How to Play the Best of Electric Ladyland (forthcoming)

[townsend]

I've been eagerely anticipating this release, the follow-up to Andy Aledort's Learn to Play Axis: Bold as Love instructional DVD.

Here is a preview from youtube that Guitarworld posted:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdP2kMfrLTs

In contrast to the Axis DVD, it appears that only certain songs will be taught: Crosstown Traffic, Voodoo Child, All Along the Watchtower, Gypsy Eyes, Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland), Come On (Let the Good Times Roll). There are 3 hours of teaching, so no complaints here.

It looks like December 9th will be the release date. Can't wait. Pick it up on the newstand; it's cheaper than buying it through the Guitarworld DVD store online.

[xntrick]

they have a teaser for vodoo chile-slight return on comcast and andy is VERY thorough compared to the same song on lick library...

[karmadave]

This looks sick! A must have...

-KD

[Suproman77]

Looks very cool. I liked the first one...there were several songs up on Comcast On Demand.

[Alvis]

I've never been able to learn from things like that but I always find them fun to watch.I think Andy Aledort is a guy who really does his homework

[townsend]

This was released today--December 9, 2008--and I picked up a copy at B&N.

I didn't actually time the DVD, but it purports to be a 3 hour DVD, teaching six songs off of Electric Ladyland. It looks to be of the same format as Aledort's Axis: Bold as Love, which is a good thing.

I think Andy is quite thorough and is a clear instructor, and I agree with the poster above who says that Andy's teaching of Hendrix is more thorough than the Lick Library DVDs on Hendrix.

You can buy it on the newstand for 9.95, an exceptional value IMO.

And guess what? In an ad in the enclosed booklet, other Guitar World DVDs are pictured (which have already been released), but there is apparently a second volume to be released 3/15/09, entitled "The Complete Electric Ladyland," featuring 3 more hours of instruction, and covering such songs as "Voodoo Child," Burning of the Midnight Lamp, "Rainy Day Dream Away," and more . . .

But wasn't Voodoo Child covered on the first DVD? Well, Andy has about a 30-minute lesson, teaching that song through the first solo, so I'm assuming the rest of the song is on the second DVD.

That's fine with me . . . obviously, he couldn't cover the entire album with this amount of detail on one 3-hour DVD. I'm not sure he will cover all the other songs on the 2nd DVD, but I welcome all the Hendrix teaching we can get from Andy at an affordable price.

Tune down your guitar and start your engine.:AOK

[james russell]

I went to my local Barnes and Noble tonight looking for it, and it was nowhere to be found. Maybe they're just late getting it out. I'll check again tomorrow. The Axis: version is great.

James

[brightboy]

What's funny is the some of the people in the introduction to the GW "Best of Electric Ladyland" DVD
refer to it as the GW "The Complete Electric Ladyland" DVD, when it's not....

I got mine at Borders this past weekend....

Jeff

[Captain Midnite]

Watched it, underwhelmed.

[daddyo]

I've just picked it up. Haven't watched it but I loved the Axis vid.

[kram21]

it's a great dvd;it's time consuming but worth it to sit down and take yor time working with it ;becomes easier the more time you spend working with the dvd--lots of rewinding for me

[DANOCASTER]

I hope I don't get pummeled for saying this but :

I'm surprised , if this is a Guitar World release, that they didn't find someone who played it "more comfortably". The instructor - aside from having weird fingering choices - just seem to barely be able play it well. I would imagine he's a fine instructor - perhaps he is more of a gifted teacher.

I just would expect there are TONS of people who could easily NAIL those classics better

anyway - sorry if I'm the buzzkill here

[snarkle]

Well, I learned something just from watching the promo video...

Only Hendrix could provide the definitive guide to Electric Ladyland, and that's not going to happen. I agree that Aledort's feel isn't as fluid as Jimi's, but neither is mine, so I'm just looking forward to learning a few more pieces of the puzzle that is my favourite Hendrix recording.

[daddyo]

I hope I don't get pummeled for saying this but :

I'm surprised , if this is a Guitar World release, that they didn't find someone who played it "more comfortably". The instructor - aside from having weird fingering choices - just seem to barely be able play it well. I would imagine he's a fine instructor - perhaps he is more of a gifted teacher.

