Why did Jeff Beck call Jimi a god? Why was Jeff so in awe of Jimi?

[KannikaP]

6 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Not dead.

Although, Hendrix is clearly dead, and died too young.

 

So did a couple of the Wilson brothers. But Brian's still here....just about. Same age as Macca who is playing to 23500 fans tonight in Manchester. How stupid on Manchester Derby night!

[Prubangboy]

I gotta agree on Santana tho.

 

Oy Como Va, on the Lotus, Live In Cuba album is my 3rd most played iTune.

 

Tito Puente, the writer of that monster groove, used to pop into a Cuban diner in Jersey City.

 

One night, The Buena Vista Social Club played at that diner, after slaying at Carnegie Hall across the river. The culture of master players and some guy banging on a coke bottle with a rusty nail continues to this day in Latin music. Only Bluegrass offers that same mix these days.

 

Tito would sit in with the house band yearly there for a Christmas benefit for toys for poor kids, supposedly unannounced, but he always had his timbals set up there hours before.

 

I was more excited to see him at that legendary diner (The Hard Grove Cafe) than Bruce, who'd also eat there a couple of times a year.

[KannikaP]

5 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

I gotta agree on Santana tho.

 

Oy Como Va, on the Lotus, Live In Cuba album is my 3rd most played iTune.

 

Tito Puente, the writer of that monster groove, used to pop into a Cuban diner in Jersey City.

 

One night, The Buena Vista Social Club played at that diner, after slaying at Carnegie Hall across the river. The culture of master players and some guy banging on a coke bottle with a rusty nail continues to this day in Latin music. Only Bluegrass offers that same mix these days.

 

Tito would sit in with the house band yearly there for a Christmas benefit for toys for poor kids, supposedly unannounced, but he always had his timbals set up there hours before.

 

I was more excited to see him at that legendary diner (The Hard Grove Cafe) than Bruce, who'd also eat there a couple of times a year.

Santana was 70/80 pop....well he was very popular, as was Steely Dan. But not really Jazz.

[Prubangboy]

3 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

But not really Jazz.

You're doing that thing where you argue with a voice in your head again, like when we fought over Bob's Big Boy Burger.

 

Santana was arguably the first world music crossover. If anyone has a right to shamelessly coast for decades, it's Carlos.

 

And what of his stuff with John McGloughlan? Pretty damn jazzy. Prob sold well into the dozens of albums.

[GammaGlobulin]

17 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

You're doing that thing where you argue with a voice in your head again, like when we fought over Bob's Big Boy Burger.

 

Santana was arguably the first world music crossover. If anyone has a right to shamelessly coast for decades, it's Carlos.

 

And what of his stuff with John McGloughlan? Pretty damn jazzy. Prob sold well into the dozens of albums.

 

Big Boy Burger?

That makes me think of the infamous Po' Boy Sandwich, from Down South....where....

JAZZ was born....

 

 

 

There are many great things, including Jazz, which have originated in America....out of the black experience, slavery, etc....

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po'_boy#

 

 

I could go for a Po' Boy for Christmas....

Sitting somewhere DOWN SOUTH.....

In Louisiana.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[KannikaP]

34 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

You're doing that thing where you argue with a voice in your head again, like when we fought over Bob's Big Boy Burger.

What are you on about.......................burgers?

[GammaGlobulin]

On 11/13/2024 at 8:10 AM, connda said:

That's a matter of opinion.  Jimi was a rock-god.  Still is.

 

In my view, just listening to Jimi speak, in various good interviews, Jimi had a somewhat higher IQ than Beck, although...maybe not....

 

[save the frogs]

9 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I am mostly a JS Bach listener.

Bash is definitely NOT noise pollution.

1 out of 3 ain't bad. 

Even Babe Ruth batted only .300. 

 

[save the frogs]

5 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

In my view, just listening to Jimi speak, in various good interviews, Jimi had a somewhat higher IQ than Beck, although...maybe not....

 

what was he talking about in interviews?

how drugs can make your life better? 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

Bash is definitely NOT noise pollution.

1 out of 3 ain't bad. 

Even Babe Ruth batted only .300. 

 

 

I didn't know you, too, were a Linux Lover.

