are all your favorite guitarists influenced heavily by hendrix?

[walrus1]

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.

 

Absolutely.

 

And don't forget these guys, who were absorbing all the same blues and R&B influences - arguably even more than anyone, in fact:

 

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I'm reading the Keef memoir, and hearing how in the early days he and Mick and Brian Jones used to get their hands on all the blues records they could, Chess Records, etc., and just listen and dissect everything inside and out until it basically just seeped into their bones is really cool. Besides just the natural talent, these guys all really worked their asses off learning the roots.

[lincoln40]

 

 

Yeah compare those two, and Randy still blows him away.

[Tubefox]

Depends on your definition. Most of them are not heavily influenced by Hendrix. However, most of them are almost certainly heavily influenced by someone who was heavily influenced by Hendrix.

 

As for the Hendrix vs. Rhoads comparison, I think both videos are kind of boring. I'm not big on the unaccompanied shred. I also think the idea of the comparison is kind of stupid. Randy Rhoads is a more technically gifted guitarist than Jimi Hendrix. This is not a point of debate. However, technical skill is not the be-all, end all of guitar. Plus they have rather different musical styles - comparing Randy to Jimi is like comparing Muddy Waters' singing voice to Dio's. It's just silly.

[catscurlyear]

i don`t think anybody is technically gifted but some are born with the natural tools to make a good technique easier to achieve as hendrix was, but i feel there was still alot more to come from hendrix .you work on your technique and that is what randy probably did... worked day and night on his speed,kind of sad realy but thats a reflection of what the early 80`s guitar style was about.. speed .randy wasn`t built physically for the guitar as well as hendrix was.

[Alecto]

Marr WAS influenced by Hendrix -- but not in a manner that led to direct copying of his licks or his sound. Ditto The Edge. Hendrix's spirit of sonic experimentation and innovation made a subtler impact on many players who ended not necessarily sounding like him or explicitly imitating him. The first album Mick Jones (that's Clashy Mick, not Foreigner Guy) ever bought was by Hendrix -- but you hear more of Johnny Thunders or Pete Townshend in MJ's actual playing.

 

 

Once again, CSM nails it on the head. Hendrix's influence on guitarists isn't necessarily in the licks or the tones, but more from Jimi's fearless exploration of the electric guitar. I would agree with the poster who called Hendrix the Jesus of the electric guitar: there was electric guitar before Hendrix and after Hendrix, but no one who came along after Hendrix could fail to have been influenced by him, whether you like him or not.

[Alecto]

 

Yeah compare those two, and Randy still blows him away.

 

 

The irony is that Randy himself would disagree with you. If nothing else, Randy was pretty open about giving props to the guys who influenced him and Hendrix was high on that list. Randy was building on ground that Hendrix had already broken.

 

In addition, Randy Rhoads was a charismatic riff machine but Hendrix was the complete package: charismatic frontman, singer, songwriter and guitar hero.

[koti123]

The irony is that Randy himself would disagree with you. If nothing else, Randy was pretty open about giving props to the guys who influenced him and Hendrix was high on that list. Randy was building on ground that Hendrix had already broken. In addition, Randy Rhoads was a charismatic riff machine but Hendrix was the complete package: charismatic frontman, singer, songwriter and guitar hero.

 

 

that says it all. few people realize the total package that came with Jimi and there are just a few people around today that can do it all.

its one thing to be a one trick pony like RR but its quite another to write beautiful songs like "Little Wing", that few today can play exactly like Hendrix....... although many try and youtube is full of them.

Jimi produced,played, could sing, write and do it all very excellent.Jimi was only twenty seven years old when he passed out of this world.

 

there are a lot of one trick pony's around but few are even close to the complete package.

[Rockbassist]

Hendrix definitely influenced a lot of musicians but I never cared much for his playing.

[DFB]

I guess my to favorite Jimi influenced guitarists are Trower and Frank Marino.

[Angry Tele]

Hey CSM what about Dick Dale? I know he was freinds with Jimi and how can one not be influenced by the truly badass Dick Dale...Also I would guess Hank Marvin maybe influenced him I know he influenced tons of the UK peeps, hell even Angus Young says he ditched the vibrato on his SG because he said it made everythng he played sound like HM.