I just would expect there are TONS of people who could easily NAIL those classics better

anyway - sorry if I'm the buzzkill here
You're talking about Andy Aledort? barely able to play the material??!!?? He tours with Experience Hendrix. He seems to know the material from what I've seen. The guy has made Hendrix his life. He also plays with Dickie Betts.

[DANOCASTER]

You're talking about Andy Aledort? barely able to play the material??!!?? He tours with Experience Hendrix. He seems to know the material from what I've seen. The guy has made Hendrix his life. He also plays with Dickie Betts.

again... I thought I may get "pummeled" so I went and watched it again

It could be because I've seen guys like Mike Landau play Hendrix stuff live - I dunno. It seems like some of that stuff he played ( like Voodoo Chile ) was not all that great

I definitely dont mean to offend you - or him - he may be great. That promo video doesn't really impress me. Then again, I live in Nashville ( and LA before that ) and have seen a LOT of amazing players.

call me spoiled , I guess

Not looking for argument or debate - just voicing my own .002

[Kind of Blue]

Haven't seen the latest installment - but, Andy sure can play the material very well... at least he seemed quite at ease with the Axis stuff. That said, his playing was deplorably off the mark when he came to town with the recent Experience tour. I guess all players have off days.

[cottoneyedjoe]

One thing that amazes me about guitarists that play Hendrix. Nobody and I mean NOBODY has ever had the amount of force behind each bend that Jimi seemed to have. I don't why that is, but Jimi wrenched every note out. SRV seemed to me to have the power, clearly, but beyond that I don't hear many that do it well.

Maybe I have a lofty standard when I hear someone else play Hendrix.

Watching Andy in the clip he uses just his second finger on some of the bends. To me it seems like he is "under bending" the note I guess. Jimi's style was more of the Buddy Guy style of "bend the living hell out of it, let it fall where it may..." A lot of players I encounter that don't reinforce the third finger on the bends fall short in vibrato, tone, and the vocal quality of the bend. Am I missing something here? Do you guys hear it like I do?

I saw it on the stand today. I will have to pick it up and give it a view and see how I feel about the whole thing.

It will definitely be neat to sit down and force myself to learn all the licks. I learned bits and pieces ruining my Dad's record needles slowing it down in the early days.

[somedude]

Personally, I think it's difficult to insert the energy of a live performance into an instructional DVD.

I think most of you are expecting too much for what it is.

[John Hurtt]

The first one was cool, I'll probably get the second.

[dylmit]

I own all three Hendrix DVDs and they are all fantastic. I have also be fortunate to take a few lessons from Andy (my work schedule prevents me from taking more as he only teaches during the week) and he is an amazingly talented teacher and player.

[jhvox]

The Guitar World website lists it as sold out. Any ideas where I can order a copy?
Thanks.

[mc5nrg]

Try barnesandnoble.com

[voodoo364]

I have it...i thought it was a good overview on how to play the tunes. I think Aledort's playing is pretty damn good. I wish he listed his equipment on the DVD.

[daddyo]

I've finally had the time through the holidays to watch the DVD. I liked this DVD even more than Axis. Andy seems to have figured out every note that Jimi plays. Some players undoubtably use their own fingerings that work for them and sound great - but I believe Andy is showing the way Hendrix played which may be a little tough since Jimi's hands were enormous. My only complaint is Andy just assumes we know the guitar effects. For instance, he barely mentions the wah in the Voodoo Chile intro. A beginner would get confused.

[GuitarTone]

I've never been able to learn from things like that

A video of a world class guitarist, that you can stop/start/slow down, go back/forward, etc,etc, and a book with TAB of what he's doing in the video...what better way is there to learn to play Hendrix?

[dkaplowitz]

I picked up a copy today after noticing this thread (thanks for the heads up, BTW!). My local Borders had about a dozen copies sitting on the shelf. If it's anywhere near as good as the job he did on the Axis DVD, then it'll be great. I wasn't as crazy about the Are You Experienced DVD, but that had more to do with the annoying announcer/narrator on that one who was some guy of dubious relation to the music and the playing that seemed more a hindrance than a help to the instructional part of the DVD.

Dave

[sanhozay]

The instructor - aside from having weird fingering choices - just seem to barely be able play it well.

:huh

Now apologize and go KISS THE SKY!;)

[claudel]

Got a copy at Walgreens, of all places. Saw it sitting there with the rest of the magazines.

Someone wrote that there are three of these instructional masterpieces.

Besides this one & the Axis Bold as Love one, what's the third one?

