# I'm listening to some live Hendrix..and was wondering..

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 27, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-listening-to-some-live-hendrix-and-was-wondering/191167 "2003-07-27T00:31:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![schplebordnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@schplebordnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schplebordnik)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-listening-to-some-live-hendrix-and-was-wondering/191167/21 "2003-07-27T21:03:56Z")

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Half a rock’n’roller, maybe?  
Or maybe, half good.

PS: I believe Prince is also “half,” if that was meant in the other context.

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-listening-to-some-live-hendrix-and-was-wondering/191167/22 "2003-07-27T21:21:44Z")

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Half good, huh.  
_Purple Rain_ was a work of genius, heavily inspired by Hendrix. Prince has the sense of promotion that Hendrix lacked. Plus, he really can play guitar.  
Being a guitar god doesn’t get you a whole lot.

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**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-listening-to-some-live-hendrix-and-was-wondering/191167/23 "2003-07-27T21:37:14Z")

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I’ll weigh in, Prince and Lenny Kravitz are great guitarists. In Prince’s case, it is not what people think of him for tho. They think of his toal concept of an album.

Same in Kravitz’ case, even more so! On many of his albums, he is the ONLY musician! He plays every instrument, including guitars, bass, drums, keyboard, vocals. I think he even dabbles in Brass/Woodwind also.

Still…they both are only half of Jimi! They didn’t permenantly alter the way people thought of, and played, the electric guitar! Jimi was a ground-breaking talent. Like Les Paul, Chuck Berry, Eddie VanHalen! (My top four.)

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-listening-to-some-live-hendrix-and-was-wondering/191167/24 "2003-07-27T21:47:32Z")

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Lenny Kravitz isn’t half of Hendrix. Maybe 1/500th. He may be a capable instrumentalist - although when I saw him live, he didn’t even take the solos - but I think he’s mostly just attempted to recreate the work of Hendrix and other 60s stars.

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-listening-to-some-live-hendrix-and-was-wondering/191167/25 "2003-07-27T23:24:18Z")

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Lenny should just relax and make music, He’s good enough, like many others, like _Sting_ for example. Good enough to have a long, solid career. And he’ll get better with age.  
It’s really not fair to compare these other guys to Jimi, is it.

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