Got this from my E-verse Radio newsletter – thought it was a cool quote:<\/p>\n
“Fired by Little Richard. Fired by Ike and Tina Turner. Terminated by numerous now forgotten blues and rock bands. You would think this was the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of a second-rate back-up guitar player, but it’s the precelebrity track record of no less than the late, great Jimi Hendrix. Often hired and often fired. In the end the reason was always the same: Hendrix’s guitar solos that became, as Ike Turner said ‘so elaborate they overstepped the bounds.’ Yet those flashy, raucous, but elegant electric guitar solos would revolutionize rock music. They became Hendrix’s trademark: colorful sounds that painted the anarchistic spirit of the late sixties. Hendrix described the sound he was reaching for as ‘electronic church music.’ However, while he was relatively unknown, many fellow musicians described his performances — the sexual gyrations, the gimmicks, such as demolishing his guitar — as ‘too much.’ But Hendrix was a guitar virtuoso. His imagination was boundless, and, for better and for worse, by the late 1960s, nothing anybody could imagine was too much.”<\/p>\n
– Darryl Lorenzo Wellington<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Got this from my E-verse Radio newsletter – thought it was a cool quote: “Fired by Little Richard. Fired by Ike and Tina Turner. Terminated by numerous now forgotten blues and rock bands. You would think this was the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 … Continue reading