Guitar Legends has just released another mag featuring a legendary guitarist and in large print on the front cover hails Jimi Hendrix as "Rock's Greatest Guitarist"-that's what Clapton,Townshend and other giants have been saying for decades-hardly news.

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I have given up on finding any new info on alot of guitar, and given the material, I would rather use the magazine to swat flies.

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Putting Nevin aside for the moment, could some please explain to me WHY Jimi is the greatest?

Was he a good guitarist, I would surely agree he was a very innovative and good solid player, but there are many who can match him and surpass him.

Stevie Ray Vaughan could and did play Jimi's songs, some say better then Jimi did.

And Clapton has penned far and away more songs, played with more bands and has inspired more in the long run.

Edward Van Halen can play faster, more accurately and knows far more musically then Jimi, why is he not the greatest?

And let us not forget the Yngwie Malmsteen, he says he is better then Jimi.

I believe this all come down to the "Saint Jimi" syndrome, he died at the height of his popularity, and he has become more a myth then legion now.

Jimi was a good guitarist, yes, but the greatest, I say no, there are others that have done far more, and are more deserving.

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Jimi himself said he wasn't the best. Never made a claim to be and really didn't pay attention to when people called him that. I remember reading a story when an interviewer made a statement about him being the best guitarist and Jimi's like, "Nah man. That's Rory Gallagher." ^^

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Actually, I would love to forget the Yngwie Malmsteen. He's a jackass.

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Sorry but SRV was a out and out Hendrix copycat and Randy Hansen does it better.
He gets a following for being the white Hendrix in middle America and not a lot more. He's not as recognised in other parts of the world and why? Because he's certainly never done anything as noteworthy. Billy Gibbons has done more for guitar. Just not in a Hendrix clone fashion. And he's not boring either.

Clapton is so far removed from Hendrix as a composer it's untrue. Clapton can pen a great tune when Hendrix can ruin a good tune by letting his creative side run wild. Clapton has better judgment. As players both are chalk and cheese too. Completely different styles of play. Hendrix dominates a song, Clapton serves it.

All comparisons are nonsense, which is why Hendrix is the greatest. It's what all our comparisons revolve around.

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No no and no

I'm just repeating what Clapton,Winwood,Townshend et al all have claimed in the past and saying who am I to argue with them?

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I must respectfully disagree with you, Mr. Ninja. SRV was definitely influenced by Jimi--he admitted it, and would probably be flattered by the comparison.

But he was also influenced by (to the point of being a "clone," even) by Albert King and Hubert Sumlin and Kenny Burrell and Lonnie Mack and a dozen other artists...his creativity stemmed from being able to combine all those influences and yet still sound like himself (and he definitely had his own sound). He also should be lauded for bringing many a forgotten blues player back into the spotlight, as well as sparking the 1980s blues explosion.



You ain't kidding--and he gets less credit, possibly due to the slightly cartoonish image he and his band convey on occasion (although I love that image!)...but try to listen to "It Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell" and not be moved.

I would place Billy Gibbons above just about anyone, in terms of tone, creativity, songwriting ability, stage presence and just general "vibe"...and that includes Jimi Hendrix. That loco Texicano is just bloody awesome!

...but then again, ZZ Top is my favorite band, so I might be a bit biased.

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Jimi is considered the greatest by so many greats because, metaphorically, all guitarists come to the "door" that one must go through in order to play not only what you have learned but what you feel in your heart and hear in your head. Jimi blew that door off of its hinges and thereby showed all other guitarists that it is possible. IMHO YMMV

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Yes but do they mean it, or are they just trying top be polite and not sound like Yngwie Malmsteen?

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Could you be a bit more specific here?

I have no idea what you mean about blowing doors stuff, this right here is what I mean, it has nothing to do with what he really did, it's about the myth of Saint Jimi.

And let me put forth a player that you can use as a benchmark and you can tell us how Jimi did more then he did.

Les Paul.
He co-designed one of the most popular solid body guitars back when everyone was playing hollow bodies.
He invented the home recording studio.
He invented multi track recording equipment.
Had a hit TV series with his wife, playing guitars to millions once a week, inspiring many to pick up a guitar.
Designed on board controls for his effects.
He played the guitar fast and with accuracy then most of his piers.

All these things we take for granted today were not available to him, he had to build it himself.

But yet, when these lists come along, many times his name fails to make the list.

So, please enlighten me as to what Jimi did and how it was better then what Les did.
Watch this clip on youtube and I think you will see what I mean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXSXOAfB4U

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I hate to cut everybody short on this but........ I'm gonna do it anyway.


All the big names we are familiar with, had been influenced by a multitude of influences. Be they fellow musicians, songwriters, sound engineers, record producers, record player manufacturers, instrument inventors, people on the street, politics, religion, life exerperiences, even a cricket, etc., etc., etc. without which there would be no whoever big name and legions of wannabes and hobbyists. That's the school of thought I belong to.

I'm going to have to politely disagree with this also. While SRV could do a great Jimi copy 99% of his song are nothing like Jimi's. Cold Shot, Couldn't Stand The Weather, Tightrope, Crossfire... the list goes on... none of these songs sound like Jimi. SRV's lyrics were also not as deep as Jimi's, SRV kept it simple while Jimi wrote poetry. SRV was a guitar player who loved music but Jimi had a musical vision that he wanted to share with the world. IMHO they are two very different types of musicians. I'll also point out though that 50% of SRV songs were covers, but his songs are far from Jimi.

Of course Voodoo Chile is the exception.

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Yea, Hendrixs was great, and an inovator, IN THE 60's . He was doing things on the guitar no one else had thought about back then. How long did it take for guitarists from all over to copy his style and jump on the bandwagon? Now everyone can sound like him. To say Hendrix is the greatest rock guitarist ever is a statement I'm sure you'll get some arguments about nowaday. If you took the poll back when Hendrix was alive and giggin, yea he was the greatest rock guitarist at that time. Maybe we need to decide who is the greatest by decade (60's, 70's, 80's etc) I doubt Hendrix would make the list much past the 70's. I'm sure we can come up with a dozen or so names of greatest rock guitarists that are just as innovative and original as Hendrix was, that are around today, that are making the same impact on the guitar as Hendrix did back in his day.

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