(January 18, 2020 at 11:34 pm)no one Wrote: In the context that he single-handedly reinvented the instrument. He completely changed the way people saw what it was capable of.
Like I said, he was GEORGE WASHINGTON. Yes, but others followed him, and improved on what he started.
Just like you can't take away the credit for the land phone, it lead to the cell phone.
Hendrix certainly was an innovator. But future guitarists followed him, and when it comes to metal, all of them where most certainly influenced by him. All I am getting at, is that guitarists like Reid, if Hendrix were alive today, would be amazed at how much progress in music was made by Hendrix's work.