Paul McCartney told a story at one of his concerts (after doing his one version of Foxy Lady) that he saw Hendrix playing back in the 60's, and the way he played back in the day would easily throw guitars made back then out of tune because he was so wild. So Hendrix plays a song, then scans the crowd and goes "Is Eric here?" Eric Clapton was in the crowd trying to hide his face. Hendrix goes "Can he tune my guitar for me?"
Though Jimi Hendrix lived for the guitar, he didn't just play it, it's was apart of him as much as his very soul. He wasn't just a guitar player, who pick up the instrument and played, he was a true 'guitar man'. Hence his profound impression on many guitarists including, Eric 'God' Clapton, but don't forget he found influence, and liking, to both eric clapton's and jeff beck's sounds as well, as well as those before him - buddy guy.
Jimi Hendrix isn't the best guitar player ever, even he was quoted as saying, when asked how does it feel to be the greatest guitar player alive, he responded why don't you go and ask rory gallagher. Though nor is anyone else the greatest, that's the beauty of music, there is a no greatest player of any instrument in history, even the very best guitarists offer something different to each other in turn, and to those that listen, including jimi hendrix.
You are, clearly, Jimi's head cheerleader so any rationale regarding support for Clapton will be lost on you and will result in nothing more than ad hominems. Cheers.
These guys are at different ends of the spectrum...Clapton updated blues guitar by adding a rock flair and Hendrix was an innovator of tone and showmanship...so comparing them is useless...but I guess people find it interesting, It'd be like comparing Billie Holliday and Janis Joplin...they're both singers...but that's about where it ends.
@bloozedaddy Clapton and Hendrix were not at different ends of the spectrum. They both played blues rock, they were both very talented, and they both came out at the same time. People make comparisons because they actually are that similar. I also think it's sort of misleading when people say "music isn't a contest, you can't compare two people". In a lot of cases, yes you absolutely can. I can say with confidence that I can't play as good as Clapton, just as Clapton knows he wasn't Hendrix.
I will cede to the fact that Hendrix is better than Clapton, though I definitely prefer Clapton's music and musicianship as a whole. That being said, I think "Hendrix killed Clapton" is a bit of an overstatement. They're very different styles but in terms of overall ability and influence they're just so close, they're like the 1 and 2 guitarists ever. Or rather 2 and 3, since number 1 goes to Duane Allman
@JambiDAgenie i'm w/ you Duane & Jimi are my 2 fav players, then i like Jeff Beck, Eddie & SRV also Page,i never got to see the bros w/ Duane although i caught them in '74,'75 & 86 and they were brilliant i can't imagine how insane it would have been to see them w/ Duane, cause as we all know after losing Duane & Berry, they became a diff band..the closest to Jimi i'll ever get is if i decide to see randy hansen..he blows my mind as well..we lost them so soon d-24 j-27..pity
@MOSKII58 I can imagine it being great seeing the Brothers even in that period, and Ive also heard the Haynes/Betts period was legendary, though nothing and no one compares to Duane, in my eyes. Derek Trucks, however, is probably as close as well get. Saw them at the Beacon last year, phenomenal. Quite jealous that you saw them in the 70s and 80s though! I unfortunately didn't even exist then. But, the beauty of music is its immortality, these guys live on forever
Well Clapton was brilliant. One on the best guitar players ever. But Jimi never played the guitar. He just was. For him it came as naturally as breathing air for the rest of us. You look at him playing and you see how wild and unpredictable he was. It's like he came from different planet.
Lol, I love this story, I mean who else but Jimi would even dream about jamming with Cream... let alone do it AND totally blow them away.
I love them both, and Jimi adored Eric..."England's fairest soul brother" he called him. It was such a shock for me when Jimi passed away, I'll never forget the day it happened...really like the bereavement of a much loved family member or a best friend.
I'm not sure how it got written that Hendrix was a disciple of Clapton. Someone over at BBC has a mighty big idea of how a skinny Brit lad can teach the blues to an Native American/Black man from Seattle three years his senior. B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James, now those were musicians Jimi got his chops from.
I think he is saying that Hendrix adored Clapton (he only went to England on the condition that he could meet Clapton) and may have picked up some of the more rock sort of stuff from him. But yah, Hendrix grew up on good Delta Blues and Black blues like B.B.
@TheFORBEZZZ I've never heard that before. Where did you read this information? I can't imagine anyone not being influenced by Clapton once Eric became famous really.
Jimi was probably influenced by him when started into white music in greenwich village. Chas Chandler wanted to get a musician to form a new band so he could produce it and he found Hendrix with some help. He promised Jimi that he would meet Eric Clapton if he went to England. From the book "Room Full of Mirrors"
Jimi was playing R&B in Harlem for a while and then he started to perfrom at the Cafe Wha in Greenwich Village. This was the sort of music that was being played in England by the white English musicians such as Clapton: A sort of blues rock that was faster and less traditional than the stuff Jimi was playing before with Little Richard and the Eisley Brothers when he was on the Chitlin Circuit.
@TheFORBEZZZ Jimi was playing up tempo R&B with Isley Brothers as well as with Little Richard. The music Jimi was playing with Young Blood was just as uptempo as what Clapton was playing. All the European Guitarist and musicians were influenced by American R&B artist and Blues artist. Euro artist just put alot more sound effects to their music.Strip the sound effects away and its just American R&B and Blues for the most part.
@TheFORBEZZZ The sort of music that was being played by white english musicians was imported from the US.The Europeans didn't invent that type of playing. It was invented in the USA as early as the 1920 s and maybe before that. There weren't any European artist playing fast R&B at that time.
@TheFORBEZZZ Dylan influenced Jimi lyrically for sure. Jimi felt that if Bob could sing with his not so great voice ,he could also.Both men are influenced by the fathers of Folk music. Leadbelly, Rev Gary Davis. Both men are influenced by Little Richard also as well as the great Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. If you want to call Dylans music white music thats cool. But it really wasn't. It was American Blues, R&B, and Folk as well as pop.No doubt Dylan is a musical genius though.
@TheFORBEZZZ Sad to say but Music is catogorized by race. If you take Leadbelly. He was playing Folk music as early as 1910. Before Guthrie. But some music historians define his music as Blues. That's what they do with early Black artist playing Folk. It
s classified as as Blues. But when a white artist does the same music , it's classified as Folk.Take Dylan, you could call his music Folk or Blues . But he 's labeled as a "Folk artist" Yet he s a heavy LeadBelly influence.
actually, they are totally different... they are good in their own way.. I don't know why people keep comparing and trying to judge who the better one is.But Eric Clapton's playing seems to be more variety of styles included Delta Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Regge , Acoustic guitar, Bossanova also Funk and Jazz... while Jimi's playing bases on Psychedelic Rock, Blues and Funky.. anyway it's not important point to be judged who's better....
