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Location: Japan | Chocolate is good, but I have to go to Baskin & Robbins for Praline & Cream! |
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Location: big island | b&r fudge brownie/mint chocolate chip for me, please. |
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Location: Indiana | Between the two, I had to pick Clapton. Although I was a big fan of both of their music. However, like some others here, to pick the best of the 60's, it has to be George. If you wanna go back a decade or two, then it would definitly be Lester.
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | It's kind of like comparing Keith Richards & Chet Atkins...two great guitarists, yet virtually nothing alike. Chocolate and Vanilla...
Of course, Baskin Robbins would definitely be Cherries Jubilee...wow, it's been a long time since I've been there. |
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Location: Japan | To mention another great, and mostly unnoticed great from the 60's, Terry Kath. |
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Location: North Wales | I don't expect this to be a popular post, but I didn't think much of either of them. Saw Hendrix several times in the mid to late sixties - mainly on various UK tours with superior bands. He was innovative and his style was new and original, but I saw it reproduced effortlessly by many, many guitarists of the time.
Cream I enjoyed as a band, and saw then often right up to their last performance at the Albert Hall. I thought Cream were the tighter band, but a clash of egos spoilt their live performances - often resulting in noise battles. Probably Clapton was technically a better guitarist, but not the best in the UK at the time by a long way.
Probably one of the best guitarists in the sixties in the UK was Jimmy Page. |
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Location: Riverside, CA | Originally posted by Bru:
Probably one of the best guitarists in the sixties in the UK was Jimmy Page. Amen, brother. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Eddie Van Halen was like Hendrix - he took the guitar in some different directions and broke some new ground. They both influenced and inspired a bunch of players who ended up being much better than them. But you can't deny the influence their sound had on their respective eras. Stevie Ray Vaughn was influenced by a lot of people, but if Jimi hadn't come first, SRV would probably have been a different guitarist. Or at least he wouldn't have covered Voodoo Chile. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | EVERYONE is diminished by comparison. Better they should be, as the two names that started this thread, the best of themselves than live by comparison to someone else.
Likewise, those doing the comparison and using the comparison as reasonable judgment cut themselves off from the best (and worst) that we can learn from each example. |
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Location: virginia | how about MR. Ted Nugent ?
young Ted never seems to get any credit.
Ted was doing amazing stuff back in the early days.
what about Ritchie Blackmore, and Tony Iommi...i know they were late 60's...but thats still the 60's. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | I did then, and do now, enjoy both of those guys' music. But as long as we're talking 60's guitarists...
My personal faves are Steve Howe and Robert Fripp. Some others that haven't been mentioned: Robin Trower, Pete Townsend, Sam Andrew, and Robbie Robertson. Keith Richard's solo on "Sympathy for the Devil" ranks (to me) as the most appropriate solo ever. It is absolutely diabolical.
And that's just the white guys. |
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Location: Michigan | There you have it Eric Clapton won this poll hands down.
46 votes in and Clapton has 67% of them with
31 votes to Eric Clapton
15 for Jimmy Hendrix.
Now please excuse me while I kiss the sky. GWB |
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Location: villa ridge | How can you guys compare apples and oranges? personally i like clapton, but i loooove the blues and claptons from the cradle, and sessions for robert j do it for me. on the other hand when im in the "mood" with a little help from some GREEN GRASS, driving down the road on a sunny day, im diggin some free spirited unchained sound of Hendrix. |
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Location: Japan | Originally posted by guitarwannabee:
There you have it Eric Clapton won this poll hands down.
46 votes in and Clapton has 67% of them with
31 votes to Eric Clapton
15 for Jimmy Hendrix.
Now please excuse me while I kiss the sky. GWB ...and as we all know, you just can't believe everything you see and hear,now can you...
Popular consensus; the most accurate way of giving the all important numerical rating for artistic merit. :rolleyes: |
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Location: NJ | ". . How can you guys compare apples and oranges? . ."
Because Poles are Stupid!!!
. . . uh, . . sorry LittleBoyJefferson, . . I meant to say:
POLLS are Stupid!! . . . |
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Location: Hannover | Hendrix changed the world of guitar,
Clapton just perfected the blues. |
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Location: St Louis | Duane Allman...
Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by frank p aus h:
Hendrix changed the world of guitar,
How? I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just curious what your reference point is. I agree, he definately did some very unique things.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I'll stick this in to see if it comes off clever or stupid....
Before Chuck Berry guitar leads were either trying to emulate a saxophone or horns. Chuck Berry played stuff that could only be played on guitar - slurred clusters of notes - bending it out of shape.
Hendrix did something similar, only with the guitar effects as part of the sound/melody instead of decoration. |
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Location: NJ | To me, Hendrix had a couple of memorable performances (his version of "Like a Rolling Stone" at MontereyPop comes to mind), but devoid of the distortion and effects, he never did anything for me.
He was something "new" and "fresh" who came around at exACTly the RIGHT time (when everyone was really, really stoned). |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by Tupperware:
Hell, the most famous thing Kennedy did was get himself shot. Clapton vs. Hendrix is a no contest.
Dave Dave did you forget about Marilyn? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | mmmh.
Death by Assasination or humping marilyn monroe.
What a difficult choice ... like what kind of ice cream should I have. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | My point is/was that in the court of public hero worship, you earn major bonus points by being dead. Hendrix happened on the scene at just the right time and passed away at just the right time. Recipe for instant hero status if there ever was one. Dave |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | He couldn't have planned it better. |
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Location: NJ | . . . as did Morrison. |
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BEST LEAD GUITAR PLAYER OF THE 60S HENDRIX OR CLAPTON???
