I get sick of all these who is the greatest comments. Clapton, Hendrix, Beck, Gallagher etc are all superb in their own way. As has been seen there’s always someone else that comes along supposed to be the best. These days anyone can learn guitar, play fast etc etc, hell there’s a country full of them in Korea. But those guys of old were groundbreaking and excellent musicians. Back then we had never seen the like. Appreciate them for what they were, pioneers.
@@lees2oo8 The greatest music journalists never played an instrument & Bill Belichick never played football‼Recognizing talent has nothing to do with actually doing it!
I suspect it's based in ego. Folks like to declare what's the best of this or that thing and then attach their ego it. Then they can toot their own horns about liking or having the best etc.
It's the obsession of our time -- Who is #1? It's the same with NFL quarterbacks -- based on what? Games won? Passes completed? Clutch games? Yards gained? Same with guitarists -- speed? emotion? inventive, structured or melodic solos? My favorites include Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Eric Clapton. Steve Howe, Steve Hackett, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Duane Allman -- they're each great for different reasons. Also, too many people rate a guitarist based on how much they like the music, and nothing more -- just say "he's my favorite" and leave it at that.
You will never really hear Hendrix until you hear him live on acid. It all comes together so perfectly. And no other rock band sounds as good, not even Zepplin. The man in a genius.
I used to play on acid and it was pretty hard to not trip out at the little things you go to the place and then back to reality when playing and it's not fun it's scary kind of you look at the people and they are looking at you gets very strange it was hard hard to relax maybe ten hours in it's a good idea but that first few hours is intense for me as it gets panic attacks that are dripping down from the ceiling and the things moving over your shoulder that are not there its hard to ignore it when you have the right stuff you hear thing's you never heard b4: and cant work out what it is you the acid or is it your playing flying in the clouds with people who are looking at you why they looking at you lke that for
I saw Jimi at Newcastle City Hall 4/12/67. I was 15 and he was 25 at the time. I was hanging over the balcony and Jimi was below (no more than 20' away).tuning up when we locked gazes,then he walked to the mic and said 'I think you might know this one', turned the guitars volume flat out and burst into Foxy Lady ! I'm 72 now and till my dying day i'll never forget the phenomenon that was Jimi Hendrix
jimmy James of the blue flames punched Jimi Hendrix in the nose for upstaging him in 67. there are hints and rumors that James brown took a shot at him for the same reason. EC. was cool about it
So sad to lose such musical genius at a young age. Hendrix was my inspiration and probably always will be, hopefully he’s in a better place now. Clapton obviously another great guitarist as is Page, Gilmore, Vaughn, Johnson, Satriani, Vai, Dimiola, Guy and so many others. Enjoy what you have now, because you never know what you got till it’s gone, as a song by Cinderella says. Be all that you can be and fulfill the destiny you were sent here to achieve.
Cream had just recently formed when Hendrix came to London in 66, they were new themselves so Clapton's reputation hadn't been built on Cream but in The Yardbirds and Mayall's Bluesbreakers between 1964-66
Hendrix, Clapton and many others of their generation were doing their thing in an era where rock music was still young and the electric guitar was a relatively new instrument. They were pioneers at a time when there was still room for innovation. So of course, they’re always going to be in the conversation of “GREATEST”. It’s clear to see that the best days of music are behind us when acts like Taylor Swift are dominating the music scene.
There is an organic quality to the early rock that is lost now - it left when prog grew up. Hendrix tuned his own guitar - today, his guitar tech would do it. Players actually wrote their own songs - without a committee. They created their tone with the instrument - not a thousand effects pedals and a guitar synth. The drummers were angry animals - powerful gods of thunder, not percussionists. There's no Berkley there, no DW drum kits, no click tracks, no noise gates, no 7 string basses (watch John Entwistle - God Damn!) Hell, half the time they didn't even have a sound engineer. Yes, they did much more with far less and it was a lot more fun.
Well said, and it all comes down to songwriting as well. Both Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience produced iconic records during that period that neither of the other could've produced.
They were so many great guitarists from that era, I think it's impossible to say this guitarist was better than that guitarist etc. they were all different and had their own sounds. Music is art not sport, it isn't as simple as there being a definite "best" guitarist with runners up, just our own preferences for whoever's playing resonates with us the most
I was born on 16th September 1970 two days before Hendrix died, that’s always stayed with me, it was like I was coming through one into existence and poor dear Jimi was leaving, he never should’ve died, it was a tragedy and an accident.
A "cutting contest" is a musical duel. A contest of skill to determine supremacy. The player who plays a piece, or a phrase within a piece (this would often happen in the context of two soloists playing within a band) whose technical sophistication the other player cannot match or surpass is the winner. I imagine the practice is as old as musicianship, but the term comes from the New Orleans jazz scene around the turn of the last century.
