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Well, here I am writing about an off-topic.
Firstly a confession, or so it might seem in a time
when prejudice against age is rife. I am 51 years old.
This means I heard Jimi before I heard post-Jimi
music. I am very reluctant to idealise anyone, but the
sheer power of his sound, compared to the creampuff,
stuff getting around (at least in mass circulation)
was a total liberation. When one artist makes a
quantum leap it does inspire others to try to do so in
THEIR OWN WAY as much as it spawns a myriad of
imitators. If you hear Jimi after his imitators, of
course he does not sound so revolutionary. My playing
does not owe much to Jimi but my enthusiasm to find
ground breaking ideas does.
Of course Les Paul had some amazing live sound on
sound stuff going on really early on, triggering
(tape) "samples" from his guitar. I am trying to
one-up anyone, but since recently joining the forum
would like to thank all contributors for broadening my
mind.
more power to you all! John
--- Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com> wrote:
> At 11:32 AM -0800 2/25/01, scott kungha drengsen
> wrote:
> > We wouldn't have this forum if it weren't for Jimi
> Hendrix.
>
> well, I created LD, and I have pretty much no
> interest in Jimi Hendrix and
> hardly ever listened to him. I think I can fairly
> authoritatively state
> that Looper's Delight would still exist even if
> Hendrix never had!
>
> So far as I can tell, Hendrix didn't have much (or
> any) influence on loop
> based music. Did Hendrix influence hip-hop? no.
> kraftwerk, house, and
> numerous other electronic dance spin-offs? no. The
> various tape loop and
> soundscape/ambient pioneers? or Dub? not that I know
> of. He played rock
> music, which mostly avoided/derided loops and
> samples for decades while the
> ideas developed elsewhere. Over the past ten years
> or so it seems the
> opposite has happened, rock has been influenced by
> the looping cultures to
> reinvent itself a few more times.
>
> From my perspective, Hendrix is just another
> over-nostalgized baby boomer
> icon that I'm tired of hearing about. Sorry if that
> bothers some of you, I
> don't mean it with disrespect of the guy. That was
> music of my parent's
> generation. (although my parents never listened to
> him either.) I never
> really heard that stuff growing up, and it didn't
> mean much to me when I
> did listen to it as an adult. For me, Hendrix is
> just another guy in a
> documentary on the history channel, like say, Louis
> Armstrong. I listened
> to it as music history education, and that was about
> it. That's probably
> true for most people under the age of 35, and those
> are the people mostly
> creating loop-based music...
>
> kim
>
>
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