Jimi Hendrix
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, the greatest guitarist in rock history, revolutionized
the sound of rock. In 1967, the Experience rocked the nation
with their first album, Are You Experienced?. Hendrix's life was cut short
by the tragedy of drugs in 1970, when he was only twenty seven years old.
In these three years the sound ....
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.... start out at the
top. Jimi started out playing as part of the back-up for small time R & B
groups. It did not take long before his work was in demand with some of the
best known artists in the field, such as B.B. King, Ike and Tina Turner,
Solomon Burke, Jackie Wilson, Littler Richard, Wilson Pickett, and King
Curtis (Clifford, pg. 181). Using the name Jimmy James, he toured with a
bunch of R & B shows, including six months as a member of James Brown's
Famous Flames (Stambler, pg. 290). At the ....
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