If someone wants to determine who is the greatest pole vaulter, there is a rather simple metric. Anyone who has jumped the highest has a strong argument, although even that could be challenged with separation from closest challenger. Guitar playing doesn't have a simple metric. I've been playing for about 12 years (badly), and the guitar, and music more broadly is much too complex to be described by a simple metric. Hendrix has a beautiful style with his double bends, and they are quite difficult, but to say that it is objectively better than Clapton's blues interpretations is specious. I enjoy both styles, and I have my preference. I would even concede that if you asked one to play the other's style, Hendrix could play Clapton more easily than Clapton could play Hendrix. I don't think there is any question there. But, music is still more than that. And to call one or the other "god" is a reach...unless you are populating a pantheon.
They are both the best even today and they will always be. Because they broke new ground in rock n roll today it's the same old stuff with very little real talent.
Never thought about Clapton being one of the greatest, guitar playing wise. I love his work with Cream of course, but when it comes to guitar playing, Jimi was just above him no matter what, a whole 'nother level. His presence on stage also played a big role.
Yes, always will be but Clapton now from the time of cream is on another level because of innervation that takes time to fully grow. A young guitarist could not do righteously.
Clapton was a great player but his vocabulary was mostly just emulating Freddie King, Albert King etc. licks and playing them in a louder, faster more rawkus way. I believe his reputation was more because of the time period and him innovating the sound that became synonymous with electric guitar and rock/blues music forever, he is regarded as the first to plug a Les Paul into a Marshall and crank it to get natural distortion, before him blues and rock music was mostly dominated by clean sounding guitars that lacked power or grit. Clapton came along and blew everyone's socks of with his powerful distorted sound, Jimi greatly admired him and not long after arriving in England he also acquired some Marshall amplifiers, most likely because of Claptons influence. Jimi's playing was far more unique than Eric's, he didn't restrict himself to the blues and played whatever he felt like playing and that is why many regard him as the best
Being a Hendrix fan, one can only wonder how things would be now had he lived a fuller life. And not just for him but the rest of us including other such legends, musical orientation aside too. But I know when I listen to Eric, one can be fully humbled by homages played in.
They both had their skills, Jimi wearing old t-shirt and jeans, and not doing all the showy movements (he'd been in trouble with that before), would never have quite reached the present acclaim. Jimi took the music deeper and wider (wah and all), and years later, Clapton did some deeper solos that were very excellent. Clapton had the skill but not the heart in his earlier years. Clapton played the guitar. The guitar played Jimi.
I suspect that Hendrix would have faded away as an innovative guitarist as he aged. That's just pretty much the way life works. BUT...NOBODY could match Hendrix at the time. The fact that many people can play Hendrix licks today is meaningless - he INVENTED what he did, both playing style and stage persona. COPYING something is much easier than inventing something! I like Clapton's songs more but guitar-wise Hendrix was, as Clapton himself said, far beyond any other guitarist. He seemed like a visitor from some other universe!
This is an important point! I like Van Halen's playing, he was clearly talented, but he would never have reached the height he did if he didn't have the shoulders of Jimi Hendrix to stand on. (If you didn't know, that's how Isaac Newton responded to the praise he rightly received -- "I was only standing on the shoulders of giants.")
It really comes down to what moves you, and what moves you defines your taste in guitar playing style. I love the playing of Jimmie Vaughn, Robert Cray, and Anson Funderburgh much more than any of the rest.
But ironically, it was his adventures in psychedelic drugs that led to him pushing the boundaries. No LSD, no Hendrix as he became to be. Simple as that.
Stevie Ray Vaughn, said It best he scared a lot of people. Think about It, you feed your family by entertaining people, then all at once someone like Hendrix shows up, now you realize that you and your love ones may not eat, Hendrix manager knew what the departure of Hendrix would mean for him, however reading these uneducated comments Is almost as as devastating as his death, the very thing that people comments on and selling these comments across the Internet about his habits , yea Steve were right.
Every Era has it's heroes that innovated electric guitar music and did something new : 60's Hendrix, clapton 70's : Page, Blackmore 80's : Eddie van Halen : 90's : Satriani, Vai, Gilbert. From then on there were many great guitar players but in my eyes not many innovators in terms of taking electric guitar to the next level. I don't think Hendrix was better then Clapton. Both added something new and we're still talking about both of them more then 50 years later like we talk about Mozart and Beethoven who were innovators in their time.
RS has him at the top of their 100 greatest guitar player list and Pete Townshend wrote the piece on Hendrix recounting that night, said Clapton was devastated. Brian May saw Hendrix in a club and almost stopped playing, like "what's the use?" His dad encouraged him to find his own voice but appreciate what Jimi was doing. Van Halen is the only other revolutionary player comparable to Hendrix and his career lasted 40 years!
I believe that there are only four electric guitar players that truly changed the instrument. 1. Charlie Christian, 2. Chuck Berry, 3. Jimi Hendrix, 4. Eddie Van Halen.
