Why Jimi Hendrix is the electric guitar G.O.A.T.

[@hangten9646]

Yes Jimi Hendrix is the goat. 58 years later and I'm still a fan.

[@averychilco]

Please Please check out my favorite Hendrix song, it is his cover of Chuck Berry's "JOHNNY B. GOODE"

[@kyrkwalters964]

Me too

[@Facts-Over-Feelings]

A GREAT ONE LIKE BO DIDDLE

[@SilvertortoisePiano]

Well said, I’m on 30 years and still feel just the same :)

[@smoothoperator7023]

@@averychilcohe took chuck berry's song & smashed him over the head with it. Same goes for Dylan's All Along the Watchtower. 🤭

[@jeffmason2691]

When it comes to the electric guitar there is Pre Jimi Hendrix and Post Jimi Hendrix, he changed to way people listen and played the guitar, no other guitar artist is even in the Building 1. He was incredibly creative 2. His technique was superb 3. He was a great songwriter 4. He was a great singer 5. He was a great frontman. He didn’t need to play fast alternate picking runs or sweep picking or tapping tricks , he was above that. No one even comes close to him He invented a whole new style of playing. He by himself changed the way people thought about the electric guitar.

[@niteriderband4713]

Jimi was the most original rock-blues guitar player. He could touch your soul with a sustained note. Yes he is the G.O.A.T.

[@privateprivate4378]

These writers are only showing their complete ignorance of where one of the most derivative players in the history of music got all his licks.

[@stratcat9432]

@privateprivate4378

[@TheStarcruiser]

I saw Jimi at the Monterey Pop Festival 1967 --- Magic! I Feel honoured to have seen him perform 3 times🎵🎸🎶

[@DavidDArcy1975]

you lucky lucky bastard (Monty Python style) Respect & Peace ☘

[@ismaeldeleija8165]

damn it, i can't believe im reading a comment from someone that experienced that... im a 35 years old Mexican but i love Jimi Hendrix more than anyone alive or death

[@buckwheatINtheCity]

It was his ability to distort the sounds that made him the legend he became, but his picking style and flamboyance made him unique. He was making it up as he went along.

[@privateprivate4378]

Any guitar player as incredibly repetitive as he was ain't making up squat.

[@Trwillis9]

His double stops and improv live was insane.. Make sure you count all of his feats properly

[@stratcat9432]

​@privateprivate4378 To create a YT page with the sole goal being to leave inane comments on a video documenting a musician who was the single most paradigm shifting guitarist of his era, shows a level of supreme immaturity and most definitely JEALOUSY. Leaving over 15 negative comments on Jimi only shows you are a mediocre player at best. That is if you play anything more than a skinflute while watching PHub on your mommy's tablet,in her basement.

[@ericsherman3568]

Jimi Hendrix is the Alpha and Omega of Guitarist. Before Hendrix commercial success you never heard a guitar played the way he played his. Many people have tore from his shroud but nobody has really matched him in his brilliance.

[@privateprivate4378]

A billion musicians had heard everything Hendrix did a million years before he did it. When Robbie Robertson told Hendrix that he knew where Hendrix had obtained everything he laying down, Hendrix replied: "I know you do!" Any knowledgeable musician could have told him that. As Hendrix told Dick Cavett on international television when asked about his 'rep' as being a great guitar player he replied: "Hey, I'm only the best guitar player in this chair!" He got that right.

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

@@privateprivate4378 I'm reading a book of his quotes, and he acknowledged that other guitarists were playing with their teeth too. That said, I still believe that Hendrix was a musician of outstanding originality and virtuosity, and I think his songwriting is way underrated!

[@chizorama]

To me Hendrix is the best ever. I was into VH before Hendrix in my youth, Eddie made me want to play. I didn't find Hendrix till years later, but when I did it changed how I listened to music & how I played it. Nobody touched my soul like Jimi, there are better technical guitarist, but nobody squeezed the essence of a guitar like Jimi did. Most of the guitar legends grew from listening to the old blues legends, but Jimi lived it when he was touring the Chitlin circuit, & even though some of the old blues legends would say that Jimi wasn't a blues player, his music says otherwise. He broke from the roots while still being rooted, creating a sound that was past, present(back then) & future. He was raw, yet pure, I wouldn't call him a virtuoso, hard not to make mistakes when you're pushing things beyond the limit, but he made his mistakes work. & that's just it, he pushed his playing to a limitless brink, unfortunately we can only speculate how far it would've went. What we do know is that he gave his everything in a very short amount of time, & there's still so much of his material that hasn't seen the light of day since he played it. Not only was he a great guitarist, but he was a beautiful soul as well, hoping to heal with power of music, the power of love & the power of soul.

