Jimi Hendrix ("The God of Guitar")

Present era rock guitarist who seek eternal teacher or just looking the top game will only meet one person: Jimi Hendrix. Kepadanyalah, and from him alone, all the techniques that have now reconciled. Check out the published confessions of Guitar magazine (November 1997): "He was the greatest thing I've ever seen," said Stevie Ray Vaughn,. bluesyang guitarist died in a helicopter crash in 1990.

"Agrees, Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones guitar picker, stating that she" played a material that is very interesting concoction ". And Eric Clapton, one of the guitarist who in the 1970s dubbed the guitar god, Jimi was admitted with" I finally feel meetAnother person I can talk and play ".

This phenomenon is actually a paradox to the fact that Jimi was not there anymore.He died at St. Mary Abbot, London, for excessive swallowing drugs. That said, he deliberately took his own life (the messages and his statements before that, as quoted by S. Encyclopedia of Rock Stars, among others, in the form: "I've been dead a long time.")

However, if the notice is true, Jimi was the one who "discovered" almost all the possibilities of exploration to play guitar. At the time, when the sound is still very limited accessories, he has played perfectly wah and distortion - which then become the foundation of rock 'n roll in the days afterward. He even equip themselves with acrobatic moves, such as picking the strings with his teeth.

Born on November 27, 1942 in Seattle, United States, under the name Johnny Allen Hendrix, Jimi paying attention to music, especially guitar, since childhood. Guitar hero on those days, like B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Holly, and Robert Johnson, became his idol. The first guitar, acoustic type, obtained from his father in the summer of 1958. With the capital he joined The Velvetones. And since it is his way of life as already outlined.

By The Velvetones Jimi only three months follow-up. In the following summer, armed with newly acquired electric guitar, again, from his father, Jimi joined The Rocking Kings. After that Jimi had followed the military service, and formed the band in the barracks, but soon. Injuries caused him dismissed from the service. Major changes occurred when, as a fill-in guitarist who has played with various artists full, in 1966, he met Chas Chandler, bass pembetot Animals - a band that has hit the House of the Rising Sun.

Chas, who decided to get out of Animals and choosing a new job as manager, brought Jimi to England. There Chas with Mitch Mitchell brought Jimi, dramer, and Noel Redding, the player who asked membetot bass guitar. Together the two of them, and then forming the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Experience quickly soared. His first single, Hey Joe, was 10 weeks ngendon in the UK charts, reaching the top six at the beginning of 1967. This success was quickly followed the album Are You Experience?. This recording is touted as a new compilation of music at all radical; album that voiced the spirit of generations at the time.

But the popularity of the newly acquired home when Jimi opportunity to perform at the Monterey International Pop Festival, County Fairground, Monterey, California, in 1967. This is where Jimi exhibited a phenomenal theatrical action: burning and destroying his guitar.

Flag of Jimi's career high terkerek since then. Succession, in less than a year, between 1968-1969, with Mitch and Noel, he released Axis: Bold as Love and the double album Electric Ladyland. On the last album called Jimi, who finally has his own studio, putting all his ability as a guitarist as well as operator-sound engineer. Huge success. But the inevitable victims: Experience disbanded.

Jimi did not then go drown. He even had time to jazz up the festival band that has so far not forgotten in the history of rock music: Woodstock Music & Art Fair. The year was 1969. Jimi, who perform with Gypsy Sons & Rainbows (among others reinforced Mitch), pocketed pay 125 thousand dollars in the United States, the highest among the other artists.

A reasonable fee, but, apparently, that's a grand final appearance for Jimi. A year later he preferred to leave everything, forever.Physically, anyway. You see, the influence of Jimi would stay alive until now.