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Just... Doesn't sound that great to me. I know, he did tapping and widdly widdly, but randy rhoads was miles better at all of that.
Evh had some cracking rhythm guitar, though.
Yeah, because people get less musical as they age don't they, and there's nothing meaningful to learn after you're about 25 is there?
As we all know, most of the best art and music is created by people at the start of their careers, before many are corrupted by learning too much technique and craft, which would automatically obstruct raw music. Hendrix himself would probably have lost all his mojo as he got older, like all the other top musicians before him, as he polished his live performances, thus removing the beauty of the random mistakes. With every passing year, his renditions of his old material would have become less and less musically satisfying.
That's why you can't find older players (with no tuning or accuracy issues) who play in more raw and aggressive styles than they did when they were younger. Except Jeff Beck, Fripp, Zappa, Billy Gibbons,..
What I'd be interested to know is, of all those members who do like His mistakes, how many of them practice their guitar-playing so that they themselves don't make mistakes?
How many guitarists are allowed to 'get away with' quite a few mistakes when they play?
The majority of people who attended Woodstock were young hippies out for a good time, most were so far from the stage they did not know who was playing. Let alone hear them properly.
Jazz is mostly out of tune and how many people like that?
To me, it's not what you play but how you play it and what kind of mood or message you translate. Personally I favour percussion, vibrato, bends and energy to exact notes in pitch. To me someone criticizing someone elses tuning smacks of an aging muso at a concert not enjoying themselves. How many people thought Slash was a kick up the arse for rock when GNR came along. I love early GNR and slashes edgy and moody playing with loads of mistakes and improvised nonsensicals, but it was a world away from the proficient, in tune, technical rock that was going on previously, which, apart from a few bands, was becoming boring frankly. Early Alice Cooper, Rick Nielsen, earlier Joe Perry. All fundamentally out of tune, but edgy and expressive.
I hate modern metal, with everything exactly 'In tune'. It is so literally it has lost it's way. The music has been lost in favour of tuning.
Warren Demartini was edgy, because of his honky single tone bends. Even an early rock and rock single tone bend is fundamentally out of tune and was scorned at the time by 'tuneful' players.
A decent guitar player can pick up any old out of tune guitar and still make you cry, without hitting you over the head with it.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
And a wisdom from me.
Indeed the world of one man and his slightly out of tune guitar in the shape of blues or world music or folk is seen as almost anything but targetted at a young market.I know John Lee Hooker got on TOTP in the 1960's but I doubt if it was generations of teenagers who gave him a continued and succesfull career up to his death - surely the archetype we see there is the middle aged man looking for the true meaning of Da Blooze hidden in a JLH cd.
As an intense young person who believed he was the first to discover music and wanted to tell the world about it I had an increasingly complicated set of boundaries as to what I thought was acceptable. I have some of those now, I know, but by and large the passage of time has allowed me a much more liberal approach and I can enjoy all sorts of stuff my teenage self wouldn't have liked.
The intensity of my youthfull explorations(!) means the music I loved in that period is still with me in way that almost nothing since is. But sitting in darkened rooms listening to albums isn't really what I do now so something raw and immediate is far more likely to register with me now then it was then.
And when I listen now to Jim Campilongo doing purposefully atonal bends or when I was bouncing up and down in my ska band the notion that anything less than perfectly in tune is pretty meaningless. That's train spotting, its not enjoying music as I do.
Footnote: watching one of the members of St Etienne ( indie dance band I guess you would say) being interviewed on the televisual box about his love for Jimi Hendrix this week. The notion that to be inspired by someone meant you tried to play like them as the only outlet for that is simply wrong - Hendrix went way beyond just those who bought a wah and an old cavalry jacket.
Extra footnote: yes, I should get on with something else now.
~O)