@lauriersroses333 that's just not true. Like if you say "vanilla ice cream is better than chocolatte" Someone just like chocolatte more. And if somone just like icecream, he doesn't care what kind of flavour. (clapton is chocolatte ... just in case... and ice cream is music)
@luckygayextraaaa i know its all matter of taste,we all know that, but in guitar skills so there are playrs better than others, it obviousely, jimi was and still a legend, and dnt tell me a chevy impala is better than ML63amg ! u cant even ur a fan of chevy :)
@lauriersroses333 Sorry, I don't like any American car or SUV:( And I agree, Jimi was more talented, but Eric did so much for jazz and rocknroll that is shame to let him compete for our admiration :)
@lauriersroses333 Well, i don't believe there's something like levels :) Jimi was better, Eric live longer, maybe longer then jimi was better ;) This conversation clearly has no solution, so we should just enjoy Killing Floor :)
clapton became too overconfident he started to believe he was the best player ever he needed jimi to give him a wake up call also srv did the same thing to clapton again years later so claptons been owned twice now
I'll take Hendrix over Clapton any day. People say Jimi was flashy but that was an added bonus because he could have played laid back like Clapton and still be considered great.
once again two of the best - who's "best" what we have here is 2 different styles both the best. it all boils down to personal preferance.even more than that sometimes i listen to hendrix sometimes clapton back in the day what a great stretch of music that will go down in history as some of the most influential music of all time.I'm not saying this because it's from my day i listen to everything as long as it's good from a-z .So now i'm coming up to 60 yrs. --you old buggers let these kids
While I like Jimi Hendrix, Clapton has always possessed the discipline that many flash-in-the-pan guitar players lack, including Hendrix.
You can count all of the great, present day, musicians that Clapton has not jammed with on one hand and have fingers left over. He knows when to be rhythm and when to take the lead. Rather than coming on like an undisciplined bull-in-the-china-shop, he fits into a group and compliments his peers and that is what makes a great musician.
@tophtml1 OMG respectfully: you are insane. As the commentator said: "Hendrix was a force of nature". Who knows where Hendrix would be if he hadn't died so young? Anyway, your last sentence about "what makes a good musician" speaks volumes about your anal retentive knowledge and POV on what music is/period. That you think YOU know is simply arrogance and hubris. How far are you along in your oh so successful musical career? OMG.
@tophtml1 Hmphh, I don´t know, Clapton knows and feels the blues, but he plays too safe, too restrained. I think he even said in an guitar magazine interview that he´s afraid to go "too far" with his lead playing. In that respect, Hendrix is his antithesis.
@rckpaynez28 I've listened to all three, but Jimi was going to and coming from an original way of playing guitar. Stevie probable had better technique, but he grew up being influenced by Jimi and had time to understand jimi's style. Jimi came from 50's and 60's blues, and then went into new areas to play, like psychadelic. It's not Stevie's fault for being born later, he liked hendrix. But Jimi was going off into new unexplored territory. All 3 guitarists were great.
@Andromelian listen bro, do love hendrix, i don't just say Jimmy , because there's another Jimmy anyways sure Hendrix was a guitar master and triquery , but didn't have songs like wonderful tonite, old love , layla ,tears in heaven and so on , they'r both great but different, another master at guitar is Steve Vai, his music is got no soul , but boy can he play .
Clapton has a lot of good sad, nostalgic songs like those that you mentioned. Listen to the less known Hendrix stuff like Little Wing, Castles Made of Sand, Angel and Bold as Love. I think you kind of get the same vibe as the Clapton stuff.
Ahhh, bullshit, this game is getting a bit tired-so what if Hendrix showed off with a dis-inhibited performance, it was just a mind-fuck. If you have a particular format of playing and a specific dynamic with three musicians-of course it is going to look and sound different if you have this Ethiopian king plug in and proceed to unravel a torrent of primal playing-Clapton was just suffering Cognitive Dissonance- Hendrix's version of SOYL was shitty,.
@GalaxyHorse So you choose to attack a cover that Hendrix did? lmao. I think you forgot the 3 albums he did with The Experience, albums of legendary material, and his Woodstock performance, among many others.
@vedderfan94 Interesting you only address this little bit of my post; yes, I am aware of Hendrix's material-and yes it is good stuff, he was a gifted and unique Guitar player.
Not everything he did was 'Great' though. It is pointless to play these comparison games.
@GalaxyHorse I never said that. All musicians have some bad material - it's inevitable really. And you're the one who started comparing them by putting Jimi's version of SOYL down. Both are fantastic guitarists, and that's all that needs to be said really.
les paul is the # 2 guitarist cause he plays like crazy good- and basically working by himself invented it-others who claimed to invent it had a whole staff of engineers but not lester paulfous---Also the greatest guitarist slots 3--10 are not filled yet
Eric Clapton couldn't hold Jimi's jock. One a sell-out who wasn't that talented to begin with, he was just white and willing to play ball, the other an immortal who went super nova. People who like EC are the same people who watch a lot of television and rave about that too, and get tattoos of their kids names.
@BerserkaViking shut your fucking mouth. he is in the rock and roll hall of fame three times. tremble at his greatness.... and then of course there's jimi
I saw Jimi on stage in 1967 at Hallendale florida, 45 years ago , still remember to this day how incredibly cool when he burned his guitar on stage after giving everything he had for 2 hours. No one will ever be that good.......
Jimi was what Clapton , page and the rest aspired to be. That's not a put down on them, as they are great, but Jimi was were they all wanted to be musically. Great segment!
"Nobody gets up to jam with Cream; Cream is Mount Olympus, Cream is the absolute pinnacle. Ordinary mortals cannot breathe the rarified air that exists in this hallowed space!"
I can only wish that I lived in an era that lived up to that...
@damez420sublime Yeah.. That's kinda the point right? Eric is God and he will always be. But Jimi man.. Jimi is something else. I don't even think you describe the man in words.
this wasn't the fist time Cpalton got schooled.My dad told me years ago he was Clapton jam with Buddy Guy in NYC in the 60's and Buddy Guy just wiped the floor with him.
hehe..nice doc. Jimi wasnt a competitor at all. He was beyond everybody and everything when it came to music and the guitar. Unreachable. Because of that he was free. Free to create new stuff, expand horizons and perception and just be Jimi. That freedom was eventually eaten away by financial exploitation and perhaps a too naive use of serious drugs. A sad story. But to create like he did, you need to "rise above" and we can all learn from that.
