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Rolling Stone names Jimi Hendrix the ‘Greatest Guitarist of all Time
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| Wednesday, November 23 2011, 3:44 PM
| Jim Farber
Posted on 11/23/2011 9:26:13 PM PST by This Just In
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To: yarddog
Agree both tie at number one.
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posted on
11/24/2011 4:35:35 AM PST
by
Vaduz
To: This Just In
Alvin Lee (Ten Years After)
Jeff Beck.
122
posted on
11/24/2011 4:37:20 AM PST
by
duckman
(Herman 2012 Zero's worst night mare.)
To: barnrat
“Rolling Stones ratings are based on the ages and exposure to music of the existing generation that read that publication.”
BINGO!!
123
posted on
11/24/2011 4:46:36 AM PST
by
panaxanax
(0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
To: This Just In
1) Jimi
2) SRV
3) Page
4) Gilmour
5) Iommi
6) Angus
7) Blackmoore
8) Lifeson
9) Allen Collins
10) Townsend
To: LowOiL
Admittedly, I haven’t heard every recording of Hendrix but what I have heard just grated on my nerves. To me, it was alot of noise. He is not #1 on 3cats list.
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posted on
11/24/2011 4:55:21 AM PST
by
3catsanadog
(If healthcare reform is passed, 41 years old will be the new 65 YO.)
To: This Just In
Not a Top 10, but names worthy of consideration:
Django
Les Paul
Cliff Gallup
Tal Farlow
Scotty Moore
Snakefinger
George Van Eps
Bruce Anderson (MX-80 Sound)
Roy Wood
To: This Just In
As one who saw all these guys live---Hendrix and Beck twice---there is no comparison. Hendrix was an innovator, but Jeff Beck is simply the best guitarist ever. If you watch the video "Jeff Beck: Live at Ronnie Scott's" where he has Eric Clapton play a blues number with him, there is no comparison. Clapton is great, tasteful, but Beck is the master.
I never "got" Jimmy Page. He was horrible live. Sloppy (perhaps drunk or stoned), totally unimpressive. He was a great studio guitarist though. Richards' greatness comes from his rhythm playing---probably one of the top rhythm guitarists of all time. Harrison probably rates because he was neither an innovator nor a technician but a "bridge" between Chuck Berry and the new sound.
An interesting challenge is on the "Abby Road" album in the guitar jam just before "The End." There are three guitars, according to the Beatles' biographer Jon Gould, and Harrison, McCartney, and Lennon were all playing lead, trading off. See if you can figure out who is who!
Getting back to Clapton and Beck: I got the sense after I heard Clapton with Cream live that at some point you heard everything he could do. It totally fit whatever he was playing---and that was the greatness of Cream, in that since they were all soloing all the time, the genius came in the mix of the three, not any one guy in particular. But every time I heard Beck, I got the feeling that "this guy is really holding back. He's teasing you with what he can do."
Hendrix was awesome the first time I heard him circa 1968---he had just come out with the Experience. But a year later, he just couldn't get it together, none of the rifs really were as good, and he appeared stoned. The audience was screaming for "Vanilla Fudge," who opened for him, 10 minutes into his set. It was sad.
127
posted on
11/24/2011 5:16:14 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Stevie was a total copier. Good, but couldn’t even get the essence of Hendrix at times. Like Clapton, after a while, you heard everything he had. I’d rank him #5 or 6.
128
posted on
11/24/2011 5:17:07 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: E. Pluribus Unum
129
posted on
11/24/2011 5:17:46 AM PST
by
sauropod
(Ann Coulter does NOT choose my presidential candidate!)
To: acapesket
Townsend and Entwhistle came into the Troubadour in 1975 when my band was playing a set. They sat through the whole set, and when we left, Townsend came up, slapped me on the back and said, "Good show, eh wot?"
Personally, I couldn't stand Townsend as a guitarist.
130
posted on
11/24/2011 5:18:45 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: spodefly
I saw "Yes" and "Black Sabbath" together right as "Fragile" came out. We hadn't really heard of Yes except for "Roundabout." Howe blew Tommy Ionni (sp?) off the stage. Wasn't close.
If you want a current excellent Christian guitarist who doesn't go for a lot of distortion or tricks, listen to Lincoln Brewster. He played with Michael W. Smith and Journey for a while. Super.
131
posted on
11/24/2011 5:20:33 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: DBrow
As a contemporary of Kaukonen, who saw him at least once live, I never got the high regard with which he was held.
132
posted on
11/24/2011 5:21:17 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: This Just In
John Petrucci deserves a mention.
133
posted on
11/24/2011 5:22:45 AM PST
by
marvlus
To: lefty-lie-spy
Mea Culpa from omitting Johnny Winter from any list I do. The trouble with Winter is it depended on how strung out he was at the time. His "Johnny Winter And" album, with Rick Derringer on #2 guitar, was superb and totally new. He didn't hesitate---like Hendrix---to "go" for something without being sure if it would work. That's one thing I don't like about Clapton. He almost always plays it safe. But Winter and Hendrix would play what they felt---occasionally it just didn't work, but they had the guts to go for it.
I think Vaughn has too much Clapton in him. The only guy who doesn't do this is Beck, who not only doesn't play it safe, but unlike Hendrix and Winter, "gets" whatever weird thing he goes for.
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:23:59 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: eddie willers
I'm a drummer, but I can tell you this: almost ANY rock drummer will say that Ringo Starr was one of the best drummers ever---for a lot of reasons. Any non-drummer will scoff. So when another guitarist tells me Hendrix is the best, I'd tend to believe him. I didn't meet Duane, but I met Greg a couple of times.
BTW, Clapton said of Beck, Hendrix, and himself that Jeff Beck was the best.
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:26:01 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: spodefly
As well as Bill Nelson. He’s fantastic. Manages so many styles.
136
posted on
11/24/2011 5:27:07 AM PST
by
sauropod
(Ann Coulter does NOT choose my presidential candidate!)
To: PetroniusMaximus
To: The KG9 Kid
Try Highway Chile, 51st Anniversary, Killing Floor, Mannish Boy, Can you see me? I don’t live today, Red House, Hear my train a comin’...
Sorry FRiend, but yer out to lunch on this one.
138
posted on
11/24/2011 5:31:40 AM PST
by
sauropod
(Ann Coulter does NOT choose my presidential candidate!)
To: eddie willers
“If he said that about Jimi, he was just being nice.”
No he wasn't. Jimi could do things with a guitar Duane (or anyone else) had never even imagined much less accomplished. A biographer listed some 210 odd sounds Hendrix invented and used in his playing vocabulary. No one was more appreciative of Hendrix than fellow musicians. He blew them out of their shoes and they said so to anyone who would listen. When Jimi was playing clubs in NY, early on, a top session player (whose name escapes me) would leave the studio, step across the street and see the unknown Jimi playing things he admitted he couldn't do (if he'd thought of them in the first place). Hendrix was two things: A virtuoso (a more physical accomplishment) and a spellbinder ( a more spiritual thing). That voodoo of knowing how much silence to put in between the notes is the rarest thing in musical accomplishment. Allman, like Les Paul and Eric Clapton etc had it (in spades) but recognized that Hendrix owned it.
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:31:49 AM PST
by
TalBlack
( Evil doesn't have a day job.)
To: DetroitRight
Ummmm...
Strats were the reason Jimi was Jimi.
And I am a git fiddler meself.
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:35:14 AM PST
by
sauropod
(Ann Coulter does NOT choose my presidential candidate!)
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