{"id":778931,"date":"2026-02-21T08:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/778931\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:02:16","slug":"five-legendary-musicians-who-called-jimi-hendrix-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/778931\/","title":{"rendered":"Five legendary musicians who called Jimi Hendrix the best"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Five<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Paul McCartney \/ Chris Hakkens \/ Bent Rej)<\/p>\n

Fri 20 February 2026 21:30, UK <\/p>\n

While $40 might seem like an inconsequential sum in the grand scheme of music, it was enough to cement Jimi Hendrix<\/a> as one of the best musicians on the planet. <\/p>\n

Why $40? Well, that\u2019s how much it cost for Jimi Hendrix to hop on a flight and head over to the UK. Granted, the guitarist was already having some success in the States, but nothing was truly landing. His style was flamboyant and addictive, but he wasn\u2019t getting signed because people felt like it would be hard to flip that style to the extent that it would become profitable. <\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe nobody had picked up on him before, because he\u2019d obviously been around,\u201d said Linda Keith, who was Keith Richards\u2019 fianc\u00e9e when she first watched Hendrix perform. \u201cJimi was astonishing \u2013 the moods he could bring to music, his charisma, his skill and stage presence.\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until he came to the UK and word got around about the Seattle-born shredder that the music industry truly began to take notice, and it was in no small part thanks to musical legends seeing him play and word getting around, and to this day, a lot of legendary artists still state that Hendrix was the greatest live performer they ever saw, as his animalistic style of playing was unlike anything they had ever seen. <\/p>\n

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