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why is it that you can always tell when it's Jimi playing? What are the hallmarks?
When the guitarwork is just too intelligent, too witty, too expressive, explosive and too intense to be anybody elses. The fluidness and agility of his playing is unmistakable. Who else expresses themselves as if there's almost no barrier between what's on their mind and their fingers?
The difference between Jimi's soloing and anybody else's soloing is that when someone else plays, most times you're thinking "oh, it's a guitar solo"... with Jimi it's the last thing on your mind, it's like "where are we going man? this is crazy". I'm not even thinking about the guitar, i'm just on a wild fucking journey.
as well, looking at pictures of him his dress sense and style is so advanced, if he looks futuristic and stylish now he must've been an actual alien when he was alive.
forever the baddest motherfucker to ever do it. may have to get a tattoo. god he is just... the best.
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Iâd like to hear you expand on your thoughts some more. In fact my guy, i would literally read an academic-type article written by you on this topic. I mean, 25 years = long time. Put the phrase âingenious idiosyncrasiesâ in the damn title/abstract. I canât stand books/writing about artistsâ lives, because art is intended to be absolutely firewalled from the life of the artist eating a pancake. And in my opinion there is SO MUCH YET to be written about Hendrix i.e. Hendrixâ music.
This flurry he would do, where he says âfuck what you heard, baby!â when playing a few more notes in a phrase than you expect. The angularity. The speed of a classically-trained musician. The *constant fucking abilityâ to delve deep into the moment with such intelligence.
Like, what the fuck was he doing in high school? Was there some old guy in his neighborhood who taught Hendrix to play that nobody will ever know existed? He even was in the fucking army and lord knows âarmyâ takes fuck tons of time away from playing fucking guitar what musical thought processes did he latch that he later exploited to such thunderous effect. Its infuriating that practically the only thing to read about his training etc. is that he played to blues records.
Iâm also receptive to being linked to any good writings on his playing.
But all that said, what i said stands: would love to read something - anything - that you guy who i donât know would write after 25 years studying about Hendrix.