When I became a journalist I knew I wanted to write about my passions. After college I did a postgraduate degree in digital communication. This has helped me to make the website better and bring the best of classic rock to the world! Connect with us. Moody Blues drummer Graeme Edge dies at the age of Robby Krieger says he would like to work again with Ian Astbury. Continue Reading. One critic for the British music magazine Melody Maker said that he "had great stage presence" and looked at times as if he were playing "with no hands at all.
On tour to support his first album, Are You Experienced? In June he also won over American music fans with his stunning performance at the Monterey Pop Festival, which ended with Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire.
Quickly becoming a rock superstar, later that year Hendrix scored again with his second album, Axis: Bold as Love The band continued to tour until it split up in In , Hendrix performed at another legendary musical event: the Woodstock Music Festival.
Hendrix, the last performer to appear in the three-day-plus festival, played a rock rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" that amazed the crowds and demonstrated his considerable talents as a musician. Also an accomplished songwriter and producer by this time, Hendrix had his own recording studio, Electric Lady, in which he worked with different performers to try out new songs and sounds. Sadly, Hendrix would not live to complete the project.
Hendrix died in London from drug-related complications on September 18, , at the age of He left an indelible mark on the world of rock music and remains popular to this day. As one journalist wrote in the Berkeley Tribe , "Jimi Hendrix could get more out of an electric guitar than anyone else.
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