@thenobs123 like they can even be compared... you are a tad ignorant in my mind. They both created and opened entirely different worlds to mankind through their music and performance. Can't you hear it?
@thenobs123 no man......there has to be just one guitar player in history,.......there has to be just one.......and that one is JIMMY MARSHALL HENDRIX......the best guitar player of all time......in rock and roll history.......jimy page can be second......but that does not count......peace....
Yeahhhh Claptons is excelent and he's perfect ! but Hendrix is supernatural... he's from outter space no human can be like him ! that is the difference :)
Hendrix unquestionably was, as the guy in this video says, a "force of nature". On the other hand, Clapton is, in my view, the single most overrated guitarist in rock history. He doesn't suck, of course, but he is so far from being "God" that it is laughable. Hendrix, however, did seem to reach into the spiritual spheres, somehow.
Hendrix unquestionably was, as the guy in this video says, a "force of nature". On the other hand, Clapton is, in my view, the single most overrated guitarist in rock history. He doesn't suck, of course, but he is so far from being "God" that it is laughable. Hendrix, however, did seem to reach into the spiritual spheres, somehow.
ningun comentario a beneficio o en contra de cualquier guitarrista, cambia lo que paso en ese momento... ya dejense de pendejadas todos y disfruten la musica de ellos dos..... lo mato no lo mato fue mejor ese dia tal vez no ... clapton quedo con la boca asi de D: ..... claro ... y hendrix quedo igual al verlo D: .... reciproco no je ... asi que ya dejen que si la tecnica, que si es blanco o negro jeje pendejos....
Hendrix didn't play with his teeth. It's an optical illusion. He's actually playing with his hands, it just looks like he's playing with his teeth. Glad he knocked Clapton off his pedestal though, it was about time that someone showed how overrated Clapton was.
@angelignight09 well thts ur own opinion tht Shawn lane is the best guitarist of all time and I respect tht becoz he was a good guitarist but trust me yhu'll never get better then Hendrix, hendrix didn't even need a wammy bar in my eyes Hendrix is the best guitarist of all time and a lot of people tht have heard him play would agree with me wen Hendrix was up on any stage he performed on he was god and it wouldn't matter who was on stage with Hendrix he was a god He even said him self playing t
@acdcisgreat56 "Hendrix is the best guitarist of all time" - come on be serious. Better than Django Reinhardt? Better than Scotty Moore? Better than Gary Davis? Willie Walker? Andres Segovia? Hendrix pales in comparison compared to these guys, to name just a few.
Don't get me wrong, Hendrix was a great acid rock guitarist, but to say the best guitarist of all time is way off the mark IMHO.
@ibuprofen303 Calling Hendrix acid rock is like calling Django Reinhardt Spanish guitar, it's not entirely accurate. My opinion is that Hendrix is the best, but I am also blown away by classical and jazz guitar and many of the guitarists you mentioned. Hendrix was so perceptive, he could pour his emotions out through his instrument and to people in ways I have never heard, even from artists like Django Reinhardt, that's why I think he's the best.
love the quote 'but Jimi was a force of nature'... to all the people arguing about who is best, have any of you listened to Bradley Nowell from Sublime... apart from Hendrix, bradley had one of the most diverse arsenal and talent on guitar (rock, blues, ska, reggae, puck, hip hop, spanish) and could cut from one style to another seamlessly - like hendrix... music can be mathematical but its the the goosebumps which determine most... Vai, Satriani etc magnificent, but mathematical
@CollbsT Did you figure that out all on your own? Whew i was begening to wonder if anyone knew where that was from.Was getting a "Liiiiittle" bit nervous.Thanks
@cheesemas46 Im sorry you are ..cun.. cun.. cunt... cunfused . I would never call jimi that. . jimi is the best . my favorite album was ..well i dont have it and it was very rare.. its not even in the discography. it was very slow and blues mostly. really good album
I'm so glad that all those artists like Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and more still show their respect and tribute to Jimi. It's also nice to read all those beautiful comments about Jimi and blues music in the times of dubstep, techno and other crap. Remember - one day WE will have to be THEIR successors to keep blues and rock'n'roll alive so pick up your instruments and play with all your heart and all your soul.
@theganjaking56 He was the best for his time, though sloppy. If he was alive today he wouldn't be in the top 10 by today's standards, extremely technical neo classical/blues/metal mix guitar playing of guys like Buckethead, Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Malmsteen, Chris Impellitteri, Jeff Loomis, Shawn Lane-Rip. You should expand your music, and I hear race being thrown around by some people well the best black player to ever pick up a guitar is Tony MacAlpine
@ koala 381 he died from heavy drinking vomiting to death from alcohol poisoning the exact same way Ronald Scott aka Bon Scott died and there will never ever be anyone better then jimi Hendrix he was the greatest of all time the only 3 people to ever come close to being as good will be jimmy page tony aomi and of course Eric Clapton
@acdcisgreat56 They were the best for THEIR TIME.. Lord. And didn't die from alcohol poisoning. he didn't have a failure of an organ. He choked to death because of incompetent medical personal who didn't put him on his side
since 11 and I'm pretty sure rolling stone is going to name him again this year. his music was writtin by god himself and handed down to one of the best guitarists of all time JIMI HeNdRiX
Shit Hendrix was just as technically talented as any of these jackass shred heads today, and the reason he was better and will always be better is because of his ability to adapt and change his style at will. One moment he can caress you with a sweet gentle song like little wing, drifting, may this be love, the next he can melt your face with purple haze, fire, manic depression, and if you haven't heard any live Hendrix do yourself a favor and check out any of it, as it's all phenomenal.
@theganjaking56 Keep telling yourself that, he was no where near as technical as Buckethead, Satriani, Vai, Paul Gilbert. Guys like Buckethead can play ANYTHING mean while Hendrix couldn't pull off half of what these guys could. Hendrix, slow and stuck in the pentatonic scale. BTW I have everything on Hendrix
@AngelOfNight9 You're smoking too much crystal meth dude.Satriani ,Vai Buckethead are all Hendrix rip offs. They are knockoffs of Hendrix ..Each one of these guys borrowed heavy from JImi and even admitted it in interviews.
@Freedom0467 Smoking meth? Fuck off, they own Hendrix. Hendrix was the best for his time, a time where there was no other music but classic rock & blues and none of the advanced neo classical guitarists. Buckethead said that he looked up to Hendrix in interviews uh? Funny he would tell you his idol RIP Shawn Lane was the best guitar player ever, and Lane would play circles around Hendrix. These out of date top 10 guitar players off all time are for that era and style. Period.
