RIP JIMI HENDRIX (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) He died from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at age 27. Jimi Hendrix was arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music. Hendrix expanded the range and vocabulary of the electric guitar into areas no musician had ever ventured before. His boundless drive, technical ability and creative application of such effects as wah-wah and distortion forever transformed the sound of rock and roll. 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. He changed everything. What don't we owe Jimi Hendrix? For his monumental rebooting of guitar culture "standards of tone", technique, gear, signal processing, rhythm playing, soloing, stage presence, chord voicings, charisma, fashion, and composition? ... He is guitar hero number one. #rock #blues #psychedelicrock #hardrock #bluesrock #rhythmandblues #jimihendrix #jimihendrixeperience #mitchmitchell #noelredding #guitar #electricguitar #fender #fenderguitar #guitarhero #guitarplayer #guitarplaying https://www.instagram.com/p/B2lIlkoFgPu/?igshid=1brjey56eo0jt
