With Axis: Bold as Love, the Jimi Hendrix Experience further explored the outer limits of psychedelic music. Where their debut album, Are You Experienced, explored the territory via rock and blues, ...
Bassist Billy Cox is the last surviving musician to have regularly played with Jimi Hendrix. Now 84, Cox first met Hendrix in 1961 when they were both still teenagers, while they were serving in the U ...
For those who think they are virtuosic enough, we have picked the easiest Jimi Hendrix songs to play on guitar to start with. Jimi Hendrix was born in 1942 in Seattle. His first touch and introduction ...
Jimi Hendrix‘s career in the spotlight only lasted a few years, but he showed during that time that he was a rock pioneer, and in the time since then, he’s been revered as a rock legend. During his ...
Was Jimi Hendrix the greatest guitar player who ever lived? When Rolling Stone asked guitarists and critics what they thought, everyone basically agreed he was. In the rarest type of consensus, most ...
Jimi Hendrix’s final performance took place on September 16, 1970, just 48 hours before he passed away. The show took place at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in London, where Hendrix performed with Eric ...
Jimi Hendrix didn't waste much time pulling together a new trio after the Experience broke up in June 1969. He started playing with bassist Billy Cox earlier that year, and in September, drummer Buddy ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. American rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) ...
When Jimi Hendrix visited Maui in 1970 to play a concert in Olinda and take part in the “Rainbow Bridge” movie, he walked by the ocean one day with his friend and bandmate Billy Cox. “As we walked ...
In his electrifying biography of Jimi Hendrix, PHILIP NORMAN has charted the rock star’s extraordinary rise to fame – and examined the mysterious circumstances of his death at just 27. Here, in our ...
How historically accurate the new biopic Jimi: All Is By Side is, is a bit of a mystery. The real people who are depicted in less-than flattering light cry foul, while the filmmakers insist they did ...
On the evening of August 26th, 1970, Jimi Hendrix walked through the street-level door at 52 West 8th Street in New York’s Greenwich Village into paradise. Electric Lady Studios was the guitarist’s ...