Re: OK. What About Jimi?
- From: Charmed Snark <snark@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:09:27 +0000 (UTC)
Rufus expounded in
news:9PCdnUa9wsIvVLHTnZ2dnUVZ_h6dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxx:
Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke wrote:...
In Jimi's case,
it seems like it was the "way out" factor of his SOUND
that grabbed his fans.
I would agree. I recall watching a biography of EC on tv,
where EC talked about wanting to learn to do that Hendrix as
soon as he started hearing it.
If I'm not mistaken, EC also switched to a strat (a long with
several others) at that point as well.
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.
One can be "uniquely" unpopular too.
But I think Hendrix offered a fresh sound that nobody else had
the courage (or inspiration) to perform at the time. His
showmanship (picking with teeth etc.) was another enhancing
aspect of this.
But if he had played on stage with a guitar strapped high up
on his chest, hair greased back, wearing a 50's suit, in white
socks and flood pants, I think he still would have set the
world on fire with his playing style.
Snark.
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