[jhvox]

Grab it if you see it! Just paid $30 on eBay for it.

[dkaplowitz]

Okay, I just watched the first couple tunes. What exactly are the complaints people have with this instructional DVD? I find it pretty easy to follow, the sounds he's getting are pretty damned good, the notes sound just like the recordings, and everything's presented well enough that it's easy to follow him with a couple of quick rewinds. I don't see what the problem is exactly.

All this not to mention that Andy Aledort was doing crazy accurate transcriptions (of all kinds of guitar-based music) in magazines back in the '80s when I picked up guitar and must have insanely good ears.

[eBay]

I have it...i thought it was a good overview on how to play the tunes. I think Aledort's playing is pretty damn good. I wish he listed his equipment on the DVD.

I get the impression that he's got some deal with Boss because he mentions it in the first video but then uses a wah without showing it. My guess is that he knows what a Clyde and a Sunface are but he's doing us a favor by not broadcasting it so that every beginner puts an order in for one and singlehandedly bogs down the wait list for every decent pedal.

[movingpictures]

Pretty cool video.... for a nOOb

[KBR]

I agree w/ Cottoneyedjoe on this
"A lot of players I encounter that don't reinforce the third finger on the bends fall short in vibrato, tone, and the vocal quality of the bend. Am I missing something here? Do you guys hear it like I do?

I haven't seen the Jimi stuff, but AA did one on Albert King and may nail most of Albert's stuff, but had a poor Tone. Bending and TONE to me are half the battle of playin some Albert, Jimi or Stevie.

as a 40 year Pro, my opinion.

[jhvox]

Pretty cool video.... for a nOOb

Guilty as charged....but having a great time. After having studied drums and voice for decades, I can't believe how much I love the guitar.

[cottoneyedjoe]

I picked it up today just to watch. At 9.99 you really can't go wrong I suppose. Hopefully I can sit down and watch for the sheer enjoyment of learning the tunes without being to overly critical...

[cottoneyedjoe]

A video of a world class guitarist, that you can stop/start/slow down, go back/forward, etc,etc, and a book with TAB of what he's doing in the video...what better way is there to learn to play Hendrix?


The way I did. Slow the record down, while ruining the needle, and learn every note out of key.

Actually when I was younger we didn't have stuff like this. So your interpretation created your style. That is why so many great guitarists take "elements" from their heroes and made their own sound. That is the one downside to learning with tab, video, and other instructional material is that you don't put "your" swing on it. You just end up sounding like everybody else.

Look at all the players that sound EXACTLY like SRV...

I kinda come from the Van Halen school. Eddie always said that his favorite guitarist was Clapton, but he ended up sounding more like Page because of the influence Jimmy had on him with pull offs and certain fingerings. Well, Page was always my favorite, but I ended up sounding more like Clapton (all bend happy and stuff) because that was the take I put on it...

[Red Suede]

cottoneyedjoe, I think you heit the nail on the head. I never really thought of it that way, but that's the way I learned, you couldn't see it being done, so you had to imagine how it was done and come up with your own way of doing it. That's one way of coming up with your own thing....

[Teleplayer]

The way I did. Slow the record down, while ruining the needle, and learn every note out of key.......

Holy #%^p - does THAT bring back memories!! In Memry of Elizabeth Reed note for note; Whipping Post note for note. Mean Town Blues note for note, etc.

WOW....

[Kalalau Hiker]

One thing that amazes me about guitarists that play Hendrix. Nobody and I mean NOBODY has ever had the amount of force behind each bend that Jimi seemed to have. I don't why that is, but Jimi wrenched every note out. SRV seemed to me to have the power, clearly, but beyond that I don't hear many that do it well.

Maybe I have a lofty standard when I hear someone else play Hendrix.

Watching Andy in the clip he uses just his second finger on some of the bends. To me it seems like he is "under bending" the note I guess. Jimi's style was more of the Buddy Guy style of "bend the living hell out of it, let it fall where it may..." A lot of players I encounter that don't reinforce the third finger on the bends fall short in vibrato, tone, and the vocal quality of the bend. Am I missing something here? Do you guys hear it like I do?
.\

I agree totally with this - excellent observations.

That video doesn't impress me much. He can probably get you in the territory of SOME way to get through a Hendrix song, but those are DEFINITELY not Jimi's note fingerings at all. There's a lot of players that play Jimi more convincingly than that.

