That's so funny, when i watch Jimi in concert i see him making mistakes and talking and being shy in front of the mic... he makes funny little jokes and things. Then - i'm a guitar player so it freaks me out completely when he plays - He's so intense it is uncomfortable. There's this beyond the outer limits of skill thing he has. His peers, the bands you mentioned and others would just watch and be speechless. Hmmm, not that it's important really to anyone but us guitar nerds but just be able to control and play a stratocaster through 100 watt Marshall stacks with humming buzzing ground loops, funky failure prone pedals and make music out of it is no small feat. Turning it into a different beast and not playing everything exactly the same every time too. Lol i'm really going off here aren't i?

To do what he did on an instrument would take a sort of confidence and knowing of self that is in a way at odds with the gentle kind person he was and aspired to be more of. This is a topic i absolutely love! Dylan for instance had the very same bravado and sureness of self, looks different but it's there in the lyrics.

I don't want to be an ass here and promote or make anyone wrong for music.

I just had a thought. None of my girlfriends or women i know liked him very much. I forgot about that. I wonder what that is?