Who can you compare to jimi Hendrix?

Answer 1

Robin Trower is often compared to Jimi Hendrix because they played in the same Era, and their style playing was similar. However, as with most artists, it is hard to compare one with another.

For example, Jimi is also often compared with Eddie Van Halen because of the sea change that they were responsible for in rock music, however, their playing styles are vastly different (Van Halen credits is biggest influence when he was young as Eric Clapton).

Jimi was unique in his ability to play beautiful and richly-toned ballads, and, yet master the insane feedback and tuning difficulties of the earlier Guitars with whammy bars.

Jimi was an instrumentalist that mastered the analog. Unlike many well-deserving musicians today who use digital technology to create, Jimi only had his guitar, amp and some rather crude recording technology available to him - which he maximized unlike anyone.

Jimi is unique, yet he continued a long tradition of musical greats that pushed the limits of musical technology at the time.