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Jimi Hendrix performed a free concert in a Haleakala Ranch pasture on July 30, 1970, two months before he died. Scenes from the concert and his time on Maui were made into the film “Rainbow ...
Shokan was only 50 miles from Bethel, where Woodstock was held, so it was a convenient – if risky – place to try out his new material and his new band, but then Hendrix was always a high-wire ...
In his biography A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan English music journalist Richard Balls noted that, during the ...
The era of Jimi Hendrix was the defining era of rock guitar. Sure, sure, there were other great time spans. But in the time between his debut single in 1966 and his death in 1970, Hendrix roamed ...
Given the importance of live shows to the Jimi Hendrix story, it seems fitting that he should have spent the last night of the 1960s on stage blowing a hole through the Fillmore East, before ...
OLYMPIA – Jimi Hendrix, the Seattle-born guitarist, singer and songwriter widely celebrated as one of the most talented musicians of his generation, was recognized posthumously Tuesday for his ...
This record is deeply cool - a bootleg Hendrix recording for the Black Panther movement.” Tom Ravenscroft pulls out a rare Jimi Hendrix bootleg from John Peel's record collection. A plain sleeve.
Jimi Hendrix, the world-famous electric guitarist whose innovative style forever shaped the rock-music landscape, was posthumously honored with a Washington state Medal of Merit at the Capitol on ...