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Originally posted by jakewesier
Underrated: Hendrix. Lots of you have said he's overrated and you're not seeing the HUGE absolutely MASSIVE contribution he had to music that we hear today. Without Hendrix there would be no Heavy Metal, no Hard Rock, No killer guitar players after him like Page, Van Hallen, Beck, Via, Satriani and so on and so forth. He has had an influenece weither you know it or not on your own playing (if you play)
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The KINKS and Dave Davies had a lot to do with the garage sound/heavy metal/punk. IMHO moreso than Hendrix as there were others just as experimental that just didn't get the attention he did.. I'd take the solo of You Really Got Me over any other solo in the 60's.
Dave says how he did it was to take an old Elpico amp and he slit it open and put knitting needles in. They called it the "fart box".
Hendrix praised Dave's guitar playing and was quoted once as saying that solo inspired him.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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