In his 27 quick years, Jimi Hendrix cemented his legacy as one of many best guitarists who has ever lived. However based on Eddie Kramer, the producer who labored with Hendrix on the likes of Are You Skilled, Axis: Daring as Love and Electrical Ladyland, the guitar legend nonetheless had far more to present.

In a brand new interview with Guitarist, Kramer and Filmmaker John McDermott – who lately made a documentary about Electrical Woman Studios – discuss Hendrix’s legacy, and what might have been had he not died on the age of 27 in 1970.

“Jimi was on an increase, no query,” says Kramer. “I feel the Band Of Gypsys was the important thing that opened the door as a result of not solely did it yield a improbable album, however it additionally had that funk, blues, robust R&B vibe, which led to this lovely open area for him to jam and actually simply stretch out for quarter-hour. That was the stepping stone. So his dying was not solely a shock to all people, however it was untimely within the sense of what he was considering musically.”

“Take heed to the Monterey efficiency of ‘67 – which is an all-time traditional – after which go two years later and hearken to Machine Gun. Once more you’re speaking about three pedals, a guitar and Marshall amps.

“So it isn’t as if there’s some type of magic know-how happening. It’s nonetheless one man, two arms, making sounds that no person had ever made earlier than. 

“In order that’s the good tragedy of this. I imply, as you hearken to Night time Fowl Flying, you suppose, ‘Wow, consider what the subsequent document might have been, with him making an attempt horns and extra keyboards.’ Who is aware of?”

Jimi Hendrix was discovered unresponsive at a London lodge within the late night of 17 September, 1970, and was later pronounced lifeless within the early hours of the next day. His reason for dying was dominated to be that he aspirated on his personal vomit and died of asphyxia whereas intoxicated with barbiturates.