Voodoo Child ( Slight Return)

SRV's or Hendrix's version

 

Hendrix all the way, that goes for every cover he does

 

Hendrix

 

amen to that!

 

im sorry, i have to say that i like srv's better. that may be blasphemy, but oh well. but hey, if it werent for hendrix, srv would still probably still be flipping burgers.

 

i like hendrix's little wing better though...

 

god... i mean, erh... hendrix... SRV's covers are just too correct, ya know? yeah, im gonna shut up cause that makes no sense...

 

SRV never heard of them, but i'd probably say hendrix anyway, lol

 

SRV = Stevie Ray Vaughan

no, he would be playing guitar, only a bit differently

 

i'd say for Voodoo Child (Slight Return) i definitely prefer Hendrix's version, but i have to pick SRV's rendition of Little Wing.

 

I love both versions, two totally different players in my opinion... hendrix is insane at the guitar, but does his own sloppy thing with it.... thats how he makes his music. SRV seems to be more percise and accurate...

 

yeah, i like hendrix's little wing and his voodoo child but i like srv's too...but hendrix did write it and all...and yeah srv is more precise/accurate...and his version have more of that tube tone to em...makes it sounds SRVish...which makes sense

 

give one example of when he ever played "sloppy"

 

Hendrix is 100X better for voodoo child but i like SRV's Little wing a lot more, its an instrumental who doesnt love an instrumental

 

Jimi had off nights too, everyone does. Check out the recording from the Scene Club known as "woke up this morning and found myself dead", its full of mistakes!

Also, there is the show he was too wacked out on bad acid to play, saying "thats what happens when earth and space collide" after playing just one song.

I dont recall the tune, but I believe its his performance at Isle of Wight that Jimi stops a song after he begins the first riff in the wrong key, and says "whoops, hey, lets try that again but in the right place!"

Of course, jimi's sloppy would be anyone elses performance of a lifetime!

 

hendrix

 

Hendrix also has a great instrumental version of Little Wing that I think came out on one of his previously unreleased records

of course he didnt always play perfectly in his live performances, but there wasnt a single mistake on any of his studio recordings. the other post claimed that his studio version of Little Wing was sloppy

 

They both have their amazing qualities. Obviously Jimi's original is a legendary piece of music, but then again, Stevie's version is in it's own right also I think.

Stevie took the soloing on the song in different directions a lot of the time and made it his own.

I've always thought that SRV's Hendrix covers were the perfect homage to Jimi.

 

It has got to be Jimi...
He's the one who came up with it and his version just seems to have more notes and sounds and ooooomph!


Sorry, Stevie!

 

Even Jimi had mistakes in the studio too, check out his work at the PPX studios with Curtis Knight to try to find them. Any mistakes he made with the Experience recordings were minimized by having a better engineer in Kramer. Plus, we are talking about JH, whose mistakes are more musical than most peoples musical efforts in a lifetime.

Honestly, I feel that most of the mistakes people hear in Jimis music, be they studio or live, are deliberate tricks of sound being used by a master musician for reasons known only to the artist. Like DaVinci and Mona Lisa's smile, only Jimi knows why there is a noise at 2:26 in a track, or if the the dissonant notes were intentionally used.