@theganjaking56 Did you ever see Jimi use Sweep Picking? String Skipping? Don't think so. He was way before his time but is surpassed by alot of players today. But still, he was the most influential players of all time and many of the players today wouldn't be around if it wasn't for him.
@kranen1 sweet picking sounds shit..its about soul,fullnes and emotion of your sound fuck technicality..fuck you speed heads idea of faster is better load of crap..theres hundreds of fast metal songs out there that are useless..although they are fast..not one of them is in the same galaxy as any hendrix song.
Jimi was a master troll.
Paul McCartney told a story at one of his concerts (after doing his one version of Foxy Lady) that he saw Hendrix playing back in the 60's, and the way he played back in the day would easily throw guitars made back then out of tune because he was so wild. So Hendrix plays a song, then scans the crowd and goes "Is Eric here?" Eric Clapton was in the crowd trying to hide his face. Hendrix goes "Can he tune my guitar for me?"
RaaTheGodEaters 21 hours ago
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sawiola55 1 day ago
Hendrix was KING, no doubt. Clapton, Page, etc... all agree.
Macromics 1 day ago
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Macromics 1 day ago
Jimi Hendrix was ultimately an inevitable great culmination of many great players, who came before him and we're playing at the same time as him.
blueguitarz17 2 days ago
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Though Jimi Hendrix lived for the guitar, he didn't just play it, it's was apart of him as much as his very soul. He wasn't just a guitar player, who pick up the instrument and played, he was a true 'guitar man'. Hence his profound impression on many guitarists including, Eric 'God' Clapton, but don't forget he found influence, and liking, to both eric clapton's and jeff beck's sounds as well, as well as those before him - buddy guy.
blueguitarz17 2 days ago
Jimi Hendrix isn't the best guitar player ever, even he was quoted as saying, when asked how does it feel to be the greatest guitar player alive, he responded why don't you go and ask rory gallagher. Though nor is anyone else the greatest, that's the beauty of music, there is a no greatest player of any instrument in history, even the very best guitarists offer something different to each other in turn, and to those that listen, including jimi hendrix.
blueguitarz17 2 days ago
@casanovajako,
You are correct. Jimi was a great musician and innovator, however, he was, primarily, a solo guitarist.
tophtml1 2 days ago
@tabacblonde,
You are, clearly, Jimi's head cheerleader so any rationale regarding support for Clapton will be lost on you and will result in nothing more than ad hominems. Cheers.
tophtml1 2 days ago
These guys are at different ends of the spectrum...Clapton updated blues guitar by adding a rock flair and Hendrix was an innovator of tone and showmanship...so comparing them is useless...but I guess people find it interesting, It'd be like comparing Billie Holliday and Janis Joplin...they're both singers...but that's about where it ends.
bloozedaddy 2 days ago
@bloozedaddy Clapton and Hendrix were not at different ends of the spectrum. They both played blues rock, they were both very talented, and they both came out at the same time. People make comparisons because they actually are that similar. I also think it's sort of misleading when people say "music isn't a contest, you can't compare two people". In a lot of cases, yes you absolutely can. I can say with confidence that I can't play as good as Clapton, just as Clapton knows he wasn't Hendrix.
RaaTheGodEaters 21 hours ago
how does anyone think that any other guitarist could even be on the same level as Jimi
SkyWalkerFlyWalker 2 days ago
I will cede to the fact that Hendrix is better than Clapton, though I definitely prefer Clapton's music and musicianship as a whole. That being said, I think "Hendrix killed Clapton" is a bit of an overstatement. They're very different styles but in terms of overall ability and influence they're just so close, they're like the 1 and 2 guitarists ever. Or rather 2 and 3, since number 1 goes to Duane Allman
JambiDAgenie 3 days ago
@JambiDAgenie i'm w/ you Duane & Jimi are my 2 fav players, then i like Jeff Beck, Eddie & SRV also Page,i never got to see the bros w/ Duane although i caught them in '74,'75 & 86 and they were brilliant i can't imagine how insane it would have been to see them w/ Duane, cause as we all know after losing Duane & Berry, they became a diff band..the closest to Jimi i'll ever get is if i decide to see randy hansen..he blows my mind as well..we lost them so soon d-24 j-27..pity
MOSKII58 1 day ago
@MOSKII58 I can imagine it being great seeing the Brothers even in that period, and Ive also heard the Haynes/Betts period was legendary, though nothing and no one compares to Duane, in my eyes. Derek Trucks, however, is probably as close as well get. Saw them at the Beacon last year, phenomenal. Quite jealous that you saw them in the 70s and 80s though! I unfortunately didn't even exist then. But, the beauty of music is its immortality, these guys live on forever
JambiDAgenie 4 hours ago
Key fact while jimi was alive alot of people in music and fans of music said jimi was the greatest alive..
jayrock1987 4 days ago
Well Clapton was brilliant. One on the best guitar players ever. But Jimi never played the guitar. He just was. For him it came as naturally as breathing air for the rest of us. You look at him playing and you see how wild and unpredictable he was. It's like he came from different planet.
Turtle1631991 5 days ago 4
Love this story! I can hear it several times and I never get tired of this!
Long Live Jimi Hendrix!
ChrizzSudaka 5 days ago
Omelet Blows big time!
calicohunter 6 days ago
Don't you just love it when wikipedia helps people have discussions, like the two below?
BetweenRedFlags 1 week ago
Damn!
CrazyBxDon 1 week ago
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Freedom0467 1 week ago
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Freedom0467 1 week ago
Hendrix didnt ''Kill God'' he actually joined hibecame one
Pedr6500 1 week ago
Guitars do whatever Jimi sais.
NutHouseProductionz 1 week ago
Hendrix learned a lot from Little Richard, the UK was a measured escape from the chitlin circus.
CrankingSpanner 1 week ago
Lol, I love this story, I mean who else but Jimi would even dream about jamming with Cream... let alone do it AND totally blow them away.
I love them both, and Jimi adored Eric..."England's fairest soul brother" he called him. It was such a shock for me when Jimi passed away, I'll never forget the day it happened...really like the bereavement of a much loved family member or a best friend.
maltbeaver 1 week ago
whatever anyone says I'm with jack bruce on this one - clapton is just the greatest guitarist, but hendrix is force of nature. this is so true...
seasonedtoker 2 weeks ago
0:29 'he blew as all away.....of course'
fishybishbash 2 weeks ago
this title is very miss leading.............
cowboyaction1897 2 weeks ago
@cowboyaction1897 uhm nevermind.
coooldeal 1 week ago
He killed God lol
SoalaJohn54 2 weeks ago
I'm not sure how it got written that Hendrix was a disciple of Clapton. Someone over at BBC has a mighty big idea of how a skinny Brit lad can teach the blues to an Native American/Black man from Seattle three years his senior. B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King and Elmore James, now those were musicians Jimi got his chops from.
legunncat 2 weeks ago
@legunncat
I think he is saying that Hendrix adored Clapton (he only went to England on the condition that he could meet Clapton) and may have picked up some of the more rock sort of stuff from him. But yah, Hendrix grew up on good Delta Blues and Black blues like B.B.
