Peter H:

its all listening and trying to appreciate the music as it comes to you. hendrix was about emotion, heart besides the technical innovation and original lyrics and sounds. no one else in rock historyn has melded all the best of so many musical genres as jimi. taking these musical forms and creating something new. just try to relax and let the music and the sound world envelop you. its not a silly competition. i was lucky enough to have seen jimi over 37 times and every show was unique and different and souklful and heartfelt. even the 2 bad nights. thats how great he was. even his worst nights was far better than all the rest. peace

I have a long term substituting gig with some 11^th graders and today they were bashing Hendrix as over-rated when compared to Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai. I tried to explain his importance as an innovator and incredibly soulful guitarist but these uh, scholars wouldn’t hear of it. “But Mr. H, those guys shred.” Rather than telling them to sit down and shut up and loading them up with meaningless homework I thought I’d turn to Vault people to answer Cookie’s question “what’s the big deal about Hendrix?” And Josh’s “what’s so great about Purple Haze?”

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All responses that come in before Feb 7^th will be presented to the class and will only be edited for language that could get me fired.

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(In interest of full disclosure I’m the guy who started the ever popular Led Zepplin bashing thread. But let’s just keep that stuff over in the LZ zone, please. ) 

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Thanks

Mr. H