Jimi Hendrix is overrated.
*well I'm going to get a lot of flak for this but oh well*
2 Reasons Why Jimi Hendrix is overrated 1. His use of the whammy bar/Playing in general 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. 2. Creativity Okay, so I’m going to admit that I like Foxy Lady and All along The Watchtower - they are pretty damn catchy. I’m not going to deny the fact the Jimi had some creative genius in him – it’s just the fact that he had to (mostly) rely on LSD and various other drugs to compose songs. I compare that to The Beatles’ Let It Be and Abbey Road albums – they had simply run out of ideas and turned to drugs to help find a new tune. For all that Jimi is praised in his techniques; he doesn’t really expand outside his genre. A true musician explores all genres and styles. Jimi only delves into rock, blues and a bit of psychedelic, and that’s it. |
I don't think your drug argument is valid.
But, at the end of the day it doesn't if your an amazing musician, the bottomline is can you songwrite? He was descent. I guess. |
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Although not the biggest fan of Hendrix, overrated is a term you can throw at any artiste/band.
He was a massively influential guitarist, groundbreaking and for that he deserves the credit he receives. |
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In three/four years, he broke a lot of barriers, proved to be a great showman (most learned from his years as a backing musician), and also someone who helped advance production values in recording. If he would have lived, I could see him more into production techniques, maybe adding more to his Producer's history, and experimenting with music. On Electric Ladyland, there was a nice mix of styles all over which showed a opening up from what his first two albums offered.
When he passed away, he was in transition, already showed positive with Band of Gypsies. Who knows where that could have took him too. Maybe a Blues/Jazz fusion, perhaps. Still, as said before Death puts an end to things, and sadly he passed away when things were getting interesting and could have went either way, although his work clearly showed that no matter what one thinks of his music, he already did a lot to progress music quite a bit. By the way, ...Watchtower was written by Bob Dylan. I'm sure that when on stage, that Whammy Bar sound is certainly an addiction and a crowd winner. Jimi may have overused that sound live, but he at least used it well. Sometimes I can agree that it was used too much on stage, but I pin it down to crowd pleasing more than anything else. Over-copied, perhaps. Over-worshiped, absolutely (usually for the wrong reasons, too!). Still, I'd say that he's not over-rated. |
It should be remembered that at Woodstock he was playing with a band he had never ever played live with and had no rehearsal time with them either.
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LSD only helps your song-making ability for around 5 or 6 hours. Then when you come down, you realize the song is total sh*t.
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i hate when this argument happens.
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His whammy bar and playing guitar in general at the Monterey Pop Festival has been well over 45 years ago. :rolleyes: |
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Like when you say "bad" do you mean: Man that guitar sound Jimi had was "bad" like real "bad" ass. or Man that guitar sound Jimi had is bad like terribly "bad."? Quote:
Really Jimi's reliance was on the Sci-fi paper-back novels he read. Purple Haze was base on something from a book he read, it was not based on LSD-25 or any various other (I presume non-pharmaceutical) drugs. Quote:
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STOP QUOTING BLOODY SPAM POSTS AS IT DOUBLES THE AMOUNT OF CRAP THE MODS HAVE TO DELETE. thank you |
Just for curiosity's sake - What were the groundbreaking changes that Hendrix brought to music? My knowledge of timelines and "who followed who" is a little bit hazy, particularly so for mid to late 20th century music.
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Your drug argument is invalid. The drugs enhanced their creativity if anything, but it does not take away from what they made. And the Beatles were no under the influence while recording. |
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. 2. Yes, drugs can make your creativity better, but ultimately when you get to the point where you need to take drugs to write great songs is the moment where you are not a naturally talented song writer. 3. The whole ''3 years is not enough to expand'' bull****. Take The Beatles' 1963 album Please Please Me and count on 3 years. You get to their 1966 album Revolver, which is arguably one of the greatest albums of all time. 3 years. Hendrix had three years, but he didn't evolve the much. |
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Go listen to the first Experience album and then go listen to First Rays of the New Rising Sun which was the stuff he was working on just before he died. There's a world of difference. Plus you're failing to take into account that Hendrix sounded groundbreaking on his first album while the Beatles first album was filled with standard rock n roll covers of the day. |
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Funny that you used the "natural songwriter" spiel, because the majority of the people in the 60's that are considered the most naturally talented songwriters, took LSD or had taken it at some point. |
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And, who do you think is a really good guitarist compared to Jimi Hendrix? |
why because he Dead .... : )
if that's the case Nirvina and Lennon are overated has well infact any artist whos life gets cut short is overated ..................... |
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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. |
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The same Jimmy Page that had an amazing musical arranger in his band in John Paul Jones and never utilised him whatsoever? Keep him |
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Wait, so JPJ needed Page to show his talents? He did it himself. JPJ and Bonham themselves said they were a rhythm section, not a lead like Page. |
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Planktons Odyssey Star Spangled Banner 2012 Foster Fest - YouTube So... :finger: |
Hendrix probably is a little overrated, like a lot of other rock gods. But that doesn't mean he wasn't amazing. The fact that he could be so popular and so influential and yet continue to be largely inimitable really says something about just how great he was IMO.
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No it isn't. |
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Hendrix > Beatles, and I don't even like Hendrix all the much.
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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.
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Reading a thread as a basis for forming a conclusion is overrated |
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And again if you think people in here are saying he's overrated you've clearly not read the thread. |
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.
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