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To: Windflier
Jimi actually had perfect pitch, but his constant note bending, string stretching, and heavy use of the whammy bar pulled his guitar out of tune. They didn't have the locking tremolo mechanism in his day.

Jimmy Thackery does a note-for-note version of Jimi's STAR SPANGLED BANNER. While he was dive bombing away, I saw that there was no spare guitar, so I figured it was his last song. But he broke into the next one without even stopping and was perfectly in tune! He uses a Floyd Rose.

190 posted on 11/24/2011 4:29:16 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments
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To: Forgotten Amendments
Jimmy Thackery does a note-for-note version of Jimi's STAR SPANGLED BANNER.

I remember hanging out at a friend's band rehearsal in the early 70s. During a break, the guitarist, the bass player, and the drummer stayed behind and broke into Hendrix' "Power of Soul". I was a huge Jimi fan, and knew that record like the back of my hand. The three of them played that song note for note, exactly like the original.

It was the closest I ever got to seeing the man himself perform, and it moved me like nothing I've heard since.

191 posted on 11/24/2011 5:18:27 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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