@@NewFalconerRecordsThere are tons of great electric players. Allan Holdsworth is untouchable. Clapton is an average lead player. He knows it too. I mean he had Derek Trucks, Albert Lee, and Doyle Bramhal Jr touring with him. All of which are 100 times better.
Gods ? No. Unique, Inspired, and inspirations, who met in a time of Universal Creativity and testaments to the same? Absolutely. Gods keep their power in check. These two let it fly for all to enjoy, along with others.
Clapton has always been overrated & Hendrix had his own unique style that no one had ever seen before. I always said that if Hendrix looked like Gary Coleman he wouldn't have been half as famous! Packaging is important in the R&R world‼
Clapton and Hendrix on the same stage with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker! What a set that must have been. Both are and were giants of the guitar and who's to say what would have happened if Hendrix had lived? Those were insane times and too many great musicians were dropping like flies from that insanity like Joplin, Morrison or Mama Cass Elliot to mention a few.
People always argue about who was the greatest. I would opine that all of those typically mentioned are AMONG the greatest. I root for the underdogs, those who humbly innovated or excelled. For breadth of genres, I have to say Jeff Beck, also Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze). For blues masters lesser known today, I have to say Peter Green & Danny Kirwan from the original Fleetwood Mac, maybe Bob Weston from the next Mac. Roy Buchanan pioneered techniques without effects pedals. Then there's lots of famous ones like Gilmour, Satriani, Santana, etc. but Jimi usually wins the vote thus far.
Get your facts straight. The riff that that is so great in Sunshine of Your Love was written by Jack Bruce. Eric Clapton wrote the music that plays under words "I've been waiting so long, to be where I'm going, in the Sunshine of Your Love."
Al Hendrix ;;; You put that guitar away and pick up that shovel..'' or im gonna Brain You/// The First time his father heard purple haze the song was coming through his apartment wall.. his neighbors had bought the new album
Clapton or Hendrix ? Georges Benson or Jango Reinhart? Jerry Reed or Chet Atkins? Jimmy Page or Ritchie Blackmore? Rory Gallagher or Gary Moore ? ..,.....
I was never the same after I met Hendrix (NY Pop, 1970). Of course, I was never the same before I met him either, so what the heck. "The Best" is meaningless bullsh!t. If you wanna tell me your favorites, fine-that's different. I don't give a rat's butt who anybody thinks is "best". I only know what I like. Right now, I like Simon Jarrett and Paul Stafford Cook. And Tommy Emmanuel. And me, when I'm in the zone. 😎
Wasn't as suggested, heard this before, just edit of other stories. But missed correct details. This gig wasn't the first time Clapton saw Hendrix play for instance.....
Clapton was a guitarist like SRV they played in a very narrow spectrum box...that Jimi could also play in that blues box way better & freer than them...but Jimi was a musical & sonic expressionist painter like no one has done prior or even since to that same level of exploration & majestic composition...stratospheres beyond & still way ahead. People that just see him as a guitarist really have a reductionist view & are clueless. Jimi will forever stand the test of time & was such a total original greater than the sum of his counterparts which is a big deal in of itself. All at the age of 27...the mind boggles how 1 could do so much in such a short span of time too
I saw a video on UA-cam about that manager Jimi had. The guy sounded like little more than a mafiosi. He abused Jimi, and controlled him, and some believe he was responsible for his death.
My god Jimi's face complection looks so bad in that second picture which is very late in his life. Lifestyle was taking a toll and it's right there on his face.
Killing Floor is not complicated at all. Including Hendrix version. It's a simple 12 bar blues and all Jimi did was speed it up and play Jimi solos over it.
As a professional guitarist of many years I’m so tired of people comparing one musician with another another anyone who goes down this road is obviously not a musician but as muso would say a civilian there is no better than in the real world Mozart better than Back was better than Beethoven Beethoven better than Tchaikovsky it all nonsense every musician is unique in there own sphere ask any real musician sure we all have our favourites but that’s all there is to it
It actually reminds me of a lesson my parents taught me as a child: “you don’t need to rank your friends, such as Billy is my BEST friend and John is my 2nd BEST friend. You get to have BEST friends. A whole collection, all unique, all loved equally.” We can appreciate the work of one guitarist more than any other without having to claim him or her the greatest ever.
