Your Absolute Favorite Song(s)

[Jasonw560]

Originally Posted by The Poet

This. But if you need ONE, I'll go with Voodoo Chile by Jimi Hendrix . . . if you'll also allow me a Slight Return.

For me, the Stevie Ray Vaughan version is better.

Music is very subjective.

Let me add some Bach or Handel into the mix. Chopin, Mozart, Rossini, a little Berlioz.

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by Jasonw560

For me, the Stevie Ray Vaughan version is better.

And I'd bet you SRV would be laughing too. Hey, don't get me wrong . . . I do believe Stevie did a great job stealing licks, not only from Jimi, but from many others.

[Jasonw560]

Originally Posted by The Poet

Hey, don't get me wrong . . . I do believe Stevie did a great job stealing licks, not only from Jimi, but from many others.

Just as Jimi did from the old Blues masters, as did many others, like Clapton and Page. And the old Blues masters "stole" from countless others who we'll never know. They just say they were "influenced" by them.

And SRV might laugh at that, but as music is subjective, to my ears, I like his version better.

[The Poet]

Originally Posted by Jasonw560

Just as Jimi did from the old Blues masters, as did many others, like Clapton and Page. And the old Blues masters "stole" from countless others who we'll never know. They just say they were "influenced" by them.

And SRV might laugh at that, but as music is subjective, to my ears, I like his version better.

True as it is that all artists are influenced by past masters, you are WRONG if you think Jimi stole from anybody. NOBODY hit those licks before he did, which is why he's still considered the best guitarist there was, four decades after his death.

Also true, you are entitled to like Stevie's cover better . . . and I'm sure the fact that you're from Texas has nothing to do with that.

[Jasonw560]

Originally Posted by The Poet

True as it is that all artists are influenced by past masters, you are WRONG if you think Jimi stole from anybody. NOBODY hit those licks before he did, which is why he's still considered the best guitarist there was, four decades after his death.

Also true, you are entitled to like Stevie's cover better . . . and I'm sure the fact that you're from Texas has nothing to do with that.

Come on...after jamming with BB King, Muddy Waters, Curtis Mayfield, Albert King, Steve Cropper and other blues and R&B LEGENDS, you don't think he took a thing or two? Especially from Cropper and jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery? I'm sure he just made all of them better, and rejected everything they did.

I know it's just anecdotal, but Guitar Shorty swears his licks are in "Purple Haze".

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