Jimi Hendrix Wouldn’t Be Famous Today
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2022
- In this episode we discuss why we know the musicians of the 70's and 80's, but not today's.
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I appreciate that this wasn’t a “musicians today aren’t as good as they used to be” commentary but instead calling out the music industry for not respecting today’s musicians. Thank you.
Musicians are just as great today and Rick knows it. The problem is that the labels don't promote real artists anymore, they push whatever simple crap follows their "top seller" formula, ignoring creativity because it isn't a guaranteed sell.
@@chronicalcultivation I afraid the fault spreads well beyond the labels and the industry... Yes they pursue "whatever sells" - but I don't know that has ever been much different. It's our society at large that decides what sells.... what interests us... and I'm afraid after having accommodated many new and different distractions - videos, computers, gaming, social media - music just doesn't occupy the same space it used for the vast majority of people... I hope the changes, of course. I hope we can recover what's been lost as a society - but I just don't know...
Musicians today are just as good if not better. It's the musical industry and landscape that has changed caters to a "different" type of sound.
@@lordjaraxxus663 I COMPLETELY and respectfully disagree. I was there... and enthusiast as you say WERE people on the streets! They bought the records, they went to the concerts, they listen to the radio, and many of them played music themselves as a hobby. In other words, most people were enthusiast… Not just a handful. And I understand your argument, I just don’t agree with it. It sounds like appoint made by a younger person no offense intended. If you’re older, then OK… But it doesn’t sound like a comment that would be made from someone who actually experienced the music of the 1970s.
@@lordjaraxxus663 Baloney. I listened to music morning, noon and night every day in the 60s and 70s. I even turned off the sound of announcers for sports games on TV to listen to music instead and not waste time listening to announcers instead of music. Radio, turntables and amps, concerts and festivals were just as ubiquitous as streaming now. There was always a way to listen to music all day long. Transistor radios were ear plug capable even back in the day. The notion that music today is better and more available than in the 60s is specious sophistry.
The loss of free-form FM radio plays a major role here. In the late 60's, 70's, and even into the 80's, FM had DJs who could basically play whatever they wanted. This allowed numerous artists to break through. Corporate radio with its strict playlists and format have killed the public's access to any great music that might be out there.
Don't forget the fracturing of media as well, everyone can stream absolutely whatever they want, and people can carve out small audiences, but that's where they stay. Niche. Pretty sad.
True that. Radio for the past 20 years at least has been like this unfourtantly. I'm big into bands like rush and zeppelin where all their albums have pretty good material. However, corporate radio just pretty much rehashes the best known songs.
@@nicholasnorris4393 To a point where the songs got dirty from commercial misuse. 'We are the champions' comes to mind. Great song, hurts the ears these days because it is played to death on every event where 'we are champions' (which completly contradict the original song IMHO).
Also, these days its 'money first, music second' while back in the days it was the opposite (yes, everyone still wanted to get paid, but the music was the art, not the moneymaking).
Don’t get it twisted payola was a major contributor to what got played.
@@BG-pg5tu but doesn't the niche mean more people can make a living than the few who were mega stars back then?
I’m so Glad that Jimi Hendrix did become Famous in the 60’s because He influenced many many guitar players to play and He definitely deserves to be remembered through the ages!!!
Most influential electric guitar player of all time.
@@djquinn11 Amen to that!!!
@@djquinn11and the best
I’ve never heard anyone play like him. The reverse voodoo stringing, his giant hands and effortless string jumping hammer ons, the use of his thumb for fretting, the early use of pedals and effects, the minor 9th chords. His licks are instantly recognizable. You can always tell real Hendrix vs someone trying to imitate him.
@@johnwrath3612 Amen to that Brother!!!🎸⚡️🎶🥇☝️😎👍
Jimi was more than a player. He was a creative force.
True. A creative force.
Yes a lot of times people fancy themselves great players just because they can play fast for example and it’s much more than that that makes a musician
YES
I just a rant about that!! Hendrix influenced the British players with the Blues, Michael and Prince. He was quirky enough to be a STAR today..look at Miami Pop and Foxey Lady..
Beato ass ticked me off with this video
No, Hendrix was a DESTRUCTIVE force!
He did more and worse to ruin rock 'n' roll than almost anyone else by causing distortion, NOT cleanliness, to become the norm in rock.
When you play an instrument, it makes you apprecciate great musicianship even more.
this is true. I began piano lessons when I was 9. Eventually I heard Elton John and Billy Joel and I dreamed of playing the way they did. Rick Wakeman. OMG. Keith Emerson. I wanted to play like they did.
I can't play anything. I appreciate anyone who can.
@@peterolbrisch8970 My younger sister and I grew up playing the piano, then I went on to play the trumpet and she the saxophone. When our divorced mother met the man who would become our step-father, we asked him if he played any musical instruments. He confidently told us, "I can play them all." Needless to say, we were both pretty impressed - until, to prove his point, he played a record on his phonograph. We thought that was pretty funny.
Sadly, the inverse is also true: you really start noticing the mediocre stuff ... and there's a lot more of that :)
Frank Zappa explained it the best when he said the old time cigar chomping executives gave the artist free will and when the young college kid executives took over they ruined music because they interjected themselves way too much.
Exactamundo.
@@samrapheal1828 Yes! In Zappa's excellent book, "The Real Frank Zappa Book" from 1989 he definitely talks about what you are saying -- how the old cigar-chompers running the record labels would take a flyer on anyone they thought the kids might like and buy. And then the label execs became young folks who wanted to be as cool as the performers and it all kind of caved in.
I have a friend my age (mid-50s...) whose son is an excellent musician but can't get booked anywhere because all the club owners are my age or older and are imposing their own subjective tastes onto how they promote - - not on putting a big variety of musicians out there and letting different markets evolve naturally.
And make no mistake - for every Hendrix and Fripp and Summers and other amazing musician that surfaced, there was also Donnie & Marie, Mousercise (a platinum record), Tiny Tim, and a ton of other crap that was also put out there in the marketplace. Basically the bosses were willing to make a multitude of bets in many different directions - and many kinds of styles (or lack thereof) could become popular in their own ways. IMHO, today music execs think they are arbiters of coolness, and as such pick and promote narrow monocultures --- pushing into markets, rather than letting markets pull from the amazing range of talents that exist.
@@mirllewist3086 Agree, and we are left with a stagnant music industry. Dont get me wrong I do admire many modern artist but nothing has blown me away probably since MGMT's first album (probably 17 years ago now) and I remember constantly being amazed by albums and singles in the 80's and 90's. Albums like Appetite, Epic, Thriller, Bleach and Nevermind and pretty much every Metallica Album from that time period. Too long to list them all. These works caused seismic shifts in our lives and the culture. I also knew many talented bands in the 2000's looking for a break but very few made the littlest of dents. I was into experiential music so I was lucky because I never had any expectations because my music is strange;)
Now this is interesting. When did this transformation happen?
Ballpark?
Sort of like Umpires who think they're part of the "show" in the sports realm.
I always knew it but never realized it. I have to agree. Where are all the musicians? I started playing a musical instrument in 1965, a cornet. By 67 I switch to a Fender P bass. By 1969 I was in a band and had a hundred close friends and most of them played an instrument. There were 7 kids my age that lived on my street and all of us played an instrument and still do today. Of the 90 that are still alive, all but a few still play. In fact I've got a gig with 5 of them in Austin next week. One of my sons played in the school band for 7 years but nothing more than that. You can lead them to the trough but you can't make them drink. My 2yr old grandson has shown an intense interest in my playing and I vow before I die to teach/show him the lifetime of love playing a musical instrument can bring into your life. 2nd to my family playing a musical instrument has given me the most joy everyday of my life for the past 59 years. Damn, I should be famous after playing that long. O'Well, I think I'll go shred a few.
This reminded me of a interview with Satchel of Steel Panther. He said something along the lines of "I was dedicated to my guitar and became very good at it and then on my first day of music college I meet a couple hundred players that are every bit as good as me." There are a million amazing guitar players these days so who knows how Hendrix would be perceived. Right time, right place. Maybe. Still a legend, innovator, and inspiration no matter what.
Todays musicians skill is thru the roof.songwriting ability is in sub basement. We are taking it with us when we go.
@@mikeloper100 totally agree
A good portion of Hendrix's live stuff is unlistenable. Circus tricks more than music at times. And I'm a big fan!
100% accurate. Centralization of power is always the death of creativity, independence and the individual.
Exactly.
Well said.
Yeah like pop rock wasn't centralized at the time 😂 Columbia anyone? There was just a higher quality and creativity required in order to get the ears and minds of the youth...and shove drugs and communism down their throats. Today they're fine with Taylor Swift and some (c)rappers.
That would have been nice if that's what he actually talked about. But this video is just listing people who were famous *among musicians* in the 70s. Big whoop, I learnt nothing from this except names.
@@e.d.1642that would be your fault
Jimi came up in the perfect era for the type of artist he was. One in a million.
Yes but if he lit his guitar on fire and no one was there to see it and no one filmed it and no director made the movie we wouldn't remember it 50 years later.
Hype.
One in four billion at the time. A flash in the pan, same with Joplin and Morrison. They were unique talents at just the right time.
@@frederickglasser5617 Bullshit. Jimi was way more than that, and he spent the last year of his life trying to get away from the theatrics.
I've always said Hendrix became famous at just the right time. If he had been 5 or 10 years younger, he would have been a very notable R&B artist. The technology just wasn't there in the 50's to do what he was able to do, the psychedelic movement, plus the influence of Bob Dylan on his lyrics wouldn't have been there.
If Axis Bold as Love and Electric Lady Land came out today people would be
blown away! It would be better then sliced bread! And they would be saying how this new Hendrix dude is ahead of his time and rock music would be reborn!!
Most people today don’t know what it was like to grow up in the 1970s and buy all those great albums with much anticipation. You would put the album on and have the cover to stare at, often with lyrics and a poster.
this is my jam. what I used to do all the time when I was a kid. I still get that thrill today when I go record shopping. absolutely kills me when someone buys a new record and never opens it and hangs it on their wall. I see reddit posts, "Should I open it?" I just scream.
