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As for copying Beck and Clapton, read what they had to say about Hendrix! He totally changed their perception of what guitar was about. Clapton even at his most experimental only ever plays the guitar. Beck maybe goes a bit further, but not much. Blackmore gets it - it's not about playing technique, it's the whole package. If you're focusing on his tuning and timing you're missing the point - listen to the way he controls the sound directly using the guitar. It's like the step from representative art to abstract art.
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But blues unquestionably is a totally separate strand of music coming straight out of the slave experience. From blues to jazz and then on, Kurt Vonnegut called it America's greatest gift to the world.
In terms of influencing music with mass appeal worldwide for over 100 years, blues is king, and Hendrix was right in that tradition of cross fertilisation.
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As @viz says, It is so simple in the fact that he quote literally dropped a sonic-bomb into what was the music scene at the time. "Voodoo Chile (a slight return)" was the equivalent of throwing a grenade into the vicars tea-party of blues . The impact was massive, no one had seen anything like that coming. This is why he revered so much. It took a further 10 years until another player, EVH, came along and turned the guitar world, once again ,on it's head.
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I'm not sure that Jimi didn't have a fashion influence, he was a black man walking seamlessly in a white mans world (the first to do that). Jimi helped to break down social divides (one of the first black musicians interviewed on prime time US TV). Sid did a lot but he didn't do that
Blues music I'll grant you, perhaps it's more of a niche thing.
“Theory is something that is written down after the music has been made so we can explain it to others”– Levi Clay
I think this is quite simple; country (and its variations) is a 'niche' music. It has vociferous adherents and detractors. For me anything more country than Mary Chapin Carpenter is 'too' country. It is not a music I associate with innovation - it is a music I associate with tradition. That is NOT a criticism btw - the same is true of folk - it is just a music that for me sits within fairly clear-cut parameters.
Sonically, blues is much more diverse - the progression between Robert Johnson and Albert King is night and day. For me blues is visceral and hits me on an emotional level that country never does. I can hear the individual in the best blues - in country, it often seems to me that the strictures of how its 'supposed to be' strip it of personality.
I don't own any Hendrix recordings - I don't actually like his music that much - but what I hear is him. It may be blues translated through a million watts, it may be a Bob Dylan song bent out of recognition, it may be rhythm playing that owes more to a soul review that heavy metal - but it is always recognisably Hendrix.
The guy redefined how guitar playing worked. He took the 'electric' element of the electric guitar to a level above and beyond his contemporaries. And I say that as someone who preferred Eric Clapton's playing. But I recognise Jimi took it further.
If this debate were about 'was Elvis or Hank Williams more important?' - the only logical answer based on quoted influence on subsequent musicians would be 'Elvis'.
Hank Marvin has had more influence than Roy Buchanan, Paul Simon has sold massively more records than Nick Drake, Mark Knopfler turned vastly more people on to playing guitar than either J J Cale or Richard Thompson - who were clearly influences.
Sometimes someone lights the flame in a widespread way. Hendrix did that - and guitar playing was never quite the same after he did.....