Jimi Hendrix was a blues-influenced American guitarist and song writer. Jimi is known for his incredible skills at the guitar, very entertaining live shows and instrument destruction! Many consider Hendrix as the greatest guitarist of all time, his raw style of playing made him an icon and one of the most influential acts of his era.
Jimi formed The Jimi Hendrix Experience, his first debut album Are You Experienced, was released in 1967. The band later went on to release the following albums : Axis : Bold as Love (1967), Electric Ladyland (1968) and Band of Gypsys (1970).
Hendrix was ranked number 3 on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of Rock N' Roll, behind the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. He has been voted by Rolling Stone, Guitar World, and a number of other magazines and polls as the best electric guitarist of all time.
Death : On September 18, 1970, Jimi had taken 9 of his girlfriend's Vesperax sleeping pills. The normal medical dose was half a tablet. According to John Bannister, the doctor who attended to him, Jimi had asphyxiated in his own vomit, apparently it was mainly red wine that had filled his airways.
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
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