In the early 1960s, Jimi Hendrix and Tommy Chong had something in common: they were both musicians playing in bands. Although Hendrix’s legacy lives on in his music, Chong went on to achieve global ...
Philip Norman’s 2020 book Wild Thing: The Short, Spellbinding Life of Jimi Hendrix described how Hendrix came to join the army in the first place. He had a run-in with the law after stealing some ...
'Wordless stories of the soul': revisiting the genius of Jimi Hendrix.
No one knew that Jimi Hendrix's weather-delayed gig in West Germany would be his last, and it led to a rather unfortunate ...
Jimi Hendrix died in September 1970, tragically preventing him from seeing psychedelic, blues-driven rock ‘n’ roll evolve in the years to come. Yet, even before his death, Hendrix seemed to have a ...
In the early fall of 1966, music journalist Steve Barker sat down with a still-rising Jimi Hendrix to discuss his artistic influences, the international music scene, and the guitarist’s thoughts on ...