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All conversations on this board are, technically, fucking pointless. I'm just answering the question: No, I do not believe Jimi Hendrix is the best guitarist ever. He's one of the best... he's also the most well-known.
I mean, and this is unrelated, but there's people that pretend that Mars Volta dude and Slash from Guns N Roses are great players. They couldn't hold a candle to someone like Trey Spruance or Seiichi Yamamoto. But then those guys aren't very well-known, comparatively.
There is no such thing as "Best" or "Greatest", there's simply... whoever the most people know of automatically becomes the best. Obvious but needs to be said.
I'm not discounting at all the contributions Hendrix made to music. Just sayin. Besides... influence, actual skill at playing, whatever techniques a guitarist pioneered, great riffs, great solos, etc... defining best is almost impossible when you take everything into account. So, again, Hendrix probably wins by default. So.. sure. He's the best. End of the thread.
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