Jimi Hendrix is Overrated.
Now, I’m going to try and keep this short because i feel i don’t have much time before you get too frustrated and stop reading this so you can flame me.
If i ask someone why is Jimi Hendrix the best? I usually get one of two or both of the following responses: “He puts the most feel into his music” or “He revolutionized the guitar”. I’m not going to bother explain how he revolutionized the guitar, if you don’t know how he did that i suggest you go educate yourself a bit, because HE DID. If it wasn’t for Jimi many guitarists today wouldn’t be guitarists and the guitar might not be quite as popular.
Anyway, I’ll start off with the argument that frustrates me the most, “He puts the most feel into his music”. I like the composer Niccolo Paganini. Some of his compositions make me feel happy or sad, Melancholic, Angry, Motivated etc I could go on but i think you get the point. To me, i think Paganini’s compositions have more “feel” in them than other composers that I’ve heard. You may disagree with me, you may hate Paganini. That’s fine, i don’t care but that is EXACTLY my point. I feel emotion in his music, some people don’t. How much emotion one person feels from a piece of music is totally different from what another person may feel, in the same way that different people like different music. Saying he put the most feel in is not a valid argument.
The other argument is that he was the first to do many things and revolutionized the instrument. That’s right, he did. Being the first to do something does not make you the best at whatever it is that you have done first.
As for technical ability he is certainly not the best but being technical is not necessary to make good music. Even at his time he was not the best technically, at the time, the best guitarists would’ve been Jazz guitarists in terms of technicality. Then again being the best technically does definitely not mean you are the best, for example, i would say that Jimi Hendrix is a better guitar player than John Petrucci because i don’t feel any emotion in Johns Playing at all, some people will agree and some will disagree. I guess what I’m TRYING to say is that who the best guitarist is, is entirely opinionated. There is NO best guitarist who is better than everybody else as a universal truth everyone must agree with or die. Who the best guitarist is, is all opinion and one of the stupidest things you can do is argue about who is better.
Anyhow, that’s not too long of an article i don’t think. If you’ve managed to read this long without losing your temper WELL DONE YOU! Have one free internet!
Now let the flaming commence.
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