Jimi Hendrix

screaming_4_priest · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 294 Location: u.k

So who enjoys Hendrix then??

Electric Ladyland has always been the best Jimi Hendrix album for me.
All Along The Watch Tower is my fav song & of course Voodoo Chile
The guy is such a legend, & is a big influence of too of my fav guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore & KK Downing.
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ManOnTheSilverMountain_DP · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 1419 Location: Rome, Italy

Jimi Hendrix was such a great guitarist!!! he's the first who put the distorsion at his guitar and his blues songs and solos were just awesome!!!
As you said, Hendrix has been a huge influence of Blackmore and Downing, but of other great guitarists too... I'm thinking, for example, at Jimmy Page that is, after Ritchie Blackmore, my favourite rock guitarist ever!
However, a little question: don't you think that "Catch The Rainbow" of Rainbow is near at "Little Wing" (of Jimi Hendrix, of course) in the first notes?

Magic!

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screaming_4_priest · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 294 Location: u.k

Yup the two song intro sound very much alike.

Jimi was the first person to get famous with destortion but if you have a watch of Rainbow Total Rock Review there is someone on there that says he saw Ritchie in his band before Deep purple i forgot the name.
but he said even back then Ritchie was mastering distorsion & feedback long before Hendrix came on the scene.
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ManOnTheSilverMountain_DP · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 1419 Location: Rome, Italy

screaming_4_priest · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 294 Location: u.k

Are they any good??
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ManOnTheSilverMountain_DP · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Posts: 1419 Location: Rome, Italy

Well, it's a music similar to Elvis Presley music... I like it but I'm not sure if you'd like it... for example my father loves Hard Rock and Heavy Metal and he's a fan of Ritchie Blackmore but he doesn't like that album, because he doesn't like that old rock'n'roll very much...

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Mario
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screaming_4_priest · Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 294 Location: u.k

O ok i wont go out of my way to find it then but if i come across it i will probley take a listen.
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Jimi does nothing for me...he just stole other folks ideas. Confused

Dave Davies was using early distortion effects before Jimi.
As the normal...no one talks about Link Wray, He´s one of the most influential artist ever in heavy rock music even though he didn´t sell too many albums.

from From Wikipedia
Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr (May 2, 1929 – November 5, 2005) was an American rock and roll guitar player most noted for pioneering a new sound for electric guitars in his hit 1958 instrumental "Rumble", by Link Wray and his Ray Men. Before "Rumble"', electric guitars were commonly used to produce clean sounds and jazz chords. Wray pioneered electric guitar distortions, like overdrive and fuzz, and was the first guitarist to use power chords to play a song's melody.

Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan, Neil Young and Bob Dylan have all cited Wray as an influence.

Link Wray Cadence 45: RUMBLE Release date: 1958

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PP0aRKnyzpc&mode=related&search=

D-Man · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 702 Location: Holland

Jim was such an innovator it's ridiculous. There are two phases of rock music, rock before Jimi and rock after Jimi. Other bands definitely had their influence but none on the way rock guitar is played as Jimi. Too bad he died before we could have seen what he would do as a more mature musician such as Clapton. His influence went way beyond using this effect or that effect. He was influenced by Buddy Guy and a host of other blues guitarists, and with possibly the exception of Eric was the first to bring this type of music to the larger public, along with plenty of innovations of his own.
PS: Peter Green was also a heck of a guitarist. Too bad he went off the deep end, along with Sid Barrett.
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GUITARGOD · Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 2183 Location: Pendleton Oregon

I got one name for you of a killer Hendrix LP and thats Rainbow bridge, get it you'll love it.
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mrblitz · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 38

perhaps blackmore and hendrix are like the two giants who more or less preceded everyone else...

as for jimi, i really like the album, 'are you experienced'... and individual songs from other records... such as little wing from axis bold as love, or all along the watchtower from electric ladyland...

i used to think that hendrix was 'all-everything'... perhaps in my old age i've gotten jaded and now hendrix is kind of 'on again, off again'...

it would have been interesting to have seen, what he might have done if given more time...

i would have to say that blackmore has probably influenced my playing more...

although i've recorded at least a half dozen 'little wing tributes' of my own... songs in that 'same style'...

and you're correct... 'catch the rainbow' is blackmore's tribute to little wing... if memory serves...

same with 'yellow raven' off of the scorpions' 'virgin killers' lp... the intro is like a tribute to 'little wing'...

i've always thought hendrix's opening to 'little wing' was the 'perfect' guitar line...

alitivity · Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 5:21 am Post subject:

I had an argument with a guy once because I said that Jimi needed a singer. He went off on this whole tangent that those songs have lived for over thirty years and are still popular, so Jimi had the perfect voice for that music. He failed to understand that as a vocalist I have never bought a Hendrix album. They just dont sound good to me. Also, how many women out there are fans buying his albums. The reason his music lives on is because every kid who buys a guitar and starts taking lessons is told that he was the best ever, and if they want to learn the guitar they should be listening to him. He is a symbol of the pshychodelic time period which he was spawned. I personally prefer Jim Morrison as a symbol for the time period, because I write lyrics, and he was very good at it. The funny thing is, that at 37 yrs old, I just started playing the guitar, and still have no interest in Hendrix. Maybe I will develop a respect for him as I go on, but I'm a metal guy. and There are so many guitarists that are better in my eyes ie. Randy Rhoads!
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D-Man · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 702 Location: Holland

I just saw a really good Jimi Hendrix documentary on Germany TV, and it was amazing how much crap the guy went through. In addition to dealing with racism and death threats his whole career, the mafia was after him (through his managers mob connections) and J. Edgar Hoover had him on his list of Americans to "get".
Contrary to popular belief, there was no heroin in Jimi's system (he didn't use it anyway!), and the amount of barbs in his system were in no way enough to kill him!
His blood alcohol level was way below lethal level (0.5, below driving limit!) but his lungs were completely full of red wine! They believe now he choked on red wine. The only reasonable explanation is that somebody held his head in a bucket full of it, or they held his head and poured it down his throat until he choked to death!
His girlfriend made up a bunch of lies which were all proven wrong by emergency room records and interviews with the staff and police. She was either in on it, or was scared silent.
Jimi's manager died a couple years later in a plane crash, and both of Jimi's other girlfriends turned up dead through "suicides" jumping out of their windows, or being thrown. The other girlfriend still isn't talking.
It seems almost certain either the Mob or FBI got to him since he was a threat to both of them.
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alitivity · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:15 am Post subject:

Not sure how he was a threat to anyone. I can understand Lennon, because he incited the masses. Hendrix didnt have the political following like Lennon. Not saying he wasnt killed or anything just Never heard that.
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D-Man · Joined: 15 Mar 2007 Posts: 702 Location: Holland

Right at the end he did have close associations with the Black Panthers, and was influenced by them. He made a statement very near the end that violence was imminent along with a revolution against the government and whites and it was printed in a teen magazine (very uncharacteristic but he had been brainwashed).
Also, his contract was days from expiring with his manager with the mafia connections and he had already told them he would not renew it - so two groups that could have wanted him dead.
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