--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "PaliGap" <compost...@...> wrote: > I play a bit and I think it's so cool to see the "moves". > > The original: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2m-tR_7tS8
That was great! Thanks for posting it. Lots of feeling. The thing about Jimi and Stevie Ray for me is not that they are technically impossible. Go into any local Guitar Center and I guarantee there is some teenager knocking out one of their songs note for note. But the difference is where the music is coming from. Jimi and Stevie Ray are both communicating their moment to moment feelings and for this music (blues and blues based rock) that is everything. It is what conveys the "rightness" you mentioned. Most players are coming from a memory space to make sure they get every note that Stevie and Jimi were producing from their hearts. In that way Jimi is an extension of the Delta players who were known for their raw direct emotional expression in their music compared to the slick more self-conscious styles that emerged in a lot of stylized urban blues. I am always drawn to players who are feeling and playing it directly. Sometimes you go to a club and you hear a guy playing even the feedback parts of Jimi's music note for note, but it lacks the emotional intensity of guys who actually play feedback as Jimi did as a sonic extension of his guitar. They will play it differently every time which is closer to what the greats do IMO. As Louis Armstrong said: "You blows what you is!" Another link they have to the Delta performers was their use of innovations to allow them to express more textures of emotions through their instruments. The Delta guys used slides to eke out every nuance from the strings, more like the human voice. They bent the notes of the harmonica changing the key so the notes were based on their own mouths and throats rather then the metal of the instrument. The use of feedback is directly linked with this tradition of innovation for more subtle expression as is the use of bending the strings. I have posted this before but no discussion of Jimi is complete for me without adding the only acoustic songs I know about that we have videos of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCH9MCOvrHY&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfyBkv7-rFQ Here is an audio of him playing around with an acoustic guitar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri4pz45l3-4&feature=related Thanks for extending the rap! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCQBbgb_Lvo > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: > > > > Sweetheart post of the week award Raunchy. Thanks with a big hug! > > > > I love Jimi. Like many guitarists my age I started playing a Stratocaster > > in his style before I swam upstream to the acoustic style that captured me > > completely. Now I don't own an electric guitar. I sold my Strat to buy an > > African gourd banjo which is the godfather to all this music. It was years > > later that I discovered that Jimi was listening to the same guys I play now! > > Hey Curtis - I am a hopeless-case Jimi nut. One of my all time > favourites is the blues he did at Woodstock (Villanova Junction). > I know it's nothing directly like what you're now into - and I > guess you know the piece anyway - but to me it sums up the > guy's phenomenal musical imagination. It's 12 bar - but taken > to a place I only think Jimi could go? > > Thinking about this I went on You Tube, and WTF someone's got > it off to a tee (well almost - he can't quite get the "rightness" > of some of Jimi's throwaway notes and rhythmic touches IMO!): > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF18JLDF7J0 > > I play a bit and I think it's so cool to see the "moves". > > The original: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2m-tR_7tS8 >
