Originally Posted by: dakine80If you can't play Eruption now, you won't be playing it in a week! You under estimate one of the greatest or arguably THE greatest
guitarists "Cumming all over his guitar" as you put it. If your in the MIDDLE of learning a Hendrix song, there's just no way you can lay down Eruption or Spanish Fly in a week. I learn Hendrix songs, note for note, in about 30 minutes to an hour. You're barkin up the wrong tree, when it comes to who's stuff is harder to play.
I'm sure Jimi could play "Eruption", but he didn't. Eddie did.
As far as "revolutionizing the guitar" I would go with Hendrix. The stuff he did laid the groundwork for rock guitar and then Eddie just took it to the next level. I think that these two are the best guitarists that ever lived because of how they changed the way guitar is played and the countless musicians they've inspired. No others come close.
As far as who's better is a question, in my opinion, that can't be answered, so I think they should both be #1.
In the middle, as in, I actually had the guitar in my hands when I wrote that post.
You can learn Jimi in half an hour to an hour, eh? I want an MP3 of "Castles Made of Sand", you playing it of course. Is two hours too soon?
Went and had a listen to Eruption again. As soon as the strat is out of the shop, (say two weeks or so), I'll set forth to learn that song, and then i'll video record it, and post it, sound cool to you? Of course, you'll have to give me 1 week from the day I get my strat back to learn it, but i'll have it done earlier as my friends tell me, but say a week just to polish off that nice tapping thing Eddie has going on, which I've never done before.
I love it when people challenge me to play songs that are the genre of music I like, because even if I don't like the song in general, I'll learn whatever anyway. Proving people wrong is so much fun. :rolleyes:
BTW, "Cumming on the guitar" is my expression for doing really fast randomness that sounds good and feels good, makes sense doesn't it? ;)
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