I don't think you can get Jimi's sound unless you have very long fingers as Jimi did and do all that thumbing the low bass note WHILE stretching to hit the 4th on the high E string, etc,

I think you'd get a more accurate depiction of Jimi styling basics from the excellent Eric Johnson 2 video set. He might not do the volume of songs, but his fingerings are way more accurate than this guy (all the best to him).

There is a very erotic sensual way that Hendrix's hands moved and how he played that Andy does not get at all ... he's more of a Clapton energy/style player ... doesn't matter what he's playing ... he don't play like Jimi.

I saw Jimi up very close several times and it was a viceral experience - it's not just the notes .. there is a almost tantic type of spirituality, a fluidity involving all the descending tremelos he did ...it's hard to describe ... he played like water flowing.

I would suggest looking at youtube vids of Jimi up close and try to get that fluid way he moved his fingers down first. This guy will not give you that.

the best player of Jimi's music I ever heard is Danny Toan. Call me prejudiced as he's an old friend... but Miles Davis, Larry Coryell, the Brecker Brothers, Ray Gomez, Larry Young, Steve Gadd, all the early fusion guys agreed. Larry used to call Danny "Jimi Junior". In 1970 when no one could figure out WHAT Jimi was even doin ... Danny had his whole style DOWN.. seriously.

Danny is 6' 5" with huge hands - and that makes all the difference in the world. He saw Jimi when he was playin w the Isley Bros and started copying him based on THAT (LOL). After watching Jimi CLOSE up inumerable times in the 60's ...By 1970 Danny had the entire Hendrix catalog down by heart - all by ear, and his hands move and look JUST like Jimi's . Danny is the bench mark for me and many others around the NY area... his hands are white, but move and look exactly like Jimi's ... it's kinda spooky.

Danny also did TONS of LSD back in the day, played Jimis' music for untold hours, days, weeks, while tripped out, was infamous for absolutely jaw dropping 6 hour jams and was famous on the east coast jazz rock scene as "the only guy other than Hendrix that can play while tripping his brains out".

I don't think you can really "get" Jimi's sound unless you've done a lot of acid or a lot of deep meditation.
It sorta requires an energy / body relationship that Tai Chi or Chi Gong masters have. I'ts not just about learning notes and finferings like you might when copping a Jim Hall or Eric Clapton or Kenny Burrell solo.

check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5_C45cRM-w

even when playing w his TEETH - it's not just a trick - the notes are a perfect extension of the rest of the solo! .. and see how he's using all 3 fingers on the bend?
There are a lot of youtunes that give you good close ups to get the idea of how Jimi moved his jands... that's essential for "getting" his sound and vibe. I would suggest looking at that and combining it with whatever good help the Andy vids might provide.

I would love to get some vids of Danny playing Jimi songs....he is unfortunately battling a serious illness right now otherwise I'd cajole him into letting me video some fingerings and post em for you guys.

To get Jimi I feel we have to get at one with our core being... through a mediation or Martial art type practice... so the essence of the being is flowing as much as possible through every pore of us... and into the music. It's kinda like being in a zone in sports... it might happen a few times in a lifetiome .. for those like Jimi it happened all the time.

the CATCH is... IF we do that ..we will probably NOT sound like Jimi ... because OUR essence will come through. so we might not PRACTICE a lot, but be in tune with ourselves deep enough that when we pick it up and play ... what comes out is the PRERFECT thing... full of wonder, fun, piercing emotion, and inner inspiration that represents where WE are at that monnet ... like Jimi did in HIS moments.

For this reason ... after being blown away initially by E Johnson when he first came out because he seemd to have "GOTTTEN" the essence riff wise and tone of all my favorite players ( Jimi - Beck _Clapton _ McLaughlin)

after a few gigs seen, I saw him as a very rigid copyist .. very controlled and not spontaneous at all... a juggler of very practiced routines.
So when I saw the G3 show w E J / Satch / Vai

SATCH, NOT EJ, to me was the most Jimi like as he did HIS own thing - but was jamming out , psychedelic , playing out there stuff inside a cool groove ... VERY fluid and kinda erotic sounding ... and JAMMED HIS ASS OFF ..spontaneously... like Jimi

I truly believed Jimi woyuld have liked him the best, and would have seen EJ as a cloned mouse! (all respect to EJ who is a very beautiful person)

sorry for the length but Jimi's music is like a LONG journey home to me!

