Great Article

[Dan Hall]

The May issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine is out. There is a super article on acoustic guitar parameters in the monthly column Acousticsville

Volume/Loudness...Attack...Sustain...Harmonic Balance...Depth...Feel

 

No way I can post anything from it but it's a good read.

 

The same issue has an article with tabs and standard notation about Jimi Hendrix. The more I learn about that guy (I saw him twice) the more distant and surreal the experience becomes. I was singing in a kids band then, and we just though he was wild and flamboyant. And good. Little did we know that he was reinventing blues, rock, jazz and inventing metal and fusion all at the same time. Some of his contemporaries knew it. BB, Eric, Peter Green and Pete Townsend new it. Jeff Beck was never the same after the '67 London Concerts. Extraordinary musician/savant. Mozart. Makes me feel bad all over again.

 

I know this ain't acoustic but almost 40 years on the guy still stuns with what he did with the guitar.

[DonK]

Sounds cool. I think I'll pop over to Borders tomorrow and pick up a copy, thanks for the heads up.

[Queequeg]

 

The May issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine is out. There is a super article on acoustic guitar parameters in the monthly column Acousticsville Volume/Loudness...Attack...Sustain...Harmonic Balance...Depth...Feel No way I can post anything from it but it's a good read. Little did we know that he was reinventing blues, rock, jazz and inventing metal and fusion all at the same time. Some of his contemporaries knew it. BB, Eric, Peter Green and Pete Townsend new it. Jeff Beck was never the same after the '67 London Concerts. Extraordinary musician/savant. Mozart. Makes me feel bad all over again. I know this ain't acoustic but almost 40 years on the guy still stuns with what he did with the guitar.

 

+1. Guy still rarely gets his props, as you have just detailed. He was tuned into something only a very few humans ever approach. A true zen master. He didnt play the guitar; he channeled the darn thing. from where, nobody knows. I never saw him, and was only vaguely interested in him during his life.

Thanks. I'm going to pick up that issue today too.

[Dave W.]

Many people think he was a lot of noise and feedback, and much of it was. But he was experimenting and really breaking new ground, and when you do that, everything can't be good. He was gone for years before I ever sat down and listened to Little Wing from a guitar players point of view. The only other guy whose death hits me like Hendrix, is John Belushi.

[Queequeg]

I stopped @ Borders to pick this up on my lunch hour. There were no fewer than three magazines with Hendrix on the current issues' covers. And he isn't actually on the cover of Vintage anyway.

not bad for a guy who's been dead for 37 years.

[EvilTwin]

 

Many people think he was a lot of noise and feedback, and much of it was. But he was experimenting and really breaking new ground, and when you do that, everything can't be good. He was gone for years before I ever sat down and listened to Little Wing from a guitar players point of view. The only other guy whose death hits me like Hendrix, is John Belushi.

 

 

Hendrix definitely wasn't afraid to make soundscapes that had nothing to do with technical virtuosity.

 

I just listened to two versions of "Machine Gun" today in my car. It's emotionally exhausting to listen to.