if Jimi Hendrix was still around????

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"I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend."

-Freddie Mercury

He'd be doing the "Senior's Tour" like his esteemed colleages.

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

I don't know how the world would be but Jimi would probably be deaf by now.
I just can't imagine an old Jimi Hendrix.

you could ask the same about a lot of artists. John Lennon, Cliff Burton, Mark Bolan, Randy Rhodes, Elvis....etc,etc. I think the only word that comes to mind is different!

One thing is for sure, his daughter would not be running his estate.

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RK

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2012 American Deluxe
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I bet he would be producing other artists, as well as recording his own stuff. I truly believe he would have done something in the way of rap long before we ever heard of rap, because he was known to always try to rhyme his sentences and words. -Anyway I wish he was still here, because there are a lot of so-called musicians that could learn how to play their instruments from listening to him play. He truly was a genious on guitar.

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I hear it, I heard it , I heard it on the "X".

same with cobain, or bon scott, or layne staley, or jim morrison... just cant imagine them old

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Melvins
The Jesus Lizard
Cows
Big Business
R***man
Minutemen
Flight
Minor Threat
Big Black
Shellac
Karp
Scratch Acid
Wipers
Pixies

Oh man, there will never be another Bon Scott. Brian Johnson is close, but he aint Bon Scott.

-So lock up your daughters
lock up your wife
lock up your back door
and run for your life
the man is back in town
don't you mess around
'cause I'm TNT I'm dynamite
TNT and I'll win this fight
TNT I'm a powerload
TNT watch me explode!

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I hear it, I heard it , I heard it on the "X".

Hi RK I don't know if you were refering to janie hendrix who isn't his daughter but adopted"sister" that he'd only met 2 or 3 times and whose name he didn't even remember on his last phone call home.Her running his estate is a sore spot with his blood relatives,close friends and of course a lot of his more devoted fans.I think that if Jimi was still alive he'd be still creating music that was ahead of it's time,maybe writing huge electric symphonies.When Jimi died he was in the planning stages of doing an adventurous jazz/blues/rock fusion project with jazz great Gil Evans.What we heard was just the tip of the iceberg that was stored or yet to come out of his brilliant,creative and innovative mind.I don't think that Jimi would be doing rap as he was too musically sophisticated to follow a genre such as that.The closest he came to rap is his narrative at the end of If 6 Was 9 and that was done for dramatic effect."White collared conservative flashin' on down the street pointing his plastic finger at me.He hopes soon my kind will drop and die but I'm gonna wave .my freak flag high,high.....I've got my own life to live,I'm the one whose gonna die when it's time for me to die so let me live my life the way I want to... there...sing on brother,play on drummer.

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He'd be doing "greatest hits" tours.

The man pretty much only knew one scale. True he tweaked every last bit of mojo available out of it, but I think he'd probably reached the end of his "really good stuff" by the time he died.

Better to burn out, than fade away

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"Life is like eating jalapenos. What you do today may burn your arse tomorrow"

I think, like a lot of talented people that died young, he could have been great or lost what made him special. I think most of the people that have died that young and talented get eleveated to legend status because of the possiblity of what they could have done instead of what they actually did. I think some people get very overrated because of this though.

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the vacuum store is a lot like the guitar store. but they do not attract the same clientele as the guitar store, cause if they did, the vacuum store would be loaded with a bunch of broke guys who just wanted to run the new vacuums.

Hi CFL2005 it's obvious that Jimi was an exception in this case.Jimi's unorthodox approach to guitar playing was ground-breaking,his innovative use of feedback and effects were brilliant.He took something that had long plagued guitarists and other artists(feedback)and tamed it and used it to create music that sounded like it came from another galaxy and time. Jimi's brilliant ideas about recording were unparalleled even Eddie Kramer a very experienced recording engineer was amazed by Jimi's inate ability come up with processes for recording that were never dreamed of. Jimi's music also came from uncharted territory,his fusion of blues,rock and psychedelia turned the music world on it's ear.His music could range from gentle beauty (Little Wing,Angel)to hard driving(Manic Depression, Foxey Lady)to political or antiwar(If 6 was 9,Machine Gun).I don't think for one minute that Jimi's music or playing was over rated because of his death, musicians almost universally in his life and his death claim that he was a brilliant musician and innovator of the type that comes along once or twice in a century.Eric Clapton summed it up best:"Jimi was a gift that stayed with us a while and then went back with the other gods."I think that Eric is well qualified to make a judgement like that.

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My favorite guitarist who is no longer around is Duane Allman.
And like it was mentioned about guys being so good but could they have kept on progressing,it always going to be debatable.

One time before he died somebody commented to Duane on how great he was playing and Duane replied,"yeah,trouble is,I don't think I can get any better."...meaning he was thinking on his own limitations.

I thought about this question for a few minutes before deciding to post. I don't think people will like my answer.

I suspect he would be a burned out has-been; always in the news for being in trouble with the law and bitter about no longer being a superstar. He was a fine young man right up until he started to get famous and rich. Then he stopped being a cooperator and accomodator and became quite full of himself and difficult to get along with. If he had survived his OD and continued down the path he was on, his self distruction would likely have manifested itself in a mental, emotional and social disfunction a la "The Secret Diaries of Roger Waters" but with the additional complications of continued seriously heavy drug use.

One possibility, anyway.

As far as what the world would be like I don't think one musician would change the world very much especially if he were on a downward spiral.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

I think Jimi made a huge impact on music in his few short years and he influenced who knows how many musicians. It's hard to say if he would have continued to be as innovative and influential had he lived, but I really would have been happy if he ended up playing the blues had he lived. It's such a shame a great talent like Jimi had to leave us so soon.