Jimi Hendrix
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."
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Fotos
Películas (83)
40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision
2024 · Self (archive footage)
The Beach Boys
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Song to Woody: Greenwich Village, the Folk Revival, and Bob Dylan
2024 · Music
Louder Than Rock
2023 · Self (archive footage)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Zappa
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live in Maui
2020 · Self
Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui
2020 · Self (archival footage)
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
2019 · Self (Archive Footage)
The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix: Trapped in Amber
2019 · Self
At Last...The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland
2018 · Self
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018 · Self (archive footage)
27: Gone Too Soon
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock At The BBC
2015 · Self
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall
2014 · Self
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
2014 · Self
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
2014 · Self
Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock
2014 · Self
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013 · Self - Musician (archive footage)
Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies
2010 · archive footage
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
2010 · Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Jimi Hendrix: Metropolis ARTE
2010 · Self
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions
2010 · Self
Are You Experienced: An Inside Look
2010 · Self
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
2008 · Self, Music
Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition
2008 · Self (archive footage)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey
2007 · Self - Guitar, Writer
Jimi Hendrix: American Landing
2007 · Self
Jimi Hendrix: Feedback
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock Definitive Collection
2005 · Self - Guitar / Self - Vocals
Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
2005 · Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story
2004 · Self
Rockthology 2
2004 · Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix: The Last 24 Hours
2004 · Self
Jimi Plays Berkeley
2003 · Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight
2002 · Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals
It's Black Entertainment
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
2001 · Self
Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In
2000 · Self
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
1999 · Self - Guitar, Lead Vocals, Writer
Hendrix: Band of Gypsys
1999 · Self
Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight
1996 · Self
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
1996 · Self
Woodstock Diary
1994 · Self
Dusty
1994 · Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix - On the Road - Ultimate Experience Live!
1994 · Self
Zakk Wylde: House of Guitars 1993
1993 · Self
Commercial Entertainment Product
1992 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Jimi Plays Monterey
1987 · Self (archive footage)
Video from Hell
1987 · Self (archive footage)
Superstars in Concert
1984 · Self
When the Music's Over
1983 · Self (archive footage)
The Abyss
1977 · Self (archive footage)
The Day the Music Died
1977 · Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix
1973 · Self (archive footage)
Sound of the City: London 1964-73
1973 · Self
Rainbow Bridge
1972 · Self
Dynamite Chicken
1971 · Self (archive footage)
Participation
1971 · Self (archive footage)
Isle of Wight: Gegengesellschaft Oder Festival-Ramsch?
1970 · Self
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert
1970 · Self
Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Isle of Wight
1970 · Self - Vocals, Guitar
Woodstock
1970 · Self
Popcorn
1969 · Self
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969 · Self
Jimi Hendrix: Room Full of Hendrix
1969 · Self
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall
1969 · Self (Guitar and Vocals)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Sweden
1969 · Self
Jimi Hendrix Live in Stockholm 1969
1969 · Self
Monterey Pop
1968 · Self
All My Loving
1968 · Self
Wake at Generation
1968 · Self
Psych-Out
1968 · Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix: Experience
1968 · Self
Lick Library Quick Licks Jimi Hendrix
· Self (archive footage)
Jimi
· Self (archive footage)
State of Being
· Music
Series (18)
McCartney 3, 2, 1
2021 · Self (archive footage)
This Is Pop
2021 · Self (archive footage)
70 Years of Youth Revolt
2020 · Self (archive footage)
The UnXplained
2019 · Self (archive footage)
The Top Ten Revealed
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Number One!
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Seven Ages of Rock
2007 · Self
Classic Albums
1997 · Self (archive footage)
TOTP2
1994 · Self (archive footage)
Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira
1989 · Himself
The South Bank Show
1978
The Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
It Must Be Dusty
1968
Omnibus
1967 · Self
Dee Time
1967
Beat-Club
1965
Dim Dam Dom
1965 · Self
Ready Steady Go!
1963 · Self