I find the music of Jimi Hendrix to be tedious and uninteresting.

[Wat_Tyler]

Reprimand me.

[sendero]

1. You are too clueless..

... to bother reprimanding. :)

[Threedifferentones]

2. I'm sorry

[slutticus]

3. Flamebait!

[mr blur]

4. How very sad.

Really.

[tmooses]

5. What music do you find interesting?

[Wat_Tyler]

7. Lots.

Just not Hendrix.

[mopaul]

6. eminem on the other hand is a true geeeeeeeenius

as is naomi judd.

[RagingInMiami]

8. Shall I talk to you in sign language?

Cause you're obviously deaf.

[tjwash]

9. Oh Yeah? Well your favorite band sucks!

:P

[sundog]

10. incoming

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[CrownPrinceBandar]

11. I find Wat Tyler to be the most tedious and uninteresting.........

of peasant agitators. :P

Seriously, while I cannot agree with you, I can sympathize as I am not ga-ga about Stevie Ray Vaughn. I get a lot of looks for that.

[rock]

12. Perhaps you'd enjoy the music of one hand

slapping! (Consider yourself slapped - metaphorically, that is).

[redqueen]

13. !

:spank:

[Book Lover]

14. That may be because

you hear the same three effing songs on the radio all the time?

[Skittles]

15. don't ever invite me over to listing to your "music"

nt

[Wat_Tyler]

18. How would you list it?

Alphabetically, or by genre?

[BlueJazz]

16. You know...Wat_Tyler...You Disgust me.

You're probably one of those people who go around saying ridiculous things like: "Jessica Simpson does not have a Great Voice"

Kidding..Of course...You know though, I never truly cared for Jimmy H. either. I don't NOT like him but I'd rather listen to a lot of other Players. :)

[Wat_Tyler]

19. I don't understand his sacred cow status.

He was obviously capable as a guitar player, but it never moved me.

[progmom]

20. ducking....

I agree.

[Wat_Tyler]

24. Shh! Be very quiet!

They'll hear!

[progmom]

26. OK

i'll be weaaly weally quiet

[Squeech]

27. I'm with you there

I enjoyed his sound effects, all the "bombs bursting in air" in his Star Spangled Banner, and the "Machine Gun" noises, but when he was playing a more conventional solo, I didn't think much of his note choice. (Back then Jorma Kaukonen was my hero.)

The Hendrix I keep coming back to is the elaborate studio constructions: "1983," "Ezy Rider," "All Along the Watchtower."

[ProfessorGAC]

45. Here's The Thing, Wat

I'm not a huge fan of Jimi either, but had i never heard a live performance, i probably would have been. His studio work (at least after the first album) is impeccably produced, and the sounds are all terrific. He was an innovator in getting sounds out of the guitar that were atypical of the time, so he rose to legend status because he made other players at the time say "How's he doing that?" He was among the very first who figured out that one could do something completely different if the amp was really loud, so he could play things with different volumes and evoke completely different moods.

However, i've seen several live tapes or DVD's of him and his bands. They are almost universally dreadful. I don't know when he was stoned and when he wasn't, but the bands themselves, even when Buddy Miles was in the band, were sloppy, and meandering. (Meandering is ok if the rhythms are kept crisp.) Maybe it was the dope, i don't know, but his playing lacks passion and precision on the live stuff. That turned me off to him more than his studio work turned me on. But, i still recognize the studio work for what it was.

His sacred cow status exists because he took guitar somewhere where it hadn't been, and then died before he could fully reach his potential. Like i said, i'm not a huge fan because of the slop, but i'm also pretty darned sure he had not stopped getting better. Lots of guys quit getting better, quit exploring the instrument, quit expanding their vocabulary once they've "made it". I didn't hear that from him. The posthumous studio stuff was probably the best thing he ever did. So, he was clearly becoming a better musician and guitar player.

Perhaps, had he lived, he would have even figured out that the best musicians can carry it out live as a band. (Whole being bigger than the sum of the parts.) Had that happened, i imagine i would have been a pretty big fan.
The Professor

[Wat_Tyler]

47. I think he suffered from lack of a good editor.

Perhaps he needed a good, strict producer.

