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, . . .
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. He then enlisted himself in the Army as a parachute jumper, but an injury led to discharge. In the summer of ‘69 he played at woodstock. 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. He then became a session guitarist known as Jimmy James. 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. He taught himself to play in his school boy days.
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