Why hendrix is overrated

First of all, just because he played blues and came out with some witty lyrics doesn't make him a soulful man. This is the same guy that was too scared to fight in a war, but had no problem beating up on women. Somebody going to tell me that's a soulfull man? Soulful men don't beat up on women. Sorry, I've seen some vids and he appears to be alittle sloppy to me. Granted, I'm not an expert on guitar, and I don't think I've ever claimed to be. But that's the way that it looks to me.

There's nothing totally wrong with that. Some feel Page is not so perfect live, and Slash appears to be alittle shaky there. And I enjoy both of them aswell. Sorry, I don't find his work the most interesting. Truthfully, saying he's overrated isn't as much of a knock as it sounds like. He simply isn't the god people make him to be in my eyes. I'll say he's easily a top 10, but overrated just the same.

I like alot of songs, but I'm tired of people acting like he's the only guitarist ever or is clear cut the best. Truthfully, I'm not so sure there is a "best guitarist ever" it's more along the lines of who's your favorite. That's also part of the problem. Just because he was only around a handful of years Or well known doesn't mean he would have done alot more great things.

A guitarists prime is often short lived. I never said it was. But I dislike the people that go to the extreme to diss guys that are maybe stronger in that area as more unsoulful. Like I said, I'm not even close to being an expert on guitar, but I'll say that I don't find his work the most interesting.

I think I have a pretty good ear though. You don't have to tell me that Vaughan was influenced by Jimi I know that, but that doesn't make him the best ever to me. Chillz petty and cliche attacks aren't going to change that to me. I still don't believe Jimi to be the soulful god people make him out to be.

Eddie will always be my favorite. People say he's just speed. I don't agree. He might not have a blues looking style, but I find it hard to believe that people that can hear solo's from songs like Ain't Talkin' Bout Love and Fire in the Hole and not hear the blues in there.

Alot of VH fans buy into the image. Not me I hate the tacky clothes they wore, the hair they had, the way Dave acted and still acts to this day.

I'm not a huge fan of metal. Only small doses for me. As for me, I wouldn't say there is not attachment to Jimi's music regardless of what someone else says. I enjoy alot of his songs, but don't see him as the god others do.

He's influenced alot of people and made alot of great songs, but other musician's that play differently shouldn't be dissed because of the way he played.

Whoever said he's a soulful god? You're taking your own discussion and stretching it to the extreme limits because you lack the knowledge to discuss it in more depth.

Don't blame me for that. I never called him a god and I never attacked you. I just said it's easy to bash you when you say something so absurd. I find your taste in most things to be simplistic, whether it be movies or music. I don't think you can put aside your initial feelings on anything in an effort to understand what makes it great, or even good. That doesn't mean you end up liking it any more.

But you understand why it's considered great and you expand your own understanding in a variety of ways. Otherwise you really sell yourself short. Because you'd be surprised at how often, after you attempt understand something that you didn't really get the first time , you see its influences in everything that followed and how that often leads you back to enjoying it more yourself.

Maybe I'm wrong in this case? I just find it hard to believe that if you had listened to the music of his era and before and what was being done at the time, both stylistically and sonically, that you could think for a second that he was anything short of revolutionary.

Alot of people talk about him and his music being so soulful. My point is what makes his music so soulful that other people? What's so more soulful about his music than other peoples?

My thoughts. There have been few innovators in the guitar world; any plenty of copykats and assimilators sp? Hank Marvin, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen and a few others all took the guitar to a place it had not been before and we have to recognise them for that. I think he is one of the few that deserve the hype that is around them. I think on occasions he was sloppy, I have heard covers of his songs that sound better than his original version John Mayer — Bold As Love but then he did the same to All Along The Watchtower and his passion over came any technical short comings.

He was innovative, skilful and wild. No one played like Hendrix and he inspired a new era of guitar players and still does to this day. I think too many narrow-minded people consider him to be the greatest guitarist ever, when a more realistic view is that he was good, influential, but not the best ever.

Does being the best guitarist ever mean sounding the best? Being the most technically skilled? Being the most influential? Also, comparing musicians from different genres is equally unfair. For example, comparing a jazz guitarist to a metal guitarist is like comparing apples to oranges; they are both good in their own way, yet some just prefer one over the other. However, due to the number of people that insist Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist ever, I would have to say that yes, he is overrated.

In my opinion there are many guitarists who are just as, if not more, technically skilled as Hendrix, yet very underrated. Added an audio only — I think the Hendrix Foundation is watching YouTube like a hawk and removing all live footage of the Band of Gypsys gig. Apart from the fact that feeling has times more value than technique there is certain things to consider; nearly everything he played was improvised, his songs were written specifically to allow improvisation between themes this alone boasts an amazing song writing talent.

No one these days improvises anything maybe the odd solo but mostly it will be a string of pre determined cliches. The more we worry about being perfect and never making mistakes the less human and the less feeling we will end up having in music, and music will end up being.. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.

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