Who is carrying on the Jimi Hendrix tradition?

[Blazer]

Doyle Bramhall 2

When I pushed this song forwards for my band to cover it, our leadsinger went: "Well I'll be, that's a Hendrix song I never heard before."

[BrianF]

Doyle Bramhall 2 is very cool! I will agree with that!

[Unseen]

Originally Posted by Mark Davis

Randy Hansen does a great Hendrix. He has been doing it forever this is from 1991.

Watch near the end when he gets back up on stage. Pure Jimi crazed and awesome.

I have to laugh. Some of Jimi's own versions of his songs sound less like himself than some of the imitators!

[Unseen]

Originally Posted by getbent

Belew, is a genius, and one of the few I would put up there with Beck as an inventor of sounds, and someone who knows the instrument about as thoroughly as it's possible to know it. He doesn't copy anyone. A totally unique player, performer, and composer.

[Unseen]

I've heard people say that Hendrix was the first to play the guitar as an ELECTRIC and ELECTRONIC instrument, but that's not really true. Les Paul, great as he was, explored electronics, but his guitar was just an amplified solid body guitar. The first guitarist I remember hearing who made my ears prick up with sounds that were more than just amplified strings was Stephen Stills with some of his work with Buffalo Springfield and CS&N. His Buffalo Springfield work predates Hendrix (at least in the U.S.) by about a year. CS&N hit the scene about the same time as Hendrix.

And, while, they were never groundbreaking, The Ventures used fuzztone way before Hendrix or Stills on The 2000 lb Bee.

[e-merlin]

Belew is definitely one of my favorites.

[djinn1973]

Surprised that no one mentioned this guy....




Philip Sayce

[getbent]

Originally Posted by Flannel Pat

Gary Moore's chainsaw guitar tone in the first video doesn't exactly tickle my taco.

you have a taco?

[getbent]

The greatness of Hendrix to me is that he brought together soul, psychedelia, sound as music and texture and made it all a fluid whole. He could make electronic sounds musical and brought it all together in a happy, passionate stew that was palatable and understandable while providing completely jaw droppingly awesome listening moments.

So, that is why I picked Adrian Belew. He is soulful, pop oriented, rocks like crazy, has absolutely amazing touch and can take cold electronics and make them sizzle with passion. He has not had commercial success and he is certainly not an imitator (although I hear the Beatles in just about everybody) but he doesn't seem to care about the rules or doing what he's 'supposed to' he just makes music like he hears it and is passionate about it and follows his own instincts... that is what Hendrix is all about to me.

[Nick JD]

Anyone who thought wailing, fedback distortion leadbreaks that last for minutes were great has carried on Hendrix's tradition.

[morroben]

To me, the magic of Hendrix was that he played the amps and pedals as much as he played the guitar. Some people that try to do this end up forgetting about the guitar part and end up sounding more like electronica than rock.
My vote is for Nels Cline...he's has different style than Hendrix, obviously, but I think the approach and spirit are pretty similar. A great mix of guitarist and mad scientist.

[simonc]

Tom Morello.

A fender (sometimes) a handfull of effects, a Marshall stack, & you have an innovator, capable of squeezing out otherworldly sounds from fairly stock standard gear (ala hendrix).
Also there's a fair dose of GROOVE to his playing.Another hendrix trait.

[blacklinefish]

Originally Posted by e-merlin

You are assuming that the "next Jimi Hendrix" will be playing Rock and Roll. I think that's the wrong assumption. ... Who knows, maybe we already missed the boat.

We did. His name was Tupac Shakur. I'm being serious, not glib. He was starting to get critical acclaim for his acting and I would bet that by 2000 he would have gone beyond just rap. (...but, he never made it out of the mid 90s)

On the guitar front, the comments above about Jack White and Tom Morello fit the model of giving us something that we weren't expecting. That's what Hendrix did, right?

--gh

[getbent]

I think the trick here is that we can't expect something that we haven't conceptualized...

