Hendrix is one of those guys who left us way to early. The direction he was moving in before he died was so interesting and compelling, I could easily have seen him doing a spate of albums the way Coltrane did with Impulse, just searching and exploring and getting further and further out there. A lot of what he recorded sounds dated to me just because of all the hippy trappings that were in vogue at the time, but when he was able to strip all that stuff away and just play, it was molten lava, manna from a heavenly cosmic force. You can talk about Eddie Hazel, Sly Stone, etc. all great guitar players, but they didn't even come close to what Hendrix was about.
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