11/28/17 Jimi Hendrix
It's been quite a while since the last blog post here and fortunately (as far as I know) nothing much has happened save the seasonal controversy and drama over thanksgiving for God knows what. But yesterday however, was a more or less momentous occasion in music history with the posthumous 75th birthday of rock legend Jimi Hendrix, who died in 1970 from a drug overdose. Like many other rock idols of his day, Jimi left us at the young age of 27. To the likes of which include Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Amy Winehouse, and Kurt Cobain.
As of yesterday, Jimi Hendrix would have been 75. Hendrix may be gone but his music still lives on as the embodiment of classic 60s rock. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock Hall of Fame described him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and electric blues He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amp feedback. He helped to popularize the use of the wah-wah pedal in classic rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing (pitch frequencies used in waves) effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone Magazine 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."
Hendrix was a pioneer in psychedelic rock, and many of his songs reflected this genre such as "3rd Stone From The Sun" and "Purple Haze".
As of yesterday, Jimi Hendrix would have been 75. Hendrix may be gone but his music still lives on as the embodiment of classic 60s rock. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock Hall of Fame described him as "arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music". Hendrix was inspired musically by American rock and electric blues He favored overdriven amplifiers with high volume, and was instrumental in utilizing the previously undesirable sounds caused by guitar amp feedback. He helped to popularize the use of the wah-wah pedal in classic rock, and was the first artist to use stereophonic phasing (pitch frequencies used in waves) effects in music recordings. Holly George-Warren of Rolling Stone Magazine 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."
Hendrix was a pioneer in psychedelic rock, and many of his songs reflected this genre such as "3rd Stone From The Sun" and "Purple Haze".
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