[@missesmew]

Absolutely agree completely with your comment sir. To see him land in a helicopter and play the star spangled banner in front of half a million people at Woodstock says something. And how many guitar gods in their own right became even greater trying to emulate him? ie Stevie Ray He’s the Ali of the guitar 🎸!

[@persephone1062]

TY: Your comment says it all, and very beautifully!! There's simply nothing left to say... 🎯🙏💜

[@t.a.landry5727]

Agree w/everything you say EXCEPT the non virtuoso part... as you say, "hard not to make mistakes when you're pushing things beyond the limit, but he made his mistakes work". I guess it depends on how one defines virtuosity, and I happen to believe that there are several ways!!

[@TAM-gz5tc]

I started on the shadows, eric clapton cream, then heard jimmy. I studied his playing for 3 years. His playing is deep covering all styles jazz,funk, rock,fusion, and compleat freedom of structure. For example create a groove over 3 chords, loop it , turn off the light so you play in the dark, pitch black , then play any note anywhere on the neck, now bring that note back into the groove. You hear your path, you hear your note, before it registers in your mind. Jimmy the greatest guitarist ever.

[@peterpeyotle]

Jimi was the best, is the best and always will be. Everyone else just emulated him. greetings from Germany

[@Tune-O-matic]

He opened the door to everyone to the endless possibilities of what a guitar could sound like..

[@jemwand2530]

This was the exact opening point I was about to make, he inspired others to go further and blaze their own trails.

[@jimbeam-ru1my]

no he didn't. Everything he did on guitar had been done by blues players before him.

[@chingondres185]

@@jimbeam-ru1my he wasnt the first to experiment with guitar pedals but he was the first to sound the way he did and he had his own style

[@sunoclockoneday2576]

He blew the door clean off the frame

[@jesusflores2121]

@@jimbeam-ru1my He was the most innovative electric guitar player that I've ever seen. I no of no other guitar player to take what was there and so creatively take it to new levels. Very creative levels.

[@scottwatson8659]

What makes Jimi the GOAT ultimately is his creativity-in the art of playing electric guitar, song writing and guitar technology for players. He was the ultimate innovator who changed the game, so to speak. He transcended being a great player. He created a paradigm shift in music. That's what's GOAT- worthy!

[@privateprivate4378]

It's just too bad that 'GOATs' don't have squat to do with music or musicianship. Neither does metal-head shredding, hell, shredding ain't even a musical term, and never will be.

[@hansolo9585]

@@scottwatson8659 Exactly! His influence went way beyond just rock music

[@rafaesantiago3721]

Indeed..the GOAT...was sixteen when he passed away...blew my mind...R.I.P Jimmy...😢 J

[@laman8914]

What set Jimi apart from everybody else is that there was no guitar in the sense of a music instrument. The guitar was an integral part of Jimi just like our limbs are an integral part of our body. The sounds coming out of his guitar were an expression of his being. That's why he never had to learn notes. The licks flowed in the same way we have thoughts, effortless, uninterrupted, natural. This is what set him apart; there were no barriers between mind and expression through the guitar. Just a superfluid process.

[@privateprivate4378]

There's an incredible amount of fantasizing about his abilities which were strictly derivative to a real musician's ear and eyes.

[@wallypoffle7796]

You get it. Jimi produced one of the greatest pieces of art of the 20th century playing the national anthem at woodstock; up there with Picasso, Dali etc. He brilliantly expressed the great paradox that is America - beautiful on the surface yet distorted and corrupt underneath. He painted the pain and the horror that is America's compulsion to war. That performance will forever live in history.

[@wallypoffle7796]

@@privateprivate4378 Really? Listen to the title track on his debut album 'Are you experienced'. Generations ahead of his time in 1967. Beyond the scope of appreciation of the average 1 dimensional brain that are the boring majority.

[@lisarochwarg4707]

I wish he was still around so much.

