I have a friend who is a "hata" if you will of our old friend jimi. Well not a hata, but who thinks that he's overrated as a guitar player and shouldn't be considered the greatest guitar player. He specifically said he's not all that impressed with his technique. What would be a good concise mix that would blow his mind?

If you think you going to be able to present him with a boring barrage of perfectly executed 32nd note runs, forget it. It ain't gonna happen. Hendrix was about feeling, creativity and spontaneity not technical proficiency.

The way I see it, the Hendrix contribution to the musical landscape is threefold.

1. The color of your skin does not restrict your musical genre
2. The possiblilites for studio recording as an aural canvas.
3. Expanding the sonic palette of the electric guitar.

Still determined to have a "come to Jesus" meeting with this guy?
You might want to relate the above to him.


If he still refuses to "get experienced" let him continue to O.D. on the Haterade and you continue to sing, "I’m gonna wave my freak flag high, high !"

tA

Tribal Disorder

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theAudience said:

trumpets and violins i can hear in the distance

"Cuz, if my baby don't love me no more..."

ThreadBare said:

I know her..... sister will

Play Machine Gun

Sometimes, you just have to let 'em be and hope that they realize how great Hendrix is on their own. I saw it firsthand with a couple of teenagers who used to take guitar lessons at a store I managed. They were into all things Yngwie-related and thought that speed/technical proficiency was the be all/end all of music. Gradually, they started to open up their ears to different types of music. A few months later, they were telling me how cool Muddy Waters' music was. I remember going through that phase, too. It just takes time. There's room for speed/feel/technical ability - that's the cool thing about music.

Just tell him he's crazy !

well thus far, I've just suggested he listen to axis: bold as love and electric ladyland all the way through. For the record he likes Jimi's music, what he's heard of it, but he just doesn't think he should be considered the greatest guitar player. And yes, he is more into Satriani, Yngwie, whatever. Actually I already presented the argument that Jimi's contribution was more about the sort of sounds and feelings you could evoke from a guitar rather than technical proficiency, but I was also trying to argue that he had sheer technique on top of that as well, so to rephrase the question: is the latter a wasted argument or not?

jacktheimprovident said:

Well, he is sort of right you know...