TheFORBEZZZ 1 week ago
@TheFORBEZZZ I've never heard that before. Where did you read this information? I can't imagine anyone not being influenced by Clapton once Eric became famous really.
legunncat 1 week ago
@legunncat
Jimi was probably influenced by him when started into white music in greenwich village. Chas Chandler wanted to get a musician to form a new band so he could produce it and he found Hendrix with some help. He promised Jimi that he would meet Eric Clapton if he went to England. From the book "Room Full of Mirrors"
TheFORBEZZZ 1 week ago
@TheFORBEZZZ What's white music in Greenwich Villiage?
Freedom0467 1 week ago
@Freedom0467
Jimi was playing R&B in Harlem for a while and then he started to perfrom at the Cafe Wha in Greenwich Village. This was the sort of music that was being played in England by the white English musicians such as Clapton: A sort of blues rock that was faster and less traditional than the stuff Jimi was playing before with Little Richard and the Eisley Brothers when he was on the Chitlin Circuit.
TheFORBEZZZ 1 week ago
@TheFORBEZZZ Jimi was playing up tempo R&B with Isley Brothers as well as with Little Richard. The music Jimi was playing with Young Blood was just as uptempo as what Clapton was playing. All the European Guitarist and musicians were influenced by American R&B artist and Blues artist. Euro artist just put alot more sound effects to their music.Strip the sound effects away and its just American R&B and Blues for the most part.
Freedom0467 1 week ago
@TheFORBEZZZ Does that mean music stripped of R&B,Rock and Roll,Jazz, Funk,Blues,and folk?
Freedom0467 1 week ago
@TheFORBEZZZ Are you sure you don't mean warmed up left over blues like what Zepp was playing? Are do you mean the traditional Blues Clapton plays?
Freedom0467 1 week ago
@Freedom0467
It was some Blues like Clapton was playing, some folk songs (such as Dylan stuff) and also some British pop-rock stuff (Wild Thing as an example)
TheFORBEZZZ 1 week ago
@TheFORBEZZZ The sort of music that was being played by white english musicians was imported from the US.The Europeans didn't invent that type of playing. It was invented in the USA as early as the 1920 s and maybe before that. There weren't any European artist playing fast R&B at that time.
Freedom0467 1 week ago
@TheFORBEZZZ Dylan influenced Jimi lyrically for sure. Jimi felt that if Bob could sing with his not so great voice ,he could also.Both men are influenced by the fathers of Folk music. Leadbelly, Rev Gary Davis. Both men are influenced by Little Richard also as well as the great Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. If you want to call Dylans music white music thats cool. But it really wasn't. It was American Blues, R&B, and Folk as well as pop.No doubt Dylan is a musical genius though.
Freedom0467 1 week ago
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Freedom0467 1 week ago
@TheFORBEZZZ Sad to say but Music is catogorized by race. If you take Leadbelly. He was playing Folk music as early as 1910. Before Guthrie. But some music historians define his music as Blues. That's what they do with early Black artist playing Folk. It
s classified as as Blues. But when a white artist does the same music , it's classified as Folk.Take Dylan, you could call his music Folk or Blues . But he 's labeled as a "Folk artist" Yet he s a heavy LeadBelly influence.
Freedom0467 1 week ago
How can you choose between the two?
IFantasticMrFoxI 2 weeks ago
eric got his ars handed to him
xConnorGx 2 weeks ago
when someone asks who is the best guitar player ever lived then 75 of the world say jimi hendrix
Rskate18 2 weeks ago
and If you have experiences with playing music while taking LSD you will know how Jimi feels... also, Eric during Psychedelic era..
Tarpunyaf 2 weeks ago
actually, they are totally different... they are good in their own way.. I don't know why people keep comparing and trying to judge who the better one is.But Eric Clapton's playing seems to be more variety of styles included Delta Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Regge , Acoustic guitar, Bossanova also Funk and Jazz... while Jimi's playing bases on Psychedelic Rock, Blues and Funky.. anyway it's not important point to be judged who's better....
Tarpunyaf 2 weeks ago
Hendrix vs Rory Gallagher , Hendrix admitted that Rory Gallagher was the best guitarist in the world
link2mee 2 weeks ago
Hendrix and clapton I love you two, Guiatr legends of Olympus and the immortals
7whitestrawberry 2 weeks ago
i cant understand some ppl compare erik to jimi !!erik arent even half so good as jimi
lauriersroses333 2 weeks ago
@lauriersroses333 that's just not true. Like if you say "vanilla ice cream is better than chocolatte" Someone just like chocolatte more. And if somone just like icecream, he doesn't care what kind of flavour. (clapton is chocolatte ... just in case... and ice cream is music)
luckygayextraaaa 2 weeks ago
@luckygayextraaaa i know its all matter of taste,we all know that, but in guitar skills so there are playrs better than others, it obviousely, jimi was and still a legend, and dnt tell me a chevy impala is better than ML63amg ! u cant even ur a fan of chevy :)
lauriersroses333 2 weeks ago
@lauriersroses333 Sorry, I don't like any American car or SUV:( And I agree, Jimi was more talented, but Eric did so much for jazz and rocknroll that is shame to let him compete for our admiration :)
luckygayextraaaa 2 weeks ago
@luckygayextraaaa i dnt think ppl look down on erik, hes a good player of cours and no doubt,but obviousely not on the level with jimi
lauriersroses333 2 weeks ago
@lauriersroses333 Well, i don't believe there's something like levels :) Jimi was better, Eric live longer, maybe longer then jimi was better ;) This conversation clearly has no solution, so we should just enjoy Killing Floor :)
luckygayextraaaa 2 weeks ago
@luckygayextraaaa agreee :)
lauriersroses333 2 weeks ago
Lolz!!! Jimi might have killed Clapton, but i know which one lived longer! =D
ballisticchops 2 weeks ago
jimi was a showman
dylanzz1 3 weeks ago
clapton became too overconfident he started to believe he was the best player ever he needed jimi to give him a wake up call also srv did the same thing to clapton again years later so claptons been owned twice now
shredmaster100 3 weeks ago
1:05 - "He just played his Arse off", LOL
GTX1123 3 weeks ago
I'll take Hendrix over Clapton any day. People say Jimi was flashy but that was an added bonus because he could have played laid back like Clapton and still be considered great.
nomibe2911 3 weeks ago
Jimi An Eric are both equally good in their own respective styles.
esean3645 3 weeks ago
@esean3645 according to this... apparently not.
