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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 t…
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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.
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40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC
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Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision
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The Beach Boys
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Louder Than Rock
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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Zappa
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Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui
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Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live in Maui
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Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
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The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix
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Jimi Hendrix: Trapped in Amber
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At Last...The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland
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Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
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27: Gone Too Soon
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Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock At The BBC
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church
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Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall
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Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
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John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
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Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock
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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
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Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies
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Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
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Jimi Hendrix: Metropolis ARTE
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions
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Are You Experienced: An Inside Look
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The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
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Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
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Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape
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Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey
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Jimi Hendrix: American Landing
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Jimi Hendrix: Feedback
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Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock Definitive Collection
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Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
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Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story
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Rockthology 2
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Jimi Hendrix: The Last 24 Hours
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Jimi Plays Berkeley
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Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight
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It's Black Entertainment
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Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
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Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In
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Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
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Hendrix: Band of Gypsys
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Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees
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Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight
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Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
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Woodstock Diary
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Dusty
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Jimi Hendrix - On the Road - Ultimate Experience Live!
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Zakk Wylde: House of Guitars 1993
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Commercial Entertainment Product
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Jimi Plays Monterey
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Video from Hell
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Superstars in Concert
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When the Music's Over
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The Abyss
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The Day the Music Died
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Jimi Hendrix
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Sound of the City: London 1964-73
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Rainbow Bridge
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Dynamite Chicken
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Participation
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Isle of Wight: Gegengesellschaft Oder Festival-Ramsch?
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Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert
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Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Isle of Wight
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Woodstock
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Popcorn
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Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
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Jimi Hendrix: Room Full of Hendrix
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall
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Jimi Hendrix Live in Stockholm 1969
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Sweden
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Monterey Pop
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All My Loving
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Wake at Generation
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Psych-Out
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Jimi Hendrix: Experience
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Jimi
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Lick Library Quick Licks Jimi Hendrix
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