Where are the black guitarists?
Re: Where are the black guitarists?
I've never understood why there is such fanfare surrounding Hendrix. To my ear he is a good guitarist, not great, not a particularly inspired musician, and not a good vocalist. I hate to sound like tyrannical, but I suspect it has more to do with 'the black guy at Woodstock' thing.
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Re: Where are the black guitarists?
Judging by shots of the crowd (overwhelmingly white, middle-class), there's probably something in that.PordFrefect wrote:I've never understood why there is such fanfare surrounding Hendrix. To my ear he is a good guitarist, not great, not a particularly inspired musician, and not a good vocalist. I hate to sound like tyrannical, but I suspect it has more to do with 'the black guy at Woodstock' thing.
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Re: Where are the black guitarists?
Listen to what other guitarists at the same time were doing and compare it to what Hendrix did. When you put it into context his genius shines throughPordFrefect wrote:I've never understood why there is such fanfare surrounding Hendrix. To my ear he is a good guitarist, not great, not a particularly inspired musician, and not a good vocalist. I hate to sound like tyrannical, but I suspect it has more to do with 'the black guy at Woodstock' thing.
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Re: Where are the black guitarists?
Tosin Abasi of Animals as Leaders. Makes most look incompetent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZf655y29MQ
Gary Clarke Jnr.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECbgzgvfG4Y
Edited for a better Abasi tune.
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Gary Clarke Jnr.
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Edited for a better Abasi tune.
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Not black, but Native American: Stevie Salas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-yNgAZPnnY
I love this guy.
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Re: Where are the black guitarists?
What an utterly ridiculous thing to say.PordFrefect wrote:I've never understood why there is such fanfare surrounding Hendrix. To my ear he is a good guitarist, not great, not a particularly inspired musician, and not a good vocalist. I hate to sound like tyrannical, but I suspect it has more to do with 'the black guy at Woodstock' thing.
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Well if you don't get Hendrix, you don't get Hendrix. It was brilliant move to hire a guitarist for a bass player. Redding has a unique approach to bass. The acoustic guitar ("high strung") is the Traffic guy.
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Oh yeah, the black guy at Woodstock - he wasn't a guitarist though, was he?
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Here's a personal favourite of mine.
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What will the world be like after its ruler is removed?
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Re: Where are the black guitarists?
Until this post, I had nothing but respect for you.PordFrefect wrote:I've never understood why there is such fanfare surrounding Hendrix. To my ear he is a good guitarist, not great, not a particularly inspired musician, and not a good vocalist. I hate to sound like tyrannical, but I suspect it has more to do with 'the black guy at Woodstock' thing.
If you weren't around back then to know what sort of drivel we had to choose from, musically, before Hendrix (and Floyd, but that's a different story), then there's probably not much way you'll ever appreciate how innovative and iconoclastic this guy was. I'm not going to tell you to fuck off and die, because I still sort of like and respect you despite that post, but I would like to tell the person standing (or sitting) to your immediate left that s/he's got his/her head up his/her ass wrt Hendrix. Assuming that person isn't a Ratz member and I wouldn't get in trouble for saying so.
Dood, seriously. I hope you someday realize all the barriers this guy broke and how that made what happened afterwards possible. Up to the present day. Srsly. Do you think RATM would have happened without Hendrix setting the stage?
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Heeeyyy....that blues/latin fusion works for me....Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Here's a personal favourite of mine.
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Latin? 
The guy's from Mali - that's a very definite North African slant on teh blooz!
The guy's from Mali - that's a very definite North African slant on teh blooz!
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