Unpopular Music Opinions

The Batlord · 08-06-2016, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

There's this sense that if you don't like Jimmi it's because you don't get him yet because obvs the guy was such a great musician everybody has to like him. Even ppl that don't really listen to his stuff can say how great he was because that's the general consensus. The reason I said I didn't like his music but respected it is because I don't regularly listen to his music. I may like a couple of songs by him but he doesn't play the kind of music I regularly will comeback to.

Ppl can name me a thousand reasons why I should like Jimmi more but that won't coerce me to go against my taste because the reason I don't like him more is a matter of taste not talent.

I'm the opposite. While I wouldn't say I'm a big fan or anything I dig a lot of what I've heard, but I am not a musician and I do not have a working understanding of composition, so whatever praise I give Jimmi Hendrix will not include my appraisal of his ability to play the guitar. Why is that so hard for other people?

OccultHawk · 08-06-2016, 04:45 PM

One of yall butchering his name is enough

Mondo Bungle · 08-06-2016, 04:45 PM

that extra m is a bloodbath

The Batlord · 08-06-2016, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

One of yall butchering his name is enough

If he wanted people to get his name right then he shouldn't have spelled it like a dumbass.

Black Francis · 08-06-2016, 04:56 PM

Fixed. I guess that shows how much of a Jimmy fan I really am.

Chula Vista · 08-06-2016, 06:09 PM

In the history of music there's certain people that come along that completely change the game for anyone that follows. Hendrix was one of them. There's electric guitar before Jimi and then there's electric guitar after him. With pretty primitive gear he turned the guitar world upside down.

But you have to maintain a bit of context. He broke in 1967. Nearly half a century ago. The first time you heard him on the radio back then was a total WTF moment. He's was doing stuff that was from another world. He had guys like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck attending his shows with their jaws hitting the floor with the **** he was pulling off.

Purple Haze and Foxy Lady was the introduction, but it was songs like this that had guitar players spinning their heads.

JGuy Grungeman · 08-06-2016, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

You can't deny his greatness though. He was wildly invented, usually playing lead and rhythm at the same time, managing to play riffs and also shred up the neck. He squeezed sounds out of that guitar that probably blew people's minds back then, and are still just like, damn

I actually went to a Van Halen concert awhile back. His improvised Eruption was amazing. He made noises on the guitar I didn't even know were possible. In ten minutes he put Jimi to shame. I think Jimi's awesome, but Eddie Van Halen for greatest guitarist. His live guitar playing is much better than his studio guitar.

Key · 08-06-2016, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

One of yall butchering his name is enough

Agreed. Don't know why people mistake his name. It's Jimmy Hendricks. Not that hard.

The Batlord · 08-06-2016, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Ki

Agreed. Don't know why people mistake his name. It's Jimmy Hendricks. Not that hard.

https://www.jimihendrix.com/

You were saying?

Chula Vista · 08-06-2016, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by JGuy Grungeman

I think Jimi's awesome, but Eddie Van Halen for greatest guitarist.

Neither of them is the greatest electric rock guitarist ever. Not even close.

08-06-2016, 04:56 PM	#11855 (permalink)
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08-06-2016, 06:09 PM	#11856 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	In the history of music there's certain people that come along that completely change the game for anyone that follows. Hendrix was one of them. There's electric guitar before Jimi and then there's electric guitar after him. With pretty primitive gear he turned the guitar world upside down. But you have to maintain a bit of context. He broke in 1967. Nearly half a century ago. The first time you heard him on the radio back then was a total WTF moment. He's was doing stuff that was from another world. He had guys like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck attending his shows with their jaws hitting the floor with the **** he was pulling off. Purple Haze and Foxy Lady was the introduction, but it was songs like this that had guitar players spinning their heads. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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