What Makes Jimi Hendrix Such a Good Guitarist

has remained dear to my heart since the 70s. That said, I think Steve Vai is from another universe where God is a guitar player and Steve Vai is one of his angels. Do I think Steve Vai is better than Jimi? No. But that is not what this is about. I post two videos (there are more) that beautifully show what Steve Vai is all about.

Roy Buchanan, Master of the Telecaster.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, , , so let me live my life, , the way I want to.

and wake up tired....
If I didn't get 4 or 5 hundred bricks or block a day it was a bad day.
I figure somewhere between 3 or 4 million units laid in my 40 years.
Then I went into drywall.....
It's so hot here in So Az now that I can hardly believe I used to work
in this sun every day.

I have made garden walkways, sm stairs, & walls with block. I've mostly fixed existing buildings ,helped with all trades. Block in AZ sun sounds more extreme than summer roofing in Alabama. We always got on roof from 4am--11am. After 11 too hot, melted my shoes once.
The mason part is my last name and I think we should build our dreams (the good ones) into existence.
Sounds like a great career building that lasts. No mold just cause it got wet, doesn't catch on fire, crashing cars and tornados lose. I always wanted to be a part of something that would last, like Denver's Capital (all stone). It might sink into the Earth but it'll be there in a thousand years.

but the practitioners of that art, dick dale, buddy mules, Hendrix seem to use it to their advantage.

Oh, and the crazy thing, Leo Fender actually built Dick Dale a left handed Stratocaster, but it was strung backwards.

Had fate intervened a little earlier, my band would have opened for him in D.C. at the Ambassador in 1967. Can‘t have it all, I guess.

struck by that irony that Hendrix was cool. But this Poindexter nerds him all up?

Hendrix was great. I sometimes wonder what he would've created had he the technology that was available for Prince. Jimi Hendrix and the Jimi Hendrix experience was just THREE people. The sound was HUGE!. Look at the Police or the Stray Cats. Good bands but not able to fill the speakers the way Hendrix, Most and Redding could.

their ability to feel and express that through the notes of the guitar. I think there is a difference from playing music with just mental thoughts, to pulling it up from the depths of your soul. Like meditation, not everyone can reach that deep state. Jim Hendrix, Stevie Ray, Joe Bonamassa, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, and many others here and passed are able to pull it up from from the toes.

Those were the days. I was 19.

and dismissed Stevie Ray. He came back from lunch once during SRV's take on "Little Wing." "Nobody could play like he could", he said.

You should've seen his face when I replied, "yep... there's only one Stevie Ray."

Sorry but I think Stevie Ray Vaughn was derivative of Hendrix. That's not to say he wasn't a damned fine player. We're going to have to meet for a showdown one of these days, Harker.

I'm confident that I wouldn't make that mistake, either, having heard so much of them both. I loved SRV for himself, but he was certainly a follower, and openly imitative. A biography I read recounted him having punched Jimmie Vaughan after he told Stevie Ray that he sounded like Robin Trower.

Big ears, musically speaking.

I saw Stevie Ray at Red Rocks, after Bobby Blue Bland, Albert King, and B.B. King. Hendrix died a few years prior to my first rock concert.

In PA, hoping to relocate to upstate NY soon.

There are many good guitarists, Hendrix was one of the greats.

Acknowledged he stood on the shoulders of giants.