I don't know about the British versions of the God because there are a lot of guitar players in America a lot of them never made it cuz they didn't have that little pool or stage that you would have in Britain say a good 800 maybe less musicians that were capable of playing. And it was so tight in competition out here in the states that Jimmy had to do something because everyone and all the places here to go play you know compete man they basically had tricks they did stuff and they were good guitar players he had to be good and he had to do that stuff like play the guitar with his teeth you had to bring something different out here
I like Clapton's solos better than Hendrix couse Hendrix seems to just mess around and jam and does not have a structure to the solos. This is not to say i would like to change anyone to be something they weren't as i'm individualist. Hendrix was a humble guy and responded to the questions of what he thought about the Clapton vs him thing that was in the media that time by saying my idea of perfect time would be to jam with Eric 24/7
Yeah there are the greats, but when it comes to art there's no "the greatest" there's your favorite, way too subjective. Each guitarist is like a fingerprint all unique and very different no two are a like, so each guitarists brings their certain magic to the table. But if you do have a 4th grade mentality, and act and live like a little 4th grader, then you'll argue lol who's the greatest. Peace
Hendrix was able to write great songs and cords... yah he also could play dam good...srv, via, page, beck, van halen, and others could not achieve that level...its all about practice...he was said to practice 9 hrs a day, myth i dont know... in addition he was ambidextrous so he had two processors being used something that is seldom talked about...do you hear me rock casuals?
Eric could play Killing floor just not as good as he wanted to I've heard Jimi do the song and I don't like it Eric later play with Chester Bernet AKA Holwin Wolf on London sessions and did all his songs Great Eric is just as great different styles 😁🎸Jimi liked Eric's playing
The fact that people are still talking about him over 50 something years later is a testament to his contribution to Rock and Roll and his Genius.
I get sick of all these who is the greatest comments. Clapton, Hendrix, Beck, Gallagher etc are all superb in their own way. As has been seen there’s always someone else that comes along supposed to be the best. These days anyone can learn guitar, play fast etc etc, hell there’s a country full of them in Korea. But those guys of old were groundbreaking and excellent musicians. Back then we had never seen the like. Appreciate them for what they were, pioneers.
Most of the people who sit and compare don’t even play mate, it annoys me too but these thoughts dont often occur to an experienced player
Lol...zappa ❤
@@lees2oo8 The greatest music journalists never played an instrument & Bill Belichick never played football‼Recognizing talent has nothing to do with actually doing it!
I suspect it's based in ego. Folks like to declare what's the best of this or that thing and then attach their ego it. Then they can toot their own horns about liking or having the best etc.
It's the obsession of our time -- Who is #1? It's the same with NFL quarterbacks -- based on what? Games won? Passes completed? Clutch games? Yards gained? Same with guitarists -- speed? emotion? inventive, structured or melodic solos? My favorites include Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, David Gilmour, Eric Clapton. Steve Howe, Steve Hackett, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Duane Allman -- they're each great for different reasons. Also, too many people rate a guitarist based on how much they like the music, and nothing more -- just say "he's my favorite" and leave it at that.
You will never really hear Hendrix until you hear him live on acid. It all comes together so perfectly. And no other rock band sounds as good, not even Zepplin. The man in a genius.
Who should be on acid? He, me or both? I'm asking for a friends friend...
Shrooms work well with live recordings, you really get a feel for what he was really putting down. Simply amazing 😵💫💜
It all makes sense I think he was on something every time he is live and talks a lot between song's
I used to play on acid and it was pretty hard to not trip out at the little things you go to the place and then back to reality when playing and it's not fun it's scary kind of you look at the people and they are looking at you gets very strange it was hard hard to relax maybe ten hours in it's a good idea but that first few hours is intense for me as it gets panic attacks that are dripping down from the ceiling and the things moving over your shoulder that are not there its hard to ignore it when you have the right stuff you hear thing's you never heard b4: and cant work out what it is you the acid or is it your playing flying in the clouds with people who are looking at you why they looking at you lke that for
No one was the same after they met Hendrix and most of us never met him face to face. 🤩
I saw Jimi at Newcastle City Hall 4/12/67. I was 15 and he was 25 at the time. I was hanging over the balcony and Jimi was below (no more than 20' away).tuning up when we locked gazes,then he walked to the mic and said 'I think you might know this one', turned the guitars volume flat out and burst into Foxy Lady ! I'm 72 now and till my dying day i'll never forget the phenomenon that was Jimi Hendrix
jimmy James of the blue flames punched Jimi Hendrix in the nose for upstaging him in 67. there are hints and rumors that James brown took a shot at him for the same reason. EC. was cool about it
So sad to lose such musical genius at a young age. Hendrix was my inspiration and probably always will be, hopefully he’s in a better place now. Clapton obviously another great guitarist as is Page, Gilmore, Vaughn, Johnson, Satriani, Vai, Dimiola, Guy and so many others. Enjoy what you have now, because you never know what you got till it’s gone, as a song by Cinderella says. Be all that you can be and fulfill the destiny you were sent here to achieve.
They both are guitar Gods in their own way and style of play. And both incomparable.
Cream had just recently formed when Hendrix came to London in 66, they were new themselves so Clapton's reputation hadn't been built on Cream but in The Yardbirds and Mayall's Bluesbreakers between 1964-66
Yes I believe the "Beano" bluesbreakers record is where he gained his reputation
Jimi Hendrix is the greatest.
