My mistake but it's true of the drummer as well.
It's a shame that Hendrix never really played with a jazzy funky fusion type band like Funkadelic that was actually on his level. The Experience guys are mediocre by rock band standards and BAD by 60's rock band standards.
Completely disagree. Mitch Mitchell is one of the greatest rock drummers of all time and his light jazzy touch was a perfect compliment to Hendrix's playing. Mitchell was also incredibly versatile, just look at the later years when he's partnering with Cox and Hendrix. He's able to adapt to the more heavy, funky style.
Personally, I really like Noel Redding and often feel he is thrown under the bus. He had nice, light springy bass lines that paired nicely with Hendrix's exuberant, fiery guitar.
He's a good singer and does well in sticking in line but he is very obnoxious on BoG with his backing vocals when goes over the top, like in Machine Gun.
Agree to disagree I guess.
>often feel he is thrown under the bus.
This probably has more to do with the fact that he was kind of an ass. Also, Hendrix recorded some of the better bass parts on Electric Ladyland, not sure if he wrote them, though.
All the bass parts Redding did were fantastic, so were the parts Hendrix did.
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I get that you're auditing to be a Rolling Stone writer or something with your wanking off classic rock guys while managing to say nothing of substance but they just weren't great musicians.
Mitchell did some jazz stuff on the cymbals but that's about where it ended. He really didn't have jazz or rock chops. I don't even know what you think is good about Redding's playing. It's standard 60 's rock bass. It's not horrendous but he's giving Hendrix nothing but a boring foundation to shred and layer over when Hendrix after the first album was ready for someone to challenge him.
This is Eddie Hazel who borrowed a lot from Hendrix and played with a rhythm section that could actually keep up with him:
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