Re: OK. What About Jimi?

Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke wrote:
[some of this moved over from another thread]

Tinker:
The legacy of Jimi Hendrix is an army of guitar-holders who don't
give
a shit about music, but who are passionate about sound-efects. This
is a total waste of time.


RichL:
And this is a pile of nonsense.


In Jimi's case,
it seems like it was the "way out" factor of his SOUND
that grabbed his fans. He was playing chords and notes
and intervals that everyone had played previously. We
certainly had #9 chords in popular music prior to it
being named "the Hendrix chord". I have to think that
had he not been at the spot he was in, in relation to
the popularization of the wah pedal, that he would have
been just another guitar player. But it just so happened
that he grabbed the wah very early in it's inception and
made a lot of wonky-wonk-wah stuff that nobody had
really done before.


Lump



....one more way of saying he was "unique". That's really *all* one has to be.

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- Rufus
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