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Reporter: In terms of Hendrix's technique |
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What do you feel that he was a guitar pioneer? |
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SRV: Well, his tone, his touch, his application of chords, his rhythms, |
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his taking the idea of blue songs and turning them into modern day things like... |
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like for instance... |
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Manic Depression... |
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to him, that was a modern blues song |
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Okay, even though it's a waltz and even though, you know, but like his chords |
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Chords such as |
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(MUSIC) |
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That's pretty inventive kind of stuff to me, you know |
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And the way he used the whammy bar, |
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was completely different than anybody had heard to it |
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His touch, you know, the soft |
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(Clear) |
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And as well as all that |
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I believe that he took tones a lot further than anyone had taken them |
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You know, he had taken he would take harmonics and find |
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If he couldn't get it out of a straight guitar, |
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he would find an effect |
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I think he opened up all those doors |
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I think he just continued to try to take things further |
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And he wasn't afraid of talking about spiritual things in his songs and trying to grow |
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It's obvious to me that he was trying to grow spiritually and everything |
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And I think that was a new thing in rock and roll or rock music |
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I think he stretched all the boundaries |
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