Poll: Led Zep or Hendrix?

IamtheKing

Ok, this was a tough question for most of my friends to answer. Who rules the most? Led Zeppelin or Jimmy Hendrix? It's a toughie alright.

IamtheKing

Feel free to slam me for this one. I skipped the poll editing page by accident. Boy is my face red.......

Blisterman

Zeppelin. Jimi Hendrix was cool, but didn't have the variety of LZ.

Giblet

Definatly LZ.

asphalt-cushion

Zeppelin.
Although Hendrix has some great songs - little wing in particular stands out to me.

Ivan

I'm gonna have to say Led Zepplin too, simply because its what I listened to when I was younger.

I am MAN

I'd go with hendrix

toffo

Lep by miles. Jimmy Hendrix was fantastic, think Page is is better

sovtek

Hendrix by a mile.
One of the most influential rock guitarist in history. Not only was he very innovative as a guitar player but also in recording.
While Jimmy Page was also very innovative when it came to recording he was a very sloppy guitar player.
LZ had some great songs...but overall musicianship I think pales in comparison to Jimmy, as well as their respective impact on music.
But then what do they say about opinions.

rasher_b2

hendrix was sloppy too.
zeppelin definatly win but hendrix was very good also.

mp3guy

zeppelin

garthv

Im going to say zeppelin but i dunno,its too close a call

RicardoSmith

Zep for me. But the Hendrix Blues album is awesome.

ghostchant

definitely led zeppelin. i'm not really a fan of hendrix

Lemming

Oohhh .. this is a hard one to call, given that you've got two of my favourites going head-to-head.

I think though, as much as I love LZ, I'mgoing to say Hendrix. He quite simply raised the bar and pushed music into new avenues that others (read: just above everybody since) simply followed - including Zeppelin

Zeppelin's songs are consistently better, but Hendrix was, and is the undisputed god of the electric guitar and rock as we know it. What others can only do with about ten f/x pedals hooked together at the same time, he was doing with two: a wah pedal and a distortion pedal. The rest was his own creative genius and unnervingly natural understanding of resonance and feedback. On that note I'm reminded of an anecdote told by one of the, I think, band members whilst on tour:

A roadie was asked to fetch jimi's guitar from across the stage, which was plugged into a live amp. It screamed with feedback. He put it down and it stopped. Jimi walked over and picked the guitar up, and it did not make *a sound*

He is also about the only person I know of that was able to use the original Fender Strat. tremolo bar (quite heavily too from some of the footage I'ev seen) and not put his guitars out of tune .....

ExoduS 18.11

Zep had some classics, but for overall skill and variety it would have to be jimi... it was close decision tho.

kleefarr

Floyd (and Zep, Hendrix).

Zombienosh

not a big fan of either,
but would lean towards jimi.

dregin

Seppelin.Hendrix was overhyped crap.











In my opinion.

Zombienosh

should i laugh now or later?

Zulu

Zepplin

It wasn't me!

Way too close to call. I love both equally but for different reasons.

Doctor J

Most people seem to forget that Jimi's career was effectively only three years. What he achieved in that space of time is nothing short of amazing. Imagine if Zep never got to make IV, Houses Of The Holy, Physical Graffiti, etc.

Jimi was only getting started. I couldn't choose him over Zep or Zep over him, they both made music which has given me so much happiness.

Magnolia_Fan

To Disagree with just about everybody I liked Hendrix better...could float away to his music where as Zeppelins was more of a kicker...Whole lotta love!

IamtheKing

It would depend what mood I'm in....
Chilling out ( :cool: )- Jimmy Hendrix
Wired( )-Led Zeppelin
Both awesome though...
I absolutely LOVE Whole Lotta Love.

Gyck

When you say Hendrix are you only refering to Jimi Hendrix? If so then it's somewhat unfair comparing one guy to a whole band!
If I were comparing Hendrix to Page I'd say Jimi any day. The Jimi Hendrix Experience to Zep? Probably Zep by a nose.

Now if this was Hendrix versus Rory Gallagher...

Kingsize

jimi was a genius but you cant really compare.If you hadnt heard either & you wanted to rock out i think you would opt for lz maybe its more structured or accesible i cant put my finger on it.
Call me cynical but Ive often wondered what type of tripe jimi wouldve been releasing had he lived through the 1980s....

pyure

hendrix by a mile

i really cant stand plants voice on zepplin songs...personally i think it just ruins some awesome riffs - whole lotta love, black dog etc etc
he's got a nice voice for blues, i have some blues covers they did which i love, but on zepplin records i cant stand it.

Blub2k4

Jimi Hendrix, hands down, an innovator.

