Originally Posted by: LordathestringsI'm a product of my time, but the fact remains that there are [u]no[/u] modern guitar players that give me the visceral emotional thrill that his music did. Hendrix was doing stuff that NObody else at the time could touch.

Today, even the best string-slingers you can name all sound at least a bit like somebody else. The scene is too crowded these days, and the listening public too fragmented, for anyone to even come close to his impact.

Yes, you did have to be there. :p

I gotta go with LATS on this. He was innovative for the time but more so, he set the standard for guitar players since. Yup. You did have to be there. I was still just a kid when Jimi died but I do remember hearing "new" Hendrix songs when they were being played on the radio. He had an impact that is till being felt almost 40 years after his death.

That says something .