Jimi Hendrix

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Born: November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970
From: Seattle, Washington, USA
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James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of all time. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 as a part of his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the institution describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Hendrix began playing guitar at age 15. In 1961, he enlisted in the US Army, but was discharged the following year. Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, then Nashville, 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. Hendrix moved to England in late 1966, after bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals became his manager. Within months, he had formed his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience (with its rhythm section consisting of bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell), and achieved three UK top ten hits: "Hey Joe", "Purple Haze", and "The Wind Cries Mary". He achieved fame in the US after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. His third and final studio album, Electric Ladyland (1968), became his most commercially successful release and his only number one album on the US Billboard 200 chart. The world's highest-paid rock musician, Hendrix headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. He died in London from barbiturate-related asphyxia in September 1970, at the age of 27. Hendrix was inspired by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier feedback. He was also one of the first guitarists to make extensive use of tone-altering effects units in mainstream rock, such as fuzz distortion, Octavia, wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe. He was the first musician to use stereophonic phasing effects in 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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jimi Hendrix, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

82 films

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

20226.5

Dusty

19948.0

Woodstock

19707.5

The Beach Boys

20246.6

Zappa

20207.3

Psych-Out

19685.0

Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars

20187.2

Dynamite Chicken

19715.5

It's Black Entertainment

20028.7

Commercial Entertainment Product

19928.7

Rockthology 2

2004

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'

20137.5

Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In

2000

Jimi

2026

Rainbow Bridge

19727.3

The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts

20097.9

Jimi Plays Monterey

19877.5

27: Gone Too Soon

20185.8

Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal

2019

Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees

19978.4

Monterey Pop

19687.3

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live in Maui

20208.3

Jimi Hendrix

19737.7

John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly

20149.5

Jimi Hendrix: The Last 24 Hours

20048.5

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church

20157.4

Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision

20247.2

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey

20078.5

Jimi Plays Berkeley

20036.6

Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall

20146.5

Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui

20206.5

Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock Definitive Collection

20058.0

Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker

20059.5

Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland

20087.9

Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Isle of Wight

1970

All My Loving

19686.5

Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock

19998.0

Superstars in Concert

1984

Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies

20104.0

Sound of the City: London 1964-73

19737.0

Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert

1970

Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival

19966.8

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969

2022

Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited

2014

Jimi Hendrix and The Blues

2001

Jimi Hendrix: Experience

19686.0

The Day the Music Died

19778.0

Popcorn

19697.3

Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child

20107.4

40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC

20248.2

Are You Experienced

2010

Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight

19966.5

Jimi Hendrix: Metropolis ARTE

201010.0

When the Music's Over

1983

Woodstock Diary

19948.5

The Abyss

19777.5

Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show

19698.0

Louder Than Rock

20234.0

Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock At The BBC

20156.0

At Last...The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland

2018

Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight

2002

Jimi Hendrix: Trapped in Amber

2019

Jimi Hendrix: Room Full of Hendrix

19698.0

Video from Hell

19877.3

Hendrix: Band of Gypsys

19997.2

Jimi Hendrix: Feedback

20056.0

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions

2010

Jimi Hendrix: American Landing

2007

Wake at Generation

1968

Zakk Wylde: House of Guitars 1993

1993

Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock

20147.5

Jimi Hendrix Live in Stockholm 1969

19697.0

Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition

2008

Lick Library Quick Licks Jimi Hendrix

202610.0

The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix

20198.0

Jimi Hendrix - On the Road - Ultimate Experience Live!

1994

Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story

20048.0

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall

1969

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Sweden

1969

Isle of Wight: Gegengesellschaft Oder Festival-Ramsch?

1970

Participation

1971

Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape

20083.0