Record labels have entirely abandoned the signing and promotion of new rock bands and artists in this new, corporate profit dictates all day we now live in. Hendrix would be lucky to get 1 thousand subscribers on his RUclips channel if he debuted in these times, would be ignored and buried by the music steaming platforms, and would receive no promotion nor distribution throughout the cultural zeitgeist
I have over sixty Hendrix albums and listene to a lot of different styles. People are into music that you can dance to . Jimi could play funky too but most of it can't be danced to so it wouldn't appeal to the hip-hop and dance crowd .
It hits hard when you're 14. I'm not as easily impressed at 62!
After studying real guitar(Spanish Classical) for years I became disappointed in my heroes' technique.
Most bands in the 60's and 70's had signature style and for the most part one band could not be confused with another, same with a few bands in the 80's and fewer in the 90's and so on, none today, so sad.
There are definitely bands and artists today I can distinctly recognize by just hearing their music.
I was a garage drummer in the 70's. All the guitar players loved Hendrix, Clapton , Page. They had riffs and solos that carried the bands. The school band guys could read music and excelled. Drums and piano went hand and hand. There's something lost today.
The experience as a band was tight as hell too.
Exactly true. If you can't play a blues solo, you lose 33% of all music.
Hendrix, Garcia, will live forever in the hearts and souls of young and old who appreciate genius. I meet so many young Deadheads,it's encouraging. ❤❤❤❤❤
If Hendrix would be still around of course there would be great influence. It is the spirit of love and peace.
This reminds me of a comment I read some years ago that went like this "Boomers can't complain about today's music being worse since they are the ones that cut music programs from schools."
I think there might be some truth to that statement.
I really appreciate that Rick jumps straight into his videos! No intro, no ads, no BS, he goes straight into it. I love it!
Rick
You should do a deep dive on ‘Third Stone from the Sun’
It was years ahead of its time and still sounds incredible today
A jazz rock masterpiece !!
Jimi’s brilliant use of feedback and beautiful octave melody line ala Wes Montgomery
The psychedelic lyrics as if from an Alien in Space ! Wow
Mitch’s amazing jazz drumming
!!!!
In many ways the musicians of the 70’s and 80’s are incredibly famous to this day because they are the first to ever do what they did, they way that they did it. If you look at the staying power of Jimi, Queen, Van Halen, etc; it is so much more than anything that will ever be enjoyed by future generations of musicians.
If anything, music is becoming more and more disposable over time. If things keep going on this trajectory, hit songs might last a week instead of a month and never be heard from again, but people will still be listening to Hey Joe and Panama because of their musical ability but more importantly because of the cultural relevance of a song that was listened to by multiple generations.
I recently thought about this with my wife, who was not interested in the subject. Just 15 years ago (2008), if you wanted to listen to a band or a song multiple times, on demand it wasn’t easy. You had to walk into a music store or a dept store, find the CD that the song was on, determine that the rest of the albums wasn’t total crap, then walk up to the counter and say, hey “this is something that I’m willing to pay $15 for”, and walk out with it. You were basically saying, this is who I am, in some small way.
How many kids today would be willing to pay $15 or more for a whole physical CD of something like Miley Cyrus, Meghan the Stallion, or whatever people find themselves listening to these days? How many would be willing to bet that this artist can produce 10 or more songs that are worth paying for and spending time on? I can guarantee that streaming has created this disconnect with the music that used to always be there.
If you like Nirvana today, it takes almost no effort or money to listen to just about everything that they ever published. On the contrary, if you really liked Nirvana in 1992, you had to go to the store, find the CD, pull it out of the shelf amount 1,000s of other options, walk up to the counter and put $20 bucks of your hard earned money on the counter. That was a big deal and nothing today comes close to that experience except for buying concert tickets.
Consider this also: more and more concert-goers are more interested in recording the gig, and posting it online, than truly enjoying the experience. One could conclude (obviously), that people are more interested and invested in their own celebrity than that of any musician, band or artist.
It's actually weird watching old concerts (15 years and more) and everybody is just standing there seeing the show. All the memories people have now will be of a four inch screen
To add to your theory. Young people record and post shows of artists, nit because of the music, but in case they capture some kind of reality TV moment. Rapper Little Yacht is more famous for fighting before and or after his show than for his music. His squables make him famous when they captured by fans and posted on tictok.
I mean, there's also the angle of wanting to have it for posterity. I'm really glad people recorded, say, the Jeff Beck performances at Jazz Fest I attended, because now I can go relive some of those moments.
I guess music, and playing music was more fun back then, because of less distructions from social media drug
THAT is so true and SO annoying! You go to a LIVE concert and half of the audience is watching the LIVE concert through a display 🤦🏼♂️ It‘s ridiculous!
Hendrix wasn’t just a guitar player. He came in and did something that wasn’t done before. If he was in present time, he would certainly come up with something innovative that would bubble him to the top of Instagram.
True, but isn‘t somebody like Tim Henson with his „glitch“ guitar parts, or Tosin Abasi with his amazing technique doing this as well - coming up with something that has not been done before? Up to now, they are only known to guitarists, I guess. It does not reach the public attention somehow. Jesus, I want my MTV back and share records and CD‘s with friends.
If he was alive today, John Mayer would still be playing acoustic!
@@7Boots those guess are great guitarist however Jimi had all that plus the showmanship theatrics and style that few artists have. Can you imagine him on the festival Circuit right now? Nobody would want to go on after him! Plus he was a master at the recording studio. He would be able to be able to do so much more now because he wouldn’t have worry about spending money at expensive recording studios. He would shine because he would be big on Instagram, touring, and on the radio.
@@TempleGuitars He is still alive...
@@7Boots The Problem I think with this type of players is, that they don't play Pop music. They play very "artsy" technical complex songs, that don't cater to a brighter audience. Alle the amazing bands and players that Rick mentioned, play or played in popular bands that made popular music.
Thank you for bringing this to light. As a guitarist of 36 years and classically trained, I feel that this is lost in the world.
Most of today's music is producer driven with a lot of studio magic
I was a professional guitarist in the 60s and knew every note played by those that you mentioned. IMO, the demise of creativity in the music industry coincided with the introduction of big money control of the content. Musical talent had a better chance to rise to the top when the entertainment industry was run by musicians. Today it no longer is.
It doesn’t surprise me that if the music industry is run by musicians, great musicians are going to get a lot of recognition. As a guitarist, I know how I feel whenever I sit in a jamming session with somebody that has a real amazing talent. You can’t shut up about it to your friends. This is especially the case with her musician friends. Before that kid knows it, other people are coming up to them and wanting to play some music with them. I imagine that in an industry wide type setting it’s no wonder things wound up the way they did.
It's also true with film. Let's not pretend that both music and film were run by studios early on. Something happened in the 60s and 70s (stretched into the 80s) that produced both great music and film. Whatever happened waned as each decade passed. I can't think of a song I am truly moved by since the early 2000s. In that same period, I can't think of a film ("TV" series excluded) that caught my fancy either. Am I just old and shouting at clouds?
@@ThenISaidHey the only band of this age that comes to mind would be the Foo Fighters (songs like Everlong, Rope, My Hero, are fairly moving. There are a few others but they dont seem to be popular. Nowadays a few tv programs are still amazing, but they often get dragged out too long
The internet killed the music industry dead. Managers, labels, bands come and go. Trends come and go but the internet turned the industry on its head. Big money can be good or bad. It's a tool. Bands today no longer have someone shaping the bands aesthetic, their clothes, how they are billed and advertised or a producer that spends months or a year or two working with then. The money is gone all but for a few chosen ones that are also likely to be created from scratch by a producer under orders from corporate media executives.
bingo!!
Hendrix was extremely innovative as well as skilled. Todays biggest stars are often marked by their personality. Given how talented and creative Hendrix was it is hard to imagine that he wouldn’t be famous with the platforms, musical tools, and his ability to be an icon, or in todays terms: influencer.
ABSO-LUTELY
Exactly. If hendrix is alive today he'd find a way to merge everything that came before, and he'd have waaaaaaaay more choices of pedals
Unfortunately most young people don’t care about guitar it’s not as popular as it once was lots of the youth enjoy rap music or catchy pop songs
I venture to guess both of those who even entertained that idea haven't climbed Everest.... Hendrix sonically was and is a master, these clowns should invest in playing from the heart. Oh yeah, that's right.... they are the expert, who don't tour, no records just .... talk of an expert. A laugh... bad one at that.
jeff, your brain washed!… hendrix sucks!
Bob Erlendson just passed away at 93. He played with Lenny Breau. Lenny of course, taught Randy Bachman. I was so lucky to have studied under Bob.
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Actually Hendrix had trouble making it in the U.S, that's why he went to the U.K. He was a great songwriter and extremely creative. The dude was quiet but definately had charisma too. So IMO Jimi was a total package, not just a great player!
I think, Hendrix is one of the few exceptions who could actually make it today, but not because of his McCartney/Stevie Wonder/Prince like genius, but because he also looked like the coolest cat around. And in today's music business looks are sadly everything.
@@ursula3438 I would respectfully disagree on your point about looks. Ed Sheehan ain’t pretty, but he sure sells a lot of records. A single of his is almost guaranteed #1. I would also argue hendrixs’ genius is just as stellar as any of the fore mentioned musicians you named, perhaps even more so
@@bluesenthused7244 Sry, I think I worded that wrong. I'm a huge Jimi fan and wanted to actually say that to me he's in the same league as Macca, Stevie and Prince.
@@bluesenthused7244 Maybe it's not solely about looks but it's definitely about image, wouldn't you agree?
Back in the day, white Americans had a difficult time of accepting a black man as a star. Well that seems to be every decade. So, of course Hendrix had to do it in England and when Americans saw that the Brits loved him, then they wanted to own Hendrix as their own. For example, Americans, especially the lighter-toned folks, have to follow the leader, hence you have trump and 30% of the population committing crime like storming the Capitol.
A few years ago my mother and her friend would have afternoon teaand I would join them. They were in their eighties. One afternoon we were talking about music and I mentioned Jimi Hendrix.
"He was such a lovely boy," my mums friend said.
"Did you know him?" I asked her.
