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Redline wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHC9bxQkLCQ

The improvisation which followed was awesome also. There's a varirty of styles and some amazing moments in there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck05ixIC ... re=related

MrFood wrote:

Peter wrote:This kind of bollocks is what makes browsing the internet sorely depressing.

Aye. Roger that.

Really... who gives a fuck? Are y'all 17 or something?

I guess if you take threads like this too seriously then maybe you'd come to that conclusion. It's just a simple throw away question, there's no need to get worked up about it so relax.

I said it once, I'll say it again: Nine to the Universe is where Hendrix set the bar.

I think that Hendrix was so unique that he had no peers, only imitators.

It all depends on what particular video footage you're comparing. For example, I recently saw Hendrix's Woodstock film footage for the first time, and was mostly non-plussed. And then this weekend, I saw some very old footage of Led Zep before Bonham got fat, and Page was fucking awesome. If I were to compare the film of those two performances, I'd conclude that Page was more interesting to me as a guitarist.

Hendrix was literally amazing, much of the time. But then other times, he's playing a stupid, boring blues-riff-based song that's utterly uninteresting for me.

I feel like Page had a wider range of musical genres in which he could slay faces. But again, some of these genres/songs are like poison to my ears.

So ultimately, they were both great sometimes, and kinda bogus others. To be fair, their "bogus" is probably better than 99.999% of guitarists best.

Page was involved in the writing of Black Dog, right? That song is probably more crucial to the history of the musical genres I like than anything Hendrix did. Dancing Days is a pop song or whatever, but I'll take that over almost any Hendrix song. Etc

I'm really glad that there's no reason to actually have to pick one of the two of them. I think Hendrix was on another level, with the connection between him and his instrument and whatnot. But that still doesn't mean I think he's "better" than Page in some sweeping-generalization-across-the-board kinda way.

Aside from the fact that he came first, how is Hendrix a "better" guitarist than Yngwie? Seriously.

How could this debate leave out Liz Phair?

No. Who the fuck thinks this anyway?

eliya wrote:

Mazec wrote:The greatest electric guitar player is a skinny man from Missoula.

I also think it's a guy from Missoula, don't think he's that skinny. I don't think we're referring to the same person.

I hope one of you is talking about the guitarist from Nite Snak'r.

thyklopth wrote:I said it once, I'll say it again: Nine to the Universe is where Hendrix set the bar.

I've not listened to this. Is it similar to the stuff on South Saturn Delta?

scott wrote:Aside from the fact that he came first, how is Hendrix a "better" guitarist than Yngwie? Seriously.

It goes without saying that this is all excruciatingly subjective. IMHO a musician's net worth is measured the same way as any other artist in any other medium. Execution does factor into the equation, but it's there to serve the concept being executed. Yngwie provides for an entertaining night bringing the rawk and dazzling teenage metal guitarists. Hendrix was one of the voices of a generation and rattled several musical genres at their foundations. Both could play whatever they wanted, and both had the means to execute their respective concepts, but the latter holds more weight for me.

Who is the better artist, M.C. Escher or Picasso?

scott wrote:I also just realized recently that something Cobain did, better than anybody else I've been able to think of, was to sing a vocal line and play it on guitar, sometimes both at the same time, sometimes one first and then the other, and have it sound really great both ways.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TV74PsUo1dc

Anybody that listens to that solo, or anything in that entire song, and thinks, "blues based garbage" - I am so truly sorry for where your head is at.

Hendrix should be our money.