It was the ultimate meteoric career, shining brightly and briefly, as these three classic albums were released over just a 16 month span. Though there is other material out there, that only three studio albums exist as the primary output of such a legend is astonishing and speaks to his immediate and indelible impact. You have to go back two years, to the 1968 double-album opus Electric Ladyland, for the last of mere three official studio releases in Hendrix’s lifetime. In many ways, the last great Hendrix statement he left us with is the mercifully filmed and recorded monster Woodstock set he closed the legendary festival with. In subsequent decades, all kinds of content of different levels of quality and officialness have come out, containing all kinds of live shows and unreleased studio tracks. He passed away in 1970 at the age of 27 (why/how?). Like so many of his contemporaries, the whirlwind vagaries of fame and fortune got the better of Hendrix. He attacked his instrument with a violent vigour, generating all manner of noises at, especially live, cacophonous volume. Before this awkward young American kid came on the scene in the mid 60s, guitar playing was becoming slowly more dexterous, creative and occasionally crunchy and distorted through the rock ‘n’ roll era.
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Though I have my own preferences and Progressive leanings, and there are many different ways to skin a cat, there is no doubting that Hendrix was both a virtuoso of absurd proportions and, perhaps more uniquely and importantly, changed the landscape of guitar playing forever. Moon, Turn The Tides…gently gently away – 0:58Īmong all the legends, and many more underappreciated musical talents, who perished at the mythologised cursed age of 27, Jimi Hendrix is perhaps the most revered and seminal in western culture. Come On (Let The Good Times Roll) – 4:04ġ1. Have You Ever Been To (Electric Ladyland) – 2:08ħ.
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