 

Bash, as you know, is:

 

It's FREE SOFTWARE....

Way to GO!!!!!!

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell)

 

Sometimes....

The best things in life are FREE.

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

what was he talking about in interviews?

how drugs can make your life better? 

 

No!

But, judge for yourself....

Here is a sample vid that I have always enjoyed....

 

 

[save the frogs]

51 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

No!

But, judge for yourself....

Here is a sample vid that I have always enjoyed....

 

 

 

Ok, I will judge for myself.

Nothing impressive about his alleged high IQ. 

Also, interesting that he mentions nervous breakdowns, because his music causes me (and probably a lot of people) to have nervous breakdowns. 

 

[fredwiggy]

On 11/15/2024 at 6:39 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

If it's so good why don't I hear it ever played on the radio? I listen to an oldies channel and neither Beck nor Hendrix ever get played on it.

 

I suspect it's connected to excessive consumption of illegal substances when young and foolish.

Radio stations play what they consider popular, mainly to younger listeners, and have overplayed songs for decades, while there are thousands of better songs that never get played. I lived in the San Antonio, Texas area in 1978-79, before moving back there again in 1985. Joe Anthony, called the Godfather of rock, was one of the very few dj's who played different bands, like Triumph, Budgie, Heyoka and others, who you would rarely if ever hear anywhere else, besides a few hit singles. He understood that listeners knew there was more than just one song on albums, and many of them were better than the hit singles.

 

Beck, while an excellent guitarist, didn't make much in the way of hit singles besides Freeway Jam, because most of what the younger crowd likes has lyrics, lyrics they can relate to, which make it that hit single. Just like a lot of the pop crapola that millions listen to now. Much of it isn't good music but it has a beat they can move to.

 

People like Mark Knopfler, who is one of the top 10 players of all time, only get heard because of Dire Straits, although his solo collection is just as good. Hendrix was an innovator, a decent guitarist but not in the top 10. He had feeling when he played, and it didn't take a person being stoned to like his music. The same with Page. He was in a popular band that played songs people loved, and he was a decent player, but again not in the top 10. People like Gilmour, Barrett,  Campbell, Beck, Bonamassa, Santana, Schenker, Howe, Schon, Haynes, Trucks, Metheny, Gale, DiMeola, and a few others are more suitable for being in the top 10.

 

You will rarely if ever hear the best music on the radio. There are countless progressive rock bands, which is some of the best music out there, played on the radio, besides older Genesis because Collins wrote some pop songs that went along with the others on their albums. A good song weathers the time well, and drugs have nothing to do with it besides the songs sounding better when you're buzzed.

[gargamon]

1 hour ago, fredwiggy said:

Radio stations play what they consider popular,

Radio stations play what they get paid to play. 

 

As for Hendrix, check out Pali Gap from his last studio album. Unbeatable. Too bad he OD'd. He was getting better and better.

[fredwiggy]

8 minutes ago, gargamon said:

Radio stations play what they get paid to play. 

 

As for Hendrix, check out Pali Gap from his last studio album. Unbeatable. Too bad he OD'd. He was getting better and better.

I've heard all of his music many years before. He was a decent player but not in the top 10. Radio stations play the same songs all the time, and no one wants to hear the same songs all the time, especially older people like us that have heard them too many times already. This is one reason myself and many others don't listen to radio stations.

[gargamon]

1 hour ago, fredwiggy said:

I've heard all of his music many years before. He was a decent player but not in the top 10. Radio stations play the same songs all the time, and no one wants to hear the same songs all the time, especially older people like us that have heard them too many times already. This is one reason myself and many others don't listen to radio stations.

It must be nice to be smarter and know more about music than The Rolling Stone.

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/

 

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066632618/

 

[fredwiggy]

5 minutes ago, gargamon said:

It must be nice to be smarter and know more about music than The Rolling Stone.

 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/

 

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066632618/

 

Quite a few of us are into music so much we don't feel the need to follow others opinions on the subject. All one needs to do is look at the list of bands that make it to the hall of fame and those that still haven't and you'll see that some really don't understand what makes good music and only what's popular with the younger crowd.Just seeing Mark Knopfler, who's definitely in the top 3, as number 44 shows just how little some know.