Jimi Hendrix

[Kinnick.At.Night]

How great was this guy? He could write, sing, produce, play bass, legendary guitar and some drums. He was an incendiary talent. I think my favorite side of him was his blues side. He was most pure there and that's what he ultimately strove to work at. Jimi Hendrix was the sonic bluesman. I love this video for how simple it is. An original song played on a 12 string guitar. It's beautiful.

 

[noleclone2]

I think of the ones who died young, his may have been the biggest loss to the world. It would have been amazing to see where he went sonically in the 70s. He died in 1970 right as the era of axe slingers was taking flight, in large part thanks to him.

 

[Gonolz]

Eric Clapton is one of the greatest guitarists in history. A young Jimi upstaged him.

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/video/jimi-hendrix-upstages-eric-clapton/

 

[The Tradition]

 

[NipponPoke]

Nice post. Nice to see he's not totally forgotten as you tend to not see his name come up as much anymore.

I had the pleasure of finally meeting Billy Cox in October and we chatted a bit about their old days in Nashville. 80 years old and still touring. The last surviving member of Jimi's bands.

If you ever get a chance to attend one of those Experience Hendrix tours, definitely hit it. Seeing Joe Satriani do 30 minutes of Hendrix material was mind blowing.

 

[h-hawk]

Eric Clapton is one of the greatest guitarists in history. A young Jimi upstaged him.

https://www.historyvshollywood.com/video/jimi-hendrix-upstages-eric-clapton/

It makes a nice story but Hendrix was actually 3 years older than Clapton and had been playing professionally behind people like Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke and Little Richard. He was the more experienced (ha ha) guitarist despite Clapton's fame.

Later the Hendrix group was guesting on a show hosted by Lulu who they were supposed to play with on the last song. Instead Jimi said,
"We'd like to stop playing this rubbish," he said, "and dedicate a song to the Cream, regardless of what kind of group they may be in. We dedicate this to Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce." With that the band veered off into an instrumental version of "Sunshine of Your Love" by the recently disbanded Cream. "

http://www.openculture.com/2012/09/...oc_on_the_lulu_show_gets_banned_from_bbc.html

 

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[Kinnick.At.Night]

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That tour was a disaster. Hendrix had one of the worst managers in popular music history. And he couldn’t ever shake the guy.

 

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[funksouljon]

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Think any of those folks admit these days "Yeah, we loved The Monkeys back in the day, even to the tune of booing Jimi Hendrix off the stage to hear Last Train to Clarksville!".