Two days after his final public performance - a London club appearance with Eric Burdon, Jimi Hendrix left this life. But the trail blazing accomplishments in his all to brief career guaranteed that no matter how many guitar greats made their mark after him, Hendrix would never be surpassed as the most innovative player to ever plug in an electric guitar.  Chas Chandler, bass player with the Animals, convinced Jimi to return to the UK with him so Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and other British guitar greats could experience first hand what an amazing player he was. Beck would say that seeing Hendrix play that first set was so mind boggling that he contemplated just quitting. 
Recently, reports emerged that in the months before his death Jimi was considering taking his music in a new direction. That comes as no surprise, and of all the great Rock musicians that died young in the years before and after Hendrix did on September 18, 1970, there is not one we would have been more fascinated to watch continuing to evolve.

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