Talk:The Jimi Hendrix Experience/Archive 1

Archive 1

Bad wording

The line "Hendrix died later that year when he choked on his own vomit in his sleep." really annoys me, i know there is a scientific/more sophisticated word meaning "choke on own vomit"--RHCP Fan1 10:09, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I removed the end part of the phrase "Hendrix died later that year when he was murderd by chas chandler," since this is obviously just someone's speculation. I think "Hendrix died later that year" sums it up well enough, since this is just about The Experience; if someone thinks "well, how did he die?" they can just hop on over to the Hendrix article, which goes into all the gory details.

power trio

"Following the lead of The Who, they were one of the first groups (along with Cream) to popularize the "power trio" format..." Uh, the Who are NOT a power trio! Also, how about some citation of why you think/know they were following their lead? Also it makes it seem like Hendrix was the first to use the wah wah and feedback when Clapton used wah wah first in Tales of Brave Ulysses and Lennon used feedback first in I Feel Fine.

the who are instrumentally a power trio. roger doesn't play any instruments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 21:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Roger does play intruments. He plays harmonica, and guitar. As a mater of fact he was the lead guitar player for the Who during their very early years. Also, many musicions would consider the voice and instrument. Bluesmanjay (talk) 20:31, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:54, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

Should the fact that all original members are dead be noted in the lead?

Since the death of Mitch Mitchell, several users have added that all three members are now dead. It might be noteworthy in the article, but not the lead. To me, this is just recentism. For example, 1st United States Congress does not say that all members are dead. One reason given to me was "Deaths are in leads for people's biography pages, appropriate here too", but not really. The band was already disbanded for 3 decades so it's not like Mitchell's death affected it in any way. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 21:55, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I think it may be the first major rock band with all its original members to have died. Zazaban (talk) 05:16, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

I have been going over and over in my head about it. I can't think of any band that has absolutely no surviving members. Someone PLEASE disprove me.

ezyrider (talk) 09:12, 17 November 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.180.250.228 (talk)

I have made List of bands whose members are all deceased in response to reading this.-Piebald Avarice (talk) 15:37, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

other

Caption under the info picture is wrong: Noel Redding is on the far left, not Mitch Mitchell. no i think u are VERY confused!!! that is Mitch Mitchell on the far left !!!!

first guy was right, that's definitely noel on the left. i have no idea why people get them mixed up so often - even the ny times got it wrong on mitchell's obit. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.225.64.34 (talk) 06:40, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

English or English/American?

The lead section has been changed a number of times between "[...] an English rock band [...]" to "[...] and English/American rock band [...]", obviously with variations. I believe it should remain as simply English. The "/American" suffix has been added due to the fact that Hendrix was American. The band is English, for these reasons:

• Hendrix is only 1 out of 3 members of the band;
  • People use Hendrix as the American side simply because he was the frontman of the band, which is irrelevant as he was the minority.
  • Two out of three members (the majority) were English.
• The band was formed in England (London);
• The band was 'built' in England, breaking the American music scene later; and
• All of the band's original albums (bar Electric Ladyland, by only a month) were released in England first, before America.

This, to me, is conclusive evidence of the band's status as English. Just my opinion, anyone else got anything to say? Andre666 (talk) 20:54, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

As you say, JH was American. Since the band is called "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" it has to be realised that Jimi was not simply 1 of 3, but the leader and the individual around which the band was built. It should also be noted that Jimi was principal songwriter as well as singer and instrumentalist. Frankly, the other two plus anyone else would not be The Jimi Hendrix anything. Thus, since the central figure was American (and whose music was based solely in American rhythm and blues) while everything else was British then American/English would be the most appropriate term. IMO. LessHeard vanU (talk) 21:02, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Your points are clear and understandable, Andre666, but the fact is that they're all excuses to deny a basic fact as opposed to real reasons (sorry if that sounds harsh). It should be "English-American" because one of the band members was American. Simple as that. Nothing can explain that away enough to warrant dubbing the band solely English.  Mbinebri  ^{talk ←} 05:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Heavy Metal?

I question this genre tag. And in case it comes up, no I do not consider "A Headbanger's Journey" a valid source for this claim. (Albert Mond (talk) 11:42, 9 November 2009 (UTC))

I agree. The band may have influenced the genre, but they themselves were not of the genre. Andre666 (talk) 18:17, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

The/the

There is a discussion taking place here about whether bands should have "The" or "the" in their name.--andreasegde (talk) 19:40, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Merge

This article should really be merged with Hendrix. andreasegde 17:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I second this. The Hendrix article is far too big and needs trimming down, whilst this article needs some work. HK51 16:17, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I agreeAll systems go 20:50, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

• 7 years later. Merge this with main Jimi Hendrix article.Cosprings (talk) 01:39, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Untitled

somebody needs to add a lot more detail, most of which can be found on the Hendrix page. I think.

• Date for archiver. GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:40, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

yeah

this article is a bit sticky. he met his best succes as a member of a band, not technically solo. i think there should be an article about the expereance as a group, rather than a little stubly thing. i think it would be just confusing to do this, though, with a huge article on hendrix, so i think it would be best to make this a subject on his page. i think....

I think so

• Date for archiver. GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:40, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Don't Merge

I don't think you should merge this. One of these chronicles a band, the other chronicles Jimi himself. Of course that both items should be described/explained separately, but pages should be linked.

• Date for archiver. GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:40, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

context

It would be ridiculous to merge the JH article into the JHE article. Whether or not the other article is too long seems irrelevant (the web, after all is of infinite size) but JH developed before and continued after the JHE. How would Billy Cox fit into a reverse taxonomy?

• Date for archiver. GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:40, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Merge

jimi hendrix's life should be included in the Jimi Hendrix Experience article other than the jimi hendrix experience being covered as part of jimi hendrix's life.

• Date for archiver. GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:40, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Neutrality

"Personnel

   * Jimi Hendrix - guitar god, lead vocals
   * Noel Redding - bass, vocals
   * Mitch Mitchell - drums"

it's not that i don't agree...

• Date for archiver. GabeMc ^{(talk|contribs)} 23:40, 10 December 2013 (UTC)