(’11 june 1967′)
(performing on dutch television show ‘hoepla’)
‘age 24’
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*born johnny allen hendrix*
(’27 november 1942′ – ’18 september 1970′)
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(“james marshall “jimi” hendrix” was an american ‘rock guitarist’, ‘singer’, and ‘songwriter’)
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(although his mainstream career spanned only 4 years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century)
(the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’ describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music”)
(born in Seattle, Washington, Hendrix began playing guitar at the age of 15)
(in 1961, he enlisted in the U.S. Army and trained as a paratrooper in the 101st Airborne Division; he was granted an honorable discharge the following year)
(soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the ‘Chitlin’ Circuit’, earning a place in the Isley Brothers’ backing band and later with ‘Little Richard’, with whom he continued to work through mid-1965)
(he then played with ‘Curtis Knight and the Squires’ before moving to England in late 1966 after being discovered by ‘Linda Keith’, who in turn interested bassist ‘Chas Chandler’ of the ‘Animals’ in becoming his first manager)
(within months, Hendrix had earned three UK ‘top ten’ hits with the ‘Jimi Hendrix Experience’: “Hey Joe”, “Purple Haze”, and “The Wind Cries Mary”)
(he achieved fame in the U.S. after his performance at the ‘Monterey Pop Festival’ in 1967, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland, reached #1 in the U.S.; it was Hendrix’s most commercially successful release and his first and only #1 album)
(the world’s highest-paid performer, he headlined the ‘Woodstock Festival’ in 1969 and the ‘Isle of Wight Festival’ in 1970 before his accidental death from ‘barbiturate-related asphyxia’ on 18 september 1970, at the age of 27)
(the beatles had already broken up)
(‘Hendrix’ was inspired musically by American rock and roll and ‘electric blues’)
(he favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback)
(he helped to popularize the use of a ‘wah-wah pedal’ in mainstream rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing effects in music recordings)
(‘Holly George-Warren’ of Rolling Stone commented: “Hendrix pioneered the use of the instrument as an electronic sound source. Players before him had experimented with feedback and distortion, but Hendrix turned those effects and others into a controlled, fluid vocabulary every bit as personal as the blues with which he began”)
(‘Hendrix’ was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously)
(in 1967, readers of Melody Maker voted him the ‘Pop Musician of the Year’, and in 1968, Rolling Stone declared him the ‘Performer of the Year’)
(‘Disc and Music Echo’ honored him with the ‘World Top Musician’ of 1969 and in 1970, Guitar Player named him the ‘Rock Guitarist of the Year’)
(‘The Jimi Hendrix Experience’ was inducted into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’ in 1992 and the ‘UK Music Hall of Fame’ in 2005)
(“rolling stone” ranked the band’s 3 studio albums, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and Electric Ladyland, among the 100 greatest albums of all time, and they ranked ‘hendrix’ as the greatest guitarist and the 6th greatest artist of all time)
JAMES MARSHALL HENDRIX
jimi hendrix was a musician of my old man’s generation…when i was 13 years old, “popular music” had already gone to shit…so i decided to make music on my own…
the guitar solo on “red house” (a typical 12-bar blues) made me want to master the lead guitar…
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*september 2013*
i watched joseph conroy and karstin rehearse and they invited me to sing a cover of the jimi hendrix tune “red house”…
(i think i pulled it off reasonably ‘well’…)
(even though we had no ‘drums’…)
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