Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? (Post 1303230)

The country forum got so little traffic it was merged with the folk forum.

Originally Posted by realtalk92 (Post 1303188)

I just think this site thinks his overrated because he is African American. He is not overrated and is the greatest guitar player of all time.

Originally Posted by Necromancer (Post 1303239)

Maybe that is because most people that listen to country music are white supremacist and members of the ku klux klan?

:tramp:

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1303429)

Hey now. I like me some country and I'm only slightly racist.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1303435)

I know you country boys like your guns as well.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...neckMedium.jpg

Originally Posted by The Batlord (Post 1303438)

Why should I have to be country to think that gun kicks ass?

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1302749)

A further 3 reasons -

1. His rendition of The Star Spangled Banner is, in all fairness, a mess. It truly is. Now, if you or I made that then people would laugh at you and call you a bit funny, but because it's Hendrix then automatically people assume that it's brilliant.
It's like Smoke on The Water. Okay, so forget that fact that it's the first thing you can play on the guitar and it's by Deep Purple and mentions Frank Zappa, and listen to it again. It's a terrible song.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1303435)

I know you country boys like your guns as well.

Originally Posted by Necromancer (Post 1303601)

NO! .. "We don't need no stinking guns". As one of my fine Mexican Friends once said to me.

To bettter answer your question Soldier. Country Music fans are nothing more than ..http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/5240/66888565.jpg .. Rebels without a Cause. You know, people like Batlord. :laughing:

Originally Posted by bettybong79 (Post 1303767)

Justin Beiber, Nicki Minaj, One Direction and even Justin Timberlake are overrated.
HENDRIX IS A ****ING LEGEND!!! I have to disagree.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303785)

Explain why he is a legend.

Originally Posted by Nurse Duckett (Post 1303790)

I think it would be far more interesting to read your thoughts on why Hendrix isn't a legend.

Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ? (Post 1303817)

To save you going through the thread I'll summarize Mr Stardust's opinion.

Apparently Jimmy Page is the better guitarist and to demonstrate this 'fact' he's taken a 'live' recording of Stairway to Heaven that was recorded over 3 nights AND overdubbed in the studio and compared it to Hendrix playing a one off festival with a band he'd never played live with and had no rehearsal time with.
So naturally Page is better.

Glad I could help.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303822)

Apparently Mr Urban believes that making up statements is a viable explanation.
Please, I hope surgery to get your head removed form your ass goes well.

If you want to call Hendrix a legend, then call Elvis one as well. Without Elvis Jimi wouldn't exist as a musician as it was Elvis who bridged the gap between whites and black.

Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1303824)

How does Elvis bridging the gap between "whites and black" have anything to do with whether or not Jimi would have existed as a musician?

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303822)

If you want to call Hendrix a legend, then call Elvis one as well.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1302523)

watch a video of his performance of Hey Joe at Woodstock and compare it to his studio version. In my opinion I think he absolutely destroys the whammy bar in the song in a bad way. Nearly every lick starts and finishes with it, and because of the amount of distortion it sounds like he knows that he will make a mistake so he uses the whammy bar and distortion to hide it.
Also, his playing is incredibly sloppy. I know, things will sound different live, but Jesus does that guitar sound bad.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1302749)

1. His rendition of The Star Spangled Banner is, in all fairness, a mess. It truly is. Now, if you or I made that then people would laugh at you and call you a bit funny, but because it's Hendrix then automatically people assume that it's brilliant.
It's like Smoke on The Water. Okay, so forget that fact that it's the first thing you can play on the guitar and it's by Deep Purple and mentions Frank Zappa, and listen to it again. It's a terrible song.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303042)

His version of Star Spangled Banner lost the melody completely - there's no point doing a song if you can't actually hear the melody that's being played. The bombs and machine guns sound like machine guns, I'll give you that, but if he wanted to play a protest song he didn't need to add it into the country's anthem.
Normally he uses feedback in a good way, but in this case it just sounds messy and out of place. The buzz coats all the notes so half of them just sound like buzzes.

And as for the greatest guitarist? Jimmy Page. Just listen to his ''Stairway To Heaven'' performance from 1973's The Song Remains The Same concert film.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303825)

I meant as a successful musician. Before Elvis Blacks had some success but not near enough to catapult them into fame.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303825)

I meant as a successful musician. Before Elvis Blacks had some success but not near enough to catapult them into fame.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303822)

Apparently Mr Urban believes that making up statements is a viable explanation.
Please, I hope surgery to get your head removed form your ass goes well.

If you want to call Hendrix a legend, then call Elvis one as well. Without Elvis Jimi wouldn't exist as a musician as it was Elvis who bridged the gap between whites and black.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1303870)

So who would you say was the most influential guitarist on other guitarists since the 1960s?

Originally Posted by rostasi (Post 1303874)

This guy really is from Mars.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303875)

Originally Posted by Vanilla (Post 1303234)

I feel like I've read these same arguments over and over. He was a talented guy. End of. It's overrated how much he is debated about.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303873)

BB King.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303873)

BB King.

Nigh on every rock song you've ever listened to has been indirectly inspired by this man.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1303899)

Ok, if we narrow the parameters down to just the heavy rock and metal genres who would you say was the most influential on other guitarists?

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303903)

Heavy rock and metal......Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath. They practically invented heavy metal.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1303906)

But Tony Iommi hit the scene in 1970. The true roots of metal had already been sown quite a few years earlier from around the 1967 period. Black Sabbath just pulled all these aspects together (especially Tony Iommi) but I'm specifically asking for a heavy rock guitarist from the 1960s and not 1970s.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303908)

If you insist....

Threeway between Steppenwolf (forgot the guitarist), Jimmy Page and Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore.

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier (Post 1303435)

I know you country boys like your guns as well.

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...neckMedium.jpg

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303908)

Steppenwolf (forgot the guitarist)

Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 1303917)

Ah yes, old whatshisname from Steppenwolf, so influential you can't even remember his name. :laughing:

Originally Posted by PoorOldPo (Post 1303919)

Something inside me tells me there is something seriously wrong with this image.

Originally Posted by Necromancer (Post 1303931)

Yeah :laughing: I dont think thats an actual "real" gun. They were used in the military as learning devices for training. That particular big gun in the picture could be from the 40s? I think the military had most of them destroyed years ago. Some were given out during that time. There is still a few of them around here and there.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust (Post 1303908)

If you insist....

Threeway between Steppenwolf (forgot the guitarist), Jimmy Page and Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore.

Originally Posted by PoorOldPo (Post 1303919)

Something inside me tells me there is something seriously wrong with this image.

Originally Posted by Necromancer (Post 1303931)

I think the military had most of them destroyed years ago. Some were given out during that time. There is still a few of them around here and there.