hendrix

My take on programming has become that watching a programming video is like watching Jimi Hendrix play the guitar.

I don't care how great you think your Node module is, you are not the Jimi Hendrix of 2050.

Agreed, their demo was poor, but Les Paul was no Jimi Hendrix either.

Jimmy Hendrix also attributed much of his creative abilities due to LSD.

Jimi actually replaced the actual lyrics with that a few times, one of which can be heard on the Jimi Hendrix Experience Box Set.

I was able to resurrect a couple of badly scratched Hendrix CDs with it.

Jimi Hendrix worked odd jobs and was a paratrooper.

It's like Hendrix playing All Along The Watchtower.

Michael Hendrix described Mercury as Haskell + Prolog, which is accurate, I think, and an indication that Mercury is pretty far removed from what Cosmos is trying to do.

I'm loving hendrix (and, thus, twisted).

I will readily agree that there isn't much like Hendrix or Led Zep and similar - but I would argue the current pop industy climate effectively prohibits the emergence of those sort of rock-stars.

Instead of being the kind of place where Hendrix plays, it's in danger of becoming the kind of place where there are a lot of people with a lot of solid but uncreative technical chops, and no one is making cool and interesting music any more.

Esteemed schools of music probably produce dozens of guitarists "better" (in any way you would measure it academically) than Jimmy Page or Jimi Hendrix per year who go on to a life of producing nothing of lasting worth.

If Google keeps telling itself it only hires the very best guitarists, and it turns down someone like Hendrix - because he's "not a team player", or he doesn't know how to tap out 13/18 while improvising an Indian Harikhamboji raga, or for some other inane reason - then it isn't really interested in the best guitarists at all.

For the sake of the argument, you could imagine 100 reasons why Google wouldn't hire Jimi Hendrix.

Our romantic artistic culture idolizes burnouts and addicts: Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis.

Well then I guess it's because Page/Hendrix were much more than expert guitarists.