Hendrix or Clapton what?

two totally different players so i dont know why we even compare them at all but for live playing it would be clapton for sure but hendrix had a charisma like no other on stage only ever really matched by stevie ray in that regard but i think its silly to compare music greats like that just listen to the music and enjoy people

Man, thats a hard question.

Eric Clapton is the greatest white blues or rock guitar player of his era. Play his stuff - all very challenging, very strongly composed, often arranged with multiple guitars. The composing is fantastic if inconsistent - from Sunshine of Your Love to Crossroads to Badge to Derek and the Dominos to Tears In Heaven. The live performances are always incredible and perfectly clean. The technique is strong, with plenty of little finger needed and double-bends, along with great speed, but most importantly emotion flows from his playing. He also is rhythmically dextrous, playing blues, rock, ska, latin rhythms well. Clapton is astonishingly accomplished at every type of guitar playing - slide, electric, acoustic, dobro. His Blues playing is excellent - check out not just the Mayall album, but Riding With The King with BB King to hear two players who really know how to make their guitars sing the Blues.

Clapton just works at playing guitar in all its varieties all the time. As a result, he is the best.

Plug into Youtube and watch

clapton + sheryl crow + little wing

clapton + santana

Jimi Hendrix was an excellent composer, arranger, and producer. Basically, Hendrix was a creative genius.

Al Dimeola is often mentioned, but he plays sterile riffs, even though they are fast. Fast isn't what it's about. Clapton's guitar sings. Imho, artists like Santana, Clapton and Hendrix are light-years ahead of fast players like Dimeola or Vai.

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Some folks to think about are outside the rock box - like BB King in blistering songs like Sweet Sixteen, You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now and others. BB did everything on the guitar that Clapton or Hendrix did in terms of playing, not talking production or tone because BB played it clean on a 335, and it sounded perfect. BB did it in the 1950s. You've got Freddie King and Albert King, too. BB plays with technique, often in the "BB box" of blues in "c" but the point is to let the instrument sing, and BB's guitar sings. By the time BB did "Riding With The King" with EC he had slowed down noticeably from his 1950s and 1960s work, but he still really had the abiility to get expressive singing from his guitar, and he was 80-something or nearly.

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Terry Kath.

Hendrix to me was the best until I saw something about him saying Terry Kath was better than him. Then I listened to some of Kath's stuff with Chicago. Turned me on.

Between Clapton and Hendrix? Hendrix. Hendrix was a guitar artist, and Clapton's a great guitar player.

Hendrix knew how to portrait, and create a landscape with his guitar. He did with a guitar what picasso did to a pencil.

Clapton is a great guitarist, achieved a lot while he was in Cream and Blind Faith, and I love his playing. He made great love songs, but was always insecure about his playing if he was the lone guitarist.

He's still awesome though.

omg this oneis a no brainer!!!
HENDRIX
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Wow two of the best and 2 of my personal favorites.Well I am going to give my point of view after reading what everyone else had to say.First off I would have to go with Jimi,as I had written in a post I wrote last month I think the 2 most inovative guitarist in rock history are Hendrix 1 and VanHalen2 as far as taking the instrament to new heights.For all of his pyro techniques at the time controling feedback, abusing the trem,his use of pedals I love Hendrix rhythem playing the most his chord ebelisments mixing major and minor pentatonic lines with there respective chords shear genius,and for all the people talking about him playing out of tune there were no electronic tuners or locking systems back then and u cant abuse the trem like that and expect it to stay in tune.Now Eric on the other hand will be the first to admit he is a lil lazy just read his bio but when he is pushed watch out .Thats why the Layla album is one of my favorite guitar albums ever there is so much tasteful guitar(JUST LISTEN TO THE FILLS ON BELL BOTTOM BLUES)running through that album out because D,Allman was there making him play at the top of his game, and at his best he is one of the best.5 decades worth that dont happen by chance

Between these two, Jimi by far. For mere experimentation, and the guts to do said experimenting. I mean, chaining MULTIPLE fuzz boxes was a no-no back then. Jimi did it. Feedback was EXTREMELY rarely used back then, only a few other guitarists had ever done it, but Jimi did it anyway. Not to mention his showmanship. I mean, Buddy Guy played with one hand and he played behind his head first, but Jimi took that and built on it. I mean, playing with your TEETH? Between your legs? Plus, being one of the few power trios, singing with soul while making a guitar cry to death as you force Heaven out of it, AND using tricks to play it too is pretty amazing.

Not to mention, Jimi was just an amazing player. Self-taught. Even if he was just like Eric, just played live by standing there and singing and playing and all that, he STILL was mind-blowing. And he crossed the psychedelic, bluesy rock and roll line, he added jazz influences, R&B influences, and heavy, heavy, proto-metal rock. Not to say these hadn't been done before, but they were scarce and mostly unpopular. And Jimi was just such a great, versatile composer and musician that he was able not only to make it sound good and work, but make it into sucess.


Now, no dissing to Eric, he's one of my dear, dear favorites. But when it comes down to it, I think Jimi's a better player. Eric's close though, and I love both of their musical releases with and without bands pretty much the same.

P.S. It's between Buddy Guy and Jimi for best ever in my opinion.

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Im sorry but when it comes to those questions I go with Hendrix, but im not saying that 'cause he is labeled as "the greatest guitarist that lived" but rather 'cause of his music and his playing was influential to millions (me as one of them) but no disrespect to Clapton.

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A guitar player who watches this, has got to love it. Clapton is a very, very, very good guitar player. Santana is right up there with him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmRBvX1mQBw

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Was clapton trying to sound like santana ?

man it has definately got to be hendrix but does anyone here think that david guilmour was influenced by peter green i mean everyone is but if you listen to the two the is quite a bit of peter greens style in david

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