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I wonder if that's because those are two different questions. Who's the most influential guitarist vs. who's the better guitarist.</i
You may have misunderstood my point, which is the point you repeated. Jimi changed the way the guitar is played. SRV plays guitar the way he does and it's based on Hendrix. Even after you explain to them that Hendrix pioneered many sounds - distortion, fuzz tone, psychedelics,etc., they will continue to insist that that SRV is more influential and the better guitarist. Somehow they are not able to understand that there was a difference in the music that Jimi made that changed music. SRV was a very good technical guitarist and you see his guitar creativity best on his posthumous Little Wing (even gets a little jazzy).
Jimi was a blues guitarist first. He legendarily killed God (Eric Clapton) by playing a supercharged version of Howlin Wolf's 'The Killing Floor' on stage after being invited up by Eric Clapton. Eric couldn't play that song (but if you listen to that song, you'll wonder why, because Eric was goood).
If you've ever seen Guitar Shorty, you'll recognize Jimi. He taught some things to Jimi.
But some Texans don't like Jimi or any of the other good black guitar players and are happy that SRV is white, sadly. Jimi beats SRV at creativity too. SRV wrote mediocre songs in collaboration with his band. Jimi was creative with good songs and revolutionized the way the guitar is played in just four years.
