The Who albums vs The Jimi Hendrix Experience albu

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Wouldn't having the Who albums my generation, a quick one and Sell Out go against the JHE albums make more sense?

Have to agree with this. I know it's just a bit of fun etc but cherry picking albums from a 56 year career versus a truncated 4 year career seems less than even handed. There are brilliant tracks on the first three Who albums and also the three Experience albums but Pete Townshend was only 22 when he recorded the Who Sell Out and this is betrayed in the unevenness of some of the material, while Jimi was 26 for Electric Ladyland and seemed considerably more fully formed as a writer and performer.

None of his contemporaries could even dream of competing with Hendrix as a guitar player but for me, Pete's later songwriting and daring musical ambition as evidenced by Who's Next, Tommy and Quadrophenia had progressed to far beyond what Jimi had been capable of earlier. It's also a given that anyone writing a history of the electric guitar would have to devote many pages to Jimi Hendrix. That said, anyone writing the history of Rock will have to devote considerably more to Pete Townshend and the Who. BTW this might make me a tad niche, but my favourite thing about Hendrix is his voice. Some say it's weak and he's on record as stating he loathed his own singing, but I think it plaintive, sincere and emotes a vulnerability completely at odds with his instrumental genius on the guitar.

Yeah, kind of bizarre to compare, particularly since Who's Next (1971) and Quadrophenia (1973) came out after Hendrix died (September 18, 1970).

It should at least be A Quick One (1967), The Who Sell Out (1967) and Tommy (1969) for a more direct reference point to Experience (1967), Axis (1967) and Ladyland (1968). Who knows what Hendrix would have released by the time Quadrophenia came out in 1973.