On 17 October 1967, Korner interviewed The Jimi Hendrix Experience for the BBC radio showTop Gear.

He was also known as The Originator because of his key role in the transition from the blues to rock, influencing a host of acts, including Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, The Yardbirds, Eric Clapton, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and George Michael, among others.

Mitch Mitchell playing a classic four piece kit in the Jimi Hendrix Experience

Many historic bands and early rock music recordings used this configuration, notable users including Ringo Starr in the Beatles, Mitch Mitchell in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, John Barbata in the Turtles and many others.

However, the band's cover of the Jimi Hendrix classic "' Are You Experienced?

Left-handed players generally choose a left-handed ( mirror ) instrument, although some play in a standard right-handed manner, others play a standard right-handed guitar reversed, and still others ( for example Jimi Hendrix ) play a right-handed guitar strung in reverse.

The first in this list is the American guitarist Jimi Hendrix introduced by Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who, who was, in his turn, ranked at # 50 of the list.

with the top 5 consisting of Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards and Jeff Beck.

Like the Rolling Stones list, Jimi Hendrix was chosen as the greatest guitarist followed by Slash from Guns ' N ' Roses, B. B.

Gigwise. com, an online music magazine, also ranks Jimi Hendrix as the greatest guitarist ever, followed by Jimmy Page, B. B.

Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.

Mercury was influenced early on by the Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar along with western influences such as Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and The Beatles.

* 1947 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer ( The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Dirty Mac, and The Riot Squad ) ( d. 2008 )

Hendrix borrowed a Fender Telecaster from Noel Redding to record " Hey Joe " and " Purple Haze ", used a white Gibson SG Custom for his performances on The Dick Cavett Show in the summer of 1969, and the Isle of Wight film shows him playing his second Gibson Flying V. While Jimi had previously owned a Flying V that he had painted with a psychedelic design, the Flying V used at the Isle of Wight was a unique custom left-handed guitar with gold plated hardware, a bound fingerboard and " split-diamond " fret markers that were not found on other 1960s-era Flying Vs.

A detailed gear diagram of Jimi Hendrix 1969 " Woodstock " Guitar Rig is well-documented.

It was popularized by Jimi Hendrix.

Promoting his third album Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix said " the influence the psychedelics have on one is truly amazing, and I only wish more people appreciated this belief and genre ".

* Charles R. Cross, Room Full Of Mirrors: A Biography Of Jimi Hendrix, 2005: ISBN 1-4013-0028-6

* Curtis Knight, Jimi: An Intimate Biography of Jimi Hendrix, Praegar Publishers, New York, 1974.

The book includes A Jimi Hendrix Discography, compiled by John McKellar.

* Ken Matesich, Jimi Hendrix: A Discography, 1982

* David Stubbs, Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child: The Stories Behind Every Song, 2003

* The Jimi Hendrix Foundation

* Jimi Hendrix Memorial Project

* During a test screening of " Mimecom ", Harry's colleague Gavin Whitehope sings passages from the Jimi Hendrix song Purple Haze, asking, " Are you experienced, Harry?

" Of " Forever Changes ," Moon wrote, " Inside these songs are ideas about guitar soloing that Lee's friend Jimi Hendrix rode into the stratosphere ; hints of the mysticism and transcendence that became the calling card of the Doors ; and the seeds of goth, orchestral pop, and other subgenres.

* The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam's Dice ( 1976, about Jimi Hendrix )

performed about 200 concerts a year, appearing with Van Morrison and Them, The Animals, The Dave Clark Five, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The Doors, The Who, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Moby Grape, and San Jose bands Syndicate of Sound, and Count Five.

She has also recorded several covers of songs by Jimi Hendrix: she wrote " Underground River " about him.

Of this period, Robert Smith later went on to say: " My brother was also crazy about Captain Beefheart, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, so much so that when I was 7 or 8, to the despair of my parents, I became some kinda little devil fed on psychedelic rock ".

Beginning a set that included the Jimi Hendrix classic, " Bold as Love ", the three found a chemistry together and set about their schedules to record a CD and a tour as a power trio.

During this period while he was somewhat depressed about the commercial and logistical difficulties of his previous scoring requirements, his wife suggested that he listen to the guitarist Jimi Hendrix.

Tom Wolfe describes the LSD-influenced music of The Doors, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, Iron Butterfly, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane, Ultimate Spinach, Blue Cheer, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Great Society, Stone Garden and the Grateful Dead as " acid rock " in his book about Ken Kesey and the Acid Tests, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

In the US, Jimi Hendrix set his guitar alight at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, while Detroit musician Iggy Pop's violent, erratic onstage persona drew widespread recognition, as Pop would often throw his body about the stage, frequently injuring his band members.

Hunt has been working on a book about Jimi Hendrix that she considers her life work.

From about 1967 bands like British band Cream and The Jimi Hendrix Experience had begun to move away from purely blues-based music into psychedelia.

Roth also wrote the foreword to Dannemann's 1995 book about her experience living and working with Hendrix, entitled The Inner World of Jimi Hendrix.

* Information about The Spanish Castle, a legendary Seattle area dance hall where Jimi Hendrix gave some of his earliest performances

* More information about The Spanish Castle and Jimi Hendrix's early days

In an interview with Jimi Hendrix, Cavett spoke about Hendrix's performance of the " Star Spangled Banner " at Woodstock, and called the style " unorthodox ".

In 1980 Lambert, assisted by filmmaker Jon Lindsay, began writing a book on his life, of how he found the Who, and with many never-before-told stories about his contemporaries The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Brian Epstein, Jimi Hendrix and friends like Princess Margaret and Liberace.

Watson, a recognized master of the Fender Stratocaster guitar, has been compared to Jimi Hendrix and allegedly became irritated when asked about this comparison, supposedly stating: " I used to play the guitar standing on my hands.

As the band would explain, " Suddenly there was something about playing rock music the old-fashined way ," and they would throw themselves onto " Hey Joe " by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, " Rock and Roll " by Led Zeppelin, and The Beatles ' cover of the Larry Williams song " Dizzy Miss Lizzy ", from which the band's name was derived.