BCB 100 - Jimi Hendrix
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BCB 100 - Jimi Hendrix
No musician will ever again be able to reimagine the electric guitar as Hendrix did. What Charlie Parker did to the saxophone and Bach did to the organ [no sniggering at the back!] Hendrix did to the electric guitar. It seems absurd to even suggest there's been a better guitarist, certainly in rock music at least. What's more, he was an intriguing, gifted singer-songwriter as well.
Favorite Album - Electric Ladyland
Favorite Song - "All Along The Watchtower"
Favorite Album - Electric Ladyland
Favorite Song - "All Along The Watchtower"
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Er, I only have a best of. I think All Along the Watchtower is comfortably his best song. Despite not liking Dylan I do tend to enjoy covers of his stuff and this is perhaps the best, Hendrix gives it a new dimension and turns it into a completely thrilling song.
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The Penk wrote:Er, I only have a best of. I think All Along the Watchtower is comfortably his best song. Despite not liking Dylan I do tend to enjoy covers of his stuff and this is perhaps the best, Hendrix gives it a new dimension and turns it into a completely thrilling song.
Although I chose 'Are You Experienced?' as my favourite album, it is the cosmic excursion on what I assume was side 3 of 'Electric Ladland' that made me appreciate what a genius he was. It took the invention of synthesisers before anything approaching it could be replicated. Truly essential.
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I love the fact that even the numerous contrarians of BCB don't ever say "I don't get what's so great about his guitar playing." It's just so obvious. As a songwriter he was gifted too, though some of the spacy science-fiction mumbo-jumbo and swaggering cock-rock hasn't dated well. But he wrote some beauties, and as Penk said, he transformed Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." One of the best covers ever, maybe the best.
album - Electric Ladyland
song - Watchtower, The Wind Cries Mary or Angel
album - Electric Ladyland
song - Watchtower, The Wind Cries Mary or Angel
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toomanyhatz wrote: ...asPenk said, he transformed Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." One of the best covers ever, maybe the best.
So much so that Dylan generally performs the Hendrix arrangement.
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Muskrat wrote:toomanyhatz wrote: ...asPenk said, he transformed Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower." One of the best covers ever, maybe the best.
So much so that Dylan generally performs the Hendrix arrangement.
But to be fair, so did U2.
I like him best when he isn't overloading the tubes.
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I'm not sure he's the best guitarist, but I'll grant easily that he's one of rock's greatest one-offs.
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