Top 10 guitarists of all time - DNA: "From his mind-expanding Purple Haze to his take on Bob Dylan’s All Along the Watchtower, Hendrix’s virtuosic and seminal styling paved the way for countless guitarists. Hendrix rose to prominence at the Monterey Pop festival in 1967 where, after an unconventional rendition of The Troggs’ Wild Thing, he pouted lighter fluid on his guitar, set it afire and smashed it. The left-handed artiste whose whammy bar and pedals transported spell-bound listeners into an effects-laden universe of wails, distortions, wild machine gun fire (in the Star Spangled Banner, in an anti-Vietnam statement) and even the hovering of a UFO recorded only 3 albums -- Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland --with his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. He died at the age of 27 in 1970."
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