And then, as you're probably aware, the Strat started to become more popular thanks to a certain Mr Hendrix. |
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This band was too plodding, to uninventive to draw Hendrix out of his depressed shell. |
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For us Joe Schmoes, there's Guitar Hero, the most rockin'est thing to hit both sides of the Mississippi since Jimi Hendrix. |
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Mr. Branton had been bad-mouthing me for years and had alleged that I had no rights to any Jimi Hendrix recordings. |
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Really, is there any point to covering a song Hendrix covered near-perfectly? |
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Winterland, a little CD released in the mid-80's and since having fallen under the radar, is one of the purest pleasures in the Hendrix catalog. |
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Neil Young says Jansch did for the acoustic guitar what Jimi Hendrix did for the electric guitar. |
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A Fender Stratocaster played by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock is believed to have sold for much more but that was in a private sale. |
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Maybe put something cool off to the side like Hendrix or Marley or a peace sign or something. |
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It's mind-boggling to think that, a mere four years before, Hendrix had been a luckless session player. |
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Squire may experiment with Hendrix and Marr but his heart favours trippy, psychedelic guitars. |
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Hendrix tried to prepare for the inevitable by purchasing rental property to generate another source of income. |
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Well, in the 60s and 70s I was doing medicine shows when people my age were listening to Jimi Hendrix. |
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The song features special backing vocals from Hendrix and the addition of Al Kooper on piano. |
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His relaxed guitar style harks back to the Hendrix of Electric Lady Land. |
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Ask anyone who is cashing checks earned by Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, or Tupac if you have any doubts about that. |
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Choosing to strike while the iron was hot, Future announced his followup to Pluto, Future Hendrix, right away. |
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This jacket is so cool that the cow it was made from was probably smoking a joint and listening to Hendrix while the rest of the herd was in the milking shed. |
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Hendrix knows how to make a film fan squee with joy with a synopsis. |
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When the astrologer came to my campus, I was among thousands of students who filled the field house to hear her lecture, a crowd worthy of Hendrix. |
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During a performance, Linda Keith, the girlfriend of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, noticed Hendrix. |
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Chandler also convinced Hendrix to change the spelling of his first name from Jimmy to the exotic looking Jimi. |
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Thus, the Jimi Hendrix Experience performed their very first show on October 13, 1966, at the Novelty in Evreux. |
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On June 4, 1967, Hendrix opened a show at the Saville Theatre in London with his rendition of Sgt. |
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The set ended with Hendrix destroying his guitar and tossing pieces of it out to the audience. |
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When Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival he created one of rock's most perfect moments. |
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Caraeff had never seen Hendrix before nor heard his music, but he had a camera with him and there was one shot left in his roll of film. |
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Caraeff stood on a chair next to the edge of the stage while taking a series of four monochrome pictures of Hendrix burning his guitar. |
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Chandler later admitted that he engineered the tour in an effort to gain publicity for Hendrix. |
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Yet unlike my era's greatest Afrindian brave, Jimi Hendrix, I have more often than not been an armchair gypsy, the Ezy Rider of interiors. |
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During the previous month's European tour, interpersonal relations within the group had deteriorated, particularly between Hendrix and Redding. |
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Manager Michael Jeffery arranged the accommodations in the hope that the respite might encourage Hendrix to write material for a new album. |
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A legal dispute arose in 1966 regarding a record contract that Hendrix had entered into the previous year with producer Ed Chalpin. |
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Hendrix decided that they would record the LP, Band of Gypsys, during two live appearances. |
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They used recordings of these concerts to assemble the LP, which was produced by Hendrix. |
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Both Miles and Redding later stated that Jeffery had given Hendrix LSD before the performance. |
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In 1968, Hendrix and Jeffery jointly invested in the purchase of the Generation Club in Greenwich Village. |
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Architect and acoustician John Storyk designed Electric Lady Studios for Hendrix, who requested that they avoid right angles where possible. |
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During the verses, Hendrix doubled his singing with a guitar line which he played one octave lower than his vocals. |
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Mayer made over a dozen fuzz boxes for Hendrix, using several different designs customized to the sound Hendrix wanted. |
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In 1970, the festival headlined by Jimi Hendrix attracted an audience of 700,000, seven times the local population at the time. |
