why jimi hendrix?read plz?

Question

Steve vai,Joe satriani,Kirk hammett,Paul gilbert,John petrucci,David gilmour,Yngwie malmsteen,Eric johnson,Gary moore,Jimmy page,Van halen,Slash compare to hendrix.Why every one says hendrix is better than those guitarists?they can play things that hendrix would never be able to do on his guitar.they have more melodical stuff than hendrix had.and they know much more than hendrix.then why he still is the best guitarist?

+Zakk wylde,Steve morse,Steve ray vaugn,Erik clipton

Answer 1

He's not...don't let anyone fool you. Yeah, he was a great guitarist, and innovative IN HIS DAY (keywords). But I guarantee there's more you can add to that list from Today that would blow him out of the water (i.e. the guitarists from Dragonforce...hate the band, but the guitarists are amazing). Also, you gotta give a shout out to Zakk Wylde. I agree with you, he's nowhere near the greatest guitarist ever.

Answer 2

You can't simply rate a guitarist as better based on speed. I do agree that the guitarists listed are great, but Hendrix performed in an era of hippies and psychedelic music. Had he lived there's no telling what direction his music may have taken.

What about Stevie Ray Vaughn, would you include him on the list, I sure would. Also, Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird has possibly the greatest guitar performance after Stairway to Heaven.

Another underrated guy is Phil Lynott, from Thin Lizzy. Cold Sweat and Sometime She's Gonna Hit Back have extraordinary guitar work in them. Gary Moore played with Thin Lizzy later on, and he's done some impressive stuff.

Oh yeah...anyone ever heard of Eric Clapton...or Randy Rhodes?

Answer 3

Looking at your list it is an impressive group of guitarists. Steve Vai and Satch are amazing and I could easily put them above Hendrix because of their imaginative way of playing and great technique. I think Jimmy Page was way overrated and when YOU consider what Hendrix would be able to do with todays technology it is actually unimaginable. He could make his guitar sing and make YOU feel the emotion when he played, something a lot of those guitarists can't. Being technically great and playing with feeling are two different things and separates the true greats from the guys that just know how to play. Plus, he was an accomplished rock and blues guitarist.

Answer 4

both are wonderful, you're perfect, yet jimmy web page is a few distance more desirable stunning as a guitar participant. have you ever watch dazed and at a loss for words contained in the song remains an analogous action picture. The sounds he makes with the guitar are from a diverse international. then you definately upload that in with all the acoustic songs, blues songs and basically sheer metallic songs, then circumstances that with the help of 13 albums properly worth (or besides the undeniable fact that any there are) and that's incredable. i'm a musician. I discovered guitar at 14, with the help of taking area in alongside with zeppelin albums. i'm 40 5 now, and that i nevertheless can play a pair dozen zep tunes, which incorporates rain song, which i have in no way considered every person else in a position to play it (in spite of the reality that i know there available) And enable me tell, that's a mixture of chords that are as magical because the come. Now before I go away jimi H out of this communique, enable me say, ol jimi replaced into an total song write. the position as Jimmy P replaced right into a guitarist and had Robert and jonh paul to assist create the over all song, Jimi did all of it himself. So hats off to him for being an magical guitarist and a song author. the only unlucky area of this, and why it would want to be no longer attainable to totally evaluate both is that Jimi died before he had a risk to totally improve and create an prolonged heritage. For all all of us know, Jimi may have blown away, what he had already executed. Jimmy web page is getting actual previous. i imagine he's on the fringe of 70 now. I have already got tears in my eyes for the day i hear he's died. He has been the biggest, with the help of a few distance, effect on my existence, musically or perhaps emotionally. Little wing is my trendy Jimi and probably rain song for jimmy. The lead in no quarter on song remains an analogous is likewise stunning

Answer 5

Cuz, like, duuude, Vai, Satriani etc etc would be in JAZZ trios had it not been for Hendrix. Hendrix opened up the floodgates to what was possible, that the blues could be played in a 'modern' sense without losing it's essence. But, when all is said and done that's all Jimi was, and innovative Blues Guitarrist. Speed and stamina and prowess are only 1/2 the picture...PASSION is where it's at baby...

