He was also known as The Originator because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock, influencing a host of acts, including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and George Michael, among others.

The first in this list is the American guitarist Jimi Hendrix introduced by Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who, who was, in his turn, ranked at # 50 of the list.

Like the Rolling Stones list, Jimi Hendrix was chosen as the greatest guitarist followed by Slash from Guns ' N ' Roses, B. B.

Mercury was influenced early on by the Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar along with western influences such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles.

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

Described as the first guitar Hendrix set fire to, another of his Stratocasters was sold at an auction for a record price in London two years later in 2008.

Hendrix was a catalyst in the development of modern guitar effects pedals.

It was popularized by Jimi Hendrix.

* " Jimi Hendrix: ' You never told me he was that good '" Ed Vulliamy, The Guardian

McLaughlin was a master innovator, incorporating hard jazz with the new sounds of Clapton, Hendrix, Beck and others.

He was an African American pursuing rock, which by the late ' 60s had few minorities because they were increasingly pigeonholed in pre-determined, segregated genre roles based on their racial and ethnic backgrounds ( with Santana and Jimi Hendrix two notable exceptions ).

It was pioneered by musicians including The Beatles, The Byrds, and The Yardbirds, emerging as a genre during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in the United Kingdom and United States, such as Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, The Doors and Pink Floyd.

However, the largest strand was a series of bands that emerged from 1966 from the British blues scene, but influenced by folk, jazz and psychedelia, including Pink Floyd, Traffic, Soft Machine, Cream, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience ( led by an American, but initially produced and managed in Britain by Chas Chandler of The Animals ).

It was prefaced by the Human Be-In event in March and reached its peak at the Monterey Pop Festival in June, the latter helping to make major American stars of Janis Joplin, lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jimi Hendrix and The Who.

During his adolescent years, he was influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.

They scored another hit with songwriter, Alan O ' Day's " Rock and Roll Heaven ", a paean to several deceased rock singers: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Otis Redding, Jim Croce and Bobby Darin are among the mentioned ( Croce and Darin died within three months of each other in late 1973, shortly before the song was released ).

Jimi Hendrix was the last act to perform at the festival.

Because of the rain delays that Sunday, when Hendrix finally took the stage it was 8: 30 am Monday morning.

The audience which had peaked at an estimated 400, 000 people during the festival, was now reduced to about 30 – 40, 000 by that point ; many of whom merely waited to catch a glimpse of Hendrix before leaving during his show.

Edgar Froese's guitar style was inspired by Jimi Hendrix, while Chris Franke contributed the more avant garde elements of Karlheinz Stockhausen and Terry Riley.

Max's eidetic memory does save the day at the end of the book, but earlier in the book, Hendrix explicitly tells Max that his unusual memory was much less important than careful hard work at astrogation.

They initially approached drummer Mitch Mitchell, who was at a loose end following the breakup of The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Hendrix's departure to The Band of Gypsies.

Hendrix was a fan of Clapton's music, and wanted a chance to play with him onstage.

Hendrix was introduced to Cream through Chas Chandler, Hendrix's manager.

Amongst those who studied the journals and learned from their techniques was sound engineer Roger Mayer, who supplied guitar pedals to Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix.

* Randy Jo Hobbs ( 1948 – 1993 ), born in Winchester, bassist and founding member of The McCoys ; later worked extensively with Johnny Winter and also played with Jimi Hendrix.

Edwin H. ( Eddie ) Kramer ( born 1942 in Cape Town, South Africa ) is an audio engineer and producer who has worked with, among others, Led Zeppelin, Triumph, Kiss ( and solo Ace Frehley ), Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Spooky Tooth, Peter Frampton, Curtis Mayfield, Santana, Anthrax, Carly Simon, Loudness and Robin Trower.

They had three sons, Christopher Joseph ( born July 3, 1984 ), Miles Edwin Crawford ( born June 12, 1986 ), and Nico Hendrix ( born December 26, 1991 ).

* Billy Cox ( born 1941 ), American bassist best known for playing with guitarist Jimi Hendrix

Dickey, born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, graduated from Pine Bluff High School in 1957 ; after attending Hendrix College, he got his B. A.

Ken Schaffer ( born October 19, 1947 ) is an inventor and, in the late 1960s, was publicist for such rock stars as Jimi Hendrix, Steve Tyler of Aerosmith, Todd Rundgren, Ted Nugent, Alice Cooper and for the Comet Kohoutek ( on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium ).

Elaine Hendrix ( born December 28, 1970 ) is an American actress, producer, singer, dancer, and activist.

Leslie Hendrix ( born June 5, 1960 ) is an American actress.

Stuart Adamson ( 11 April 1958 – 16 December 2001 ), born William Stuart Adamson, was an English-born Scottish guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, described by legendary broadcaster and DJ John Peel as “ Britain ’ s answer to Jimi Hendrix ”.

Nora Hendrix, born in Knoxville, Tennessee and grandmother to the late musician, migrated to Vancouver in 1911 and lived in and around Hogan's Alley.

* Elaine Hendrix – Animal rights activist and award-winning TV / movie actress ; attended middle and high school in Morristown.

" Just as Christie attempts to make fun of their clothes ( which Romy and Michele designed and sewed ), classmate Lisa Luder ( Elaine Hendrix ), a former member of the A-Group who has since changed her ways and became an associate fashion editor for Vogue, announces her professional opinion that the outfits are actually very well-done.

* Elaine Hendrix as Lisa Luder

It stars Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Harland Williams, and Elaine Hendrix.

Mary tries out anyway and, when she goes to sign up, a stereotypical cheerleader, Evian Carrie Graham ( Elaine Hendrix ), gets in a fight with her.

* Elaine Hendrix as Meredith Blake, an attractive gold digger who is planning to marry Nick for his money.