Originally Posted by bettybong79

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

Explain why he is a legend.

Originally Posted by Nurse Duckett

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 ?

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

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

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

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

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by ZiggyStardust

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

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

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

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