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

* lyrics that made direct or indirect reference to drugs, as in Jefferson Airplane's " White Rabbit " or Jimi Hendrix's " Purple Haze ";

Kirkpatrick has said that Karen Fairchild, Jimi Westbrook, Kimberly Schlapman and Philip Sweet have made him feel like the 5th member of the band.

In the song " Crosstown Traffic ", from the album Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix used a kazoo made of comb and paper acompanying the guitar to accentuate a blown-out speaker sound for which he was looking.

Several special editions of Converse shoes have been made, including DC Comics, The Ramones, AC / DC the Sailor Jerry, Metallica, The Clash, Dr. Seuss, Grateful Dead, Ozzy Osbourne, Jimi Hendrix, Drew Brophy, Nirvana, Bad Meets Evil, and Gorillaz the Control, green, brown or camouflage edition, Super Mario, and the Danny Potthoff.

Marr and Sumner were joined by Doves bassist Jimi Goodwin and Black Grape drummer Ged Lynch, and together they made the album Twisted Tenderness as a more conventional four-piece group.

Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix also played at the Speakeasy on Margaret Street and Bob Dylan made his London debut at the King & Queen pub on Foley Street.

In the early years of the collective's history, the members were also fans of bootlegged albums by western acts that had made their way to the Tuareg people, with favorites including albums by Dire Straits, Santana, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Kenny Rogers and Don Williams.

Gary Kellgren, Jimi Hendrix's engineer, made extensive use of ADT on all of Jimi's albums, frequently using the technique to split vocal, guitar, and even drum parts between the stereo channels.

Most of the music was a success, especially the cover of " Hey Joe ", a song made famous by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Univox also produced the Uni-Vibe, a Leslie speaker effect made famous by Jimi Hendrix.

Most noticeably Jimi Pääkallo's " Se on ihmisten tekemä " ( It's made by humans ) insert became extremely popular amongst viewers.

He has also made 45 song appearances and 28 concert appearances with Dave Matthews Band, including on two released live albums: Live at Central Park Concert in which he performed " Cortez the Killer ", and " Jimi Thing ", and Live at Piedmont Park where he performed " What Would You Say ".

1, number 1 of RS, 1967. 11. 09, Landau compared Jimi Hendrix and his debut album, Are You Experienced, to Eric Clapton and Cream's debut album, Fresh Cream ( both released months before, and both Jimi and Cream having made huge American splashes as live performers that summer ).

They made two singles, " Say You Don't Mind "/" Ask The People " ( April 1967, Deram ) and " Too Much In Love "/" Catherine's Wheel " ( January 1968, Deram ); and, in June 1967, they shared a bill with The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Procol Harum at the Saville Theatre in London.

Beginning in the late Sixties, many bands and singers made the Community Theater their venue, including Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Van Morrison, The Kinks, Bruce Springsteen, Genesis, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Iggy Pop, and David Bowie.

While studying Economics at Aix-en-Provence, he began listening to Jimi Hendrix and was inspired to form his own band, Lupus, made up of various school friends.

Since the 90s, Tangerine Dream have also recorded cover versions of Jimi Hendrix ' Purple Haze ( first on 220 Volt Live ) and The Beatles ' Eleanor Rigby, Back in the U. S. S. R., Tomorrow Never Knows, and " Norwegian Wood ".

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.

Keaggy has long insisted that such stories are completely unfounded, noting that " it was impossible that Jimi Hendrix could ever have heard me ... We ... recorded our first album at Electric Lady Studios two weeks after his unfortunate death, so I just can ’ t imagine how he could ’ ve heard me.

The first official appearance of " The Jimi Hendrix Experience " ( invited by French singer Johnny Hallyday ) was at the Novelty in Évreux ( France ) on October 13, 1966.

Smith was ten years old in 1969 when he first began listening to Nick Drake's album Five Leaves Left: " Nick Drake's on the other side of the coin to Jimi Hendrix.

* December 16 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience releases their first single in the UK, " Hey Joe ".

* March 31 – Kicking off a tour with The Walker Brothers, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck at The Astoria London, Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar on stage for the first time.

* Jimi Hendrix buys his first electric guitar: a White Single pickup Supro Ozark 1560 S.

It was in Los Angeles that Kravitz was first introduced to rock music, listening to Led Zeppelin, Kiss, Aerosmith, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Cream, and The Who.

* In 1967, Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar on stage for the first time ever.

Kauff was also helping Cannon Films to move into the music business, and arranged for Chas Chandler ( bass player for The Animals and producer / manager of the Jimi Hendrix Experience ) to produce their first album.

Their first big-stage appearance was at an Open-Air on 6 September 1970 on the Fehmarn stage where Jimi Hendrix had had his last appearance directly before.

During the late 1960s, Blues Section, a group inspired by Jimi Hendrix and The Who gained the reputation of being " the first Finnish band of international quality ".

Many of these groups began their musical careers with little or no awareness of ( or interest in ) rock and roll: exposure to the increasingly radical and innovative music of the Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa and Jimi Hendrix, for example, led members of groups like Can and Kraftwerk to embrace popular music for the first time.

The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a large, predominantly white audience.

* Noel Redding ( 1945 – 2003 ), bassist with the Jimi Hendrix Experience, gave his first public performance at Hythe Youth Club.

Santiago, rather than listening to popular radio, borrowed rock and roll records from the public library as he was growing up ; he first discovered Les Paul and Jimi Hendrix, who led to jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery.

The tracks contained are varied with the inclusion of four remixes, live cover songs by Jimi Hendrix and Thelonious Monk (" F. U. " is a joke lyric over the melody of " Bemsha Swing "), the band's first demos and joke songs.

Contrary to popular belief he does not play on the band's cover of Jimi Hendrix's Fire first released in 1987 and more commonly known from its inclusion on The Abbey Road EP in 1988-this was recorded with Cliff Martinez on drums during the Freaky Styley sessions.

Caldwell's first performances were more rock-oriented than the bulk of his career would indicate ; early dates had him playing Jimi Hendrix and Cream covers in small clubs.

Though Sick's Stadium was primarily a baseball venue, it also occasionally held other events, including rock concerts — most famously, an Elvis Presley concert on September 1, 1957 ( one of the first concerts to be held at a major outdoor stadium ), which was attended by a young Jimi Hendrix.

After meeting again at The Haçienda in 1989, the Williams brothers and Jimi Goodwin formed Sub Sub, releasing their first single " Space Face " in 1991, and then in 1993 they released " Ain't No Love ( Ain't No Use )," which reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

The final scene shows Pearl and Marty dancing together, first to Dean Martin's " When You're Smiling " and then to Jimi Hendrix's " Purple Haze ", after Marty changes the station.