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In a message dated 6/14/2007 1:52:26 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
sambacomet@hotmail.com writes:
Hendrix was a very important part of my life,I saw him more than once
first time at age 13. But I must say speculation about what he would ,and
would not have used if he were alive seems kinda silly to
me.
why? apparently you feel that's a waste of time or
????
Some
think he
used whatever was cutting edge,<---some don't need
to "think" so. This was a fact beyond question. Hendrix was both an
equipment & studio wizard. He was obsessed with effect and tape tricks. He
said so himself many times.
perhaps
so but his use of chords and
knowledge of theory don't seem to reflect
that at all,his harmony knowlegde
was pretty basic,nowhere near the
cutting edge.Of course he went beyond
edges all together with pure soud
explorations.<--this is out and out the slliest thing I have
ever read concerning Hendrix. Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page & Jeff Beck could
only stand there with mouth agape listening and watching as he played and your
calling him "basic". I am not certain where you got your information but
Hendrix had ZERO theory. That's what made him the most revolutionary guitarist
in the history of rock music. He had MANY influences but copied NO ONE. To say
Hendrix was not cutting edge is like saying the Pope ain't Catholic. NO ONE
has ever shaped the ongoing progressive development of electric
guitar more than Jimi Hendrix did in the all too short time he was
alive.
Hard to
put in a neat box.
Miles is known to have been on various cutting edges
alll his life,but did
his actual playing do that? I would say not,his
compsotion,arragement
presentation did,though often by drawing on what was
happening elsewhere (
notably imitating Hendrix,and SLy)and adding it to
'serious' jazz .His chops
and articulation didn't really stay on the
cutting edge after his pioneering
use of electronics. Hendrix when
he died was already getting bypassed in
terms of technique by fusionoid
stuff that was a response to his
trailblazing. Maybe he would've
woodshedded his modes and started dropping
in extreme substitutions-
who knows. Thye laptop doesn;'t seem kinetic
enough a performace tool
though,eve i the studion he was more iterested in
live expressio than
elaborate intellectual architecture.
Hendrix got really
extreme at putting on a show as a way to get some where
in the music biz,
and it worked but after he made it he felt trapped in that
freakshow
role.He said in interveiws he wished people could just close their
eye and
let the music take them.
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