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No it isnt a religious thread.....after responding to a question in another thread, I started wondering that if Hendrix was alive today, would he play a Strat....IMH, at that time, your two choices were Fender or Gibson...but today there are so many fine instruments so lets say he was still alive and looking for a guitar...the question becomes :

"What Would Jimi Do?"

Im thinking a G&L (the true Fender)...probably a Legacy with a HB on the bridge......

for that matter, what amp would he play thru.....Marshall stack?...Pod Pro?.....
 
Jimi Hendrix would play a Parker Fly Deluxe.

I have seen the future.

H2H
 
they had a mock interview in a guitar world about a year ago with hendrix as if he was still alive today. in the interview they quoted hendrix as using a parker fly which is where i assume hard2hear came up with that reply. i imagine hendrix would have 2 every guitar made but i feel he'd always go back to his trusty fender and superlead for his main work. i have no doubt he'd had every effect and amp out and probably a back up for each.
 
Naw...Hendrix would be playing a seven string Ibanez. After the way he liked to hit the low E, now he can get it even lower.
 
He'd be playing the same exact guitars...and wouldn't think much about it.

Slackmaster 2000
 
scriabin-
Actually I didn't know about that article. Kind of funny though. I got my idea from talking to Ken Parker at NAMM this summer...but maybe he had seen the article. :) There was a picture in the quarterly Parker newsletter with a picture of Jimi playing a fly. It was cool. The things you can do with computers!

H2H
 
Lots of different guitars

There's not a single guitar player anywhere near Hendrix's lead that doesn't have about 50 guitars (Clapton, for example) -

I suspect he'd use whatever he wanted, and would go for the new and creative stuff, so I'd assume he'd have every guitar...

Not the real expensive ones, though...so it don't cost as much to burn them on stage.

RB
 
He could make anything sound great....he might even play an import.......gibs

:D

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The guitar would have to be very flammable. I wouldn't be surprised to see music man make an axe for him......

Seriously though, he would play a strat!!!!!!! No need to improve on perfection!!!
 
I think he'd either stay with the strat or go PRS maybe, at first I was thinking Ibanez since almost all of the shredders play them, but I dunno he had huge hands and played pretty hard, those skinny Ibanez necks might have felt too flimsy to him (?)
 
I've hate to break the bubbbles of you strat lovers, but Jimi had stopped playing them a year or so before he died. He seemed to prefer Gibson Flying V's.
 
Wasn't that because it was the only guitar with a body shape that didn't get in the way? IIRC, they didn't make lefty guitars then, at least on the Flying V, all he had to do was flip the nut, bridge and pickups. Then the only thing wrong was the knobs and jack being on the upper "horn", and the strap pins...

But at least he wasn't slamming into that "upper" cutaway.

Guess that's why you didn't see hime with many Les Pauls or Teles.

Queue
 
The chicken or the egg.

Would all these great guitars (PRS, Parker, Ibanez, etc.) be around if Jimi had not revolutionized the guitar? Would all the subsequent gods of sqeezing every possible noise out of a guitar (EVH, Vai, etc.) have existed if Jimi hadn't laid the framework?

Possibly someone else may have revolutionized the guitar.






If so, Jimi would play an accordion.
 
You guys are missing the obvious...

It is all but certain that Jimi would be playing the "Jimi Hendrix" signiture model. There is not a well known guitarist these days that doesn't have a signiture model, and I have no doubt that Jimi would too. The manufacturer is really irrellevant. Take EVH for example. Every guitar builder would love to have his endorsment, and they will build whatever he wants.
Heck, Hendrix is dead 30 years and there are still several Fenders that bear his name, as well as a Gibson V Hendrix signiture model.
If you're interested, there is an article on my website regarding Signiture model guitars that you might find interesting. Go to the "articles" page.
Aaron
http://www.aaroncheney.com
 
sry 64, your wrong.
straight through 1970 he continued to use strats and his flying v on occasion. of course we cant forget he used an sg custom on the dick cavett show in 1969 when he played izabella. in 1968, he used a les paul custom a couple of times, on occasion he also used a jaguar. of course he had 3 of every guitar known but most of those stayed in the studio such as rickenbackers, tele's ect... although if i can recall correctly he did use a strat body with a tele neck when he played newport in 69'
during his isle of wight set in september of 1970, the same month he died, he used his black 1969 fender strat for every song except dolly dagger and red house.
hope this helps
 
I think the Hendrix family and Fender might have had a falling out recently. I still see a "Voodoo" strat, but it no longer has Jimi's name on it...

Queue
 
jimi would play an sg with dual humbuckers, cause it would be lite enough for his frail frame and because he would have figured out the trons by now...
 
hey dragonworks--he would play an ibenez--but only long enough to realize that he's not steve vai...then he'd come HOME to gibson.
 
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