She had met him after befriending his girlfriend. He had told her that sometimes he felt lonely here in the UK, so she invited them to her house for afternoon tea and sandwiches. It became a regular thing for them. She said she had no idea who he was other then he was an extremely polite, lonely American who played music for a living. Apparently her called her his English mom.
Cool story bro.
Great story.👍
What a story
Wow
And Al Capone lived with my great grandma (Mamma Uch) in the Bronx before he went to Chicago.
I have seen many of your videos - thank you so much for them! This one is pretty sad. I‘m so glad that we have the music of these real virtuosos!
Rick mostly answered his own question. In the 70's and 80's people were into learning an instrument and also paying attention to the player-ship of other musicians. With the internet there are too many distractions, people pay less attention to instruments themselves, they just want a catchy song now.
In the 70s the US had significantly higher top marginal tax rates which meant schools were well funded enough for music programmes to flourish
Being a former computer programmer, I would have to say that technology (especially smart phones, social media, and video games) along with a total lack of appreciation of history, music, etc., has damaged or has abused our culture. My sister constantly has to tell her two daughters to get off the phone or playing video games.
I recall that John Lennon song "You Don't Know What You Got, Until You Lose It." rings loudly in head regarding this subject. Not having everything at your fingertips makes people not appreciate those good aspects of our culture. Being a 1970s kid, I remember actually being bored. Only having four channels of TV; no VCR's or DVDs; having to wait for several months for that good movie to be released in the theaters; had to use my allowance to buy the latest magazine to find out about the next great movie; having radio, vinyl, or 8 track to hear music; only having PONG or the arcades, which you needed quarters to play.
Being bored, I actually had to GO OUTSIDE or START A HOBBY or WORK ON A CRAFT.
Now I can't down RUclipsrs too much. Just to be popular with significant subscribers takes hard work. However for one of content creator like yourself, Rick, there is a thousand plus who make garbage RUclips videos and get much more subscribers: Playing and recording video games, unboxing videos, girls putting on makeup only, guys doing JACKASS stunts, etc.
It's just too easy to have people with this flood of technology to revert to their base and lazy desires. Instead to trying to perfect the art (music, movies, etc.) people go to the bottom of the barrel. And then there is TikTok.
Yep. Boredom leads to creativity.
Nowadays, even though ppl are bored, they are never truly bored as they are consuming something or other 247.
@@kingsouther they are bored, but apparently busy consuming mindlessly whatever is on the phone
@@rgssaurus930 yeah, they cant create when they constantly consume
Wow I'm so glad I did read this long comment!! 😅👍🏻 It's also something that most people don't do anymore I guess...
I don't think the technology is the problem, older people has been saying "radio shows are going to ruin the youth" "cinema is bad, censor movies " "tv is going to make stupid kids " videogames... I made my point, the problem is now these days everyone is offended, everyone is special, not because you do something better than others or you worked hard to create something, you're special just because you're there ... Breathing and taking selfies making stupid dances on tik tok ... So kids these days they believe they're awesome, great, SPECIALS !well they aren't, mediocrity is the problem, not even trying to do better, not at least take the time to truly master and learn something, again, technology this day could be very helpful, you could learn how to play an instrument just watching RUclips but ... I don't see that happening at least not in a significant amount
Just remember, Jimi Hendrix played Backup for many Soul and R&B Acts before going Solo. A Guitarist has to Know Rhythm; Chords, Different Time Signatures and Inverted Chords to Function in these Genres. Jim would get bored and play Scorching Lead Solos over Chord Changes, it resulted in James Brown Punching Hendrix, He was traded to Otis Redding for a couple Horn Players. Billy Cox stated Some Soul and R&B Acts weren't prepared for Jimi stepping out of bounds and adding Lead Solos when he was supposed to play strictly Rhythm. Some of these Bands would leave Jimi Stranded in the Middle of Nowhere. Jimi played Backup for King Curtis; Jackie Wilson, James Brown, Otis Redding, Curtis Knight, The Marvellettes, Ike & Tina Turner, John Hammond Jr, Little Richard, Joey Dee & the Starliters, Marvin Gaye, BB King, Sam Cooke and The Isley Brothers. Jimi Hendrix loved Jazz; Classical, Folk, Rock, Blues, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Country & Funk. Jimi Hendrix considered Bob Dylan a Master Lyricist and studied his Compositions. Jimi jammed with Miles Davis, Larry Young, Roland Kirk, Stanley Clarke, Wayne Shorter, Les Paul, John Mclaughlin and Other Jazz Musicians Producer Alan Douglas could Line him up With. Guitar Greats that love Jimi Hendrix Joe Satriani; Stevie Vai, John Mclaughlin, George Benson, Les Paul, Kenny Burrell, Slash, Ritchie Blackmore, Yngwei Malmsteen, SRV, Carlos Santana, Eric Johnson, Edward Van Halen, Tony Iommi, Jake E Lee, and Countless Others. Music Universitys and Jazz Musicians regard Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis as 2 of the most Innovative Musicians of the 20th Century. His Position in Modern Music is Unmovable. Period. Rest in Peace Jimi Hendrix.
I apreciate the left in the middle of nowhere part. It happens alot. My style is like Zappa I started very young. I know what its like to be stranded in a sea of cheese! But also I know what it feels like to have solos cut short "cut throat"...onstage by a band I was playing with. And I am not going on a fusion rant either. Just being intentionally stepped on.
So great comment. Thank you.
@@peter-ek3uh that's when you go sailing
@@arthurdent1097 Primus is awesome!
*universities
If you ever saw Jimi Hendrix live in person you would know that Hendrix was such an extraordinary talent and so original and he was an extraordinary talent as a performer singer song writer arranger and image icon ! Anyone who still reverberates as strongly as Hendrix over 50 years would be a star today !
Rick, I'm 60, this era was mine too. My mom was a studio pianist in the SF Bay Area in the 60s and 70s. I still have about 700 LP's from that era. I grew up going to Bill Grahm presents Day On The Green concerts at the Oakland Colusseum. I'm not really complaining or dumping on the current generation, I want them to have their time too, but I do kinda fear that this special time of monster bands and the monster musicians that supported or led them is fading into never-never land. Keep doing your great work, and keep talking about it. Peace.
There was a lot more to Hendrix than his playing (though that was definitely legendary). He was a powerful writer, striking performer, and evocative vocalist as well. Hendrix 2022 would've been a different artist than Hendrix 1967 - but I suspect he would've still made an impact.
I agree totally.... I also think Jimmy's passion for music, skill, and being in touch with that day's topic ...he still would have been a star
Leon Is Still Alive. Does he use auto tune? Consider the Quest Tion
Yup, he'd be also influenced by different people, music...
Yeah I think if he came out today he'd probably be on the same level as Joe Bonamassa. Not nearly as famous but still a successful artist with a decent following. Or maybe he would go the Pop route and be super famous and have a bunch of Grammy's like John Mayer.
You've got Lil Nas X as today's Hendrix.
When Rick said “ I know, I remember, I was there”, I got watery eyes. I’ll be 68 in a few days. I remember also.
And as I watch these guys pass on, it makes me sad and I think about my own mortality.
Rick forgot to mention Leon Russel, who sang “How many days has it been since I was born? How many days ‘till I die?”
Leon was involved in so many other artists, producing, singing, playing keys, guitar, bass.
He helped make the Bangla Desh concert happen for George Harrison, bailed Joe Cocker out of his visa problems with the “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” tour.
Yep, these guys were star’s because of their musicianship. Great post, Rick.
I'm 58 in November. I DO remember hearing Van Halen for the first time.
50 for me in Feb. I'm sad that time is flying by so quickly.
@@RyanStone143 it flies ever faster. Believe me
Yea, me too, 68 in September n I'm not too happy about it either but I also was " There " where concerts were always $4 for three famous major acts!
Leon Russell was one of THE BEST SHOWS I ever saw (for example I saw ELP play at the same venue a month later, doing Tarkus, just out). FANTASTIC, his voice gave out at the end and he still did 3 songs that rocked the place. The place was on it's feet. I had a short guy I went with on my shoulders (all he could see was shoulders) for some of the show. Perhaps in the top ten or most under rated acts of that time. You may not know him but you've HEARD HIM. Find the documentary movie The Wrecking Crew.
If people had never heard or seen someone play guitar like that, today? Jimi would be famous all over again. That was the condition when he came about. And that's why he's a legend.
I could not agree more. It doesn’t matter the style of music, because everything changes, but it’s really fun to hear superb musicianship. You don’t get so much of that these days unless you’re into jazz. I took music lessons at school and played in the band from grade 7 through grade 12. It gave me a really good appreciation of songs and music and how things are put together. And it’s a beautifully non-digital experience. You blow into the instrument, move your fingers, and these amazing rich tones come out. Unless you’re learning, and horrible squawks and squeaks come out. It also teaches you to work together for a common cause, a common sound.
You've got to remember that if Hendrix came up during this time he wouldn't make the same music he made back in the 60s. He took what people were doing before him and pushed in a way where his influence is still being felt today. He was one of the most creative minds music has ever witnessed and I'm sure he would find ways to innovate today as he did in the 60's. To say that nobody would know who Hendrix was if he came up nowadays is a statement made without factoring in his personality.
Exactly, the cream always finds a way to rise to the top.
Really true! I strongly disagree that Jimmy wouldn't be famous today. He was was way ahead of his time! And to think that sadly he passed away at a tender 27. Imaging what he would have done if he did go on for many years after that!!!!
That he wouldn't be great or innovative or a "top" musician isn't the point guys. Would he be famous?
How many guitar players in their 20s are famous today? Almost none. How many were in 1969? Quite a bit more. That's the point of the video.
@@saytr4 you missed the point of his comment a bit
@@corneliusrawness ..but not the video.
'How many diamonds have been overlooked in the pursuit of coal?' That saying pretty much sums up today's music and music industry ( and why Jimi Hendrix wouldn't be famous today ).
You got it all wrong . Jimi would wipe the map with everyone today !!!
@@aldito7586 Too true. I was on good terms with the late Eddie Clarke, former guitarist of Motorhead and he told me no guitarist before or since could match him onstage.
