JIMI HENDRIX Tops Guitar Riff Poll
November 26, 2009, 14 years ago
The Press Association reports:
JIMI HENDRIX's 'Voodoo Child' has been named the greatest guitar riff of all time, more than 40 years after he first recorded the classic cosmic jam.
Late guitar guru Hendrix, who topped the singles chart with the track in 1970, triumphed in a poll of musicians.
The track - full title 'Voodoo Child (Slight Return)' - edged past GUNS N' ROSES' song 'Sweet Child O' Mine' which finished second in the poll by musicians' website MusicRadar.com.
When the site's sister magazine Total Guitar last conducted the survey five years ago, the list was headed by the Guns N' Roses song.
Voodoo Child - with its distinctive 'wah-wah' opening - was first released on Hendrix's Electric Ladyland album and led on from an earlier track, 'Voodoo Chile', which was a 15-minute blues jam. Confusingly, by the time it was released as a single in 1970 it too had been named Voodoo Chile.
MusicRadar.com's editor-in-chief Mike Goldsmith said: "Nearly 40 years after his untimely death, Jimi Hendrix is still the undisputed heavyweight champion of rock guitar."
More than 5,000 MusicRadar users took part in the poll.
