re: Was Hendrix really the best guitarist of his day?

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All those double stops, hammer-on and pull offs and very fluid legato type stratty likes come from him.

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Hendrix probably lifted these techniques from any number of classical, flamingo, or jazz players, those techniques can be found in those genres all the way back to the first recorded music.

As an example Eddie Van Halen was not anywhere close to the first to do two hand tapping.

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