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    The Essential Jimi Hendrix
    The Essential Jimi Hendrix
    The Essential Jimi Hendrix
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    The Essential Jimi Hendrix

    By Rotimi Ogunjobi

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    "The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar."- Jimi Hendrix James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was a cultural icon and arguably the greatest and most influential electric guitarist in rock music history. Mostly self-taught on the instrument, the left-handed Hendrix played a right-handed guitar turned upside down and re-strung to suit him. Hendrix extended the tradition of rock guitar, exploiting them to a previously undreamed-of extent. As a record producer, Hendrix was also an innovator in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas. In 2003, more than 30 years after his death at 27, Rolling Stone magazine named Hendrix number one on their list of the "100 greatest guitarists of all time". This book presents Hendrix, the man, the musician, the philosopher. It presents his music, his shows, his song lyric, his life.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherxceedia publishing
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9783955775896
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      The Essential Jimi Hendrix - Rotimi Ogunjobi

      THE ESSENTIAL

      JIMI HENDRIX

      Name :       James Marshall Jimi Hendrix

      Born :      November 27, 1942; Seattle, Washington, USA

      Died :       September 18, 1970; London, England, UK

      Compiled and Edited by

      Rotimi Ogunjobi

      copyright©2013 Rotimi Ogunjobi.

      Inhaltsverzeichnis

      Introduction

      Family and Childhood

      Early Music Career

      Discovery

      Death And Legacy

      Posthumous Fame

      Music Gear

      Discography

      Biographies

      Other books

      Lyrics

      Selected Albums

      Woodstock - An Epilogue

      Quotes

      Of Self :

      Music is my religion.

      Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

      The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

      We call it 'Electric Church Music' because to us music is a religion

      Technically, I am not a guitar player, All I play is truth and emotion

      Of Love:

      When the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace

      The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again.

      Of Life:

      When I die, just keep playing the records.

      I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to

      It's funny how most people love the dead. Once you're dead you're made for life.

      Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

      When you die you're just getting rid of that old body

      You can leave if you want, we're just jammin' that's all

      Introduction

      James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and cultural icon. Widely lauded by music fans and critics alike, Hendrix is arguably the greatest and most influential electric guitarist in rock music history.

      Mostly self-taught on the instrument, the left-handed Hendrix played a right-handed guitar turned upside down and re-strung to suit him. As a guitarist, he built upon the innovations of blues stylists such as B.B. King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, T-Bone Walker, and Muddy Waters, as well as those of rhythm and blues and soul guitarists like Curtis Mayfield. Hendrix's music was also influenced by jazz; he often cited Rahsaan Roland Kirk as his favorite musician. Most importantly, Hendrix extended the tradition of rock guitar: although previous guitarists, such as The Kinks' Dave Davies, Jeff Beck, and The Who's Pete Townshend, had employed techniques such as feedback, distortion and other effects as sonic tools, Hendrix was able to exploit them to a previously undreamed-of extent, and made them an integral part of his compositions.

      As a record producer, Hendrix was an innovator in using the recording studio as an extension of his musical ideas. Hendrix was notably one of the first to experiment with stereo and phasing effects during the recording process. Hendrix was also an accomplished songwriter whose compositions have been performed by countless artists.

      Chapter 1

      Family and Childhood

      Hendrix was born Johnny Allen Hendrix in Seattle, Washington, the son of Al Hendrix and Lucille Jeter Hendrix. As a toddler and young boy he was known as Buster, a family nickname. At age three, his father, after returning from military service in World War II, legally renamed him James Marshall Hendrix. As a school age boy and young adult, he was simply known as Jimmy or James. In his early career, Hendrix often used the stage name Jimmy James. He did not adopt the moniker Jimi until after his discovery in late 1966, although most writings refer to him as Jimi throughout the timeline of his life for purposes of consistency.

      Jimi Hendrix was of mixed African American, European, and Cherokee Native American descent.

      Both of Jimi's paternal grandparents were vaudeville performers from the midwest who settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Al Hendrix was born. Jimi was close to his paternal grandmother Nora Rose Moore, the daughter of a Cherokee father and a mulatto mother, who instilled in him a strong sense of pride about his Native American ancestry, which would later become a recurring theme in his music. Jimi's paternal grandfather was the mulatto son of a former slave and the white merchant who once owned her. Al Hendrix (June 10, 1919–April 17, 2002) was the youngest of their four children.

      Jimi's maternal grandfather, Preston Jeter, was also the mulatto son of a former slave and slave owner. He left Richmond, Virginia at the turn of the century after witnessing a lynching, and settled in the Seattle area. In 1915, he married Clarice Lawson, a woman half his age who was of mixed Cherokee and slave descent. Lucille Jeter was the youngest of their eight children.

      Lucille met Al through a mutual friend and they began dating. The same week that Lucille realized she was pregnant with Jimi, Al received his draft notice and shipped off to the U.S. Army three days after they were married. It would be three years before Al would see his son for the first time. Lucille endured both personal and financial hardships while her husband was away: her father Preston passed away months after Jimi was born; nearly two years passed before any of Al's military pay reached her; and a fire destroyed the Jeters' uninsured home. When Al returned from his military service, Jimi was living with a church friend of the Jeter family in Berkeley, California. His caregiver offered to keep the boy, but after some internal debate, Al brought his son back to Seattle. He changed Jimi's name from Johnny Allen to James Marshall because he felt the name Johnny referred to John Page, a man whom Lucille became involved with during Al's military service. Still, Al decided to stay married to Lucille.

      Over the next few years, four more children were born into the Hendrix family: Leon in January 1948; Joseph, born with serious birth defects; Kathy, born sixteen weeks premature and blind; and Pamela, also born with health problems. All four of Jimi's siblings were eventually moved into foster homes. Lucille and Al gave up their parental rights to Kathy, Pamela, and then Joseph. Jimi and Leon would sometimes spend time with Pamela in their neighborhood or run into Joe on the streets of the Central District. In December 1951, Lucille left Al and they divorced, with Al retaining custody of the two boys. Three years later, social workers placed Leon into a foster home due to parental neglect. Young Jimi remained with Al only because he was already a teenager and required less care. Fortunately, Leon was placed only a few blocks away in a large home that young Jimi frequently visited, so the two brothers continued to grow up together.

      In late 1957, Lucille's excessive drinking and partying began to take its toll on her health. She was hospitalized twice for cirrosis of the liver. In January 1958, she married retired longshoreman William Mitchell after a very brief courtship - he was 30 years older than she. Weeks later she was hospitalized again, this time with hepatitis. Jimi and Leon visited her at the hospital and were shocked at her sickly appearance. This would be

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