It's June 16, 2024, 05:57:17 AM
Quote from: Trauma on March 29, 2006, 08:09:55 AMHendrix is the standard. Can't be. 1 reason is, Hendrix was never around to show the diversity of his playing. 2nd, by being the best, does that mean he's the fastest player? can he play all forms of guitar? I.E. Classical, Country, Jazz, and to be the best, he'd have to be the best in all three of those fields. That's impossible to judge. Playing a chord with your teeth doesn't make you the best. Also, in the form of rap... people say Eminem, rakim, or ras kass is the best rapper. You could no longer proove that. Because, who's to say there's not some person underground who could be better. Same with Jimi. In order to be the best you have to set some standard that "QUALIFIES" him the best. Not just because he's jimi hendrix. Music is the beginning of the standard. But, all else is cannot pe prooven. I'm not knocking Jimi. however, if you talk to any guitarist who teaches they will tell you, it can't be prooven.
Hendrix is the standard.
What's the standard to which you can judge a person on who's the best? There's no way to know. Shredding as they call it, cannot be judged as being great. Because, alot of guitarist can shred. (Eddie van halen, Steve vai, and Malmsteen). Classical guitar is the hardest to play. I can't say he was the best. It's all in what you believe. I happened to think Guthrie Govan is one of the best guitarist to live. Jimi could play. But... he was also a showman and could do revolutionary things with sounds. That doesn't make you the best. So again, what's the standard?
Yeah, who's seen that performance of Jimi Hendrix acoustic? He plays "Long Train Coming" or something like that, I only saw it once. Jimi played, and could play, everything. Even something like "Highway Child" is kind of country sounding. DEFINATELY a very diverse well rounded guitarist. He pretty much played equal measures rock blues jazz and folk, and then other stuff from there.
Jimi played fuckin sitars and shit, he totally redifined playing the guitar, like rakim changed hip hop from the RunDMC/LLCOOLJ style of rap.
Quote from: Crown on March 31, 2006, 02:06:40 AMJimi played fuckin sitars and shit, he totally redifined playing the guitar, like rakim changed hip hop from the RunDMC/LLCOOLJ style of rap.Sitars were brought into the mainstream by George Harrison and Brian Jones, so I'd give them credit for bringing that onto the Western music scene.