Members craigny Posted December 3, 2010 Members Share Posted December 3, 2010 Like stated before, Hendrix changed the way people played the electric guitar and redifined/expanded what it was actually capaple of, regardless if you like him or not (don't see how you couldn't though)...EVH did this again in the late 70's....IMO we have yet to see the next revolution... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sk8centilli Posted December 3, 2010 Members Share Posted December 3, 2010 are all your favorite guitarists influenced heavily by hendrix? I doubt it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members noisebloom Posted December 3, 2010 Members Share Posted December 3, 2010 Great stuff. Thanks for posting that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hubert Stumblin Posted December 3, 2010 Members Share Posted December 3, 2010 Many of my fave guitarists are. But many aren't simply because they were around before Hendrix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted December 3, 2010 Members Share Posted December 3, 2010 yeah except for the ones that came before Jimi one would be hard pressed to find someone not influenced by him. You wouldnt think Robert Smith was but...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq2JED0V8kk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Krashpad Posted December 3, 2010 Members Share Posted December 3, 2010 ware all your favorite guitarists influenced heavily by hendrix? Nope. None were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Krashpad Posted December 3, 2010 Members Share Posted December 3, 2010 yeah except for the ones that came before Jimi one would be hard pressed to find someone not influenced by him. This is a gross overstatement. There are tons of today's players more interested in genres like garage, power pop, rockabilly, and punk, which have nothing to do with Hendrix and were not influenced by him. To say nothing of jazz and classical players. But even within rock, your statement is simply not true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 Page and Beck both said they dug him. Page never saw him live though he said he was gonna catch them the next time they toured UK but then he died. The Zep played a show the day Hendrix died (or the day after)and Robert mentioned to the audience the great loss they just heard about. Page didnt go all Clapton and grow an Afro but Im sure Hendrix inspired him at least..Hendrix is my favorite guitarist, and some others I really like were heavily influenced by him. Robin Trower definitely was influenced. And so was Eddie Hazel from Funkadelic. And Eric Gales.As for Jimmy Page... I don't know, really. And I wish I could find out what his opinion was of Hendrix too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 I meant the people I like, even the punks like Johnny Thunders. edit: response to BK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeathRowJethro Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 when i actually looked at the lead guitar heros that i have.... prince uli jon roth, billy corgan.... they're all basically playing like hendrix.... prince---- hendrix/santana......... uli--- hendrix/classical musik------- billy corgan---hendrix/iommi....... No. None of mine are. But you guys have probably never heard of my guitar heroes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members foppy Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 Django wasn't. Cliff Gallup wasn't. Jimmy Bryant wasn't. Wes Montgomery wasn't. I could go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapbladder Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 This is a gross overstatement. There are tons of today's players more interested in genres like garage, power pop, rockabilly, and punk, which have nothing to do with Hendrix and were not influenced by him. To say nothing of jazz and classical players. But even within rock, your statement is simply not true. This is also a gross overstatement. Punk, garage, and even power pop owe a huge debt to Jimi. Jimi was more than lead playing and blues. But that's just like my opinion and stuff man. SB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SpaceProg Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 I don't believe so. In interviews, my favorite guitarists have all mentioned being influenced by people from before Hendrix. For instance, Justin Hayward (In my avatar), clamed he was influenced a lot by Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers, among a few other pre-Hendrix bands/players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Willyguitar Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 They're not my favourite guitarists. I don't really have favourites... however I don't agree that Marr and Edge are heavily influenced by Hendrix. If anything, they represent a reaction to the genre of guitarists that WERE influenced by him, with the possible exception of people like Rory Gallagher, who is the key link between Hendrix and those two. In essence, I thought they were originally a product of late 1970s early 1980s punk, which eschewed the widdly guitar solo, the 9 minute song, and certain early '70s trends in rock. However, the OP has a point in that if you listen to guitar music, his influence is pretty much inescapable... to an extent, it is almost like asking how many novelists in English have been influenced by Dickens, or poets influenced by Shakespeare. Hendrix effectively reinvented the whole notion of guitar hero, completely put a new stamp on the content and position of a guitar solo, and it seems, helped to make certain models of guitar the most popular sellers of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thick_mike Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 If your guitar heroes use distortion, wah, phaser, octavia, feedback, play in a power trio, play with their thumb over the board, tune down to Eb, use a whammy bar to divebomb, strut, play through Marshall stacks, pretend their guitar is a huge penis or flick their tongues out while they do the one-handed wheedly wheedly, then yeah, they are probably influenced by Hendrix. Even the ones that don't do the above probably are. The only one I've heard state that he isn't was Steve Albini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members strtdv Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 If you play rock electric guitar then you are influenced by Hendrix whether you know it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RUExp? Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 What a stupid song choice to use for a comparison. Hendrix doing a cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper? He performed that song live the day after that album came out by the way. Here's a better clip for comparison against that RR half. [YOUTUBE]twOjCI1QFoU[/YOUTUBE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MorganB Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 Yups... take a blues riff speed it up ,stop ,add sustain ,vibrato and feedback! Bend the G string to the B ... (sounds like rap lyrics but it is really a technique he popularized!) Then burn it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members catscurlyear Posted December 4, 2010 Members Share Posted December 4, 2010 killer track, we used to play that over the pa system before gigs ,people would always ask about it.the guitar at 2.11,and 3.46 are samples of hendrix playing an intro just before voodoo chile from the isle of wight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members craigny Posted December 5, 2010 Members Share Posted December 5, 2010 I've been watching more Jimi clips on youtube...the more i see him play the more i discover how great he really was...always respected Jimi's playing, but now i think im becomming a fan of his music as a whole....melody with the guitar man that what Jimi's playing says to me...melody with the guitar.....he makes the guitar SING Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members walrus1 Posted December 5, 2010 Members Share Posted December 5, 2010 But who was Jimi influenced by? That's the real influence. All those old bluesmen and R&B guys like Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Reed, BB King, Chuck Berry, Curtis Mayfield, Howlin' Wolf. All my favorite guitarists seem to be influenced by those guys. Got to go to the source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members craigny Posted December 5, 2010 Members Share Posted December 5, 2010 But who was Jimi influenced by? That's the real influence. All those old bluesmen and R&B guys like Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Reed, BB King, Chuck Berry, Curtis Mayfield, Howlin' Wolf. All my favorite guitarists seem to be influenced by those guys. Got to go to the source. Great point...seems like a before Jimi, after Jimi thing....if you are influnced by Jimi, you are also influnced by default by Muddy, B.B., Chuck...etc..by default ....Rock was born of Blues, and these guys wrote the book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted December 5, 2010 Members Share Posted December 5, 2010 dont forget Clapton, Jimi ws a huge Cream fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members csm Posted December 5, 2010 Members Share Posted December 5, 2010 It's worth mentioning that Hendrix's influences extended beyond guitar players. As a singer and lyricist, he was hugely influenced by Bob Dylan; as a song-constructor and wannabe record producer by The Beatles. In terms of performance style, he watched and learned from James Brown, Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and innumerable R&B/sou;/early rock greats. Guitar-wise: if you listen to disc 1 of the new West Coast Seattle Boy set, which compiles his R&B session work, with the likes of The Isley Brothers, Little Richard, Don Covay, King Curtis etc., you can hear the extent to which he absorbed the work of Curtis Mayfield, Bobby Womack, Steve Cropper, Jimmy Nolen and others. From the blues field, he drew on deep Delta {censored} from John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, as well as the more obvious lead guitar flash from the Three Kings (BB, Albert, Freddy), Buddy Guy, Otis Rush and Hubert Sumlin. Plus he was plugged into the happening English rock of the time even before he ever arrived in the UK, so he was aware of -- and affected by -- Jeff Beck, Pete Townshend and Mr Clapton. From Harlem and the Village he'd heard a fair amount of contemporary jazz -- Miles, Ornette Coleman, Coltrane -- and growing up in Seattle during the early 50s he'd lived through the beginnings of rock hearing Chuck, Bo, Cochran, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins ... hell, he even saw Elvis play live when he was barely into puberty. So he was already bringing plenty to the table by the time he hit London and started making the music for which he's known today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OldGuitarPlayer Posted December 5, 2010 Members Share Posted December 5, 2010 As a guitarist I was influenced by the ones that came before Hendrix. I was never influenced by Jimi Hendrix. Even more so now that I strictly play electric blues and try to play jazz (badly) on my electric guitar. I do consider Hendrix a good songwriter though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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