Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Prince != Jimi Hendrix Message-ID: <247@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Feb-85 09:00:46 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.247 Posted: Wed Feb 13 09:00:46 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 01:41:24 EST References: <8234@brl-tgr.ARPA> <1133@houxm.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 18 > I think that the similarities between Prince and Jimi Hendrix are not in their > guitar playing, but in their message and their social commentary. > > Greg Skinner (gregbo) But Hendrix' importance lies with his music rather than with image and/or social "message". Said message was little more than a rehash of sixties hippie ideals, which sound peculiarly dated today. Image, clothing, sexual prowess and other facets of the Hendrix legend fade in importance with time. The musical universes he chartered are still fresh, something exemplified by the fact that it has taken 15+ years for the next steps to be taken by a new generation of guitarists (the ones I mentioned in my original posting). Does anyone really think that Prince will have that kind of MUSICAL influence? Images come and go, but music is eternal Marcel Simon ihnp4!mhuxr!mfs