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Originally Posted by nostatic
No matter where it is from, I think it lays out the difference between Jimi and SRV. SRV was a great player (I saw him tour with Beck at LA Sports Arena), but he was not in the same league as Hendrix. No one was...
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+1.
Im not old enough to have been there when all of this stuff was happening, but the saddest thing Ive learned about Hendrix has been the overwhelming amount of mediocre performances, out takes, jam sessions, half assed experimental off pitch recordings, etc., that were recorded and later whored out to the public by his estate, that really take away from how amazing he was. Almost every time Hendrix picked up a guitar, someone was there to roll tape and capture the result. He was that good. Every half hearted practice session or jam session the man ever did was recorded and sold to the highest bidder after his death.
What I never realized until recently when a good friend of mine pointed it out to me, was that the actual catalog of material that Hendrix thought worthy of releasing to the public is not very large at all.
Are You Experienced?, Axis: Bold As Love, and Electric Ladyland. Thats it. Pretty amazing stuff by itself. Its very hard to listen to those three albums and NOT think that he was on a completely different level than anyone else who has ever picked up a guitar.