PANICBLADE 3 weeks ago
tears... Eric was the perfect robot blues guitarist, played like a machine; Jimi played from the infinite substance of the person he was.
desirefirst 3 weeks ago
I never understood what the hype was about Clapton, he never 'moved' me, Hendrix f*cking moved me from the 1st time I heard him!
geezeryoungopinions 3 weeks ago
once again two of the best - who's "best" what we have here is 2 different styles both the best. it all boils down to personal preferance.even more than that sometimes i listen to hendrix sometimes clapton back in the day what a great stretch of music that will go down in history as some of the most influential music of all time.I'm not saying this because it's from my day i listen to everything as long as it's good from a-z .So now i'm coming up to 60 yrs. --you old buggers let these kids
MrAughroo 3 weeks ago
pero clapton aún vive y hendrix esta muerto!
galobranto921 3 weeks ago
@galobranto921 si es verdad. hendrix burned his candle too fast.
rhondamerrick 3 weeks ago
While I like Jimi Hendrix, Clapton has always possessed the discipline that many flash-in-the-pan guitar players lack, including Hendrix.
You can count all of the great, present day, musicians that Clapton has not jammed with on one hand and have fingers left over. He knows when to be rhythm and when to take the lead. Rather than coming on like an undisciplined bull-in-the-china-shop, he fits into a group and compliments his peers and that is what makes a great musician.
tophtml1 3 weeks ago 4
@tophtml1 OMG respectfully: you are insane. As the commentator said: "Hendrix was a force of nature". Who knows where Hendrix would be if he hadn't died so young? Anyway, your last sentence about "what makes a good musician" speaks volumes about your anal retentive knowledge and POV on what music is/period. That you think YOU know is simply arrogance and hubris. How far are you along in your oh so successful musical career? OMG.
tabacblonde 4 days ago
@tophtml1 Hmphh, I don´t know, Clapton knows and feels the blues, but he plays too safe, too restrained. I think he even said in an guitar magazine interview that he´s afraid to go "too far" with his lead playing. In that respect, Hendrix is his antithesis.
casanovajako 2 days ago
i take you have never heard Stevie Ray Vaunghn or Robin Trower
rckpaynez28 3 weeks ago
@rckpaynez28 maybe Jimi's "soul" landed in Stevie, question is, where did it go from there?
desirefirst 3 weeks ago
@rckpaynez28 I've listened to all three, but Jimi was going to and coming from an original way of playing guitar. Stevie probable had better technique, but he grew up being influenced by Jimi and had time to understand jimi's style. Jimi came from 50's and 60's blues, and then went into new areas to play, like psychadelic. It's not Stevie's fault for being born later, he liked hendrix. But Jimi was going off into new unexplored territory. All 3 guitarists were great.
metalfiend124 3 weeks ago
I think Hendrix should be classed in the science-fiction category. Doesn't he ?
DenisJUMONT 3 weeks ago
"Eric was a guitar player. Jimi was some sort of force of nature." Exactly.
jerseystringer 4 weeks ago 14
Eric Clapton is God, much better guitar player than hendrix, Clapton has the soul of the blues
fabelas550 4 weeks ago
@fabelas550 to hell he is JIMI is the best guitar player
aceofspades19891 4 weeks ago
@aceofspades19891 no man, learn music, learn the blues
fabelas550 4 weeks ago
@aceofspades19891 WAS
lazercannoncheck 4 weeks ago
@fabelas550 he was good back in the day when he played blues with page
lazercannoncheck 4 weeks ago
@lazercannoncheck and with Cream, that was the most awesome band in the history, told by lynyrd skynyrd
fabelas550 4 weeks ago
Bro, Jimi is the king of the electric guitar. Clapton is good, but Jimi is like a god of the guitar.
Andromelian 4 weeks ago 26
@Andromelian Was
lazercannoncheck 4 weeks ago
@Andromelian
AMEN!
lensman8 2 weeks ago
@Andromelian listen bro, do love hendrix, i don't just say Jimmy , because there's another Jimmy anyways sure Hendrix was a guitar master and triquery , but didn't have songs like wonderful tonite, old love , layla ,tears in heaven and so on , they'r both great but different, another master at guitar is Steve Vai, his music is got no soul , but boy can he play .
ava5552091 1 week ago
@ava5552091
Clapton has a lot of good sad, nostalgic songs like those that you mentioned. Listen to the less known Hendrix stuff like Little Wing, Castles Made of Sand, Angel and Bold as Love. I think you kind of get the same vibe as the Clapton stuff.
TheFORBEZZZ 1 week ago
Ahhh, bullshit, this game is getting a bit tired-so what if Hendrix showed off with a dis-inhibited performance, it was just a mind-fuck. If you have a particular format of playing and a specific dynamic with three musicians-of course it is going to look and sound different if you have this Ethiopian king plug in and proceed to unravel a torrent of primal playing-Clapton was just suffering Cognitive Dissonance- Hendrix's version of SOYL was shitty,.
GalaxyHorse 4 weeks ago
@GalaxyHorse So you choose to attack a cover that Hendrix did? lmao. I think you forgot the 3 albums he did with The Experience, albums of legendary material, and his Woodstock performance, among many others.
vedderfan94 4 weeks ago
@vedderfan94 Interesting you only address this little bit of my post; yes, I am aware of Hendrix's material-and yes it is good stuff, he was a gifted and unique Guitar player.
Not everything he did was 'Great' though. It is pointless to play these comparison games.
GalaxyHorse 4 weeks ago
@GalaxyHorse I never said that. All musicians have some bad material - it's inevitable really. And you're the one who started comparing them by putting Jimi's version of SOYL down. Both are fantastic guitarists, and that's all that needs to be said really.
vedderfan94 4 weeks ago
les paul is the # 2 guitarist cause he plays like crazy good- and basically working by himself invented it-others who claimed to invent it had a whole staff of engineers but not lester paulfous---Also the greatest guitarist slots 3--10 are not filled yet
rollingstopp 1 month ago
Eric, mate .. there is no shame in being slayed by Jimi. We all are on a regular basis and the guy's been dead 42 years.
