The problem with guitar virtuosos is that most of them wouldn't know a good musical concept if they tripped over it, which happens just often enough to keep everyone confused. The exception that proves not a damn thing is Jimi Hendrix, the finest guitarist in any idiom ever. Though he comes close sometimes, this Texan ain't Hendrix. But between earned Jimi cover and lyric refreshment, album two is almost everything a reasonable person might hope from him: a roadhouse album with gargantuan sonic imagination. B+
>>128770982Glam Blues sucks.
>>128770982For me it's Cold Shot.
>>128770982>when you can't decide whether you resent hendrix for being an uncle tom or you resent stevie ray more for being a white guy who dared to ape hendrix
Crossfire so fucking good
>>128771281>uncle tomare you a black racist or white racist? he was just a black guy back when you could do that without being angry
>>128771418Cuckgau's words not mine
Malkmus says to listen to Bill Orcutt
>>128771473ok thanks for clarifying. one of several mysteries of /mu/ is why anyone on Earth gives a fuck what RC says - or any critic.
>>128771405yeah, fantastic groove
>>128770982that's a great album
>>128771260hell yeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CixtG_bF28&list=RD-CixtG_bF28&start_radio=1
>>128770982i thought cuckgau originally hated hendrix.
>>128770982His voice and lyrics are extremely underrated, way deeper then anything Hendrix ever tried to sing.
>>128770982Stevie Ray had no sou...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5sqJNFFwqc
>>128773512>>128771281Christgau on Hendrix before it became the norm to praise him:Robert Christgau on Hendrix at Monterey:>England, like all of Europe, thirsts for the Real Thing, as performers from Howlin' Wolf to Muhammad Ali have discovered. Hendrix, joined by two good English sidemen, came to Monterey recommended by the likes of Paul McCartney. He was terrible. Hendrix is a psychedelic Uncle Tom. Don't believe me; believe Sam Silver of the East Village Other: "Jimi did a beautiful Spade routine." Hendrix earned that capital S. Dressed in English fop mod, with a ruffled orange shirt and red pants that outlined his semierection to the thirteenth row, Jimi really, as Silver phrased it, "Socked it to them." Grunting and groaning, on the brink of sham orgasm, he made his way through five or six almost indistinguishable songs, occasionally flicking an anteater tongue at the great crotch in the sky. He also played what everyone seems to call "heavy" guitar; in this case that means he was loud. He was loud with his teeth and behind his back and between his legs, and just in case anyone still remembered the Who, Hendrix had a capper. With his back to the audience, Hendrix humped the amplifier and jacked the guitar around his midsection, then turned and sat astride his instrument so that its neck extended like a third leg. For a few tender moments he caressed the strings. Then, in a sacrifice that couldn't have satisfied him more than it did me, he squirted it with lighter fluid from a can held near his crotch and set the cursed thing afire. The audience scrambled for the chunks he tossed into the front rows. He had tailored a caricature to their mythic standards and didn't overdo it a shade. The destructiveness of the Who is consistent theater, deriving directly from the group's defiant, lower-class stance. I suppose Hendrix's act can be understood as a consistently vulgar parody of rock theatrics, but I don't feel I have to like it. Anyway, he can't sing.
All of you suck cock and probably can't even play jingle bells on the guitar. Keep to masturbation you don't deserve to breathe if you're dissing Stevie Ray Vaughan. Seriously, go jerk off, you're in way over your fucking heads.
>>128770982Did this album start the trend of terrible overcooked little wing covers?
>>128777658moron
Stevie or Jimmie?
>>128770982SRV died before his peak. All of his peak performances are from later in his career after he got sober. In Step (1989) saw some of his best originals hits with Tightrope and Crossfire, plus the original somber instrumental Riviera Paradise>>128778865No his Little Wing cover was only published after he died (The Sky Is Crying, 1991)
>>128771281Stevie left Hendrix in the dust. Hendrix was just a dead dopehead nigger while Stevie put blues on the map and evolved into funk
>>128783810his 1989 show at Austin city limits is untouchable. Couldn’t stand the weather is a masterpiece
>>128784066i'm sure stevie felt the same way.
