>>You really can't listen to rock music today and not hear Hendrix influence virtually everywhere. That's where I would actually disagree the most. The Beck-Cl

>>You really can't listen to rock music today and not hear Hendrix influence virtually everywhere. That's where I would actually disagree the most. The Beck-Clapton-Hendrix-Page styles were basically the pinnacle of bluesy 'hard' music. It did have it's influence obviously (if I had to pick one I'd go with Page) and is still represented in 'rock music' although some of the players there are old enough to go straight to Chuck Berry for their influences :) There were notable other players (like Fripp and Gilmour for example) at that same time kind of laying the foundation for the departure from the pentatonic based riffing and soloing which to me is a staple of what I would call a 'modern rock music' (which is also too wide of a blanket to make a concrete argument I suppose).