Hendrix, Clapton and many others of their generation were doing their thing in an era where rock music was still young and the electric guitar was a relatively new instrument. They were pioneers at a time when there was still room for innovation. So of course, they’re always going to be in the conversation of “GREATEST”.
It’s clear to see that the best days of music are behind us when acts like Taylor Swift are dominating the music scene.
There is an organic quality to the early rock that is lost now - it left when prog grew up. Hendrix tuned his own guitar - today, his guitar tech would do it. Players actually wrote their own songs - without a committee. They created their tone with the instrument - not a thousand effects pedals and a guitar synth. The drummers were angry animals - powerful gods of thunder, not percussionists. There's no Berkley there, no DW drum kits, no click tracks, no noise gates, no 7 string basses (watch John Entwistle - God Damn!) Hell, half the time they didn't even have a sound engineer. Yes, they did much more with far less and it was a lot more fun.
I am so weary of comparisons. Both men were very talented, and their styles very different. I liked both of them.
Well said, and it all comes down to songwriting as well. Both Cream and the Jimi Hendrix Experience produced iconic records during that period that neither of the other could've produced.
Django Reinhardt is the man.
I agree but really different animals.
clapton got his ego dissolved by hendrix like a 500 mic lsd trip
Pete Townshend had a fair bit toward Hendrick's initial recognition, success, and getting musically established in the UK, also.
The closest anyone comes to Jimi is Rory Gallagher. Those two also met briefly and had great admiration for one another.
Another of the Greats who died too soon. What an outstanding player he was.
They were so many great guitarists from that era, I think it's impossible to say this guitarist was better than that guitarist etc. they were all different and had their own sounds. Music is art not sport, it isn't as simple as there being a definite "best" guitarist with runners up, just our own preferences for whoever's playing resonates with us the most
I was born on 16th September 1970 two days before Hendrix died, that’s always stayed with me, it was like I was coming through one into existence and poor dear Jimi was leaving, he never should’ve died, it was a tragedy and an accident.
Hendrix ‘cut’ Clapton? Wtf does this title even mean?
Cut him down in size?
A "cutting contest" is a musical duel. A contest of skill to determine supremacy. The player who plays a piece, or a phrase within a piece (this would often happen in the context of two soloists playing within a band) whose technical sophistication the other player cannot match or surpass is the winner. I imagine the practice is as old as musicianship, but the term comes from the New Orleans jazz scene around the turn of the last century.
If someone wants to determine who is the greatest pole vaulter, there is a rather simple metric. Anyone who has jumped the highest has a strong argument, although even that could be challenged with separation from closest challenger. Guitar playing doesn't have a simple metric. I've been playing for about 12 years (badly), and the guitar, and music more broadly is much too complex to be described by a simple metric. Hendrix has a beautiful style with his double bends, and they are quite difficult, but to say that it is objectively better than Clapton's blues interpretations is specious. I enjoy both styles, and I have my preference. I would even concede that if you asked one to play the other's style, Hendrix could play Clapton more easily than Clapton could play Hendrix. I don't think there is any question there. But, music is still more than that. And to call one or the other "god" is a reach...unless you are populating a pantheon.
Has Clapton ever said he couldn't play Kiilin floor? Yea. Clapton could play Killin Floor. Maybe differently, but so did Hendrix play it differently.
killing floor has only got 3chords its not to complicated
i have always wondered this also!!! Why would it be too difficult for him? makes no sense.
Jimi was the Godzilla of guitar players.
They are both the best even today and they will always be. Because they broke new ground in rock n roll today it's the same old stuff with very little real talent.
Jimi Hendrix is the pure definition of the butterfly effect.
Never thought about Clapton being one of the greatest, guitar playing wise.
I love his work with Cream of course, but when it comes to guitar playing, Jimi was just above him no matter what, a whole 'nother level. His presence on stage also played a big role.
Yes, always will be but Clapton now from the time of cream is on another level because of innervation that takes time to fully grow. A young guitarist could not do righteously.
Clapton was a great player but his vocabulary was mostly just emulating Freddie King, Albert King etc. licks and playing them in a louder, faster more rawkus way. I believe his reputation was more because of the time period and him innovating the sound that became synonymous with electric guitar and rock/blues music forever, he is regarded as the first to plug a Les Paul into a Marshall and crank it to get natural distortion, before him blues and rock music was mostly dominated by clean sounding guitars that lacked power or grit. Clapton came along and blew everyone's socks of with his powerful distorted sound, Jimi greatly admired him and not long after arriving in England he also acquired some Marshall amplifiers, most likely because of Claptons influence. Jimi's playing was far more unique than Eric's, he didn't restrict himself to the blues and played whatever he felt like playing and that is why many regard him as the best
Yours is but one opinion.
Two actually.
