Jimi Hendrix died 40 years ago today.

dr.bollocko

September 18th 1970.

RIP.
Didn't realise it was so long ago. Was going to post some incendiary live performances but there's just too many. Flicking through them on youtube now.

Jelly 292

RIP Voodo Chile

dr.bollocko

Here we go:
http://www.planetrock.com/
On planet rock there's a bit of a Jimi special going on right now. I am listening thru the digital radio on NTL.

Paddysnapper

OMG How time flies.....God be good to him:)

Shryke

I know what music I'm putting on for the day now.

mike65

dr.bollocko wrote: »

September 18th 1970.

RIP.
Didn't realise it was so long ago. Was going to post some incendiary live performances but there's just too many. Flicking through them on youtube now.

When on earth did you think he died? :eek: Another member of the "27 club".

From his last album, completed after his death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FcIKoGFRDY

Kess73

Ahh in some afterlife world I can almost imagine a band with Jimi and Steve Gaines on guitar. Jaco Pastorius on bass. John Bonham on drums, with Freddie Mercury and Elvis Presley splitting the vocal work.

dr.bollocko

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11349374

Forty years ago, one of the most admired of all rock guitarists died in London at the age of 27.

Since his death, Jimi Hendrix has become an icon of 1960s culture, both the music and the visual image known around the world.

Born in the US, Hendrix spent his final years mainly in London.
Jimi Hendrix performs onstage, late 1960s Hendrix is considered to be one of the best electric guitar players in the world

He died of an apparent overdose at what was then the Samarkand Hotel in Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill, on 18 September 1970.

Sound engineer Roger Mayer, who knew Hendrix well in London, believes Hendrix's drug-use has been exaggerated.

"When I knew him he wasn't stoned all the time, which is what people think," he says.

"You can't play guitar to that standard on stage or in the studio if you're stoned on drugs. I've seen other people try but it doesn't work.

"He was less outrageous than a lot of other people at the time," he adds.
'Immediate charisma'

Mr Mayer first approached Hendrix after a gig at the Bag O'Nails nightclub in London, organised to introduce him to journalists and the music industry.

He decided Hendrix ought to know about a pitch-shifting device he had been developing to give electric guitars a bigger range.
Hendrix loved the Octavia and used it on classic tracks such as Purple Haze and Fire.

As "sonic consultant", Mr Mayer went to many Hendrix concerts.

"He wasn't the typical guitar player who was just staring at his shoes, he had immediate stage presence and charisma.

"He'd do all kinds of tricks like playing the instrument behind his head," he says.

At other times, Mr Mayer just hung around with Hendrix and his girlfriend, Kathy Etchingham.

"Offstage Jimi was not at all like his stage persona. Jimi was very quiet and unassuming," Mr Mayer says.

"He was very generous about inviting people to jam with him - but he liked to play board games too."

What about maintaining his visual image, which remains so well-known?

"He used to dress pretty much the same every day. Though he didn't like anyone to see him in his curlers when he was getting his hair ready. His hair was processed and curled."

"It was all very avant garde and flamboyant," he says.

"Guys couldn't take their eyes off the way he played guitar and the girls were fantasising about him as well. It was a total package really."

dasdog

I was just watching the Isle of Wight gig last night (with Billy Cox on bass). They arrived on stage around 3am on the Monday morning of the festival and played a blinder. Oh for a time machine.

Motley Crue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqiRl8jlM4E

For me, an inspiration of true proportions...outstanding

RIP man

Hard Rock Cafe Edinburgh has his plane ticket, that he paid for in cash, to fly back to London shortly before he died. In those days you signed the ticket like a credit card receipt. Went for a meal there last year and one of the guys showed me around and showed me this particular piece.

darrenw5094

dasdog wrote: »

I was just watching the Isle of Wight gig last night (with Billy Cox on bass). They arrived on stage around 3am on the Monday morning of the festival and played a blinder. Oh for a time machine.

Strange show really. Great to have it recorded for us fans to see. But problem after problem seemed to cause a lot of difficulty. By the end of the set, Hendrix looked like he just wanted to get off the stage. Some gems on that one though.

PeterIanStaker

What can you say about Jimi? Jaw dropping. Gonna stick on his Monterey performance and wish I'd a time machine and a fuzzbox. His banter between songs on is just class as well.

A Primal Nut

dasdog wrote: »

I was just watching the Isle of Wight gig last night (with Billy Cox on bass). They arrived on stage around 3am on the Monday morning of the festival and played a blinder. Oh for a time machine.

Lucky he didn't do that in Ireland in 2010 or he'd probably get a few bottles thrown at him.

Its a great show alright!!

Asphyxia

Wow! That long already. Going to look at some stuff on youtube now

mike65

Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
Bob Smeaton's film charting the life and career of the guitarist using archive footage and clips of his performances. Beginning with his childhood in Seattle, Washington, the programme documents how he went on to join the army and spend time on the chitlin circuit backing acts including the Isley Brothers and Little Richard, to the formation of the Experience, his festival appearances at Monterery and Woodstock, and tragic death in Notting Hill in 1970. Narrated by Bootsy Collins.
Producer Janie Hendrix, John McDermott
BBC4 10:45pm-12:00am (1 hour 15 minutes) Wed 22 Sep


Jimi Hendrix: Guitar Hero
Jon Brewer's film recounts the four years Jimi Hendrix spent in London, told through the testimonies of people who knew him. Featuring contributions by Eric Clapton, Dave Mason, Ginger Baker, Eric Burdon, and members of Crosby, Stills & Nash. Narrated by Slash. Part of Jimi Hendrix Night
Category Documentary
Director Jon Brewer
BBC4 10:00pm-11:30pm (1 hour 30 minutes) Fri 24 Sep