With RUclips, Jimi would have been global.
Beatles is all wrong Hendrix was a great live improviser. He would be all over internets with his own content, music, Beatos music sucks and depressing he really doesn’t know anything besides regular music theory of the common practice. Beatos is uncreative, same as Berlin, it’s a big mystery for people like them, and all the rest of music teachers that really never had a clue about anything.
Jacob Collier is famous. Snarky Puppy are famous. Not Drake level famous but famous enough. So why wouldn't Jimi 2022 be famous?
We have John Mayer out here being a star. Somehow, we arguing that Hendrix wouldn't be a star? The music industry no longer has a monopoly on who and what everyone listens to. That is what we asked for and now we have it. Everyone upset about the change they asked for 20 years ago. We can complain that it didn't turn out the way we would have liked. Need to just accept people are getting access to things they want easily now. Perhaps, it is low brow in some peoples opinions. I think what we need to realize is we probably wouldn't have ever heard of Abasi or Henson if we didn't have social media access like we do now. All it would have took was one chump in the music industry to shut those guys down. They'd would scoff at Henson for not singing. How does that sell albums? They'd just be in clubs in LA or Nashville with no exposure. Everyone has opportunity now in many ways. Who cares if the music industry isn't driving it. The people are.
You could have used the whole video just listing the greats, I was almost in tears. I get it. 👍
When I was a kid growing up in Detroit, Motown was in the air. One day, a friend and I decided to go buy some records. He picked up "David Ruffin Sings Top Ten", and I took a chance on "Are You Experienced". We spun the Ruffin record on my parents' Curtis Mathis console, and it pleasingly met our expectations. Then I pulled out the Hendrix album, with the art-damaged fish-eye freaks adorning its cover, put it on and cranked it up. It had a stunningly new and raw energy that was almost frightening to behold. While we were absorbing the sonic explosion, a stranger walked off the street, slid open the door-wall and stuck his head inside to listen. Hendrix was blasting a new frontier.
We were totally immersed in music in the 70s. We learned all the lyrics, read music mags cover to cover and everyone was in a band.
Very true. That was the "it" thing back then. Music and albums coming out. Now it's the latest Netflix show or whatever TV show is out. People are really not all that publically interested in music anymore. Not on the grand scheme that everyone would be anticipating a certain album to come out. No one talks about music like that anymore. Everyone keeps to themselves about it and it doesn't feel like much of a shared experience anymore.
@@CGMiller
Beato recently did a great vid on just that aspect, check it out.
Billy Shehan said in an interview that the difference between “the good ol’ days” and today is that the number of local clubs and venues have dropped and today’s up and coming players don’t get a chance to develop like groups in 50’s through the 70’s. Between DJ’s and karaoke clubs, there aren’t many live gig situations. Heck, by the time the Beatles were “discovered”, they were polished musicians with thousands and thousands of live gigs behind them! So many of the names you mentioned were polished before anyone knew about them and then they blew people away! Eddie Van Halen was ready for his shot when he got his chance because he’d done his homework and knew what he wanted to achieve. The same for all the rest on your list!
Nowadays it seems that more than most bars just want a DJ or karaoke. Live music bars are very few and far between here in Toronto at least. It also seems to me that most audiences don't want bands where the players are flashy. The we get into all of the tribute bands. Heck, we have at least 4 AC/DC copy bands but I don't know how they mange to get enough work to survive. In the 70s, I was playing in bands and we pretty much gigged 6 nights a week for months on end. I don't know of a single venue that has live music any night other than a Friday or Saturday. It's really sad.
Yeap, nowadays being in a band and getting somewhere is so fucking hard, to find people that have the drive to do it, then to see that local music barely gets any support even when talented, places to play just keep closing and no new open, it's rough to start a band when the avenues that existed back then have substantially disappeared
Speaking to Billy Sheehan's comment, John Scofield eloquently said in his interview with Rick, "There aren't enough crappy gigs around anymore."
I totally agree.
The Beatles weren’t polished musicians.
The problem is that today’s players aren’t advertised or played on the radio today. I believe if classic rock stations would mix in their playlists with some of the modern day players, we can bring them to the surface. I believe if we change what classic rock means from music of a certain era to just great rock music regardless of era, we can bring this music back.
I haven’t listened to modern music for quite some time. Today I’m trying to discover the greats of the past because that’s where the great music is. I know all the classic acts like like The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Queen, etc., but since COVID happened, I’ve been exploring long forgotten bands of the past that are great that should still be playing on the radio such as Uriah Heep, Rainbow, The Sweet, UFO, The Left Banke, Vanilla Fudge, 70s era Scorpions, etc. these are bands I’ve not heard on the radio and discovered on my own. These are groups that were playing long before I was born. I wish today’s music was this good, but I must go to the past to get my musical fix, because today’s music is lost on me.
I am grateful I am alive today, because I can go back to the past and examine yesterday’s music at the drop of a hat. The only downside is I can’t see many of these bands live as most of them have members who have long passed away.
Its what Ive said all along. Modern rock music cannot stand on its own two feet. forcing people to listen to it is where they are.
Jimi beyond being a top#1 player he was also a fashion style star! he has the Force. He will shine and rise in 2023 media way
Hendrix was/is a force of nature. Zappa a genius. Ya can't stop those trains. 🎸🎼
Yeah you can, it's called an entire generation that neither cares nor wants to care about jimi.
Two of my top guitarists/musicians/composers of all time. 😎
@@TheRoadhammer379 or good music today's generation short attention span
@@TheRoadhammer379people today also pay to go to 3 day festivals to see an “artist” hit play on a laptop and call themselves a DJ.
The reason I say that musicians of the past that were great, wouldn’t be popular today, is that the young musicians today that are great at what they do are not popular (mainstream). Back when I was young, the big festivals like Woodstock, Atlanta pop festival, Isle of Wight, were headlined by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, and so forth. I asked my son if these festivals were held today, who would headline? Answer, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish. Music has changed! This is where we are. I like the old stuff, and any new stuff where musicianship rules.
I’ve said this for an eternity. I truly agree. So many artists then are mere RUclipsrs today. Neil Young said similarly he’d have no chance today because he didn’t look the part and didn’t fit into MTV’s mold.
mtv is not today old timer lol
@@noahleach7690 I assumed Neil said that in the 80s or 90s because MTV is non existent now it seems
@@noahleach7690 what he means is that “similarly, back in the day, Neil Young had commented on the historical equivalent of that time- MTV”
True.
Teen aged girls had posters of David Gilmour and Jimmy Page on their walls not because they were cute but because they were great guitar players and everybody from high school kids to grandparents had favorite musicians. A favorite guitar player or favorite drummer etc...From the early jazz age up thru the rock era and in to the nineties musicianship was valued by the general public. Then something happened. Ask a kid today who their favorite guitar player is. Can they even name a guitar player? Or any musician for that matter?
I love Rick and his enthusiasm for music these videos are goldust
Cool video and I agree. I've been saying the band members back then had a different appreciation for music. Many of them were classically trained had a completely different appreciation for their art then nowadays. There are still musicians like that but it's definitely not common like it once was.
Hendrix CHANGED the music style of the day. Before his entrance to the scene, we were playing the kind of rock, that was very melodic and vocally strong. Jimi brought a WHOLE different style of brutal attack and we had our mouths open, knowing that this would be a a new style of the future to come.
Every solo was lick oriented, and we saw the challenge in learning his style. ( Not mentioned..was the introduction of the unwrapped third string. Suddenly, we were able to bend the 3rd, which led to so many more riffs to learn. The fact that his vocals was the tension in a line, his shadow playing, following the vocal line...was a challenging, but important part.)
Ohhh.. and by the way, I'm 70 years old and was blown away by his ability to create and play the rhythms to "EASY RIDER", "LITTLE WING", "NIGHTBIRD FLYING" with such ease.. His stent with the Isley Brothers, taught him R&B rhythms that furthered his knowledge...
Well enough said. You had to be there, to know and feel the iconic change to the musical of the day.
@WeCanOnlyWish: AMEN!!!!
There was absolutely nothing original about Hendrix. Paul McCartney's fiery & psychedelic guitar bridge on Harrison's "Taxman" (released August 1966) inspired Hendrix with Purple Haze where he used some of the same triplets.. No doubt McCartney was himself inspired by The Yardbirds song "Shapes of Things" (Feb. 1966) and The Byrds "Eight Miles High" (March 1966). Then there is the Paul Butterfield Blues Band with their "East-West" (Aug. 1966).
Then a LOUD THUNDEROUS EPLOSION from Eric Clapton on the Fresh Cream album (Dec. 1966) with his guitar bridge/solo on "Spoonful". First genuine heavy metal example that inspired Jimmy Page, Hendrix and others.
Plus there was distorted fuzz guitar going back to 1959 and numerous other influences and great guitarists like the lead guitarist for Bill Haley and His Comets in the early 1950's (and before).
I guess if you like a steady diet of the pentatonic minor then Hendrix is for you but he proved himself to have plateaued with that horrendous "Band of Gypsies" performance. I still remember how disappointed I was after purchasing the album way back in 1971 (or maybe in was 1972 when I had a bit more money to waste).
The amount of talent that goes unnoticed in today's society is enormous the music industry is a lottery in my opinion..
I'd say it's a reverse talent show, selecting the worse.
I think the “problem” is there are just many more great players. Random search on RUclips and you can find 13 year olds playing Mr. Crowley note for note.
@@whitedog510 yeah, but the vast majority of those kids won't ever make a solo that will stand the test of time like Mr.Crowely and that's the problem.
Too many great players that play other people's music instead of busting their ass off learning and sculpting their very own sound that isn't just technical wankery and a part of finding your own sound is being in a band. Bedroom Guitarists basically exist in their own echo chambers and they all end up sounding like Vai clones or Patrucci clones.
@@whitedog510 . Yes. But, copying music and creating original music are two totally different things.
@@TallicaMan1986 As Rick (and others) said, the disappearance of music venues is to blame for a large part of that aspect.
Even showing me the hammer ons on the G Major Scale in your beginner video inspired me to pick up my guitar 🎸 again.
