RE: (TV) thought someone might get a kick out of this...

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

I believe this is the only Verlaine commenton Hendrix that ever 
made into print.
>From Guitar World (November 1981)
Peter Mengaziol:  "Just about every guitarist considered 'innovative'
gets compared to Jimi Hendrix, no matter how far styles diverge. Other 
critics have compared the two as far as impact." 

Tom has his own view about Jimi. Verlaine: "Hendrix wasn't that particularly 
adept an orchestrator. Les Paul was a real wizard at it! Hendrix' strengths 
were his solos. I mean, almost all the tunes on the second record (Axis, Bold 
As Love) were not great tunes, you know. The first record's a classic. Every 
cut is a really imaginative riff and a really great solo - and short, really 
compact! There's some beautiful guitar playing here and there. To my ears 
there's some real junk on there. After that I don't know much of his stuff 
except for what they play on the radio once in a while - the space stuff!" 

	Leo

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay [mailto:piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 11:18 AM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) thought someone might get a kick out of this...

>....anyway, he said "Television is a top guitar band...not 
>better than Hendrix, but who is"
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