No, you didn’t say that, it was RevCat I was responding to with those comments, I just pinged you in to see me grovel about the feel of Johnny Hendricks ;)
On the Hendrix tech thing, it’s not that I think he has none/little ect. Because he obviously does. I meant it mor in the way that the feel thing greatly outweighs the technical aspects. It’s hard to put into words what I mean I guess. Yes he does IMO have high tech skill, nut its not clinical. He knew the notes and does whatever he wanted at will. but if Vai hits an A, it’s an A. If Hendrix hits an A, it’s an A with a bit of microtonal variation, some vibrato and 5 other unquantifiable things that make Vai playing All along the Watchtower in G# videos a vastly different thing than Hendrix doing it. One is nearly technically perfect and the other is Hendrix. And most prefer the Hendrix version.
If that makes any sense at all.
Grrrr...Vai playing it in the G3 (tour) videos.
Yep, I get that. It was Jimi's 'feel' technique that brought out all those overtones and extra coloration. He rarely just hit a note. His usual approach was to grab a note and wring everything possible out of it before letting it go.
Even when he was moving fast, he'd sometimes give a passing note a tug or a yank to add a bit of 'something' to it. And then there were all of the electronic effects, wah-wah, tremolo, feedback, etc. And that's when he was just playing quietly .. LOL
No, I grokked everything you said. I slung the strings long enough myself to have lots of reality on it.