32 repeats of the word Layla and a little riff?? Hendrix would not do such trivia!
Being a Hendrix fan, one can only wonder how things would be now had he lived a fuller life. And not just for him but the rest of us including other such legends, musical orientation aside too. But I know when I listen to Eric, one can be fully humbled by homages played in.
Clapton is the greatest cure for Insomnia
The book of Hendrix Chapter 1 verse 1:
“Thou shall have no other Gods before me.”
Jimmy is and was an enigma, long live,love.😅
The riff of “Sunshine of Your Love” was written by Cream’s bassist, Jack Bruce, on stand up bass.
They both had their skills, Jimi wearing old t-shirt and jeans, and not doing all the showy movements (he'd been in trouble with that before), would never have quite reached the present acclaim. Jimi took the music deeper and wider (wah and all), and years later, Clapton did some deeper solos that were very excellent. Clapton had the skill but not the heart in his earlier years. Clapton played the guitar. The guitar played Jimi.
The Night Jimi killed God- Jack Bruce.
I suspect that Hendrix would have faded away as an innovative guitarist as he aged. That's just pretty much the way life works. BUT...NOBODY could match Hendrix at the time. The fact that many people can play Hendrix licks today is meaningless - he INVENTED what he did, both playing style and stage persona. COPYING something is much easier than inventing something!
I like Clapton's songs more but guitar-wise Hendrix was, as Clapton himself said, far beyond any other guitarist. He seemed like a visitor from some other universe!
I tend to agree, had he lived, Hendrix may have drifted into jazz -- and that is a dreadful thought.
This is an important point! I like Van Halen's playing, he was clearly talented, but he would never have reached the height he did if he didn't have the shoulders of Jimi Hendrix to stand on. (If you didn't know, that's how Isaac Newton responded to the praise he rightly received -- "I was only standing on the shoulders of giants.")
Skip James' soul lives within Killing Floor every time it's heard.
Everyone should watch the video of Chris Squire's talk on seeing JH for the first time. It's so fun, and CS was descriptive and funny too. Love JH!
A parthenon has room for many 'gods'
Willie Dixon wrote Killin' Floor. Howlin' Wolf made it famous (amongst 1950s blues fans).
It really comes down to what moves you, and what moves you defines your taste in guitar playing style. I love the playing of Jimmie Vaughn, Robert Cray, and Anson Funderburgh much more than any of the rest.
Jimi,s playing was orgasmic!.
Jimi was my best student.
I had much more to teach him.
RIP Jimi
Hendrix may have faded away ya never know, funny how the one’s lives are cut short in their prime kinda forever stay there!
If ever there was a case for staying off of drugs...who knows what gifts Jimi still had in store for us all?
But ironically, it was his adventures in psychedelic drugs that led to him pushing the boundaries. No LSD, no Hendrix as he became to be. Simple as that.
A lot of people live long enough to ruin their reputation and legacy. Better to go out on top.
Pretty compelling case to be made that he was murdered. Worth looking into the autopsy report.
Stevie Ray Vaughn, said It best he scared a lot of people. Think about It, you feed your family by entertaining people, then all at once someone like Hendrix shows up, now you realize that you and your love ones may not eat, Hendrix manager knew what the departure of Hendrix would mean for him, however reading these uneducated comments Is almost as as devastating as his death, the very thing that people comments on and selling these comments across the Internet about his habits , yea Steve were right.
Every Era has it's heroes that innovated electric guitar music and did something new : 60's Hendrix, clapton 70's : Page, Blackmore 80's : Eddie van Halen : 90's : Satriani, Vai, Gilbert. From then on there were many great guitar players but in my eyes not many innovators in terms of taking electric guitar to the next level. I don't think Hendrix was better then Clapton. Both added something new and we're still talking about both of them more then 50 years later like we talk about Mozart and Beethoven who were innovators in their time.
If you listen too Freddie and Albert King you can hear a lot of Hendrix in there. He combined everything he was influenced by. Very creative 👍🏻
Clapton was trying to emulate , Jimmy was an original
As usual no one seems to mention Frank Marino who is a rare guitarist and singer Rory Gallagher was aware of Frank
RS has him at the top of their 100 greatest guitar player list and Pete Townshend wrote the piece on Hendrix recounting that night, said Clapton was devastated. Brian May saw Hendrix in a club and almost stopped playing, like "what's the use?" His dad encouraged him to find his own voice but appreciate what Jimi was doing. Van Halen is the only other revolutionary player comparable to Hendrix and his career lasted 40 years!
I believe that there are only four electric guitar players that truly changed the instrument. 1. Charlie Christian, 2. Chuck Berry, 3. Jimi Hendrix, 4. Eddie Van Halen.
@@NewFalconerRecordsThere are tons of great electric players. Allan Holdsworth is untouchable. Clapton is an average lead player. He knows it too. I mean he had Derek Trucks, Albert Lee, and Doyle Bramhal Jr touring with him. All of which are 100 times better.