Zebonka 1 month ago 3
Eric Clapton couldn't hold Jimi's jock. One a sell-out who wasn't that talented to begin with, he was just white and willing to play ball, the other an immortal who went super nova. People who like EC are the same people who watch a lot of television and rave about that too, and get tattoos of their kids names.
bodhisattvajihadi 1 month ago
@bodhisattvajihadi I like both Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. u mad bro?
vedderfan94 4 weeks ago
You rearrange the letters in ERIC CLAPTON to spell NARCOLEPTIC.
cpkelley 1 month ago 2
street like a jungle so called the police... following at heard down to greece!!!hahaha
ThePrincejulian 1 month ago
Eric Clapton is the most over rated guitarist ever.
BerserkaViking 1 month ago
@BerserkaViking i would say slash is probably the most over rated :P
Lynk1992 1 month ago
@Lynk1992 I would say you're both wrong.
Somethingsmissing94 1 month ago
@BerserkaViking shut your fucking mouth. he is in the rock and roll hall of fame three times. tremble at his greatness.... and then of course there's jimi
weezyFshady 1 month ago
I saw Jimi on stage in 1967 at Hallendale florida, 45 years ago , still remember to this day how incredibly cool when he burned his guitar on stage after giving everything he had for 2 hours. No one will ever be that good.......
bikerbeanie88 1 month ago
Jimi was what Clapton , page and the rest aspired to be. That's not a put down on them, as they are great, but Jimi was were they all wanted to be musically. Great segment!
stratocat9999 1 month ago
power of soul,
rononeroc 1 month ago
James Marshall Hendrix "Jimi" is the past,the present and the future of the guitar!!
Macomesiamomessi 1 month ago
Clapton was pissed ..
wisesatyr72 1 month ago
"Nobody gets up to jam with Cream; Cream is Mount Olympus, Cream is the absolute pinnacle. Ordinary mortals cannot breathe the rarified air that exists in this hallowed space!"
I can only wish that I lived in an era that lived up to that...
PaulSaysShezam 1 month ago 24
Jimi made a statement for all mankind.
RunPoo1 1 month ago
He didn't kill clapton, he killed god! haha
damez420sublime 1 month ago 5
@damez420sublime Yeah.. That's kinda the point right? Eric is God and he will always be. But Jimi man.. Jimi is something else. I don't even think you describe the man in words.
GodfatherOfSweden 3 weeks ago 27
@GodfatherOfSweden Very good point!
damez420sublime 3 weeks ago
@GodfatherOfSweden then you even have to ask..... is he even a man?
PANICBLADE 3 weeks ago
@GodfatherOfSweden - 'Eric is God, but Jimi is...Something Else'. I like that :-)
williest1 4 days ago
this wasn't the fist time Cpalton got schooled.My dad told me years ago he was Clapton jam with Buddy Guy in NYC in the 60's and Buddy Guy just wiped the floor with him.
orchog 3 weeks ago
@orchog damn i wish i was there to see it!
damez420sublime 3 weeks ago
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd was at that concert. He mentioned it in his writing about cream on the Rolling Stones Top artists of all time list
TheDilligan 1 month ago
hehe..nice doc. Jimi wasnt a competitor at all. He was beyond everybody and everything when it came to music and the guitar. Unreachable. Because of that he was free. Free to create new stuff, expand horizons and perception and just be Jimi. That freedom was eventually eaten away by financial exploitation and perhaps a too naive use of serious drugs. A sad story. But to create like he did, you need to "rise above" and we can all learn from that.
WaterPocket 1 month ago
hendrix is great but page will always be the best.
thenobs123 1 month ago
@thenobs123 like they can even be compared... you are a tad ignorant in my mind. They both created and opened entirely different worlds to mankind through their music and performance. Can't you hear it?
WaterPocket 1 month ago
@WaterPocket Your exactly right, they cant be compared because they are not even close to eachother in talent, skill, or passion.
thenobs123 1 month ago
@thenobs123 no man......there has to be just one guitar player in history,.......there has to be just one.......and that one is JIMMY MARSHALL HENDRIX......the best guitar player of all time......in rock and roll history.......jimy page can be second......but that does not count......peace....
cuajinay 1 month ago
@thenobs123 no Hendrix no Page
Metallica512021 1 month ago
I miss the OLD Clapton
carliarce 1 month ago
Yeahhhh Claptons is excelent and he's perfect ! but Hendrix is supernatural... he's from outter space no human can be like him ! that is the difference :)
chazzdurden 1 month ago
Dem apples, I likes them.
Adelphia117 1 month ago
Lol
Quinotar7 1 month ago
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Hendrix unquestionably was, as the guy in this video says, a "force of nature". On the other hand, Clapton is, in my view, the single most overrated guitarist in rock history. He doesn't suck, of course, but he is so far from being "God" that it is laughable. Hendrix, however, did seem to reach into the spiritual spheres, somehow.
briteness 1 month ago
Hendrix unquestionably was, as the guy in this video says, a "force of nature". On the other hand, Clapton is, in my view, the single most overrated guitarist in rock history. He doesn't suck, of course, but he is so far from being "God" that it is laughable. Hendrix, however, did seem to reach into the spiritual spheres, somehow.
briteness 1 month ago
Hendrix is the best. Style, passion, nobody play with more energy than him. He is the
more influence guitarrist. There is nobody like his. Is the best for it. Excuse my english is not well, im spanish.
albertotond 1 month ago
@albertotond Totally agree
Seagypzy 1 month ago
Hendrix arrives from the U.S.
rollingstopp 1 month ago
ningun comentario a beneficio o en contra de cualquier guitarrista, cambia lo que paso en ese momento... ya dejense de pendejadas todos y disfruten la musica de ellos dos..... lo mato no lo mato fue mejor ese dia tal vez no ... clapton quedo con la boca asi de D: ..... claro ... y hendrix quedo igual al verlo D: .... reciproco no je ... asi que ya dejen que si la tecnica, que si es blanco o negro jeje pendejos....
Lastmauricio 1 month ago
hendix brings out whats inside pandora's box. but he's not the greatest guitarist of all time. definitely not.
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Beatles52387 1 month ago
Hendrix just made that guitar his bitch.
slapnut892 1 month ago
Hendrix didn't play with his teeth. It's an optical illusion. He's actually playing with his hands, it just looks like he's playing with his teeth. Glad he knocked Clapton off his pedestal though, it was about time that someone showed how overrated Clapton was.
ibuprofen303 1 month ago
The day before Jimi entered the world of Rock - the devil sold his soul.