Happy Holidays!
Bob

[dkaplowitz]

The way I did. Slow the record down, while ruining the needle, and learn every note out of key.

Actually when I was younger we didn't have stuff like this. So your interpretation created your style. That is why so many great guitarists take "elements" from their heroes and made their own sound. That is the one downside to learning with tab, video, and other instructional material is that you don't put "your" swing on it. You just end up sounding like everybody else.

Look at all the players that sound EXACTLY like SRV...

I kinda come from the Van Halen school. Eddie always said that his favorite guitarist was Clapton, but he ended up sounding more like Page because of the influence Jimmy had on him with pull offs and certain fingerings. Well, Page was always my favorite, but I ended up sounding more like Clapton (all bend happy and stuff) because that was the take I put on it...
I respectfully (as another person just shooting the shit about this stuff) call BS on a bunch of this, with the exception of the value of learning it on your own. I'm totally in agreement with you about that. I think everyone should learn something off a recording every day while they're learning to play better. But I like a DVD like this to give me another perspective on how to approach it too. It's not an on or off question, it's about using another useful tool to help you play/study/get your rocks off. And for $10. it's not like a lot of money is involved.

But to infer that there were no clones before accurate tabs/transcriptions (and other technology for transcribing) started showing up? BS!

To infer that learning something from a tab, or from a video like this means you can't figure out how to make it your own? BS! Clones will be clones no matter how they came about learning to play like the people they're cloning.

To infer that learning it wrong (by not being able to figure out the intricacies/subtleties of the recording) is what helps you make it your own or to put your own "swing" on it? BS!

And the whole Van Halen sounds like Page thing? BS!

[cottoneyedjoe]

Holy #%^p - does THAT bring back memories!! In Memry of Elizabeth Reed note for note; Whipping Post note for note. Mean Town Blues note for note, etc.

WOW....

Thanks for the comments....

When you learned licks like this you got the fingerings down. So you could put them in ANY key at any time. That was how you built your style. That is why I sound like me and I can't seem to sound like anybody else.

Finding YOUR sound is the MOST important step you can take.

Eddie has admitted that Clapton was his main influence many, many times. However his two hand tap came after seeing Page do numerous pull-offs live during Heartbreaker solo. Jimmy reached up and turned the tuning key to bend the note. Eddie's thought was to put another finger on the fretboard instead. It is well documented. Eddie has said he came out sounding more like Page than Clapton. Not that Eddie sounds like Page. But you have to admit that Eddie doesn't sound like Clapton either, but you can hear a bit of both in Eddie's playing. I can anyways.

I am also not saying there "weren't any clones".... What I am saying is that when you watch players like Lester Flatt for instance he played Mother Maybelle Carter's thumb/finger style. However he could not do it exactly like her so he "guestimated".

When Tommy Emmanuel was young he used to sit with his back to his brother. They used to have guitars in hand. They would pick one song and would sit down and learn it seperately. Later they would sit with their backs to each other and each would play the song. They would then argue about who had it right. The one that sounded the closest won.

We used to do that when I was young. That was part of the benefit of learning by ear. Little mistakes made it into your playing while not exactly copying the guy "for note". That is why transcriptions can be wrong. Inevitably and most of the time when I was younger you learned by "ear". You did not have tab. Some could figure out better than others. There were your "clones". Others learned licks like me and could play them at different places on the neck. That is why I got more gigs as a kid than a lot of kids and why I was playing with adults three times my age at the age of fifteen. That was because I could place those licks anywhere on the neck. Where several kids who had learned from music (sheet music) could never do it...

Here, I will give you another story that relates what I am saying EXACTLY. Earl Scruggs listened to all of the recordings with musicians playing clawhammer banjo. Earl just couldn't do it. He tried but couldn't make it work. So to simulate the sound of a clawhammer banjo, he came up with a three finger style. That is what MADE bluegrass work. That is what is most significant about bluegrass today. The three finger banjo. As Earl says all the time. "I only did it because I couldn't learn it any better!"

That is also why Mr. Aledort does NOT sound like Jimi....

BS or not. That is what it was for me....

Have you noticed how many bluegrass pickers sound like Tony Rice? Look at all the DVDs of Tony's style there are out there with the EXACT fingerings.

The same with Eric Johnson. There was a time where everyone sounded like EJ, because of that two DVD set.

