He is experienced

He is quite the ultimate rock guitarist, the killer. He is none other than Jimi Hendrix. I reckon Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani or Steve Vai might be better technically with the six-string. But, I must say Hendrix was there first. So, quite rightfully, he is the Man.

Many other guitarists have laid claims that they were influenced by Hendrix. Quite rightly so, I guess. Hendrix sure defined the electric guitar. He explored it, fired it all up and makes the six-string an essential rock status. The guitar became the essential music instrument for all rockers. He did what Wacko Jacko did to the moonwalk or The Beatles’s influence to mop top hair.

Hendrix embodies the fusion of rock, blues and at times, jazz. He was the showman, the explosive live act and the unabashed rocker. He is the spiritual music force on stage and also, the unstoppable liberator of the six-string.

Songs like “Fire”, "Crosstown Traffic", "Hey Joe", "The Wind Cries Mary", “Voodoo Child” and “Purple Haze” were sensational. His rendition of “All Along the Watchtower” and “The Star Spangled Banner” were fast, furious and outta the world. The latter probably, stung the Woodstock crowd…The Flower Children.

In 1970, he rose to the Heavens…till today, this Seattle-born musician’s work is revered as mythology. His name had reached almost God-like stature to any known or practicing guitarists. Any lingering memories of his stage performances will continue to reverberate across the music world.