[@honahwikeepa2115]

I was 11 when I first heard jimi and never listened to anything else. He died2 years later. All of our children grew up listening to Jimi.

[@DWHistoryandCulture]

Thank you very much for sharing your story with us. Sending you all the best

[@harryjohnson8605]

Jimi. #1. He is the Goat. If he was still around today. He would say what all the fuss about. A humble guy

[@redlander55]

Jimi Hendrix is like blues, jazz and rock had a baby.

[@wrenchhead6840]

…..he was not from this planet….

[@mandiemoore3272]

I'd say Eric Clapton has the chops to hold his own with Hendrix in all of these genres and not that they are as eclectic as Hendrix and Clapton but there's also Eddie Van Halen and Carlos Santana. The things they can do with their fingers are mesmerizing

[@sidensvans67]

Incredible . Then and now .

[@jamminjoe44]

My older sister who was 10 years older then me, got me into Jimi Hendrix. I was just learning how to play the guitar, and my sister suggested I give Jimi a listen. Well, once I followed her advice, that changed everything for me. As a teenager, my whole bedroom became like a shrine to Jimi Hendrix, with wall to wall posters of him in action. I lived, and breathed his music. It was back in the early 80`s, that I saved up enough money, and purchased a white Fender Stratocaster. Of course, I had to had to have a Marshall Amp, and effects as well. The funniest thing that ever happened to me, is when I tried to play with my teeth. Bear in mind I was wearing braces at the time. I wanted to show off in front of my friends girlfriend. Well, my guitar string got stuck in my braces, and oh my how embarrassing lol. All that being said, I never sought out to try and copy Jimi note for note. That would have been a very difficult task to try and achieve! Randy Hansen has made his life's work on emulating Jimi Hendrix, and that`s fine. However, he will never be considered one of the all time greats. In closing, Eddie Van Halen changed how the electric guitar could be played in the 70`s. Most notably his guitar solo "Eruption" However, He never gave me the adrenaline rush that Jimi`s guitar playing did, not ever. Jimi Hendrix played with fire, and so much passion, that no one can match till this day!! Yes, in my book Jimi Hendrix is the GOAT!!

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

Love the bit about the guitar string getting stuck in your braces… a different type of flossing! Jimi was on a completely different level to ‘normal’ guitarists… no matter how good they are, there will never be anyone like him again… that’s for sure!

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

I agree with you, there's no one like Jimi, never will be. btw, how did you manage to get out of being tangled with the guitar strings in your braces?

[@jamminjoe44]

@@marymargaretmoore9034 .. .. I`m glad I can laugh at it now, but it was awful at the time. I stared to pull the strings out of my braces very carefully. It took several attempts before I was able to detach the strings without pulling out my braces with it. After that, I waited until the day I got my braces off, before doing that again!! by the way, it really hurt too!

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

@@jamminjoe44 I'll bet it did! (hurt, that is)

[@jamminjoe44]

@@marymargaretmoore9034 .... Oh my gosh it sure hurt! My friend thought I was just joking around, until he realized I was in a wee bit of trouble lol. It`s too bad during that time, that we didn`t have the TV show "Epic Fails" I think it`s on the TBD channel. I could`ve taken 1st prize for that failure, geeeeeeeeeeesh!!

[@dereksupernaut]

Band Of Gypsys is the greatest Rock Album ever, at first i found the rhythm section too simple having grown up on The Who and Cream; but overtime i find it to be more Soul-Funk in a way no other Rock Band can pull off while still rocking as hard as anyone... the lyrics and singing are also top notch, truly righteous...

[@zenobowie]

Jimi Hendrix the best nr. 1 for sure !❤❤😎

[@garenmcvay2695]

I agree, he’s the first to play like that. I never heard it, till Jimi played it, I pulled my car over to listen, I believe in 67. He was playing Purple Haze.

[@pmcclaren1]

There's Jimi . . . & then everyone else; 'nuff said. Saw & heard him in Memphis '69 & '70---

[@blackamore1826]

Wow Jimi Hendrix take me back to my school days yeah he was definitely definitely from another planet universe

[@tbutlerzeno9422]

There’s no question about it ❤

[@Sensimentality]

Jimi was more than just a guitarist; he was a phenomenal performer period. His musicality demands your attention to this day. He has got to be top 5 in history up with the likes of Sinatra and Elvis. If you could view 10 of the best rock acts on separate stages playing at the same time; lets include Dave Lee Roth era Van Halen, Prince and the Revolution, Cream, Led Zep and 5 more of your favs, the chances are high that it would be Hendrix that you would be paying the most attention to. That was the power of his presence.

