While these types of comments about how Jimi hendrix and other real musicians are one the one hand, very very true, and, also, the most important "truth" musically, these type of arguments also serve absolutely NO purpose in this type of forum and are only a distraction from the discussion at hand. If we are going to go there then why not just stop talking about any of this. For of course, Jimi could play without all these technical advancements.... so why bother even being in this forum at all lol?...yikes.williemyers wrote:Epiphone? hell, he could do it with a Silvertone!!James Steele wrote:... I have no doubt that Jimi Hendrix, if he were alive today, could pick up the cheapest damned Epiphone in Guitar Center and make me weep. That's the ultimate bottom line in music.
This is a discussion about the technical qualities of technical equipment.
It is a totally off the subject to dive into the "art" of it all.
Of course Jimi could play anything.
And I could go beyond that with John Coltrane.
Rachmoninov, Mozart, Charlie Parker, etc...
But that type of discussion is not what this is about.
We all could massage our musical egos about great musicians we love. And of course the music IS the most important thing.
But amidst a technical discussion like this, it is out of place and a pointless distraction from the discussion.
By the way, Hendrix was a total technical junkie.
He would have loved all the technical advances and been in here bitching excited about the next triple decker, echo-flanga magigger....
And he'd have taken DPs technical advances and made even greater music with it.
Which is what this forum is about for the most part, making DP better so that the music can be even better, Either better duplicated in a pure form or, better to serve producers and artists as an artistic paint brush. which is how I use it.