Silly stuff going on here. Influential, revolutionary, inspirational, emotional...however you phrase it Hendrix is uncomparable. Take away the fact that Hendrix had chops, he could sit on one note bending and feedbacking into new notes. Before him nobody played that loud, and he's probably still the master of feedback control (hell he practically invented tasteful use of feedback...that's revolutionary). Where would Marshall and all stadium rockers be today? Watching Jimi live you can see he's almost always mouthing his guitar notes (when he's not singing of course), a clue that his guitar is just an extension of himself and his emotion. That's the ultimate goal right?