NEW YORK - The legendary musician Jimi Hendrix was named the greatest guitar player of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, Wednesday, November 23, 2011. Hendrix was chosen an expert panel that contains the music and the world's top guitar players.

"Jimi Hendrix rocked our awareness of how should an exposed rock. He manipulated guitar, whammy bar, studio, and onstage," said Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello at Rolling Stone. Morello called the Purple Haze and The Star-Spangled Banner as the ultimate Hendrix song.

Hendrix followed Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend and the list of 10 greatest version of the Rolling Stone guitarist. The list was crowded with icons of rock 'n' rolls for decades. Panel of judges who choose the list also included such seasoned musician Lenny Kravitz, Eddie Van Halen (who also entered the list at number 8), Brian May, and And Auerbach of The Black Keys. Besides them, the judging panel also includes the senior author and editor of Rolling Stone.

A full list of the greatest guitarists will appear in a special issue of Rolling Stone with four special cover of Van Halen, Clapton, Hendrix, and Hendrix Page.Nama flying after performing appallingly while burning his guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. He is known to have an incredible ability and creating experimental sounds from his guitar. Hendrix died in London on 18 September 1970.

Here is a list of 10 greatest guitarists version of Rolling Stone:
1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Eric Clapton
3. Jimmy Page
4. Keith Richards
5. Jeff Beck
6. B.B. king
7. Chuck Berry
8. Eddie Van Halen
9. Duane Allman
10. Pete Townshend