RE: Beck / RE: (TV) Richard Lloyd interview re. Hendrix

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--- On Fri, 3/6/09, Michael Olcsvary <olcsvary@verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Michael Olcsvary <olcsvary@verizon.net>
> Subject: RE: Beck / RE: (TV) Richard Lloyd interview re. Hendrix
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 12:20 AM
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Jesse Hochstadt
> 
> 
> A fact I feel is often overlooked in discussing Hendrix is
> what a great,
> fluid sense of rhythm the man - who, after all, played in
> R&B bands for
> years - had. Too much attention is paid to issues like
> feedback, distortion,
> and lead lines (and these are the things that Hendrix
> imitators often focus
> on too, because frankly, IMO, that rhythm sense is much
> deeper musically and
> harder to copy). 
> 
> Agreed - back when I first started playing guitar, a friend
> gave me a couple
> of CDs and urged me to ignore the lead playing and listen
> to the way Hendrix
> played rhythm.  While I'm not one one-thousandth of the
> innovator Hendrix
> was (some of the parts he'd use behind a verse would
> constitute a whole song
> for mere mortals) trying to approach his sense of time and
> swing are things
> any player - as in instrument player - can benefit from.   
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