If you could bring a dead rock star back to life

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
Jimi Hendrix. I'd also bring back Miles, so they could team up and produce a sequel to Bitches Brew.I would love to see what Jimi could create with all the technologies available to musicians today, which weren't even invented when he was alive the first time. One can only imagine what he could have accomplished given all of these marvels today.
 

White Knight

Spectral Warrior con passion
Whilst we're talking about great guitarists such as Hendrix, it also crossed my mind that I'd love to have Duane Allman back to do just one more rendition of his awesome,ass-kicking Mountain Jam.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Tempted to bring back Brian Jones so the Stones could play with their original line up. Or maybe the original Pink Floyd.

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John Watt

Member
Jimi Hendrix for electric guitar, Jaco Pastorius for bass, Pat Methany and Lyle Mayes on guitars and keys, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz,
this is tempting to continue.

I'm seeing Jimi being recognized as the greatest electric guitarist, but he wasn't the best lead guitarist.
He played a right-handed Fender Stratocaster upside down, and had to hold his hand away from the body to get at the strings.
He never got into palm muting, a nice technique and one that extends the effects of high feedback distortion.
Please don't forget, Jimi was using a Marshall amplifier that had only one volume control, no pre-amp and main.

Jimi earned his fame with his recordings, how he used pieces of tape recordings and various guitar sounds,
to create mini-orchestras, and in Electric Ladyland, a mini-symphony of musical journeys.
Modern technology would not change his approach, or his soul, but it would make it easier.
I think of him as a singer-songwriter who could accompany himself and play his own lead guitar, live onstage.
 

John Watt

Member
I saw "The Mothers of Invention" in 1970, in Edmonton at the Cow Palace,
the band setting up on two flatbeds on the dirt floor, end-to-end at the entrance.
Flo and Eddie were the vocalists, and it was like a college talent show,
except for the tight tight and complicated band and Aynsley Dunbar's heroic drum solo.
Wandering backstage, Frank and the band were standing around towelling off, wearing track suits,
and I asked the passing roadie if I could play a chord on Frank's guitar, a '64 S.G. like Santana's.
Frank said "What chord do you want to play", so I named my most complicated one.
Frank said "Do you really know that chord", and I said I'm left-handed and play bass on the bottom, it's easy.
He nodded to the roadie to let me try and came closer. I played the chord, he kept looking,
so I moved it around, sliding it a little, and then Frank said "We have to go". A real nice time.
Frank's S.G. had big humbuckers on it that were held by white bandage tape, and they were loose.
Just like why Jimi Hendrix never got a lefty built for him his way, I'll never understand that.

Some of Frank's college artworks are being appraised on Antiques Roadshow for $20,000,
a very talented man. I was surprised he was taller than me, and I'm 6'.
I hope you were around the share those open and honest 60's concert times, EddieRUKiddingVare.
 
Fantastic story, love it I didn't realise Frank was that tall.

I was born in 63 and in Oz land - last time Frank toured here was 76', so I was a bit young lol.

Flo and Eddie too, that would have been a lot of fun. Humbuckers with white tape hey, very sixties I guess ( or early 70's with Flo & Eddie). So Frank let it at we have to go- good god you could have been roped in to his craziness.....

I've also seen Dweezil live here in Oz doing a Zappa plays Zappa show in Brisbane 2007- Had Steve V, Ray White and Joe Travers (the Vaultmeister) on drums and was great but not the real thing.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Jim Morrison of The Doors. I liked the versatility of their playing and the variety of their music. Would he have matured and progressed? I would like to find out. I know that he was not a musician but .........

teddy
 

teddy

Duckmeister
And if you have not seen him perform THE THRILL IS GONE with B B King, you ain't lived

teddy
 

John Watt

Member
Yeah, I just saw a new Jimi Hendrix thingy on Facebook yesterday.
It shows Jimi sitting behind a desk for a job interview,
and the interviewer is saying "Your resume looks good, but,
are you experienced?"

I don't see Jimi as being the greatest guitarist of all time, how he gets inscribed in rock tablets.
He definitely hasn't been equalled as a soundboard multi-tracker, using stereo enhanced effects.
I haven't heard any other music with as many and as deep electronic effects and headphone movements.
Creative recording studio artist, singer-songwriter-lead guitarist, inventor, bandleader and performer,
yes, and I'd still like to know why he never got a custom lefty built for him. Why, Jimi, oh why?
 
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