Jimi Hendrix added to proto-prog

Well that's good then, is there anything else I can help you with today. Also, Hendrix has recordings before 66, including a proto-psyche guitar 'freakout' with The Isley's in 65, but I didn't include earlier recordings because they are mostly irrelevant to his inclusion in PA's proto-prog section. It is the recordings and performances that influenced Emerson, Fripp, Lord etc that matter.

P.S. I understand your desire to have these bands added, but they will have to go through the same channels that Hendrix did including many debates on the forum, dicussion amongst the administrators, and an OK from Max.

I never officially proposed Hendrix for the site, I heard Max had approved him and volunteered to do the research and presentation.

I do not have the power to add these bands for you just because I volunteered to add the already approved Hendrix.

Edited by Easy Money - April 16 2009 at 08:40

Jimi is here for the songs he wrote and produced in 67-68, which I have listed many times. everything else is icing on the cake.

If you want to try to add the bands you have mentioned, then start a thread in the appropriate place and give your reasons for wanting to add that band.

^ None of the bands mentioned above wrote complex art songs with ground-breaking creative meticulous production on the level of 1983, Midnight Lamp, Long Hot Summer, If 6 was 9, 3rd Stone from the Sun, Aint no Tellin, Houses Burnin etc.

The Byrds might have a case, but they were not involved in the all too important 67 London scene in which The Experience was a prime mover. Remember this is proto-prog, ie who influenced the early prog scene. If you read interviews with Fripp, Emerson, Townsend etc Hendrix is mentioned 100 to 1 over The Byrds.

You guys need to quit putting bands on Jimi's coattails because it isn't going to work. The Experience did not need coattails.

If you haven't read my intro to this thread please do so now. It took me 3 or 4 months to put this together and you could read the intro in less than 5 minutes. Name one band that meets the criteria that The Experience meets other than a band that is already on PA. You can't!

If you get out the records and listen to them you will find that The Experience's many art rock songs are far different from anything Cream put out.

Edited by Easy Money - April 16 2009 at 06:15

Tony R wrote: StyLaZyn wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: Does this mean no prog polka bands? I dunno. I actually scanned down the thread before joining the fray. I just think that it`s sort of clutching at straws to have Hendrix on a site like this. I`ll just say one last thing about Coryell. If you watch his DVD A Retrospective one of his sons ( I forget which ) reflects on how dumbfounded he is that his dad is not in Rolling Stone`s top 100 guitarists.  I doubt that if Hendrix would have lived past 27 that he would have joined in on the short period during the early seventies when the prog ( or art rock )  movement ruled. That's a good point. Clapton certainly didn't after finding the Blues. Shows a distinct lack of knowledge of the subject here. Had he lived Hendrix would have most certainly recorded with Miles Davis in a Jazz Fusion setting.

I have a feeling that had Jimi Hendrix lived to record with Miles Davis, both Hendrix and Davis would have found their way into the archives much faster.

Garion81 wrote: micky wrote: hahhaha... SRV???   who brought that up.. .better have not been Ivan.  I'll spank his cute ass if he was the one who tried to drag Stevie Ray into this  is that the best people can do to protest an addition....   Starts on page 6 ends on page 7

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - April 15 2009 at 16:37

StyLaZyn wrote: Vibrationbaby wrote: Does this mean no prog polka bands? I dunno. I actually scanned down the thread before joining the fray. I just think that it`s sort of clutching at straws to have Hendrix on a site like this. I`ll just say one last thing about Coryell. If you watch his DVD A Retrospective one of his sons ( I forget which ) reflects on how dumbfounded he is that his dad is not in Rolling Stone`s top 100 guitarists.  I doubt that if Hendrix would have lived past 27 that he would have joined in on the short period during the early seventies when the prog ( or art rock )  movement ruled. That's a good point. Clapton certainly didn't after finding the Blues.

Shows a distinct lack of knowledge of the subject here. Had he lived Hendrix would have most certainly recorded with Miles Davis in a Jazz Fusion setting.

micky wrote: hahhaha... SRV???   who brought that up.. .better have not been Ivan.  I'll spank his cute ass if he was the one who tried to drag Stevie Ray into this  is that the best people can do to protest an addition....

Edited by Garion81 - April 15 2009 at 15:54

Easy Money wrote: ^ Most of The Nice's Ars Long Vista Brevis was written by Bach, I guess Bach should be here too??? No way!

oh sure...  actually would have been a great addition to the site... but wasn't meant to be.  Never lost of a minute of sleep over it though.   We know it is.. .whether the site recognizes it or not. 

micky wrote: pffff... been there.. done that  http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=25661