[@hbtubman]

so true,all as impressive of our life time, none as hard to mimic to me as Jimi, the closing act for sure

[@privateprivate4378]

Someone thinks that burning your guitar onstage and feeding back your amp are phenomenal. I guess that violent video games and mud wrestling are too, in that case.

[@dandelion381]

Jimi is by far the greatest ever, he was much more than a guitar player, he created sound and wrote some beautiful songs. He played guitar and sang as well. How many guitar players have been influenced by Jimi? They worked him to the bone, with 3 albums, 1 a double in 4 years. I could go on forever, but I think real people know what I am saying. I was at Newport 69, and left the day before Jimi came on, regret this almost every day. He has been dead for 53 years, can you imagine all the GREAT HENDRIX music we have missed?Stay cool and be well, Jim.

[@jimbeam-ru1my]

"Jimi is by far the greatest ever" No he wasn't. poser.

[@jimbeam-ru1my]

"Jimi is by far the greatest ever" Wrong. his popularity and legacy is politically motivated. He was good but he isn't even fit to shine Eddie Van Halen's shoes.

[@dandelion381]

@@jimbeam-ru1my Just one question, have you heard anyone like him to date? He was much more than a guitar player, a master creator of SOUND. Voodoo Child was written in the studio. He just knew what to play. He has been dead for over 50 years, I could have seen him at Newport 69, but didn't, regret, regret, regret. He influenced a myriad of players and still is. Eddie was a GREAT player, I loved his attitude on stage. Stay cool, Jime.

[@evenflow5529]

@Jim Beam ..Eddie needed a few decades and all the tools readily available to him to reach Jimi’s level 😂😂😂😂

[@jimbeam-ru1my]

@@evenflow5529 eddie reached jimi's level by the time he was 13

[@randyandkathykaping2458]

Yes, not even a close 2nd. It isn't just because of his virtuosity, he changed the entire sound and approach to guitar music

[@wallypoffle7796]

There have been a lot of fantastic guitarists: and then there is Jimi Hendrix - no comparison !

[@VGlover007]

The GOAT no doubt I started playing because of Prince however after discovering Jimi I found out where he got his swag from.

[@uniqdzign2]

Listen to most top players today, that are in themselves an inspiration to guitar players, and they will tell you Jimi was THEIR inspiration. Yes, Jimi is definitely the G.O.A.T!

[@aaronhaurum3951]

Immortal a gift from the gods

[@janetrickwood2484]

No one was like Hendrix. Plenty have copied him, some very effectively, but as good as they are they're still prints and not the canvas. There are amazing guitar masters who both predated him and followed, but no one grabbed the moment the way Jimi did. He remains unique.

[@PiciorTe]

I believe Stevie Ray Vaughan was. Really. Listen to Texas Flood live.

[@janetrickwood2484]

@@PiciorTe fair enough. Stevie was a force of his own, but for sheer visceral imagery I can't pass by Jimi.

[@Three-LeggedCat]

@@LukeFierceyou mustn't be a guitar player saying something so stupid. It's called homage... Every guitar player who stays with the instrument goes through a rite of passage of emulating their heroes. SRV still sounds original.

[@ryangunwitch-black]

Yeah. Playing something and cooking something up outta your own hands and soul is a totally different thing. Totally different ability.

[@ryangunwitch-black]

@@LukeFierce Maybe go listen to SRV again. He made those licks and songs his own. That’s how successful blues has been happening for a hundred years now.

[@markmott1104]

The best of the best hands down, thx for the mus Jimi

[@lotharluder2743]

Only a feeling. I beleave it would be better for the world Jimmy Hendrix would be longer with us on this planet.

[@ashthegreat1]

I loved his off stage humility when asked about being the GOAT guitarist. Hed say things ‘I dont know? Ask Rory Gallagher’ … or ‘im maybe the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair’. Love the guy.

