Originally Posted by: schmangeAt the risk of offending anyone:

I've never understood the idolization of Jimmi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and BBKing.

I just don't get it.

Well, with Hendrix, especially if you look at the Band of Gypsies "Machine Gun" you can hear him develop just hundreds of licks that any lead guitarist ignorant of them today would look like a complete doofus.

BB King, for my money, is the most overrated guitarist in the history of any object ever. He doesn't play rhythm, he constantly slides out of key, he needs the BEST backup band in the freakin' WORLD to keep up with his never-ending stream of mistakes, and his style is repetitive. Now, I don't mean he's repetitive in the sense that all blues is repetitive in some way. I mean that the three notes he plays in his solos are usually the same friggin' three notes.