Who Is Better Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page

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who is better Jimi Hendrix or Jimmy Page

  • Jimi Hendrix

    Votes: 62 28.3%

  • Jimmy Page

    Votes: 35 16.0%

  • they both kick ass

    Votes: 64 29.2%

  • who cares

    Votes: 58 26.5%
  • Total voters
    219
ggunn said:
Now THAT'S funny! ;^)

(Not that Stevie wasn't a great guitarist, but that it's somehow a "scientific fact" that he was better than anyone else.)
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It is!

If you shine a laser into the holograph "SRV" stickers on his guitar and capture the light reflected with a spectrometer, then multiply whatever reading your get by the number of lines of coke and shots of vodka it takes to kill an elephant, divided by the number of rhinestones it takes to adorn a Texas blues man's hat, you should come up with "Best guitarist in the world, ever." If not, your scientific calculator is broken. Even if you multiply that by the number of sheets of toilet tissue it takes to wipe Yngwie Malmsteen's fat ass, it still equals "SRV == Best guitarist in the world, ever."

It's on the Internet (now) so it must be true. ;):D;)
 
I'll take Hendrix for live performance, Page for the studio.

Hendrix was more of a visual performer/jammer, and Page is a much better writer and arranger who shines in the studio.
 
tdukex said:
Go read the January Guitar World interview with Page. He explains the technical difficulties they had syncing the soundtrack with the movie. Rmemember this was 1976. From what expert in the industry did you learn that the "movie had overdubs to correct clams by Page?"
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From what I remember on the song "rock and roll" the solo has a big clam on the live album but not the movie. Never heard of sync problems with movie? How come? They had the tech. back then to do it. I'll have to dig out the old album and check out the tune I mentioned and see if I'm nuts but I think I remember a big clam in that tune compared to movie. What makes some of these players "great" is the time they "were". I dont think either would get a recording contract today, no offense to them, but they in their time were inovative but pale with some of todays players. Yes Rory Gallagher was Great!
 
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Zaphod B said:
Excepting his voice, which I never did come around to.
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Funny, I always liked his voice and style in that regard, but many don't.

Of course, I also like Bob Dylan's voice, in its own down-trodden sort of way :eek:
 
I'm going to have to go with Page here, because Jimi is fuckin' dead.

Even I can play guitar better than a corpse.
 
mwthompson said:
I chose Hendrix.

I've seen vids where he was not zonked out of his mind and he was very clean and not sloppy at all. But, I'm pissed at the motherf*****r for being such a dipsh*t and killing himself for a ***-damned buzz. That moron deprived us of what could have been an amazing catalog of music.

But, without a doubt Stevie Ray was the best. It's a scientific fact. I saw it on the "Planet Guitar" mini-series on Discovery last year. That dude was uber-ugly on Discovery-HDTV though. :p
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Meh. I've jammed with a handful of guitarists who had SRV's chops and soul. I don't, mind, but on a good day I wouldn't have embarrassed myself jamming with Stevie.

On a bad day, I'd probably be traumatized for life and not pick up a guitar ever again.

I'd say that Page was more versatile, and, as I've gotten older, I've come to like his acoustic playing better than his electric. Not a whole lot of acoustic Jimi out there, unfortunately.
 
Poles like these need to be more specific. Basically, better at what? Better at what genre?

I agree with the earlier apples/oranges comment. These guys were two different people, playing in two different bands and playing essentially two different set lists.

And what about Johnny Winter? His name starts with a "J" and he started about the same time frame and he used both minor AND major scales interchangably.

Plus he's legally blind and an albino... and unlike page and hendrix - he's neither dead OR alive... sort of somewhere in between.
 
Fusioninspace said:
Poles like these need to be more specific. Basically, better at what?
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I think Jimmy Page was probably better at snorting coke from a hooker's ass, but Hendrix was probably better at taking lots of acid and scaring the shit out of groupies with his "voodoo child." :eek:
 
muttley600 said:
Not until they had played it first you couldn't... but thats the whole point isn't it? :D
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That's a not-so-little point that amazingly escapes too many who think they can play like (or better than) the guitar greats.
 
I named my first born James.... these two guitarists probably had something to do with it.

I dig them both, but I respect Hendrix's technicality and inventiveness, and while I listened to more Zep as a kid, I can hear Hendrix's blues cuts over and over again.
 
muttley600 said:
Hendrix's wider appeal didn't arrive until after the Isle of Wight thing by which time Cream and Clapton et al were still the guys to aim for.
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And then according to Clapton in his autobiography....

"I will never forget returning to London after recording Disraeli Gears, with all of us excited by the fact that we had made what we considered to be a groundbreaking album, a magical combination of blue, rock and jazz. Unfortunately for us, Jimi had just release Are You Experienced?, and that was all anyone wanted to listen to. He kicked everyone into touch, really, and was the flavor not just of the month, but the year."

When I look back it's sorta telling that I had listened to both albums back then at a friend's house and I had to choose between the two albums to buy for myself.

I still have that Disraeli Gear album.

I hate to say it, but with the exception of a few songs, LZ and Page just never did it for me.

Clapton, Mayall, and The Rolling Stones were my favorite flavors even at the height of The Beatles.
 
mwthompson said:
I think Jimmy Page was probably better at snorting coke from a hooker's ass, but Hendrix was probably better at taking lots of acid and scaring the shit out of groupies with his "voodoo child." :eek:
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:D:D:D:D:D

You forgot to say that Page made a better deal with the Devil than Hendrix did when they sold their souls to the Devil.

I'm assuming you know the story. :confused:
 
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