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40 Hidden Music Treasures at the BBC
2024
Jimi Hendrix
Acting
Born November 27, 1942Died September 18, 1970Seattle, Washington, USA
Biography
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." Description above from the Wikipedia article Jimi Hendrix, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision
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The Beach Boys
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Louder Than Rock
2023
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Los Angeles Forum April 26, 1969
2022
6.7
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
7.2
Zappa
2020
8.3
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Live in Maui
2020
6.5
Music, Money, Madness… Jimi Hendrix Live In Maui
2020
0.0
Eric Burdon: Rock 'n' Roll Animal
2019
The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix
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The Last 24 Hours: Jimi Hendrix
2019
0.0
Jimi Hendrix: Trapped in Amber
2019
0.0
At Last...The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland
2018
7.1
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
2018
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27: Gone Too Soon
2018
6.0
Totally 60s Psychedelic Rock At The BBC
2015
7.4
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church
2015
6.5
Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall
2014
0.0
Woodstock: Untold Stories Revisited
2014
9.5
John Mayer: Someday I'll Fly
2014
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Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock
2014
7.4
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
2013
4.0
Let’s Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock’s Greatest Groupies
2010
7.2
Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
2010
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10.0
Jimi Hendrix: Metropolis ARTE
2010
0.0
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: BBC Sessions
2010
0.0
Are You Experienced: An Inside Look
2010
7.9
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009
8.2
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland
2008
3.0
Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape
2008
Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition
0.0
Beat Club: The 40th Anniversary Edition
2008
8.5
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey
2007
0.0
Jimi Hendrix: American Landing
2007
6.0
Jimi Hendrix: Feedback
2005
8.0
Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock Definitive Collection
2005
9.5
Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
2005
8.0
Jimi Hendrix: The Uncut Story
2004
0.0
Rockthology 2
2004
8.5
Jimi Hendrix: The Last 24 Hours
2004
6.6
Jimi Plays Berkeley
2003
0.0
Blue Wild Angel: Jimi Hendrix Live at The Isle of Wight
2002
8.7
It's Black Entertainment
2002
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
0.0
Jimi Hendrix and The Blues
2001
0.0
Jimi and Sly: The Skin I'm In
2000
8.0
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
1999
7.2
Hendrix: Band of Gypsys
1999
8.4
Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees
1997
6.5
Jimi Hendrix at the Isle of Wight
1996
6.8
Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
1996
8.5
Woodstock Diary
1994
8.0
Dusty
1994
Jimi Hendrix - On the Road - Ultimate Experience Live!
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Jimi Hendrix - On the Road - Ultimate Experience Live!
1994
0.0
Zakk Wylde: House of Guitars 1993
1993
8.7
Commercial Entertainment Product
1992
7.5
Jimi Plays Monterey
1987
7.2
Video from Hell
1987
0.0
Superstars in Concert
1984
0.0
When the Music's Over
1983
7.5
The Abyss
1977
8.0
The Day the Music Died
1977
7.7
Jimi Hendrix
1973
7.0
Sound of the City: London 1964-73
1973
7.3
Rainbow Bridge
1972
5.5
Dynamite Chicken
1971
0.0
Participation
1971
Isle of Wight: Gegengesellschaft Oder Festival-Ramsch?
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Isle of Wight: Gegengesellschaft Oder Festival-Ramsch?
1970
0.0
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert
1970
0.0
Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Isle of Wight
1970
7.6
Woodstock
1970
7.2
Popcorn
1969
8.0
Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show
1969
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Jimi Hendrix: Room Full of Hendrix
1969
0.0
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Royal Albert Hall
1969
0.0
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live In Sweden
1969
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Jimi Hendrix Live in Stockholm 1969
1969
7.4
Monterey Pop
1968
6.5
All My Loving
1968
0.0
Wake at Generation
1968
4.9
Psych-Out
1968
6.0
Jimi Hendrix: Experience
1968
10.0
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