In the world of music, enmities abound. Jimi Hendrix He was a guy who didn’t mince his words and, like almost any rock star, he was extremely direct when speaking, even when he wanted to criticize one of his colleagues, something he did on several occasions. Today we want to tell you about five artists and bands that the guitar legend hated.
Led Zeppelin
In 1970, Hendrix took aim at his British colleagues, stating: “I don’t think much about Led Zeppelin; I mean, I don’t think about them much.” Years later, in 2006, the Vanilla Fudge drummer took it upon himself to reaffirm Jimi’s position by recalling: “He personally told me that he didn’t like Zeppelin because they were like excess baggage and stole from everyone.“.
“’You Shook Me’ was on Jeff Beck’s album. ‘Dazed and Confused’ has a bit of Vanilla Fudge and has parts of ‘Beck’s Bolero’. “I think a member of the band told me that the riff for ‘Good Times Bad Times’ came from Tim Bogart’s bass line,” the violist added, according to the drummer.
pink floyd
Pink Floyd was not liked by Hendrix because he did not see that they put as much effort into their songs as into their stage design. “There’s one thing I hate here,” Hendrix said in an interview. “When these cats say, ‘Look at the band.’ They’re playing psychedelic music! All they do is turn on lights and play ‘Johnny B. Goode’ with the wrong chords. It’s awful. I heard they have beautiful lights, but they don’t sound like anything“, he added.
The Monkees
Hendrix was in charge of opening shows for The Monkees during one of their tours. However, the experience was totally conflictive and Jimi did not hesitate to target his colleagues. “Oh God, I hate them! You can’t fault anyone for doing it, but do people like The Monkees?”he asked himself.
The vast majority of bands on the Motown label
Motown Records knew how to be synonymous with success in the musical world. However, Hendrix was convinced that his creations were “artificial” and “synthetic.” “To me, the Motown sound is very artificial, very commercial and very, very electronic. A synthetic soul sound“, he stated before adding: “It’s not the real sound of black artists… It’s so commercial and so beautiful that I don’t feel anything“.
