This was an album which changed the boundaries of what was possible on guitar - and by extension in rock music - and in it Hendrix wrote the template for all that would follow in his meteoric and short life. (Indeed I hope I made the case for Are You Experienced at Elsewhere with my free-ranging, autobiographical essay Jimi Hendrix: In My Life). There's a very good case to be made that The Jimi Hendrix Experience album of 1967 was the most accomplished and innovative debut of the rock era.
