Lenny Kravitz: Jimi Hendrix wannabe or .....?

Quatermass: Quatermass (1970)

This album is a rarity, but is currently available as a re-issue CD from Repertoire. This band was actually the first keyboard, bass and drums trio, predating ELP. Anyway, their only album is definitely worth having

 

Allman Brothers Band: At The Fillmore East (1971)

The best live blues album around. Four sides of guitar heaven!

 

Humble Pie: Rockin' The Fillmore

Marriott and Frampton are absolutely smokin' on this gem. I really think it is the best sounding live rock album of all time (IMHO, of course).

 

no shit, color doesn't make the music. and I know hendrix was black. maybe you misunderstood me. I meant more along the line of people compare their the looks. because the two do not compare in sound.

 

I meant more of a studio tech aspect. Jimi and engineer Eddie Kramer pioneered sounds that had never been done using analog recording. Microphone angles were adjusted differently, and noted. Sound levels for distortion were tested. The rest of these players owe Jimi and Eddie hundred of hours of experimental work studing in order for Trower, Kravitz, or any other feedback player to get a studio recording that sounds like anything but mud.

Put it this way, while the foremost studio in London, Abbey Road, left the newest tape machine in a corner waiting for an adapter for six months, Jimi was learning how to use it, and how to make it do things that it wasnt intended to do in NY.

Add to this the amazing talent that Jimi had for live performance, and I have a hard time thinking that anyone who is just a musician has a chance to be much like Jimi. Lots of guys play like Jimi, who himself plays like others, its a musical style. But few if any have done engineering and playing like Jimi - unless its Les Paul himself!

 

Don't forget the original recording of feedback was done by the Beatles, who also showed how distortion could be used musically, and then of course Jimmy Page also advanced studio production a lot......

And I still say that artists like Bowie and Kravitz, who can play multiple instruments are a very rare and exceptional bunch.

 

and so did Electric Prunes

 

i put total copy. but only because he totally wants to be like him. really they're nothing alike. hendrix was good, he sucks ass.