"He would have embraced rap and hip-hop because he absorbed music like a sponge. It would have become part of what he created": What Jimi Hendrix means to me, by Eddie Kramer

Jimi Hendrix onstage and (inset) Eddie Kramer.

Producer and engineer Eddie Kramer has worked with the likes of Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, the Kinks and Kiss, but his name will be forever closely associated with Jimi Hendrix. Kramer worked on all three Jimi Hendrix Experience albums, as well as the live Band of Gypsys, and has curated much of the Hendrix music released since the guitarist's death in 1970. 

We asked him: What does Jimi Hendrix. mean to you?