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Jimi Hendrix tops Rolling Stone’s list of best guitarists
The Calgary Herald ^ | November 23, 2011

Posted on 11/23/2011 3:33:10 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Legendary musician Jimi Hendrix was named the greatest guitar player in history Wednesday by Rolling Stone magazine in a list compiled by a panel of music experts and top guitar players.

“Jimi Hendrix exploded our idea of what rock music could be: He manipulated the guitar, the whammy bar, the studio and the stage,” said Grammy-winning guitarist Tom Morello in the magazine, citing Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” as key tracks.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: guitarists; hendrix; music; rockandroll; rollingstone
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

I have a bunch of Yes, saw them on the Fragile tour many, many, many, many, many you get the idea many years ago.

Still think Close to the Edge is the best.

Steve Howe used to be a FReeper, he might still be.


181 posted on 11/24/2011 5:52:11 AM PST by djf (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2801220/posts)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Blewwwwsssss?

Wanna hear?

Can’t ya hear?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5TD3QwOfQw


182 posted on 11/24/2011 5:54:49 AM PST by djf (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2801220/posts)
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To: djf
“Steve Howe used to be a FReeper, he might still be.”

Really? That's very cool.

183 posted on 11/24/2011 6:17:19 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: ConservativeStatement
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184 posted on 11/24/2011 6:24:28 AM PST by Notary Sojac (Gingrich/Cain 2012)
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To: djf

Another great one.


185 posted on 11/24/2011 6:26:35 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Notary Sojac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuBHk1VrWic


186 posted on 11/24/2011 6:35:40 AM PST by djf (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2801220/posts)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

Try this one on for size...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pzeYdkSr8s

Happy Thanksgiving! I gotta get sum zzzzzzzssssss....

(Note that Neil is playing most of the guitar, Danny Whitten I think is playing rhythm, he died a few months later from am OD and that was why Neil wrote “A Needle and the damage done”


187 posted on 11/24/2011 6:49:17 AM PST by djf (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2801220/posts)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
...truly deserves mention - Terry Kath of Chicago. He had a lot of jazz and blues in him, and Hendrix thought Kath was great.

I loved Terry's Kath's work with Chicago. He may not have been a virtuoso of Jimi's caliber, but he was definitely a hot player. He was one of the few guitarists I knew by name who didn't front a band back then. He really was good.

188 posted on 11/24/2011 8:03:12 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: AceMineral

http://youtu.be/FzZUyTpmy3g


189 posted on 11/24/2011 8:37:37 AM PST by magritte
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To: Windflier
Jimi actually had perfect pitch, but his constant note bending, string stretching, and heavy use of the whammy bar pulled his guitar out of tune. They didn't have the locking tremolo mechanism in his day.

Jimmy Thackery does a note-for-note version of Jimi's STAR SPANGLED BANNER. While he was dive bombing away, I saw that there was no spare guitar, so I figured it was his last song. But he broke into the next one without even stopping and was perfectly in tune! He uses a Floyd Rose.

190 posted on 11/24/2011 4:29:16 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments
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To: Forgotten Amendments
Jimmy Thackery does a note-for-note version of Jimi's STAR SPANGLED BANNER.

I remember hanging out at a friend's band rehearsal in the early 70s. During a break, the guitarist, the bass player, and the drummer stayed behind and broke into Hendrix' "Power of Soul". I was a huge Jimi fan, and knew that record like the back of my hand. The three of them played that song note for note, exactly like the original.

It was the closest I ever got to seeing the man himself perform, and it moved me like nothing I've heard since.

191 posted on 11/24/2011 5:18:27 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
Gamma/Rainbow in a small theatre back in the late 70's...second row seats enabled me to watch both Ronnie Montrose and Ritchie Blackmore play guitar from roughly twenty feet away.

OMG.

192 posted on 11/24/2011 5:52:01 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Windflier
Hope you didn't think my original post implied that I didn't love him. Just that, some of his live shows weren't the masterpieces we imagined.

A lot of FReepers would probably be shocked that he was a “hawk”. At least for awhile.

193 posted on 11/24/2011 5:58:17 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments
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To: Forgotten Amendments
A lot of FReepers would probably be shocked that he was a “hawk”. At least for awhile.

The Jimi Hendrix that most people know was a media/record company creation. The man himself was much more three dimensional than the hype surrounding his life and career. Toward the end of his life, he'd pretty much abandoned street drugs, and was quietly turning in a completely new and much more mature direction.

Most folks aren't even aware that Jimi was a former Army paratrooper. Here are a couple of snaps from that period of his life.


Jimi on left


Jimi's dog tags.


194 posted on 11/24/2011 6:31:05 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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