Jimi Hendrix

Is he overrated? His licks are pretty simple, and his songs are pretty much just basic blues stuffs.

he thumbed the chords while playing the solo

why is it suddenly cool to hate Jimi Hendrix
people wouldn't be universally replicating and praising his sound if there wasn't anything to it

Yeah he's pretty standard once you consider how many people have copied him in the past 50 years.

no, dummy

he created guitar heroism

Terrible singer

He took inspiration from blues, rock n' roll and jazz in his playing. Greatest guitarist ever and you're a moron for thinking otherwise

FUCK I wish I wasn't a handlet

>Back in the late Sixties, there were few organists who could play like Jon. We shared the same taste in music. We loved Vanilla Fudge—they were our heroes. They used to play London's Speakeasy and all the hippies used to go there to hang out—Clapton, the Beatles—everybody went there to pose. According to legend, the talk of the town during that period was Jimi Hendrix, but that's not true. It was Vanilla Fudge. They played eight-minute songs, with dynamics. People said, "What the hell's going on here? How come it's not three minutes?" Timmy Bogert, their bassist, was amazing. The whole group was way ahead of its time. So, initially we wanted to be a Vanilla Fudge clone. But our singer, Ian, wanted to be Edgar Winter. He'd say, "I want to scream like that, like Edgar Winter." So that's what we were—Vanilla Fudge with Edgar Winter!