Jimi Hendrix Has Best 'Guitar Face'

AP, via Yahoo ^ | 1.6.2005

[NYC GOP Chick]

NEW YORK - Jimi Hendrix not only had the skills to become a rock legend — he apparently had the right look as well. A recent poll found that Hendrix had the best "guitar face" — the look guitarists get when trying to nail a high note or power chord.

Hendrix received 24 percent of the 3,000 votes cast online by the public and a poll by some 20 celebrity judges. B.B. King captured 18 percent of the vote, followed by Angus Young of AC/DC with 16 percent.

Gary Lucas (news), guitarist for Gods and Monsters, said he voted for Hendrix because he "channeled all the soulful ecstasy of the universe through his hands, and this was naturally mirrored in his face."

The poll by on-demand television service Mag Rack accompanied a contest to find the best amateur guitar face. Les Campbell of Nicholasville, Ky., was chosen the winner from more than 600 contestants.

In his photo, Campbell, a sound and recording engineer, showcases a classic headbanging, Fu Manchu mustache and Elvis Presley (news) sneer — as well as a resemblance to Metallica (news - web sites) frontman James Hetfield, according to several of the judges.

He said his entry was from his heavy-metal playing days in the 1980s with the band Jack-in-Irons.

"Guitar face is a spur of the moment thing, something you have no awareness or control over," Campbell said in a statement. "Guitar playing is ... all about energy, transferring your spirit to a hungry crowd through six strings and a wall of amps. You can't help sharing what you feel with a look, whether it's serious or maybe a little silly."

Besides bragging rights, Campbell won a trip to New York to pick up his prize, a Les Paul "Black Beauty" electric guitar and case.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Ugh. Why ruin the thread with that picture?

[SilentServiceCPOWife]

He would have been my first choice. He's got a great "guitar face".

[monkapotamus]

"She's as cold as ice.......Paradise..........and the feeling....was a-nice...."

There's a lady I know
If I didn't know her
She'd be the la-tay I didn't know.

And my lady, she went downtown
She bought some ber-ra-ccoli
She Brought it Ho-ome...................
She's chop'in broccoli
Chop'in brocco-li
Chop'in brocco-la
Chop'in Brocco-laa-aa

SHE'S CHOP'IN BROCCO-LAY
CHOP'IN BROCCO-LAY
SHE'S CHOP-EAH-UN!

Chop'in brocco-loco -lay -eaa -eaa -eaa--eeee

She's chopin broccoli

she chopin she chopin she chopin she chopin she chopin

ch ch ch ch ch ch ta ta ta ta the bra-co-li-i

She's chopin Brrrrraaaaiiiii

She's chop she's chop broccoli

She's chopin Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Mr. Mojo]

Actually, the best "guitar face" also happens to be the best face period -- McKinley Morganfield (aka Muddy "Mississippi" Waters")

[pissant]

My apologies. Maybe this one is better:

[Living Free in NH]

Ugh. Why ruin the thread with that picture?

At least it wasn't the one where they're naked on the cover of some magazine.

[NYC GOP Chick]

That is just SO wrong.

[LS]

Well, it wasn't all sweetness and light. I got conned into going to a "Big Brother and the Holding Co." concert . . . after Joplin quietly left, and went to see "Moby Grape"---when none of the original guys were there.

I also was briefly reviewing concerts for a music paper in Phx. and saw Zepplin, who were terrible. Jimmy Page was so stoned he couldn't sit down and cross his legs. Literally, a roadie had to cross his legs for him and hand him his guitar.

[Mr. Mojo]

And George Thorogood has a pretty darn good guitar face as well......

[Senator Pardek]

Chicks really dug him back in the day.

[LisaMalia]

C'mon guys..it's gotta be Nigel Tufnel. No competition:

[No Blue States]

Bump to SRV, Saw him in Dallas. Only the best Guitar players die young. Imagine some of the music they would have made. (and did)

Will the wind every remember, the names it has blown in the past?

[wardaddy]

and Muddy'd tell you if you had any doubts....

I love the way he simulated "eruptions" with beer foam during Mannish Boy antics on stage


i'm still a Son House man...and his leathery journeyman guitar face is still tops too

shame you can't buy good pics w/o paying Alan Lomax Jr thru the nose.

[Bommer]

My vote goes to Terrible Ted

[nothingnew]

When I was in my early teens I had the best pizza face. Now I have the best leather face. Do I win anything?

FMCDH(BITS)

[Mier]

I'm sorry but.... Who cares ? I mean really ? This seems like such meaningless, mindless useless information!! Those ignorant misguided liberals love this kind of crap!!

[NYC GOP Chick]

I would LOVE to have seen Joplin!

Ever see THE WHO??

[pookie18]

[knarf]

[NYC GOP Chick]

What is that???