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Some weird statements in here. A better Rock player than Hendrix before 1971 did not exists. The fact that someone tried to pull Hank Marvin´s name out of the bag was certainly funny. If you honestly think a teatotal, glasses warning Jehovah´s Witness who played for Cliff Richard is rock.....................
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On a long car journey I listened to a radio documentary about Hank and they played some live stuff ( from the early 60's I think) and he was much bluesier and rawer live than on record at that time - the odd thing being that Hank hadn't really heard much blues up to that point and had sort of extracted the DNA of blues out of rock'n'roll. But,no, not exactly Hendrix ( and as I said about 30 pages ago on this discussion Hank didn't like Hendrix and wouldn't have thanked anyone for the comparison).
Hank joined Cliff's band for a couple of numbers and I've never seen a man so out of his depth. I think Cliff's guitarist was Chris Spedding - he had a hard rock blusey tone. I felt sorry for Hank. So no Hank didn't have an ounce of rock or blues in him.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
I've just phoned Jimmy Bryant and Jimi Hendrix and neither of those fuckers wanted to comment, so seeing as even they don't care - maybe everyone else should calm the fuck down...
Name an influential guitarist pre Hendrix, (Clapton doesn't count because he admits when he saw Hendrix he thought about giving up).
Bert Weedon, Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry, Hank Marvin, George Harrison, a string of Yardbirds guitarists, ditto Mayalls Bluesbreakers, The Jazzers Like Wes Montgommery etc.
The likes of Robert Johnson, and the (now) 50s blues guitarists (Freddie King, Lead Belly, John Lee Hooker etc.) were largely unknown to most people at the time and have only become widely appreciated since because of later study of influences.
Definitely of his (flower power) time but something of a game changer (Chuck, Hank and George probably being game changers too). His time came and he was a star, players approached the guitar differently after him.
Recently I am also experiencing several of these episodes. Reading this, maybe it's not us that is changing.
As accurate as your point is Mags, just remember the goalposts moved a while back in this thread when 'rock' music didn't count. It was just about white soulless country noodlers.
Unfortunately although true this point has been ruled as totally invalid in this argument as these blues players were neither particular fast perfect nor playing music for cross burning evangelical NRA members.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Lively up yourself!
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Hank just took time to get to that stage. Go to any Shadows gig now and it's a dead cert that at least 50% of the women in the audience have unwanted moisture in their knickers.
Which bit of genius songwriting was that then, must have missed it due to watching guitarists who are plinky plonky, don't play rock and therefore crap!