Happy Birthday Jimi Hendrix

[Saos]

The man who changed music and the electric guitar forever. I think he would have been 74. Curious to hear how Jimi influenced your sound and or style musically or otherwise.

[muscmp]

i still can't believe someone could play and sing like that!

play music!

[Dru Edwards]

74? Wow. I started listening to Jimi shortly after I started playing guitar back in the late '80s. We used to jam Purple Haze and Hey Joe back in High School (who hasn't jammed Purple Haze).

Back then the music was "only" 20 years old. Now it's 50 years old and just as influential.

[KY000]

Jim was my hero when I first started playing. The first album I ever bought was Are You Experienced. I remember traveling to the hospital in St Louis in 1968 for surgery with my parents. When we drove by the Kiel Auditorium I noticed Jimi was playing that night. I begged my parents to take me to the show to no avail.

Decades later when I was in Seattle I wanted to put a guitar pick on Jimi's grave. My wife asked me how we were going to find his tombstone at the graveyard. I said "That's easy. We'll just follow the crowd". And I was right.

[Mr. Jelly]

I remember buying Electric Ladyland and setting the speakers on each side of the room and laying in between them. The album started with "And The God's Made love". Yea it blew me away.

Trying to learn to play like Jimi tought me that I will not sound like others.

[Saos]

Originally Posted by KY000

Jim was my hero when I first started playing. The first album I ever bought was Are You Experienced. I remember traveling to the hospital in St Louis in 1968 for surgery with my parents. When we drove by the Kiel Auditorium I noticed Jimi was playing that night. I begged my parents to take me to the show to no avail.

Decades later when I was in Seattle I wanted to put a guitar pick on Jimi's grave. My wife asked me how we were going to find his tombstone at the graveyard. I said "That's easy. We'll just follow the crowd". And I was right.

Pretty deep stuff man.

[zabdart]

Originally Posted by Saos

The man who changed music and the electric guitar forever. I think he would have been 74. Curious to hear how Jimi influenced your sound and or style musically or otherwise.

I think Jimi influenced my life and my attitudes more than my guitar playing. I realized early on that even if I could figure out what he was playing, I could never hope to get it to sound the way he did.