Sponsor |  Beano77 | Sep 1, 2006 5:28pm | I visited Jim's Tomb. Love for him is very much alive. I
posted some photos on my pages. Rock on my friends. |
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Sponsor | | Statix | Sep 2, 2006 12:35am | | Awesome! |
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|  hutz13 | Jan 17, 2007 7:14pm | | I love Jimi! When other guitarists like SRV put him on a pedestal you know the cat ruled! |
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|  scotchbonnet | Mar 24, 2007 1:13pm | | That cat was Awesome, anyway the days of those long guitar solos are diminishing seems out of date.. |
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 |  741113 | Mar 26, 2007 1:36pm | | Yeah Henrix was at one with his guitar. What makes him special for me was his inventiveness. In his day almost everything was experimental but nevertheless restrained. Jimi Hendrix really pushed the envelope. Who knows maybe it was the acid. |
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| | Clax | Mar 26, 2007 2:56pm | Jimi Hendrix could throw himself onto the wind - and trust it to carry him. And it did. He could throw his net wide and call in the ghosts and the very gods and they would swim for him in the torrents he created. Anyone else they would have ripped to shreds.
But he paid for it in the curious passivity with which he lived from minute to minute. I listen to the older players who have learned to manage the forces which ruined Jimi. He had genius but he never achieved wisdom. |
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