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Re: Jimi (I think it's now OT)



 Kim,

I was a little in your position 2 or 3 years ago when I was in a kind of
musical cul-de-sac... I was sick of these "old hippies"... Now, I think I
enjoy the guy simply for what he was, a good and important guitarist (but
that's all)...

Reich or Cage was there before him.. But when I see him in old taped shows
(like Woodstock), I can only get  tremendous respect for him(without
over-nostalgize) because he had a such personnal way to make his music and
to "live" it..

I read one day a Cage's interview when he said that Jazz was kind of dull
and Rock was great.. The interviewer said: "what? You like rock?" And Cage
responded that, on the contrary of Jazz, "Rock is full of life" or 
something
like that.. And I thought about Jimi at this moment.. Not in a
over-nostalgized fashion, but just: "Well, music was his life" and you can
feel it with him...

I don't consider Hendrix to be a major influence on me, but he is still, in
a indirect way, here and there in my playing..

What I hate, like you Kim, is the over-nostalgized things like: "Buy the 
'69
pickups who sounds just like Hendrix".. I don't consider that an old pickup
who can be full of hum is interesting versus the new ones without hum just
because it sounds like Hendrix...

I don't like to live in the past.. That's why I consider Michael Brook with
great respect.. He was one of the first (with the infinite guitar) to quit
the guitar's clichés... Like Hendrix did in the '60s...

So, I think we must move in new directions... Don't live in the past.. But
again, is it not what Hendrix did?!?!?! :)

Best,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: Jimi


> At 11:32 AM -0800 2/25/01, scott kungha drengsen wrote:
> > We wouldn't have this forum if it weren't for Jimi Hendrix.
>
> well, I created LD, and I have pretty much no interest in Jimi Hendrix 
>and
> hardly ever listened to him. I think I can fairly authoritatively state
> that Looper's Delight would still exist even if Hendrix never had!
>
> So far as I can tell, Hendrix didn't have much (or any) influence on loop
> based music. Did Hendrix influence hip-hop? no. kraftwerk, house, and
> numerous other electronic dance spin-offs? no. The various tape loop and
> soundscape/ambient pioneers? or Dub? not that I know of. He played rock
> music, which mostly avoided/derided loops and samples for decades while
the
> ideas developed elsewhere. Over the past ten years or so it seems the
> opposite has happened, rock has been influenced by the looping cultures 
>to
> reinvent itself a few more times.
>
> From my perspective, Hendrix is just another over-nostalgized baby boomer
> icon that I'm tired of hearing about. Sorry if that bothers some of you, 
>I
> don't mean it with disrespect of the guy. That was music of my parent's
> generation.  (although my parents never listened to him either.) I never
> really heard that stuff growing up, and it didn't mean much to me when I
> did listen to it as an adult. For me, Hendrix is just another guy in a
> documentary on the history channel, like say, Louis Armstrong. I listened
> to it as music history education, and that was about it. That's probably
> true for most people under the age of 35, and those are the people mostly
> creating loop-based music...
>
> kim
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
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