There was also a time (oh wait that is now) when everyone sounded like Carlton or Ford...

[mtlin]

Q: How many guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: Ten. One to screw it in and nine to sit around saying that they could do it better.

[dkaplowitz]

Q: How many guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A: Ten. One to screw it in and nine to sit around saying that they could do it better.
Thank you!

I'm sure a bunch of guys on this thread were begged to do this video (because they "bend like Hendrix") before GW had to settle for Andy Aledort. ;)

[cottoneyedjoe]

Yeah, but now I sound like Andy, not Jimi....:D

It's like my Dad always says... "Ahh, the internet. Where you can read about doing things, or you could really go do them..."

[PacMan44]

A video of a world class guitarist, that you can stop/start/slow down, go back/forward, etc,etc, and a book with TAB of what he's doing in the video...what better way is there to learn to play Hendrix?

This would really be useful, there are somethings I couldn't pick up in the video. Where can you get the tab book?

[dkaplowitz]

This would really be useful, there are somethings I couldn't pick up in the video. Where can you get the tab book?
Amazon link (http://www.amazon.com/Electric-Ladyland-Tablature-Jimi-Hendrix/dp/0793533856/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1230418174&sr=1-1)

[PacMan44]

so thats by the same guy?

[cottoneyedjoe]

Does anybody have any info on Andy's strat?

I was checking the DVD out today and that beat up strat is just beautiful!

[dkaplowitz]

cottoneyedjoe, it's a 1961, check this from Andy himself:

I bought the guitar in '73 from a great jazz guitarist/teacher on Long Island named Joe Monk. it was already stripped down from it's original Dakota Red---it's still red in the tremolo cavity and under the pick guard. at that time it just looked like natural wood that was refinished with clearcoat, thought the guy didn't do a very good job and the clearcoat was very uneven. So over time the guitar discolored differently on different parts of the body, plus it got more and more beat-up in a variety of places.

The guitar is still basically 100% stock other than the many refrets (plus a compound radius job), the replacement of the volume pot (the original died about 20 years ago) and the constant replacement of tremolo blocks as many of the broken tremolo arms couldn't be fished out of the slot.
From the forum on his site (http://www.andyaledort.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=328).

Best,

Dave

[cottoneyedjoe]

Thanks for the info Dave. I will check him out. I haven't been too familiar with him, but after seeing the DVD today I want to find out more.

Thanks.

[GuitarTone]

Thanks for the info Dave. I will check him out. I haven't been too familiar with him, but after seeing the DVD today I want to find out more.

Thanks.

Amazing...lol, first you reckon Andy can't bend properly, and then you say, "I haven't been to familiar with him". :messedup

So you screwed up your dads turntable needle and ended up only learning as you put it, "bits and pieces". :)

Andy Aledort is a guitar playing genius, who's recognized as being one of the best "Hendrix style" players on earth.

As a session player, Andy Aledort was called upon to recreate the Band Of Gypsys -era playing of Hendrix for recording sessions with the original Gypsys themselves, Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, where Aledort was required to recreate note-for-note renditions of Hendrix’s incendiary live performances of “Machine Gun” and “Power of Soul” from the classic Band of Gypsys album. He performed with the Band of Gypsys at both the 2001 and 2002 Street Scene concerts in San Diego, CA, as part of two ambitious Tribute to Hendrix concerts featuring such guest guitarists as Andy Summers of the Police, Slash, Stephen Stills, Mick Taylor of Rolling Stones fame, Vernon Reid (Living Color) and others, as well as the big Jimi Hendrix 60th birthday bash at the EMP Museum, created by Microsoft’s Paul Allen, in November of 2002

[cottoneyedjoe]

Well, Andy Aledort isn't really a household name.

The clip in the original post was my first exposure to Andy Aledort. I stated what seemed to be an observation on my part that Andy was underbending the note. I also stated that I would have to check the DVD out, and that I had "lofty goals for people playing Hendrix". I was also unsure at the time, so I asked everybody elses opinion on my question.

I was also stating the fact that when I was a kid we didn't have tab. Which everybody has now and that tab has the ability to turn kids into robots... That was really my point.

I do really have an open mind, and being me, I can change it when and if I want to. Just because you write something in a gear forum on the internet once doesn't mean you can never change your mind. Although some people think it is that way....

Here refer to this post and you see others feel the same way I do even with SRV playing Hendrix....

http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=481487