Halen and Hendrix the best?

[jcook11]

Sitting here listening to some VH live and how raw Ed was,he and Hendirx are probably the best I've ever heard.

[Rikk]

I'd still put Hendrix above Eddie any day. Eddie was great. But he still had a limited bag of tricks, I feel. In terms of actual guitar playing and overall talent, Hendrix blew him away.

Okay, let the flames begin.

[sambo]

I am a old school EVH fan, but Hendrix would have to get the nod. I have an Isle of Wight DVD and Hendrix is simply awesome...

[Rikk]

Originally posted by sambo
I am a old school EVH fan, but Hendrix would have to get the nod. I have an Isle of Wight DVD and Hendrix is simply awesome...

Amazing DVD. And that wasn't even one of Hendrix's best shows. He was sloppy and plagued by technical problems. Yet it was still amazing!

If you want something really flawless, check out his performance on the JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY DVD. Now that's a performance!!!

[bueno bob]

I'll agree with Rikk, I'll give Hendrix the nod and for the same reason...Ed's done some BRILLIANT shit (especially some of the solos circa 1978-1982), but I have always felt it's borrowed from the same bag of tricks...the tapping, etc...Hendrix gets the slight edge in my book, but emphasis on "slight"...classic Ed's right up there with him...

[sambo]

Originally posted by Rikk
Amazing DVD. And that wasn't even one of Hendrix's best shows. He was sloppy and plagued by technical problems. Yet it was still amazing!

If you want something really flawless, check out his performance on the JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY DVD. Now that's a performance!!!

Thanks for the heads up Rikk .. I will look out for the DVD.
I agree with your comments re Isle of Wight and some of the technical issues, but it just showed, even when sloppy and things are going wrong around him, he is just brilliant.

[DaveTheSoulOfVH]

Hendrix is the just a blues player with more distortion in his sound; Eddie has reinvented the way to play the guitar (harmonics, whammy bar, tapping, legato etc) c'mon, eddie is a fuckin' genius !!!
My choice would be EVH #1 but Hendrix has a huge charisma

[bueno bob]

Who's the guy in the middle? He looks familiar...

[DaveTheSoulOfVH]

EVH has opened the 'guitar shred' era

[jcook11]

He used to play guitar for the wahbirbungholes

[badhorsie]

"the best"?

No such thing.

Eddie and Jimi are the elite of the fucking elite for the electric guitar.

They both pioneered and changed how guitarists (and other musicians) approach their instruments.

[ZahZoo]

Originally posted by DaveTheSoulOfVH
Hendrix is the just a blues player with more distortion in his sound; Eddie has reinvented the way to play the guitar (harmonics, whammy bar, tapping, legato etc) c'mon, eddie is a fuckin' genius !!!
My choice would be EVH #1 but Hendrix has a huge charisma

Hendrix was much much more than a blues player... shit Manic Depression was a fucking Waltz... The biggest asset of Hendrix's creativity was also in the studio in capturing his sound. He and Eddie Kramer captured and created sounds on simple 4 or 8 track analog systems that are just amazing given the total lack of technology. If you dig into Hendrix's later writing you'll find stuff way beyond the blues.

I wouldn't say Ed reinvented the way guitar is played. All of his tricks were around long before he debuted in 78. What Ed did bring in his song writing was unique chord phrasing embellished with all the tricks you mentioned within his fills and solos. I view Ed as more of a repackager in that he assembled things in a unique way that hadn't been voiced in such a manner before.

[Vanstonica]

I think Ed could play anything that Jimi played....but I don't think the same could be said vice versa. Did Hendrix have the chops to play Eruption?? (that's not intended to be a slight. I've just never been a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix).

[pete]

Originally posted by badhorsie
"the best"?

No such thing.

Eddie and Jimi are the elite of the fucking elite for the electric guitar.

They both pioneered and changed how guitarists (and other musicians) approach their instruments.

Good point.

[pete]

Originally posted by Vanstonica
I think Ed could play anything that Jimi played....but I don't think the same could be said vice versa. Did Hendrix have the chops to play Eruption?? (that's not intended to be a slight. I've just never been a huge fan of Jimi Hendrix).

Creative guitar playing isn't a sport.

Hendrix's pallette of sounds was much broader the EVH.

And VAI's is ever broader.

I wouldn't say 1 was better than the other.