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Originally Posted by RezZ
He knew a lot more than you think. Look at this vast list of bands he played in before the one we all know. It would be impossible to have put out that much work in that many types of bands without picking up ALOT of theory along the way.
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I think the thing with Hendrix isn't so much that he didn't know theory, it's that he didn't know terminology. I'd much rather hear someone like Hendrix in an interview talking about the difference between a lick that sounds like 'deedle-ee-dee-dee-doot-dee' vs. 'deedle-ee-doo-dee-doot-dah' as opposed to someone like Steve Vai musing about the subtle nuances between the Mixolodyian mode and Phrygian scales or whatever.
There's a reason I don't think anyone ever heard Hendrix refer to 'his' chord as a 'dominant seventh sharp ninth'. Pretty sure he just referred to it as the funky one that sounded cool. And ultimately, sounding cool is the ONLY thing that really matters.