The solo on ‘Machine Gun’ totally rewrote the book on what a man could do with an electric guitar and is arguably the most groundbreaking and devastating guitar solo[s] ever.

There are some musicians I return to over and over again throughout my life. Hendrix is one of them. The sounds coming from his guitar are ideas incarnate. Mastery beyond mastery. Utter annihilation and transcendence of form. In a word, “this.”