If you could bring a dead rock star back to life

[allends]

Jul 22, 2008, 4:39am, kouly wrote:...my pick would be Bach. Bach, like Hendrix, was possessed by the music....Bach or Hendrix Bach or Hendrix Bach or Hendrix Bach or Hendrix ...Oh look what you've done! I'm so confused now! -Al

[aimusic]

I don't know if it's been mentioned before but I would bring back Jim Morrison... I loved me some Doors....

[davekershaw]

Jul 21, 2008, 2:32pm, ernstinen wrote:The fact that Lennon hated his own voice always mystified me. He always asked for it to be drenched in echo. Bizarre! Ern Yes Ern, very, considering the incredible respect he comanded from his peers, and fans alike for that very gift.As a link, re-Karen Carpenter. I saw an interview a while back with her brother, where he says they were coming out of a restaurant, and they past John Lennon. He told Karen she had a great voice. Afterwards, her brother says she just couldn't get her head around why he would say it.Such self-doubt, from such gifted people truly is a mystery!

[davekershaw]

Jul 21, 2008, 11:22pm, ernstinen wrote:Also, who's the little gnome playing congas? Get him outta there! Simply Awsome!Yeah that thumb is busy!Looks like some of it's dampening, but other timesit's coming over strings he's not playing.Maybe just his style.Anyone else know the story behind it?That improvisation clip is mesmerising too.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck05ixIC ... elatedTalk about becoming "one" with your instrument!

[Mark Kaufman]

I've read that Hendrix used his thumb as much as his fingers, and in watching his performances I'm always just mystified about what he's doing. First off his hands are so large that nothing looks normal anymore...then of course it's all upside down and backwards, not to even mention the acid. But then there is the element of his complete abandon...I honestly think he often didn't know what he was doing sometimes...he'd just immerse himself in the flow of possibility, and the sounds would just emerge as if summoned by magic. No one else has ever come close to that wild, creative playing.But that thumb definitely chorded as well as damped, barred...whatever he felt like having it do.

[davekershaw]

Jul 22, 2008, 10:18am, lyle wrote: But then there is the element of his complete abandon...I honestly think he often didn't know what he was doing sometimes...In his own creative world, and hardly looked at the guitar.Complete natural. Would love to be transported back in time, and sit in on a few of his early day practice sessions, to see how he learnt to play.Probably overtook me in his first year!Thanks Mark.Dave.

[twilsbach]

Definitely with you on the Jeff Buckley tip. If Grace was any indication of what was to come...Jul 20, 2008, 7:28pm, silvercord wrote:JEFF BUCKLEY'nuff said.

[ernstinen]

Re: JimiI don't have the talent in my whole body that Hendrix had in his thumb --- but here's as close as I ever got to his magical sound.This was my '63 Strat through, I believe, a Marshall JCM-800. --- I faded this in right before the final guitar solo on a song of mine entitled "When You Talk To Me":http://www.box.net/shared/6tb984sowwClose, but no cigar! Ern

[ggalen]

Ern,I liked it! Nice moves in there! Really good stuff! Glenn

[ernstinen]

Jul 22, 2008, 5:54pm, ggalen wrote:Ern,I liked it! Nice moves in there! Really good stuff! GlennHey, Thanks, Glenn! What's funny about my guitar playing is that my left hand can play fairly fast, but my right (picking) hand is as slow as a tortoise!That's why I have to do so many hammer-ons to get the fast notes.My California hippie psychologist once told me "Your problem is you are left-handed, and your parents made you a rightie." Well --- maybe he was correct after all! Ern