ya but its fun seeing other peoples views on the musicians; everyone brings up good points on there decision
Hmm.... I like Jeff Beck better than him. They're fairly close... I still think Buddy Guy can own them both if he feels like it.
I should of quit you A long time ago I should of quit you baby A long time ago But you got me messin round with you baby You got me cryin on a killin floor, yeah If I don't follow, yeah My first mind If I don't follow pretty baby My first mind I would have been gone since my second time Yeah Lord knows, right now I should've been gone Lord knows, I should've been gone You got me messin round with you baby You got me cryin on a killing floor Yeah, thats all Ooh, you got me cryin baby Ohh, you got me cryin A lot of people think Hendrix wrote killing floor and Zep wrote the lemon song... squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg. The way you squeeze my lemon, I'm gonna fall right out of bed. This part is vintage Robert Johnson. The rest is "Killing Floor" which I think was written by Willie Dixon for Howlin' Wolf, if I recall. Either way, although I love Zep, it's too bad they still get credit for songs the old blues musicians wrote.
10 years after........ Billy Gibbons. Joe Satriani Chuck Berry Keith Richards don felder Joe Perry SRV carlos santana Randy Bachman mark knopfler Lenny Kravitz Robbie Krieger Robin Trowers Pat Travers and that van halen dude..... Yngwie Rhoads Jeff Healy Nugent? naaah Neil Young lol I love the one note solos though and Glenn Tipton and KK Downing and Rudy Shenker and Pete Townsend and slowhand I cant recall his name, but eddie vh said he was the best.....I'll get it and post it Allan Holdsworth? sumthin like that
Peter Green, (The great forgotten king of the white mans blues) could've had anyone on his day.. Some have said he could play more Chicago than the Chicago guys. :H
I voted for Page because of his speed. But Jimi Hendrix is a great guitar player nonetheless. He tends to experiment with effects and feedback, where Jimmy Page's style is structured and written. But I know a guitar player who I think is highly underrated and vastly talented. Steve Howe. Have you guys ever heard "The Clap" or "Mood For A Day"? I don't think that Page or Hendrix could've done those.
Do you guys realize that guitar are hexaphonic? You can only play up to 6 notes at single time on a guitar. Each string can on make one note, and you can play up to all 6-strings. I mean you can play a bunch of notes on a couple strings very fast, but their not 20 notes in harmony or in conjunction with each other. So when it comes to that, you can only have up to 6 notes on a guitar. That's a pretty weird concept once you think about it.
Steve Howe is quite underrated. As is Peter Frampton. Frampton is one of the coolest guys in person... he also gives you a lot for what you pay, haha. He hit me with his T-shirt gun.... Then again, most people don't know who in the hell Tommy Emmanuel is.
Zeppelin is one of my favorite bands. But Hendrix has better technical skill and puts way more soul into it. So I gotta go with Hendrix.
based on those mp3s george was talking about frank zappa is the far superior guitarist there. and also i prefered the page live solo to the hendrix one.
They're both incredible guitarists who hugely influenced music... Page influenced more guitarists then Hendrix only because A - His playing was much more accessible to the average player than Hendrix. B - Page has left behind a huge body of work for people to be influenced by. Zeppelin influenced / spawned 1000s of bands in the 70s and 80s. (bands based on the either the power trio format or the lone guitarist.front man model Both wrote complex songs that were ahead of their times in structure and production. Both wern't afraid to experiment in the studio and neither limited themselves to just one type of music (or musical influences). Both could play brilliantly quiet and soft or loud and hard. Both were "jammers" onstage.. I don't know where people get the idea Page couldnt (or didn't) jam live, but from the beginning (69) til about 1975 Zeppelins live sets had long songs where the middle parts were partially jamming or impovised.. Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love and Communication Breakdown all had improvised stretches in them live.. They pared down their live show in 1977 and much of the jammed bits were dropped.. Both Page and Hendrix could be sloppy live... And both could be brilliant..If youve seen vids of Jimi playing just before he died he was muffing leads and playing out of tune. Page from 69 to 75 was as good a player both live and in the studio as there was in rock.. After 75 his heroin addiction really got the better of him and he lost a lot of his speed and dexterity.. There's a marked difference in his playing style from Physical Graffitti to Presence.. In 67,68,69 no one could touch Jimi... Anyway... it really is "Apples and Oranges" I like both equally, but I listen to Page more just because there's so much more of his stuff out there... 4 minutes of "Communication Breakdown" live... from 1970 I think... If clicking doesnt work, try drag/drop or copy/paste Windows Media Player http://mfile.akamai.com/9139/wma/stream.wmg.com/atlrec/led_zeppelin/unseen/ledzep_combreak_320x240.wmv RealPlayer http://mfile.akamai.com/9139/rm/stream.wmg.com/atlrec/led_zeppelin/unseen/ledzep_combreak_320x240.rm Quicktime http://feature.atlrec.com/led_zeppelin/ledzep_combreak_600K.mov
I really like how Neil Young beat Jimmy Page on that 10 minute + duel of "When The Levee Breaks" in 1995 at Neil's Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction and how Jimmy walked off stage, yet nobody creates "Neil Young versus Jimmy Page" threads and some don't even know of the incident.
