JIMI HENDRIX was totally adept and masterful in playing in the following guitar styles-
1.Soul
2.Blues
3.Blues/Rock
4.R&B
5.Rock
6.Funk
7.Jazz
8.Long improvisation in Rock & Jazz
9.Acid-Rock
10.acoustic country blues
From about 1962 onwards JIMI HENDRIX was on the road playing with loads of R&B artist's on the 'chittlin circuit' backing up guy's such as LITTLE RICHARD, THE ISLEY BROTHERS, CURTIS KNIGHT and many other artist's gainning 'valuable experience' as a working musician before he was 'dicovered' in New York in 1966.
Randy was playing guitar from sometime during the 1970s and he had developed a neo-classical style of 'guitar shredding' for the 1980s and as good as Randy was and he was good he didn't have the broad depth of Jimi's guitar/musical skills at the time of his untimely death which was a sad lost to Randy as a person and to the rock world as a whole that he died so young.
Thats the way that i look at it other's would probably look at it differently nodoubt?.