IMO, Mr. Velvert's music is competently played, but hardly original.
I mean, he sounds a lot like Hendrix (even the vocals!) but, like, so
what? Hendrix impersonators were passe before Robin Trower cut his
first record. It's like getting all worked up about an Elvis
impersonator, or that guy who imitates Morrison in the New Doors.
My feeling is, if you intend to slavishly copy someone else's style,
just go ahead and call yourself a tribute / cover band and be done
with it. Won't make as much money (or indeed any at all), but doing
anything less smacks of riding on someone else's coattails.
Concentrate on putting something original out there, and standing by
it, and fighting for it. That's what makes it worth it.
-A
"proudly in the red since 2007"
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From: Michael Olcsvary <olcsvary@verizon.net>
Subject: RE: Beck / RE: (TV) Richard Lloyd interview re. Hendrix
To: tv@obbard.com
Date: Friday, March 6, 2009, 12:20 AM
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From: Jesse Hochstadt
A fact I feel is often overlooked in discussing Hendrix is
what a great,
fluid sense of rhythm the man - who, after all, played in
R&B bands for
years - had. Too much attention is paid to issues like
feedback, distortion,
and lead lines (and these are the things that Hendrix
imitators often focus
on too, because frankly, IMO, that rhythm sense is much
deeper musically and
harder to copy).
Agreed - back when I first started playing guitar, a friend
gave me a couple
of CDs and urged me to ignore the lead playing and listen
to the way Hendrix
played rhythm. While I'm not one one-thousandth of the
innovator Hendrix
was (some of the parts he'd use behind a verse would
constitute a whole song
for mere mortals) trying to approach his sense of time and
swing are things
any player - as in instrument player - can benefit from.
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