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Originally Posted by Il Duce
he hasn't really mastered phrasing and the tone is too wild
i respect his contributions to every other genre, though, and i think Remember is one of the best RnB songs ever
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That was his style. He went beyond the boundaries of how the guitar "should" be played. He didnt learn by the rules, he did his own thing. He had an unorthodox approach to his guitar playing. And for that, I have much respect for the man. Music should not be limited to the rules. His style was complete expression.
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Originally Posted by Bloozcrooz
I agree but what exzactly is a real blues guitarist? Are we talkin how they play, or where they come from and lifestyle? I know Hendrix liked to embelish his own techniques, and playing style with your run of the mill cliche type blues. But I dont think that dismiss's him totaly as a blues player. In fact if Hendrix wanted to just simply focus on playing traditional blues, I have no doubt he would have mastered that sound much like he mastered every other sound he was aiming for.
And yes "once I had a woman" is one of favorites as well. Anything Hendrix did I like. If he wrote a song about poop I would like it.
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i can agree agree with that. Traditional blues was not the sound he was looking for. As a matter of fact, when hendrix was younger, his style was in the form of a more standard blues. In the Hendrix biography
room full of mirrors, it was noted that his style was very much like that of BB king. But then he started to develop his own tone and his own sound.
Listen to the first phrases of this. The tone is less wild(I dont have a problem with his wild tone) and the style sounds more like traditional blues than most of his other stuff. I think the phrasing is just fine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXDbSJL8ZzE