The Word Cream jimi said no not really ima show you some stuff.. lolzz Burns the Stage Down
Gods ? No. Unique, Inspired, and inspirations, who met in a time of Universal Creativity and testaments to the same? Absolutely. Gods keep their power in check. These two let it fly for all to enjoy, along with others.
Who is the “greatest” guitarist of all time?
There’s a LOT of them.
And they’re all so incredibly different that they all ARE, at least in their own way u know wat I mean
Hendrix man 🎸✨😎. . .
It's said he played at age 15. Imagine if he were still here. Blowing everyone mind as usual
I would dearly love to see what all of the great musicians that died early would’ve put out later in their life. Especially Hendrix.
During the 80s tho? Transistor amps and chorus pedals. Thank god a throat full of puke saved us from that.
Clapton has always been overrated & Hendrix had his own unique style that no one had ever seen before. I always said that if Hendrix looked like Gary Coleman he wouldn't have been half as famous! Packaging is important in the R&R world‼
Hendrix image, fashion and stage presence seems to be largely what grabbed people. Wish is wasn't always out of tune. He needed a Floyd
Thanks for the video.
Happy to hear that!
Clapton and Hendrix on the same stage with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker! What a set that must have been. Both are and were giants of the guitar and who's to say what would have happened if Hendrix had lived? Those were insane times and too many great musicians were dropping like flies from that insanity like Joplin, Morrison or Mama Cass Elliot to mention a few.
People always argue about who was the greatest. I would opine that all of those typically mentioned are AMONG the greatest. I root for the underdogs, those who humbly innovated or excelled. For breadth of genres, I have to say Jeff Beck, also Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze). For blues masters lesser known today, I have to say Peter Green & Danny Kirwan from the original Fleetwood Mac, maybe Bob Weston from the next Mac. Roy Buchanan pioneered techniques without effects pedals. Then there's lots of famous ones like Gilmour, Satriani, Santana, etc. but Jimi usually wins the vote thus far.
Get your facts straight. The riff that that is so great in Sunshine of Your Love was written by Jack Bruce. Eric Clapton wrote the music that plays under words "I've been waiting so long, to be where I'm going, in the Sunshine of Your Love."
exactly
clapton did not come up with the "sunshine "riff. Bruce wrote it
It's great when musicians egg each other on
Just one observation about Hendrix, he was primarily a blues guitarist.
i like his Song Sophisticated Lady
Nice Story. Believable !
Al Hendrix ;;; You put that guitar away and pick up that shovel..'' or im gonna Brain You/// The First time his father heard purple haze the song was coming through his apartment wall.. his neighbors had bought the new album
Call me crazy but I prefer Clapton's style of playing.
You’re crazy
Clapton or Hendrix ? Georges Benson or Jango Reinhart? Jerry Reed or Chet Atkins? Jimmy Page or Ritchie Blackmore? Rory Gallagher or Gary Moore ? ..,.....
All things considered, I cant think of anyone to put up against Django Reinhardt.
Pit him In a battle against Hendrix, I'm positive he would loose period!!!!!!
I was never the same after I met Hendrix (NY Pop, 1970). Of course, I was never the same before I met him either, so what the heck. "The Best" is meaningless bullsh!t. If you wanna tell me your favorites, fine-that's different. I don't give a rat's butt who anybody thinks is "best". I only know what I like. Right now, I like Simon Jarrett and Paul Stafford Cook. And Tommy Emmanuel. And me, when I'm in the zone. 😎
It's strange how Clapton was near the most to provincial guitarists just before their deaths 😎
Bruce Lee was the best.
He could have kicked Hendrix' ass any day of the week
(there, I settled it)
bobby fisher, jmi hendrix , bruce lee all 3 are unbeatable all born early 1940's
Wasn't as suggested, heard this before, just edit of other stories. But missed correct details. This gig wasn't the first time Clapton saw Hendrix play for instance.....
Clapton did give many guitars to his fellow guitar players
Clapton was a guitarist like SRV they played in a very narrow spectrum box...that Jimi could also play in that blues box way better & freer than them...but Jimi was a musical & sonic expressionist painter like no one has done prior or even since to that same level of exploration & majestic composition...stratospheres beyond & still way ahead. People that just see him as a guitarist really have a reductionist view & are clueless. Jimi will forever stand the test of time & was such a total original greater than the sum of his counterparts which is a big deal in of itself. All at the age of 27...the mind boggles how 1 could do so much in such a short span of time too
I think Henrix woould ahve been bigger than The Beatles and Michal Jackson combined if he were still alive
Where did Hendrix get his clothes from in the early days of his career? He dressed with more flair than most everybody else. He was just different.
Clapton then had to endure losing Stevie Ray Vaughan. No wonder he can play the blues from such a powerful place.
