FLOW Videos : Jimi Hendrix - 2008

American guitarist (1942–1970) hatnote group| distinguish|Jimmy Hendriks|Jimmy Hendricks (murder victim) |the film|Jimi Hendrix (film)!''Jimi Hendrix'' (film)|the song|Jimi Hendrix (song) Redirect|Hendrix pp|small=yes pp-move Use American English February 2013 Use mdy dates September 2024 Infobox musical artist | image = Jimi_Hendrix_cropped.jpg | alt = | caption = Hendrix on stage at Gröna Lund in June 1967 | birth_name = Johnny Allen Hendrix | alias = James Marshall Hendrix | birth_date = birth date|1942/11/27 | birth_place = Seattle, Washington, US | death_date = death date and age|1970/9/18|1942/11/27 | death_place = London, England | genre = hlist|Rock music|Rock|Psychedelic music|psychedelia|blues|Rhythm and blues|R&B | occupations = hlist|Musician|songwriter|singer | instruments = hlist|Guitar|vocals | years_active = 1962–1970 | label = hlist|Sue Records|Sue|PPX (record company)|PPX|RSVP|Track Records|Track|Barclay (record label)|Barclay|Polydor Records|Polydor|Reprise Records|Reprise|Capitol Records|Capitol | past_member_of = hlist|Curtis Knight and the Squires|Jimmy James and the Blue Flames|The Jimi Hendrix Experience|Band of Gypsys | website = URL|jimihendrix.com | module = Infobox person|child=yes | signature = Hendrix.svg ''James Marshall'' "''Jimi''" ''Hendrix'' (born ''Johnny Allen Hendrix''; November 27, 1942sndSeptember 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer. He is widely regarded as the greatest guitarist in the history of popular music and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music."cite web Biography of the Jimi Hendrix Experience http://rockhall.com/inductees/the-jimi-hendrix-experience/bio/live https://web.archive.org/web/20130201174555/http://rockhall.com/inductees/the-jimi-hendrix-experience/bio/ February 1, 2013 February 25, 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Born in Seattle, Washington, 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, Tennessee|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 before moving to England in late 1966 after bassist Chas Chandler of the Animals became his manager. Within months, Hendrix had earned three UK top ten hits with his band, the Jimi Hendrix Experience (with its rhythm section consisting of bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell): "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, and in 1968 his third and final studio album, ''Electric Ladyland'', reached number one on the US Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200. The double LP was Hendrix's most commercially successful release and his only number one album. The world's highest-paid rock musician, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival 1970|Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before Death of Jimi Hendrix|his accidental death in London from barbiturate-related asphyxia in September 1970. Hendrix was inspired by American rock and roll and electric blues. He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume and Gain (electronics)|gain, and was instrumental in popularizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amplifier Audio feedback|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 (effects pedal)|Octavia, wah-wah pedal|wah-wah, and Uni-Vibe. He was the first musician to use stereophonic Phaser (effect)|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."sfn|George-Warren|2005|p=428 Hendrix was the recipient of several music awards during his lifetime and posthumously. In 1967, readers of ''Melody Maker'' voted him the Pop Musician of the Year and in 1968, ''Billboard (magazine)|Billboard'' named him the Artist of the Year and ''Rolling Stone'' declared him the Performer of the Year. ''Disc and Music Echo'' honored him with the World Top Musician of 1969 and in 1970, ''Guitar Player'' named him the Rock Guitarist of the Year. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. ''Rolling Stone'' has ranked the band's three studio albums, ''Are You Experienced'' (1967, ''Axis: Bold as Love'' (1967, and ''Electric Ladyland'' (1968, in its various lists of the "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time", and it ranked Hendrix as the greatest guitarist and the sixth-greatest artist of all time.Cite magazine October 13, 2023 The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-guitarists-1234814010/ October 14, 2023 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US
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