I learned from Mark Abrahamian from Starship With Mickey Thomas.
I sing 🎤 now yet you’re presentation and reverence for the music reminds me that we make the offering of music from the soul..which feeds and nourishes us.
As Delbert Bump (A Jazz Teacher from Solono College) said:It’s Conflict/Resolution..
We resolve the note..
Together..
I totally agree. Musicianship and talent are going unseen and unappreciated
I’ve always thought Jimi Hendrix was dramatically underestimated as both a songwriter and a lyricist (‘footprints dressed in red…’, 'her fiery green gown sneers at the grassy ground...' ). His musicianship takes centre stage for obvious reasons but his big, loose virtuosity is almost always happening in the context of really superb songs (Crosstown Traffic, Foxy Lady, Bold as Love, etc.)
I have the same feeling about Chet Atkins: a kind of' songwriters virtuoso'. There’s always a hook. Always something compelling-even… commercial-in the rhythm, the melody…
I guess I think that when musicianship is beautifully integrated into compelling musicality in songwriting that’s when it works. So on that logic, there's still a place for a modern day Hendrix (as long as they're not technically good in a way that is remote from compelling musicality).
On the other hand, it feels like the age of the instrument is somehow over. I have a little song I wrote about my wife and I called 'The people we aren' t'. It has some lines in the second verse that I like:
The people we aren't keep reminding me
the 1960s was a long, long time ago
and you can't hitch-hike anymoe--
no you won't get very far
with a hand written poem and an old guitar...
I feel exactly the opposite.
It is easy to write poems
When you have nothing to say
Stringing empty words on patterns
That impress as mere word-play.
@@dariusus9870 Sounds like you're confusing real poetry w/exactly what you're mentioning: "Stringing empty words on patterns...mere word-play" The two are vastly different from each other, and writing true poetry requires great skill. Of course there are many ppl who don't recognize or can't properly interpret true poetry, and therefore conflate the two...
@@persephone1062 help me understand what "true" or "real" poetry is. What is that which makes lyrics to be true poetry? Just because I've used some lyrics to express my opinion on Jimmi' writing doesn't mean that I'm confusing anything. But if you ask me what's real poetry i couldn't say nor do i believe that such ridiculousness exists. There are lyrics that one likes and lyrics that one doesn't like. As I've said in my previous comment " i feel exactly the opposite" it's a feeling, a subjective interpretation. But maybe they's an objective measurement of "realness" that i don't know about. To me, Hendrix's lyrics are nothing more than merely words that sometimes may rhyme.
And just to be sure, are the lyrics that i wrote in my comment true poetry or not?
Jimi Hendrix wasn't just a guitar player though. If you'll forgive my pun, he was an experience. He was a songwriter, and a performer with attitude and flare. I can see him being huge on social media if he came along today and people would want to go to his shows to see him live.
you both gentleman seem like English might be your mother tongue, did you mean to say 'flair' instead of 'flare' or am I missing something?
@@tusharjamwal Not native speaker, but they mean it as like "the spark", "the brightness".
@@brunoactis1104 no, they both misspelled "flair". They meant showmanship, not brightness.
I get what Rick is saying but using jimi as the example is a bad choice to get your point across. 100% jimi Hendrix would be massive if he came out in 2022
Jimi Hendrix invented a certain style of playing that changed guitar playing and the music industry. Without him, I wonder if music would be where it is today. If he came out in 2022, I believe he would still be a star since his style of music may not have yet been invented. If I am speaking out of my back-side, listen to what Clapton and McCartney said about Hendrix when he came out.
I am a private music teacher. I teach drums, guitar and piano. Just in one city (Raleigh) I have had more than 100 students in the last 4 years. I have friends teaching in different music stores, each store have around 7 to 15 music teachers. Each teacher can have around 15 students (just in one store). In this area there is a lot of music schools and more than 50 private instructors. People still learning music like in the old days. That is not the problem
There are several reasons why music stars in the 70's were different:
1. The electric guitar was an instrument that was still being explore. People were fascinated by the new sounds you could get with this instrument. Today the fascination is more about music styles.
2. Musicians just wanted to play music. Most of them did not know anything about how to manage the music as a product. Ergo, they needed the labels to promote them. Today musicians don't need a label to promote their music.
3. The music industry has no point in today's world. The labels take around 85% of all the profits generated by the Artist's music (and a lot of times they owned the master-track). In the 70's, this was acceptable because they needed the industry to make their career. Today, an average musician doesn't need the label to promote the product. There is literally no reason for new artists to sign a deal with a label today; why should a musician allow the industry take most of their profit when they can record and promote the music by themselves?
4. There is a incredible short spam of attention between new generations.
As a result, you have the big labels investing in established artists/producers/arrangers/composers, and buying old music because they don't know what to do with new artists. They need to invest the money in things they know it will be profitable for them (which is fine), but as a result you have all the attention focused in a few established artists while new Artists have problems to break through.
I don't think musicians owned the music industry in the 70's, it was actually the other way around. Even the Beatles talked about how the industry owned their music. Musicians were (and still are) exploited by the industry (you can take Taylor Swift as an example: she needed to record all her music again). Today, we have more independent artists than ever.
We have artists like Jimi Hendrix today, they just don't have a big label putting it in your face like before. They don't have the capital money to compete in a super-start level, but they still have fans.
You're not missing anything Rick! Growing up we were immersed in music and musicians. I was two years old when I first heard Doris Day. Growing up in the late 50s and 60s was exhilarating to say the least. It's so different now.
Jimi is still famous among musicians. All guitar players aspire to play like Jimi. His music and playing was pure style. What keeps all past musicians famous is media such as ads, movies, etc. I can listen to Hendrix all day and night and needless to say I grew up listening to all the greats. They will never die in my book.
Right that is the other side of it. All the other musicians would have helped make him famous( like they already did in real life) so he still would've been known and famous. Do the formula backwards, other people already said they liked him the best, his performances too would be a big part of that. Get real he would still be known. By word of mouth
@@alanmiller2250 His compositions and how he played them is what made him great. Just as any other composer. Many other musicians of his era were blown away by his form of playing.
If the music wasn't great there wouldn't be ads, movies etc featuring it. Bach and Mozart have been dead for hundreds of years but thier names are known around the globe. They didn't have electricity, radio, light bulbs or horseless carriages when they died. The music was good enough that when they composed it and wrote it on paper it could be performed and recorded by people born hundreds of years later. That is the power of music.
I agree👍🏼👍🏼
But if he showed up tomorrow on AGT, Hendrix would be overlooked. Dylan would be sent home for being nasally and being "not camera friendly."
Hendrix is phenomenal, and part of it is due to WHEN he hit. If he had all of the same songs, but they were released as new songs today, nobody would notice, and that is mind-blowing to consider, because Jimi will always be a king to me.
Frank Zappa often said the same about the industry in the 80’s!! Theres an interview where he talks about how even though executives in the 60s and 70s were out of touch with youth and new music, they still *took the risks* and signed artists who were new and experimental.
But once the *generation* of the 60s and 70s were in power in the industry, their tastes reflected the “music = a commercial product” model, and had they favored sterile and monochromatic, easily marketable pop music over better music.
It's the same corporate trend we see in movies. They dream of a formula that repeats and prints money. It's why they keep making the same super hero movies over and over, and mindlessly remake successful films from the previous generation. Many of the truly great films would never be made today.
Zappa was kind of correct (the execs of the 60s and 70s were mostly older jazz or r&b fans who didn't understand younger acts but realized it and took risks) and incorrect (marketable pop music WAS ALWAYS the priority... $ALE$ are always what matters at the end of the fiscal year). In his own case, Tom Wilson, a black jazz producer who Bob Dylan had picked to produce his records, signed The Mothers to Verve (as he did with The Velvet Underground) by telling the label they were "a white blues rock band... like Butterfield) based on seeing a gig... then when Zappa had free reign in the studio Wilson was on the phone with the label telling them "uh... well... it's more than white blues... just trust me on this one, though... it's important." Wilson had enough cred and clout that the label just trusted him... and enough of an audience bought the records that the bottom line worked out for the bean counters. Zappa was actually a good businessman.
We do have to look at the fact that a major label released Sonic Youth records for 15 years... Shudder To Think put out a couple of brilliant records on a major label that most people might be able to appreciate by the year 2040...
At this point, though, record execs are not people from music backgrounds, they are business school types just using marketing research and business principles to make sure they keep their jobs.
@@shteebo yes, and "premium TV" has become where people who would've made imaginative movies in the past do their work... but that is being taken over by the same forces, becau$e becau$e becau$e...
@@leebarbier5257 Yes,
Agreed. Read some of Andrew Loog Oldham's books to find out how hard it was for the Stones to break into the biz in their day. The Beatles had to cut their own demo record in a record shop. We would consider it impossible today, but we can record a RUclips video.
Back then only the best of the best were able to make records and be heard on the radio. Whereas today, with powerful computers, advanced software, and the Internet, anyone can record music and put it out on the web. It’s like we’re overwhelmed with the sheer numbers of good musicians. There is so much music and so many musicians that the best players just kind of get lost in the crowd.
I think you're spot on. Growing up in the 80s and 90s I had an incredible interest in music that I don't see today. I would put the record on, with headphone, in the leaving room, while my parents watched tv, and I just stared at the record player or read the album cover. Hopefully it had the lyrics and photos of the band. Now, in my family, I don't see anyone patiently actively listening to music unless it's on. No active searching for new music unless it is being spoon-fed.
To me, the big difference is rhythm sections. You mention the many virtuousi, but the loss of human rhythm sections is what guts the music and strips the importance of musicians.
I would have to agree with you on that, a great bassist and drummer can't be replaced with algorithms, without their interplay with the rest of the band, the music is flat and lifeless.
Yeah, I agree that rhythm section is a great indicator of musicianship. I grew up playing guitar, but I regret not playing drums. So these days when I listen to music the rhythm section - both drums AND bass - stand out. That said, as long as those parts are supplied, even on a computer, by a human musician working on something like Garage Band, they can work.
The Black Keys and Tame Impala are the only "huge" modern bands at the top of my head that use unquantized dynamic drums.
