10-13-2017, 02:39 PM
Someone told me last spring that Jimi Hendrix is hard to listen to with a trained ear. That you won't hear many players these days citing Hendrix as an influence. These are the kinds of things that I hear people say. Like a fungus.
But who thinks in terms of influence when they want to listen to something?
It's useless to say anything bad about Jimi Hendrix. He had absolutely nothing to do with anything except good music. There's nothing else that you can even think about him but good music. I've heard people lately say they've never really heard Jimi Hendrix before. They never say they've never heard Jimi Hendrix, they say: I've never REALLY heard Jimi Hendrix before. And that's all they can say, like that.
But who thinks in terms of influence when they want to listen to something?
It's useless to say anything bad about Jimi Hendrix. He had absolutely nothing to do with anything except good music. There's nothing else that you can even think about him but good music. I've heard people lately say they've never really heard Jimi Hendrix before. They never say they've never heard Jimi Hendrix, they say: I've never REALLY heard Jimi Hendrix before. And that's all they can say, like that.