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Re: Jimi



At 11:32 AM -0800 2/25/01, scott kungha drengsen wrote:
> We wouldn't have this forum if it weren't for Jimi Hendrix.

well, I created LD, and I have pretty much no interest in Jimi Hendrix and
hardly ever listened to him. I think I can fairly authoritatively state
that Looper's Delight would still exist even if Hendrix never had!

So far as I can tell, Hendrix didn't have much (or any) influence on loop
based music. Did Hendrix influence hip-hop? no. kraftwerk, house, and
numerous other electronic dance spin-offs? no. The various tape loop and
soundscape/ambient pioneers? or Dub? not that I know of. He played rock
music, which mostly avoided/derided loops and samples for decades while the
ideas developed elsewhere. Over the past ten years or so it seems the
opposite has happened, rock has been influenced by the looping cultures to
reinvent itself a few more times.

>From my perspective, Hendrix is just another over-nostalgized baby boomer
icon that I'm tired of hearing about. Sorry if that bothers some of you, I
don't mean it with disrespect of the guy. That was music of my parent's
generation.  (although my parents never listened to him either.) I never
really heard that stuff growing up, and it didn't mean much to me when I
did listen to it as an adult. For me, Hendrix is just another guy in a
documentary on the history channel, like say, Louis Armstrong. I listened
to it as music history education, and that was about it. That's probably
true for most people under the age of 35, and those are the people mostly
creating loop-based music...

kim

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