If Hendrix had lived until 1977...

[Shaun Ponsonby]

I'm talking aboot as a major MAJOR success.

As a massive movement, it was only a year.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Pretty much impossible to predict since no one knows where Hendrix would have taken his career. But, my feeling is that the original punk movement looked at any old acts as "dinosaur", so I think they would have called him a dinosaur.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Which proved that punks were hypocrites.

[Mr Badguy]

What puzzles me is why Punk is still so revered in the UK.

Every other kind of music has been trashed by the next generation (prog, Heavy Metal, 80`s pop, New Romantic, Ska, Acid House, Techno), but Punk seems to have got away scot free.

And it was all a pile of shite.

Even Johnny Rotten will tell you that.

It was never really about the music, it was about fashion.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Well, admittedly, New Romantics stemmed from punk (despite the fact as they are aboot as alike as a foot and a hedge), so I suppose it kinda lived on through that, I suppose.

[hideyoursheep]

If Hendrix would have made it to '77, he would have probably had his own label. I could see him getting back to what he really loved eventually, sort of like Clapton-but with bigger balls. That man played and recorded out of the box....I have a funny feeling he and EVH would have known each other pretty well.

I don't think the punks would have anything to say about Hendrix...his style was too eclectic for them to pigeonhole as "hippie rock" or "arena rock". He wanted to get away from that, but ran out of time.ELP would have been alot different had he been there, that's fo' sho' !

An all-black rock band playing on new years eve '69-70? Way ahead of his time-It would have been up to the rest of us to catch up with HIM!

The FUCKING GREATEST.

[PHOENIX]

Sometimes I wonder what direction Jimi Hendrix would have gone musically had he lived longer than 27 years. Would he have met up with Frank Zappa at some point? Another interesting collaboration would have been Hendrix and bass player Jaco Pastorius. Also, did Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley ever meet? If only they had a chance to play music together. I’ve pondered him getting into classical music, jazz, funk…imagine Jimi and Bootsy Collins gettin’ down tonight. But these things were never to be as Jimi died too soon in 1970.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by PHOENIX
imagine Jimi and Bootsy Collins gettin down tonight.

Now, THATS a colourful image.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
Which proved that punks were hypocrites.

How so?

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Well, some "dinosaurs" had to influence the punks.

Lets put it this way...Johnny Rotten is a Van Der Graaf Generator fan.

[Mr. Vengeance]

I suppose. But Johnny Rotten has always admitted he was a rocker in his teens. I believe he sang 18 by Alice Cooper when he auditioned for Malcolm

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Exactly, exactly

Everybody has to be influenced by SOMEBODY.

[FORD]

And the Ramones did a cover of a pathetically cheezy Phil Spector song.......

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But it doesn't change the fact that their first album inspired a generation to turn awaw from the excess and back to the real roots of rock n roll. Indeed the whole Ramones look and even their name was a nod to the Hamburg - era Beatles.

[Mr. Vengeance]

I love that clip because Johnny is so clearly EXTRA pissed that they're performing that tune. He hated the song, and although he said later in his life that he was happy to have been able to work with Spector, he hated working with him.

[FORD]

I think Johnny's pissed in that clip, because he didn't actually play one note on that song and he has to stand there miming to a song that probably doesn't even have a guitar part at all, and definitely not one of his. From what I remember, Spector used session musicians on a lot of that album. The remastered CD has demo versions of some tracks which I actually prefer to the "official".

Ramones produced by Phil Spector was a great concept in theory, but the results weren't as good as they should have been, because they let him get away with far too much.

"End of the Century" probably ranks as #2 only slightly behind "Let It Be" as albums destroyed by Phil Spector.