Cheers,
Robin :o)
RobinStrower 1 month ago
Jimi Clapton killed both
slimshadyrealrealrea 1 month ago
*playing the guitar was his religion
acdcisgreat56 1 month ago
@angelignight09 well thts ur own opinion tht Shawn lane is the best guitarist of all time and I respect tht becoz he was a good guitarist but trust me yhu'll never get better then Hendrix, hendrix didn't even need a wammy bar in my eyes Hendrix is the best guitarist of all time and a lot of people tht have heard him play would agree with me wen Hendrix was up on any stage he performed on he was god and it wouldn't matter who was on stage with Hendrix he was a god He even said him self playing t
acdcisgreat56 1 month ago
@acdcisgreat56 "Hendrix is the best guitarist of all time" - come on be serious. Better than Django Reinhardt? Better than Scotty Moore? Better than Gary Davis? Willie Walker? Andres Segovia? Hendrix pales in comparison compared to these guys, to name just a few.
Don't get me wrong, Hendrix was a great acid rock guitarist, but to say the best guitarist of all time is way off the mark IMHO.
ibuprofen303 1 month ago
@ibuprofen303 Calling Hendrix acid rock is like calling Django Reinhardt Spanish guitar, it's not entirely accurate. My opinion is that Hendrix is the best, but I am also blown away by classical and jazz guitar and many of the guitarists you mentioned. Hendrix was so perceptive, he could pour his emotions out through his instrument and to people in ways I have never heard, even from artists like Django Reinhardt, that's why I think he's the best.
theevster55 1 month ago
Anybody know what song jimi was playing in this video??
Sylversurfer12 1 month ago
love the quote 'but Jimi was a force of nature'... to all the people arguing about who is best, have any of you listened to Bradley Nowell from Sublime... apart from Hendrix, bradley had one of the most diverse arsenal and talent on guitar (rock, blues, ska, reggae, puck, hip hop, spanish) and could cut from one style to another seamlessly - like hendrix... music can be mathematical but its the the goosebumps which determine most... Vai, Satriani etc magnificent, but mathematical
blacksaxmusic 1 month ago
shame on you jimi..youll always be a cun...cunt ..cunt ....cuntinuing sorce of inspiration.
lazercannoncheck 1 month ago 18
@lazercannoncheck real original. From south park
CollbsT 1 month ago
@CollbsT Did you figure that out all on your own? Whew i was begening to wonder if anyone knew where that was from.Was getting a "Liiiiittle" bit nervous.Thanks
lazercannoncheck 1 month ago
@lazercannoncheck "beginning" , my bad chewy chomp
lazercannoncheck 1 month ago
@lazercannoncheck im confused, are you calling jimi hendrix a cunt?
cheesemas46 4 weeks ago
@cheesemas46 Im sorry you are ..cun.. cun.. cunt... cunfused . I would never call jimi that. . jimi is the best . my favorite album was ..well i dont have it and it was very rare.. its not even in the discography. it was very slow and blues mostly. really good album
lazercannoncheck 4 weeks ago
I'm so glad that all those artists like Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy and more still show their respect and tribute to Jimi. It's also nice to read all those beautiful comments about Jimi and blues music in the times of dubstep, techno and other crap. Remember - one day WE will have to be THEIR successors to keep blues and rock'n'roll alive so pick up your instruments and play with all your heart and all your soul.
tosiek1000 1 month ago
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@theganjaking56 He was the best for his time, though sloppy. If he was alive today he wouldn't be in the top 10 by today's standards, extremely technical neo classical/blues/metal mix guitar playing of guys like Buckethead, Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Malmsteen, Chris Impellitteri, Jeff Loomis, Shawn Lane-Rip. You should expand your music, and I hear race being thrown around by some people well the best black player to ever pick up a guitar is Tony MacAlpine
AngelOfNight9 1 month ago
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AngelOfNight9 1 month ago
@ koala 381 he died from heavy drinking vomiting to death from alcohol poisoning the exact same way Ronald Scott aka Bon Scott died and there will never ever be anyone better then jimi Hendrix he was the greatest of all time the only 3 people to ever come close to being as good will be jimmy page tony aomi and of course Eric Clapton
acdcisgreat56 1 month ago
@acdcisgreat56 They were the best for THEIR TIME.. Lord. And didn't die from alcohol poisoning. he didn't have a failure of an organ. He choked to death because of incompetent medical personal who didn't put him on his side
AngelOfNight9 1 month ago
@AngelOfNight9 But in my opinion SRV blew Clapton out of the water.
AngelOfNight9 1 month ago
since 11 and I'm pretty sure rolling stone is going to name him again this year. his music was writtin by god himself and handed down to one of the best guitarists of all time JIMI HeNdRiX
ratm50101 1 month ago
Shit Hendrix was just as technically talented as any of these jackass shred heads today, and the reason he was better and will always be better is because of his ability to adapt and change his style at will. One moment he can caress you with a sweet gentle song like little wing, drifting, may this be love, the next he can melt your face with purple haze, fire, manic depression, and if you haven't heard any live Hendrix do yourself a favor and check out any of it, as it's all phenomenal.
theganjaking56 1 month ago 34
@theganjaking56 Keep telling yourself that, he was no where near as technical as Buckethead, Satriani, Vai, Paul Gilbert. Guys like Buckethead can play ANYTHING mean while Hendrix couldn't pull off half of what these guys could. Hendrix, slow and stuck in the pentatonic scale. BTW I have everything on Hendrix
AngelOfNight9 1 month ago
@AngelOfNight9 You're smoking too much crystal meth dude.Satriani ,Vai Buckethead are all Hendrix rip offs. They are knockoffs of Hendrix ..Each one of these guys borrowed heavy from JImi and even admitted it in interviews.
Freedom0467 1 month ago
@Freedom0467 Smoking meth? Fuck off, they own Hendrix. Hendrix was the best for his time, a time where there was no other music but classic rock & blues and none of the advanced neo classical guitarists. Buckethead said that he looked up to Hendrix in interviews uh? Funny he would tell you his idol RIP Shawn Lane was the best guitar player ever, and Lane would play circles around Hendrix. These out of date top 10 guitar players off all time are for that era and style. Period.
AngelOfNight9 1 month ago
@AngelOfNight9 The fuck are you talking about?
VideoGameMaster007 1 month ago
@theganjaking56 Did you ever see Jimi use Sweep Picking? String Skipping? Don't think so. He was way before his time but is surpassed by alot of players today. But still, he was the most influential players of all time and many of the players today wouldn't be around if it wasn't for him.
kranen1 1 month ago
@kranen1 sweet picking sounds shit..its about soul,fullnes and emotion of your sound fuck technicality..fuck you speed heads idea of faster is better load of crap..theres hundreds of fast metal songs out there that are useless..although they are fast..not one of them is in the same galaxy as any hendrix song.
camelterrorist 1 month ago