Jimmy Page or Jimi Hendrix

i have to say hendrix.

 

Both are completely amazing, but i would have to say hendrix hands down

 

damn too hard of a decision for me.

 

It would have to be Page as the winner. Hendrix was a good player but he was doing what everyone was doing, doing drugs and playing a strat. While Page played songs that people were not even comprehending (spelling).

 

jimi hendrix cant read music. page can. there both awesome.
laundry detergent gets my vote as the best.

 

Page hands down is better no questions asked hendrix was good but Page was better.

 

whats reading music got to do with it... I can read music, does that make me better than hendrix?? hmmmmm... I think we should bugger them both and see who squeels the most, that's the way to decide... but we will have to place one of those squeekie fluffy toy bunnies between hendrix ass cheeks to make up for the slight problem of his lack of vocal chords or willingness to breath.... hmmm, I hope he wasn't cremated!?

 

page, any day. But i rate neil young above either!

 

Funny part was that Clapton, Duane Allman, and a shitload of others were also playing les pauls... well, clapton was with the yardbirds until he started playing the fool SG with cream, but he also had that red '64 Gibson ES-335 and the single pickup Firebird at the time. Besides that, I think they all did drugs. On another note, what most people don't know is although Clapton mostly played Blackie all through the 70s and until the late 80s, he actually played the '64 ES-335 more and he played it on almost every album he's ever recorded up until he auctioned it through Christie's for Crossroads Antigua last year and put it towards his rehab center.

I don't really like Hendrix or Page to tell you the truth... they were good at the time and really great players, but there's so many better ones today. Hell, there's players most people have never heard of that have playing skills just as great as Page and Hendrix.

Nobody gives any credit to Pete Townshend... He isn't that great of a guitarist, many say, and I do like his songwriting skills better, but he's gearing up with a tour with the Who. Some like to give credit to him for inventing the Marshall stack in 1965, but he's the one who inspired Jim Marshall. Jim built him an 8x12 cabinet, but he ended up saying his roadies couldn't take it, so Jim cut it in half, made an angled and a straight cab and voila, you now have the Marshall stack thanks to Pete and Jim. Ritchie Blackmore also had influence on the Marshall stack, although, for some strange reason, people like to give credit to Jimi Hendrix and his Plexi heads, though all he did was buy the amps from Jim Marshall. Jim made a promise to Jimi that he would give him full survice on his amps around the world and Jimi didn't want to endorse, he opted to pay full price just like any customer. Jimi often just tore the speaker cloth on his amps instead of smashing them (he was more careful than people think) as he never got back to England to replace it and he didn't want to be a burden on Jim.

As for my favorite guitarists, I'll have to go with Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert Collins, Albert King, Eric Johnson, Dave Amato, Gary Richrath, Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Joe Pass, Stephen Stills, Billy Gibbons, Trey Anastasio, Warren Haynes, Robert Johnson, Larry Carlton, John McLaughlin, Peter Frampton, Steve Vai, Ritchie Blackmore, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee, John Mayer, BB King, Rory Gallagher, Johnny Winter, Jerry Garcia, Neil Young, Derek Trucks, Sonny Landreth, Duane Allman, Jimmie Vaughan, Hubert Sumlin, Robert Cray etc. etc...

I actually have a lot of respect for Wes... he worked 16 hours a day as a welder while playing guitar on the side. He slept about four hours a day, on average. I don't know how the man did it... besides that, he only used his thumb to pick.

 

just cause Hendrix was doing drugs and playing a strat doesn't make him the same as everyone else back then. Clapton was also doing drugs and playing a strat, but their style of lead playing is outrageously different. and Hendrix definitley was doing something completely original for the time. and he influenced Page more than you could imagine. personally neither are my favorite guitarist, as i tend to prefer the more jazz/fusion style of John McLaughlin... who was also influenced insurmountably by Hendrix.