Music Banter Hall Of Fame: Nominations Thread

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Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

Just a note: not all influence is good influence. While he inspired plenty of artists' infectious groove

That sound like you should be a critic for the NME or Mojo or some other music rag.

Originally Posted by lucifer_sam

he's also responsible for some of the most cringe-worthy indulgent wankery. Of course, it's not like that was his fault.

Even though I don't brag that Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitarist that ever lived, (I feel I might present myself as being bias) only because there's some unsung guitar player whose talent deserve the same amount of attention. I still find what he did extremely ingenious for his time period. Mastering the guitar doesn't come easy. He hone his skills playing with R&B bands on the Chitlin circuit. Developing the necessary skills to play guitar in one genre only later to use them in another only to reinventing it. His style is like an amalgamation of everything heard and learn but played the guitar in his own form of personal expression in such a way that made it uniquely his own.

Plus he was also a great song writer that wrote some of the moving songs in Rock, I think he done enough artisticly to overlook any so-called guitar wankery.