[@privateprivate4378]

Dude 'GOAT' ain't a musical term. Neither is: "shredding". Praising an entirely derivative player to the skies just shows how much you love your entertainment, and maybe some mud-wrestling or violent video games too. You probably thought Liberace was the world's greatest piano player. When Dick Cavett, television host asked Hendrix (formerly Jimmy James) about his 'rep' as the world's greatest guitar player, Hendrix replied: "Hey, I'm only the best guitar player in THIS CHAIR!!!!!" He got that right, and Hendrix was never known for his humility. It's just about every air-guitar player that thinks he did anything original at all.

[@RelicOnMaui]

On thing I didn't consider about the genius of Hendrix for many years - He only began as a singer/lyric writer AFTER the Experience was formed in England, and in spite of the crazy tour schedule, he rapidly wrote songs OF DIFFERING styles..... bam, bam, bam! The range of mood and styles is a huge part of why I consider him a genius. I was just listening to an NPR program talking about what makes the difference between a "hit-maker", and a "one-hit-wonder". A hit maker starts with a wide range of styles and mood. The time to "get creative" is rarely after you're already on the charts. Jimi wrote a wide range of song types from the moment he start songwriting. Dylan certainly influenced his ballad songs, but there were so many others, from the first on... "Stone Free (the first)> The Wind Cries Mary>Highway Chile>Fire>3rd Stone From the Sun>Foxy Lady>Purple Haze>Red House>Manic Depression... from ONE writer in just a matter of months WHILE touring??? And just kept them coming for 2 more albums... and THEN a total revamp when he reunited with Billy Cox, which is why so many were puzzled, "Where is his OLD stuff???.... "Well, I travel at the speed of a reborn man. I have a LOT of love to give... from the mirrors of my hand" THAT G.O.A.T was MUCH more than an innovative "guitar-player" who influenced the world of guitar-players for generations!

[@DWHistoryandCulture]

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[@royphillips9584]

Jimmy played in colors which is a infinite improvisation which is magical!

[@twalrus1]

Guitarists were studying the theory of guitars. Jimi was studying the theory of SOUNDS the guitar was capable of making. To Jimi, the guitar was a starting point.

[@oldtimeoutlaw]

Yes Jimi is definitely the GOAT, no one had his style and played the way he did. Unbelievable a true force of nature. RIP Jimi, truly missed. Rock on!

[@hbtubman]

with out question ive played since he was alive, outside of speed and sweeping, to try to play with a style of a player ,he is the most difficult to play and understand,i learned trowers to follow the playing style in a self taught player to understand, it just seamed to crazy to me in 69 ,but everyone else was so normal,all hard to learn but nothing like what took twenty more years to hear the difference that he and Stevie had created with musical arrangements ,not just pull offs and expert skills of notes going nowhere, after listening to everything he put out, i became a ok cover band player, after playing original music and doing lps at sunset sound ,i learned to add to any song as he did coming up in the background for many r&b groups in his early days, he was the best rhythm guitarist as well, his nuances of notes gave me a lot of background to add to others music that was like a background in music that no other way could be what i hold the pride in knowing

[@DWHistoryandCulture]

Thank you for sharing your story. Sending you all the best!

[@AfterTheGoldRush1990]

Jimi also had very creative taste in his clothing i loved it rip jimi😊

[@conpappas1066]

I play guitar. And I've got so many other bands with great guitarist. And still think that Jimi Hendrix is the greatest. He wrote music and sang as he played an amazing guitar. Not many guitarist can sing and play at the same time. If he live I'm sure he would come up with ever more amazing sounds. R.I.P Jimi. 🎸🎸🎸💥

[@privateprivate4378]

At least a couple of billion guitar players can sing and play at the same time. He was on a highway to the same place that Jerry Garcia went to, and for a nearly identical reason.

[@rogerdodrill4733]

​@@privateprivate4378Garcia & Hendrix should not be even mentioned in same sentence, like I just did

[@bryanlasermagiktyler3132]

Jimi Hendrix and Randy best of all guitarists

[@javierlomeli1688]

Yes Jimi Hendrix is the goat there is no comparison with other guitar players I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t think so. If you can’t hear every note in his songs you are deaf. Nobody has that many melodies and riffs and flourishes in a song. He is the master of all guitar players they can try to imitate but they can’t invent like Jimi. I’m sorry to all guitarists but it’s a fact not an opinion

[@DWHistoryandCulture]

Great, that we are on the same page here 🎸

[@burtonkephart6239]

Not technically or virtuoso wise. EVH all the way there. As for X factor or other subjective things maybe so

[@parkermudsen1063]

You are 10000% correct, sir

[@mike196212]

Right you are.

