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1. His use of the whammy bar/Playing in general
watch a video of his performance of Hey Joe at Woodstock and compare it to his studio version. In my opinion I think he absolutely destroys the whammy bar in the song in a bad way. Nearly every lick starts and finishes with it, and because of the amount of distortion it sounds like he knows that he will make a mistake so he uses the whammy bar and distortion to hide it.
Also, his playing is incredibly sloppy. I know, things will sound different live, but Jesus does that guitar sound bad.
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His 1967 performance at the
Monterey Pop Festival is Hendrix at his best, or my personal favorite anyway. He headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 just before dying.
His whammy bar and playing guitar in general at the Monterey Pop Festival has been well over 45 years ago.
