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Jimi Hendrix. If you're going to rank one hundred guitar players and not rank Hendrix first, that's your prerogative. Leave him out of the Top 10, even, if you want to make some weird and mildly psychotic point. But leaving him off entirely is just dumb...
Oh geez, here we go again.
>Jimi Hendrix. If you're going to rank one hundred guitar players and not rank Hendrix first, that's your prerogative. Leave him out of the Top 10, even, if you want to make some weird and mildly psychotic point. But leaving him off entirely is just dumb...
Oh geez, here we go again.
@TheBuddha
LOL Yeah, he really wasn't as great as people seem to think. It doesn't help that the major music publication outlets keep calling him the greatest.
"Greatest Guitarist" should, in my opinion, be an objective measurement based on technical merit - and not based on subjective criteria such as "soul" or "passion."
Guitar is, to me, a technical endeavor. It's with that technical ability that one can create soul and passion, but that's not mandatory. I've seen soulful solos played by people who weren't very skilled. And, it's not about being complex - it's about being able to be complex. Sometimes, simplicity is an art of its own.
My crusade to topple Hendrix from the top of the charts is not going to have great success, but I'm sure having fun writing about it and discussing it!
LOL Yeah, he really wasn't as great as people seem to think. It doesn't help that the major music publication outlets keep calling him the greatest.
"Greatest Guitarist" should, in my opinion, be an objective measurement based on technical merit - and not based on subjective criteria such as "soul" or "passion."
Guitar is, to me, a technical endeavor. It's with that technical ability that one can create soul and passion, but that's not mandatory. I've seen soulful solos played by people who weren't very skilled. And, it's not about being complex - it's about being able to be complex. Sometimes, simplicity is an art of its own.
My crusade to topple Hendrix from the top of the charts is not going to have great success, but I'm sure having fun writing about it and discussing it!
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