[@elishua8199]

FACT🙏🏼🎸🎸🎸👑

[@joseferreira9263]

Good gave us Jimi and took it away as a perfect delightful moment of true consciousness... and replace him with a lasting jimi's soul.. Thanks Lord for Randy too!

[@thomkessler3497]

I was fortunate enough to have seen him play and wow!, just wow!

[@jonathaneffemey944]

Thanks so much for posting.

[@jaykendig3067]

Hendix's notes burned through your soul as no other guitar player could. At a very young age I was able to discern the intensity of his notes came from beyond. As a life long guitar player I strive to capture the essence of existence as a result of listening to jimi.

[@courylanders4142]

Jeff Beck said the first time he heard Jimi Hendrix live, he started thinking about doing something else in life. Once he found out He inspired Hendrix,he got inspired.

[@billybobkingston5604]

Never did one guitarist do so much to change the playing and sound of the guitar

[@privateprivate4378]

If there was one iota of truth to that statement, Hendrix would not have told Dick Cavett on international TV that: "Hey, I'm only the best guitar player in THIS CHAIR!!!". He was an entirely derivative player and when confronted with this fact by other musicians he would say, "Yeah, I KNOW you know where I got this sh*t!"

[@ethanedwards1181]

Relax Francis.... Stripes....

[@rogerdodrill4733]

​@@privateprivate4378 go away, far away

[@324cmac]

Jimi played acoustic guitar quite well too. Even the 12 string.

[@motormouthalmighty]

AW JIMI! ENDLESS! BOUNDLESS! SEARCHING!PHILOSOPHICAL!MAGICAL.! IT WENT EVERYWHERE AND ANYWHERE!

[@burtonkephart6239]

That’s complete opinion and subjectivity . Factually and technically though he wasn’t a virtuoso and some even say a sloppy player !!

[@waynesix7194]

You had to be there. He was completely new. It’s easy to say,now, that he was sloppy,etc. If not for him the number of guitarists would be decimated,that’s how strong his influence was. Can you imagine going to a Monkee’s concert and getting this?

[@mcswordfish]

When an artist becomes a master of their craft, they become impossible to objectively rank. One cannot compare the guitar playing BB King and Steve Vai except in the matter of personal/subjective preference. Therefore, the likes of Clapton, Page, Beck, Slash, Satch, The three Kings, Harrison, Hetfield and all the others are all the Second Greatest Guitarists in the world. Because the number one spot will always belong to Jimi. He is both Newton and Einstein, The Wright Brothers and the Apollo 11 crew - he took his field, and both rewrote the ground-rules and catapulted it higher than anyone could have possibly imagined. This is what made Jimi so great - it's not only what he could do, but how far me pushed what could be done. And he achieved all this while writing music that was and is very accessible - as a songwriter (and his songwriting should not be understated) much of his pioneering work was done within the confines of the 3-4 minute pop-song

[@privateprivate4378]

If you do enough drugs you might think like you do, but no serious musician or critic has ever thought that. No-one ever lives down burning his guitar on stage. When Dick Cavett asked Mr. Hendrix about his 'rep' as the world's best guitar player Jimi replied: "Hey, I'm only the best guitar player IN THIS CHAIR!!!" He got that right.

[@bobtherocker5229]

Absolutely the best. No contest.

[@mrbensten]

Yes sure he was a goat in every perspective but I was born much later in an era where Eric Johnson, Guthrie Gowan, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malsteen and Steve Vai would do G3 concerts. My uncle owned a G3 DVD and one day I watched Steve Vai play little wings. This was incredible to my liking. Thanks to Steve and G3 for introducing me to Jimmy Hendrix. No denying his influence are noticeable in generations of guitar players too. Long live his music 🎶🥀🌾

[@burtonkephart6239]

This video is very subjective . Hendrix was great guitarist no doubt but some have even said a sloppy player . So technically or objectively speaking no he was no virtuoso like Steve Via or EVH! So I think the goat has to be EVH who was both virtuoso and great influence on music just like Hendrix . Both invented new sounds and EVH even came up with new guitar type and techniques etc!

