Blues guitar players referencing other players is pretty normal, part of the art form actually. What made players like SRV or Clapton fascinating was how they took aspects of different players and mixed it up with their own thing. I suppose you can say the same for Hendrix, but his "style" was more about his visual flair and less about his playing IMO. He made a lot of noise and the psychedelic sound he got out of his guitar was interesting, but it wasn't great blues.
He was capable of playing good blues guitar, but it wasn't amazing. His big contribution was overdriven neck pickup on the strat. That hadn't really been done.
While scuffing Buddy Guy moves like playing behind the back and having a 100' cable, BG also had a polka dot guitar decades before Randy Rhoads did
Blues guitar players referencing other players is pretty normal, part of the art form actually. What made players like SRV or Clapton fascinating was how they took aspects of different players and mixed it up with their own thing. I suppose you can say the same for Hendrix, but his "style" was more about his visual flair and less about his playing IMO. He made a lot of noise and the psychedelic sound he got out of his guitar was interesting, but it wasn't great blues.
He was capable of playing good blues guitar, but it wasn't amazing. His big contribution was overdriven neck pickup on the strat. That hadn't really been done.