@@chinor3999 Oh, my. My friend, you have a lot of listening to do if you think you can narrow down dynamic drums to two bands. Good luck with that.
@@danlaxer514 can you recommend recommend some bands
I think Hendrix would be big today. He played great guitar but also had great songs. Songs are what stand the test of time.
The modern day Hendrix would probably be caught up in rap culture, and Zappa would probably be a RUclipsr making quirky songs on live streams
Great video Rick.
Have to agree with Rick. I've been saying this for at least a decade now. Modern musicians are known, but only to other musicians. If you ask the people to name someone who is currently making music, most couldn't name very many unless they've been around for a couple decades. People only know performers and singers. Everyone wants to sing, no one wants to write a song.
the Brill is gone
Worse, alot of the popular artist have the same songwriters. Which in turn make the music kinda the same style from a composing standpoint. While this may or may not the same to some extend in the past, today the faces of the songs are merely performers, not musicians in the traditional sense.
@@EbonyPope You took the words right out of my mouth.
@@EbonyPope Yes, and you can't survive just being a good musician if the money doesn't flow in.
I have spent the pandemic listening to the complete catalog of Barbara Keith who has recorded with The Stone Coyotes for the last thirty years and is in a top tier of song writers that few know about. In time her work should follow Robert Johnson’s and will then be appreciated as well.
[Pre-top 40] Radio played a huge role during the time you're talking about Rick. You could tune in to a radio station and hear ALL kinds of music from multiple genres and DJ's introduced new bands/music all the time. College radio stations sometimes took it to even greater levels, playing obscure music one wouldn't otherwise ever get to hear. And people bought music, albums mostly, and shared them with friends ~ "You have to hear this new album by...". This was common place. I now stream radio stations looking for something interesting to listen to and occasionaly find a gem or two. There's still great music being made, I'm just not sure if we will ever see the same kind of response we once did on a grand scale. The solo artists you describe might be a thing of the past and only musicians and music lovers who appreciate the new artist with his or her own twist-on-a theme will carry the torch. A friend of mine who taught guitar in Manhattan for many years recently said ~ "Guitar is the new accordion". I laughed. But I also cringed.
Exactly. I did most of my growing up in Moore, Oklahoma, then home of the 50 kW clear channel (not Clear Channel) station KOMA. (We lived a couple of miles from the transmitter, so we didn't pick it up on the water pipes.) Even before we moved there we heard it a lot when traveling at night on the way to visit family. Things were far less specialized then. On KOMA we could hear a wide variety of rock and Motown... but also Henson Cargill's socially conscious country hit "Skip a Rope", Ray Charles's country-flavored "I Can't Stop Loving You", David Houston's "Almost Persuaded"" (*and* Sheb Wooley's parody, "Almost Persuaded #2" recorded under his "Ben Colder" persona)..and even novelty songs like "I Love Onions", "Loving You Has Made Me Bananas", and "Cinderella Rockefeller". A huge variety that you'd never hear on a single station today.
"Playing the hits" goes back to the 30's, but Top 40 really took off as a format in the mid-50's and by the 60's was well-established. Of course, this wasn't rock alone, but whatever tunes were successful. So, you had country, R&B/Motown, jazz, novelties, rock, folk, balladeers and crooners, all vying for listeners and singles sales. But late in the decade it became as you're describing, with college FM stations playing album cuts and most people's attention turning to albums ahead of singles. Radio became divided into AM pop and "serious" FM, and it resulted in a flourishing of artists (even on AM) that didn't tail off until the eighties, when the record companies slowly began to regain the kind of control they'd had in the 50's, the era of "teen idols" (most of whom still had to have talent). Now, music and media platforms are combined, much like other social media, as a place to suck information out of you, and artistry simply doesn't matter as long as the $ rolls in. "Popular" music has become background, and at best a soundtrack, to whatever else people are doing (usually social media). It used to be a part of life, something special, inspirational and engaging, and now it's just a drug to make time pass and chase away the sound of silence.
This is EVERY new song today: *tic tic tic tic tic tic tic tic fake drum with some incoherent mumbling*
Agree that radio really had a lot to do with it. We listened to what was on the radio because we couldn't go out and buy every album (I would only buy albums on which I liked at least 70% of the songs) - there was a lot of reliance on a good radio DJ to play some good music. Unfortinatley, my kids and I cannot listen to the stuff on the radio now so we're on RUclips and Spotify a lot. Interestingly, our favourite local jazz band The Consouls (we are in the musical backwater of Australia - hardly anyone tours out here) gained a large global audience solely from online presence - especially the last two years. They couldn't have done it by touring - too expensive and they wouldn't have the funds so the only way they get heard is also word of mouth/the share button but they also don't really make physical albums so I think they have to re-define what 'making it' really means in this digital age. Lucky for us we get to see them live but accessibility (not talking about ramps and stuff) of live performance space in the city is another topic for another day!
@@strategery101 💯😂
ALL of😮 the musicians you mentioned at the beginning are my heroes!
Just as an example, Alan Holdsworth.. what an incredible guitarist.
(I have the vinyl where he played with Tony Williams)
These guys just blew me away, I was in awe of them.
The thing with Jimi is that he earnt the right to play what he did
He could play anything & then he did his own music, it’s no wonder it is mind blowing in a league
of its own 👍
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we have to acknowledge that Hendrix had great charisma. It was his playing + his energy that made him unique. A lot of young folks nowadays lack that! People nowadays just wanna "blend in" !
I agree. Back then and talking just about guitar players, each guy had its own sound. You could always tell who was who. Further still songs were memorable. I wonder if kids nowdays, stiil listen to same songs after a year or two, like we did in the 70s or 80s?
You are 100% right !
Hendrix would not be as famous now for this reason.
Jimi thrived as a guitar playing songwriter, in a guitar centric music industry, but it is not a guitar centric music industry now therefore reducing the potencey of his ability.
More complicated ideas could be that if Jimi would not be famous now, that would suggest that he did not exist in the 1960s, because he is actually still very famous now. Therefore, all the brilliant music that was inspired by Hendrix would not have the essential flavourings of Hendrix and he would simply be a fresh take on 50s and early 60s blues... in the 2020s... 60 years too late.
Megan the Stallion has great charisma, high energy and quite the unique stage show. Young people today use what they have today, which is far more diverse than what Jimi had in the 60s. There's too much to unpack here.
That's more or less what I was going to post. He was an incredible player, but he was also capable of doing some pretty impressive stunts that would likely get him enough attention to get somewhere. I have no idea what sort of music it would sound like, because he would arguably be even further out there today than he was back then. But, I think with his combination of charisma, talent and showmanship that he'd likely make it.
He just likely wouldn't be as well known just because of the way the music industry has fragmented over the interceding decades.
There were also thousands of talented guys back then who we know nothing about. It wasn't just talent then and it's the same way now. Jimi Hendrix, as good as he was, still needed marketing and management.
I believe Jimi was more famous when he was dead. The teens that liked his music put his music into movies, TV shows and on oldies rock stations.
If Jimi was alive today he would be a RUclips star. The music industry would not know what to do with him... sadly to say.
@@metaltildeth6783 Hendrix was most powerful when he was able to connect with his audience two-way - he exchanged something with his audience that affected his music. You can't do that on RUclips.
That doesn't make any sense. As a younger person, Jimi Hendrix doesn't seem particularly talented to me. Some guy up there says 'one in a million' I feel both of you didn't watch the full video. There was space for famous instrumentalists. Right now, there is not. Whether Jimi Hendrix was the best of his generation or not is meaningless, and besides the point. It has to do with the many ways in which music changed. I think Rich covered basically all of them. Be it normal people playing musical instruments themselves, the band being the center of the pop music world,. and the way the music industry operated. To be honest, I think music is dead. It is not worth anything. The only thing keeping up the pretext is that there is an even greater need for famous people who are seen as both talented and attractive. And the need for a shared pop culture, be it music or movies or anything. But music is the exception where the music itself has no inherent value at all. It is cheap to make and free to copy.
@@Prometheus4096 bro shut up. jimi hendrix is good and your to musically illiterate to understand that
So right Rick:) great vid
As an electronic musician, who comes from a background of playing in bands and worshipping Jimi (my dog is called Hendrix), I have discussed this with my brother many times. He has a very similar background and is a very good bass player (Flea was his man). We seem to think that a lot of these musicians would have been drawn to making music with DAWs. We used to struggle making demos on cassette four tracks. When we finally persuaded our parents to get us a PC to make music on, it opened up a whole new world, and one that I feel we both found more expressive. We grew up listening to bands like the Stone Roses, Smiths etc, and we're always pretty sure that their levels of musicianship wouldn''t have been as good, if they had another outlet for the musical desires. Just a thought and a great thought provoking video.
When I look at Hendrix, it's his unique sound, inventiveness and creative ability. While I'm optimistic by nature, I'd have to believe someone one with THAT much talent and energy would herald success over the walls of the corporate music industry no matter what they said. Some people are THAT GOOD that they just can't be ignored. He was one of them.
But?!!.. if you really examine it according to Linda Keith some of those ignorant record producers turned Jimmie down She astonished 😯 had to ask herself “Are they watching the same thing I am”? She just couldn’t believe these big record executives weren’t hearing the same thing she heard So much so she finally took her case over to Chase Chandler who in turn along lastly with Paull McCartney were instrumental in making Hendrix famous
That's too optimistic.
Michael Hedges, Andy Mckee, Antoine Dufour, Erik Mongrain, Stanley Jordan, etc are all phenomenal players beyond Hendrix’s style. They staid low profile as music industry was shifting and dispersing to other trends. 😕🥲
@@almaguapa-sailboatliveaboa440 None of those guys had a hit song. All had wonderful careers making records and playing live. “Corporate music” (as screwed up as it is) also supported them all.
@@almaguapa-sailboatliveaboa440 they are nowhere near Hendrix level.
Jimi was a persona as well as an innovative artist. He demanded to be seen as well as heard. He would’ve been huge on social media, especially a visual platform like Instagram.
He was kind of humble and shy in person from what I've heard over the years so he might not have been vain enough to post pics and selfies on social media like young people do these days. But he definitely had a cool look and persona
Do you really believe that he were alive, he would be in social media??!
