Cobain v.s. Hendrix

Who was more revolutionary? I vote Kurt Cobain.

LMFAO!!!Are you serious?Your kidding and this thread is a joke right??

God forbid if you are serious then please give reasons...

Originally Posted by: chucklivesoninmyheartGod forbid if you are serious then please give reasons...

So you've got reasons to disagree other than "Cobain sucks," right?

come on. Cobain is great, but hendrix is unbelievably incredible.he's the king.he's THE best guitarist ever.

is this a joke? no seriously is this a joke??

compairing hendrix to cobain is like comparing f-1 formula racing to potato sack hopping. One has skill and the other....too much time on their hands i guess.

Ok but who was more revolutionary. We know hendrix had way more skill.

apples vs oranges? what?

Originally Posted by: HambergOk but who was more revolutionary. We know hendrix had way more skill.

good luck getting through the cretards' heads that this isn't a "who was the better guitarist" question.

i still insist though that it's not possible to compare them because it was two different time periods and each was important in a different way. now if you had said nirvana vs pearl jam.....i'd have to say nirvana....but you can't compare hendrix and cobain.

if it werent for Hendrix, there would be no Cobain

Therefore, all the people who got inspired by Cobain were indirectly inspired by Hendrix

nuff said...

Originally Posted by: alucard0941if it werent for Hendrix, there would be no Cobain

Therefore, all the people who got inspired by Cobain were indirectly inspired by Hendrix

nuff said...

[font=trebuchet ms]That's not the point. The question is "Who was more revolutionary?". And it's a good question.

Hendrix changed the way musicians approached the guitar. He opened our eyes and ears to a whole new world of possibilities, by taking the guitar to new levels. He added new colours to the guitar player's palette.

Cobain changed the way musicians approached the guitar. He opened our eyes and ears to a whole new world of possibilities, by redefining guitar's place in music. He inspired a generation of bands to imitate him.

I may despise the whole grunge scene, and the damage it did to the music business, but I have to acknowledge that he had a revolutionary effect. Quite possibly a more widespread and lasting one than Hendrix's.[/font] :(

Originally Posted by: alucard0941if it werent for Hendrix, there would be no Cobain

And if it weren't for Buddy Guy (and Albert King and innumerable other Blues cats), there would be no Hendrix.

And so on, and so on until the beginning of humanity.

Originally Posted by: alucard0941if it werent for Hendrix, there would be no Cobain

Therefore, all the people who got inspired by Cobain were indirectly inspired by Hendrix

nuff said...

thats right hendrix changed the way people play guitar think about it think
about what time he was in back thin the heaviest bands around were the
stones and the beatles he took what he new about guitar and redsignd it.
and what he did defenitly lasted longer. cobains aproach lasted what a decade and now its dieing off and people are startin to breing that old hendrix style back

Originally Posted by: 1791cobains aproach lasted what a decade and now its dieing off and people are startin to breing that old hendrix style back

1). If you think that Cobain's influence has already died off, you're not listening very closely to a lot of what's going on in music today.

2). "and people are startin to breing that old hendrix style back"

Think about that statement for a moment: Hendrix's style was here... then it died out... but now it's coming back.

Don't virtually all musical "movements" do that from time to time? Metal was really big for a while, then faded away only to make a come back. Ska has come and gone three times in the last 45 years. Interest in Blues trailed off for quite some time before SRV ressurected it in the 80, then it made an even bigger comeback for a while in the late 90's. Swing had a recent resurgence, so did jam bands, so (I think) is Bluegrass and possibly even more "classic" Country. Johnny Cash is probably as popular now as he's ever been.

So, maybe it seems to you that "Grunge" is about to die and never be heard from again.

But don't go anywhere near Stonerrock.com if you want to maintain that illusion.

What did Cobain really revolutionize?Ive never known anyone who activley has sought out his style.I know of people starting out playing guitar who strum teen spirit or something,but I dont see where thats revolutionary.Those same people strum metallica too.

Hendrix has influenced far more people(due to time mabey) and took the guitar to a new level...

Originally Posted by: chucklivesoninmyheart Those same people strum metallica too.

yea I think that maybe Metallica was more revolutionary than Cobain at times

Originally Posted by: chucklivesoninmyheartWhat did Cobain really revolutionize?Ive never known anyone who activley has sought out his style.I know of people starting out playing guitar who strum teen spirit or something,but I dont see where thats revolutionary.Those same people strum metallica too.

Whats it have to do with anyone actively seeking to play like kurt cobain? So if theres more people out there trying to play like steve vai, that automatically makes him more revolutionary than hendrix? guitar=guitar...music doesnot= guitar. the way I interpreted the question was not about who was the more infulential GUITARIST, but who was more revolutionary overall (for their respective time, obviously).

But to answer the question, im gonna say Hendrix, because he really defined putting your heart and soul into making and playing music. Even though Nirvana was my first musical love and got me into music permanently

Originally Posted by: Homebrew1709... But to answer the question, im gonna say Hendrix, because he really defined putting your heart and soul into making and playing music. Even though Nirvana was my first musical love and got me into music permanently

[font=trebuchet ms]I think the key difference is that there was no sudden proliferation of Jimi Hendirx Experience clones. But there was a whole genre of **** based on Nirvana.

I was there at the time. Jimi was looked up to as a god. No-one really tried to emulate him - he was way out there, where no-one else dared to go. The stuff he was doing defied anyone to follow. There was no possible way for The Biz to slap together a bunch of clone-bands to cop a piece of the action. The only one I remember from that time who sounded even a little bit like Hendrix was Frank Marino and his band Mahogany Rush. That was a couple of years after Jimi died. And he didn't get diddly in terms of major label support. Jimi didn't have any peers. He really was unique.

And that's where the term revoloutionary doesn't fit him very well. You can't start a revoloution if no-one joins in. You aren't a leader if no-one follows you.

I loathe, despise, and detest the grunge era. :mad: But that can't change the fact that a revolution was based on the crap that Kurt Cobain fostered.[/font]

Face it, its damn near impossible to compare anything from the 60's or 70's to today. It's an unlevel playing field for EVERYTHING. U can't fault kurt or anyone else from the past 20 years for the music industry being what it is today. It's like any other industry, it grows over time and when it grows, things change.

Originally Posted by: HambergWho was more revolutionary? I vote Kurt Cobain.

define revolutionary for everyone. or at least for me. :confused:
cause i think people are thinking of it diffrently