Jimi Hendrix belongs NOWHERE NEAR a top 10 guitarists list.
>He was too stupid to correctly restring a guitar for a lefty. He gets a bunch of credit for playing it weird, but it's no more difficult than a self taught guitarists who is smart enough to string the damn thing correctly. >He can't do anything with chords, because he was too stupid to string correctly, and strumming a chord upwards is too unnatural to work well. >He can't do anything with acoustic, because he can't do anything with chords, and acoustic is mainly chords. If you are going to be in the top 10 of all time, please be capable of playing the most basic form of the instrument without sounding like a complete moron. >His strength was picking, but there are hundreds of 80s metal guitarists who can pick better than him, and are actually CAPABLE of chords. If Hendrix is top ten, the dude from Twisted Sister is number 1.
So, while Hendrix was a GENIUS with distortion techniques, and he was an excellent composer/arranger/lyricist, he was a bad guitarist. Not even top 100 of all time. You literally cannot dispute this.
I'm more impressed by Hendrix for his cleaner playing style and also his extensive use of octave chords. Stuff like Little Wing and Third Stone From the Sun. Obviously Voodoo Child is fucking awesome but it's just a great riff and chord progression to solo over endlessly.
Matthew Robinson
dude lmao
Xavier Williams
You obviously know very little about guitar playing or Hendrix, and it shows, your points are completely nonsensical. Really, what the fuck are you saying about chords? Hendrix couldn't play them? I'm not even going to repute you because only a fucking idiot would take your post seriously. Your contribution towards entropy is a greater blow to humanity than the second world war.
Ian Taylor
>couldn't restring it correctly for a lefty did you even look at the picture you used
Andrew Collins
Buddy Guy is the best guitarist of all time
Charles Hill
You seem to have confused him with an offensive take on Albert King (upside down lefty) and BB King (no chords). Cutting edge bait, but not the finished article, you should have done something Freddy King for the trifecta.
According to Keef who he shared a flat with for a few months, he spent a bit of time jamming with Jimi at home over a spliff. He had the odd feeling something was wrong but amidst clouds of ganja couldn't quite place it. He eventually realised Hendrix had been playing right handed all evening.
Lucas Cooper
this post is like a hole in the universe due to a shitpost and a rational argument occupying the same position in time and space
David Torres
i don't agree with your use of entropy. are you saying he is increasing the rate of entropy we are experiencing in this existence?
poor word usage
and yes OP is a fucking moron
Parker Hill
You're not giving him a lot of credit for the fact that he was a guitarist in the 60s that only lived to 27. It's not fair to compare him to metal artists, because there's a natural curve in technical skill in an instrument that's inherited generationally. For example, look up how many teenager on YouTube can play Eruption by Van Halen, which at one point was considered technically unparalleled.
Beyond that, the fact that he disregards using chords should be praised in his context, where nearly every pop musician stuck to very basic four-chord melodies.
His genius comes from how he's able to manipulate the sound and distortion of his guitar in many ways that few other musicians ever have been able to match, contemporary or modern. For instance, listen to his rendition of the national anthem:
his genius is the raw technical ability to the absolute the fuck whatever he wants fluidly, distorion or no.
Ryan Harris
yea your points are nonsense but okay, im ready to believe that hendrix aint top 10
ill appreciate people name a few that beat him, cuz i couldnt name 10
Caleb Cox
Couldn't Stand the Weather [Epic, 1984]
The problem with guitar virtuosos is that most of them wouldn't know a good musical concept if they tripped over it, which happens just often enough to keep everyone confused. The exception that proves not a damn thing is Jimi Hendrix, the finest guitarist in any idiom ever. Though he comes close sometimes, this Texan ain't Hendrix. But between earned Jimi cover and lyric refreshment, album two is almost everything a reasonable person might hope from him: a roadhouse album with gargantuan sonic imagination. B+
Carter Bennett
Plug your guitar in and play like Jimi Hendrix.
Gavin Barnes
Hendrix did restring his guitar lefty you retard lmaooooo are you implying he played everything upside down?
Ryder Adams
God, I hate rockist baby boomers like Cuckgau so much.
Ranking guitarists is just plain stupid, though. It generally praises 'technical ability' over creative ingenuity, and beyond that it unnecessarily fetishizes a single instrument.
Honestly if many of the significant bands of the last several decades were actually equipped with a showy, solo-loving guitarist, they would probably end up sounding worse than they actually do. The clowns listening to that kind of stuff now are into weird post-hardcore acts like Converge and Animals as Leaders.
Josiah Torres
Uh huh. Besides, Christgau was pretty much correct that guitar virtuosos are rarely good songwriters. Listen to a guy like Buckethead or Malmsteen and they can play cool licks, but you don't feel anything when you hear them.
Ryder Butler
People don't listen to converge for the technicality. They listen for the aggression.
Kevin Carter
Kekd
Joshua Rodriguez
he was an embellishment babby a one trick bison
Brayden Gray
Yet he is beloved by millions of guitar players world wide, and many wish they could play like him, while you will languish and die in your parent's basement a virtual unknown.
I guess putting down people who actually accomplished something and made musical history makes you feel better, doesn't it?
Sucks to be you!
Luke Martinez
People listen to Converge? Yuck, maybe the most overrated band ever.
