" Rescued by Hendrix's press officer, Tony Garland, it was his nephew who came forward in 2007 and put the guitar up for auction.

After a long legal struggle initiated by Al Hendrix and his adopted daughter Janie, they finally gained control of Jimi's recorded works in 1995 ( under the name " Experience Hendrix LLC ") and hired Eddie Kramer —- who had recorded most of Hendrix's music, including his last songs —- to put these tracks back together on one album, where previously they had been separated onto three.

Mitchell auditioned for Hendrix's band in October 1966, beating out drummers including Aynsley Dunbar, who was their other final choice.

Born as David Noel Redding in Folkestone, he was selected by Chas Chandler to join Hendrix's band at its inception in 1966 and left in 1969.

* Hallelujah Hendrix A BB2 documentary about the granting, construction & unveiling of Hendrix's blue plaque Part I & Part II

They initially approached drummer Mitch Mitchell, who was at a loose end following the breakup of The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Hendrix's departure to The Band of Gypsies.

Hendrix was introduced to Cream through Chas Chandler, Hendrix's manager.

Hendrix's deteriorating relations with Redding were coming to a head, and Hendrix also felt his musical development was hampered by the trio format.

But by 1970, Hendrix had disbanded the Band of Gypsys – it has been claimed this was due to the desire of Michael Jeffery ( now Hendrix's only manager ) to reform the original Experience line-up, but as Trixie Sullivan, Jeffery's assistant, testified, Hendrix did exactly as he felt musically and Jeffery just handled the business side, as usual.

** Jimi Hendrix's manager Chas Chandler quits over differences with Hendrix during the recording of Electric Ladyland

( Label to Jimi Hendrix's Smash Hits ( The Jimi Hendrix Experience album ) | Smash Hits ).

to record a cover of Jimi Hendrix's " Hey Baby ( Land of the New Rising Sun )" for the 1993 tribute album, Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix.

After Hendrix's death, Mitchell finished production work with engineer Eddie Kramer on incomplete Hendrix recordings, resulting in the releases The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge.

His last days were spent celebrating Hendrix's music on the 2008 Experience Hendrix Tour.

Rodgers acknowledged the influence of Jimi Hendrix by collaborating with Steve Vai, Hendrix's Band Of Gypsys ( Buddy Miles and Billy Cox ) and the London Metropolitan Orchestra and recorded the track " Bold As Love ", on the Hendrix tribute album In From The Storm.

Early in 2004, Rodgers joined Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox ( Hendrix's Cry of Love ), Buddy Guy, Joe Satriani, Kid Rock's Kenny Olson, Alice in Chain's Jerry Cantrell, Double Trouble, Indigenous, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and blues legend Hubert Sumlin ( Howlin ' Wolf and Muddy Waters ) and performed three sold-out shows in Seattle, Portland and San Francisco as " Experience Hendrix ".

Hendrix's 1970 death made impossible a scheduled meeting with Evans to discuss having Hendrix front a big band led by Evans.

In 2004, while conducting research for his 2005 biography of Jimi Hendrix, entitled Room Full Of Mirrors-A Biography Of Jimi Hendrix, Cross rediscovered the gravesite of Jimi Hendrix's mother, Lucille Jeter Hendrix, in an abandoned section of Greenwood Memorial Park, where Jimi Hendrix himself is buried in an elaborate granite memorial.

Ostin had already acquired the US rights to the Jimi Hendrix Experience recordings, sight unseen, but he was reportedly unimpressed by Hendrix's now-famous performance.

After Hendrix's death he co-produced War Heroes, Rainbow Bridge and Hendrix in the West.

Kramer worked with John McDermott of Experience Hendrix ( a company owned by the Hendrix family ) including Janie Hendrix ( CEO and Hendrix's sister ) to complete and release of Valleys of Neptune in early 2010, an album of previously unheard Jimi Hendrix.

On December 4, 2006, one of Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster guitars with a sunburst design was sold at a Christie's auction for US $ 168, 000.

Whitehead has said in an interview that Jimi Hendrix's " Foxy Lady " was an inspiration for the character.

Several recordings as The Pretenders occurred during 1993, including a cover version of the Jimi Hendrix's " Bold As Love " for the tribute album Stone Free, and a cover of 10cc's " I'm Not In Love " for the film, Indecent Proposal.

The album also featured Double Trouble's rendition of Jimi Hendrix's " Voodoo Child ( Slight Return )," which would become a signature song for Vaughan in live performance.

In addition to " I Feel Fine ", feedback was used on the introduction to songs including Jimi Hendrix's " Foxey Lady ", the Beatles's " It's All Too Much ", Hendrix's " Crosstown Traffic ", the Strokes's " New York City Cops ", Ben Folds Five's " Fair ", Midnight Juggernauts's " Road To Recovery ", Nirvana's " Radio Friendly Unit Shifter ", Jesus And Mary Chain's " Tumbledown " and " Catchfire ", Stone Roses's " Waterfall ", Porno for Pyros's " Tahitian Moon ", Tool's " Stinkfist ", and the Cure's " Prayer For Rain ".

Kronos has also recorded adaptations of Jimi Hendrix's " Purple Haze ", Sigur Rós's " Flugufrelsarinn ", Television's " Marquee Moon ", Raymond Scott's " Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals ", and Bob Dylan's " Don't Think Twice, It's All Right ".

In contrast to his intricate scores for large ensembles, which usually required precision orchestral playing wrapping around the " traditional " solo " break ," his later arrangements might feature ( more or less ) unison playing by the entire ensemble, such as on Hendrix's " Little Wing ," with improvisational touches added throughout by the musicians completely ad libitum.