Jimmy Hendrix is a household name that transcends the music industry. Name the best guitar player to emerge over the past ten years and ask yourself if the average person would recognize that name in the same way the average person recognizes the name Jimmy Hendrix. Rick is spot on in this video. Hendrix would not have been a world famous musician had he been born in 1995. For better or worse we live in a much different musical culture than what existed in the late 60s through the 70s.
I agree with you, Jimi was very Unique. He was something Special, and types like him can and will make it in any generation.
@@BabyJesus66 That's true although back in the day he was willing to burn his guitar when his manager and a music journalist suggested it as a way of getting media attention.
As a guitar teacher I realized the difference between now and then. When I wanted to play guitar, no one had to show me what was so cool about it. Or more accurately the people that played the thing.
People just aren't blown away by music today like they used to be. There is so much of it and none of it is very impressive, even if it might be good. I'm reminded of a quote from Eddie and the Cruisers. "If I came out to the club and heard you play, it would be nice, and I would enjoy it. Then I would go home and forget all about it."
Rick, to be known you have to compose something that strikes a chord with people first, then you can take them in an odyssey with your musicianship. I see a lot of players displaying great chops on RUclips but not much composition that'll stand the test of time.
I agree, chops/technique are a completely different skill set from songwriting, too many players focus only on chops. Those tools are really just there to help articulate the music you hear in your head.
In the age of Aquarius, art is blache
@@TheSteve1037 songwriting is so so so so so important. I cannot stress it enough. Thankfully good songwriting still exists. Maybe not in the immediate mainstream but it’s there
I know one. This is classical, not rock, but there's a young lady who has composed a set of variations on 'Happy Birthday' on piano in the style of 10 great classical composers- starting with Bach and Beethoven and including Chopin and other legends- that will blow your mind. It will still be talked about a thousand years from now. Her channel is 'Nahre Sol', and it is an amazing composition. A great modern-day classical piano composition, not just piecing together modified bits from famous Bach or Beethoven pieces but composing real, original pieces, worthy of a great classical composer, unmistakably in the style of the composers indicated. With real, deep emotion. I know that people on the internet are much more likely to play cover songs, but if someone has original material they will put it up on RUclips. Anna Graceman did, and RUclips is still her main vehicle for most of her original compositions I believe. You probably have to look for it, but it's out there!
@@davidannderson9796 I just went and checked out Nahre, hoping to come back here and scoff at you for falling for an easy trick...
I am almost speechless. The women is a genius. And I had to experience more of her music before coming back. She got a subscriber, and you get a hearty thank you!
Let me start by saying, that I love Jimi. I love almost all of the famous classic rock bands. Even born in 94, It's what I grew up on and what made me want to pick up an instrument and study music and perform it. But I think that maybe part of the reason why Jimi Hendrix wouldn't be famous today or really why music like his doesn't top the charts anymore is because people want things to be easy to understand. And more specifically record labels want to sell things as quickly and as easily as possible. I think another key part is that doing drugs and getting drunk at concerts is just as popular if not more popular than it was in the 70s, but unlike the 70s, the average person getting wasted at a concert isn't doing it to expand their consciousness or participate in the "free love" concept. Most people are doing the exact opposite, taking drugs to not think about the stresses of life that come back around on Monday morning. Or maybe that's even over thinking it and they're just trying to go get a quick hook up at a club. In any case, it's not nearly as easy to dance (especially when you're wasted) to Jimi as it is to dance to the same manufactured, very predictable pop music of today. There's also the fact that pop music is just so easy to make and produce from your bedroom and even easier to consume from your phone. We live in a "McDonalds" generation of music where everyone knows how quickly they can get it and exactly what it tastes like.
So thank you for teaching us so much about music and ranting about its current state of production! It's really refreshing! Also, I don't know if I have any right to suggest content for your already amazing channel, but maybe consider getting an interview with those younger, cookie cutter pop, chart toppers. Someone that your kids would know right away and see if you can get the youth on board with your channel. Maybe they might learn something so we can get cooler grammy nominees in the near future.
I was a teenager in the 60s and had the good fortune to see most of the top bands live…often more than once. Those of us who loved Hendrix, Led Zep etc would have been horrified if any of them had singles that charted.Hendrix never had a #1 single in the US/UK. Nor did Led Zep. Hendrix wasn’t just a great and highly original writer, arranger and guitar player, he was also a showman… playing behind his back, with his teeth, setting fire to his guitar, making love to it etc. And, even today, the world loves a showman
It's a sad reflection of the Smartphone generation. Who have the attention of gnats; generally speaking.
Interesting points, I'm hoping Rick does a follow up on why a British artist from the 70s/80s like Kate Bush would not be popular today.
When I graduated from high school in 1981, I was the Band President, Assistant Drum Captain, was the first full-time percussionist in the jazz band, and in the first competition Drum Corps. All of my fellow band mates had lessons. Every single one!
I cannot fathom the sacrifice my middle-class, Kennedy Catholic, parents had to make for eight kids who all had to play an instrument (up until 8th grade. By that time, even church was an option). As luck and blessing would have it, they, too, were musicians.
Often times it is a matter of family genes. Fortunately, one of my siblings is, as another musician friend put it, "Rock and Roll Royalty".
My mother said it best when I was beginning piano lessons; "You will not make a lot of money as a musician, but it will enrich your life immensely".
Jimi was the whole package. It was metal, lead, R&B, blues, rock, even country at times. Jimi loved country. His amazing, unique rhythm in general, his beautiful voice, the lyrics/story (so much of which came from such a broken childhood), the authenticity, the groundbreaking, paradigm shifting feedback and lead tones from Machine Gun and so many other tracks. Jimi was the WHOLE package. Both Jimi and Eddie changed form and function of electric guitar and modern music. Today, we call an Ed Sheeran a great songwriter, or a Taylor Swift. The bar Jimi set has not been reached, in my opinion. Exhibit A is Little WIng. Simple chord progression, UNFORGETTABLE song. So many others... Nobody holds a candle to Jimi. Eddie was just as influential and important, just different. He was the whole package, too! He sang, wrote piano parts, knew drums, so did Jimi! But without Jimi there would be no Ed Sheeran or Taylor Swift or pop star. Jimi was a rockstar and a visionary artist, but what the machine ultimately turned the most attention drawing thing into, at the time, was "pop." Jimi's grandmother spoke about things he said to her, about how he felt he was being used and abused for money, and was even in fear for his life. I have read a dozen books from different accounts and angles on Jimi from others and studied his life for years.
Jimi predated the mechanized music industry, though back then it was basically ruled by a different mechanized financing which shall not be disclosed, despite the evidence (sure, drowning in wine isn't an old Mob trick...). Jimi had it all, went through it all, spoke his truth about his life authentically through music. Jimi was like a rising phoenix in music, born from ashes; "...cause the life that lived, is dead." "Fall on trees, just don't fall on me. Point on, mister businessman, you can't dress like me." "I'm the one who's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to." Love you, Jimi. Thank you for everything!
Most people are famous due to what Jimi Hendrix did in his day. There still isn't a talent or virtuoso as advanced as Jimi. Had hr been alive today he still would take music into far out cosmic distances and deep into one's own soul. People don't even realize the extent of craftsmanship of this legend
he didnt invent the blues or rock music. theres a bunch of guys hendrix was influenced by. theres a bunch of guys you probably never heard. point is its hyperbole to give him so much praise
@@craigstevens9351 He didn't invent it, no. He took it into a new direction, that no one up until that time had ever thought of before. Originality matters.
Ya i will add to this and say, there are definitely people farther along in terms of virtuosity and mastery of the guitar. Hendrix only lived to 27…
I think I should preface this with saying Jimi is my #1. I disagree with you on the talent/virtuosity part. As far as Jimi Hendrix goes yes of course was extremely talented but what makes him so great for me was that he was so original at the time, using the blues to essentially create a new genre with his peers at the time, his influence on music in my opinion rivals that of any given artist you could mention. However that doesn’t mean to me that someone couldn’t be technically be a better player. Like a good example for my music tastes I think SRV was better and I liked his style more, but I’ll admit a lot of what he did is bring a raw power and skill vs pure creativity which is why I have Jimi above him. I just simply believe that there’s a lot of guitarists that have had the luxury of learning from Jimi which is why I think there are guitarists who have surpassed him in skill, but they don’t have the mind that he had.
For me it's not much as being virtuoso but more his groove (one of my favourite is when he's just muting his guitar and streaming in All along watchtower's brige - incredible) . Today you might find much bettertechnical skills who can almost completely imitate Hendrix play but it's appealing much. He was great vocalist and songwriter too. In many iconical psychodelic songs you can hardly hear the guitar
I think all those great musicians have left a tremendous legacy. I've been playing guitar for 56 years and when I go on You Tube and see these amazing young and very young players belt out a solo from my era and later that I can never hope to compete with I'm truly blown away by their talent. The problem today is modern music for the most part just doesn't feature great guitar work. When I see these kids I'm very hopeful that this youngest generation will somehow prevail and that guitar will return to it's former glory.
And what’s extra cool is how many of them are female. Hal Ca forever!
let's all hope!
One thing is replicate the Mona Lisa another thing is painting it when it doesn't exist
@@InstantKaarma ^ Exactly this. And not to discredit the hours and dedication it takes to learn a difficult piece, but it is a lot easier and costs almost nothing to learn today in a world where so many videos exist online teaching how to do it just "right," all the tabs people put up, etc. Certainly easier than trying to do it all by ear (though I think that's still important).
@@yupihaveone4070hal ca? What's that mean?
Spot on Rick. 1982 MTV had a devastating effect on the music industry, effectively shifting focus from talent to Bikini dancing and nudity, and in the process can’t but blame also musicians citing Carlos Santana who degenerated into a mediocre guitar player once thought would influence the music industry. Great piece Rick.
MTV didn't do this. That kind of sexual appeal was in music ever since the female popstar became a thing, it was just more subdued when compared to how sexual expression has evolved over the decades. It is a shame though how great players are not respected as they should be.
