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When looking back on Jimi Hendrix<\/a>, it\u2019s hard to imagine him breathing the same air as us mere mortals. <\/p>\n He has been the benchmark of what pure guitar beauty could sound like, and half of his records all came back around to what lick was going to come out of him whenever he was jamming with his friends. But with that much creativity in one mind, there might be a few instances where things can get a little bit out of hand when you\u2019re trying to capture that feeling on tape.<\/p>\n If you think about it, though, there\u2019s no record that Hendrix put his name to anything that didn\u2019t have a bit of magic behind it. Guitarists are still poring over the thousands of bootlegs that people have made over the years, but even beyond his work with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, hearing him play with an acoustic guitar in his hands is just as captivating as listening to The Beatles sing in harmony or watching the biggest names in jazz cut loose behind the scenes.\u00a0<\/p>\n While his recorded output is criminally short at only three mainline studio albums, each of them does feel like its own unique entity. Are You Experienced has been properly deified as a pure masterpiece of the 1960s counterculture, but for any songwriters, Axis Bold as Love might actually be the better project, with songs like \u2018Little Wing\u2019 and \u2018Spanish Castle Magic\u2019 being equal parts heavy and beautiful whenever they come on.<\/p>\n But, really, the \u201cguitar nerds\u201d album is always going to be Electric Ladyland. Even if someone didn\u2019t know the first thing about guitar or even Hendrix in general, his cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u2018All Along the Watchtower\u2019<\/a> and both versions of \u2018Voodoo Chile\u2019 are absolute masterpieces of fretwork that most people couldn\u2019t have even imagined at the time. And for all of the genius on display, there\u2019s also a bit of good-natured fun along the way.<\/p>\n No one in their right mind would have thought to throw a kazoo in the middle of the song \u2018Crosstown Traffic\u2019, but it\u2019s an idea that was just nutty enough to work. But if you ask Noel Redding about the sessions, maybe Hendrix was having a little too much fun when he started bringing in a few too many friends and hangers-on when he was tracking some of the tunes.<\/p>\n