They became instantly extremely popular for their humoristic / parodic songs like " Ce Monde Existe ", " Si tu ne veux pas payer d ' impôts ", " Merci Patron ", " On n ' est Pas là Pour se Faire Engueuler ", " Ballade à Luis Rego, prisonnier politique ", " Paulette la Reine des Paupiettes ", " Berrystock ", " Sois Erotique " ( a parody of Serge Gainsbourg's " Je t ' aime Moi Non Plus "), " Je Suis Trop Beau " ( a parody of Jacques Dutronc ), " Berry Blues ", " Albert le Contractuel ",, " Cet été c ' était toi ", " Ouvre la Fenêtre ", " Pétronille Tu Sens la Menthe ", " Elle Avait du Poil au Ventre ", " Hey Max " ( a parody of Jimi Hendrix's " Hey Joe "), " Elle a Gagné le Yoyo en Bois du Japon ( avec la Ficelle du Même Métal )", " Le Trou de Mon Quai ", " La Biguine au Biniou ", " Le Chou Farci ", " Histoire Merveilleuse ", " Chagrin d ' labour ", " C ' est trop, c ' est trop ", " Ah Viens!

In a nod to Hendrix's guitar expressionism ( Hendrix most notably used wah and fuzz pedals ), Kath instead plugged directly into his studio amplifier and improvised the entire track in one take for the purpose of pure tone.

In a flashback to Woodstock in 1969, Jimi Hendrix's performance of " The Star-Spangled Banner " is shown, as is a recreation of the photograph of embracing couple Nick and Bobbi Ercoline taken at the festival and used as a poster for the film Woodstock ( 1970 ).

The book has given an inspiration for the title of guitarist Jimi Hendrix's last and unfinished album, First Rays of the New Rising Sun.

The album includes covers of Black Sabbath's " Paranoid " ( which also halfway through the song contains the main riff of Black Sabbath's " Iron Man "), and Jimi Hendrix's " Hey Joe ", which has been adapted into " Hey Pete " for frontman Peter Steele.

* Mike Shinoda sampled Hendrix's version for his " Jimi Remix " of the Styles of Beyond's song " Bleach ", which appeared on Fort Minor's We Major mixtape.

* " Voodoo Chile ", a track appearing on Jimi Hendrix's album Electric Ladyland, which would prove the basis for one of Hendrix's best known songs-Voodoo Child ( Slight Return )-is a 15-minutes-long blues-rock piece with various improvised sections.

The story behind the reference to " Sixty Watt " is that it refers to a now infamous amplifier that was built specifically for Jimi Hendrix by the pioneering amplifier manufacturer Jim Marshall ; it was a special sixty watt amplifier which was used during live performances and on the famous Electric Ladyland album, but was alleged to have been stolen and never recovered after Hendrix's famous Isle of Wight performance.

The last documented working name for the album was Strate Ahead ( the title atop the last documented track list found in Hendrix's notes ).

The last track listing available is for an LP entitled Strate Ahead, which is in Hendrix's handwriting.

In 1978 as part of their album, also called Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, Geraint Jarman a ' r Cynganeddwyr recorded a version of the Welsh national anthem using electric guitars, inspired by Jimi Hendrix's rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.

In 2009 some experts in Hendrix's guitars questioned whether the guitar Boucher bought was in fact an elaborate forgery.

A clear demonstration of this thumb technique can be witnessed in the Woodstock video ; during the song " Red House " there are closeups of Hendrix's fretting hand.

The song would become " part of the sixties Zeitgeist " as it was captured forever in the Woodstock film ; Hendrix's image performing this number wearing a blue-beaded white leather jacket with fringe and a red head scarf, has since been regarded as a defining moment of the 1960s.

Examples include polka versions of Jimi Hendrix's " Purple Haze " and The Doors ' " People are Strange ", The Rolling Stones ' "( I Can't Get No ) Satisfaction " as a cha-cha, and " Sixteen Tons " as a cumbia.

The glockenspiel was also featured in Jimi Hendrix's classic ballad " Little Wing ", Avenged Sevenfold's song " Nightmare " during the intro, as well as in indie folk music by artists such as Paul Duncan of Warm Ghost.

In the avant rock domain examples include Jimi Hendrix's use of feedback, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music and Sonic Youth.

In September, Glass Harp found itself in New York's Greenwich Village recording its first album Glass Harp at Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios with Lewis Merenstein as producer.

" This has since been proven to be untrue, as evidenced by the available audio from Hendrix's ( only ) appearance on The Tonight Show on July 10, 1969 with guest host Flip Wilson.

The debut album ( as well as the two subsequent studio albums ) was recorded in Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios with Merenstein as producer.

Fehmarn was also the location of Jimi Hendrix's final concert, at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival, on September 6, 1970.

Exhibit illustrates Hendrix's musical evolution from his early days in Seattle, to his time as a journeyman musician touring the southern " chitlin ' circuit " and in New York City, to his explosion on the popular music scene in London and beyond.

The Experience ' reunited ' in 1970 with Billy Cox dubbed " The Cry of Love ", until Hendrix's death in September 1970.

He would prove to be Hendrix's most valuable musical partner.

Though initially conceived as Hendrix's backing band, The Experience soon became much more than that.

Two examples are Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child from 1971 and David Bowie's Space Oddity, a single from 1969 that was reissued in 1975 in RCA's Maxi-Million series.