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>she's maybe top 25 on my list of favorite living artists if
>that. as i said above, i was a little inebriated listening
>last night and heard voices and shit that told me to post
>this. but i woke up this morning and still agreed.
>
so you're backing off this a bit then? good, to the currently sober eye it looks off by more than a little.
>i don't think the comparison raises or lessens either of the
>artists. and if you go through the thread i point out some of
>the similarities. and like i've said i'm not really talking
>about fame or sales or playing or any of that.
but you tried to make a point of saying that Jimi and Meshell were both big when they came out (Meshell never really was) and then had fallen off commercially by their third album (the last studio album Jimi released while alive). Meanwhile, Jimi's third album was #1 on the U.S. pop charts and his first two were Top 5. It wasn't just critics & music nerds up on Jimi, that's just patently false.
just the type
>of artists they were/are, and the music that spawned.
I can name a ton of artists whose style of playing and music was spawned by Jimi Hendrix's contributions, I can't name one-twentieth of that for Meshell. That's not to take anything away from her and obviously time contributes but Jimi was changing the way previously established artists were doing things *while* he was alive recording his own material.......and that was only about three and a half years.
it
>really isn't that big except we put up these untouchable walls
>around artists like, nobody ain't never fucking with ________
>that simply aren't true and at the end of the day very
>limiting.
I never say never and welcome any new artist to come shake things up and blow me away with their contributions to the world of music. But the level of these two particular artists in doing so is not really a contest to me, despite Meshell doing it for five times as long already.
And that's not to say I don't appreciate the girl, I own four of her records and have seen her onstage a couple times.
will there ever be another artist that redefines
>the guitar the way hendrix did? absolutely not, but is that
>all that hendrix was. not at all.
>
No, it wasn't. He was also a great songwriter and oftentimes an underrated lyricist. Not sure what this has to do with the comparison.
>like marley said, you can tell a real musician by the way they
>carry their instrument. me'shelle carries her instrument like
>hendrix. she can be real lighthearted and playful around it,
>displaying phenomenal chops, or she can introvert and get real
>serious with it. same thing applies to their song writing.
>yall may hate me for saying it but that's really your best
>response, hating me for saying it. dismissing the notion does
>not invalidate it. in fact quite the opposite, it only makes
>it stronger.
>
Not really saying much here.
>if there's anything typical about this as a lesson post, its
>that when challenged most lesson heads fall back to 'this is
>stupid' rather than really think about it.
>
I don't feel challenged unless there's something that gets me to look at something in a way I haven't before, or when someone spits some truth at me that maybe I elected not to see.
With all due respect, this post really did neither.
I fail to see any category (mastery of their own instrument, impact, songwriting, albums, singles, live presentation, etc) in which these two are really close. peace. https://soundcloud.com/matt-koelling-666011203
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