10 Best Rock Guitarists Of The 1960s

Forget everything you have just read about Eric Clapton. It means nothing once Jimi Hendrix appears on the scene. The world will never get away from the legacy left by this man. There are guitarist who are technically better and guitarists who can pull from wider influences, but Hendrix represents something that is almost inexplicable.

He came at a time when rock music was evolving into a conscious shifting medium. There were great things happening all around this guy and he managed to pull all of the finest aspects together into a haze of otherworldly resonance.

Not only was his original work some of the most exciting but he had an ability to take other highly regarded tracks and transform them into entirely new pieces of art, that transcended the original. The most obvious and enduring example of this, is of course, All Along The Watchtower.

There are many examples of Hendrix playing harder, faster and perhaps more creatively, but as a whole his work on the Bob Dylan classic is like no other. His fills during the verses are explicitly satisfying, as they skip and bubble along, before he tears into some of his most emotive solo work. He knew how to fill the spaces in a song like no one else by imbuing a whole range of emotions into a single note.