Jimi Hendrix is the most influential electric guitarist in the history of music!
Jimmy Hendrix performed at Woodstock didn't he?
Yes, he and Billy Cox from the Band of Gypsys performed at Woodstock.  Wish I was old enough to have attended!
Me too, my favorite Hendrix tune is "Hey Joe"
I like Purple Haze, because it sounds like a mix of blue and Eastern Music with all that sound processing he did.
Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.
In 1968, three of the genre's
made me listen to a lot of classical music to enable me to have a larger vision of music". When Robert was eight years old in 1967, Richard played him "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendrix, who became hugely influential. Of this period, Robert Smith later went on to say: 
Smith was ten years old in 1969 when he first began listening to Nick Drake's album "Five Leaves Left": It was not long afterwards that Robert Smith attended his first rock concert – Jimi Hendrix at the