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Location: Tennessee | Someone once told me that what made Jimi so unique was that he could play lead and sing lead at the same time. First guy who ever pulled that off; still a mighty hard thing to do. |
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Location: ms | The Hendricks interview was on the BBC. Hendricks was ask how it felt to be the best guitarist in the world and Hendricks said he didn`t know you`d have to ask Phil Keaggy. |
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Location: Ky | 2 entirely different styles & concepts. Jimi & Eric were both great. Timing was more critical than skill or talent. Both were innovators. No one knows what Jimi would have done. Eric pretty much copped out, and never equaled his work with Cream, Mayall & Blind Faith. I have to give a lot of credence to the guys who bring up Gilmour. Gilmour is in a class by himself when it comes to being able to make the guitar his own. He could pick up a toy Barbie doll guitar and still sound like Gilmour. He has the most gifted and unique hands of anyone. There are jazz players who can play more notes and may have better technique, and shredders who can play faster and smoother, but no one is more eloquent or expressive than David Gilmour. One note and you know it's him. You can't say that about anyone else with the possible exception of Carlos Santana. But Carlos seemed to have reached his potential decades ago, while David continues to break new ground. A lot of guys can pick up the guitar and play like Hendrix or Clapton, but have you ever heard anyone really sound like David Gilmour?
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Location: Japan | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Some one cruelly posted earlier that Jimi's death did more for his fame than his guitar ability.
(Not to be a total jurk... But even I can play the National Anthem...
Maybe not as well...) Only someone who has any idea of where Hendrix was headed at the time of his death could possibly understand what a fallacy that idea is.
Like Clapton, who is still alive and considered an absolute icon, Hendrix would be more highly revered and would have made people think of more than just Purple Haze, Foxy Lady and the Star Spangled Banner.
Listen to Cry of Love and it's obvious he was only still just getting started when he died.
By the way, anyone can play the Star Spangled Banner if they try, but the "Maybe not as well" part is the whole point.
Not that I'd expect posters in an acoustic forum to have much of an idea how difficult it would be for anyone, even with todays equipment, to play it with the absolute control he did.
Love Clapton, but mostly as a result of his more recent playing in live performances.
My vote goes against the grain and with Hendrix. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I have to give a lot of credence to the guys who bring up Gilmour. Gilmour is in a class by himself when it comes to being able to make the guitar his own. He could pick up a toy Barbie doll guitar and still sound like Gilmour. He has the most gifted and unique hands of anyone. Absolutely; Pink Floyd rules...pure Strat majic...but I was posting to the question asked at the time...Jimi was a wizard on guitar...Eric is lead guitar history in the making...yes, there are many, many other great guitarists...and Gilmour has a rare touch and tone...I feel blessed to have been able to live through that period; heard most of them live; and lived to tell the tale!
Blessings... |
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Location: Las Vegas | David Cassidy... and he PLAYED ovation...
(Well, not really, in real life he played a Strat [ducking!!!])
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Keaggy & Santana both have a very unique, identifiable sound, though they're completely different from Hendrix & Clapton.
I also would think for consideration Eddie Van Halen, but I guess that would be 70's/80's and a whole different generation...guess I'm not as old as I thought I was. :D |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Yeah! You Are! :p
And Akami, I meant no disrespect.
I also play Wish You Were Here pretty well...
That doesn't make Gilmore a slouch either. |
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Location: Riverside, CA | "For my taste, these solos (of some 50s blues guitarists) are
exemplary because what is being played seems honest and, in a
musical way, a direct extension of the personality of the men
who played them." - Frank Zappa
I agree with Frank (but also including 60's blues/rock lead guitarists). Clapton may have been technically superior or more learned, but Hendrix' guitar was hard-wired to his soul. |
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| Duane Allman (just ask Clapton) |
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Location: ms | When i saw Clapton Santana was the opening act. It was kinda like Blackfoot opening up for Kiss. Kiss was just a Vegas act after watching Blackfoot. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | They're all good. |
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Location: big island | IMO, tommy emmanuel plays a better lead guitar in this video than i ever heard clapton or hendrix play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYBTRDjYSUQ
here's another one. only tommy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae70lkdAzJs&NR=1 |
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Location: big island | but to answer the poll, i chose clapton. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Between Clapton and Hendrix. Hendrix played the guitar and performed differently than anybody else at the time. He did some great stuff but was very inconsistent, probably due to the drugs. Clapton took the blues thing and brought it into the rock world better than anybody else at the time.
There are so many guitarists who did great work at the time - Ritchie Blackmore, Jeff Beck, Duane Allman, David Gilmore, Randy California, Leslie West, Joe Walsh, Peter Banks, Johnny Winter. Lots of different styles. Lots of great rock and roll! |
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Location: ms | Well said Denignzilla. |
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Location: Japan | Originally posted by Designzilla:
Between Clapton and Hendrix. Hendrix played the guitar and performed differently than anybody else at the time. He did some great stuff but was very inconsistent, probably due to the drugs. Hendrix inconsistency was evident whether he was high or not because he wasn't afraid of taking risks and playing like the recording wasn't even a concern to him. |
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Location: North Carolina | Of those two, Clapton, without a doubt. I never did get what the big deal was with Hendrix. |
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Location: Japan | Originally posted by First Alternate:
Of those two, Clapton, without a doubt. I never did get what the big deal was with Hendrix. That's okay; Clapton did. |
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Location: NJ | Clapton.
(at least he was able to handle his drugs . . .) |
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Location: Winnipeg, CANADA | I apologize in advance because he is not an Ovation player, but Les Paul gets my vote....PBS aired a documentary on him and his life a few weeks ago, and he was so comfortable playing, he could have been sleeping....but he wasn't! !
He had magic fingers, and watching him play was kind of like watching the best ballroom dancing.....That man loves his guitar...and his guitar loves him....
Any New Yorkers out there can do something I may not get a chance to....see him on a Monday night...he's 93 or so, but he is still so amazing....
Clapton and Hendrix would have to admit that Les Paul played an important part in their lives.....since he kind of invented multi-track recording....an amazing story, and an amazing guitarist...
and on that note....I digress....
breathe, man, breathe....
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Location: Japan | Originally posted by cliff:
Clapton.
(at least he was able to handle his drugs . . .) Hendrix died of negligence in the back of an ambulance due to the attendants keeping his head tilted back while he was vomiting.
What it has to do with music I've no idea, but you felt it relevant.
Les Paul was a huge Hendrix fan, even trying to give him a break before he became famous.
Having seen him playing in a local bar he came back later to meet him and found him already gone.
A few years later when he was trying to catch up with changes in music he found a copy of Are You Experienced and recognized Hendrix.
After meeting later on he said how deserving he felt Hendrix was of his fame.
Most of the guitarists mentioned in this forum held Hendrix in high regard, but his detractors seem to feel that although they admire these other musicians, they have no respect for their opinions. |
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Location: Ky | It's really not fair to ask, which one was better, between those two. You can't help but think of Clapton in the light of everything he's done over the past 40+ years. Hendrix was just barely getting started. Maybe he would have learned to control the drugs, and go on to become the greatest ever. He certainly had the potential -or he might have peaked in the 60's & fizzled out. Not many artists can continue to be innovative and creative throughout their lives. But it's hard to judge their true greatness, when their life ends at 27.
Suffice it to say, there has never been another Jimi. He brought the electric guitar to new heights. His premature death was one of music's greatest tragedies. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | This is like asking people what the best flavor of ice cream is. |
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BEST LEAD GUITAR PLAYER OF THE 60S HENDRIX OR CLAPTON???
