I think you're over simplifying the influence phenomenon, in a condescending way, as if you were speaking to idiots. We're not. Most of us older fellows who have also been playing since Hendrix was around have also studied and researched the music we love, right back to its roots in tribal chants in Africa, Moorish instrumentals and the history of stringed instruments.Reeltarded wrote:Robert Johnson influenced the people who influenced the people who influenced us. The tree grows from there. There are others, but only that one sits at the base.
You really took what I said as what you wanted to hear. You missed the part about people not being able to cop his thing. (Think about what that means) You missed the meaning when you picked a part. Seriously.
Our perception and memories need bounds. I deal with this on a moment to moment basis every day of my life.
Influential doesn't mean technically excellent. Technical excellence doesn't denote a wonderful performance.
This is what I think about Jimi Hendrix:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsJWnt6dwxM
Go ahead. Cop that.
Thing is, we don't go around pointing out that our perception is somehow better than the next mans, that would be dumb and insulting.
I'm not very keen on martial arts, for instance, but I would never put down an exponent such Bruce Lee as being just a showman. That would be disrespectful.
No I wasn't singling out what you said. I quoted what you wrote. If you had a between the lines agenda, then I didn't spot it, sorry.
I thought Greg copped his thing pretty well, as a contemporary reading of a 40 year old tune.
Love the you tube clip, thanks
I buy Peavy 412 cabs for cheap take out the Sheffield's and replace with celestion Vintage 30's. Got 3 of them lining my jam room. One bare 412 straight bottom and two 412 slants. I always use two amps when gigging through a 412.