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Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Jeff Beck Group. |
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Hendrix was also on the bill, and was also going to smash his guitar on stage. |
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Like their contemporaries, the group were influenced by the arrival of Hendrix, particularly after the Who and the Experience met at Monterey. |
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Key acts included British Invasion bands like the Kinks, as well as psychedelic era performers like Cream, Jimi Hendrix and the Jeff Beck Group. |
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Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and roll and electric blues. |
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Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. |
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In 1946, Johnny's parents changed his name to James Marshall Hendrix, in honor of Al and his late brother Leon Marshall. |
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The violence sometimes drove Hendrix to withdraw and hide in a closet in their home. |
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In 1958, Hendrix completed his studies at Washington Junior High School and began attending, but did not graduate from, Garfield High School. |
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Soon after he acquired the acoustic guitar, Hendrix formed his first band, the Velvetones. |
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Before Hendrix was 19 years old, law enforcement authorities had twice caught him riding in stolen cars. |
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It is my opinion that Private Hendrix will never come up to the standards required of a soldier. |
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Soon afterward, Hendrix joined Little Richard's touring band, the Upsetters. |
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Hendrix played guitar on both tracks, which also included background vocals by Lee. |
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In July 1965, on Nashville's Channel 5 Night Train, Hendrix made his first television appearance. |
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The video recording of the show marks the earliest known footage of Hendrix performing. |
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Richard and Hendrix often clashed over tardiness, wardrobe, and Hendrix's stage antics, and in late July, Richard's brother Robert fired him. |
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Hendrix would often become angry and violent when he drank too much alcohol or when he mixed alcohol with drugs. |
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For the Crown to prove possession they had to show that Hendrix knew the drugs were there. |
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Dannemann later revealed that Hendrix had taken nine of her prescribed Vesparax sleeping tablets, 18 times the recommended dosage. |
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Under a settlement reached in July 1995, Al Hendrix prevailed in his legal battle and regained control of his son's song and image rights. |
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Hendrix played a variety of guitars throughout his career, but the instrument that became most associated with him was the Fender Stratocaster. |
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Years earlier, Mitch Mitchell had taken drum lessons from the amp builder, Jim Marshall, and he introduced Hendrix to Marshall. |
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Hendrix usually turned all of the amplifier's control knobs to the maximum level, which became known as the Hendrix setting. |
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Hendrix was fascinated by Zappa's application of the pedal, and he experimented with one later that evening. |
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As an adolescent during the 1950s, Hendrix became interested in rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry. |
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Hendrix expanded the range and vocabulary of the electric guitar into areas no musician had ever ventured before. |
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More than 40 years after his death, Hendrix remains as popular as ever, with annual album sales exceeding that of any year during his lifetime. |
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Miles Davis was deeply impressed by Hendrix, and he compared Hendrix's improvisational abilities with those of saxophonist John Coltrane. |
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Hendrix received several prestigious rock music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. |
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A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was dedicated to Hendrix on November 14, 1991, at 6627 Hollywood Boulevard. |
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In 1999, readers of Rolling Stone and Guitar World ranked Hendrix among the most important musicians of the 20th century. |
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A memorial statue of Hendrix playing a Stratocaster stands near the corner of Broadway and Pine Streets in Seattle. |
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In May 2006, the city renamed a park near its Central District Jimi Hendrix Park, in his honor. |
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Wife Pippa, a singer who competed in the BBC's Fame Academy talent show, named their baby after legendry rock star Jimi Hendrix. |
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The next hurdle was licensing the music from the Hendrix estate. |
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We listened to Hendrix and Bob Dylan and The Beatles growing up. |
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It's got the power, catchiness and even if you can't play like Hendrix you can always join in on the kazoo. |
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Hendrix had watched Butch Snipes play with his teeth in Seattle and by now Alphonso 'Baby Boo' Young, the other guitarist in the band, was performing this guitar gimmick. |
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Hendrix later spoke of his dislike of the army and falsely stated that he had received a medical discharge after breaking his ankle during his 26th parachute jump. |
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On September 16, Hendrix performed in public for the last time during an informal jam at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in Soho with Eric Burdon and his latest band, War. |
