22 Greatest Guitarists Of All Time

22. Jimi Hendrix

The God of Gods. As Lemmy says, there is simply nobody as good as Hendrix, period, and it's hard to resist that logic.

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Taken tragically young, Hendrix was a master of personality infused guitar playing, the ultimate master of the solo and one of the most effortlessly gifted men ever to pick up a guitar. Will there ever be anyone better? Don't count on it.

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