one of the) greatest guitar player of all time.
I would guess that he's not anymore, but back in the day no one was really making the sounds he was making and for that time he was a really big deal. My fave is Castles Made of Sand.
In '67 no one was creating the sound he was. Just my opinion;)
I would say that the reason no one was making the sounds at the time was because electric guitars were brand new instruments. It was possible for people to make sounds come from an electric guitar that could not come from acoustic guitars. I'm certainly not saying that Hendrix wasn't unique and original.
Yes, Ma'am. It always seems most bands can be considered to sound like some other band. The Cars didn't sound like anybody then or since. Totally unique sound