[@seanmcdonagh8709]

Where do you think vai etc got it from?! Doh. Lol

[@diarrandji5329]

Merci mon grand. Il est le plus grand et restera le plus grand guitariste de tous les temps.

[@DWHistoryandCulture]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. We kindly remind you to adhere to our netiquette guidelines by commenting in English. Sending you all the best.

[@rogerdodrill4733]

​@@DWHistoryandCulturehard to comment on English,if not native tongue. A silly rule.

[@jimihendrixfan7691]

Jimi was unique and a pionier in his guitar playing for many, many giutarplayers after him. He was able to speak about his deep feelings through playing his instrument and telling wonderful stories which happend in his short life! His music touched direktly my heart and soul!

[@DWHistoryandCulture]

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[@marymargaretmoore9034]

I saw Jimi perform once, when I was 14 at Winterland in San Francisco. I've always been a massive fan of his music but also love him as a person; humble, kind, and sensitive. I believe that he knew he would die young and what an enormous loss to music and humanity when he did.

[@privateprivate4378]

His 'land of the new rising sun' was just whatever the next drug of abuse he could get his hands on. He was head over heels headed on a highway to where Jerry Garcia went when he died in a drug clinic from a heroin overdose. Maybe when you think its cool to burn your guitar, the next thing you destroy is your own life. His entirely derivative guitar playing never meant anything of significance to any well referenced musician.

[@DWHistoryandCulture]

@@privateprivate4378 We get it, you're not a fan 😉

[@rogerdodrill4733]

​​@@privateprivate4378u could never be a Hendrix, u repeat yourself too often

[@SilvertortoisePiano]

Yep he’s the GOAT, I’ve thought so for years and this video confirms it even more :)

[@cosmoganic]

Love Forever to Jesus Hendrix..

[@graemepooles]

Jimi for me is the heart that pulled the strings of a generation. Aka Rock God...

[@charlestoldon336]

Jimi played bluès for my😮 mom.GENIOUS

[@ulfpettersson2964]

Definitely G O A T🎶🎸👍💪♥️

[@thepillarsofcreation9170]

Great video! Hendrix and the music he helped create are a Big influence on our band!

[@GordonRaphael]

Ultra-fabulous!!!!

[@Mando4Dan]

He was stunningly original, uniquely innovative, and his extraordinary musical skills can't be overstated. This is amplified by the number of greats that imitated aspects of his style, Clapton, SRV, and so many others up until the present. When you try to think of another player who has so much influence on electric guitar centric music, maybe you can name them on one hand: BB King, Eddie V., maybe J. Beck and Jimmy Paige? Yes, there are many great technicians such as Clapton, Bonamassa, Derek Trucks, A. Young and many others, but are they comparable as innovators?

[@privateprivate4378]

BB King and Clapton were a gazillion times more innovative and original than Hendrix was, and history has already recorded that for all time.

[@wadya]

A truly genius in guitar playing. I wish he was also a genius in keeping himself alive.

[@hoffmeistertv]

Jimmi died just 5 month after my father. the 2nd disastrous experience in my young life!

[@ivanterekhov5369]

Although it's really hard to distinguish the best guitarist ever, because it comes down to personal tastes and preferences. Jimi Hendrix is definitely one of the greatest guitarists ever, who made huge contribution and impact in the world of music. He's also one of my all time favorite guitarists.

[@usnorac]

Well, that was fun. Love you Jimi.

[@haloreaper4938]

The reason Jim is the GOAT , her wrote Little Wing

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

Completely agree. The first time I heard it, I was blown away, and in my time honoured fashion, I listened to it on repeat. I still can't explain what makes it so good. It's like a capsule of perfection. He was a GREAT songwriter!

[@OctoMind42]

100 % The G.O.A.T. Of his time ,then and now.he inspires young 🎵 musicians 🎶 and his message of Love and Harmony has resonated through the decades since his passing and many more to come, JIMI ain't goin' anywhere anytime soon,,more like "The King Is Gone but is Not Forgotten 🎶🎸 !!!!

[@antonioduverge3558]

I play guitar and I’ve seen a lot of amazing guitar players, if the best guitar players in the world say that Hendrix is the Goat how can I say otherwise, the guy is the GOAT, end of the discussion.

