In a ranking released by Rolling Stone, the publication named the top 250 best guitarists across different genres, including rock, blues, metal, punk, reggae, jazz, folk, country, flamenco, bossa nova and more.
Rolling Stone described the late musician as a “true master of the guitar” who introduced musical styles and new guitar techniques by “popularizing the use of feedback, invented his own fusion of blues and psychedelia, and influenced the development of rock, metal, funk.”
Jimi Hendrix performs on stage on May 24, 1967 at Grona Lund in Stockholm, Sweden.TT NEWS AGENCY/Svenska Dagbladet/AFP via Getty Images
“The wah-wah pedal is great because it doesn’t have any notes,” he told Rolling Stone. “Nothing but hitting it straight up using the vibrato and then the drums come through and that there feels like … not depression, but that loneliness and that frustration and the yearning for something. Like something is reaching out.”
Jimi Hendrix Never Had a No. 1 Hit Song, Yet He Became a Rock Legend
With his breakthrough in late 1966 through his hit single "Hey Joe" from his debut studio album Are You Experienced, it was his signature anthem "Purple Haze" that became his highest-charting UK single, peaking at No. 3.
On the other hand, the success of his songs was also reflected in his albums, after his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
“The album was precisely what Jimi had in his head,” longtime engineer Eddie Kramer shared in an interview as cited by Billboard. “You look at all the drawings and the way he laid out the way the whole album was supposed to be, the running order of the songs. He was very specific in how he wanted Electric Ladyland to look.”
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