Favourite guitar Solo?

[Kurt Angle]

Umm no!, people who just start playing guitar ( 12 & 13 year olds) are thrown onto Hendrix as the simplicity of it is good for youngsters, when they get older they test the water with more complex playing such as Eddie, Satriani, Vai etc.........all astonishing guitarists and really kids forget all about Hendrix after this, I was one of them.

I agree his verse riffs are relatively simple, due to the fact he had to sing at the same time. There are still other sounds, particuarly on Axis: Bold as Love, some of Electric Ladyland and bites post-Band of Gypsys which contain magnificent sounds. The response is more than looking at the sheet music and 'wow, look at all those black dots'.

As balmain boy said, ones response is more subjective.

I've been playing for 12 years, and I haven't forgotten Hendrix.

He got laughed off every musical publication.

Jimi had & still gets great press from US & UK magazines, I wonder why?

I meant the guitarist from winger was ridiculed.

So Voodoo chile isn't quality then?? and then what is??, don't you think Eddie played slower songs??

Voodoo chile isn't overtly crammed full of notes. That said I don't think it's that great a song. The verse riff is simple, though catching.

It's fame probably comes from being the first song really emphasising the wah-wah pedal. If it had of been written 10 years later, no way I'd think it'd have it's standing in rock that it does now.

That said, Eddie's slower songs have never gained great adulation outside of like minded, hard rock guitarists. Great if that blows the wind through your hair.

Jimi's music is heralded by guitarists of other genres and musicians of other instruments.

Umm yes it did, Eddie and Van Halen have sold twice as many albums as Jimi Hendrix did, many of those buyers where guitarists..... Considering he changed the rock guitar from a Hendrix style to an Eddie style with remarkable success

Hendrix's original music career was 4 years. Not suprising VH has more volume.

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Fair enough dude, Hendrix was Unique in his own way.....all though he really wasn't as unique as what some made him out to be, Chuck Berry was the inventor of his style..yet recieves no credit for this, Eddie came in.....completely unique and turned the guitar on its head and still does

Chuck Berry was a jazz guitarist, cross into 12 bar blues and made rock a hybrid. Sam Phillips (Elvis's first guitarist) probably pinned it better, where the first rock guitar sound is your 'rockabilly' today.

Hendrix really isn't like that all all. He probably plays Little Richards sounds more than anything. But he made a quantum leap into the next sound, and as you said, set the bar as far as rock guitar for the following decade.

VH on the other hand has tremendous technical ability, but you're missing the artistic response completly if you think this is what it's all about. He did create a new sounds, but no way did it encompass all modern music, or even all modern guitar.

The Edge from U2 has his own sound, which many try to emulate, so does Bob Marley.

VH did probably start the "hair farm" sound that dominated up to the early 90's. It probably had it's swansong with G'n'R. Grunge, albeit technically poor, replaced it as the definitive guitar sound, as VH replaced Hendrix.

 

[Simo]

VH did probably start the "hair farm" sound that dominated up to the early 90's. It probably had it's swansong with G'n'R. Grunge, albeit technically poor, replaced it as the definitive guitar sound, as VH replaced Hendrix.

Whilst I agree with a lot of what your saying, I am also a huge fan of EVH and respect both him and Hendrix. They are both great players and you will also find everyone on here has a personal fav and prefers them. But music is all about opinion not fact.

Some like it some dont.

Just on your quote above Slash has stayed away from the EVH glam rock sound that took over. You will read and see interviews with him where he says 'Eddie came out with this new sound and everyone tried to copy him. He just stuck to what he does best' which is a much more blues based playing, more towards Hendrix than Van Halen.

For guitar based rock which has great solos and intros probably has its swansong with GNR but glam rock EVH style playing was never part of GNR IMO.

 

[Ron Jeremy]

I agree simo, just listen to Slash, he barley uses any off Eddies traits in his songs, more a blues type off player, different from others at the time....still good though.

 

[kier]

The idea that Jimi Hendrix wasn't a great player - with a massive influence on others seems bizarre to me :?

No player exists in a vacuum - and all guitarists are influenced by others - you can hear the influences of others in every person how's picked up a guitar.

Eddie Van Halen & Jimi Hendrix are no exceptions to this.......

What cannot be denied is the impact Hendrix had on - not just guitarists - but all rock/pop musicians in the 1960s. Pete Townsend in a recent article explained how seeing Hendrix for the first time made him "want to give up playing" because it was such a jaw-dropping experience........and this was a guitarist who grew up with Beck, Clapton and Page as peers in a social group.

music is subjective - tastes vary - and "progress" in music can only be based on what has gone before..........I many be able to PLAY "Purple Haze" but would I ever have to vision to be able to CREATE something like that?

As for greatest solo - for pure emotional impact, I don't think I can get past Paul Kossof's playing on the "Fire and Water" album by Free. I first heard to album as a 16 year old, and I still listen to it in my 30s - fantastic stuff.

 

[carcharias]

well said Keir.

One for the hair band tragics.

Stevie Vai once said about Hendrix " I know how he played it , I know how to play it. But I just can't figure out how he thought of it"

Ive been playing for 17 years and my first teacher whom I still get lessons off has always said the easier it is to play the easier it is to listen to.

Look at AC/DC and their rythm section.
Basic , but just so infectious.

Ive walked out on one of the best Guitarist in the world , Alan Holdsworth ( I think that was his name) yeah shit hot finger noodling but BORING!!!

If I cant walk away whistling it or if it doesn't give me an adrenilen rush or move me I dont wanna hear it.

 

[Evilgrowler]

Dallas 1pm - Saxon - Graham Oliver.

 

[PHaTMaN]

Metallica- Blackened, Orion and The Struggle Within.