Answer 6

Hendrix is the best because he paved the way for a lot of these guys. Sure some may be better presently, but the stuff Jimi was doing at the time he was doing it was way beyond his time. That's why he's still relevant today, because some musicans can't even touch his skills, and they've been alive a lot longer than Jimi was with way more time to practice.

Answer 7

There are a lot of guitarists today who surpass Jimi in terms of what we generally refer to as technique. Jimi couldn't sweep pick, string skip, play with two hands on the neck, etc. Most good players today can approximate his technique. Stevie Ray Vaughn could copy it to a T while putting his own Texas background into it.

Why everyone continues to hold him up:

- He truly was an innovator. He did his own thing in a decade where that was the highest accomplishment. And it so happened that a lot of people liked what he did as well.

- He was a cultural icon.

- He had a very solid R&B foundation and a good understanding of blues/r&b chordal work. When most guitar players were happy to bang out basic chords, Jimi truly took advantage of the guitar's flexibility. He would typically be working a bassline, chords and leads simultaneously and it came so effortlessly to him that he was a truly impressive sight. Musical afficionados of the day could hear the whole gamut of r&b history quoted, combined and turned on its ear. You understand just how well he had the whole genre digested.

- His albums had a bit of everything. Experimental instrumentals, straight blues, r&b, pop. All wrapped up in a nice package for the times.

- He was not averse to making a scene, which thoroughly stamped him on the minds of a lot of people. Burning guitars, political statements, etc. One of my favorite instances was when Sgt. Pepper's came out on a Friday and Jimi opened his show with the title track on Sunday.

- He had an almost otherworldly control of feedback in a day and age when the amps weren't meant to do that. Most people even today don't understand how to play the amplifier - at best they can learn to control a bit of feedback for a few seconds. Jimi could make it talk. Santana is the only guy I know today who still understands this technique. The difference is that Carlos just used it for sustain. Jimi could take it places beyond. A bad analogy - most guitarists paddle in the surf of feedback, Carlos can bodyboard it. Jimi surfed.

-He understood and utilized effects long before anyone else, and he knew how to use the studio. He played all the guitars and some bass and keyboards on most of the albums. He built one of the most interesting studios around in Electric Ladyland - some really interesting rehearsal rooms.

Jimi outclassed everyone in his day. If you have a chance to see footage, most times he jammed with another band, the other guitar players would basically just quit to listen to him after a while. That's a pretty impressive testimionial.

So, what would happen if we stood Jimi up against Vai, Satriani, etc. in this day and age? Well no doubt, plenty of players would shred circles around him. If you put them all up to a speed test, or who can connect the most arpeggios or whatever, Jimi wouldn't really be in the running.

But if you gave them all a shot at entertaining both musicians and the general public, and just let them come onstage with a guitar and an amp to do their thing, I don't think any of these players today would even be in the same league.

Strangely enough, I liken him to Chet Atkins. Chet knows fingerstyle guitar like nobody's business. He knows a lot of styles, a lot of techniques and he knows a lot of songs. He also understands how they tick and why they sound good and can combine them as needed. Chet may not can do the kind of complex stuff that Michael Hedges did, but he COULD play Yankee Doodle Dandy and Dixie simultaneously and make it sound like one song. That's musical knowledge vs technique. Jimi had the same kind of thing going on with r&b music.

Answer 8

I think he's veiwed as the best because he revalutionized the world of guitar play during his time , however playing with ur teeth and it sounding good is something not even the great Page could do! i think jimmi would of been the **** if he hadnt died, u cant realy say he wouldnt of been able to play the stuff that everyone else was/is playing because u cant prove that, His guitar skills were immense and would of become better had he not died.

Answer 9

The guitarist you listed probably looked up to Jimi. Watch Jimi Hendrix's life story, it is very interesting and maybe then you will understand him better.

Answer 10

Hendrix is overrated. People think he's the greatest cause of all the effects he used. Though I'd have to disagree with Kirk Hammett better than Hendrix. Nuh uh.

I agree with Bekkie, Page is the greatest guitarist.