Jimi Was The Best Bar None!

I gots to agree with that!

well put yogi-B

 

I run a small Starbucks at a college in south Louisiana. When you come in, all you hear all day is Cream and Hendrix, maybe some Jeff Beck.
Listen to Machine Gun closely. Yeah its feed back, done exquisitely. There ain't no one that could have duplicated that original version done in New York.
Now, the thing about Cream ya'll, is not just Clapton. It was the immense jamming capacity of all three members. Listent to N.S.U., I'm So glad, and so on.Jack Bruce and his vocals were a big part of their legend, and fittingly so.Ginger Baker, super great, with unbelievable stamina. It was the ability of these three guys to start with an dynamic apex of the song, move out into their own rift zones, and then move back together with another apex finality. When this resulted in the ten to twenty minute jams they set the precedent in, they were phenomenal.
But as far actual guitar playing and composing, there were several as good as Clapton. Jeff Beck was definitely one. Peace, Love and Flowers

 

I think it depends on what mood you are in, or the mood of the music itself..sometimes, I like mellow, sometimes I wanna kick it. I do not want to hear kick when I am mellow, and do not want to hear mellow when I wanna kick it.

I didn't care for Jimi the Man, so that gets in the way of me enjoying his music.
In my oppinion Willie Nelsen, ( hippie outlaw) far surpasses any picker I've ever heard in all my days of hearing. He can play it all. Jimi was easily copied.. not so easy to copy Willies style. Then again, I've been in love with Willie since I was Five, so I may be a bit swayed in my oppinion

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Shamleless Dear, sure baby, I have no beef with you. Of course it is the mood or mind set. When I used to trip which ended not too long ago, I would listen to different music in different phases of the trip. One sound for the come on, another for the peak, another for the coming down, such as the Moody Blues.
What I am saying here about James Marshall is that when it comes to the heavy lead guitar that the hip generation brought to bear, Hendrix was unsurpassed as a dancer on the strings.
I bought a video recently of the "Isle of Wight" concert in England, which was just a few months before he died. The boy did not look good. He looked drawn and very tired.
He like Janis, literally burned out, their rajasic karma consumed them, and many others of that period, not just performers, but personal friends you and I both had in our own lives.
This is why I swing back to my sadhana as a path to relive the beauty of the old days, because what we really lived then is still in us, and you don't have to go back in time in memmory to be there. It is in all us all along, of course, you know that.
Peace, Love and Flowers, Y.B.

 

It makes me laugh when I hear people say that Black Sabath is the pioneers of heavy metal-In 67' you had Jimi Hendrix' Cream and Blue Cheer all coming out with their first albums.

All of these groups were ahead of Sabath and actually it was Deep Purple that held the title as the loudest band in the world.
But then loud does not always mean good!-lol-Blue Cheer were loud but not "good"-they were a real loud garge band. Jimi on the other hand had been a professional recording artist long before his first album came out. He lived on the streets of New York and starved for a long time before he finally made it. He definetly paid his dues.
Willy's good but not in the same category as Hendrix-Crosby Stills Nash and Young were great too' but big difference between the two groups.
Jimi was a pioneer of heavy metal-he played loud but he played pure notes. He used alot of distortion but also played real clean 'sweet sounds.-
But' like Miles Davis' Herbie Mann or Elvis or any other creators of a new sound' you really had to hear them live to really hear them. Records did not do them justice.--I think thats whats lacking in todays music-something original.

 

Good point brother. As a mater of fact, I was just pointing that very thing out to someone a we listened to Machine Gun and the long version of Voodoo Child. Hendrix could burn that freakin guitar up, all just perfectly crystal clear.
I just recieved a Summer Of Love package from PBS, a two disc cd and one dvd kit. On the DVD, Bono of U 2 says of Hendrix, "he was without a doubt the greatest guitarist of all time".
As you might remember dude, back in sixty nine when alot of the new bands and guitarist were out, there was a big dispute as to who was the best. The contest was between Ted Nugent, Alvin Lee, Jeff Beck, Clapton, and Page. Hendrix was not even in the thing, because his superiorority was unquestionable. Everyone knew it!
You did not compare yourself with James Marshall, and you were a lying fool if you did.

