In terms of an album that debuts in the top five many years after the death. http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/45886/week-ending-march-14-2010-hendrix-tops-elvis/ All you hippies will be glad to hear this news. "The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Valleys Of Neptune enters The Billboard 200 at #4, putting the rock legend back in the top five nearly 40 years after he died at the tragically young age of 27. No other artist has cracked the top five this long after his death. Elvis Presley is in second place. His Elvis: 2nd To None debuted at #3 in October 2003, a little more than 26 years after his death." .
over rating is a matter of context. elvis introduced "black" music to "white" audiences. hendrix didn't just make funny sounds by distorting the output of a guitar, he also was a major backer, producer, publisher, promoter and distributer of and for a whole host of other musicians. their OWN 'music', each of them, was indeed highly over rated. but their other sides, which actually do and did earn some love and respect, are far too little known at all. (hendrix does still "pwn" elvis, certainly)
This. It's easy to call Elvis or Hendrix overrated more then 40 years after the fact. Most of the albums from the 1960's are often shit if compared to the production values of now, but it's for their time they're given respect.
Elvis is over-rated in his music, but not in his achievements. I can't see how Jimi Hendrix can be over-rated.
another one who did a lot more behind the scenes then anyone knows about. though in his case, i'm a bit uncertain about some of it too. i'm not going to condemn him on the basis of what i don't know, whatever ghoulish public opinion might find perversely gratifying to assume.
since he was proven innocent of creeping the kids, i let that slide. it's his music i think is lame, hollow, shallow and tedious.
I like Elvis all right but I fucking love Jimi's music. Play me some Red House or If 6 Was 9 and I'll be a happy camper.
Yeah, I listened to a couple songs so far and though it has some nice ones to add to my collection, definitely no new favorites. I also have his sex tape downloading (if it is really it this time, and not a link to a paysite) =D
Elvis wasn't the first, and he wasn't the last, to make the music he was making when he first "debuted." Jimi follows the same story to a certain extent, but Jimi Hendrix has never been able to be truly "figured out." I play guitar, and my uncle is a guitar legend in the blues world, and neither one of us can begin to replicate that which is purely Hendrix. In my opinion, he was a god, or at least a prophet. Don't get me wrong though, I love some old school Elvis, and nothing can compare to his achievements as far as integrating black and white music are concerned. He might be a "forefather" of rock, but damnit... Hendrix is the KING!!!
