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Hendrix Did not Cover Gangster Of Love

This is a one of many bogus tracks claiming to be by hendrix released by Johnny Brantley, it is in fact a Jimmy Norman single "Gangster of love (part 1) / Gangster of love (part 2)" on JOSIE 45-994 in or shortly after march 1968, arranged by Ed Bland, produced by Johnny Brantley for Vidalia Productions. Original version of this song (also known as "Love bandit") was recorded (and composed) by Johnny "Guitar" Watson, produced by Bumps Blackwell, and released on Keen Records in 1958. This recording seems to have wah wah on the guitar, so that automatically rules out Hendrix, as (once more with feeling) the effect wasn't available until 1967. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jameselmo (talkcontribs) 15:09, 9 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I was following you up until that last sentence. Hendrix is renowned for his use of the wah-wah pedal and put out a wealth of material after 1967. So how would the use of wah-wah "automatically rule out" Hendrix? That's not to say the GOL recording is Hendrix -- it obviously isn't -- I'm just saying your statement about the wah-wah pedal makes no sense.

WATSON DID NOT INFLUENCE HENDRIX

There is no contemporary evidence that Watson influenced Hendrix in any way. Any stage moves Hendrix used were old established routines going back to the earliest records of "Blues/R&B/Jazz" performers.Jameselmo (talk) 01:27, 24 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Typos in this article

Stevie Ray's last name is "Vaughan", not "Vaughn". (See the Wikipedia's own article on the man.)

193.205.213.166 (talk) 10:19, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]