Jimmy Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix lived his life as a Musician,
Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter. He
also pioneered the electric guitar, a
right handed Fender Strat, upside-down and
left-handed. He was one of the
most original and influential people of all time.
James Marshall Hendrix
was born November 27, 1942 in Seattle, Washington. He
taught himself to play
in his school boy days. He then enlisted himself in the
Army as a
parachute jumper, but an injury led to discharge. He then became a
session
guitarist known as Jimmy James. After gigging with Little Richard
in
1964, he got entangled in a contract dispute and left to form his own
band,
Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. One night at a New York club, Chas
Chandler
encountered him and in the fall of 1966, took him to London. After
Making
several albums including; Axis: Bold as Love and Electric Ladyland,
Hendrix and
bassist Redding grew apart and intoxicated by over-indulgence in
drugs, Hendrix
thought that Management was cheating him. In 1969 the
Experience disbanded. In
the summer of ‘69 he played at woodstock. He later
formed the Band of Gypsies,
and started a double album in the mid-1970’s, but
was never finished when he
died September 18, 1970, due to inhalation of
vomit after
barbiturate
intoxication