Jimi Hendrix/YMMV

• Adaptation Displacement
• Awesome Music: His bombastic version of "Star Spangled Banner" caps both the Woodstock festival and the incredible documentary that recorded the event.
  • His debut album Are You Experienced? (along with it's follow up Electric Ladyland) is routinely at the top of any Greatest Album lists.
• Covered Up: "Hey Joe" and "All Along the Watchtower", even by the original artist. Bob Dylan plays it like Jimi Hendrix out of respect.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff (when he was becoming popular in England, he was virtually unknown in the United States)
• Epic Riff: "Purple Haze", "Fire," "Foxey Lady"... Let's start over. Every song he does has an Epic Riff.
• Face of the Band: Even though he himself always thought that Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding were just as important to the Experience's sound.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The last verse of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", the last song on his last studio album, ends with:

If I don't meet you no more in this world
I'll meet you in the next one, and don't be late
Don't be late!

• • "The Ballad of Jimi" - a notorious song from 1965 in which Hendrix mourned himself for his death in five years. It went from weird to totally creepy when the prediction came true.
• Memetic Outfit: The 'fro and headband.
  • Afro Samurai has the same Afro/Headband hairstyle.
  • Teal'c wore it as a disguise in The Sixties in a Time Travel episode of Stargate SG-1.
  • Jojo, a character inspired by Hendrix, wears it in Across the Universe.
  • The Demoman, yeh great lactatin' wet nurse!
  • Those sequined outfits that Randy "Macho Man" Savage wore were made by the guy who designed them for Hendrix.
  • The Victorian-era military jacket he often wore is easily recognizable.
• Never Live It Down: He only burned a guitar on stage three times (though he did smash guitars a bit more often). Whenever he appears in the media you'll more than likely see him doing it though.
• Too Cool to Live
• Vindicated by History: Somewhat. While he mostly expanded on what other guitarists were doing at the time, his combining those elements with his own sharp songwriting did make him quite popular in his day. His death, though, pushed him well past "quite popular" into "rock legend."