Originally Posted by: R. ShackleferdI'd have to argue that those two bands were much more influenced by a lot of the same Delta blues players that Jimi was. And didn't we just discuss how it was B. Gibbons who was possibly influential to Jimi (at the least infatuated)?

It's true that Jimi Hendrix liked Gibbons' playing when he heard it. Not that he was influenced by it. It's not likely that Hendrix was sitting around playing along with Gibbons' records, the opposite, however, is fairly likely. Also, the fat, distorted, guitar sound of those bands would not exist without Hendrix' moving the guitar to the forefront of rock bands.