Greatest artist of all time in my opinion and would have surpassed the Beatles and the Stones if his career was not cut short by his unfortunate death. Quite a random discussion of opinion, but for me his music makes alot of other things seem boring, I never and no longer listen to the Beatles etc.
Not really a fan of what was him and his bands most notable song "purple haze" but the rest such as "Little wing" "Bold as love" "voodoo child" stand out as great songs. People say the greatest guitarist of all time, that is probably open for debate as people have different opinions and too many variables, but I would say the most uniquely gifted guitarist that left the biggest legacy and mostly influenced a change in style of Rock music.
Never found Clapton to be that interesting or great. Tears in heaven is my favourite but "layla" - very overrated.
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He had simply an amazing impact - even more remarkable when you think of the talent around at the time. Unique hardly begins to describe him and his music.
Honoured to have had the chance to see him on stage.
So am I honoured GHF , l had the greatest
Luck to see him in february 1967 at the Chelmsford corn exchange which was a small dance hall ( no tickets required you paid at the door ) he shook the place apart . He actualy stopped half way through a number & said -MAN THESE AMPLIFIERS ARE CRAP perhaps Ken From Bexley would know whether he may not have been useing his favoured Marshall amps at the time . Great days also saw acts such as cream john mayall the yardbirds etc at Rhodes in Bishops Stortford All at less than £1 admission !
When Hey Joe became an overnight sensation in mid-1967, for me it was basically disbelief at what I was hearing. I had to see this guy live. The Saville was owned at that time by Brian Epstein, and Sundays at The Saville was a succession of affordable concerts that never seemed sold out - there was always a ticket. Sometimes I bought two, one for the matinee and one for the evening. Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, JH, Fats Domino, Peter Frampton (in his days as The Herd), Jr Walker are just the ones I can remember. Oh, and of course The Crazy World of Arthur Brown ....
There may be better musicians or singers, but Hendrix put emotion and soul into his music that took it to another level IMO
I've tried with Clapton solo as well as Cream and bluesbreakers and it doesn't connect as you say.
Clapton is on record as saying that when he first saw Jimi it made him re-think what he was doing and lead to the break up of Cream.
I was hoping for really delicate numbers that show off his sparkling guitar playing, rather than the heavier stuff i know he does.
He made a live album Band of Gypsyss with I think Buddy Milles and Billy Cox which is also worth a listen.
The BBC broadcast a documentary recently about Jimi Hendrix which was also very good.
I always thought that their demise was mostly down to Baker and Bruce taking lumps out of each other!
He was self taught, and a blue's player, who to me and many people re-invented the guitar. To me his music will be played until people want to listen to music. As he stated on the release of 'ladyland ' "there is not a note on it, that does not mean something? this is not a game we are playing?".
There are plenty of gifted guitarists around now and then, Jeff Beck probably the most well known of today. The women on the cover of ladyland was not jimi's idea, but the record company, he gave them a drawing of children around peter pan's statue, to be taken by Linda McCartney. When I bought it it came in a brown paper bag?. Jimi could also be very frustrating as an artist and his obsession with getting the sounds he heard in his head on record were a constant frustration to him. Everything had to be 'mixed down' as was the case in those day's.
As a poster has already stated, it was his 'soul and emotion'.
He only released 3 albums, when he was alive, and the BOG was to fullfill a management contract, with an earlier manager Ed Chaplin.
he was the highest paid rock act of his time, but died with a few thousand pounds in his bank, as his experience manager once claimed 'Jimi invented spending money?. Like all people he had his faults, and his habit's, sometimes people are focused on his lifestyle than his work.
He was also born in a world where, serious modern music had not been invented, remember his first album was Number2 to Sgt Peppers when it was released, and you rarely heard his music on radio outside of John Peel on the radio. Personally I love Clapton's music especially with Cream, but he rarely plays like that these day's, check out the last tour of America that they did.
hendrix had a lot more bollox for me and probably most of his groupies/girlfriends to.
He did become big in the States though and in true American fashion the hippies of the time suddenly were worshipping him. Now where were they a few years earlier when he just couldn't 't get a break over there? From then on it just took off for him in America but after a while he was becoming disillusioned with all the hype and falseness. He started to change and I think it was around this time that he split with Noel Redding and started using American 'friends' in his band. He also split with Chas Chandler.
Interestingly enough, it was when he returned to England for the first time since he left and was touring with his band that he was found dead in his bed with his London girlfriend. There are conspiracy theories around that say this was foul play.
Jimi was certainly one of a kind and totally unique in what he did. If you hear a Hendrix song you know it is him.
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