Originally Posted by: SilimtaoI'm not responding to pick a fight, Incidents, but I beg to differ. What could be considered sucky technique can also be viewed as a player's uniqueness. In what way do you mean their technique sucks?

As for today's players, they probably wouldn't be the players they are now w/out the influences of players like Hendrix & Clapton. Look at SRV (unless you think he sucks too); man, his Hendrix influence is all over the place. Clapton doesn't make it on my top 5 list, but I still like him. Far's as Hendrix is concerned, I think he took the guitar to a level so far above and beyond what was before him that his influence still resounds to this day (Hendrix isn't my fav player tho; just appreciate what he did.) Santana's my man. JMHO.

See I don't think Hendrix elevated the guitar in real musical terms. In social terms? Yes. But really now, how can you say Hendrix elevated the guitar like nobody before him when you look at what guys like Segovia and Reinhardt did?

~Incidents