Leslie West - Jimi Hendrix (4 of 8)

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An exclusive series of Living Legends Music interviews with Leslie West. Part 4 of 8. Recorded on October 31st, 2008 at the House of Blues in Lake Buena Vista, FL.

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[MrTeddy236]

@mulleygraves screw u man hendrix was the greatest guitarist of all time easily, only idiots like u cant accept that

[freegie27]

Leslie & Felix blew my nut with the live 'Nantucket Sleighride' all those years ago..and Mississipi Queen etc. [Mountain live].

Noel played with Leslie a few years later.

Jimi's my number one but Lesle's guitar tone is exquisite.,

Sleighride, Blood of the Sun....Beautiful guitar player.

JMH #1...... Total respect to Leslie

[freegie27]

@depper

Amen.

As I said before, even though I'm a major Jimi fan, the SOUND of Leslie's guitar gave me goosebumps.

Some of the guitar playing/sound on Nantucket Sleighride, Mountain Live, hurts my head.

I spent years trying to find Woodstock 2 so I could hear Mountain's Blood Of The Sun, just to hear Leslie hitting one note, before launching into a sublime piece of guitar - you'll know which part I mean I hope :)

JMH #1.......Stay well Leslie

[Staziish]

Hendrix is an other catergory, people. He was much more than a total original guitarist,songwriter and performer. He changed music just as much the Beatles did. Hendrix still is the standard !

[Kedbuka]

This is great...just some fantastic stuff to hear. Thanks for posting it, bro'.

[Savage3390]

where is the picture he's talking about?

[vonkiser]

Hendrix was out of this world man. BUT man Mountian had some good shit man.

[parafleet]

I love you, Leslie West.

Yellow shoes.

Yellow shoes.

[depper]

So to me, and many rock fans, there IS no "better". That's not how you judge music. One thing is certain, without Jimi & Leslie, we'd have a far different definition of the term "Rock n Roll".

[depper]

I think every rock guitarist would tell you the best electric rock guitarist was Jimi Hendrix. However, Jimi died in 1970. Although Jimi was and still is a bright influential star, Its 41 years after Hendrix, and Leslie West is STILL WITH US, creating and performing. Leslie is every bit as much the King of the Les Paul Jr., as Hendrix was the King of the Fender. Leslie had a far better tone and vibrato then Hendrix, Hendrix had much faster dexterity. They both wrote GREAT songs.

[DONDIVA1969]

Anyone calling Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner cacophonous is incorrigibly clueless. Beauty lies in the purposeful cacophony of his version. It was Hendrix channeling the cubist painter Pablo Picasso. The guitar became his paintbrush.

“In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstracted form—instead of depicting objects from one viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context”.

[electrickithara]

Good stuff! Get well Leslie.