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blingdogg

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  1. Yeah, like a lot of other members I don't visit this forum much anymore. Part of it is because I've hardly been playing guitar for the past year. But also because there aren't many discussions or threads that really keep my interest. It's just kinda the same ideas over and over again and posts seem more half-hearted compared to before. I don't want to be a traitor or anything, but I spend more time over at TGP these days. Something I never thought would happen, but I like the knowledgeable discussion there (after weeding out the cork-sniffers ). I agree with some people, that this forum hasn't been the same since the upgrade. It lost some of its spark, sadly.
  2. I always hear people keep saying that Hendrix was going into jazz before he died.... I don't see it that way really. The direction I strongly see him taking was towards a funk-rock (and more soulful RnB) style like Funkadelic and Eddie Hazel. Look at the songs Hendrix was recording before he died, while working on his next album: Dolly Dagger Izabella Stepping Stone Message to Love Freedom Earth Blues Night Bird Flying Straight Ahead etc... So many of his last songs were funk-rock, with some soul/RnB mixed in. In comparison there's not so much showing he was going towards jazz, apart from "talks" with jazz guys like Miles Davis that went nowhere, and maybe a jazzy song like "South Saturn Delta". But the unreleased songs he was working on for his album in 1970, leftover material from BOG and his change in tone/sound all point to me like he was going towards a more Funkadelic sound (I know Funkadelic came after), not jazz. Maybe he would've gone to jazz at one point because he tended to flirt with the jazz sound every now and then, but I think Jimi was getting more into funk, maybe trying to connect with the black audiences he felt abandoned him, as he tried with BOG.
  3. Probably a Strat. All single coils. I play music in the style of classic rock, blues, blues-rock, garage and funk. It would be a hard choice though, because I really love Teles too.
  4. 1.) Music 2.) Writing 3.) Eveything else
  5. I never bothered to take a listen to any of his songs. So I don't love or hate him, I just have no interest in his material.
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