Comments on: Jimi Hendrix – The Greatest Guitarist Of All

By: Sherv

Sherv — Mon, 09 May 2011 23:15:17 +0000

He IS the best guitarist. You are talking about only one criteria here – technique/skill. You can’t call a guitarist the greatest just on that basis,. You might as well just say the most “technically gifted” or “skilful” but certainly not the “greatest”. There’s a massive difference in there. Being called the greatest guitarist involves more than just pure technique, it includes creativity, feeling, genius, versatility, ability to revolutionize music. And, in terms of combination of all these, no one comes near Jimi. Well, actually maybe there’s one – Robert Johnson, who’s arguably the only one who has revolutionise guitar playing as much if not more than Jimi. But, that’s it, the rest are far far behind. I absolutely love SRV, and he could play Voodoo Child or Little Wing as well and maybe even better than Jimi, but there’s not one chance in hell he could have come up with something as revolutionary as these in the first place. Jimi was not only light years ahead of his time in terms of his vision of music, he is actually still light years ahead of our time. The real genius of James Marshall Hendrix was in his mind, not in his hands which many unfortunately seem to fail to get the grasp of!

By: randell

randell — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:57:32 +0000

you got respect what jimmi did for the music industry.
i will give him that. but in no way was he the best guitarist in the history of music. many guitarist are far more skilled then he was. SRV. joe satriani. steve vai. chet atkins. and many more.
i simply will not agree that he was the best maybe most influential

By: Layne Giovano

Layne Giovano — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 09:50:20 +0000

Jimi Hendrix was definitely the pioneer of metal.He explored that unkown area of music and ispired our great music in metal , including Metallica, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, and so on. He will be remembered as both a hero of rock and as a legend that will never die.
Peace & love to all his fans!

By: james claud blocker

james claud blocker — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:49:25 +0000

Wowowowowowowowow WHAT A GIFT TO THE WORLD, just spent an hour speaking on his greatness and lost it all!! ALIENS DO EXIST WOW AN ALIEN WITH A GUITAR AND THE LORD SAID LET THERE BE LIGHT!! in this case LET THERE BE EARS!!! As long as music exists THE NAME JIMI HENDRIX WILL BE MENTIONED!!!!

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:34:57 +0000

Hendrix was indeed a truly amazing artist and will live on forever through his music.

Fantastic write up Scotty, and was intrigued by some of those “Hendrix Facts”

Looking forward to seeing the next biography

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:37:42 +0000

Hendrix could whatever he wanted to do with a guitar.

Worth mentioning, he called one kid “better than me”

Who? The late great Terry Kath.

Actually, he saw him at (I think)
Whiskey-a go-go ,then took them [CTA] on world in 1969