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View Poll Results: Best Guitarist
Jimi Hendrix 24 64.86%
Jimmy Page 13 35.14%
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Old 02-11-2013, 08:56 AM   #571 (permalink)
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Very good question.

Page was superior in technique and diversity of style. Hendrix was superior in originality and innovativness. Which is more important? That's tough.

I think Hendrix set the light bulb off in his fellow rock musicians heads more so than anyone else. And even had an affect on someone like miles Davis and page himself. He's very possibly the most Influential guitarist ever, but of course page is right behind him.

When you look at their styles, page was more mathematical, more structured and more thought out. Hendrix, on the other hand, had this quality about his playing that was so free. It's been said that he played his guitar like it was an extension of his body and mind, which could be said about a lot of guitarists, but I think it really showed Hendrix. He was such a great improviser, he rarely played a song exactly the same more than once. And in the studio he coaxed such unique tones and sounds out of his guitar, there was really nothing else like it at the time.
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Old 02-11-2013, 12:25 PM   #572 (permalink)
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Jimi Hendrix and Brian May.
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Old 02-11-2013, 12:48 PM   #573 (permalink)
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Been getting into (revisiting) some Vai lately. The man is a monster, and totally ego driven, but when it comes to skill, and passion for the guitar, he's one of the best.

Case in point #1


Steve Vai - "I Know You're Here" - YouTube

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Old 02-11-2013, 12:50 PM   #574 (permalink)
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No second point needed. He's a freak. It's not even fair. But I will say he totally ripped hendrix the main riff of "tender surrender".
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No second point needed. He's a freak. It's not even fair. But I will say he totally ripped hendrix the main riff of "tender surrender".
So did I for Son Of Soothsayer. Unknowingly until someone pointed it out. And Hendrix ripped off of his contemporaries too.
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Old 02-11-2013, 01:00 PM   #576 (permalink)
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So did I for Son Of Soothsayer. Unknowingly until someone pointed it out. And Hendrix ripped off of his contemporaries too.
Yeah Hendrix doesn't even realize how bad he ripped off Rachmaninoff.
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Old 02-11-2013, 01:01 PM   #577 (permalink)
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Oh, wait...

This is a poll about Hendrix vs Page...

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Old 02-11-2013, 01:29 PM   #578 (permalink)
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So did I for Son Of Soothsayer. Unknowingly until someone pointed it out. And Hendrix ripped off of his contemporaries too.
I'd like to see one musician who hasn't ripped off another at some point.

I should probably dabble in the art of ripping off a little more, myself. Might make me a better musician

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Old 02-12-2013, 08:59 AM   #579 (permalink)
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I'd like to see one musician who hasn't ripped off another at some point.

I should probably dabble in the art of ripping off a little more, myself. Might make me a better musician
You'd be suprised. Any form of art is plagiarism on a quantitative level at some point. It's the building blocks of creativity.
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Old 03-27-2013, 08:40 PM   #580 (permalink)
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YEAH! i like daron from system of a down too.

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Dimebag was the gitarist from Pantera. May his soul rest well.

Opps, too late. Sorry. You were obviously answered before

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Now to answer. I'm going to say that Hendrix had more ability, but I have never enjoyed any of the three songs I've heard of him as all of the several songs I've listened of Led Zeppelin.

Musical enjoyment should count, right? Hendrix wins, but I wanna thank Page for bringing up Led Zeppelin. That's love.
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