Yeah, people evolve in their art over the decades...Hell how old was Paul Mcartney when he composed his first symphony years ago? I bet people way back in the sixties would not have expected that...It was not well received by critics but it was a huge accomplishment...Jimi died way too young and we were robbed of what could have been...
I LOVE Jimi... I've had his "Like a rolling stone" on repeat for a week straight now.
But I have to think aside from his amazing chord construction and ability to write beautiful songs... what we heard from him probably woudln't have been topped. He'd be fat, old, and we'd have twelve subpar copies of "Castles made of sand". Which I would LOVE and very much prefer. But I don't think Jimi would have written something Beethoven-ish at age 36, ya know? There can only be so much mushy tone before he decided to get all weird or odd or alternative or machine tone, something to evolve it to the wack category. Maybe I'm wrong. But I think we did see the best Jimi had.
