Anyone who can't appreciate Hendrix, at least as a guitar pioneer, probably doesn't listen to anything but the singing when they listen to music, or otherwise has likely never tried to play a guitar. People are still trying to achieve some of the sounds he created, to little avail.

Someone mentioned SRV as being great (I absolutely agree that he was great), but it's well-known that Hendrix was among SRV's primary influences (very similar guitar tones on a lot of stuff, and not just because they both played Stratocasters.) SRV's version of Voodoo Chile was all kinds of bad ass, to be sure. How you could like one but not the other mystifies me. Just goes to show that we all have different tastes, I suppose.

I'll be interested to hear the new Jimi stuff, but I agree with the sentiment that it was probably never intended to be released, and it's likely been changed a lot from whatever original tracks were recorded. Still... Should be well worth a listen.