JIMI HENDRIX - In some magazins he´s mentioned as the worlds best guitarist ever  

also he was rated #1 in "The rolling Stones" magazine...

also...Hendrix DIDNT commit suicide..he died from a drug overdose by choking on his own vomit...

he didn't die from a drugoverdose, he took beer and some sleeping pills that have lethal effect together. He most likely didn't know about this and it wasn' a suicide.

A black Rock N Roll guitarist wasn't a huge thing, seeing Rock n Roll came from Black music, Chuck Berry was playing rock n roll guitar 10 years before Hendrix, so I don't really understand your statement here. This doesn't take away the fact that Hendrix was one amazing player.

But I have to question this "Greatest" guitarist ever statement, there are so many different styles out there & many less known guitarists from way back that pull stuff off that I've never heard Hendrix come close too, but that's just down to style, I think guitarists should be rated on individuality, which is why Hendrix shines.

Yes Jason your right there where black guitarists befor Hendrix came. I just think the unique thing about Hendrix was that as like other players in rock he had listened to blues guitarists and you can hear those influences in his playing. But he took his playing far out and he had no one to influence him on his style he came up with, so he really had a vision also i think he was real good in geting out those sounds on his guitar that were in his mind. Like musicians today have a lot players to learn from Hendrix didn´t have that, so to me he was very pure, a original to say and his influence is nearly in every guitar player if it´s rock or what ever.

I don´t have Hendrix at Woodstock on DVD but I saw it in our small local theatre and just this week they brought it up again in TV so I watched it again, yeah it´s really great though to me it seems Hendrix sometimes looks a little dissapointed on the group not playing that tight.
I like that part when he comes out from Purple Haze and dives into his improvisation specialy that one part where he uses rapid picking, bends the note and increases the treble with Wah effect... WOW.. that sounds so awesome still today. I have Band Of Gypsys at Fillmore on DVD that´s also great to watch & listen, I really like the Hendrix period with the Band Of Gyspys.

Yes i read an article where that kidnapping was mentioned, even it said Jimi thought his own manager would be behind it by he wasn´t happy about the musical direction Jimi wanted to take on, so kind of fear effect. About his death I don´t really know what to think it´s said that some say he still had live in his body when he was transported out of the appartment to the hospital, other´s deny that. A big amount of red wine was found in his lungs by the doctor, in a other book it´s said that he maybe was forced on the alcohol. Well someone must know the truth.... thank you for your lines crispeater.

Yes exactly good point, Hendrix belongs to those persons in our world who had a short time but left a hugh amount of influence after he was gone to the world of music.

as far as being rated...lol...well maybe we should rate the magazines...you know...they just have to sensationalize things to make sells..!!

he was incredible...his voice..his melodies...and he was a good writer too,it's a shame we lost him so soon..!

there are so many things,good things to say about him and his music,i was in 10th grade algerbra class when my friend "meets" came into class ,right after the late bell,with a transistor radio to his ear...telling me,hey,hey,your buddy hendrix just died...i laughed and said your a jerk man,cause he always liked to play pranks...and he said,"no,no,they said he died"..i took the radio and sure enough..he died...a part of me died too.!

the era...was,..what set the mood..."rocknroll was" changing...and so were the times...and the "war" was the big talk of the town..and these bands were against the establishment and their war..and they empowered the masses through their music(to revolt)..man it was scary...but it was incredible...and they were all warriors against the establishment and their war(for profit)...and HENDRIX was also out there too.. in the front lines, they were at times..unstoppable and so powerful...they did scare the powers that be...people everywhere..just,out right,did exactly opposite of what the government wanted..i remember watching them burn their draft cards in front of the police and getting arrested on the spot..

KENT STATE UNIVERSITY had the national guard called out,because of a .."sit in"...,to protest the war...and they shot and killed 6 students when things got a little rough...!

"sit ins" ...were common to promote peace and to protest the war...and they were going on all over the country...and these bands were the catalyst for the empowerment..it goes back to a long line of performers against the big corporations...people like WOODY GUTHERIE,who was very out spoken against these companies,during the grest depression,PETE SEEGER is another folk singer who disliked the way companies were treating people...and don't forget BOB DYLAN...who was said to be at WOODY GUTHERIE'S death bed...i read where WOODY was 1 of DYLANS' role models...so you see this music...this movement of fighting unfair treatment to the the masses goes way back in this country..!

and by the way...BOB DYLAN was 1 HENDRIXS' role models..!

"POWER TO THE PEOPLE"...

those bands and the people of those days are still my heroes...!

Sorry I haven´t look back on this for a longer time so I guess I´m a little late.

Well first of all thanks for your lines you´ve written and also writing something personal I appriciate that.
Yeah.. I agree with your words about Jimi Hendrix and all you´ve put up here. Like A Rolling Stone is definitely a very nice cover of Dylan´s music I like that one too also I really love his version from All Along The Watchtower his playing has so many facets in it. I´ve seen that version from Johnny Be Goode on a video tape some years ago must be around somewhere in the appartment, I forgot which concert it was but he also played Hear My Train A Comming that´s a great tune, specialy the very slow version he plays of it in that concert I have to look for that tape. Yes the Woodstock instrumental that was the first I got to hear from him after I bought that 3 record set. Allways like to hear that tune Villanova Junction it´s so expressiv and goes under the skin. What a great musician he was sadly he couldn´t go any further. To come to an end I say I didn´t grew up with them since I was born in 1969 but I mostly like a lot of groups back from the 60/70´s, I started listening them when I was age 16.
Thanks again farmboss1 for your nice post I´ll give you best response you really deserve it. +)

Thanks for your post kakaxklan yes I definitely agree with you as for worlds best ever?, you know how magazins are and I just wanted to talk a little about Hendrix so that´s why I wrote this headline, I thought it would catch the eyes. Sadly some people just read the headline and not whats really written underneath..LOL thanks again +)

Yes I know that, as I have read about it enough times, but is it the real truth. Some even say he was forced on alcohol... ???