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When the European leg of the Cry of Love tour began, Hendrix was longing for his new studio and creative outlet, and was not eager to fulfill the commitment. |
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Although Hendrix, Mitchell, and Redding were interviewed by Rolling Stone in February 1970 as a united group, Hendrix never intended to work with Redding. |
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Miles believed that Jeffery gave Hendrix the drugs in an effort to sabotage the current band and bring about the return of the original Experience lineup. |
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After two years of litigation, the parties agreed to a resolution that granted Chalpin the distribution rights to an album of original Hendrix material. |
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Born in Kosova but raised in West London, whiskey-drinking Rita has made the legendary 60s hangout of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix a home from home. |
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Hendrix had to restring his right-handedguitar the other way round. |
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When Al was away, Hendrix was mostly cared for by family members and friends, especially Lucille's sister Delores Hall and her friend Dorothy Harding. |
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By the time of their set, Hendrix had been awake for more than three days. |
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He tripled in the first and scored on a safety squeeze from Hendrix. |
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The scheduled release date for Axis was almost delayed when Hendrix lost the master tape of side one of the LP, leaving it in the back seat of a London taxi. |
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Townshend verbally abused Hendrix and accused him of stealing his act, and the pair argued about who should go on stage first, with the Who winning the argument. |
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Before that, Hendrix had only sporadically used drugs, with his experimentation limited to cannabis, hashish, amphetamines and occasionally cocaine. |
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Jimi Hendrix, who rose to prominence in the London scene and recorded with a band of English musicians, initiated the trend towards virtuosity in rock music. |
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The incident proved stressful for Hendrix, and it weighed heavily on his mind during the seven months that he awaited trial, which took place in December of that year. |
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They requested Hendrix as a supporting act because they were fans, but their young audience disliked the Experience, who left the tour after six shows. |
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Thurston completed the inquest on September 28, and concluded that Hendrix aspirated his own vomit and died of asphyxia while intoxicated with barbiturates. |
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Looking like clean-cut college boys, their sound reminds of Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Santana and any number of West Coast garage bands, often in the space of one song. |
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On March 31, 1967, while the Experience waited to perform at the London Astoria, Hendrix and Chandler discussed ways in which they could increase the band's media exposure. |
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Legacy and Experience Hendrix launched the 2010 Jimi Hendrix Catalog Project, starting with the release of Valleys of Neptune in March of that year. |
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On September 30, Chandler brought Hendrix to the London Polytechnic at Regent Street, where Cream was scheduled to perform, and where Hendrix and Eric Clapton met. |
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Hendrix, a private college, owns the 95-acre mixed-use development The Village at Hendrix and the nature preserve adjacent to The Village's shops and homes. |
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Following Hendrix's arrival in London, Chandler began recruiting members for a band designed to highlight the guitarist's talents, the Jimi Hendrix Experience. |
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While he was playing with Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, Keith recommended Hendrix to Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham and producer Seymour Stein. |
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Hendrix consistently used a Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face and a Vox wah pedal during recording sessions and live performances, but he also experimented with other guitar effects. |
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Market Square, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of the year, is in The Village at Hendrix, a new urbanist neighborhood adjacent to Hendrix College. |
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Even the geekiest bloke secretly wants to be Jimi Hendrix performing in front of 10,000 screaming teenage girls and chucking TVs out of hotel windows. |
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The Blue Flames played at several clubs in New York and Hendrix began developing his guitar style and material that he would soon use with the Experience. |
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Her second studio album ranges from a nine-minute bonus cover of Hendrix hell-raiser Machine Gun to the stripped-back country blues adorning Ballad Of An Outlaw Woman. |
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Hendrix toured with the Isleys during much of 1964, but near the end of October, after growing tired of playing the same set every night, he left the band. |
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They ranked Hendrix number one on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, and number six on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. |
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Mick, who has welcomed thousands of Hendrix idolisers to his shop in the last 31 years, has had plenty of time to reflect on the left-hander's technique. |
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In January 1964, feeling he had outgrown the circuit artistically, and frustrated by having to follow the rules of bandleaders, Hendrix decided to venture out on his own. |
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