Clapton was a great guitar player, but Hendrix was an emissary from a different part of the universe who also happened to play guitar.
I saw a video on UA-cam about that manager Jimi had. The guy sounded like little more than a mafiosi. He abused Jimi, and controlled him, and some believe he was responsible for his death.
I've read years ago Jimi Hendrix would only agree to go to England to launch their career, only if he could meet Cream?
My god Jimi's face complection looks so bad in that second picture which is very late in his life. Lifestyle was taking a toll and it's right there on his face.
CLAPTON - GUITARACIST
Who cares what Crapton thinks. He is not God he is a very naughty boy!
Killing Floor is not complicated at all. Including Hendrix version. It's a simple 12 bar blues and all Jimi did was speed it up and play Jimi solos over it.
Where it says Clapton is God a dog is taking a piss.
Must of been a bad omen.
Jimmy was the guy Clapton's good but Jimi Mmmmmmmmm!
they're just different and both have had the same massive influence on rock guitar
Oh well...
As a professional guitarist of many years I’m so tired of people comparing one musician with another another anyone who goes down this road is obviously not a musician but as muso would say a civilian there is no better than in the real world Mozart better than Back was better than Beethoven Beethoven better than Tchaikovsky it all nonsense every musician is unique in there own sphere ask any real musician sure we all have our favourites but that’s all there is to it
My claim to fame is that nobody makes as many fluffs with as much enthusiasm as me.
Ya gotta be good to feck up as much as me and still impress😚
I'm no musician. Trier but I sux. There with you on the comparo
It actually reminds me of a lesson my parents taught me as a child: “you don’t need to rank your friends, such as Billy is my BEST friend and John is my 2nd BEST friend. You get to have BEST friends. A whole collection, all unique, all loved equally.” We can appreciate the work of one guitarist more than any other without having to claim him or her the greatest ever.
iMHO answers to your Qs... No and ...no... but I'm thankful The Almighty gave him to us!
It was Jack Bruce who came up with the Sunshine of your Love riff after seeing Hendrix, not Clapton.
This video is a piece of fluff.
Yep, Jack and Pete Brown wrote most of their material.
I don't know about the British versions of the God because there are a lot of guitar players in America a lot of them never made it cuz they didn't have that little pool or stage that you would have in Britain say a good 800 maybe less musicians that were capable of playing.
And it was so tight in competition out here in the states that Jimmy had to do something because everyone and all the places here to go play you know compete man they basically had tricks they did stuff and they were good guitar players he had to be good and he had to do that stuff like play the guitar with his teeth you had to bring something different out here
Jimmy Page was the man! 😎
I like Clapton's solos better than Hendrix couse Hendrix seems to just mess around and jam and does not have a structure to the solos. This is not to say i would like to change anyone to be something they weren't as i'm individualist. Hendrix was a humble guy and responded to the questions of what he thought about the Clapton vs him thing that was in the media that time by saying my idea of perfect time would be to jam with Eric 24/7
Only God is God. Jimi, however, was the greatest guitarist of all time, imo.
plugs in his thermal burning bar.. cuts trains in half .. ok by eric
So what the hell happened to Clapton? The guy went from tearing it up with Cream, to "Lay Down Sally"? He became absolutely awful.
Clapton better, not even close. Hes been doing it for 60 yrs vs 6 as well
Yeah there are the greats, but when it comes to art there's no "the greatest" there's your favorite, way too subjective. Each guitarist is like a fingerprint all unique and very different no two are a like, so each guitarists brings their certain magic to the table. But if you do have a 4th grade mentality, and act and live like a little 4th grader, then you'll argue lol who's the greatest. Peace
Clapton murdered Hendrix, he is a well known serial killer. He wrote that “Tears in Heaven” song BEFORE the accident. I’ve already said too much
I believe you yo. I don’t know why but I do.
To me Hendrix will always be the greatest but on a side note I always thought Peter Green was a better guitarist then Clapton 🟤
Hendrix was able to write great songs and cords... yah he also could play dam good...srv, via, page, beck, van halen, and others could not achieve that level...its all about practice...he was said to practice 9 hrs a day, myth i dont know... in addition he was ambidextrous so he had two processors being used something that is seldom talked about...do you hear me rock casuals?
wah-waaaah. surprised w his racist nature he liked him at all.
Eric could play Killing floor just not as good as he wanted to I've heard Jimi do the song and I don't like it Eric later play with Chester Bernet
AKA Holwin Wolf on London sessions and did all his songs Great Eric is just as great different styles 😁🎸Jimi liked Eric's playing
Hendrix shut all the axe man down ...eddie came out and did the same thing ....see Clapton wasn't impressed....Clapton wasn't the tops ...
Guitar music? Didn't get to hear any, unfortunately.
nah. a god wouldn't lack self discipline and try every drug on the planet