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27-11-2011, 03:52
(This post was last modified: 27-11-2011, 05:03 by CRAZY-HORSE.)
Jimi Hendrix stretched the boundaries of Blues, Rock
and the electric guitar in a way no other artist really had before
him in his twenty seven years of life and to this day his abilities combined
with his artistry sets a standard that few guitarists have been able to
come close to since.
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"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music." - Jimi Hendrix
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i do not like Hendrix or anything played that i have heard...but i understand and appreciate his contribution to music for his inspiration of others...
that said...happy posthumous b'day to JH.
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CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:i do not like Hendrix or anything played that i have heard...but i understand and appreciate his contribution to music for his inspiration of others...
that said...happy posthumous b'day to JH. :hippie:
hb Jimmy
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Happy Birthday Jimmy! 
Nice to be able to go back to trust and friendship!!!!!!!!!
It's a mixed up sensation this being alive
Oh! it wears a man down into the ground
It's the strangest elation
I can't describe it
Oh it leaves a man weary
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HAPPY 69th BIRTHDAY, JIMI !
Out of all of the great musicians who have passed on, I think Jimi Hendrix would have evolved into a guitar virtuoso extraordinaire....playing free jazz, classical, blues and progressive rock.. and what else ?..we'll never know !
He was also a master on the 12 string acoustic and god only knows what he could do with a classical guitar ! He was more than heavy music and playing guitar on stage with his teeth!
Beautiful songs such as Little Wing, Angel, The Wind Cries Mary...showed another side of this unbelievable musician !
The ultimate connection is between a performer and its' audience!
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Happy Birthday, wish he could have stuck around.
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SteveO Wrote:HAPPY 69th BIRTHDAY, JIMI !
Out of all of the great musicians who have passed on, I think Jimi Hendrix would have evolved into a guitar virtuoso extraordinaire....playing free jazz, classical, blues and progressive rock.. and what else ?..we'll never know !
He was also a master on the 12 string acoustic and god only knows what he could do with a classical guitar ! He was more than heavy music and playing guitar on stage with his teeth!
Beautiful songs such as Little Wing, Angel, The Wind Cries Mary...showed another side of this unbelievable musician !
I agree very much so! I dream of what Hendrix would have accomplished had he not died at the still young age of 27. I have a feeling he would have kept blues rock alive for as long as he lived.
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Hendrix was undoubtedly talented and a great charismatic performer... however when people die in such heights of their fame they are inevitably immortalised in a sense that if they had survived they would have done even more amazing things.
While it may be a hangable offence to compare other contemporaries of the time, looking at other blues-rock guitarists such as Clapton and even RobinTrower and the sometimes cringeworthy paths that their careers took, particularly in the 80s, you cannot help but think he would have undoubtedly had some embarassing moments!!
One interesting thing though, which as a music fan will always plague my mind, is the fact that the man himself Miles Davis had actually been a fan and had wished to COLLABORATE with Hendrix had he survived!! Now that would have been something else 
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Mr.Soul Wrote:Hendrix was undoubtedly talented and a great charismatic performer... however when people die in such heights of their fame they are inevitably immortalised in a sense that if they had survived they would have done even more amazing things.
While it may be a hangable offence to compare other contemporaries of the time, looking at other blues-rock guitarists such as Clapton and even RobinTrower and the sometimes cringeworthy paths that their careers took, particularly in the 80s, you cannot help but think he would have undoubtedly had some embarassing moments!!
One interesting thing though, which as a music fan will always plague my mind, is the fact that the man himself Miles Davis had actually been a fan and had wished to COLLABORATE with Hendrix had he survived!! Now that would have been something else
Right, I understand what you're saying. ALL of the great modern(ish) music legends have had their less than popular phases, no doubt Hendrix would have succumbed to the industry's plague. Frank Zappa was actually very fond of him and made an acquaintance of him. Some sources say that Zappa introduced Hendrix to the wah wah pedal (not to sound pretentious or anything, just making a connection)
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Mr.Soul Wrote:Hendrix was undoubtedly talented and a great charismatic performer... however when people die in such heights of their fame they are inevitably immortalised in a sense that if they had survived they would have done even more amazing things.
While it may be a hangable offence to compare other contemporaries of the time, looking at other blues-rock guitarists such as Clapton and even RobinTrower and the sometimes cringeworthy paths that their careers took, particularly in the 80s, you cannot help but think he would have undoubtedly had some embarassing moments!!
One interesting thing though, which as a music fan will always plague my mind, is the fact that the man himself Miles Davis had actually been a fan and had wished to COLLABORATE with Hendrix had he survived!! Now that would have been something else
thinking you nailed it with that comment Lewis....
another classic example of one who died young yet gained immortality was Lennon...as much as i like the Double Fantasy material and the Milk & honey stuff, it was nowhere near his best output, chart positions showed that with "(just like) starting over" single,reaching the lower reaches of the UK top 10,dropping fast to #28, then he dies and its #1 the next week! did the same here in Australia also....
Elvis was a parody of his former self in 1977(although,like Lennon he still had a good voice), he dies and "Way Down"(an average song) hits #1 in the UK. again, Michael Jackson never did anything great after the "Bad" album in 1987...then he dies at age 50.....same story for a hundred artists!
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