how good was jimmy hendrix

Understandable.

Jimi

he even excused himself when he kissed the sky.

My pops saw him at the Mojo club in Pitsmoor, Sheffield.

Pitsmoor used to be thriving, now its a Ghetto

A bit gimmicky

Come on - he was fookin' tremendous.

He'll be up there now learning how to really make this basic instrument talk, with a little help from Gary Moore.

Good but overrated, it's what happens if you die young. Bit like Money Tree would be worshipped if he'd quit after his only winning bet, before the next 16,177 consecutive losers. We'd totally idolise him, instead of just partially .

Flashes of true brilliance and a lot of tedious twaddle. All Along The Watchtower is an all time favourite of mine. I believe there was a second guitarist on that session.
Some say that his original style of playing owes a lot to the work of Willie Brown and Robert Petway amongst others.

He was a game changer in the way that musicians treated and played the instrument.

He had a decent Euros but I don't think he is worth £10.5 million.

Imagine how good he would have been if he played the thing the right way round.

THE BEST GUITARIST EVER.
HTH

How does that help, exactly?

Best ever. Completely changed the use of a feedback loop. No one has such a distinctive sound which is almost impossible to reproduce even today.

Went to the very first Glastonbury, 1970 I think, it was a 1-day festival in a field about 1,000+ people turned up, back then it was called the Pilton Folk and Blues festival or something like that. Al Stewart and a few folk singers from Bristol were about to take the stage and there was an announcement over the loud speakers that Jimi Hendrix had died. (This was years before social media and smartphones !)

How good was he ? Brilliant with a flamboyant style, remember someone describing him once as a 'one man guitar explosion'. Chas Chandler - the bass player in Newcastle group The Animals - discovered him in New York and brought him to London. Hendrix wanted a large group of backing musicians, but Chandler persuaded him to form a power trio in the style Cream.

Only seem him live once, he was great and certainly different to a lot of those groovy groups in the 60's. But towards the end of the 60's he was starting to lose his way and split from Chandler and his group. Then he came back to London trying to regain some focus and reunite with Chas Chandler but died that same year.