Jimi Hendrix颠覆了我们对摇滚乐的想法：他操纵着吉他、摇把、录音室和舞台。在 Machine Gun 或Voodoo Chile等歌曲中，他对乐器的使用反映了动荡的六十年代--你可以在他的歌曲Star Spangled Banner中听到六十年代街上的骚乱和投掷各种物品的景象。
在他的录音生涯中，演奏对他来说事毫不费力，从不会因为演奏而需要付出很多的努力，音乐就像是从他身上自然流淌而出。在Jimi的作品中，最优美的是 Little Wing。作为一个吉他手，即使你用一辈子的时间去研究这首华丽的作品也是不够的，因为你永远不能像Jimi那样完全的了解Little Wing的本质。
他将和弦和单音无缝交织地编在一起，而且他对于和弦声部的编排是从未在任何音乐书中出现过的。他的riffs（重复乐句）就像是一台前金属放克推土机（pre-metal funk bulldozer），跟随着他的吉他旋律线就像是经历一场电子迷幻之旅，直到他经过十字路口打了魔鬼一巴掌。
关于谁是第一个使用回授声效（feedback）的吉他手一直以来都有争论。但这不重要，因为Hendrix用得比任何人都好；他用Marshall stack（音箱头+箱体堆叠式音箱）做出了后来风靡70年代的放克（Funk），他对效果器的使用无人能及。
难以想象这么一个相当多变的人物，如果在这个时代的话他会做什么呢；也许会成为摇滚乐的掌托人？也许会成为吉米-亨德里克斯爵士？还是会在拉斯维加斯大道上做一些驻场演出？但可以确定的是他是有史以来最伟大的传奇吉他手。
Jimi Hendrix主要作品: Purple Haze, Foxy Lady, The Star-Spangled Banner, Hey Joe
中文翻译：小钟老师Rey 错漏之处，欢迎指正❤️
原文出处：滚石官方网站 作者：Tom Morello
附上原文：
Jimi Hendrix exploded our idea of what rock music could be: He manipulated the guitar, the whammy bar, the studio and the stage. On songs like "Machine Gun" or "Voodoo Chile," his instrument is like a divining rod of the turbulent Sixties – you can hear the riots in the streets and napalm bombs dropping in his "Star-Spangled Banner."
His playing was effortless. There's not one minute of his recorded career that feels like he's working hard at it – it feels like it's all flowing through him. The most beautiful song of the Jimi Hendrix canon is "Little Wing." It's just this gorgeous song that, as a guitar player, you can study your whole life and not get down, never get inside it the way that he does.
He seamlessly weaves chords and single-note runs together and uses chord voicings that don't appear in any music book. His riffs were a pre-metal funk bulldozer, and his lead lines were an electric LSD trip down to the crossroads, where he pimp-slapped the devil.
There are arguments about who was the first guitar player to use feedback. It doesn't really matter, because Hendrix used it better than anyone;
he took what was to become Seventies funk and put it through a Marshall stack）, in a way that nobody's done since.
It's impossible to think of what Jimi would be doing now; he seemed like a pretty mercurial character. Would he be an elder statesman of rock? Would he be Sir Jimi Hendrix? Or would he be doing some residency off the Vegas Strip? The good news is his legacy is assured as the greatest guitar player of all time.