[@DialogDontArgue]

Reasons: The Hendrix Sound The passion he inspires in other musicians Improvisation and spontaneity Being in the right place at the right time Politics and counter culture Showmanship Tragic early death

[@friarbud]

Not only did Hendrix learn how to play pretty much every single song there ever was, he could also play exact guitar styles of many blues players. Also, since childhood, he had mimicked noises on guitar, like cartoon special effects, and sounds like that.

[@privateprivate4378]

Actually this is complete Bullsh*t. As Albert King has stated on several occasions, Albert could play anything and everything that Hendrix played and Hendrix couldn't play anything that Albert King played. I once saw EVH claim he would demonstrate his so-called mastery of Eric Clapton's solo "Crossroads" from the Wheels of Fire album, and he didn't get one lick of it right. After a couple of bars he gave up trying to demonstrate it. EVH had only fantasized that he could play Clapton's stuff, and that is typical of players like Hendrix.

[@steveDC51]

Reason 2 is underrated and often missed. Good to see it here.

[@DWHistoryandCulture]

Thanks!!

[@Mherkava]

Hendrix only! That said, there's only one thing he did not accomplish in his lifetime and he was well on the way there ... and that is "SPONTANEOUS UNREPETITIVE SONGS ON THE FLY OF THE MOMENT - ALA 'VIRGINIA WOLF STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS ' - BUT IN MUSIC COMPOSITION. THAT IS LEFT UNDONE. And Jimi was on the way there. And that is what we missed with his death. Whoever will do that with his own unique uncopied originality together with Jimi's complete nuances will be beyond Jimi. Jimi had the courage to escape scales chords etc etc... and walk on a very slim tight-rope on the edge of music and the beginning of trash and come out of it alive ... and also very well. That's why we loved him. Because we experience that very gestalt everyday and minute of our life. And Jimi gave the feeling that he was there with us in our reality , smashing our room full of mirrors; now the whole world is here for me to see. No one else did that. Because it is impossible to copy - but it was unique to who and what he was.

[@mojoefelix]

There’s Jimi, and then there is everyone else.

[@obiem9319]

8:45 is awesome

[@locatefastballchange]

It's before and after he appeared on the stage. Like the Gal in the video said. As a guitar player I've stayed away from copying too many of Jimi's riffs. I do have my favorites. And it's a beautiful experience whenever I run into one of them. Time has a way of changing memories. Some people have no idea how the Vietnam War began or was fought for. Much less who is the greatest rock guitar player. Remember, he did it in 3 years.?!

[@privateprivate4378]

People who fantasize that there is a 'greatest rock guitar player' are generally drug abusing air guitarists that honestly know little about either guitar playing or music itself.

[@justinhunt4767]

I can see his music

[@ΜιλΒΑΡ]

He is the greatest,no doubt,no one come close,he is unique

[@Yahoo886]

For me…Jimi is the GOAT

[@lentonthomas2131]

🐐 Beyond 🐐 a 🐐 shadow 🐐 of 🐐 a 🐐 doubt 🐐, Hendrix 🐐 be 🐐 the 🐐🐐🐐🐐

[@ericwilsonfineart]

Hendrix = G.O.A.T ✌❤

[@eojeda1375]

YES !!! I Agree 100% Jimi is the BEST Guitar Player of All Times !!!!

[@jroc2201]

Jimi's music made a deep psychological impression on me, it changed me, he is unbelievably powerful, so cool, go Jimi!!!

[@benderthefourth3445]

Hendrix! The GOAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MartinSage]

Jimmy❤

[@poshthora3606]

Jimi Hendrix = GOAT

[@zackspaulding]

The MASTER!!.....everyone else is second division.😉❤🎸🎶

[@pujapete3665]

all guitar heroes are unique in some way but jimi was and is my hero.....cool as feck

[@JimElcock-v8t]

THEE GREATEST !

[@MrRwasmit]

he is the best off the best and i miss him

[@bojackson3813]

JIMI HENDRIX is clearly the best electric guitar player ever PERIOD!!!!!!!!

[@eldondavidson8281]

No one else is even close, jimi Hendrix is the greatest of all time, if he's not your favorite guitarist, chances are that he's your favorite guitarist's favorite guitarist

[@nedinpelesic6599]

Hendrix is Mozart of our time

[@HalimMaliqi]

Hendrix nr. 1

[@scottmoore7975]

Without question the electric God!!!