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
tc4b said:
Really? Basing it on record sales? Then Shania Tawain beats both of them. And McDonald's makes the best burger ever tasted. The best beer, Bud.
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I hardly think so...she did sell alot of one of her records...alot like Micheal Jackson...but LedZeppelin had 5 albums in the top selling of all time list...they are the biggest selling single artists to date...including the #1 spot for a while with LedZep 4 after the introduction of CDs according to billboard.
 
darrin_h2000 said:
I hardly think so...she did sell alot of one of her records...alot like Micheal Jackson...but LedZeppelin had 5 albums in the top selling of all time list...they are the biggest selling single artists to date...including the #1 spot for a while with LedZep 4 after the introduction of CDs according to billboard.
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So obviously they're better, because they sold more records. That's how you tell how good musicians are, after all.:rolleyes:
 
Page and Hendrix were both great for different reasons. Hendrix is an incredible rhythm guitarist. I don't much like it when he solos crazy. I love it when he does those really melodic solos. (ie: Wind Cries Mary) It's his rhythm playing, songwriting that make him unique though to my ears.

Page is an incredible lead player. He's not the best technical guitarist around but he manages to smash Jazz, blues, bluegrass, country and rock n roll into his playing. He's great with alternate tunings and definitely one of my favorite guitarists.

Both incredible musicians. Both musical pioneers in their own right.

I can think of many who surpassed them both technically. Even among their peers. But, I don't give up listening to a guitarist just because there's someone who can play "better". Life would be boring if all music was the same.

If we base a better-best list based on lps sold we'd all be listening to VH-1 for opinions. That being said, who knows how far Hendrix would go if he had lived and gotten sober?
 
Hendrix and Page are both huge influences on me. But if I had to choose?

Let's be honest here - Hendrix is LEGENDARY for stuff like Purple Haze, Fire, Wind Cries Mary, and some other songs that weren't on his FIRST album. (Yeah yeah, Voodoo Chile, Castles Made of Sand, on and on, but his FIRST album !!!!)

Offing himself was a GENIUS career move. Listen to the stuff that was released posthumously (First Rays of the New Rising Sun or the 900 different compilations that stole from those sessions) and you have a very different Jimi. Great to be sure, but LEGENDARY? I'm not convinced. I think he was a little too drugged out, a little too ego tripping, a little too showy, and his music was going in a completely different direction than Purple Haze.

If Hendrix lived until 1980, he might have been merely great.

On the other hand, Page in Zeppelin had perhaps the Sexiest Male Rock Singer Ever, The Best Heavy Rhythm Section in the world (at that time), and heroin problems. He also had a long career as a studio musician by the time he got Zeppelin rolling at the ripe old age of 20 or 21. I agree that his live performances were indulgent and, at times, sloppy beyond style.

But he was Zeppelin's producer. My bias is showing, but that trumps everything.

Jimi Hendrix blew the doors off rock music, but to my ears, when I heard The Wanton Song on Physical Graffiti, that's when I said "There's more than magic to this guitar thing - there's a science behind the style." THICK chord changes. THICK. The Wanton Song. Listen again.

You gotta include the producer credit for Led Zeppelin with Page. You can include all the lead singing and songwriting for Hendrix - Zeppelin wins that contest every day of the week in my opinion.

PS - And yeah, this thread is nothing but an excuse to RAMBLE ON about our heroes. :cool:
 
hueseph said:
If we base a better-best list based on lps sold we'd all be listening to VH-1 for opinions. That being said, who knows how far Hendrix would go if he had lived and gotten sober?
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Thats billboard...but we get the idea...but Ive also allways determined who won the football game by what the score was at the end...not by who's playing was more exciting to watch.
 
darrin_h2000 said:
Thats billboard...but we get the idea...but Ive also allways determined who won the football game by what the score was at the end...not by who's playing was more exciting to watch.
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Fortunately for us, music is not a game. It's entertainment and as much as I love jazz, many people hate it. Does that make Jazz "worse" than Rap? Yeah, go ahead and argue that point. Just because something is popular that does not make it better. Meth is popular too.

I am the biggest Zeppelin fan I know. I love every ablum. I can play just about every song note for note. I'm just glad that there is variety because what a boring world it would be otherwise.
 
Hendrix was better with his selection of women - more age appropriate.
Page was better at collaboration - he could hold a band together.
Hendrix was better at pleasing people.
Page is better at pleasing himself.
Hendrix was a better interpreter.
Page was better at appropriation.
Hendrix was better with a producer.
Page is a better producer.
Hendrix was better at playing left handed.
Page was better at playing right handed.
Hendrix was better at living fast.
Page is better at living.
 
Oh...well....Led Zep was never booed off stage by a bunch of Monkeys fans...lol.
 
You see...while Id put Jimmy up there based on his session work and work with LedZep...Id have to put Jimi in the same catagory as Santana...BB King and others that cant even site read.
 
If sight reading is such a crucial factor where would you put Jeff Healy?
 
rayc said:
If sight reading is such a crucial factor where would you put Jeff Healy?
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....Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Jose Feliciano. Hey if we're going to discuss handicaps why not Beethoven too?

Edit: errrr typos.
 
Of the best 100 guitarists ever, Jimi is at least the first 90.

He redefined guitar, sort of like Jaco did for bass and Bird did for alto sax, and there's no one that can touch him, period.

I doubt very much if Jimi Page (one of my all time favorites) would disagree.

Guitar becomes such a different instrument in the hands of whoever plays it... I know of no instrument that has the range of "what a guitar is".

Segovia, Hendrix and Stanley Jordan all play guitar but they might as well play different instruments... so to compare Jimi and Page is kinda nuts... it's just that Jimi is the most influential rock guitarist and Page played in the most influential rock band.

That's my take on it.
 
Both are definate genius and it's hard to say how sloppy they were to be honest. Both took a whole shed load of naughties which would affect em. They were both very jam orientated which created the sloppiness but i believe that's what captured peoples hearts. The spontaneous playing would not have been affective if they studied for hours.

I feel that both were unable to play rigid set structures as there souls would not let them. The only thing that i see here in difference is that Jimi was a solo artist that people played too, he was the controller and lacked the ability to play to someone else. Where as Page played to other people so was better at jamming and creating.

I prefer Pages song writing but that's just me. Jimi was very original tho.

Jus like to see Paco de Lucia try and play on Acid and see how sloppy he is lol
 
Hendrix: More Innovative, Artistic, Funky, Played with more feeling

Page: More Technical, Amazing epic riff writer, Timing was impeccible

Both of em were sloppy as all get out live....but acid washed down with booze has that effect on people. lol
 
both are among the greatest guitar players ever. i think Hendrix gets the gold medal for being more creative and innovative and as well as being a pioneer and one of the fathers of modern rock. However, lets not confuse this innovativeness and creativity with talent for technicality and the raw ability Page has. Page can both play faster and with more touch and execution than Hendrix could, and in my personal opinion was a better music writer. lets keep in mind alot of his solos are never played the same twice. both are amazing, but as far as who is better, im going to have to go with Page.
 
Jimmy page was like the father of modern rock...when you see a band on TV with their long hair and power chords saying that the Beatles were their greatest influence...they are full of shit...they are emulating Led Zeppelin...so who do you think was really their biggest influince?
 
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You should only post pics of your girlfriend in the cave...nobody wants to see that here.
 
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