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There aren\u2019t many who will argue with you over the assertion that Jimi Hendrix<\/a> is the greatest guitarist to have ever lived, or at least up there with the best of them.<\/p>\n Despite his tragically short-lived career, he managed to wow audiences with his electrifying playing style, which while rooted in blues, was far more adventurous, experimental and psychedelic than many of his contemporaries. <\/p>\n With that in mind, there were very few other guitarists in his era who had even mustered up the courage to try and imitate what Hendrix was doing, and it would take a long time for anyone else to come close in that regard.<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t mean that there weren\u2019t other exceptional guitarists during his time though, it just meant that they were excelling in a completely different fashion compared to how he tended to play. However, if you were to have asked Hendrix himself who he thought was the best guitarist on the planet during the late 1960s, he would have confirmed his adoration for one player who has been sorely overlooked in the pantheon of great musicians.<\/p>\n According to saxophonist Walt Parazaider, who was a founding member of Chicago, Hendrix approached him after a show in Los Angeles in the late \u201860s to sing the praises of the band. \u201cWalt, the horns are like one set of lungs,\u201d he supposedly told him, adding, \u201cand your guitar player is better than me.\u201d The guitarist in question was co-founder\u00a0Terry Kath,<\/a>\u00a0a formidable guitarist whose time in the spotlight was also tragically cut short, much like Hendrix\u2019s, but who never received his flowers in quite the same sense.<\/p>\n