If Jimi Hendrix were still alive, what do you think would've happed?!
Question: I believe if he hadn't have died he would've kept play for a few more years then took time off. I think he would announce a reunion with the Jimi Hendrix Experience and co headlined with Eric Clapton. I believe Jimi and Eric would've released a duet album paying tribute to each other. I believe Jimi would've gotten clean and be an advocate againest drugs. I believe he would've played a Live 8 concert and be a activist for Global Warming. What are your thoughts
Answers: I believe if he hadn't have died he would've kept play for a few more years then took time off. I think he would announce a reunion with the Jimi Hendrix Experience and co headlined with Eric Clapton. I believe Jimi and Eric would've released a duet album paying tribute to each other. I believe Jimi would've gotten clean and be an advocate againest drugs. I believe he would've played a Live 8 concert and be a activist for Global Warming. What are your thoughts
Wow! A lot of beliefs there! He was actually planning some time off shortly before his death in order to reevaluate where he was going and what he was doing. Unfortunately, Jimi had a lot of hangers-on and people trying to tell him what to do with his life and career. Jimi was, first and foremost, a blues guitarist. Had he lived, that's about all we would be hearing from him now. His latter recordings and interviews allude to that notion. I doubt the Experience reunion due to Noel Redding's feelings about the music they were doing that caused him to quit in the first place. Jimi would have no doubt shown up at a Crossroads Guitar Festival or two, since they're not only a celebration of the guitar, but heavily blues influenced as well. As a result, Jimi and Eric would have had a least ONE duet! Jimi wasn't political where he might have made a stand today, but his abhorance for violence and war came up at every concert he gave and would have no doubt continued.
Well first off, obivously he would release albums into the 70's. After Cream broke up Clapton and Jimi would probably record with eachother. He surely would have played Live 8. Like Fonzie said his albums would change with the times. Eventually he would probably release some heavier hardrock/Proto-metal stuff.
Well, he would've def' dropped the acid rock/ psychedelic thing. Times were starting to change when he died.
I understand he was just getting into more blues when he died.
I think he would've moved onto more mellow albums & maybe produced other hard rock acts into the 70s.
I think he would've def' been a staple in big rock shows like
Woodstock '94.
He would be still playing fantastic guitar riffs!!!
Easy said and put: the music of today wouldn't be influenced by just Fall Out Boy or a recent group but by a influential musician LIKE Jimi. Jimi would've found the Woodstock '99 a disgrace (already does, I'm sure) creating, yet again, great songs (though he is in Heaven doing just that), Live AID, Live 8 and Live World would've been there to perform, done a album with Kravitz and Prince, etc.
He wouldn't be nearly as respected as he is now. Dying does wonders for music careers.
I think that if he was still alive, people would remember who the true genius is, but sober up? I doubt Jimi would do that...I think he'd be a groovy flower child forever.
assuming the drugs hadn't corrupted him completey i would say he would be trying very hard to make a new album if he's not completely drained and that he has made quite a few greatest hits albums and world tours by now.
or he would probaly just be rocking world wide til his death seeing as he is 65 by now..
and ozzy struggle with all the side affects of his drug use over the years and he's only 59
I disagree. I think he would have moved in a more funk direction playing with people like Sly Stone, the Isley Brothers and George Clinton. I also think he would have done some work with Miles Davis. As he got older, he would have gone back to the roots of the blues.
A lot of people often wonder what would have happened after a legendary musician hadn't died. Jimi, Janis & Jim Morrison come to mind. I'd love to believe that they would've gone on to make more great music - BUT - consider the alternatives. Jimi, Janis & Jim would have had to wither the '70's, which gave us disco, cheesy bubblegum pop, and punk. Would they have caved under management pressure to move in these directions ? The picture of Jimi going disco is horrifying, but musicians have to eat too. Janis doing a super bowl half time show with Britney Spears ? Jim Morrison a rapper ? Both attempts to recreate Woodstock were a complete failure. Hopefully, none of them would have been involved with those debacles. Assuming that any of the three would have gone down these roads is not a pretty picture. It's the "I wonder" thing that keeps the dream going. All three will always be sadly missed, but at least the memories of them are good ones and the music that they produced has and always will endure the test of time.
There are indications, that his musical creativity, was already exhausted, at the time he died. So my take on it, is that he would probably not have been able, to exacty churn-out music for over 3 decades. He would face a strong competition from todays bands, & his music would simply be out-of-fashion.
He would be Producing way better bands than there is now.