Hendrix made lots of folks see the world 'with new eyes'.

what if we asked... which musician is making a nation of kids see the world with new eyes?

Lots of guys (including the one I suggested) maybe are just different takes on that new vision that hendrix provided...

It is a pretty tall order... no doubt... I guess we'll know it when we hear it.

[tjalla]

Blazer beat me to it... was gonna post the same song

[BrianF]

Originally Posted by getbent

It is a pretty tall order... no doubt... I guess we'll know it when we hear it.

I think I'm actually skeptical that we'll really hear anything new that's very good. After 50 years of rock in various forms, I believe it's all pretty much been done already. The first 10 to 20 years saw the most innovation take place...since then it gets harder and harder to come up with something truly original (AND great).

[getbent]

I'm thinking the same thing Brian. I'm not sure how to feel about that... I guess I'm thankful that there is still plenty of good stuff to hear and listen to and learn....

[esteban]

Originally Posted by BrianF

I think I'm actually skeptical that we'll really hear anything new that's very good. After 50 years of rock in various forms, I believe it's all pretty much been done already. The first 10 to 20 years saw the most innovation take place...since then it gets harder and harder to come up with something truly original (AND great).

I partially agree, but on the other hand, back in the later 1800s, people believed everything had been invented already.

[JayFreddy]

I like Lance Lopez... Lance has a lot more depth than the few videos you can find of him on Youtube, but you can get some idea:



One time I heard him sit in on keys at a local jam here in Dallas. He brought the house playin' deep soul Blues on a Fender Rhoads... He can play like that on guitar too.

Lance is the real deal.

[Le Jab]

....had Jimi lived, there is no way (IMO)!) he would now be touring with a strat and marshall stack heading a three piece. He was innovative and constantly evolving. I could see him embracing all art forms, and its not inconceivable he would have messed with loops, programmed beats and rap. Ceratinly it seemed he was pushing jazz-wards. We saw only a few years of Jimi's creativity, and those years are frozen in time. The path he was trailblazing was fast and furious. ..The Tupac analogy may be the closest we have here, for a young man at the cutting edge of where music is right now, is most probably in front of a computer - whether us old geezers like it or not. If the Jimi Hendrix tradition is to mean innovation, an unworldly amount of talent, and the ability to take an art form and push the boundaries to where there are no limits, then current guitarists might not be where its at.

[BrianF]

Originally Posted by getbent

I'm thinking the same thing Brian. I'm not sure how to feel about that... I guess I'm thankful that there is still plenty of good stuff to hear and listen to and learn....

I think there's still some new stuff to come out thats good to listen to, but it will basically derivative (ie covering old ground).

[51tele]

I'm with you Mark 1000%--------please--you can't put Sonny Landreth in the same sentence with Jimi--------------

[blacklinefish]

Originally Posted by getbent

I think the trick here is that we can't expect something that we haven't conceptualized ... which musician is making a nation of kids see the world with new eyes? ... It is a pretty tall order... no doubt... I guess we'll know it when we hear it.

Ok then. Here's something to wrap our minds around, (it came to me when getbent mentioned a nation of kids). We might be thinking too small here, the musical revolution that we are thinking about may be global.

I listen to a lot of 'World' music, and yes, I despise that term. However, I'm interested in the music from the emerging Indian and Chinese societies. China's music seems to be too traditional (and not updating it) or trying to sound like Western pop (or even punk, 30 years late). India, on the other hand... wow. Bhangra could still be the next Raggae. Musicians there are borrowing from their musical heritage and bringing it to a new stage. An ethnic Punjabi raised in London brought Bhangra to DJ mixing and hip hop (and you might have heard his work with JayZ).

...then again, check out this link: Ali Jafra - School of Rock, pt 2

Pakistan is learning about the history or Rock and Roll. I linked it rather than embedded it because I do not speak Urdu. I recommend watching all those episodes, but this is the one that mentions Hendrix.

--gh

[jazztele]

bill frisell. in spirit, not in sound. the man continually pushes the limits of what an electric guitar can sound like.