Jimi Hendrix was one of the most revolutionary, mythological and culturally explosive figures in modern music history, an artist capable of transforming the electric guitar into psychedelic, cosmic, sexual and experimental instrument while permanently redefining rock music itself.
This illustrated profile explores his music, visionary imagination and cultural impact within within The Great Rock and Roll History, a large-scale illustrated timeline of modern music.
Rock Icons: Jimi Hendrix
Electric rock shaman suspended between cosmic feedback, LSD, psychedelic eroticism and absolute guitar revolution.
By combining electric blues, psychedelia, sonic experimentation and revolutionary virtuosity, Jimi Hendrix helped redefine the language of modern rock guitar forever.
Name: James Marshall Hendrix
Born: November 27, 1942 — Seattle, Washington, USA
Died: September 18, 1970 — London, United Kingdom
Instruments: guitar, vocals
Genres: psychedelic rock, blues rock, hard rock, experimental rock
ARTIST OFFICIAL SITE: www.jimihendrix.com
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The man who transformed the guitar into psychedelic weapon
Jimi Hendrix occupies absolutely central place within modern music history. More than simple guitarist, he resembled mythological figure capable of bending electricity, noise and blues into entirely new language.
Before Hendrix, rock guitar still possessed relatively clear limits. After Hendrix, those limits simply disappeared. Feedback,distortion, wah-wah pedals, infinite sustain, controlled noise and cosmic improvisation suddenly became natural elements of rock vocabulary. Yet his impact was not merely technical.
Hendrix embodied sexual revolution, psychedelia, racial tension and the self-destructive mythology of counterculture simultaneously. That is why he still feels like figure from alternate dimension of rock music.
Albums such as Are You Experienced? and Electric Ladyland remain among the absolute masterpieces of twentieth-century rock music.
His music occupies a fundamental place within the rock genealogy explored in The Great Rock and Roll History.
Influenced by
- Muddy Waters
- T-Bone Walker
- Little Richard
- Chicago electric blues
- African-American rhythm and blues
Influent For
- Hard rock
- Heavy metal
- Prince
- Eddie Van Halen
- Modern psychedelic rock
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Related Artists
- Eric Clapton
- Cream
- Prince
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Buddy Guy
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SOURCES
Official Jimi Hendrix archives
Psychedelic rock archives
Woodstock archives
Electric guitar historical archives
Within the broader history of modern rock music, Jimi Hendrix represents one of the most revolutionary, influential and culturally mythological figures of the twentieth century. His work permanently reshaped the relationship between electric blues, psychedelia, sonic experimentation and modern rock guitar.