Get a copy of "John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton from 1966 and fuckin' listen to the "electric" blues guitar playing on this thing. Steve Hackett refers to this as the "Bible of Electric blues guitar playing. When Jimi Hendrix first arrived in England he slept with the album. Think before you post.
1. Or the Paul Butterfield Blues Band S/T with Mike Bloomfield
2. Perhaps Hendrix worshipped that album or not but Clapton had this to say about Hendrix in Clapton's autobiography:
"What I found refreshing about him was his intensely self-critical attitude toward his music," Clapton writes. "He had this enormous gift and a fantastic technique, like that of someone who spent all day playing and practicing, yet he didn't seem that aware of it.
