Essay Archive - Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix perhaps no other rock-and-roll trailblazer was as
original or as influential in such a short span of time as Jimi Hendrix.
Widely acknowledged as one of the most daring and inventive virtuosos in
rock history, Hendrix pioneered the electric guitar (he played a right-
handed Fender Stratocaster-- his "Electric Lady"--upside-down and left-
handed) as an electronic sound source capable of feedback, distortion, and
a host of other effects that could be crafted into an articulate and fluid
emotional vocabulary. And though he was on the scene as a solo artist for
less than fiv....
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