Hey, have we forgotten about Jimmy?

[OriginalPosterLost]

In all the roaming I have done on this website, there have been a lot of cool bands that have been talked about, with regards to how they relate to the music of J mascis. Really, a lot of wicked wicked bands, a lot of talent, and many with very similar sounds or feels, whether these sounds were taken from J, or J took it from them the whole scene is just very cool, very freaky. Now please correct me if I am wrong, but in all this roaming, one name I simply haven’t seen is Jimmy Hendrix. Again, correct me if I’m wrong, but I think of all the relations in sound between two artists Jimmy and J’s sounds are married. If your unsure go and buy the ‘experience hendrix’ album. Now I would say Jimmy has a bit more of a bluesy sound, at the same time the fuzz filled wailing factor is definetely there, and hey it was the seventies, people were still trying to figure out how the electric guitar worked, and at that time Mr. Hendrix was the first to absolutely rock out like only he could. Specifically listen to songs like ‘all along the watchtower’,’bold as love’, in fact listen to bold as love first just insane guitar even sorta reminds me of J’s ‘alone’, and then top it all off with ‘voodoo child’ I mean listen to this song the guitar is so J. I’m hearing it right now the first solo is insane just pure pure J. Okay if you’ve listened to those songs your convinced, now go back and listen to the songs like ‘fire’ and again’all along the watchtower’ and now take note of the drumming, it’s pure dinosaur jr. Anyway I guess the bottom line is Jimmy is just too talened and too similiar to J to not at least mention their names in the same sentence. I cant help but wonder what some of Jimmy’s sounds would be like today in a modern studio with all the high tech production and even high tech guitar equipment that J mascis is into. Or imagine Jimmy and J playing together, insane completely insane. Actually I have a friend who took a bit of a bad trip on acid and he started going on about how J mascis is actually Jimmy Hendrix reincarnated, he was saying all these things about their names relating, all this weird stuff with the alphabet and how J mascis somehow spells Jimmy hendrix, and J is actually a zombie with jimmy controlling him like a ‘being John malkovich’ thing, and voodo child prophesyied it all. Pretty freaky stuff, I mean it would be cool, but just too freaky.

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[OriginalPosterLost]

Hey,

I have not listened to a lot of Hendrix…probably due to the bluesy bit…definitely not my sound. J always lists Ron Asheton as the primary influence on his sound. Interestingly I saw a show on the Stooges awhile back, they related being heavily influenced by Hendrix. Apparently someone brought a copy of one of his albums to the Stooges home and they all listened to it for days. So I guess in a round about way your right about the influence on J’s sound. I saw the Chili Peppers last year, was amazed at how much the guitar players sounds was similar to Hendrix (the little I know of his sound)…not enuf to make me want to pick up his solo stuff though.

Cool post,

Allison

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[SG]

I came across this so I thought I`d comment.
I do hear some Hendrix in J`s playing,Hendrix influenced alot of guitarists,as much as Coltrane influenced saophonists.Jimi`s drummer Mitch Mitchell was hugely influenced
by Coltrane`s drummer Elvin Jones,to link the two musicians together.
Jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock is someone who I hear when I listen to J `s solos.Back in the 60`s Sharrock developed a rock style of guitar
in jazz,using distortion,feedback and chaotic playing that was common in 60`s free jazz,just free jazzers used mostly saxophones than guitars,so Sharrock was an innovator in the field,he used alot of things Hendrix usually gets creditted with.I think of Sharrock as being the missing link between Coltrane and Sonic Youth.Sharrock died in 1994 of a heart attack and signed to a major label not long before his death,they were going to promote him as "the godfather of grunge",Neil Young gets called that alot,but I think Neil would agree Sharrock deserved the title.
Make no mistake,Hendrix was amazing but there`s always an underdog who does`nt get the credit they deserve.Is Bob Dylan the greatest songwriter or was it Townes Van Zandt?,Is Aretha Franklin the queen of soul or is it Etta James?there is always an overlooked musician who never got their chance.

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One more thing,I`m not trying to say anything bad about Dylan or Aretha,just that the underdogs should be recognized.

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