“They’re kind of stuck to 30 seconds of being amazing for social media”: Joe Satriani explains the difference between online virtuosos and Jimi Hendrix – and says society isn’t giving players the chance to fully express themselves

Joe Satriani [left] plays his Chrome Boy Ibanez signature S-style on stage, and wears a black T-shirt and wraparound shades; JImi Hendrix [right] wears a bright patterned shirt and plays his Olympic White Fender Stratocaster onstage at Royal Albert Hall.

Joe Satriani was recently asked about his the records that changed his life and the way he looked at the electric guitar, and it was no surprise that he cited Jimi Hendrix.

But what he had to say about Hendrix was perhaps a lesson for us all, because Satch cautioned that today’s players were being failed by a society that isn’t giving them “the space to express themselves”.