 

Hey, I'm a noob and I just happened to stumble upon this thread in this site while searching for pics of Stevie Ray Vaughan, oddly enough. "How hip!" I thought, and I just had to register! ;-)

Anyway, Hendrix. Wow. What can I say that hasnt been said a million times, but he was the man. The way I see it its like he was an artist first and a guitar player second, if that makes any sense. Its hard (and fairly unnecessary IMO) to compare him to others, because only Jimi Hendrix is Jimi Hendrix. Although I must say, SRV came closer than anybody I know of to capturing the spirit of Hendrix. You can tell that Jimi had a huge impact on Stevie, but he had a huge impact on a lot of people who never quite "channeled" that vibe like SRV sort of did...

Anyway, I think the real tragedy is that when Jimi died he was just hitting his stride, IMO. He was branching out into other areas. I cant imagine what he'd have done if he was still alive today.

Anyway, cheers. Cool forum!

 

Yogi-Just wonderin-whats your history with San Francisco?-Did you live there in the early days and did you go to the Avalon Ballroom or the Fillmore?-I'd like to talk to some of the original people from those days. I spent many nights at those places and would dig talking to other people that survived it!-lol
As far as Hendrix-he was really the only player at the time that sounded like he did-alot of groups got loud but nobody could compare to the sounds he made-unreal

 

Hey Rob! Whats the haps? I was there in S.F. but I never went to the Avalon or Fillmore.The Jefferson Airplane were called the Great Society then the Dead were the Warlocks. Did you ever go near the Panhandle? Or Goldengate park? Itchicoo park was a song by the small faces about that place.
Yeah.. Hendrix was my hero and noone ever could top the dood when it came to music, maybe Robin Trower made an attempt, close, but no cigar. i often wonder what it would be like if the cat was still around?Hendrix wanted to make more of an appeal to a black audience.Band of Gypsies were fantastic,but soul music was the Genre back then and Jimi played with the Isleys and Curtis Knight so it would have been easy for him to make the transition.
Hendrix was also asked to join ELP it would have been billed as HELP, but shit happens.

You remember Moby Grape and Mad River?

 

I used to go to the Matrix to hear Great Society then to the Fillmore and the Avalon and yes' many weekends in Golden Gate Park sitting on the grass smokin' drinking' tripping and listening to Janis and the Dead and Quicksilver-seen Moby Grape and the Fish and Cold Blood and Sons Of Champlain-Santana-Airplane- etc. basically-every rock group in San Francisco for years as that was home-

I grew up there and was 17 in 67-perfect!-Sure wish I had carried a recorder with me-fortunetly we have the tapes that Bill Grahmn kept on all the shows-they stream them on Wolfgangs Vault-free actual recordings of the concerts from the 60s-I was at many of those-I was at Altamont-up front when the Angels were kickin ass and Jagger couldn't get the show stopped-that night was the end of it-the smack and alcohol took it toll and the love had left the building so ta speak-that could have been such a great show-The Avalon Ballroom was fantastic- like a private acid party-with no worries-everyone ripped and Janis singing all night-sometimes till the sun came up-then ya hit the streets and go home -3 bucks for the night!

 

Things were so simple back then-KMPX was a small radio station in SF-it was run by the dj named Big Daddy Tom Donahue-he was the very first person to put rock and roll on the fm radio-he started playing the local groups like the Airplane as well as the group he managed called the Beu Brummels-they did the song-Laugh-Laugh-that was the beginning of what was called "underground radio"-we used to go down to the station in North Beach and sit on the floor of the studio and smoke dope and watch the show-things were more layed back then and it was all new-we were all breakin the law-lol

 

Man you are a giant,S.F. was the place, the centre of art and all related things in the northern hemisphere.The chicken hawks can't stand Berkeley and it is still true to it's rep.And you were in the middle of it what a time to be alive.One summer I came down from B.C.for the hell of it, got busted for vagrancy and split, I was in a band that lasted 2 weeks.Everyone was too ripped to play.

 

For awhile there in 66' there was so many groups there that within a couple miles of each other you had The Grateful Dead' Big Brother And The Holding Company w/ Janis Joplin and The Jefferson Airplane all living just blocks away from each other in the Haight Ashbury and Santana over in the Mission District-then down in my home county of San Mateo you had the Doobie Bros and over in Marin county was Quicksilver and in Beserkley was Country Joe and the Fish-'Steve Miller Band and Metallica later on-then later on there was Journey in the city' Foreigner in Marin County and alot more that I can't remember right now. It always has been a musicians mecca-I was just lucky enough to be born at the right time in the right place-to be young in San Francisco in the mid-sixties was real good.