Jimi Hendrix

Okay I know Jimi Hendrix might not be considered progressive, but I felt like mentioning anyways. Since my guitar teacher took our class on a trip across the border to EMP (aka the Jimi Hendrix Museum in Seattle). Everybody wanted to go to the Sound Lab and try the instruments, which I did. But soon after I found myself lost in Jimi Hendrix's greatness.

Whenever I listen to Jimi Hendrix as in comparison to say Jeff Beck, I don't feel the same kind of feeling I do hearing Jimi Hendrix, which was what he was all about. Feeling...I have to admit music these days has lost its way to create good feeling in music, or creat moods.

What I also find interesting is that you can't explain by any technical means. There's no way you can point out what his music was. It was psychedelic, it wasn't blues, it wasn't rock in some ways. It was just a complicated as the man Jimi Hendrix is. And I find that intriguing, so besides wasting my time typing more stuff about Jimi Hendrix, you people talk about him....

Electric Lady Land is protoprog!! Had things panned out differently for the poor guy I'm sure we'd have a rich and full catalogue of jazzy prog sounds to proove this. His direction was so obviously drifting away from the 3 minute pop-rock format. Also, being an essentially English phenomenom (!!) he was afforded a lot more artistic freedom than his record company moulded contemporaries back home in the States. At the time bands like the Floyd (with Sid) and Jimmy's Experience showed the A&R men what the public wanted. Meanwhile the A&R men States-side were busy trying to tell the public what they wanted, and that wasn't a black Superstar leading a white band. Thank God he came to swinging London to ply his trade. A blessing for us all, though not, of course, for him!

Jimi Hendrix contributed a lot to the development of prog. RIP Jimi !

Miles Davis wanted to collaborate with Jimi Hendrix and he surely would have done it if Jimi hadn't died so soon. This would have been one of the first step in the development of jazz-fusion.

lucas wrote: Miles Davis wanted to collaborate with Jimi Hendrix and he surely would have done it if Jimi hadn't died so soon. This would have been one of the first step in the development of jazz-fusion.

There were a lot of musicians looking to collaborate with Jimi at the time of his death, from both jazz and rock on both sides of the Atlantic.

The talent that the music world has lost to addiction over the years is staggering, not to mention sorrowful.

Fantom JSK wrote: Well I always thought that Progressive rock kind of emerged from that psychedelic scene of rock, which Jimi Hendrix kinda was.

That's true! But I don't really like Jimi's music. It sounds very rough and raw to me...

he was a master, he had an affair with the guitar, he cannot use another instrument, it was an extension of his body... musicaly he was very proto prog, but mainlly BLUES, rock, if he was able to live a little bit longer he certainly would have changed the face of music more aggresivlly than before... what i love about him was his love to music, and the ideas that he wanted to share with us. he left very soon, but as good things in life, he still suvive among us with the music

peace

He certainly was a progressive player. Song-lengths didn't matter, the number of solo's didn't matter. A master of improv and Psychrock. I recently saw his last(?) concert on TV, I believe from the Isle of Wight festival, and I was very very impressed. I think its time to pick up some albums.