The videos kind of told everyone what to think the song was about , when in fact a good song will have different associations to different people
For me the big difference is creativity! When you are able to create music and that music starts playing in your head you have achieved the goal! It's all about the music... as a guitarist I always ask myself: Of all the great musicians who have passed away, what did they leave behind? The answer is: they left their legacies, their work, that album that you put on and still get goosebumps... that's the big difference... creativity, innovation, creating masterpieces... when it comes to that, that's where we draw a line between instrumentalists and true artists.
A thought I've shared with many of my guitar students, when we're learning Jimi Hendrix songs, is that, if Jimi would have stayed in the U.S., and not gone to England with Chas Chandler, he probably would have had limited notoriety as a star in the US. What I point out is that Jimi cut his teeth on the chitlin circuit, he played with Little Richard as a sideman for two years. When he was in New York, trying to work ,and was mostly playing blues and chitlin circuit gigs, his trying to add the folk/rock/and pop sounds into what he did was met with disdain from the scene he was playing in. If he'd have stayed here, and stayed alive, I believe he would've still been a great player, but wouldn't have made the impact he did because of the environment that black musicians called reality in the 1960's U.S. Jimi's moving to England altered the perception of music buying public. To the public, Jimi was an English black musician. To the English, and English musicians in particular, Jimi was an American Blues musician. Jimi had played with the musicians that the English rock stars idolized. Musicians Like Albert, and BB King, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, the Isley Brothers, Little Richard, and many more.
Totally agree with you. I also believe that was the reason Hendrix went to the UK - to get noticed and make money, it didn't work for him in the US before that! My opinion
Chandler said that when he first saw him he couldn't believe Hendrix was an unsigned act, "loose", as he put it. Imagine stumbling onto *that* in 1966!
Very well stated!
Jimi *KNEW* he had to follow Chandler. Jimi was a Voodoo Chile.
Chaz Chandler took Jimi's raw talent, put him in the company of elite bands from England, set him in the studio, and jimi started to pen his own compositions. That sparked Jimi's creativity and he rode that rocket to historic heights. The stars that played with laughing sams dice helped too.
Hendrix was not only a very good player, he belonged to the kind of musicians who break new ground. He tried outstanding new things on the guitar ( techniques, sounds and songwriting). Many of his songs sound very fresh and modern even after many decades and thats why he was ahead of his time. If a guy like Hendrix started today I am pretty sure he would be as innovative and style-defining as he was back then. Maybe he would use modern multi- effects, electronic sounds, loopers in a novel way on his guitar and usher a new era with an unique style. Who knows? Never underestimate the creativity of such exceptional talents.
In modern music, most songs have only a single instrument for the backing track. And that is a drum machine. Thankfully there are still bands like The Warning that give me hope.
I'm 68 and certainly happy to have grown up "musically" in the 70s. When Hendrix came around he was so groundbreakingly different and he brought something to the world that had never been imagined by anyone. If someone appeared today with that kind of innovation, style and vision.....who knows, he might be a star even in this environment. But I think you will always need strong compositions in addition to the chops. And Jimi ( also all the other guys you have mentioned) had that.
I've been listening to Stevie Ray Vaughn the last few weeks. Each album has a short interview (SRV Speaks), in which he answers a question about music. In one he talks about how Jimi Hendrix went places that no one else did. When a great player talks about another great player, it says a lot. I think Jimi would stand out in any era, because he would make his own path, regardless of the musical landscape.
I saw SRV's last concert the week that he died in the helicopter crash. So sad, it broke my heart. I can't believe Rick hasn't done a video of his history yet. So many guys I knew that were snooty "metal heads", LOVED Stevie, he had so much respect.
Nah people on you tube would say he sucks lol. There are so many guitar “experts” now if you aren’t perfect they destroy you. These same experts wouldn’t even be playing if it wasn’t for Hendrix , page , Clapton and the rest from that era. Even the guys in the 80s were playing because of those guys in the 60s. Joe bonamasa is a great player and would be revered in the 70s now the experts rip him. Just too many tools playing now. They would probably quit if they had to learn to play back then , the beginner guitars sucked there were no tuners now it seems parents buy their kids the best equipment and you can learn anything on the computer. Back when I was young I got a guitar from a store like sears a cheap amp and was yelled at to turn it down every day not even a word of encouragement.
Hendrix today would develop in a different musician from what he developed into in his own time, so yeah basically the whole discussion is stupid and worthless.
Couldn’t agree more whicha
@@wallywanker7435 ...seems that we're in the age of the dumbing down of musical literacy -- but so glad you mentioned Joe B.! ...much love and respect for him (also for SRV mentioned above)
Do not think for a minute that Jimi would not be the revolutionary force of nature he was! Jimi was amazing, he singlehandedly made every other guitarist of his time re-evaluate their craft and up their game to a new level (Jeff Beck's words). I have not heard that compliment given to any other musician. Jimi would be a force of nature in any era of music. This same phenomenon happened again in the 80s with Stevie. His playing reinvigorated the Blues community and got the roots growing, producing and thriving through many genres of music, he brought Clapton back to the blues. There are certain people who just cannot be ignored and demand our attention. I can't wait for the next music renaissance; may we all be here to welcome it.
Jimi would still be huge, relevant and a star if he appeared and came out today because he wasnt just a great player but he was a great showman/ performer. He was mesmerising to watch.
I had Al Dimeola’s Elegant Gypsy when I was 17. That was guitar gold
He might not be “famous “ today….but he was truly a “ground breaker” for HIS time. The reason I, and sooo many others play guitar til this day!
We can also say with confidence that guitar playing wouldn't be what it is today without Jimi Hendrix in the past. Who knows. It might still be on another planet, but rock guitar playing owes a lot of what it is to Jimi Hendrix.
Exactly
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For sure!
I think that your videos are a good reference to learn about music and musicians . Not only are you teaching music but also its history. These videos will indeed help the next generations to develop good taste for the real music that stands the test of time. Thank you Rick
It is so true. First if all, it is of course a pity, that the good old days from the '70 are over. It was the time, when musicians were admired just for their talent and their playing. And in this sense, as a musician you needed to be a Hendrix fan, even if you didn't like his style of playing or his singing. Hendrix was a must!
After all the years for me it is just music from a great guitarist to other guitarists. Like most of the other musicians you mentioned in your video. The musicians will always remember their names.
In Istanbul we had places some ten years ago with Cover Bands and they played Toto, Genesis, Police and all our heroes from the past just one after the other and their problem was not the guitar, their problem was always just the singer.
How shall you convince todays people that these guitar solos are so unbelievable hard and great, when the average guy plays most of them just out of his head? Okay, the people in the video are the inventors of the different styles, but it is also at least 50 years ago. I don't like what I wrote here, but I think the comment on Hendrix, we have to accept as right.
Jimi was a Genius and would have been that at any time. Of course Jimi would play different today. But he was not only the best guitar player, he made genius music and songs, that was just mind breaking.
Yes … it was a completely different musical era back in the 60s-70’s-80’s. Vinyl with radio-plays and big-event touring reigned - underpinning musical sensation that travelled by word-of-mouth. The players you mentioned were charismatic too, brimming with confidence and musicianship, live shows unmediated theatre - they sure had style in the best way possible. What a blast!
You can’t take Hendrix out of the context of his times. He was unprecedented when he came along there was before and after. People in the last 40 years have codified the study of guitar and especially rock guitar, young players today are technically proficient beyond anything Jimi could have dreamed of. So, it stands that we should recognize the fact that Jimi was first and you get more credit for creating something than copying what came before. This was at a time when rock music was becoming the cultural zeitgeist and the Superstar guitarist was king. Those days are gone.
mm yah now why don't some of these turbo jimmy's get on something they play at gyms i wind up at, instead of dumb and dumber?
While i agree to some respect, these people with the ridiculous skills today could never command a crowd like the likes of jimi did, thats the difference in my opinion, stage presence, same as SRV, just different
I don't think Hendrix was *that* technically proficient, not compared to some players.
What was special about him was something else - there's a fluid, nonchalant, renegade attack to his style that means more to most of us music enthusiasts, musicians or not, than technical prowess.
AMEN!!! to That! 🐕🦺
True.
Also - back then people had much fewer opportunities to discover new music. They only had access to what was on the radio or on the TV. Nowadays we have the almighty Internet - which means that more bands as a whole reach people, people's attention is scattered among much more musicians - which actually makes becoming a rock god harder. People's attention isn't focused on just the (relatively) few bands/musicians that Western music industry has chosen. Maybe Jimi Hendrix wouldn't be as famous nowadays, but would a band like The Hu reach ANYONE 50 years ago? (Not The Who. The Hu - the Mongolian folk metal band.) No, they wouldn't.
And also - with all due respect, to a contemporary listener boomer rock is simply boring. Bands that try to make the same music Jimi used to make nowadays are dime a dozen. They don't reach any fame mostly because they're instantly forgettable. Jimi played the right music at the right time and made an impression to the right people. If you play what he did to youngsters who've grown up with contemporary rock and metal, they'll just brush you off.
music isn't about music and musicians anymore, ita about sound effects engineering and marketing... props to you rick for calling it for what it is
Artists like Jimi made such an impact because the listeners of the day had very limited media options to absorb.
There is so much media today that even the greatest artists will only ever be niche.
Takes a heck of a lot more for something to stand out when everything we're exposed to is also trying to stand out. The bar is incredibly high for anything to be considered entertainment now. Basically, gotta be shocking or different enough that people go "whoa what was that" - and there's just not a whole lot of territory for that left in music.
@@lawrencesounddesign1862 Yeah. Everyone had their local favorite radio station for their genre in the mid 20th Century and that's where you able to get exposed to what was out there... then if you liked it, went to a record shop. Talent was funneled into that one spot for all to hear.
That's the key. My daughter doesn't listen to the radio, she listens to Alexa and tells it what to play. Completely different ballgame today.
This Guy is a Jerk, Rick Beato's, why want he stop tripping on Hendrix, the Guy been gone over 50years, he did not have Internet or Media back than and the lists of coping of Hendrix style is OFF the wall of others Guitarists, so if he would not got Murdered, he still be one of the best still.
@@natewhite455 Learn the basics of GRAMMER then come back and try to make your argument