Lemming

Ok, current count best as I can figure it:

Jimi Hendrix: (9 votes)
I am Man
sovtek
Lemming
kleefarr
ExoduS 18.11
-AlcoholicA-
Magnolia_Fan
pyure
Blub2k4


Led Zeppelin: (14 votes)
Blisterman
Giblet
asphalt-cushion
Ivan
toffo
mp3guy
rasher_b2
GaRtH_V
RicardoSmith
im_not_ok
dregin
Zulu
Gyck
Kingsize


Undecided: (3 votes)
Doctor J
It wasn't me!
IamtheKing



And if by chance of fate ... as I started this thread, Voodoo Child started playing on winamp. Nobody else has ever come close to creating a song like this .....

To all the LZ fans (of which I count myself, although I bow to Jimi) consider what would have happened had Jimi not risen to prominence in the late 60's ...... what would the rock music landscape look like now? Where would Zeppelin, Sabbath, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, etc etc have been?

Doctor J

Undecided? Me? Not at all. I said I couldn't pick one above the other.

Lemming

Doctor J wrote:

Undecided? Me? Not at all. I said I couldn't pick one above the other.

Well, I just used undecided as a catch-all phrase. You couldn't pick one above the other, so I just put it that way. Sorry Doctor J

Doctor J

Nor could I say one was worse than the other

joejoem

I love jimi, but LZ are better

C Fodder

Impossible to call as both incredible however Jimi got there first so he gets the vote.

magpie

consider what would have happened had Jimi not risen to prominence in the late 60's ...... what would the rock music landscape look like now? Where would Zeppelin, Sabbath, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, etc etc have been?

Page was doing the psychedelic guitar hero stuff in the Yardbirds pre-Zep anyway. You're also discounting the enormous influence of Pete Townshend (where do you think Hendrix got his guitar-smashing and love of extreme volume from? Plus Townshend was pretty much the first on the block with the pscych rock, like Armenia City in the Sky from Who Sell Out). Also, don't forget Clapton and Jeff Beck.

Zep produced a huge back catalogue, the vast majority of which was classic. Hendrix wasn't quite as prodigious in his output, and the signs were there before he snuffed it that he was going off the boil a bit. Band of Gypsies were no match for Noel Reading and Mitch Mitchell imo.

So Zep for me also.

Creature

Hendrix for me.

garthv

Now if this was Hendrix versus Rory Gallagher...

there is no competition,hendrix hands down

daram

"Seppelin.Hendrix was overhyped crap." - man what an idiot.

Anyway, yeah, id go with zeppelin myself. just cause as a band i prefer listening to them. but hendrix was a better guitarist than page.

Suaimhneach

Zeppelin for me too.

Hendrix does rock tho.

Deadwing

Lemming wrote:

what would the rock music landscape look like now? Where would Zeppelin, Sabbath, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, etc etc have been?

Well tbh the floyd were around a long time before zeppelin, the syd barrett days were early 60's so i wouldnt think zeppelin were much of an influence on them. Sorry, im pedantic, i know
Hendrix was undoubtedly the most innovative guitarist since django reinhart (sp?), but id go with zeppelin over jimi just for the simple fact i listen to zeppelin more than i would hendrix

cournioni

IamtheKing wrote:

I absolutely LOVE Whole Lotta Love.

Apart from the fact that, that song was totally ripped off from a Blues musician, I'm going to say Zeppelin. They wrote better songs.

There is no doubt that Hendrix was a guitar god. But he never really wrote songs that appealed to me. He didn't seem a consistant writer of good music.

I prefer Sabbath and Thin Lizzy to the two of them though.

NeMiSiS

Both ****ing rock more than you ever will.

40crush41

<Both ****ing rock more than you ever will.>
hah -that made me laugh.. anyway..

playing with ur teeth is really cool.. watchtower anyone? -the greatest cover of that song, perhaps even better than the original, and in my book thats saying something. i think u should write that down in urs as well.

but stink -kashmir just takes me away, stairway to heaven? fool in the rain, tangerine.. all of my love.. when the levee breaks.. so on and so forth..

shame that jimi's life was cut much too short, but if i had to listen to one or the other -id choose zeppy baby, don't know -gives me more variety, and i like that -but happily i can still listen to both =P

~Beth

steveland?

Tough call man jeez... I'm gonna have to say Zep just cos I can actually play some Led Zeppelin songs reasonably ...

No seriously though I think Led Zeppelin have a much wider variety than Hendrix cos a lot of Jimi Hendrix's stuff was jam sessions and the like so Zeppelin are a lot more accessable...

Plus c'mon... Going To California and Immigrant Song... two of the best songs ever no?

steveland?

PORNAPSTER wrote:

Apart from the fact that, that song was totally ripped off from a Blues musician

You speak of Robert Johnson?

They basically ripped the Lemon Song from Travelling Riverside Blues and then they covered TRB on Coda... man that Robert Johnson fella was pretty good... sold his soul to the devil for his guitar skills apparently

Giblet

It was Willie Dixon "You Need Love"