Jimi Hendrix
Acting
- Born:
- 1942-11-27
- Died:
- 1970-09-18
- Place of birth:
- Seattle, Washington, USA
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC
Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision
The Beach Boys
Louder Than Rock
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
McCartney 3, 2, 1
This Is Pop
Zappa
70 Years of Youth Revolt
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live in Maui
Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
The UnXplained
The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix: Trapped in Amber
At Last...The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
27: Gone Too Soon
The Top Ten Revealed
Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock At The BBC
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church
Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
Jimi Hendrix: Metropolis ARTE
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions
Are You Experienced: An Inside Look
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape
Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey
Seven Ages of Rock
Jimi Hendrix: American Landing
Jimi Hendrix: Feedback
Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock Definitive Collection
Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story
Rockthology 2
Jimi Hendrix: The Last 24 Hours
Jimi Plays Berkeley
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight
It's Black Entertainment
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
Hendrix: Band of Gypsys
Classic Albums
Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees
Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
TOTP2
Woodstock Diary
Dusty
Jimi Hendrix - On the Road - Ultimate Experience Live!
Zakk Wylde: House of Guitars 1993
Commercial Entertainment Product
Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira
Jimi Plays Monterey
Video from Hell
Superstars in Concert
When the Music's Over
The South Bank Show
The Abyss
The Day the Music Died
Jimi Hendrix
Sound of the City: London 1964-73
Rainbow Bridge
Dynamite Chicken
Participation
Isle of Wight: Gegengesellschaft Oder Festival-Ramsch?
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert
Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Isle of Wight
Woodstock
Popcorn
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
Jimi Hendrix: Room Full of Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Sweden
Jimi Hendrix Live in Stockholm 1969
Monterey Pop
All My Loving
The Dick Cavett Show
It Must Be Dusty
Wake at Generation
Psych-Out
Jimi Hendrix: Experience
Omnibus
Dee Time
Beat-Club
Dim Dam Dom
Ready Steady Go!
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