June 29th, 2015 
CEO By Ian Murphy
In the summer of 1968, popular music was in the midst of an enormous growth period where seemingly every day some artist or another broke new ground. Within this sonic evolution, there was an undercurrent of (often in the Blues tradition) “ax-manship”, or a competition between top guitarists to push the boundaries of their instrument to new heights. Over in England, players like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck were constantly pushing the envelope in both technical proficiency and creative expression. However, it was an American who was really putting the musical world on its ear: Jimi Hendrix. Perhaps no guitar player in pop-history had a more seemingly “came out of nowhere” impact than the strange and mysterious Hendrix, whose vision and influence is on par with luminaries such as Brian Wilson, Lennon and McCartney, and Stevie Wonder. Select company indeed.
