02-03-2003, 07:17 PM
Quote:Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin certainly could be referred to as great American composers.
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Hendrix is great, don't get me wrong, but he's not a composer, if anything he's the complete opposite of a composer because his greatest work was never written down on paper but rather created as he was playing the guitar. Infact most modern guitar players would admit that Hendrix is not hard to play if you look at the pure mechanics of his playing, what seperated Hendrix from everyone is his ability to make the guitar portrait his emotions. That makes him a great player, but not a great composer.
And Joplin? Are you on crack? She sucks, always has, always will. She had no talent or skill.
Cash and Dylan I would agree on, but I still wouldn't think of them as the greatest composers America has produced.