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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 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com > > >