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Bob Stanley by the look of it.
"That" is why he's revered, as well as the crazy stuff he did some truly beautiful music. I think you're just going to have to accept that he is revered, even if you don't get why.
There's a reasonably high probability that if you did a poll of everyone on the planet to name a guitar hero, Jimi would be right up there, if not at the top. There's a dead horse here and you're flogging it.
Either way, it won't change the fact that Jimi is a massive influence on a lot of the guitar players that have come afterwards. Simply because we heard what we heard and were moved by it.
Just finished , did like Red house most out of those Vids posted.
You can really see those licks that SRV nicked!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
who said I liked Hank ? I hate all that stuff, I like this guitar playing god !
Mistake at 2:55:36, just saying.
Actually I love his playing, it's a style I tend to lean towards a little myself, certainly more than I do towards Hendrix.
I did go to an Albert Lee gig a couple of years ago though, and can honestly say it wasn't exactly a life-changing experience. Charisma is not his middle name, let's be honest.
BTW do you know Emmylou Harris's " Wrecking Ball" album? Lovely cover of Hendrix's "Waterfall" on that.
Lots of mistakes in Alberts playing, listen to him play solo on Sweet little Lisa by Dave Edmunds, he is just about to lose it completely, really on the edge of his ability.
I suppose in this case, though, you could possibly say that the guitarists who say Hendrix makes too many mistakes might not be the same ones who think Vai and co. are too clinical.
I think you'll find the mistakes started with the choice of stage-wear.
I don't know enough to 'judge' him on any technical criteria. I wasn't actually 'judging' him, as such anyway. I merely said I don't 'get' his stuff. I did say that other members seem to like his stuff because of the mistakes.
As for the question that you don't understand, well, would you sit and listen to Mark knopfler if he made a noticeable number of mistakes?
I always see Hendrix as the Jackson Pollock figure - i recognise that he completely changed the direction of his art from but i dont necessarily want to listen to him/hang one of his paintings on my wall.
I can see the value. I understand why he is revered. I very much enjoy certain aspects of his music - usually his mellower stuff or his more tightly structured singles. I cant stand the extended live 'jams' simply because i dont think he ever had a group around him that could match him. Not the Experience, although they were engagingly all over the place in a Cream's Younger Brothers kind of way. And certainly not the Buddy Miles later band who just let him crank himself stupid for ten minutes on every tune.
In terms of where he could have gone had he lived? I would have loved to have seen the Miles Davis pipe dream come to fruition(Bitches Brew with Jimi?), or maybe collaborating with Stevie Wonder or Marvin Gaye on those amazing early 70s albums? A shame because i definitely think he died when he was a little bit lost in terms of direction.