If this guy would have taken the stage just before Jimi...

[Robert Burns]

At Woodstock in 69'... Jimi wouldnt have gone on afterwards! :-))

Shred without distortion... It would have been ... Monte Montgomery"..
Axis bold as love"..!

***to funny...forgot to post my proof! Youtube...Little Wing"..Monte Sorry!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ztuvMsy-c

[Endrik]

Jimi wouldn't give a fuck. He would go on stage and proceed ripping the shit out of everyone.

[clifffclaven]

Jimi wouldn't give a fuck. He would go on stage and proceed ripping the shit out of everyone.

exactly. just like he did to the who at monterey.

[Musician78]

I don't understand why everyone thinks Jimi was the man. Obviously there was talent in those bloody long ass fingers on his... but all I hear sloppy playing (not by any means insinuating that I am any less sloppy) coupled with horrible tone.... I have tried many times to figure out what I am obviously missing... and I feel like I am staring at one of those pictures with all the dots behind which lays some sort of an image... only.... I can't see the damn thing....

[Jacksons Shred]

I don't understand why everyone thinks Jimi was the man. Obviously there was talent in those bloody long ass fingers on his... but all I hear sloppy playing (not by any means insinuating that I am any less sloppy) coupled with horrible tone.... I have tried many times to figure out what I am obviously missing... and I feel like I am staring at one of those pictures with all the dots behind which lays some sort of an image... only.... I can't see the damn thing....

+1

I guess he was more of a innovator, so to speak. Most of the stuff by him that I enjoy, is covers of him done by SRV, or Clapton.

Example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvtkUd0kkhU

[Hellbat]

Well, looking back at artists before your life started it's hard to get perspective as to how innovative they were at the time. Especially an artist who's work has be re-interpreted several hundred times like Jimi.

Jimi in 1969 performing Little Wing (Written 1967)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_WAbnKCPc

Other songs that were in the top 5 albums when Little Wing was released...

The Turtles - Happy Together (Enjoy the emo hair and top hats)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5LtKwOD8GU

The Association - Windy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU8vOQNvd3c

Music Explosion - Little Bit 'O Soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKblZEnD3c

Now you have a little better perspective as to why Hendrix is so highly regarded. I'm certainly not a giant Jimi fan myself but I do understand that he literally changed the direction of music and live performance (in my opinion for the better) for everyone that came after.

[VitaminG]

when I was a young'un just getting into guitar, it was guys like Gary Moore, Adrian Smith, EVH, Yngwie that were turning me on and I felt just like you guys do about Jimi - I never understood the fuss. All the guitar mags would talk about the nuance & incredible rhythmic ability & the intricacies of his playing, but compared to the guys I was listening to it all sounded like slop at the time.

But now I get it, and it took listening to the Disciples of Jimi, people like SRV, to get me there. It's probably also a product of getting older and appreciating different things in a guitarist. I don't think it's a case of getting mellow or more conservative with old age either - I still looove the playing of guys like Gus G, Magnus Karlsson, Ron Thal & Jeff Loomis too. I can't explain it but something just clicked one day and suddenly I could really get Hendrix's music. When he was ON, his playing was just sublime.

Speaking of Hendrix covers, I picked up the Experience Hendrix DVD a couple of days ago. Mainly because Living Colour play on it, but there are some great performances on there by folks like KWS, Eric Gales, Indigenous, Buddy Guy, Mick Taylor & Robert Randolph. Even the dude from Kid Rock's band puts in a good showing. And Jerry Cantrell turns up in the All Star Jam on Voodoo Child at the end too.

[Robert Burns]

I can relate..im 55..so when i first told my mom from the back seat of
our station wagon..in 1967'...to "Turn it up"!! Hearing "Fire" for the first
time...i was floored! Remember at the time all you heard on the radio
was "House of the rising son"...or "Wendy" by the Association! When
Jimi screamed onto the scene, it was like time travel. My friends and i
would tell eachother..."Its like a guy from 50 years from now"! He was
that different, that innovative, and "Freaky" even for hippie standards of
the day. I was just making a joke with Monte.. he an amazing player,
but Jimi first wrote that riff! And about 30 more legendary ones, that
clones havent done even once! So i can give major praise to Mr. Hendrix.
I got to be wowed by him at age 12...and for the next 43
more years... more to come!

[Axewielder]

I got into his stuff before I got too jaded. In his defense...heavy distortion was way new at the time, and it wasn't until Eddie came along years later that anyone got super tight control over it.

[toxikdeth]

now what would have happens if cacaphony was around and played before Hendrix what would have happens then I believe that all the hippies in the crowds heads would have exploded

[Sinistas]

What is a cacalhony?

[dg]

Was this supposed to be a Monte Montgomery thread? He's awesome. Was there a link to a youtube vid or something? Someone should post one. I always get a kick out of Robert's long-winded titles that don't fit on the front page, but this time he outdid himself & managed to highjack his own thread before it even started.



j/k man! You keep this section worth checking on, imo.

[toxikdeth]

What is a cacalhony?

Shit so sorry I meant cacaphony the l is right by the p on the keyboard

[Axewielder]

Shit so sorry I meant cacaphony the l is right by the p on the keyboard

Still wrong.

[VitaminG]

Shit so sorry I meant cacaphony the l is right by the p on the keyboard

not on my keyboard. And what is "cacaphony"? The sound of shit?