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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 full of milestones of 1 kind or any other. So what "facts" allow us to check this out unique character more clearly? Jimi Hendrix was created on November 27, 1942 in Seattle. A household friend sold him an inexpensive electric guitar as he was fifteen years old. There after he spent almost all his waking hours practicing the guitar. He paid attention to records by B.B. King and Muddy Waters, and imitated what he heard. He reached know another guitar lessons and learned from them.
Following a short stint within the army where he met fellow musician, Billy Cox, Jimi moved to Clarksville, Tennessee and formed a band. Right from the start the outrageous Jimi Hendrix persona found the fore with Hendrix learning to play the guitar together with his teeth in imitation of other guitarists he'd related to throughout his short career. Following a difficult 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 attached to. The song was "Hey Joe" and Chandler liked the way in which Jimi Hendrix played it. So much so that he assisted Jimi in moving to London and helped him to enlist English bass player Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell as members of his new group, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. At this time Hendrix met and jammed with Eric Clapton during an appearance together with his new band, Cream. Because he became more well-known in London The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones became fans of his music.
Later that year, Jimi recorded "Hey Joe" as his first single using the Jimi Hendrix Experience, followed by "Stone Free", "Purple Haze" and "The Wind Cries Mary" (all Hendrix compositions). In March 1967 Jimi set his guitar alight on stage at the end of his act as part of a tour by The Walker Brothers. In May 1967 the audience released their first LP, "Are You Experienced" which reached number two in England behind The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
In June 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix got the chance to present his flamboyant stage persona and individualistic playing guitar to audiences in the usa in the Monterey Pop Festival. It was here that he became known internationally because 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 launched in December 1967 and featured the wah-wah pedal as well as other electronic effects. "Electric Ladyland" was launched in 1968 and included "All Along The Watchtower", a song written and originally recorded by Bob Dylan being an acoustic number, and "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)". Additionally, it featured Jimi on bass as Noel Redding was involved in separating himself from The Experience in those days.
In August 1969 Jimi Hendrix was the primary act in the Woodstock festival. He played for two hours and ended the set together 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 at 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 his vomit. He had drunk a large amount of red wine and, according to his friend Monika Dannemann, he had also taken sleep aids.