Fully agree with you, there just does not exist a "greatest guitarist ever".

I do agree with anyone who says: "Jimi was a great guitarist", or even: " Jimi was one of the greatest guitarist ever" but to say he was THE greatest guitarist ever is just not fair to all of the other great guitarists, dead or alive.

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Bob Dylan wrote two songs that Hendrix knew what to do with. "Like A Rolling Stone" at the Monterey Pop Festival, and "All Along The Watch Tower" on Electric Ladyland.

Jimi was great. No doubt. Anyone who argues that just doesnt get it. Although I could never call any single guitarist the greatest of all time. There are just too many guitarist and everyone likes something different.

Please come crawl out your window and Drifters escape too. Hendric covered both.
A good guitarist? Yes
Innovative? Yes
Best? Nah.

Hassn't anyone else noticed that he couldn't play softly? Even the Wind Cries Mary solo is a heavy handed affair.

There isn't a best guitarist because no one player has mastered all aspects of playing.

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The intros of One Rainy Wish,Little Wing,Angel,May This Be Love and Drifting were pretty gentle as well as My Friend and Belly Button Window which were very subdued all the way through.

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All sound very heavy handed to me. He was worse for it live.

Half the time he was a mile out of tune too.

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No one KNOWS who is the greatest guitarist simply because no one has heard everyone who has ever played. Hendrix was indeed a spectacular guitar player and performer who also wrote many excellent songs. As far as I know, he did not play any slide guitar or play hardly any acoustic guitar. For all you know, there may have been some poor kid ( maybe a girl ) who lived in the hills of Tennesse 80 years ago who could outplay anybody.... no one KNOWS !!!

It's hard to say anybody is the greatest, because there are too many different aspects to look at...

Technical Skill
Creativity
Originality
Tone
"Vibe" or "Soul" (try to define that )
Songwriting/music writing skill
and so on...

Hendrix definitely should enter into any conversation about "best ever", but I can't narrow it down to one person.

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Funny you should say that...because my grandfather had a cousin that played guitar and also slide with a knife,Pop told me he would turn the knife in different ways to hit the notes he wanted,much like a steel player does,and from all accounts that I heard,he was the best in this area,and that was in the 1930s/40s...here in Tennessee.
He was never recorded,but lives on in legend.

I thought we decided it was Nevin

What about Django Reinhardt?

Genius and with only two fretboard fingers

He was an odd fellow but surely could use those few fingers!!