Hendrix

[JRockBlues]

Would've included Band of Gypsys in my top 20 albums list but couldn't with it being a live album.

 

[Greggery Peccary]

Greatest guitarist ever in my book. There have been fast and more technically precise since him, but none of their work would have been possible without him. One of music’s true innovators.
Electric Ladyland is a solid fixture in my top 10 albums too, every track is a banger.

 

[Bill Walker]

Well, that's one racket we had missed fifty years of!

Haha my parents wouldve agreed with you.
They hated his records.

 

[Bill Walker]

Greatest guitarist ever in my book. There have been fast and more technically precise since him, but none of their work would have been possible without him. One of music’s true innovators.
Electric Ladyland is a solid fixture in my top 10 albums too, every track is a banger.

I never thought he was the greatest. Very influential yes, definitely introduced a new way of playing. But his live performances show a lack of technical discipline, sloppy but very soulful. Innovative though.
I loved his first album.

I never thought anybody was the greatest. They're all different. A lot of guitarists think Alan Holdsworth from Bradford was the greatest ever.
I like quite a few guitarists though.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Haydn was his next door neighbour in Brook St, Mayfair. Although a good few years apart obviously.

 

[Greggery Peccary]

I never thought he was the greatest. Very influential yes, definitely introduced a new way of playing. But his live performances show a lack of technical discipline, sloppy but very soulful. Innovative though.
I loved his first album.

I never thought anybody was the greatest. They're all different. A lot of guitarists think Alan Holdsworth from Bradford was the greatest ever.
I like quite a few guitarists though.

It’s definitely a debate that covers a lot of bases. Zappa was an unbelievable geet man yet you rarely see his name in the top 10 polls. A lot of the musos go for Rory Gallagher which to be fair is one hell of a choice. Absolute wizard.

 

[PinkFinal]

Any excuse to play this.

There is something godlike about that recording.

 

[domalino]

It's not on Youtube at the moment, but Little Wing live from the Royal Albert Hall February 1969 sums up Hendrix vs. the rest for me, the emotion and tone he gets out of that guitar is completely unmatched.

 

[PinkFinal]

'Colourful, vibrant, sensual!' Stars on Jimi Hendrix, 50 years gone

In awe of everything from his raunchiness to his skill with sheer volume, members of Pixies, Yes, Parliament-Funkadelic, Thin Lizzy and more celebrate the guitar god, who died 50 years ago today

www.theguardian.com

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

It’s definitely a debate that covers a lot of bases. Zappa was an unbelievable geet man yet you rarely see his name in the top 10 polls. A lot of the musos go for Rory Gallagher which to be fair is one hell of a choice. Absolute wizard.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Im not the only one to put Rory up in that bracket.
Yes they are all different, thy all had their styles. Rory was a guitarist’s guitarist. Those who who could play appreciated him.