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Post by drystyx on Aug 6, 2021 4:41:38 GMT
would it even be possible that even the crack heads would care about his bland, lifeless, uninspired noise that the drug dead zombies called "music"?
If Jimi Hendrix hadn't died at a young age, he'd have no mention in the Rock and Roll Heaven song. Lets face the facts. He looked cool in a bandana, and that was all he had to offer. He was a good mechanic on guitar, but he had no inspiration. His only good song is the one he took from Dylan, and while Dylan's version had theatrical motivation, Hendrix just bellowed out with no motivation in empty drama. He inflected, but with no motivation. Dylan, of course, welcomed the royalties, and feigned that Hendrix was talented, but the fact is that Hendrix was a bore.
It isn't possible to listen to Hendrix drone on and on with his annoying attempts to be a showman for more than ten seconds. Hopefully, one can fall asleep in that time. Woodstock was a Hell on Earth, with no talents like Hendrix and most of the others there. 100 years from now, no one will deny that fact, right? Right. It is what it is.
No offense.
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Post by gw on Aug 7, 2021 5:19:37 GMT
Not a fan of most of his music or at least what I've heard I can take or leave it but I really like Third Stone from the Sun.
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Post by drystyx on Aug 7, 2021 14:58:00 GMT
I disagree, even though I'm more a punk than a fan of classic rock.
He was historically important as the first African-American to become a leading figure in hard rock. He also fused African-American styles like r&b and jazz rock into mainstream hard rock.
And he is the premier proponent of psychedelic rock and psychedelia in general.
Frankly he's one of the few late 60's hard rock acts I can tolerate. Lol.
He was nowhere near the first African American to do so. Hard rock was started by African Americans long before he came along. The noise he made is only classified as "Rock" because the critics at the time were just as big at being aggressive pot head control freaks as the dullards who performed at Woodstock (except for Jefferson Airplane and Neil Young, who at least could make noises without sounding like fingernails on chalk boards. Why Young joined Cosby, Stills, and Nash is anyone's guess.). Real African American pioneers in hard rock would be Chubby Checker (Twist) and Fats Domino (I Hear You Knocking would be hard rock, though Blueberry Hill was softer rock), and later the Turners and Supremes.
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Post by lowtacks86 on Aug 7, 2021 15:44:26 GMT
I don't mind him, not really a huge fan though. I'm more into the 70s hard rock bands influeced by him (Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Van Halen)
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Post by permutojoe on Aug 7, 2021 21:00:15 GMT
I don't listen to him much anymore but he was pretty great. Highway Child and Little Miss Strange are my favorite studio efforts that come to mind. The live Band of Gypsies album had some solid cuts too.
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