• From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Topic: VOODOO CHILE VERSUS VOODOO CHILE

THIS ISN'T A GUITARIST CONTEST
Who plays the best version of this number
1) The MASTER HIMSELF = JIMI HENDRIX?
2) The MASTER HIMSELF = STEVIE RAY VAUGHN

It is difficult to compare but
1) listen very good
2) pay attention on arrangements, effects
3) the guitar, the way she's played.

PAY ATTENTION = HOW many guitarists are influenced by JIMI Hendrix compare that number with the number of artists influenced by SRV.
I don't believe Jimi Hendrix was the best guitarist ever, but at least he was the best performer on guitar ever. IS THIS THE SAME? Read and you see it. A very talented and skilled player, who was one of the greatest performers.
Jimi created a wall of sound, he combined psychedelic with blues/rock and was a great showman.
He was beyond his time.

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  • Registered: 2007-03-24
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Re: VOODOO CHILE VERSUS VOODOO CHILE

Tough call. I really like SRV's version; it's magic. But the nod has to go to Jimi for doing it first. A copy of something is always just a copy no matter how good. Nothing could beat the original.

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Re: VOODOO CHILE VERSUS VOODOO CHILE

I believe that we should just feel blessed to have had both performers here to leave their mark. I cannot criticize either one, any musicians as dedicated and talented as they were don't come around often.

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  • From: Portsmouth, UK
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Re: VOODOO CHILE VERSUS VOODOO CHILE

I'm sorry but you can't look past Hendrix. Though to be honest, I though his rendition of All Along the Watchtower, and Little Wing were the stand out songs, never really felt Vodoo or Purple Haze or Hey Joe to be honest.

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  • From: BELGIUM
  • Registered: 2007-01-27
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Re: VOODOO CHILE VERSUS VOODOO CHILE

Thanks for all your answers, very nice and clean and just as I wanted it NO CONTEST.
Colluege Ape, I agree but they ARE Hendrix songs. I adore his version of Dylan's all along the watchtower and little wing.
SRV also plays little wing.
I forgot to mention 1 important thing = time line = 15 years approximately. AND SRV wasn't a THEATRICAL player like Jimi. I am NOT IN A POSITION TO JUDGE. I can only tell you that there is still a lot of talent and VERY almost extra terrestrial players, who often are talented but they play just to play and are at the University to study for MD or Lawyer. When I was in MEMPHIS, in BEAL STREET, you have a club named the BB KING CLUB. We were on our way to the motel, and I passed that club, what I heard there was amazing. I saw, standing outside the club a band and he played VOODOO CHILE, you couldn't hear the difference, also SUSIE Q 10X better than CCR'S version and when we left (I had too much pain) he started playing "I'm Going Home" (how could he notice that I was going home) lol  lol

[color=blue]- GITAARDOCPHIL SAIS: TO CONQUER DEAD, YOU HAVE TO DIE[/color]   AND [color=blue] we are born to die[/color]
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]

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