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Jimi Hendrix<\/a>\u2019s mystique was built around his live performances. <\/p>\n Even before The Experience had released any LPs, the guitarist was always amassing a reputation among the most otherworldly, mind-expanding musicians on the live circuit. Yet, at one stage, he abandoned his life craft entirely, just to get a glimpse at one of his own guitar heroes.\u00a0<\/p>\n Strolling down the famously swinging streets of 1960s London, bedecked in hippie threads and a Hussar\u2019s jacket, Jimi Hendrix might as well have arrived from outer space. Both his look and his sound were completely alien to the post-war landscape of Britain, and folk across the land would turn up to his concerts if only to catch a fleeting glimpse of this rock and roll alien. That is not to say, however, that the guitarist\u2019s playing style was forged from the ether. <\/p>\n Once you strip back all the psychedelic haze and wall of wah-wah pedals from Hendrix\u2019s sound, he is, at his core, an incredibly talented R&B guitarist, building upon the extensive experience he picked up as a travelling session musician during the early 1960s. It is no surprise, then, that Hendrix\u2019s own body of influences was dominated by this world of old-school blues and R&B, even if his countercultural contemporaries were forging an entirely new world of rock and roll expression.<\/p>\n That perhaps shouldn\u2019t come as much of a surprise, though, given that virtually all rock and roll, since the dawn of the genre, has led back to American blues eventually, which is why trailblazing players like Buddy Guy have never really gone out of fashion. A titan of the Chicago blues style and a key influence on Jimi Hendrix, along with everybody else from Eric Clapton to John Mayer<\/a>, Guy carved out sounds like no other, and even a player as gifted as Hendrix could only watch in awe. <\/p>\n Hendrix was such a devotee of Buddy Guy, in fact, that he ended up adopting the guitarist\u2019s wild onstage antics. \u201cAfter I played 1967 Newport Jazz Festival, I got invited to play in New York, and I\u2019m on the stage putting on this show, trying to play with my teeth and throwing the guitar,\u201d Guy once recalled, per Guitar World<\/a>. \u201cSomebody put a spotlight on me, and I missed the guitar coming down after I threw it. When it hit the floor, I said, \u2018Oh, my God,\u2019 so I just jumped down on it, and everyone thought I did it on purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n