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But it turned out he was at a meeting of an early flat earth society - when he said it again later on in the pub, someone just asked why he was saying such a mundane fact that everyone already knew.
What I would say makes artists objectively great is how much influence their legacy has on other musicians that are successful after them. E.g. the Beatles are objectively the greatest band ever because they completely influenced all music that followed but they're not my personal favourite band of all time, just up there.
Hendrix 100% falls in to that category where nothing (to my knowledge anyway) sounded like him before him and masses of guitarists sounded like him or an evolution of him after him. I have his album in my collection but have never really got much pleasure from listening to it.
The Smiths is a good example for me - I really don't enjoy the band at all but I respect them as one of the greats because they had so much influence over a huge scene.
His family's stranglehold on his official output means that you won't ever accidentally stumble across his beautiful songwriting, his fantastic studio productions, his lovely and intricate vocal harmonies or the hypnotic genius (not a word I use lightly) of meandering story-like guitar playing on songs like Who Knows, from the Band of Gypsies album.
It's a real shame.
it also had the best cover version ever, IMO, on the other, side All Along the Watchtower