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The Jimi Hendrix Facts
Jimi Hendrix was this type of dominant presence within the late 1960's music scene his whole career was filled with milestones of one kind or any other. So what "facts" allow us to see this unique character more clearly? Jimi Hendrix was created on November 27, 1942 in Seattle. A household friend sold him an inexpensive acoustic guitar as he was fifteen years old. There after he spent just about all his waking hours practicing the guitar. He listened to records by B.B. King and Muddy Waters, and imitated what he heard. He got to know another guitar lessons and learned from them.
After a short stint within the army where he met fellow musician, Billy Cox, Jimi moved to Clarksville, Tennessee and formed a band. Immediately the outrageous Jimi Hendrix persona came to the fore with Hendrix learning to play your guitar together with his teeth in imitation of other guitarists he'd related to during his short career. After a hard time making a living in Ny, Hendrix joined the Isley Brothers band and went on tour where he was hired as part of Little Richard's backup band.
In 1966, former bassist with The Animals, Chas Chandler, was looking for a painter to carry out a song he'd become mounted on. The song was "Hey Joe" and Chandler liked the way in which Jimi Hendrix played it. So much so he assisted Jimi in moving to London and helped him to enlist English bass player Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell as people in his new group, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. At the moment Hendrix met and jammed with Eric Clapton throughout an appearance together with his new band, Cream. Because he became more well-known working in london The Beatles, The Who and also the Rolling Stones became fans of his music.
Later that year, Jimi recorded "Hey Joe" as his first single using the Jimi Hendrix Experience, then "Stone Free", "Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cries Mary" (all Hendrix compositions). In March 1967 Jimi set his guitar alight on stage after his act as part of an excursion through the Walker Brothers. In May 1967 the audience released their first LP, "Are You Experienced" which reached # 2 in England behind The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
In June 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix got the opportunity to present his flamboyant stage persona and individualistic guitar playing to audiences in the usa in the Monterey Pop Festival. It had been here he became known internationally as the guy who burns and smashes guitars on stage. The following month Jimi heard Frank Zappa using a wah-wah pedal and immediately incorporated it into his music.
"Axis: Bold As Love", Jimi's second album was released in December 1967 and featured the wah-wah pedal and various other electronic effects. "Electric Ladyland" was launched in 1968 and included "All Along The Watchtower", a song written and originally recorded by Bob Dylan as an acoustic number, and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". Additionally, it featured Jimi on bass as Noel Redding was engaged in separating himself from The Experience in those days.
In August 1969 Jimi Hendrix was the main act in the Woodstock festival. He played for 2 hours and ended the set with his famous rendition of Star Spangled Banner.
Jimi Hendrix gave his last concert at the Isle Of Fehman Festival in Germany on September 6, 1970. His final public appearance was in a jam session with Eric Burdon and War at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London.
Jimi Hendrix died on September 18, 1970 after drowning in the vomit. He'd drunk a large amount of dark wine and, according to uncle Monika Dannemann, he had also taken sleeping pills.
