Basil said:
waltesefalcon said:
Sorry, Stevie is great but he is no Jimi Hendrix.
I disagree. Hendrix is great, but SRV is more greater! SRV is 10 times the technical genius that Hendrix was
Yes and no. Stevie built off of where Jimi had already gone. Jimi showed the world the sounds that could come from a strat, Stevie showed the world the sounds that should come from a strat. (or vise versa depending how you look at it.)
Two different genres too. Jimi represents what happened when the wooden shack, front porch blues finally got power.
(speaking in more ways than one) :wink:
In a way, it was the end of a blues era.
The question isn't who's "better"; it's would Stevie had played the same way without there ever being a Jimi?
Stevie (like Elvis) built off of where other blues musicians have already been. Both Stevie and Elvis are more rock than blues but have elements of each. Jimi is more blues influnced by the popular culture that was happening around him.
Stevie is the second generation (if you will). The next will always "be better" because it stood on the shoulders of those who came before them. If it wasn't for that, they couldn't have reached as high.
You can't compare one to the other. Art is subjective and there is nothing you can do about that. Bottom line, they are both artists expressing things the way it comes out of them. They can't change that. They can try to mimick another artist, but they can't change who they are artisticlly speaking.
It's the difference between first and second gear, you can't have one without the other.Jimi poured the slab, Stevie framed the house. While one is might be more techical than the other, one isn't more important than the other.
I find Stevie gets rather stale after a while. (All blues actually) I like him (and the blues), but it's like riding around in a circle in second gear at redline. Yeah, lots of stuff is happen, but we aren't going anywhere. "That lick ~<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold">again</span></span>~?!"
Unfortunatly, that's just the blues and nothing can be done about it. Perhaps this is why blues didn't grow any larger in popular culture.
This is why "soul" in music is so important (especially in blues)...IMHO of course. If there is no feeling behind it, it's just repetitious (sic?) noise, no matter how technical.
That being said, the only lick I know b/w the two ~I~ can do is...I know how to set a guitar on fire. :laugh:
I do like them both, but can only handle so much of it at a time.