Jimi Hendrix or Micheal Jackson

who do you think is better micheal jackson or jimi hendrix

Hendrix seeing as michael lived longer sold more but jimi accomplished more in his shorter life plus he kicked ass on guitar.

u 2 got the right idea rock on :)

hendrix seems pretty kool but i dont know him as much as MJ

i agree with enko

Hendrix was great in his time, As Michael was in his. You just can't compare the two

Both were great but I have to say that Hendrix is better...

Your shitting me right?


How do you even compare these too together like that?


Get this straight, there is no "greatest" guitar player, singer, song writer, etc. There is none of that. Jimi Hendrix knew this. He wasn't trying to be the best guitar player ever, he didn't even consider himself that. The people Hendrix influenced, also know this. For years they played the "Clapton vs Hendrix" contest. You can pick one or the other, but they both had a huge influence on the world of guitar playing. A guy like Stevie Ray Vaughan knew that there was no such thing as being the greatest guitar player. He was more focused on his style, and how he played. SRV just ripped his mind all over the guitar to tell you how he felt, just like Hendrix did.

Michael Jackson is compared to everyone. Most of all I hear him compared to B.B. King, James Brown, Prince, and even Jackie Wilson. That is because all four of the guys I mentioned played with soul in their music. It was not empty notes. Michael Jackson like most of the R&B singers in the 80's was hugely influenced by James Brown and this is clearly evident in his ballad tracks where he just sings his ass off.

How can you even compare these two is beyond me. It's not that they are totally different, it's that they are just alike. They both put their heart into everything. It's like trying to compare Miles Davis to Elvis Presley, and you know it just don't work. There is no "who is better" they were both amazing musicians and performers who absolutely loved their music.

R.I.P. Music? Music is still alive today. You are focusing too much on negativity. Yeah there is a lot of crappy music today, but are you forgetting all the crappy music we always had? In the 80's we had a lot of shitty music to mirror the great stuff. In the 70's it was the same, people forget all the really bad stuff out at the same time we had those great Funk and R&B albums. The 90's I'd argue had far worse bad music than any decade. Every decade has good and bad stuff. Music is not dead. It's more alive than ever, there is still good bands out there but as always, you gotta dig for it. The radio has not really played "great" stuff since the 70's.


I hear these same comments all the time from Blues fans that constantly talk about how much they hate John Mayer and Kenny Wayne Sheppard and how they think those guys will never amount to anything and how they are a joke for trying to play Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughan songs. I personally don't care for John Mayer, but I think he's great to have around, since I've met young people that told me they learned about Albert King, Jimi Hendrix and SRV from listening to Mayer.

Music cannot die. Stop listening to the radio and paying attention to the chart. You dig and you will find some amazing stuff out there my friend. The best stuff wasn't always played on the radio even in the 60's and 70's. I used to think music was dead too mostly in the 90's when I was a lot younger and I proved myself wrong big time when I continued to discover great stuff that just wasn't popular.

Well you can't really compare the two. Jimi Hendrix was a rock n roll musician and Michael Jackson was a pop musician. They were both talented and made a huge impact on their music genres.