[Fleurs du Mal]

17. oh sweet jeezuz... n/t

[NightTrain]

21. I know quite a few people who share your opinion of Hendrix.

I'm not one of them, however.

[Wat_Tyler]

25. He's no Ron Isley.

[ariesgem]

41. I think you mean Ernie Isley

Ron Isley was vocals. I love them both (Isley/Hendrix)

[Wat_Tyler]

44. D'oh!

You are correct.

Still, that would certainly make Hendrix no Ron Isley, eh?

[ariesgem]

53. Yeah, they certainly have different styles of playing

I grew up listening to the Isley Bros. and Ernie's guitar solos sends chills down my spine.

I recently began listening to Hendrix with an open mind and began to appreciate what he did. There are still some songs of his that I'm not feeling but I have my favorites. Little Wing (the guitar solo version) is my all-time favorite.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

22. Oh come on, his version of "All Around the Watch Tower" is

better than Dylan's.

[last_texas_dem]

34. I agree

His cover of "All Along the Watchtower" is actually my favorite song he ever recorded.

[Beware the Beast Man]

23. This is a duplicate post.

You're recycling flamewar talking points, mi compadre.

Oh, yeah, and Velvet Underground blows.

[bobthedrummer]

28. Inexperienced, heh?

:thumbsdown:

[Wat_Tyler]

29. Does this mean I'm being thrown to the lions?

[Fenris]

30. Elvis Costello was boring in 1977 and he's boring now.

[Wat_Tyler]

32. Do you mean musically, or in polite conversation?

[Fenris]

36. Well, I meant musically.

But after reading that Vanity Fair interview he conducted with an equally boring Joni Mitchell, I may concede the latter in addition to the former.

[Wat_Tyler]

38. Then you are foolish beyond your years.

Cast not your heresies at me, sir!

[Fenris]

39. Fie! I shall cast them unto thee with fervor and spirit!

[Wat_Tyler]

40. NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flamingyouth]

35. I need to lay off the Vicodin, but I thought you said he was BORN in '77

:D

[last_texas_dem]

31. He's alright but I agree in part

However, I never understood why Hendrix's long, drawn-out soloing, doodling, etc. is never criticized when most all other groups/artists, whether they be psychedelic or progressive-rock, many playing at the same time as Hendrix, are ridiculed for the same thing. I do like a good deal of Hendrix's music, but prefer the music of plenty of others. I've wondered before if one needed to be a musician, a guitarist in particular, to truly appreciate the bulk of his work. Not being one, I can't say for sure...

[Wat_Tyler]

33. I think one might need to be high.

[last_texas_dem]

37. Well, I figure that might help, too!

:-)

[HEyHEY]

42. Really? I used to think that until I started playing guitar

Then I began to like it

[Swamp Rat]

43. Drifting...

On a sea of forgotten teardrops... :)

[XNASA]

46. I got your back.

I too find Jimi Hendrix monotomous and dull.

But give the guy a break, he was stoned out of his mind.

[Wat_Tyler]

48. True.

And Smack ruins talent.

Thanks for the back-up.

[Love Bug]

49. Blasphemer!!

:spank:

[Schema Thing]

50. All I know is this: War movies would suck if he had not done his thang

yes, "thang".

[tjwash]

51. My problem with Jimi, is he was a big pro-war guy.

He was ex-army and got discharged after he broke his ankle on a parachute jump. When they would interview him on TV, he sounded a lot like the pro-war types do today, saying stuff like "it's a good cause", "it is stopping the spread of communism", etc.

As a matter of fact, if you substitute the word "terrorism", for "communism", in all the old sound bites, it sounds exactly the same now, as it did in the sixties among the hawks.

[maveric]

54. He changed his tune after MLK's assasination.

The NAACP, Nation of Islam and other black organizations told him of how Dr.King spoke out against the war and all the african americans who were dying, etc... Then he saw the light.

[kick-ass-bob]

52. It's because you are _hite. From White Men Can't Jump (that masterpiece!):

Billy: What’re you talkin’ about? I listen to Jimi all the time.

Sydney: See, that’s the problem wit white people, you listen. You don’t listen to Jimi, you hear Jimi (Hendrix).