SRV was an original guitarist in his own right, but he often acknowledged the influence Hendrix had on his style. Just listen to his cover of "Voodoo Chile" and it's obvious. In the early days of his career, a common criticism levelled at him was that he was just another in a long line of Hendrix copycats. He grew out of that stigma, but it's apparent that Stevie himself had no qualms about copying another's style to the extent that if the listener didn't know better, he'd almost swear that they'd resurrected some old Hendrix outtakes that had been squirrelled away in a vault somewhere. Vaughan especially liked the way Hendrix would finish off his sonic leads with a few bars of funkadelic rhythm/lead, as at the end of the "All Along The Watch Tower" solo, and he built the title track to "Couldn't Stand The Weather" around that device. Maybe his ability to sound like Hendrix was what initially launched him out of the clubs and into the big leagues.