This guitar solo is from the song Manic Depression. It is the second track off of the debut Jimi Hendrix Experience album released in 1967. This record changed the sound and style of the electric guitar. It is the most revolutionary guitar record along side Van Halen's Debut album.

Jimi took the styles of Blues, Pop, R&B and Jazz and mixed them with outrageous psychedelic fuzzed out guitar tones. The electric guitar had been around for several decades before this, but the invention of higher gain amps with the experimental attitude of the mid to late sixties created an extremely fertile environment for a musical genius like Jimi to thrive in.

Jimi also broke career conventions at the time by creating an interracial band and moving to England. This brilliant move caught the British Blues invasion of the 1960s and exposed Jimi to a wider audience which eventually spilled over to world wide success.

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